Piety | Absolution

[ZephyrPhantom]

NAME: Piety ELEMENT: Light COST: 3 TYPE: Spell ATK|HP: TEXT: Gain . If possible, target creature loses all of its status effects. Eternal.	NAME: Absolution ELEMENT: Light COST: 2 TYPE: Spell ATK|HP: TEXT: Gain . If possible, target creature loses all of its status effects. Eternal.

ART: Original by Kamietsu I also used the following brushes: GIMP: Glow I Brushes by Hawksmont Axeraider's Galatic Brushes  (under Creative Commons 3.0 ) IDEA: Zblader, inspired by OldTrees's Eternal Spells Thread. NOTES: Eternal - This card stays in your hand after it is played. With the 'Eternal' property on this card, Piety acts similar to a Relic - it triggers its effect but doesn't actually leave your hand unless you discard it. Silence will prevent this card from being played. Both Piety and Absolution can remove positive status effects as well such as Momentum and Adrenaline. " Gain ." will always occur regardless of whether a status effect can be removed or not, allowing you to use this card in a manner similar to Rustler. Piety can remove all of the following: Arenaline Purify Poison Freeze Delay Any other non-protective creature status effect not included on either of these lists. Piety can't remove: Immaterial Wisdom (Requires Immaterial) Burrow SERIES:

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NAME: Piety ELEMENT: Light COST: 3 TYPE: Spell ATK|HP: TEXT: Gain . If possible, target creature loses all of its status effects. Eternal.	NAME: Absolution ELEMENT: Light COST: 3 TYPE: Spell ATK|HP: TEXT: Gain . If possible, target card or player loses all of its status effects. Eternal.

ART: Original by Kamietsu I also used the following brushes: GIMP: Glow I Brushes by Hawksmont Axeraider's Galatic Brushes  (under Creative Commons 3.0 ) IDEA: Zblader, inspired by OldTrees's Eternal Spells Thread. NOTES: Eternal - This card stays in your hand after it is played. With the 'Eternal' property on this card, Piety acts similar to a Relic - it triggers its effect but doesn't actually leave your hand unless you discard it. Silence will prevent this card from being played. Both Piety and Absolution can remove positive status effects as well such as Momentum, Sanctuary, and Sacrifice. (In Sanctuary's case, the effect is restored next turn if Sanctuary is still present.) " Gain ." will always occur regardless of whether a status effect can be removed or not, allowing you to use this card in a manner similar to Rustler. Piety can remove all of the following: Arenaline Purify Sacrifice Sanctuary Silence (on an enemy player only) Poison Neurotoxin Any other non-protective status effect not included on either of these lists. Piety can't remove: Immaterial Wisdom (Requires Immaterial) Burrow SERIES:

[esran]

way OP. it shouldnt remove momentum, thats not a status effect, its technically an active skill that can be used in conjuction with other active skills. also, removing sacrifice seems to harshly hate on sacrifice, but sosacs OP anyway so who cares. if this doesnt remove momentum it will be fair, and it shouldnt remove it anyway. that is, assuming status affect means what i think it means. can you elaborate on that?

[ZephyrPhantom]

way OP. it shouldnt remove momentum, thats not a status effect, its technically an active skill that can be used in conjuction with other active skills. also, removing sacrifice seems to harshly hate on sacrifice, but sosacs OP anyway so who cares. if this doesnt remove momentum it will be fair, and it shouldnt remove it anyway. that is, assuming status affect means what i think it means. can you elaborate on that?

For reasons of coding Momentum is removed Lobotomize (the Charger ability simply gives you the status effect, like Immortal having the Immaterial ability), yet has an icon that clearly indicates it is a status effect when compared to other status effects. There is no universal status effect removal in the game so I assume it is both.

How is the removal of Momentum OP? The only deck where it really holds a player down is probably RoL/Hope or Phase Shield, with RoL/Hope being rather slow and easily countered and Phase Shield players already having access to Lightning and Lobo, which fit much better in a mono - unless you're splashing (and unless said deck is RoL/Hope I'm not sure how useful the end result would be). Wings requires Spiders that have 2-3 HP at best. Other shields have DR maxes/Other Limiters and can be simply bypassed by a creature that is strong enough/fits correct conditions.

Piety can remove all of the following:
Arenaline
Purify
Sacrifice
Sanctuary
Silence (on an enemy player only)
Poison
Neurotoxin
Any other non-protective status effect not included on either of these lists.


Piety can't remove:
Immaterial
Wisdom (Requires Immaterial)
Burrow

[TheAccuso]

if i had understand how this eternal concept works have to be a nightmare with nightmare xD
...maybe OP for that function?
It's not a creature and cannot be nightmared.

[esran]

really hates on poison in that case. this card makes death vs light practically auto win for light.

[ZephyrPhantom]

really hates on poison in that case. this card makes death vs light practically auto win for light.

Not necessarily autowin, just a whole lot slower. A player would probably avoid playing his poisons all at once or poison as many creatures as possible to force the enemy to use Piety at unecessary times or risk taking damage.

[jawdirk]

Not necessarily autowin, just a whole lot slower. A player would probably avoid playing his poisons all at once or poison as many creatures as possible to force the enemy to use Piety at unecessary times or risk taking damage.

I'd agree that it is autowin against poison. Every time they add any poison, you just remove it. Instead of 3/turn they get 3. Even one well-played purify can beat a poison deck. And it's worse than that. Any deck can use it for 3 and ignore the gift of 1 . So you can only play poison if you combine it with complete quanta lockdown.

To fix it, you should make it cost at least 4 , and I don't think it should return any quanta. Its power is close to purify, so 2 + 2 for no card loss.

Also, I don't think it would have a good effect on the game. Status effects are interesting, so if you can say "no status effects allowed" by adding two of these to your deck, doesn't that kind of make the game boring?

[OldTrees]

really hates on poison in that case. this card makes death vs light practically auto win for light.

Not necessarily autowin, just a whole lot slower. A player would probably avoid playing his poisons all at once or poison as many creatures as possible to force the enemy to use Piety at unecessary times or risk taking damage.

It steps on Purify's toes if it can target players. It would need to have a higher cost to mimic eternal anti poison effect. (Is eternal anti poison beneficial to the metagame?)

[ZephyrPhantom]

Point taken - Eternal antipoison would probably cripple player poison too much.
Card Updated:
Upgrade changed from increased targeting range to -1 cost.

[bogtro]

This does not affect freeze or delay? Also, how does neurotoxin or sanctuary affect creatures?

[ZephyrPhantom]

This does not affect freeze or delay? Also, how does neurotoxin or sanctuary affect creatures?

Any other non-protective status effect not included on either of these lists.

Freeze and Delay are removed.
Neurotoxin and Sanctuary are from the previous version that could target the player.

[n00b]

I'm not much for words on this here forum (though it seems I am everywhere else), so I will keep it simple: I like.