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Re: Razor Boomerang | Magic Missile https://elementscommunity.org/forum/index.php?topic=55329.msg1150057#msg1150057
« Reply #12 on: August 08, 2014, 11:18:35 pm »
Because making it return to your deck removes... Quite a few things this card could do.
Would you use a +3 air and momentum, when you have to continually cast the card?
Pretty sure you'd just use blessing in that issue.
Note that air already has SouFflé and Dive and Sky Blitz.

If the problem with instant kills are that the card is generally OP or UP, not balanced, then that's a problem of the design and not a problem of an instant kill itself.

HP is the least important stat on a creature. ATK is more important in nearly every situation.
Making something buff the ATK of a creature

Instant exile would probably be better than Instant kill because of the death element, and how unlikely the enemy would benefit from instant kill in opposition to you benefiting from it.

If there were more enter play effects, this card could consider dropping the double-sided targeting.
But then you're left with a card I'd just use blessing over, and I hate blessing.
And if you buff the card, you have to raise the price by a bit, but if you do that, you can't constantly spam it every turn.
This already costs the same as Blessing. There is no reason to ever use this over Blessing, unless you know your opponent's deck.

I believe the request was to make the creature targeted return to its owners deck; you may have misinterpreted the request.

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Re: Razor Boomerang | Magic Missile https://elementscommunity.org/forum/index.php?topic=55329.msg1150115#msg1150115
« Reply #13 on: August 09, 2014, 06:10:50 am »
Yeah, the request was to make it when used on enemy creatures a Reverse Time that trades giving it an extra, increased nigh-unpreventable attack for sending it consistently deeper in the deck than Reverse Time would and repeat-ability.

The current card makes it return all cards to "your" deck. I suggested to change that so all cards return to "the" deck, such that enemy card return to the enemy deck and your cards return to your deck.

P.S. You're saying it's not the insta-kill that's OP but the design of the card that's bad? That's a little extreme, but sure then, in this case I think your design of your card is bad because you're using an insta-kill without the necessary penalties to drop the label of "insta-kill". In the end, we're just throwing around definitions for "insta-kill". I say an effect should not be considered an insta-kill if it's balanced or if the core idea is balance-able.

P.P.S. I used the relationship between insta-kill and insta-exile wrong in this thread. I compared Reverse Time to an insta-kill outside of the context of EtG, where insta-kills send cards to the graveyard and allow them to be re-used via graveyard effects. Insta-exile would exile the card, meaning that it's removed from play forever, which would be compared to a Reverse Time that not only removed the card from the field but didn't send the card to its owner's deck. Yeah, I shouldn't have brought up insta-exiles, as all insta-kills are insta-exiles in EtG, it's only that Reverse Time isn't an insta-kill.
« Last Edit: August 09, 2014, 06:22:13 am by Pineapple »

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Re: Razor Boomerang | Magic Missile https://elementscommunity.org/forum/index.php?topic=55329.msg1150387#msg1150387
« Reply #14 on: August 10, 2014, 06:32:05 pm »
I am perfectly aware of your suggestion.
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Given how much time it's took to reply here, you can guess my response. I...
Yes. I'll make the changes.
My initial response was really ranty and kinda immature, which is why this took some time.

 

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