Minotaur / Deadly Minotaur

[coinich]

Sort of an idea thats been floating in my head for a while.  I'm kind of hoping to give Life a mild form of creature control as well as a fragile larger attacker.  I'm kind of hoping I didn't make it too fragile, and I know Life/Darkness isn't a particularly good combo at this time, but maybe in the future something will change.

Image Source: http://thecontaminated.com/top-five-cratures-that-scared-greeks/
Its around the internet though, so I'm not sure where exactly it came from.

 

The point of Gore is to reduce ATK by 1 (unupgraded) or 2 (upgraded).  It cannot go below 0 with this method; Life needs no more healing and certainly not on a stick.  Could work with Butterfly Effect, though I'm not sure why you'd need to resort to using such a convoluted combination there...

[icybraker]

Ooh, very interesting. Lots of attack reducers have been suggested before, but yours looks very balanced. Not too powerful, but not too strong either.

I'm kind of hoping to give Life a mild form of creature control

Thorn Shield?

Anyways, I like it. I don't think the upgraded ability is necessary; I'd just keep the first Gore the same as the second, but increase the Deadly Minotaur's attack to 7 and its casting cost to 5 .

Good cards.

[Kurohami]

Nice idea, but why make the ability cost darkness? I don't really think it fits in with gore very well. Other than that, nice cards.

[TheDarkAzura]

I don't like Thorn Carapace =(

Yeah this could be good, but I think you should chance the Skill to Death. There are a few Death/Life combos that could use it.

[icybraker]

Meh. Darkness is fine. Darkness / Life is just as hard to pull off well as Death / Life.

[Bloodshadow]

2 per turn just to reduce ATK by 1? Looks UP to me.

Look at Owl's Eye. For  it gets to reduce HP by 3, and it's not an off-element cost. Even though OE is a rare, it still makes Minotaur look weak. Change the ability cost to 1 and it'd be better.

[killsdazombies]

upgraded gore should cost 1, and i like this card, a good rainbow pvp deck or a dark/life deck would love this

[Arondight]

The effect seems kind of weak. But, I guess it fits if you mix it with using Feral Bonds. Life definitely needs some kind of creature targeting ability for control.

[coinich]

Hmm, the general consensus is that it is generally underpowered?  I don't think I can remake the pictures, but would a -2 ATK or -3 ATK for upgraded better?

[Wisemage]

thats better, its more on par with other creature control (such as owls eye)