Psi Worm | Psi Leech

[OdinVanguard]

NAME: Psi Worm ELEMENT: Aether COST: 2 TYPE: Creature ATK|HP: 1|1 TEXT: This card deals 2 damage per turn to its owner while held. : Shuffle a Psi Worm into your opponent's deck.	NAME: Psi Leech ELEMENT: Aether COST: 3 TYPE: Creature ATK|HP: 2|2 TEXT: This card deals 3 damage per turn to its owner while held. : Shuffle a Psi Worm into your opponent's deck.

ART: *Original art links: Worm (foreground and background): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Nerr0328.jpg Lamprey (background teeth image): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Boca_de_lamprea.1_-_Aquarium_Finisterrae.JPG Merged / edited by OdinVanguard using GIMP IDEA: OdinVanguard NOTES: "Today the world seems just out of reach" "But guard your mind carefully today. Ideas are weapons, and the skillful may employ them to deadly effect, even where physical force fails." Has obvious nightmare and devourer synergy, but may be useful on its own as well. Don't overlook the benefit of slowly clogging your opponent's draws either. Less consistent than eternity at first, but gets stronger for this purpose later in the game. Not sure what the damage per turn while in hand should be set to. I aimed low with 1 point per turn but a higher value could be useful too. SERIES:

Spoiler for old version:

NAME: Psi Worm ELEMENT: Aether COST: 2 TYPE: Creature ATK|HP: 1|1 TEXT: This card deals 1 damager per turn to its owner while held. : Shuffle a Psi Worm into your opponent's deck.	NAME: Psi Leech ELEMENT: Aether COST: 3 TYPE: Creature ATK|HP: 2|2 TEXT: This card deals 1 damager per turn to its owner while held. : Shuffle a Psi Worm into your opponent's deck.

ART: *Original art links: Worm (foreground and background): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Nerr0328.jpg Lamprey (background teeth image): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Boca_de_lamprea.1_-_Aquarium_Finisterrae.JPG Merged / edited by OdinVanguard using GIMP IDEA: OdinVanguard NOTES: "Today the world seems just out of reach" "But guard your mind carefully today. Ideas are weapons, and the skillful may employ them to deadly effect, even where physical force fails." Has obvious nightmare and devourer synergy, but may be useful on its own as well. Don't overlook the benefit of slowly clogging your opponent's draws either. Less consistent than eternity at first, but gets stronger for this purpose later in the game. Not sure what the damage per turn while in hand should be set to. I aimed low with 1 point per turn but a higher value could be useful too. SERIES:

[Pineapple]

Hmm... also pretty scary deck denial with Nightmare (delays draw) as well as as you mentioned RT. Especially since this ability is repeatable and in-element with Fractal.
Perhaps you should up the ability cost greatly (as a countermeasure, increase damage of course)?

[Blacksmith]

I rarely rate topics 5/5 before changes been made on the card but this time I can't do any thing else. Interesting mechainc+annoying. This card knows how to counter otk's and be very annoying in general!

Me gusta!!

[OdinVanguard]

Hmm... also pretty scary deck denial with Nightmare (delays draw) as well as as you mentioned RT. Especially since this ability is repeatable and in-element with Fractal.
Perhaps you should up the ability cost greatly (as a countermeasure, increase damage of course)?

Do you mean creature attack or ability damage?... I can boost the damage per turn while held without too much worry, but if I boost the attack damage of the creature it can become OP in terms of just being a hard hitter for the cost.

I can raise the cost of the ability a little as well (although I won't have space on the card to make it cost more than )

[andretimpa]

damager per turn

If I use RT and then the creature ability is there a chance to replace the top card? Leechtal with a duo using also nightmares and steals would be extremelly annoying (a tower shield would also be able to lock your opponents damage from the leechs that he manages to play).

This card also has a slight downside, since you could help your opponent to win if he foils your plans and you deckout because of the extra cards you gave him.

[Torriku]

I hate this is so balanced, what can i say but that.. 

Yes I mean that as a compliment.

[OdinVanguard]

damager per turn

If I use RT and then the creature ability is there a chance to replace the top card? Leechtal with a duo using also nightmares and steals would be extremelly annoying (a tower shield would also be able to lock your opponents damage from the leechs that he manages to play).

This card also has a slight downside, since you could help your opponent to win if he foils your plans and you deckout because of the extra cards you gave him.

... ah those tamn dypos! Bane of my existence

The synergies with RT duos and nightmare were considered when I was balancing. They are why the card does not have an elemental cost, so it cannot clog an opponent's hand unless you employ very heavy QC.
The ATK was also intentionally set to make it blockable by the majority of shields available at corresponding upped or unupped metas.
E.g. unupped can be blocked by shield, or ice shield, or skull, or ... etc. And upped version can be blocked by tower shield, permafrost shield, etc.
This is as much to make it so you can protect yourself as it is to make them relatively low key as easily spammable creatures.

The potential to kill yourself if your nefarious plot gets foiled was also part of the deliberately designed fun

I hate this is so balanced, what can i say but that.. 

SWEET! ... I guess my balancing calculations worked out more or less perfectly this time around, so I'll take that as a compliment

updated version (with fixed typo and bumped skill cost) will be up soon. Is up now. Old version is in spoiler

Skill cost bumped to 2 (up from 1). Damage per turn bumped to 2|3, up from 1|2. Typo in card fixed.

[Espithel]

I think increased damage AND increased cost is a bit much for the upped.

I'd keep it a 2-cost card at the upped, as to make the card easier to cast, which means it's less nightmarish when you nightmare it. (Playing all of these is a form of quanta denial in a way. This thing does kinda work with pests and BH, you know.)