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[waterzx]

May I know what's your thought about this card ?

Spear of Innocence | Spear of Purity
http://elementscommunity.org/forum/index.php/topic,37167.0.html

[OldTrees]

May I know what's your thought about this card ?

Spear of Innocence | Spear of Purity
http://elementscommunity.org/forum/index.php/topic,37167.0.html

It reminds me of the Armory level card Oceanus (http://elementscommunity.org/forum/index.php/topic,32071).
The remove all poison ability is too much of a hard counter against poison. Having merely the regenation counters fixes this concern.
Since it is providing regeneration it does not need to have a growing attack. The low attack can be lethal in a long stall game.

[ZephyrPhantom]

Out of curiosity:

In your opinion, how effectively does Singularity nerf Nova?

[BluePriest]

Out of curiosity:

In your opinion, how effectively does Singularity nerf Nova?

its not in trainer yet, so even the idea guru, with his infinite knowledge, can only speculate at this point.

[ZephyrPhantom]

Out of curiosity:

In your opinion, how effectively does Singularity nerf Nova?

its not in trainer yet, so even the idea guru, with his infinite knowledge, can only speculate at this point.

Its effects are known to players due to being in the trainer as a bazaar card and we know that playing more than 1 nova each turn results in one of them spawning for each consecutive Nova. With the exception of the actual percentages of the effects you could still theorize the potential effects on the metagame and how strong an effect this has on all Nova-related decks.

Just my 2 anyway, since I'm just looking for opinions.

[OldTrees]

Out of curiosity:

In your opinion, how effectively does Singularity nerf Nova?

its not in trainer yet, so even the idea guru, with his infinite knowledge, can only speculate at this point.

Indeed I can speculate. My speculation is most accurate about the form and not the magnitude of the nerf in question.

The singularity is to discourage chaining SN in one turn.
If the discouragement is high then SN will not be chained. This would slow down SN Rush decks and make SN OTK decks more vulnerable to quanta denial.
If the discouragement is low then SN will still be chained but with an added cost that would need to be overcome.

The strength of the discouragement will relate directly to the strength of nerfing these 2 types of decks. The nerf to the SN Rush is much greater than to the SN OTK.

[BluePriest]

Dear Idea Guru
Its in the trainer now. Whats your thoughts on it?

[OldTrees]

Dear Idea Guru
Its in the trainer now. Whats your thoughts on it?

I tested a FG with Entropy Mark and 120 Supernovas.
The singularities were -7|5s which caused random effects per attack (including: Chaos Power, Adrenaline, Parallel Universe, Quint, Vampire, Nova, Infest)
Infest and Parallel Universe seem to create 0|0 singularities that die on their turn.

These Drawbacks are timed in such a manner that SN OTK decks can ignore them but SN Rush decks will need 1 Lightning/Reverse Time per additional SN or play only 1 SN per turn.



edit:
I used Parallel Universe on a Singularity. It gave me a copy as normal PU would. I used Mitosis on that copy. That copy triggered infest when it attacked resulting in a new -7|5 singularity (no ability) which triggered vampire gaining 10 :Vampire.
Result: Sometimes Infest creates a 0|0 singularity with an undefined skill. Sometimes it creates a -7|5 singularity with no skill.

[waterzx]

I have a card idea, not sure if this is a good one. Probably just for fun

Echo of Time : 1
Your last card in hand sent to bottom of deck. Draw a card. This spell returns to top of deck.

Pros : you can draw a card while you are sending a card back to deck, prevent clogging your hand. You can also send a useless card away.

Cons : You will draw Echo of Time again. Either use it again to send another card back to deck, or accept the fact that you miss a useful draw



And, would you like to look at my latest card ?

Summer Monsoon | Winter Monsoon
http://elementscommunity.org/forum/index.php/topic,37260.0.html

[OldTrees]

I have a card idea, not sure if this is a good one. Probably just for fun

Echo of Time : 1
Your last card in hand sent to bottom of deck. Draw a card. This spell returns to top of deck.

Pros : you can draw a card while you are sending a card back to deck, prevent clogging your hand. You can also send a useless card away.

Cons : You will draw Echo of Time again. Either use it again to send another card back to deck, or accept the fact that you miss a useful draw



And, would you like to look at my latest card ?

Summer Monsoon | Winter Monsoon
http://elementscommunity.org/forum/index.php/topic,37260.0.html

The first idea reminds me of http://gatherer.wizards.com/pages/card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=50400
This is a hotly contested card where some think it is golden and others think it is a net drain.

I would suggest at least letting them target the card being returned and perhaps make it into a permanent with an activation cost rather than a repeating spell.

The second idea feels like you are trying to force synergy artificially. (When the synergy present is already high)
It does not seem elegant enough and its objective was already accomplished. (Ask Hyroen or Jenkar about Air synergies)

[waterzx]

The first idea reminds me of http://gatherer.wizards.com/pages/card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=50400
This is a hotly contested card where some think it is golden and others think it is a net drain.

I would suggest at least letting them target the card being returned and perhaps make it into a permanent with an activation cost rather than a repeating spell.

But making it a permanent will lose the theme of "Echo", and with an overlapping role with Hourglasses

And will this be overpower if you can choose sending which card back to deck ?

[OldTrees]

The first idea reminds me of http://gatherer.wizards.com/pages/card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=50400
This is a hotly contested card where some think it is golden and others think it is a net drain.

I would suggest at least letting them target the card being returned and perhaps make it into a permanent with an activation cost rather than a repeating spell.

But making it a permanent will lose the theme of "Echo", and with an overlapping role with Hourglasses

And will this be overpower if you can choose sending which card back to deck ?

Each echo needs an echo chamber. However there is overlap with Hourglass. I would consider Card Draw and Card Filtration to be synergistic rather than redundant. However some may disagree.

It would not be inherently overpowered it depends on the final costs involved. (Including the card disadvantage.)