Snow Totem | Frost Totem

[Drake_XIV]

NAME: Snow Totem ELEMENT: Water COST: 3 TYPE: Creature ATK|HP: 0 | 2 TEXT: Creature abilities cost less quanta to cast for each frozen creature you control.	NAME: Frost Totem ELEMENT: Water COST: 4 TYPE: Creature ATK|HP: 0 | 1 TEXT: Creature abilities cost less quanta to cast for each frozen creature on the field.

ART: IDEA: Drake_XIV, Rutarete NOTES: My attempt for the Trials #8 Card Design task if I were in Water. I've tried doing this in other ideas, but one problem I've always had with Water is that it has access to a variety of elemental abilities. But without off-element help, it can't exactly cast any of these abilities. SERIES:

[iDaire]

So now I have to freeze my own creatures in order for this card to be effective?
I don't like the forced three creature combo. Arctic Squid, This, and a Generator Creature you could use to generate frozen creature. Variants will always result in a three card forced combo which is a terrible idea. Forced two element ideas are different. There are 12 different multiple elements!
Also, for all the hassle that this card would produce, I would probably still go with Shard of Readiness.
No disrespect intended here. Just trying to constructively criticize.

[dragtom]

however, the upped seems very strong.

using a few squids and permafrost shield,
you can make a mono-waterbow, powering all these off-element abilities.

[Drake_XIV]

I just realized that with the way it is currently worded, it also reduces the cost of the opponent's abilities. This would only affect your creatures, so I shall amend that soon.

So now I have to freeze my own creatures in order for this card to be effective?
I don't like the forced three creature combo. Arctic Squid, This, and a Generator Creature you could use to generate frozen creature. Variants will always result in a three card forced combo which is a terrible idea. Forced two element ideas are different. There are 12 different multiple elements!
Also, for all the hassle that this card would produce, I would probably still go with Shard of Readiness.
No disrespect intended here. Just trying to constructively criticize.

The unupgraded is meant to be a bit more combo intensive. But Freeze + Snow Totem is still pretty much free abilities for any Water creature for three turns. And that'd be a lot more stable for Chrysaora, Steam Machine, and some Nymph decks [via Nymph Tears or Nymph Queen]. And that's not just one creature, as is dictated by the use of Shard of Readiness.

And, technically, even that would be broken with Rustler.