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[Drake_XIV]

NAME: Quark Burst ELEMENT: Gravity COST: 3 TYPE: Spell ATK|HP: TEXT: Your opponent cannot reflect spell damage for a turn. Deal 1 damage for every 5   in your possession.	NAME: Quark Burst ELEMENT: Gravity COST: 2 TYPE: Spell ATK|HP: TEXT: Your opponent cannot reflect spell damage for a turn. Deal 1 damage for every 5   in your possession.

ART: dimitri_c (http://www.sxc.hu/photo/1024026) IDEA: Drake_XIV NOTES: Why not make a temporary reflective bypass? For the sake of allowing it to get by Reflecting, Quark Burst only deals target to the opponent and cannot target. SERIES:

[OldTrees]

Can I get your thoughts on the following ideas, preferably in their respective threads?
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So a spell that should be reflected causes all targeted spells to not be reflected for that turn? That sounds like targeting an untargetable object.
It is balanced despite its paradoxical effect.

[artimies7]

Hm. I think this is a nice direct-damage late game spell. Or mid-game spell if you've got lots of extra  .

[Drake_XIV]

So a spell that should be reflected causes all targeted spells to not be reflected for that turn? That sounds like targeting an untargetable object.

I'm working off that gamma rays are produced from quarks, which permeate objects quite easily.  And for that period in which there is radiation, other energies [spells] can bypass objects.

[SOURCE: http://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0502297]

Then again, astrophysics isn't my thing, so I could just be getting this wrong.  But I think I'm right...

[OldTrees]

So a spell that should be reflected causes all targeted spells to not be reflected for that turn? That sounds like targeting an untargetable object.

I'm working off that gamma rays are produced from quarks, which permeate objects quite easily.  And for that period in which there is radiation, other energies [spells] can bypass objects.

[SOURCE: http://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0502297]

Then again, astrophysics isn't my thing, so I could just be getting this wrong.  But I think I'm right...

When will a shield that reflects gamma rays be added?
When will a ray that bypasses even a shield that reflects gamma rays be added?
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This is the mirror image of the block unblockable problem.

[Drake_XIV]

Probably never, since this is only a bypass that lasts a turn.  It's like asking if there will be a shield that will block Momentum.  Outside of lobotomizing it, that is.

And including gamma rays was only meant for thematics.  It shouldn't have any effect on mechanics...

[Zaealix]

I think Oldtree's issue is that it mechanically disregards reflection, which should reflect all spells...I'd think this spell would rebound on the user, and then cancel reflection on yourself...Perhaps a better wording is:
Delays opponent's shield, does 1 damage per 5 in your possession.
Basically, instead of going through the opponent's shield, it can shut it off for a turn, allowing creature penetration of enemy defenses, fitting  's theme better.

[OldTrees]

It's like asking if there will be a shield that will block Momentum.

Except this is the the shield and mirror shield is the reflection in that analogy.

Some ideas do not parse: Block unblockable, target untargetable and a targeted spell that is not affected by something that affects targeted spells.

[Drake_XIV]

Ah.  I think I get it now.

But what if the damage from this is not to be registered as spell damage, like how damage from Nightmare isn't reflected?

In any case, I should switch the order of the text...  The disabling of spell reflection should come first...

[dragonsdemesne]

Yes!  I like   It provides a way to deal with reflective shields without completely ruining them.  Plus, it has some utility on its own, though weaker than other bolt spells.  Interestingly, it's also better for the most part in duos, because other than this card itself, monogravity doesn't care about the reflective part of shields.

[jawdirk]

I like it. It is kind of like a chimera for spell damage.

[OldTrees]

Ah.  I think I get it now.

But what if the damage from this is not to be registered as spell damage, like how damage from Nightmare isn't reflected?

In any case, I should switch the order of the text...  The disabling of spell reflection should come first...

If you make it so it is not a targeted spell then it will not be reflected.