Glyph of Sorrow | Rune of Sorrow

[OdinVanguard]

NAME: Glyph of Sorrow ELEMENT: Death COST: 2 TYPE: Permanent ATK|HP: TEXT: Death effects add 1 counter. Anguish: Use all counters, to drain 1 life each from a target.	NAME: Rune of Sorrow ELEMENT: Death COST: 4 TYPE: Permanent ATK|HP: TEXT: Death effects add 1 counter. Anguish: Use all counters, to drain 2 life each from a target.

ART: OdinVanguard Made in GIMP. The symbol is one of the translations of "sorrow" or "grief" to Japanese Found at http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_is_the_word_'sorrow'_when_translated_from_English_to_Japanese IDEA: OdinVanguard NOTES: Stores up a targetable drain as creatures die. Added as activation cost to indicate thematic link with drain mechanic from SERIES:

Older version. No ability cost

Spoiler for old version:

NAME: Glyph of Sorrow ELEMENT: Death COST: 2 TYPE: Permanent ATK|HP: TEXT: Death effects add 1 counter. Anguish: Use all counters, to drain 1 life each from a target.	NAME: Rune of Sorrow ELEMENT: Death COST: 4 TYPE: Permanent ATK|HP: TEXT: Death effects add 1 counter.  Anguish: Use all counters, to drain 2 life each from a target.

ART: In progress - suggestions welcome IDEA: OdinVanguard NOTES: Stores up a targetable drain as creatures die. I'm open to adding an additional activation cost if people think one is needed (e.g. 1 or 2 ) SERIES:

[blarp]

multiple of these is kinda a lot. but with boneyard and the other free death quanta thing i forget...

a lot of stuff to rely on things dying all in one element. can't have infinite of these things.

this does seem more dangerous spamming these than than other two.

my virusfractal with this thing would be quite good.

[odideph]

I'm not sure is entitled to have life drain, but this would be useful yeah.
It also looks balanced.

[OdinVanguard]

I'm not sure is entitled to have life drain, but this would be useful yeah.
It also looks balanced.

I've been debating between poison or life drain on this, but poison could get OP very easily I think.
The first draft had a 1  activation cost. It ties in the drain thematically much better, but I wasn't sure if forcing a duo would be good here or not.
My main idea though is to allow to use death effects for some direct damage / drain / poison of some kind. I'll probably make a small series to promote other death trigger effects since its a pretty fun mechanic to work with.
Any thoughts?

[odideph]

If the point is the life drain, make the activation cost
If you want to keep it mono , i think it would be balanced to have it place 1 poison counter for each counter stored & used.
Compare: Chrysaora; Puffer Fish.

[OdinVanguard]

Updated with as activation cost.

[Annele]

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[OdinVanguard]

Fixed

[cjackdc]

This would be a great card in a stall deck, you could have shrodinger's cat giving you death effects, which the Glyph of sorrow could then use to kill off any monsters, plus you could have steals and bonewalls to stop any weapons.... Hah, I'm already thinking about a deck for a card that isn't even put into the game yet... I hope this card gets in.

[Vyltyx]

Like this idea. IMO pretty much a CC mixed with a purify, which warrants the dual elements. I do think you should lower the cost of the upped version to 3 . All in all, it seems balanced by the dual elements combined with the slow speed of its usefulness. Really like it.

As for the art, you could get rid of the second part of that glyph (　い　) ; the kanji on the left essentially communicates the same concept, and would look less clumsy by itself.