Mounts

[Demagog]

Lol that would be way overpowered. You could have a deck that relies entirely on those for quanta production. All you'd need is one.

[jallenw]

Maybe, the mounts do cost 8 or 9 quantum in most cases.  You would still need something to get the entropy to drop the mount, or wait 8 turns with mark of entropy...

[jallenw]

The initial concept design for all 12 mounts has been finished. 

[jallenw]

Update: I have added an image containing all the mounts so that you can view them side-by-side for comparison.

[yaladilae]

Nice balancing however I would still feel water is very weak, what about deal 1 damage to the mount and freeze the opponent target, or  make it like another octopus!

And darkness definitely is overpowered...
Steal alone cost 3, and your mount only cost 2, and no side effect
Darkness should be prehaps drain 5 life off your opponent, that might sound more fun!

[jallenw]

Those comments are best made on the topics for the specific cards, as they are already being discussed there.

[jallenw]

Bump.

1 of my mounts (Thundermare) made it into the crucible.  Please give me advice on the other mounts so that we can make them all perfectly balanced.  Thanks.

[jallenw]

Updated news about the mounts and mount concept:

Thundermare: Is now in the crucible.
Trojan Pony: Gives momentum to a creature for 1 turn.
Chaos Stallion: lycanthropy ability granted costs 2 random quanta.
Ghost Stallion: ability can only be used on your own creatures
Terrasque: Cost of the ability has been increased, but can be used every turn to switch enshrine targets as needed.
Seahorse: removes 1 or 2 poison/plague counters.
Mare Crisium: ability can only  be used on your own creatures.
Midnight Tiger: Can only steal once then loses the ability.
Divine Pony: Completely new skill: Salvation. Activates when your life would be reduced to 1 or less and heals you for 50 hp and Divine Pony loses the ability.
Emerald Unicorn: heals both players
Charcoal Stallion: Sacrifice to destroy target perm.  Stats reduced.
Energy Pegasus: Is now in the crucible.

[Daneman]

I wouldnt expect it to be a spell on a stick

I would expect a mount to be something you ride, like a warhorse, to increase your speed / atk / hp

So for example Fire mount can be (given the characteristic of fire's high atk and low hp)
1 Link it to a fire creature, the creature gets +3|0 (you can re-link it to another creature next turn by re-casting the skill, or keep it linked to the same creature)

And this mount itself is a permenant where you wield it next to your shield slot (new slot)

Or to make it to another extreme, you can see it as your avatar (you controlling the creaturs etc) rides the mount.
So it could be something like 2 all your FIRE creature gets +3|0 until the end of turn
Where the mount makes you better at commanding your fire creature and hence the boost

Cost etc of coz are subject to changes

i like this much more than the original mount idea... It would make much more sense than a mount just being a creature. And darkness is now underpowered, it is just an extremely overpriced steal which can do some damage... yaladilae's idea of drain 5 damage was good. Maybe you could do something like drain a random amount of damage per turn with a maximum of 8? That would be better than steal i think because you rarely need more steals than the 6 you can put in your deck.

[penguin3921]

Completely new abilities? Let's do this. Are you thinking defensive or offensive? I'll do all.

Gamble: Every time target creature uses its skill, it becomes -1|-2.
Ritual: Sacrifice target creature. Ghost Stallion gains +1|+1.
Galvanize: Target creature becomes -2|0 but gains Momentum.
Block: Target loses 5 HP. Anything that targets it has a 25 % chance of missing and attacks directed at it also have a 25 % chance of missing. Can target players or creatures.
Sympathy: This creature becomes -1|-1. Target creature gains +3|+3.
Frenzy: Target creature becomes +1|-1.
Tidal Wave: Target creature becomes 0|-2. Gain .
Advent: Target creature gains +1|0 for every card summoned to the field.
Wings: Target creature loses its active ability and gains the Dive ability.
Revert: Target creature is restored to the form it was in when it was originally summoned.
Shadow Bond: Gain . This ability can be used multiple times per turn.
Mirage: Summon a copy of the target creature. The copy has 0 health.

Some ideas are similar or are simply pulled from other ideas I found in the forums. Their costs should be scaled due to their relative power. For example, Mirage is quite powerful and should cost 3 while Frenzy is not too powerful and should cost 1 .

i like mirage and ritual, they're balanced

[AnonymousRevival]

Why not create a warrior that rides on these mounts?

[Drobbit]

I think that the mounts have to give bonus to the player instead of being just other creatues. Like more hit points, shield bonus, attack bonus. They could improve your weapon or shield, give you health each turn as the SoG does, take over the damage (as a gravity pull) etc.
  mount: give momentum to your weapon and has a gravity pull on it
  give inmortality to your shield
  flying weapon
  steal opponent weapon and/or shield
  poison to the weapon
  protect artifact to both shield and weapon
  antimatter to opponet weapon
  fire damage to your weapon or fire shield bonus to your shield
  hp recovering and/or purify
  up hp maximum
  stasis to enemy weapon on each attack
  congeal ability to your shield