Rock Golem | Boulder Golem

[EmeraldTiger]

NAME: Rock Golem ELEMENT: Earth COST: 3 TYPE: Creature ATK|HP: 3 | 2 TEXT: Use 1   to absorb 3 damage.	NAME: Boulder Golem ELEMENT: Earth COST: 3 TYPE: Creature ATK|HP: 3 | 4 TEXT: Use 1   to absorb 3 damage.

ART: EmeraldTiger IDEA: EmeraldTiger, Malebolgia NOTES: It has been determined damage from ragepot will be absorbed if enough is available. SERIES:

[Annele]

This is a really cool idea  .
For rage potion, you would be paying 3 + 2 to gain +5/+0 | +6/+0 for elixer. This requires a duo. Blessing costs 3 to raise attack AND hp by 3, this would cost 5 quanta to gain 5 attack, and no health. I don't think it would be OP.

[Drake_XIV]

I'd make the ability be used once per turn as to prevent any quick abuse as well as making it a bit more easily prone to CC, but still sturdy enough.  [Bolts will drain your like crazy either way.]

[OdinVanguard]

so w/ grav pull its essentially an version of dissipation shield?

[EmeraldTiger]

During development of this idea I think, Malebolgia suggested to put the skill into a teaching spell. I think what he meant was, Target creature gains; Use 1 quantum of its element to absorb 3 damage. This could be used both as a defense or a denial affect.

[Captain Scibra]

During development of this idea I think, Malebolgia suggested to put the skill into a teaching spell. I think what he meant was, Target creature gains; Use 1 quantum of its element to absorb 3 damage. This could be used both as a defense or a denial affect.

That was when I thought it was intended as a creature-teaching spell, not an Earth creature with the innate ability, but either still sounds good.

EDIT:  We never made an official name for the skill (Endurance?), and it ought to be lobotomize-able.

[karis]

i know it have some benefit for upgraded card to have more HP.   but i still want to know your point.   

[EmeraldTiger]

was inspired by;

What existing themes in Elements the Game do you think are the most underused (In the game or in card suggestions)?

In game there are a few themes that are explored and then left alone.

For Aether for example we see that it is the element of dimensions. What dimensions are Aether elementals free to explore?

Air elementals suffer from the severe lack of a theme of skies and winds. We generally only see for Air increases of attack and quanta efficiency, it really just needs a defining niche to bring it together.

Earth is often commonly associated with defense, however the issue here is that endurance is not promoted in the game. Veteran players will tell you that the decks that will do the best in terms of electrum/hour are rushes. As the game does not currently promote endurance, it is difficult at best to continue the extension of the enduring nature of Earth and have it become a potential threat against other elements. While true that the Graboid is the powerhouse of , it does not truely reflect the themes of Earth.

Gravity has the themes of weight (large amounts of HP) and focus shifting. The theme of weight has been explored sufficiently but can continue to grow, Gravity needs to show in what other ways as an element it can push or pull in-game factors.

Life at times confuses me. Being the element of Life, it is impressive that it is not the main element of healing, and more importantly, that its healing is not used as an effective PvP strategy. Life is great at being the element of creature spamming as seen through the Frog and Mitosis, and other cheap creatures, but if 1 card is played, all that effort was in vain. Life, in my opinion needs to find other ways to manipulate health and healing to present effective PvP strategies. (See Chi Force)

Light is impressively the element of healing. I think it may have been designed this way in order to represent the proud nature of Light, ignoring anything thrown its way. It has however overshadowed the element of Life in healing. Commonly suggested is the "kind" nature often seen as a theme of Light (see Donate, and Trust)

Time is clearly defined as the element of card advantage, however it could use a broader definition of time for its mechanisms. Time could become the element of pendulums (see Clockworker), and could also be the ideal element to encourage longer matches, with rewards worth your time (see Ancient). Time could also be the element with cost-efficient cards which can be played only on certain turns, especially with its card advantage in Golden Hourglass.

Water demonstrates impressive mastery over freezing, but in the end freezing is just a delay. Rarely is freezing seen to differentiate itself much from a simple delay. In the same way Air needs cards to expand and empower the airborne passive, Water needs a way to bring together its Flooding with the rest of its arsenal (see Strider). It also deserves other ways to make use of frozen cards, maybe frozen cards could provide some resource.

Darkness, Fire, Entropy and Death (to a lesser degree) could be considered complete in the sense that they manage to have significant thematic ways of dealing with other decks of the metagame, however that is not to say that they cannot continue to receive thematic additions to their arsenals.


Hopefully this answers the question.

[EmeraldTiger]

Anyone have a suggestion for a better name?

[Tizgone]

Anyone have a suggestion for a better name?

...Geodude | Graveller?

It's a pun on the words "geode" and "dude"

[EmeraldTiger]

A Pokémon name, ummm can't do that imo.

[furballdn]

How come I'm very reminded of Zblader's card?