Psionic Shield | Psionic Barrier

[ZephyrPhantom]

NAME: Psionic Shield ELEMENT: Aether COST: 4 TYPE: Permanent ATK|HP: TEXT: Shield : Damage is reduced by 1 plus 1 additional point for every 4 creatures you have.	NAME: Psionic Barrier ELEMENT: Aether COST: 3 TYPE: Permanent ATK|HP: TEXT: Shield : Damage is reduced by 1 plus 1 additional point for every 4 creatures you have.

ART: petersenk (http://elementscommunity.org/forum/index.php/topic,5998.36.html) and Kamietsu (http://elementscommunity.org/forum/index.php/topic,35502.0.html), Modified by Zblader IDEA: Zblader NOTES: Congratulations to Psionic Shield | Psionic Barrier (http://elementscommunity.org/forum/index.php/topic,22985.0.html) for winning this Card Designer Challenge. By winning it has proved itself a high quality card that is also worthy of buffing Flooding and would be a good addition to the game as well. I would like to add a bonus point to the flooding challenge: See if you can achieve the following two extra challenges for the flooding buff competition. Your card is optimal with or without flooding. [Fairly easy to accomplish. I would personally treat this as a minimum to enter but you may be brave enough to try without meeting this challenge.] Flooding is optimal with or without your card. [If you accomplish this without creating an OP card or changing flooding then you have achieved a great challenge. I personally would choose a card that beat this over all others in an instant. This is the mark of a great card designer. I probably would not be up to the task.] How is this card optimal by itself? It does not directly combo with Flooding (unlike most cards submitted for the competition), and instead focuses on working with creature spawners to create a new deck strategies.  (For example a Time/Aether stall could be created using this card and Pharoah, run with a Gravity mark to enable Devour, or using a Time/Aether mark to make a more defensive build focused around Quintessence and Anubis as well as well as enabling Pendulums.)  It also fills the niche of a cheaper, "permanent" Aether shield that also has damage reduction. How does this make Flooding optimal by itself without becoming OP or changing Flooding directly? This card does not mention Flooding at all. It is not OP either since it can be countered by AoE CC like Rain of Fire and multiple Thunderstorms.  However, this card would be useful in creating new deck strategies as I mentioned above, and as these decks become more and more well-developed people will start looking for ways to counter this card more effectively.  RoF is not as cost effective a counter as Flooding is, since Flooding would continously shut this card down for a small upkeep while RoF only succeeds once.  As a result, people will begin to splash Flooding in more often in order to counter some of the new decks made around this card. Sample Deck Code: [Select] 7ac 7ac 7ac 7ac 7ac 7ac 7ac 7ac 7ac 7ae 7ae 7ae 7ae 7ae 7ai 7ai 7ai 7al 7am 7ap 7ap 7bu 7bu 7bu 80z 80z 80z 80h 80i 80iStrategy : CC? Why bother when you have a quinted frog copying itself? This deck builds up quanta and plays Frogs in it's early game with the heals, Feral Bond and Staff to stall and negate damage. Whis this is occuring Mitosis (and maybe quint) should be played on one of the Frogs to gain increasing defence for the Psionic Shield. Fractal is an endgame card to give you high defense and overwhelm the opponent. SERIES:

NAME: Psionic Shield ELEMENT: Aether COST: 4  TYPE: Shield ATK|HP: TEXT: Shield : Damage is reduced by 1 plus 1 additional point for every 4 creatures you have.	NAME: Psionic Barrier ELEMENT: Aether COST: 3  TYPE: Shield ATK|HP: TEXT: Shield : Damage is reduced by 1 plus 1 additional point for every 4 creatures you have.

ART: Zblader Original Background Image (http://www.sxc.hu/photo/1240773) IDEA: Zblader NOTES: Congratulations to Psionic Shield | Psionic Barrier (http://elementscommunity.org/forum/index.php/topic,22985.0.html) for winning this Card Designer Challenge. By winning it has proved itself a high quality card that is also worthy of buffing Flooding and would be a good addition to the game as well. I would like to add a bonus point to the flooding challenge: See if you can achieve the following two extra challenges for the flooding buff competition. Your card is optimal with or without flooding. [Fairly easy to accomplish. I would personally treat this as a minimum to enter but you may be brave enough to try without meeting this challenge.] Flooding is optimal with or without your card. [If you accomplish this without creating an OP card or changing flooding then you have achieved a great challenge. I personally would choose a card that beat this over all others in an instant. This is the mark of a great card designer. I probably would not be up to the task.] How is this card optimal by itself? It does not directly combo with Flooding (unlike most cards submitted for the competition), and instead focuses on working with creature spawners to create a new deck strategies.  (For example a Time/Aether stall could be created using this card and Pharoah, run with a Gravity mark to enable Devour, or using a Time/Aether mark to make a more defensive build focused around Quintessence and Anubis as well as well as enabling Pendulums.)  It also fills the niche of a cheaper, "permanent" Aether shield that also has damage reduction. How does this make Flooding optimal by itself without becoming OP or changing Flooding directly? This card does not mention Flooding at all. It is not OP either since it can be countered by AoE CC like Rain of Fire and multiple Thunderstorms.  However, this card would be useful in creating new deck strategies as I mentioned above, and as these decks become more and more well-developed people will start looking for ways to counter this card more effectively.  RoF is not as cost effective a counter as Flooding is, since Flooding would continously shut this card down for a small upkeep while RoF only succeeds once.  As a result, people will begin to splash Flooding in more often in order to counter some of the new decks made around this card. Sample Deck Code: [Select] 7ac 7ac 7ac 7ac 7ac 7ac 7ac 7ac 7ac 7ae 7ae 7ae 7ae 7ae 7ai 7ai 7ai 7al 7am 7ap 7ap 7bu 7bu 7bu 80z 80z 80z 80h 80i 80iStrategy : CC? Why bother when you have a quinted frog copying itself? This deck builds up quanta and plays Frogs in it's early game with the heals, Feral Bond and Staff to stall and negate damage. Whis this is occuring Mitosis (and maybe quint) should be played on one of the Frogs to gain increasing defence for the Psionic Shield. Fractal is an endgame card to give you high defense and overwhelm the opponent. SERIES:

[Rutarete]

This IS a good idea. Original. I like it.

[XYTWO]

So it's a mini-Hope? I like the idea of a cheaper, weaker, more versatile Hope, but what would this really do for Flooding that Hope doesn't?

EDIT: To clarify, the comment about Flooding was because of the competition. I do like the card, I just feel it doesn't help Flooding.

[TheForbiddenOracle]

This seems like an excellent card. Very balanced.

[OldTrees]

So it's a mini-Hope? I like the idea of a cheaper, weaker, more versatile Hope, but what would this really do for Flooding that Hope doesn't?

EDIT: To clarify, the comment about Flooding was because of the competition. I do like the card, I just feel it doesn't help Flooding.

If more decks have options that reward creature spam then creature spam will become more popular
If creature spam becomes more popular more creatures will end up in the top and bottom rows
If more creatures end up in the top and bottom rows then flooding becomes more powerful
If flooding becomes more powerful it might become balanced

[Kaos.]

This will probably be the shield of fractal deck, but I'm thinking if it's a little bit UP.. Uhm..

[ZephyrPhantom]

This will probably be the shield of fractal deck, but I'm thinking if it's a little bit UP.. Uhm..

Most Fractal decks require a duo, just noting.

Exactly how is this UP?

[Nepycros]

For 2 Fractals, I can get a 4 defence shield? Sounds awesome. Considering that Fractal drains all your quanta, you'd have to suffer it twice, and then get the shield running.

[Kaos.]

This will probably be the shield of fractal deck, but I'm thinking if it's a little bit UP.. Uhm..

Most Fractal decks require a duo, just noting.

Exactly how is this UP?

Uhm, without fractal or mitosis it's quite difficoult to get a god defense with this shield. I know it's been created to work with those card, but I don't know if it should be added to the game.^^

Anyway it's surely a good idea.

[Nepycros]

Assume that it costs 1 to block 1 point of damage, and that the other 3 are basically a bonus 3-4 points for playing 2 Fractals.

[ZephyrPhantom]

This will probably be the shield of fractal deck, but I'm thinking if it's a little bit UP.. Uhm..

Most Fractal decks require a duo, just noting.

Exactly how is this UP?

Uhm, without fractal or mitosis it's quite difficoult to get a god defense with this shield. I know it's been created to work with those card, but I don't know if it should be added to the game.^^

Anyway it's surely a good idea.

[Nepycros]

Hope is a feeling, and is Immaterial. This thing is even less material, so Immaterial would fit the cost more.