Black Sunadokei | Kuro Hourglass

[ZephyrPhantom]

NAME: Black Sunadokei ELEMENT: Darkness COST: 4 TYPE: Permanent ATK|HP: TEXT:   : Sorrow Discard a card. Gain its cost in quantum.	NAME: Kuro Hourglass ELEMENT: Darkness COST: 4 TYPE: Permanent ATK|HP: TEXT: : Aitou Play target card from your hand for free. Lose 10 HP.

ART: ETG, Modified by Zblader IDEA: Zblader NOTES: An alternate take on Darkness's manipulation theme. The unupped has you discard a card to gain it's cost (for example, discarding a Giant Frog gets you 2 ). Can be used to counter denial decks and help speed up your own. The upped 'reverses' the concept and lets you play cards for free, at the cost of hurting yourself. This damage ignores all cards that would normally reverse/negate/reflect this damage, so Mirror Shield, SoSa, and similar cards have no effect. Cards that drain all quanta will still drain quanta if you use Aitou. Change History: V1 : Upgraded Version started at 20 damage, 1 to use ability. V2: Upped ability changed to 10 damage, 1 . V3: Upped ability changed to 10 damage, 2 . SERIES:

[Rutarete]

Sand watch makes sense, I suppose - I hadn't really thought about it.

Why ? Why ?

[ZephyrPhantom]

Sand watch makes sense, I suppose - I hadn't really thought about it.

Why ? Why ?

Water = Sorrow (Tears)
Time = Regret (GoTP has a similar theme in the form of Obsession)

[Xenocidius]

The upgraded version made me laugh.

Now I hate to be nitpicky, but the non-upgraded should say "its", not "it's".

Looks cool, although I'm not sure whether playing a free card is worth a whole 20 HP ... maybe just 10?

[Rutarete]

For the upped, how do fractal and miracle work? Is the 'drain all' part also free?

[djk1880]

Looks cool, although I'm not sure whether playing a free card is worth a whole 20 HP ... maybe just 10?

yah i agree with that it would be UP if it was 20

[ZephyrPhantom]

The upgraded version made me laugh.

Now I hate to be nitpicky, but the non-upgraded should say "its", not "it's".
Fixed.

Looks cool, although I'm not sure whether playing a free card is worth a whole 20 HP ... maybe just 10?

Hmm. I think there was some thread that Oldtrees put up saying that 1 HP is worth less than 1 quantum or something similar, but I guess negating 3-5 regnerating Permanents can be pretty tough, even for 1 turn. I lowered it to 10. (This should negate 2.5 Regen permanents on average each turn.)

For the upped, how do fractal and miracle work? Is the 'drain all' part also free?

No. You still lose all your or because it's part of the effect instead of the cost.

[Retribution]

Just curious about how the upped would work with a card like Shard of Sacrifice.

EDIT: Thanks, answered. Sorry, didn't see.

[Pineapple]

Just curious about how the upped would work with a card like Shard of Sacrifice.

This damage ignores all cards that would normally reverse/negate/reflect this damage, so Mirror Shield, SoSa, and similar cards have no effect.

[ZephyrPhantom]

Updated:

Upgraded Version changes:
Text changed from "Take 10 damage." to "Lose 10 HP." (Apparently "Lose" implies that it will not be affected by cards like SoSa)
Ability cost raised to
(after thinking it over a bit upped version of this card should pay 3 quanta ( 2  + 10 HP ) to play 1 unupped dragon (10 Quanta), making net profit 7 quantum.  This is slightly less than Immolation, which is okay since it's repeatable. 4 should slow it down enough to account for reusing the ability.)

Unupgraded Version Changes:
None.

Submitted to Crucible, but open to feedback as always.

[Xamuel]

The name should be English in keeping with the other cards (or rather, either English or fantasy-nonsense, but in any case, not Japanese)

tl;dr change name of both upped and nonupped to "black hourglass"

[ZephyrPhantom]

The name should be English in keeping with the other cards (or rather, either English or fantasy-nonsense, but in any case, not Japanese)

tl;dr change name of both upped and nonupped to "black hourglass"

It's part of a play on a staff member's username - the  English and Japanese is 'mixed' (and switched midupgrade) as a shoutout of sorts. (It's not super important, but I intend to keep it that way for the time being.)