The Four Horsemen

[storyteller]

  War (violence)
  Famine (hunger/starvation)
  Pestilence (disease/infection)
  Time (age)

by these four things,
all men shall die.


War attacks directly, kills creatures
Famine reduces attributes or max hp, possibly quanta cap
Pestilence causes actions doe to inflict damage on themselves
Time causes things to become more expensive, causes wasted action

all are Death  creatures of mounted horsemen. When all are on the field at once, a special thing occurs, probably a special spell "Apocalypse" causing all other creatures/opponents non-immaterial creatures to be destroyed.

just a thought, I use these 4 horsemen in many things, I like this spin on it.

[Absol]

Forced combo much? Is this not like "archetype" from YGO?

[storyteller]

idk, never played it. Just thought it was a nice theme for death. some pretty decent creatures on their own, that if used together could do some powerful thing.

[Captain Scibra]

Interesting idea, though I think the one can be tweaked, as to not give a way of having hard CC.  Seems to me that it could cause creatures to attack any other creature.  The randomness would balance the possible abusiveness, though a high cost could help if kept the same.  This urges the idea that a set like this could be implemented for each element.

[Anarook]

I approached this in my younger days
http://elementscommunity.org/forum/index.php/topic,24416.msg311423.html#msg311423