Nightmare | Nightmare

[ratcharmer]

It seems that a lot of new direct damage abilities/spells ignore reflective shield . . .

[DevilLoss]

i do think the drain life of it should not be ignored by reflective shield but i do think ghost of the pasts ability should get past reflective shield. ive recently started replaying ghost of the past nightmare decks and im rather pleased with the knew results its a much needed and great card for darkness that shall surely turn the tides of the WOAR!!!!

[TheIdioticIdiot]

"drain"?
as in... it heals too?

[TheonlyrealBeef]

"drain"?
as in... it heals too?

Yes, basically Drain Life, except damage is based on cards added rather than your quanta.

[OldTrees]

Nice. This should be sufficient. Healing is a nice bonus.

[ZephyrPhantom]

Got buffed to now drain 2 HP from your opponent per card added.
Ignores reflective shields at the moment (!).

^This makes Nightmare a reasonable spell to use as well as giving it it's much needed buff.  Ignoring reflective shields is plain awesome.

Great job Zanz!

[Hyroen]

Sounds kind of strong in my opinion. I might go for a 1HP drain for each card.

EDIT: But I have not tested it yet, just giving my initial insight.

EDIT2: Considering that after using the initial Nightmare the amount of cards subsequent Nightmares will add is greatly reduced I think 2HP per card should be fine.

The study done HERE (http://elementscommunity.org/forum/index.php/topic,14206.0.html) may be of interest.

[Ekki]

Wow, I couldn't have imagined this way of buffing Nightmare... I like it. Simple, useful, not OP (I guess). The only thing I see is that it isn't countered by Reflective Shield. IMO it should be reflected.

[TheIdioticIdiot]

Sounds kind of strong in my opinion. I might go for a 1HP drain for each card.

only 16 drain maximun, not strong at all
I mean.. it's only 16 damage and 16 heal for 2 /1 right?
what so strong about that?
/sarcasm

[Jappert]

a 16 damage drain would be awesome. I'm really glad to see Zanz follows the community and listens this well. Awesome job, well done! I can't wait to see this card turning up in viable decks.

Normally I'd say, since it's a spell it should get affected by reflect shields. In Nightmare's case, I don't really see any harm in keeping it as it is though...

[omegareaper7]

Wow, this update just keeps getting better and better 

[nilsieboy]

great change, creates more uses and also a bit better synergy with ghost of the past.
great buff