It is balanced because Spark/BL is free while this is not. Triggering death effects is not such a great concern, given that spark + mitosis + buff + anything to take advantage of death effects is technically a quad but plays like a trio and this + mitosis + anything to take advantage of death effects is the same.
Spark is free because it is a vanilla 3|0 creature that always dies if not buffed, while Temporal Zealot is a 5|2 creature who cost just a signle quanta (+1
) and also has a passive ability. If passive ability was always negative, it would be balanced, but since it lets you keep the creature by paying a high cost (5
) it is like we had a 3|0 Spark with an extra backlash ability that lets you drain 3
quanta of yours and keep it alive, despite having 0 health. Vanilla Spark < Spark with backlash, so Spark < Temporal Zealot.
Triggering death effects is actually something good without being broken at all, since it can help creating some interesting
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decks.
Either Fractal TZ acts like Fractal Sparks or Fractal Abominations. I do not see how this is a problem.
Either Mitosis TZ acts like Dive or Mitosis Abominations. Again I do not see a problem.
The problem is that TZ can have Mitosis Sparks, which is impossible with original Spark card. However, the comparison with dive is good, since buffed diving creatures would deal about the same damage with mitosised TZs.
I would also like to ask something else. Are you forced to pay TZ's "upkeep" cost if you have the required
quanta or you can decide not to do so? The way the text is written seems like you can't, however I ask this just to make it sure.