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Title: Lethe | Hypomnesia
Post by: OdinVanguard on June 21, 2012, 07:20:37 pm
(http://i.imgur.com/kjy0o.png)
(http://i.imgur.com/gsRPa.png)
NAME:
Lethe
ELEMENT:
Aether
COST:
5 :aether
TYPE:
Permanent
ATK|HP:

TEXT:
Decrease both player's discard threshold by 1. Max hand size is unchanged. You gain 1 :darkness per card discarded.
NAME:
Hypomnesia
ELEMENT:
Aether
COST:
4 :aether
TYPE:
Permanent
ATK|HP:

TEXT:
Decrease both player's discard threshold by 1. Max hand size is unchanged. You gain 1 :darkness per card discarded.

ART:
Art taken from: Free Art for Card Ideas (http://elementscommunity.org/forum/index.php/topic,34339.msg433087.html#msg433087)
IDEA:
OdinVanguard
NOTES:
-Lethe and Hypomnesia both mean "A chronic inability to remember things"
I actually built this card around the picture from the free art topic.
The idea is to give players another way to make use of nightmare or other hand clogging effects.
The mechanic is essentially to trigger the end of turn discard effect with fewer than 8 cards.
E.g. with 1 of these, both players discard if they have either 7 or 8 cards.
Then, whenever either player discards, this cards owner gets :darkness quanta (to power nightmare perhaps?)

Regardless of how many excess cards a player has, only 1 card will be discarded per turn (this was already put in by Zanz I think, but is here for clarity)

The effects of this card stack, so with 6 of these players will only be able to safely hold a single card each round or face discarding. It will also produce tremendous amounts of :darkness quanta… an alternative to devourers.

I am open to interchanging the elements if players would rather see this the opposite way around
(Darkness card that produces aether quanta)

SERIES:

Title: Re: Lethe | Hypomnesia
Post by: esran on June 21, 2012, 07:41:02 pm
this card is crazy creative. IMO a player should only ever have to discard one card per turn, even if 6 of these are out. that would make it not ridiculously OP in ghosmare.
Title: Re: Lethe | Hypomnesia
Post by: OdinVanguard on June 21, 2012, 07:56:11 pm
Thats actually what I was aiming for. I believe Zanz has set it so that players only discard a maximum of 1 card per turn. Thats part of what gave me the idea for this. Essentially, this just means they keep discarding 1 card every turn.
I'll put this in the notes for clarity though
Title: Re: Lethe | Hypomnesia
Post by: Naesala on June 22, 2012, 12:48:25 am
Card says  :darkness instead of  :aether
Title: Re: Lethe | Hypomnesia
Post by: AP579 on June 22, 2012, 01:50:28 am
You mean in the card text, not the card cost? I'm quite sure that's deliberate.

nvm, I see. The table and card text don't match.
Title: Re: Lethe | Hypomnesia
Post by: OdinVanguard on June 22, 2012, 04:21:48 pm
Sorry 'bout that. It should be :darkness on both, just fixed it.
Title: Re: Lethe | Hypomnesia
Post by: Hyroen on July 10, 2012, 07:21:06 pm
CURATOR COMMENT

This card will not be permitted into the Crucible due to one or more of the following errors:


Correct these errors as soon as possible and feel free to submit again when ready.

Thank you. ^_^


In the Cost section make sure to write the quanta costs with the symbol of the quanta cost, not the word. If Phoenix costs 7 Fire to play, in the table it should appear as 7 :fire.
Title: Re: Lethe | Hypomnesia
Post by: OdinVanguard on July 10, 2012, 11:53:33 pm
Fixed...
Title: Re: Lethe | Hypomnesia
Post by: blarp on July 26, 2012, 09:19:33 pm
do you mean increase the discard threshold as in to make it so you have to discard earlier? I guess it's just how you read it. it's kinda expensive for not that much benefit imo.
Title: Re: Lethe | Hypomnesia
Post by: ARTHANASIOS on September 14, 2012, 07:35:32 am
Can someone combine this card with fractal in order to fill his/her hand with cards in order to discard them on purpose and gain the :darkness quanta? Just posting an idea.
Anyway, I think this card can cost 1 :aether or 2 :aether less. Other than that, awesome idea. Odin Vanguard is officialy now my faved card designer. 8)
Title: Re: Lethe | Hypomnesia
Post by: OdinVanguard on September 14, 2012, 02:41:46 pm
Can someone combine this card with fractal in order to fill his/her hand with cards in order to discard them on purpose and gain the :darkness quanta? Just posting an idea.
Anyway, I think this card can cost 1 :aether or 2 :aether less. Other than that, awesome idea. Odin Vanguard is officialy now my faved card designer. 8)
Yes, thats the idea. You would use it with fractal or nightmare to gain a little :darkness each round.

do you mean increase the discard threshold as in to make it so you have to discard earlier? I guess it's just how you read it. it's kinda expensive for not that much benefit imo.
Yes, thats basically right. So with 2 of these out players would discard anytime they had 6 or more cards in hand.
With all 6 out, players would discard anytime they had 2 or more cards.
... if there somehow ever got to be 8 or more out, players would discard every turn... They would also gain a good chunk of :darkness for it as well.

I will work on modifying this to have a lower cost in a bit, once this round of brawl ends.
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