Skill of the Elemental[Tie-Breaking Vote]

[Kamietsu]

Skill of the Elemental

Original Idea by Kamietsu; Inspired By Trial |  Art from ETG, Kamietsu; Inspired By Trial

It was a dark night, long ago, when the Elemental War began. Every Element had every other Element reigning down on it with no mercy. Some battles were won, others lost, and mass destruction had fallen over the lands. On the night of 1.30 DE(During Elements) the creator of the world looked down on the fighting Elementals. With a deep breath, the creator shouted down blessing from up high and enchanted the Elementals in hopes they would survive better. Each blessing granted the Elementals a special ability to help them survive the war, or bring it to an end quicker.



Use the art below to create a Mark Card that has an Active Ability.

Aether Spoiler for Hidden:	Air Spoiler for Hidden:	Darkness Spoiler for Hidden:
Death Spoiler for Hidden:	Earth Spoiler for Hidden:	Entropy Spoiler for Hidden:
Fire Spoiler for Hidden:	Gravity Spoiler for Hidden:	Life Spoiler for Hidden:
Light Spoiler for Hidden:	Time Spoiler for Hidden:	Water Spoiler for Hidden:

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Rules:

• All abilities must be active(clicking on it to activate it).
• You may have up to 3 submissions, but not more than one submission per element. For example, you cannot have two Earth mark submissions, but may have one Earth, and one Fire.
• Submitted cards cannot have an activation cost that uses a different Element. All activation costs must cost the same as the Mark card you use.
• Abilities cannot be ones that already exist in the game. For Example: the Water mark cannot have the Freeze ability.
• Abilities should not be overpowered or underpowered.
• All submissions must use the Card Submission Format show below.
• All submissions must be posted in the Competition Submission Board.
• Please use http://elementscommunity.org/tools/xenocidius/card/ to make a card image with forum-acceptable card art.

Spoiler for Design Phase:

Card Format:

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PHASES:
The competition will be split into three phases : A Design Phase, where cards are created and submitted in the Card Idea Submission Thread, a Elemental Voting phase, where votes are cast for individual Elements, and a Final Vote phase where all winners from the previous Vote are voted on.

Design Phase:
It's time to collect the submissions.... (Polls will be up soon!) Good luck!

Everyone gets 4 votes, so make sure to vote for the ones you think are best!

Final Voting:
Congratultions!

Tie-Breaking Voting:
Congratultions!

Spoiler for Mark of Deception:

NAME: Mark of Deception ELEMENT: Darkness COST: - TYPE: Permanent ATK|HP: - TEXT: Each turn is generated.   : Deception This mark acts as if it was from target element as well.	NAME: Mark of Deception ELEMENT: Darkness COST: - TYPE: Permanent ATK|HP: - TEXT: Each turn is generated. Gain 1 extra when you play this card.   : Deception

ART: Kamietsu IDEA: Shantu NOTES: This effectively gives you a way to use multiple shards to their full potential, and any other future cards that may give you a bonus depending on your mark. It works like this: You activate the skill and the usual targeting crosshair appears on each element of your quanta pool. You select one and your mark becomes a 'dual mark': looks like half this and half that. After that all cards that gives bonuses/penalties/other stuff depending on your mark will 'think' you have the appropriate mark and thus grant the bonus/penalty. However, despite appearing like a dual mark, only quanta will be generated. The ability is reusable but can 'contain' only one element at a time. Example: You have Mark of Deception. You use a Gratitude/Void/Divinity deck. You have multiple Voids and Gratitudes on the field, so you have the mark on Darkness/Life currently. You have multiple Divinities in your hand, so you decide it's worth to lose the SoG bonus for a turn to boost your max health by a lot more. You spend the 2 and select Light (now your mark becomes Darkness/Light) and now cast all the SoDs in your hand, each granting you 24 hp while still doing 3 damage with Void. Next turn you realise you need the healing and switch your mark back to Life and enjoy the 5 hp healing. And why would this be good? Well, Shard of Void is generally seen as a weak card; this could certainly increase its potential. This mark ability could also increase the amount of 'mark affinity' cards in the future. SERIES: -

Spoiler for Mark of Protection:

NAME: Mark of Protection ELEMENT: Earth COST: 0 TYPE: Permanent ATK|HP: TEXT: Each turn   is generated. : Fortify Your damage reduction is increased by 1 this turn.	NAME: Mark of Protection ELEMENT: Earth COST: 0 TYPE: Permanent ATK|HP: TEXT: Each turn   is generated. Gain 1 extra when you play this card. : Fortify

ART: Elements the Game, Kamietsu IDEA: Hyroen NOTES: Skill of the Elemental Competition For now Fortify will only increase your Damage Reduction if 2 conditions are met: A shield is equipped Your shield reduces damage by a fixed amount (Shield[1], Skull Shield[1], Emerald Shield[1], Ice Shield[1], Titanium Shield[2], etc.) If this is too limited I will expand this to include any and all shields. In this case, if a physical attack goes through while Fog Shield is equipped it will be reduced by 1 damage. I would personally prefer not to, as it makes less thematic sense. Fortify will be able to affect immaterial shields with the understanding that Fortify affects your self/shield slot (similar to Flying Weapon), and thus disregards immateriality. SERIES:

Spoiler for Mark of Refraction:

NAME: Mark of Refraction ELEMENT: Light COST: 0 TYPE: Permanent ATK|HP: TEXT: Generates each turn. : Refract - Target card in your hand now costs .	NAME: Mark of Refraction ELEMENT: Light COST: 0 TYPE: Permanent ATK|HP: TEXT: Generates each turn. : Refract - Target card in your hand now costs .

ART: Kamietsu IDEA: Zblader NOTES: "Sir, what shall we do with this raw power? The sages claim it safe for use, and that the Great One Zanzarino sent this blessing himself." "Hmmm... well, Lieutenant, if this had been a war of three generations ago, I would've wished for peace. For enlightenment, a greater understanding upon all elementals." "That sounds wonderful, General, but what do you plan to use it for now?" "For a different kind of peace - one where the Light shines on everything and never leaves. If we are to end this war, we much win it through force that our opponents have taught us." A Mark for Light that converts card costs to . This allows Light to utilize other elements cards and more flexible duos, trios, and quartets, with it's ability to convert necessary cards as needed to smooth out quantum control or have your Light pool as an "emergency source" in case your other quantum pools run low. Made for the Skill of the Elemental Competition. SERIES:

Spoiler for Mark of the Alchemist:

NAME: Mark of the Alchemist ELEMENT: Water COST: 0 TYPE: Permanent ATK|HP: TEXT: Each turn is generated. : Transmute Gain 1 quanta of one element.	NAME: Mark of the Alchemist ELEMENT: Water COST: 0 TYPE: Permanent ATK|HP: TEXT: Each turn is generated. Gain 1 extra when played. : Transmute Gain 1 quanta of one element.

ART: Zanzarino and Kamietsu IDEA: pikachufan2164 NOTES: Submission for the "Skill of the Elemental" Competition. Yes, it's this ability again. Water is reliant on "forced duos" to utilize its synergies with other elements, and the Transmute ability tries to do some quanta fixing to relieve some of that dependence, and also smooths over minor quanta issues. The ability is quite flavourful when put on the Mark, as it exemplifies a Water elemental's ability to adapt to the styles of the other elements, much like the cards of its own element. Why is it the Mark of the Alchemist? Water's alchemy card is Nymph's Tears, which is able to generate Nymphs that can produce the effects of an alchemy card -- this connection makes the name quite fitting. Mechanic: when the Transmute ability is used, a targeting cursor appears on each of the quanta pools belonging to the player with the Mark of the Alchemist. Selecting a quanta pool will add 1 quanta to that particular pool. Obviously only usable once per turn. Balance: Theoretically, a 1:1 conversion ratio makes Mark of the Alchemist functionally equivalent to a regular mark of any element at any time (for the purposes of this 'enhanced mark' competition, it would be fine, but in regular use, would make normal marks obsolete). Currently considering increasing the ability cost to for 1 quanta generated, but it looks underpowered with that conversion rate. SERIES:

Runners Up:

Spoiler for Hidden:

Spoiler for Mark of Foresight:

NAME: Mark of Foresight ELEMENT: Aether COST: 0 TYPE: Permanent ATK|HP: TEXT: Each turn   is generated. : Foresight The first 2 cards in both decks are visible to you.	NAME: Mark of Foresight ELEMENT: Aether COST: 0 TYPE: Permanent ATK|HP: TEXT: Each turn   is generated. Gain 1 extra   when played. : Foresight

ART: Elements the game IDEA: Darkrobe NOTES: For the Skill of the elemental competition. Im actually liking this Mark competition a lot. Its nice to think up ideas that wouldnt normally fly as regular cards. This is my third submission.As the card says, you get to see what you and your opponent will draw over the next two turns, should help with mindgate and with general play managing. SERIES:

Spoiler for Mark of Liberty:

NAME: Mark of Liberty ELEMENT: Air COST: 0 TYPE: Permanent ATK|HP: TEXT: Each turn   is generated. : Evade Target airborne creature evades this turn.	NAME: Mark of Liberty ELEMENT: Air COST: 0 TYPE: Permanent ATK|HP: TEXT: Each turn   is generated. Gain 1 extra when you play this card. : Evade

ART: Elements the Game, Kamietsu IDEA: Hyroen NOTES: Skill of the Elemental Competition Evade works for Mark of Liberty as it does for Shard of Freedom, however Mark of Liberty expands to any airborne creature. The evade component of Shard of Freedom only includes Air creatures. While Evade is a component of the Shard of Freedom it has not been incorporated into any other card as a skill that can be activated. Perfect for all FW decks and ideal for Air's frail creatures. Cards like Rewind, Antimatter and Parallel Universe may now have some issues against Air. Can target only your airborne creatures. SERIES:

Spoiler for Mark of Stealth:

NAME: Mark of Stealth ELEMENT: Darkness COST: 0 TYPE: Permanent ATK|HP: TEXT: Each turn is generated. : Stealth Your weapon and shield are cloaked this turn.	NAME: Mark of Stealth ELEMENT: Darkness COST: 0 TYPE: Permanent ATK|HP: TEXT: Each turn is generated. Gain 1 extra when played. : Stealth

ART: Kamietsu IDEA: Xenocidius NOTES: Simple, thematic, easy. Your weapon and shield slots are hidden from the opponent and cannot be targeted. SERIES:

Spoiler for Eclipse Prime:

NAME: Eclipse Prime ELEMENT: Darkness COST: TYPE: Permanent ATK|HP: TEXT: Each turn is generated. : Obscure Deactive your opponent mark for 1 turn.	NAME: Eclipse Prime ELEMENT: Darkness COST: TYPE: Permanent ATK|HP: TEXT: Each turn is generated. Gain 1 extra when you play this card. : Obscure

ART: Kamietsu IDEA: karis NOTES: um....    i'm don't really sure can my card get in this (http://elementscommunity.org/forum/index.php/topic,38760.0.html) competition.  cuz i don't see other one use kind of name other than "mark of ***"     seriously.   i don't even sure Kamietsu will come and check this topic as it's a competition topic.     my concept for all mark ability card is 'prime'.   not much to say.   really.  i just don't want to have 'mark of'  for my card name.   and it's not in rule to do,  so it's prime.   just as i said before. feel little sad cuz it already have card name like this.   but i still think "eclipse" suit this ability the best.  Darkness than can even turn white in to black.  it's power is to conceal thing that normally you can't touch it.  your opponent mark. but basically.  this card just stop your opponent to generate 1 quantum for that turn.   turn pendulum to work just like pillar.  reduce the power of some shard and some weapon.  Just obscure.  SERIES:

Spoiler for Mark of the Grave:

NAME: Mark of the Grave ELEMENT: Death COST: 0 TYPE: Permanent ATK|HP: TEXT: Each turn is generated. : The Grave claims back target death creature and poisons(1) the opponent.	NAME: Mark of Necropolis ELEMENT: Death COST: 0 TYPE: Permanent ATK|HP: TEXT: Each turn is generated. : Necropolis claims back target death creature and poisons(2) the opponent.

ART: Zanzarino and Kamietsu IDEA: hainkarga NOTES: Submission for the "Skill of the Elemental" Competition. How it works: Each turn, for one quanta: 1-) It destroys target death creature. 2-) It puts 1 (unupped) or 2 (upped) poison counters on the opponent. It might destroy any death creature. friend or foe. Why is it useful ?: It is like catapult but in death fashion. (And frankly, sacrificing creature should be more of a death ability). Poisons the opponent when your death creatures are stuck either by a shield or antimatter. It also DOES trigger death effects so you will buff your BW, graveyard, soul catchers, vultures. Concept: The death creatures belong to the land of the dead. They are always haunted and cursed by the call of Necropolis. At one point they can no longer endure and their souls are fiercly pulled back to their grave while leaving their rotting poisonous waste behind. SERIES:

Spoiler for Mark of Chaos:

NAME: Mark of Chaos ELEMENT: Entropy COST: 0 TYPE: Permanent ATK|HP: TEXT: Each turn   is generated.   : Confusion Shuffle both players decks.	NAME: Mark of Chaos ELEMENT: Entropy COST: 0 TYPE: Permanent ATK|HP: TEXT: Each turn   is generated. Gain 1 extra   when you play this card. : Confusion

ART: Zanzarino and Kamietsu IDEA: swishy NOTES: Slightly situational, but defensively this would be a nice addition to help fight off rewind spam, and could work very well against the enemy in conjunction with mindgate or eternity. SERIES:

Spoiler for Mark of the Pyromancer:

NAME: Mark of the Pyromancer ELEMENT: Fire COST: 0 TYPE: Permanent ATK|HP: TEXT: Each turn is generated. : Incinerate Turn your creature to Ash.	NAME: Mark of the Pyromancer ELEMENT: Fire COST: 0 TYPE: Permanent ATK|HP: TEXT: Each turn is generated. Gain 1 extra when played. : Incinerate Turn your creature to Ash.

ART: Zanzarino and Kamietsu IDEA: pikachufan2164 NOTES: Submission for the "Skill of the Elemental" competition. This one's for you, Napalm <3 A defensive side of Fire. Incinerate your own creatures to remove debilitating status conditions from them. Yes, you can Incinerate your own Immofodder to make 'cheap' Phoenixes, but it still costs you 6 and two turns to get to the final product. It's a rather steep cost to save your own creatures, but the option is there, and it's reusable. Details: Both unupped and upped versions will Incinerate creatures into unupped Ashes (which will rebirth into unupped Phoenixes). The newly-Incinerated Ash is treated as if it was just summoned. Interactions: Does not trigger death effects. Any status effects (Freeze, Adrenaline, Gravity Pull, etc.) are removed. Mechanic: When activated, Incinerate puts a targeting cursor over all of the player's own targetable creatures, and he or she can choose to turn one of them to Ash. SERIES:

Spoiler for Mark of Accumulation:

NAME: Mark of Accumulation ELEMENT: Gravity COST: 0 TYPE: Permanent ATK|HP: TEXT: Generates each turn. :  Amass - Increase production by .	NAME: Mark of Accumulation ELEMENT: Gravity COST: 0 TYPE: Permanent ATK|HP: TEXT: Generates each turn. Gain 1 when played. :  Amass - Increase production by .

ART: Kamietsu IDEA: Zblader NOTES: "Milady, the rebel faction has broken through the capital defenses! We must use the energy gathered from the Zanzarino Conduit, or we will be crushed by our own men!" "And allow the other elements to strengthen disorder? Never, Commander. The Merchant and Political Guilds would be in an uproar if I did not use this for something more productive." "Then what? We should not have to disrupt the military furth-" "ENOUGH! Head Commander, I shall use the energy in a way that benefits all three guilds and quells our civil war, for your unorganized ranting has done enough to my mood. However, you will take full responsibility and promise to build our military into something that can finally crush the other twelve factions that bear hostilities towards us." "Very well, Milady. I will return, with an army powered by an energy so large you will no longer recognize the small spark we had first harvested at the Zanzarino Conduit..." A Gravity Mark that can 'grow' it's production over time, at the cost of potentially slowing down your early game. However, if you manage to keep feeding it energy, you'll be amassing a large amount of quantum at the endgame. SERIES:

Spoiler for Previous Versions:

NAME: Mark of Accumulation ELEMENT: Gravity COST: 0 TYPE: Permanent ATK|HP: TEXT: Generates each turn. :  Amass - Increase production by .	NAME: Mark of Accumulation ELEMENT: Gravity COST: 0 TYPE: Permanent ATK|HP: TEXT: Generates each turn. :  Amass - Increase production by .

ART: Kamietsu IDEA: Zblader NOTES: "Milady, the rebel faction has broken through the capital defenses! We must use the energy gathered from the Zanzarino Conduit, or we will be crushed by our own men!" "And allow the other elements to strengthen disorder? Never, Commander. The Merchant and Political Guilds would be in an uproar if I did not use this for something more productive." "Then what? We should not have to disrupt the military furth-" "ENOUGH! Head Commander, I shall use the energy in a way that benefits all three guilds and quells our civil war, for your unorganized ranting has done enough to my mood. However, you will take full responsibility and promise to build our military into something that can finally crush the other twelve factions that bear hostilities towards us." "Very well, Milady. I will return, with an army powered by an energy so large you will no longer recognize the small spark we had first harvested at the Zanzarino Conduit..." A Gravity Mark that can 'grow' it's production over time, at the cost of potentially slowing down your early game. However, if you manage to keep feeding it energy, you'll be amassing a large amount of quantum at the endgame. Made for the Skill of the Elemental Competition. SERIES:

Spoiler for Mark of Life:

NAME: Mark of Life ELEMENT: Life COST: - TYPE: Permament TEXT: Each turn is generated. : Breed Generate a 1|1 Spore.	NAME: Mark of Life ELEMENT: Life COST: - TYPE: Permament TEXT: Each turn is generated. Gain 1 extra when you play this card. : Breed

ART: Elements the Game IDEA: Kakerlake NOTES: Information to the Spore, see below. Update: Fixed name. (Mark of Earth -> Mark of Life o.O) SERIES: Made for the Skill of the Elemental Competition.

NAME: Spore ELEMENT: Life COST: TYPE: Creature ATK|HP: 1|1 TEXT: 4 : Fertilize Turn the Spore into a Gamete.	NAME: Gamete ELEMENT: Life COST: 2 TYPE: Creature ATK|HP: 2|3 TEXT: -

ART: Fotosynthesis (Sporepedia) IDEA: Kakerlake NOTES: Update: Changed the Spore skill. (old: : Evolve; new: 4: Fertilize) SERIES: Made for the Skill of the Elemental Competition.

Spoiler for Mark of Hastening:

NAME: Mark of Hastening ELEMENT: Time COST: 0 TYPE: Permanent ATK|HP: TEXT: Each turn is generated. : Each player draws a card.	NAME: Mark of Hastening ELEMENT: Time COST: 0 TYPE: Permanent ATK|HP: TEXT: Each turn :time  is generated. Gain 1 extra when played. : Each player draws a card.

ART: IDEA: russianspy1234 NOTES: Skill of the Elemental submission SERIES:

Spoiler for Mark of Time:

NAME: Mark of Time ELEMENT: Time COST: - TYPE: Permament TEXT: Each turn is generated.  : Slow Target creature is delayed for 1 turn after its next attack.	NAME: Mark of Time ELEMENT: Time COST: - TYPE: Permament TEXT: Each turn  is generated. Gain 1 extra  when you play this card.  : Slow

ART: Elements the Game IDEA: Kakerlake NOTES: Delay stacks with Turtle Shield: If a slowed Creature runs into a Turtle Shield, it's delayed for 2 Turns. Does not stack with BB or Freeze. This is a one time effect, the creature won't be slowed anymore after one attack. But it can be slowed again. SERIES: Made for the Skill of the Elemental Competition.

[karis]

absolute glad when i seen my card name on the poll,  so turn back to earlier topic to check out how much vote i get and just realize that all  card has been pass.   

[Hyroen]

I'm guessing that there's one final round of voting yes?

[ZephyrPhantom]

Congratulations to Hyroen for winning with Mark of Protection!

Enjoy your award icon!