Song of the Storm-Blade | Song of the Tempest-Blade

[OdinVanguard]

NAME: Song of the Storm-Blade ELEMENT: Air COST: 6 TYPE: Spell ATK|HP: TEXT: Until end of turn, all weapons you play will be animated for 2 turns. Animate your current weapon for 2 turns as well.	NAME: Song of the Tempest-Blade ELEMENT: Air COST: 5 TYPE: Spell ATK|HP: TEXT: Until end of turn all weapons you play will be animated for 2 turns. Animate your current weapon for 3 turns as well

ART: Original Katana artwork link: http://www.sxc.hu/photo/1098525 Modified using GIMP by OdinVanguard IDEA: OdinVanguard NOTES: "Inspiration will come to you today, but don't hold your breath" "The song of the blade. It's melody is so sweet, foretells of swift death." Weapons animated by this spell will return to their owner's hand after the time expires. If the player does not have enough room, they will be lost. I'm not sure what a good cost is for this spell… Right now I balanced it off of the cost of casting 6 flying weapon spells for the unupped version. Feedback / advice on cost balance would be welcome. Feedback on animation duration would be good too. I went with 2 turns right now because it is the minimum that would be needed to allow the user to make use of weapon abilities. Note: This spell only provides 1 turn of auto-animation but the weapons animated during that time will remain in play for a total 2 turns (or whatever is finally decided as a good duration). There will be a marked synnergy with the Storm-Blade Dervish | Tempest-Blade Dervish card from this series. SERIES: http://elementscommunity.org/forum/index.php/topic,47309.msg1046817.html#msg1046817

[Drake_XIV]

Storm Blade Series?

[OdinVanguard]

Exactly! You mentioned in one of your earlier posts that some elements didn't seem to have clear cut "Sets" you wanted to expand on. Air was one of them, so I thought it would be cool to take up the challenge of building one for it.

[Annele]

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[timetock]

I once dreamed of making a rare-card weapon deck, but you can only have 6 Animate Weapons

THIS MIGHT MAKE IT POSSIBLE

however, I feel like it's UP - It has a high quanta cost/ It's limited to 2 turns
I would suggest either lowering the cost or extending the amount of time weapons are animated (maybe even permanently)

[stereohelix]

Animate your current weapon for 3 turns as well

Does this refer only to the weapon in the weapon slot?

[OdinVanguard]

Animate your current weapon for 3 turns as well

Does this refer only to the weapon in the weapon slot?

Yes. So the weapon in your weapon slot gets animated for 3 turns in the upgraded version.
Weapons you play after playing this spell get animated for 2 turns in both cases.

I once dreamed of making a rare-card weapon deck, but you can only have 6 Animate Weapons

THIS MIGHT MAKE IT POSSIBLE

however, I feel like it's UP - It has a high quanta cost/ It's limited to 2 turns
I would suggest either lowering the cost or extending the amount of time weapons are animated (maybe even permanently)

I was debating on whether it should be made permanent or not, but I thought doing so would probably be a little OP.
I may have loweballed it a bit with 2 turns though, so I have no problem raising the duration a bit.

I would like to keep the cost relatively high so that it isn't too splashable.

What seems reasonable duration?

[timetock]

Maybe this:

For 1 turn, all weapons played get animated permanently,
however, weapons placed next turn will not be animated.

[OdinVanguard]

Maybe this:

For 1 turn, all weapons played get animated permanently,
however, weapons placed next turn will not be animated.

Hmm... I'll add that to the poll and reset... since you and I are only votes at the moment.

Bear in mind that there is another card in this series that is meant to combo with this card. The combo will impact balancing considerably:
Storm-Blade Dervish | Tempest-Blade Dervish

[skyironsword]

Well, shouldn't you balance them separately first?