Battery | Battery++

[odideph]

NAME: Battery ELEMENT: Earth COST: 1 TYPE: Spell ATK|HP: TEXT: Your creatures get +0|+1 for each target affected by spell damage this turn.	NAME: Battery++ ELEMENT: Earth COST: 0 TYPE: Spell ATK|HP: TEXT: Your creatures get +0|+1 for each target affected by spell damage this turn.

ART: odideph IDEA: odideph NOTES: Details: -Spell damage: any damage inflicted by instant spells or Psions or creatures with Shard of Wisdom. -Works on damage dealt to any valid target, including your own creatures and yourself. Let's say i play Battery and two Sparks (3|0) in the same turn. Then i Thunderstorm, damaging 2 enemy creatures: Battery makes both of my Sparks 3|2. Notes: -Only works on spell damage dealt after Battery was casted. -The effect happens only once per spell, one time for each target the spell damages. -Players count as one target for each spell, even if the player is damaged more than one time (if that ever happens). -"This turn" means spell damage dealt between the moment you cast Battery, and the end of your turn (Does nothing during the enemy's turn). SERIES:

Spoiler for "Old versions":

[OldTrees]

This card cannot be played without Sparks and either Lightning or Thunderstorm. This severely limits its versatility and reliability. This is called the Forced Combo problem. Card suggestions might pass this problem if each required partner has 3 or more different options (Lightning, Thunderstorm, Psion or Shard of Wisdom) + (Spark + ??? + ???).

[odideph]

This card cannot be played without Sparks and either Lightning or Thunderstorm. This severely limits its versatility and reliability. This is called the Forced Combo problem. Card suggestions might pass this problem if each required partner has 3 or more different options (Lightning, Thunderstorm, Psion or Shard of Wisdom) + (Spark + ??? + ???).

I see, i'll add Psions and SoW to things that proc it then, but now it really needs a solid nerf. I guess if "every time the damage is dealt it does the effect, regardless of amount", it could be balanced?

[OldTrees]

This card cannot be played without Sparks and either Lightning or Thunderstorm. This severely limits its versatility and reliability. This is called the Forced Combo problem. Card suggestions might pass this problem if each required partner has 3 or more different options (Lightning, Thunderstorm, Psion or Shard of Wisdom) + (Spark + ??? + ???).

I see, i'll add Psions and SoW to things that proc it then, but now it really needs a solid nerf. I guess if "every time the damage is dealt it does the effect, regardless of amount", it could be balanced?

You still missed the detail that this card has 2 required partners. There need to be at least 2 alternatives to Spark.

[Elite arbiter]

Perhaps change it to "When Spell Damage is dealt"? That would open up multiple alternatives. As for a nerf, the card could subtract -1|-1 from them at the end of the turn similar to how Steam Engine loses attack.

[Zaealix]

Lobotomizer comes to mind...But aside from that, it's really not that versatile.
This card really needs an extra place to put the lightning...Maybe it could create sparks and ball lightnings on it's own, and buff them when    cards are used.

[odideph]

I've modified it this way:
-now works on all of your creatures.
-now procs from any type of spell damage.
-now a Spell instead of a Permanent.

What do you think of this?

[Zaealix]

The first immediate combination idea is with Pisons, and it being a buff spell seems pretty nice...Unless it needs to be triggered by the opponent, in which case...The cost should be pretty low.

[odideph]

The first immediate combination idea is with Pisons, and it being a buff spell seems pretty nice...Unless it needs to be triggered by the opponent, in which case...The cost should be pretty low.

Yeah Psions are a good option, but to be honest i designed this card to give more use to cards like Thunderstorm and Spark. Because this way, you can combine both and eliminate their drawbacks: even if Thunderstorm doesn't kill anything, it will hit every vulnerable enemy and give your creatures a good buff (the same you would get by using Firestorm).
Sparks aren't as underused as Thunderstorm, but i felt they could be used as early relatively-high-damage creatures instead of just Fractal or Death fodder.

To answer your question, it doesn't need to be triggered by the opponent (and that would be hard to do anyways), you must trigger it yourself. Play Battery, then play a damaging spell, and that's it (you're right on the fact that it does nothing on its own).

[Tiscooler]

Oh god, no. This card would create the next Instosis, but worse.

Aflatoxin the enemy side as soon as you can, then stall. Six turns later, Battery+, three condors, thunderstorm, sky blitz. That would hit 23 targets and would kill all malignant cells, adding a net 46 attack to each vulture's hit. Multiply by 3 to account for each vulture, then by 2 to factor in sky blitz.

(1 + 46) * 3 * 2 = 282 damage

That's one less card needed than Instosis with about 50 total damage added, along with the added benefit that the deck would be more stable in general, since there would be no risk of losing your air quantum at the finale. That is not a good thing.

[Elite arbiter]

Assuming of course that your opponent doesn't have any CC at all to get rid of the initial cell. Or lobotomize, or purify. The key with this is that unlike instosis you have to play cards on things on the field before the OHKO turn, which diminishes the potential significantly.

[odideph]

Hmm right, malignant cells get owned nearly every time from my experience. Osiris devours them, every catapult user cata's them, stuff like that. Also it costs yourself a fair bit of HP to wait the 6 turns. something between 31 and 54 if i'm not mistaken (assuming enemy only has Cells, and you don't have a shield).

But yeah you found a good combo that i hadn't thought of, and i'm not sure how i can make the card focus back on what i wanted. It may not be such a big problem that this combo exists though, because the more i look at it, the more i see where things could go wrong preventing the combo altogether. I mean, just because an OTK exists, doesn't imply that every card involved is not balanced?