Purge | Purge

[Drake_XIV]

NAME: Purge ELEMENT: Light COST: 4 TYPE: Spell ATK|HP: TEXT: Remove all poison counters from the field and heal all by a little.	NAME: Purge ELEMENT: Light COST: 4 TYPE: Spell ATK|HP: TEXT: Remove all poison counters from the target player's side of the the field and heal all by a little.

ART: IDEA: Drake_XIV NOTES: A little just means it heals in a range of 2~5.  But this range will change depending on the poison counters removed.  For every 5 [3 upped] counters removed, the range increases by one.  So removing 10 counters means the range is 4~7 [5~8 upped] health healed to each target. The upped only heals your side. SERIES:

[esran]

useful vs. poison
useless vs not poison
verdict IMO: pure elemental hate.
unlike purify which is useful when not fighting poison, this is just useless unless your fighting poison, and really strong if you are.
solution: raise cost. have it also add a purify counter to everything.

[Drake_XIV]

Not quite exactly elemental hate when it is useful against four elements. [ | | | ].  Situational is more of what it is.  But the main point here is that currently, there is only one surefire way of getting rid of poison.  And since it does not heal like Purify, it justifies the mass removal of poison without the healing.

[esran]

i dont like the idea of a card that only counters one thing. i see no reason why you cant add another affect that is useful vs not poison.

[Drake_XIV]

Well, what would you suggest then?

If you had soft Healing over time, it overshadows Purify.
If you add burst Healing, it overshadows Holy Light.
And it makes no thematic sense for it to do damage.  Unless you add Hate.

[esran]

my suggestion is something like:
5
remove all poison counters. all creatures gain a purify counter.
5
remove all poison counters on your side of the field. all creatures on your side of the field gain a purify counter.

[Drake_XIV]

my suggestion is something like:
5
remove all poison counters. all creatures gain a purify counter.
5
remove all poison counters on your side of the field. all creatures on your side of the field gain a purify counter.

If you had soft Healing over time, it overshadows Purify.

[furballdn]

So does this remove poison from both players and all creatures on the field?

[Drake_XIV]

Yes.  The upped just clears all in your possession.

[furballdn]

Still very situational. Like Esran mentioned, even purify has uses when you're not up against poison. This has no uses if you're not against poison and seems way too situational.

[Drake_XIV]

I agree.  But the question is what to add onto it so it isn't...

[furballdn]

You're the card designer. We're just here to give you feedback. You have to come up with what's interesting.