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Raptor | Velociraptor https://elementscommunity.org/forum/index.php?topic=20836.msg265338#msg265338
« on: February 06, 2011, 06:16:16 am »
NAME:
Raptor
ELEMENT:
Time
COST:
3 :time
TYPE:
Creature
ATK|HP:
7|2
TEXT:
Kills your weakest creature every turn. :time :time :time :time Satiate: Ends passive ability for a turn.
NAME:
Velociraptor
ELEMENT:
Time
COST:
3 :time
TYPE:
Creature
ATK|HP:
7|2
TEXT:
Kills your weakest creature every turn. :time :time :time Satiate: Ends passive ability for a turn.
ART:
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Velociraptor_dinoguy2.jpg
IDEA:
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NOTES:
It eats based on HP, but doesn't eat other Raptors until it must. It dies (or eats itself, if you prefer) if it can't eat anything else and it's left un-Satiated. It can't eat a Quinted or burrowed creature.
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Re: Raptor | Velociraptor https://elementscommunity.org/forum/index.php?topic=20836.msg265343#msg265343
« Reply #1 on: February 06, 2011, 06:52:46 am »
At first I thought this was just a highly overpowered idea, but then I realized that it eats your weakest creature. lol Now that I realize it's power is at the sacrifice of your own creatures, it makes a bit more sense. But I am still confused as to why it is a :time creature and not an :earth or :life creature. And, what happens if the the raptor is the weakest creature on your side? Does it starve to death, or eat the next smallest creature?

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Re: Raptor | Velociraptor https://elementscommunity.org/forum/index.php?topic=20836.msg265358#msg265358
« Reply #2 on: February 06, 2011, 07:45:03 am »
It's a :time creature because it's from the distant past. As for your other question, it can eat things bigger than itself but will always go for smaller creatures. It works like this: the lowest-HP creature you have dies. If it's a tie, pick randomly from the lowest. Raptors don't eat each other until there's no other creature (the targeting treats raptors as having infinite HP). If a raptor is satiated, skip eating phase. Raptors eat before attacking. Exclude immortals and burrowed creatures from the targeting list.

So yes, it goes for the next smallest creature. Does that make a bit more sense?

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Re: Raptor | Velociraptor https://elementscommunity.org/forum/index.php?topic=20836.msg265360#msg265360
« Reply #3 on: February 06, 2011, 08:05:57 am »
Hmm.. yes.  But, over all I do not like it. For a lack of better words, I find it to a bit sketchy.

Re: Raptor | Velociraptor https://elementscommunity.org/forum/index.php?topic=20836.msg265361#msg265361
« Reply #4 on: February 06, 2011, 08:08:04 am »
Can... >.>
a quinted raptor eat itself? o.o

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Re: Raptor | Velociraptor https://elementscommunity.org/forum/index.php?topic=20836.msg265362#msg265362
« Reply #5 on: February 06, 2011, 08:09:33 am »
Maxwell's Demon.

Re: Raptor | Velociraptor https://elementscommunity.org/forum/index.php?topic=20836.msg265370#msg265370
« Reply #6 on: February 06, 2011, 08:36:45 am »
Pretty intense Anubis + Fractal synergy then. Might as well lower the Satiate cost to 2 :time ish then.

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Re: Raptor | Velociraptor https://elementscommunity.org/forum/index.php?topic=20836.msg265457#msg265457
« Reply #7 on: February 06, 2011, 01:58:22 pm »
"...the point is, you are alive when they start to eat you..."
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Re: Raptor | Velociraptor https://elementscommunity.org/forum/index.php?topic=20836.msg265477#msg265477
« Reply #8 on: February 06, 2011, 02:50:11 pm »
Okay, interesting idea, i like it!

I do have a few points to put out:
- I think you might lower the satiate cost to  :time :time :time ; :time :time  respectively
and
- A question. If you play this in your first turn, like 3  :time towers and a raptor, meaning it has nothing to consume, doens't that mean its a 'dead' card?

'dead' as in useless because it eats itself before its attacks?

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Re: Raptor | Velociraptor https://elementscommunity.org/forum/index.php?topic=20836.msg265485#msg265485
« Reply #9 on: February 06, 2011, 03:01:52 pm »
Okay, interesting idea, i like it!

I do have a few points to put out:
- I think you might lower the satiate cost to  :time :time :time ; :time :time  respectively
and
- A question. If you play this in your first turn, like 3  :time towers and a raptor, meaning it has nothing to consume, doens't that mean its a 'dead' card?

'dead' as in useless because it eats itself before its attacks?
Yes. This is why it only costs 3 :time to play. And I won't lower the satiate costs because if you're saving a creature, then it should at LEAST cost that. :/

Can... >.>
a quinted raptor eat itself? o.o
No, but it can starve and die anyway. :P

Re: Raptor | Velociraptor https://elementscommunity.org/forum/index.php?topic=20836.msg265564#msg265564
« Reply #10 on: February 06, 2011, 05:01:27 pm »
I get it now, thanks X3

here's fitting wording:

Eats your weakest creature per turn.
:time :time :time :time : Satiate
Ends passive ability for a turn.

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Re: Raptor | Velociraptor https://elementscommunity.org/forum/index.php?topic=20836.msg265642#msg265642
« Reply #11 on: February 06, 2011, 06:44:37 pm »
I get it now, thanks X3

here's fitting wording:

Eats your weakest creature per turn.
:time :time :time :time : Satiate
Ends passive ability for a turn.
Thanks. I put the card up (no art for now, that's always a bit of a pain with creatures).

 

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