Essence Dampener | Essence Suppressor

[SunnyGreens]

NAME: Essence Dampener ELEMENT: Other COST: 4 TYPE: Permanent ATK|HP: - ABILITY: All spell quanta costs are increased by 2.	NAME: Essence Suppressor ELEMENT: Other COST: 5 TYPE: Permanent ATK|HP: - ABILITY: All spell quanta costs are increased by 2+N/4, where N = spell quanta cost.

ART: http://www.sxc.hu/ IDEA: SunnyGreens NOTES: Does not stack. Does not affect cards with zero quanta cost. Affects both players as long as the card stays in play. Essence Suppressor equation rounds down, so a 1 quanta cost card would be increased by 2 + (1/4=0) = 2. SERIES: -

[Retribution]

How would this be really useful?
I guess it could be if you don't use spells and the enemy really relies on them, but I don't see the chances of that happening very often.
I'd much rather just use a reflective shield.
Creature control doubling costs won't always be useful...
Maybe increase the cost and have it only affect the opponent?

[SunnyGreens]

Slow down spell specific decks, yes. Would be helpful in rush decks to slow creature control. In particular cards such as Fractal, Parallel Universe, and Miracle become quite a bit harder to use.

[Malduk]

Very VERY interesting card. I'm not sure if it will pass as a shard (read somewhere that shards should have positive effect, not sure if it matters), but you can always make it a "normal" permanent.
Nice idea.

[Retribution]

I don't think this shard should be a rare, at least 

[SunnyGreens]

Well, I could make it something else. I want to keep it colorless though, since it works against all the elements.

[ManOfManySpoons]

I could see this definitely being useful.  Opponent is splashing a cheap spell (Deflag, Shockwave, Momentum, Reverse Time, etc...)?  Now they can only play it every other turn instead of every turn. 

Rain of Fire in a rainbow?  Costs 10  now, not as easy to get out.

More importantly in the anti-rainbow sector, getting this on turn 1 or 2 could SEVERELY slow down supernova based rainbows. 

Miracle costs 24 with this. 

My favorite effect, however, would have to be that this is the answer to how prominent Fractal has become since its introduction in so many decks.  At 16 a pop, it's considerably slower especially since it drains all remaining 

Nice idea!

[Ant-n-ero]

At first I wasw thinking, why the hell would I want a card as bad as this? has he even thought about the card and it's details? etc etc blah blah lol

but when I think about it this card is a very interesting card indeed - it destroys miracle and fractal decks (sort of) and complete annoys the hell out of anyone who uses many spells... I for one don't use that many so I would probabally pack this card with me....

But IMHO I would NOT like this card in the game.... It just doesn't seem right - not as a shard - or as an ability.

[hello5666]

This would effect the person who played this card if they use spells.

[Malduk]

This would effect the person who played this card if they use spells.

This card is also purple.

[Glitch]

Would this stack?

Because 2^6 = 64, meaning purify would cost 64 quanta, and miracle would cost 768 quanta.

This would both be hilarious, and extraordinarily broken.

[unionruler]

It's actually rather useful against certain FGs come to think about it. Helps to clog up their hands so they can't benefit from double draw. I doubt you'd see it much in PvP though.