Dark Guardian | Dark Protector

[dragonsdemesne]

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In principle I really like this card, but the problem is that it is too strong.  There are a LOT of spells that this would affect, and you haven't even listed them all in the card desc.  Shard of sacrifice and all of the area spells (pandemonium, firestorm, desiccation, plague) are ones that immediately come to mind.  Not to mention that this card gets stronger as more and more spells are created for the game.

To properly balance the card, I think you'd have to add an additional restriction to the ability.  For instance, having it affect only spells of your mark (or opponent's mark, or both) or an element of your choice (though zanz has been giving such cards a wide berth due to slowing the game down with choices) or else pick an element or two that are diametrically opposed to darkness.  (i.e. light spells and/or life spells only)

With a restriction something like one of those, I'd absolutely love to have this card, as control style decks are my favourites   In its current game, I'd break it as bad as shards of sacrifice/focus were when they were 'other' cards.

[russianspy1234]

Epic art

In principle I really like this card, but the problem is that it is too strong.  There are a LOT of spells that this would affect, and you haven't even listed them all in the card desc.  Shard of sacrifice and all of the area spells (pandemonium, firestorm, desiccation, plague) are ones that immediately come to mind.  Not to mention that this card gets stronger as more and more spells are created for the game.

To properly balance the card, I think you'd have to add an additional restriction to the ability.  For instance, having it affect only spells of your mark (or opponent's mark, or both) or an element of your choice (though zanz has been giving such cards a wide berth due to slowing the game down with choices) or else pick an element or two that are diametrically opposed to darkness.  (i.e. light spells and/or life spells only)

With a restriction something like one of those, I'd absolutely love to have this card, as control style decks are my favourites   In its current game, I'd break it as bad as shards of sacrifice/focus were when they were 'other' cards.

area effect spells are questionable, it's sometimes hard to tell what targets and what doesnt in this game.

SoSac deserves a counter like this.  purify completely kills a SoSac user.  This has to be played in advance, and can be answered by being killed beforehand.

yes it counters a lot of spells, to the point of possibly being too strong.  making it only affect certain elements would be too hard to theme (gravity is an absolute must since this was made to counter black hole) and choosing an element on cast isn't currently possible.  i am open to suggestions to making it weaker, but it is tough to do since it's impossible to make a generic reduction effect on such a multitude of spells.

keep in mind, it is currently a fairly weak creature and is easy enough to remove. it also prevents you from using such spells.

[Annele]

Shouldn't RoF be canceled as well?