Morphing Clay | Morphing Clay

[ZephyrPhantom]

NAME: Morphing Clay ELEMENT: Entropy and Aether COST: 4  or  TYPE: Creature ATK|HP: 2 | 2 TEXT: 2 or  : Morphs depending on what quanta you have more of.	NAME: Morphing Clay ELEMENT: Entropy and Aether COST: 3  or  TYPE: Creature ATK|HP: 2 | 3 TEXT: 2 or  : Morphs depending on what quanta you have more of.

ART: rigel770 at http://media.photobucket.com/image/clay/rigel770/P9261769.jpg?o=13 , Zblader (Edited Card Border) IDEA: Emeraldtiger (original), Zblader (edited), Oldtrees (suggested alternatives and balancing methods.) NOTES: If you have more , you are asked to target a card on the field or your hand. Morphing Clay then becomes the targeted card and the new card goes onto the field/hand depedending on where you selected it. If  , Morphing Clay will become a random creature or permanent. This card will randomly pick from your  or  quanta to cast.  A useful card in duos.  SERIES: Duality Series http://elementscommunity.org/forum/index.php/topic,19516.0.html

DOMINANT ELEMENT: [/color][/b]

(If this card makes it into crucible, please move it to the Entropy Section.)

To all readers : the cards in the Duality series may be hard to code, but they have thought in them, and would become good cards in the game.  Please try consider to these cards as much as possible and make construcitve comments.

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NAME: Morphing Clay ELEMENT: Entropy COST: 4  TYPE: Creature ATK|HP: 2 | 2 TEXT: : Morphs depending on what quanta you have more of.	NAME: Morphing Clay ELEMENT: Entropy COST: 3  TYPE: Creature ATK|HP: 2 | 3 TEXT: : Morphs depending on what quanta you have more of.

ART: rigel770 at http://media.photobucket.com/image/clay/rigel770/P9261769.jpg?o=13 IDEA: Emeraldtiger (original), Zblader (edited), Oldtrees (suggested alternatives and balancing methods.) NOTES: You are asked to target a card on the field or your hand. Morphing Clay then becomes the targeted card and the new card goes onto the field/hand depedending on where you selected it.   However, there is a 25% chance for both versions to cast improved mutation on themselves instead. SERIES: Duality Series http://elementscommunity.org/forum/index.php/topic,19516.0.html

[doublecross]

I like it. I like it a lot.

However,
1)

2 for a random creatures is kinda cheap.

Be sure to consider Fate egg, which costs 3 to summon, and then 1 to activate the next turn. And that requires 1 element.
This one costs 2 and gives you two elements to draw from.

2)

2  for a more versatile parallel universe, that effects not just creatures, but other cards as well, is also really cheap, considering that parallel universe costs 6 .

It is true that this parallel universe would require a minimum of 2 turns from when you draw it in order to activate it (if I understand correctly), and it is also true that it cannot be used to double the effect of stat gains or mutations (unlike parallel universe), so it needn't be a full 6.



Considering that they are both kinda cheap compared to their counterparts in other elements (or even the same element),
I would propose the following balancing.

Increase both the cost of the card and the cost of the ability by 1, and that would make it completely within the bounds of acceptable differences in powers between cards.


It can get away with being slightly cheaper than its counterparts since it would be most effective in a rainbow or  / deck, neither of which is too common.

[TheCrazyMango]

is says 4  / on the card but 2 in the table. Why?

[Rutarete]

maybe to save your time for this series, you can just make to copies of the crad, one aether and one entropy. it's pretty much the same as being able to pay with either. and for the idea. should it not be able to morph into a creature that normally has immortality but doesn't when it morphs?

[EmeraldTiger]

I thought our idea was to start as a permanent then morph into another permanent or creature

[ZephyrPhantom]

I thought our idea was to start as a permanent then morph into another permanent or creature

Apologies Tiger, I was looking at Oldtrees's suggestion and made it a creature.  If you want it to be a permanent, I will make a poll.

@doublecross

2  for a more versatile parallel universe, that effects not just creatures, but other cards as well, is also really cheap, considering that parallel universe costs 6 .

It is true that this parallel universe would require a minimum of 2 turns from when you draw it in order to activate it (if I understand correctly), and it is also true that it cannot be used to double the effect of stat gains or mutations (unlike parallel universe), so it needn't be a full 6.

This is based off the Graboid mechanic in a sense - a powerful effect that is really a lot more easy to defeat than it looks.  Also this creatue doesn't burrow.

Considering that they are both kinda cheap compared to their counterparts in other elements (or even the same element),
I would propose the following balancing.

Increase both the cost of the card and the cost of the ability by 1, and that would make it completely within the bounds of acceptable differences in powers between cards.


It can get away with being slightly cheaper than its counterparts since it would be most effective in a rainbow or  / deck, neither of which is too common.

Oldtrees told me that the card should be superior to it's counterparts due to it's hybridity, but I will put up a poll for that matter as well.

maybe to save your time for this series, you can just make to copies of the crad, one aether and one entropy. it's pretty much the same as being able to pay with either. and for the idea. should it not be able to morph into a creature that normally has immortality but doesn't when it morphs?

The goal of the duality series is to make hybrids between each element that are both tematically fit and balanced, and possibly able to get into the game.


Sorry for the long post guys,  but I felt like I should resolve the questions so that people had some answers and details before they started posting.

[OldTrees]

Oldtrees told me that the card should be superior to it's counterparts due to it's hybridity, but I will put up a poll for that matter as well.

To clairify:
Dual Element cards (defined as cards with a casting cost that requires at least 1 quanta of each type) these cards have a more stringent cost than Mono cards and thus should be better than an equally expensive Mono card.

Hybrid cards (defined as cards with a casting cost that can use multiple types of quanta) these cards have a less stringent cost than Mono cards and thus should be worse than an equally expensive Mono card.

[Drobbit]

As I said in a previous post, I love the idea of duality cards. Impressive and very well balanced.

[EmeraldTiger]

How many of this series are out?
 
 
what else?

[icecoldbro]

Name in table says chaos lightning for uped card, other than that id say its redy for crucible?
What crucible would this go to?
Im guessing its randomized if u have same amount of quanta on both right?

[Drobbit]

DOMINANT ELEMENT: (If this card makes it into crucible, please move it to the Entropy Section.)

[Kael Hate]

Do you realise the Database can't handle multielement costs and that a cost cannot be pre-determined in your hand.
Zanz has said this before and he said he won't ever change it so this idea is going nowhere as is.

How about making it an entropy card and if you have arequired amount of aether it does a special variant effect?