Weekly Challenge #2: Design a Shield! [VOTING OVER]

[ZephyrPhantom]

When Captain America throws his mighty shield, all that oppose it must yield! Can yours be cooler?

Link to the monthly leaderboard. This is what voting's for.

This week's goal was to Design a card that uses a new status effect! Let's see how our entrants have managed!

As a reminder: Vote in any way you deem fit, as long as you can justify it. You are encouraged to discuss the cards on this thread.
If you want to vote based on the best status effect, ignoring the card, then that's fine.
If you want to ignore the design limitations entirely, and just vote on the best card, that's also fine.
If you want to vote on yourself, you're a scumbag, but that's fine. (It's probably recommended you do. We can't stop you.)

Remember to look at the score table for the amount of points people will be given!
We're at 11, which means 4 points for first, 3 for second, 2 for third, 1 for fourth!

Spoiler for Score Table:

Amount of people	Points given/scored
3	1 point for first.
4-6	2 points for first, 1 point for second.
7-8	3 points for first, 2 second, 1 third.
9-11	4 points for first, 3 second, 2 third, 1 fourth.
12-13	5 for first, 4 2nd, 3 3rd, 2 4th, 1 5th.
14-16	6 for first, 5 2nd, 4 3rd, 3 4th, 2 5th, 1 6th.

And to remind you how many votes you get, we use the same system as crucible. We're at 11 entries, which means 2 votes!

0-2 - No voting allowed.
3-6 - 1 vote
7-12 - 2 votes
13-17 - 3 votes
18-25 - 4 votes
26-32 - 5 votes
33+ - 6 votes


We are in the Voting Phase! There's No time remaining. Good luck!

Spoiler for 1. Eye of Medusa (dawn to dusk):

NAME: Eye of Medusa ELEMENT: Darkness COST: 3 TYPE: Permanent ATK|HP: TEXT: Shield: Reduce damage by 1. : Delay all of your opponent's creatures for 2 turns. Can only be used once.	NAME: Eye of Medusa ELEMENT: Darkness COST: 4 TYPE: Permanent ATK|HP: TEXT: Shield: Reduce damage by 2. : Delay all of your opponent's creatures for 2 turns. Can only be used once.

ART: IDEA: NOTES: horribly unbalanced SERIES: design a shield - card comp

Spoiler for 2.High Wall (Monox D. I-Fly):

NAME: High Wall ELEMENT: Earth COST: 4 TYPE: Permanent ATK|HP: TEXT: Only burrowed creatures can harm you. Lasts 3 turns.	NAME: High Wall ELEMENT: Earth COST: 3 TYPE: Permanent ATK|HP: TEXT: Only burrowed creatures can harm you. Lasts 3 turns.

ART: IDEA: NOTES: I always think that the opposite of Airborne in this game is Burrowed since Airborne creatures are high above the ground surface while Burrowed creatures are deep below the ground surface. Thus, I think that if there's a Shield that can only be bypassed by Airborne creatures, why don't I make its counterpart? SERIES: design a shield - card comp

Spoiler for 3.Focus Shield (Submachine):

NAME: Focus Shield ELEMENT: Gravity COST: 5 TYPE: Permanent TEXT: Shield: reduce damage by 1. Attacking creatures get -1|+1.	NAME: Focus Shield ELEMENT: Gravity COST: 3 TYPE: Permanent TEXT: Shield: reduce damage by 1. Attacking creatures get -1|+1.

NOTES:

Only those creatures are affected who are attacking through the shield, successfully damaging the user behind it. Text under shield when in play: decelerate. Antimattered creatures ignore this shield. This card thematically fits with Gravity, because as gravity intensifies, all creatures who are affected will feel slower and heavier. Since all shields have a small one-word text under their slots in-game, i chose 'deceleration', because the effect is the opposite of Acceleration's. The in-element Gravity Shield grants a possible synergy with the card, though this synergy would be the first which incorporates 2 different shields. The card also works as a standalone card in any gravity deck; damage reduction alone is something that gravity didn't have so far, but with deceleration, it slowly adds up.

ORIGINAL:

http://elementscommunity.org/forum/crucible-archive/chain-shield-shield-chain/

Spoiler for 4.Hatred (Discord):

NAME: Hatred ELEMENT: Fire COST: 7 TYPE: Permanent ATK|HP: TEXT: Prevents 2 points of damage, creatures begin to attack other creatures after 3 turns.	NAME: Hatred ELEMENT: Fire COST: 6 TYPE: Permanent ATK|HP: TEXT: Prevents 3 points of damage, creatures begin to attack other creatures after 3 turns.

ART: IDEA: Discord NOTES: SERIES:

Spoiler for 5.Mirror Shield (xray1324):

NAME: Mirror Shield ELEMENT: Light COST: 6 TYPE: Permanent ATK|HP: TEXT: Shield: Reflect 25% of all physical damage dealt to you. Lasts 3 turns.	NAME: Mirror Shield ELEMENT: Light COST: 4 TYPE: Permanent ATK|HP: TEXT: Shield: Reflect 50% of all physical damage dealt to you. Lasts 3 turns.

ART: IDEA: Xray1324 NOTES: I got the idea for this card from a yugioh card (Just the name) the actual effect came from a balancing idea for the effect, and the fact that when you throw things at a mirror, they bounce off. SERIES:

Spoiler for 6.Force Shield (dragonsdemesne):

NAME: Force Shield ELEMENT: Aether COST: 5 TYPE: Permanent ATK|HP: TEXT: Shield: reduce damage by 4.  Lasts 3 turns.	NAME: Force Barrier ELEMENT: Aether COST: 7 TYPE: Permanent ATK|HP: TEXT: Shield: reduce damage by 5.  Lasts 3 turns.

ART: IDEA: NOTES: In conversations long past, this was basically my suggestion for a possible dimensional shield replacement, for those who thought it was overpowered. SERIES:

Spoiler for 7.Shield of Confusion (Ghaladh):

NAME: Shield of Confusion ELEMENT: Entropy COST: 5 TYPE: Permanent ATK|HP: TEXT: On the successive turn, each creature that attacked you will attack its owner.	NAME: Shield of Confusion ELEMENT: Entropy COST: 4 TYPE: Permanent ATK|HP: TEXT: On the successive turn, each creature that attacked you will attack its owner.

ART: IDEA: Ghaladh NOTES: Introduce a little anarchy. Upset the established order, and everything becomes chaos. I'm an agent of chaos. Oh, and you know the thing about chaos? It's fair! SERIES:

Spoiler for 8. Shield of Vitality (theelkspeaks):

NAME: Shield of Vitality ELEMENT: Life COST: 6 TYPE: Permanent ATK|HP: TEXT: Shield.  When a creature you control attacks, gain 1 maximum HP.	NAME: Shield of Vitality ELEMENT: Life COST: 5 TYPE: Permanent ATK|HP: TEXT: Shield.  When a creature you control attacks, gain 1 maximum HP.

ART: IDEA: theelkspeaks NOTES: This card is designed to be a shield that feels very much like the element - it tries to win by outlasting the foe via sheer volume of living things!  Bonus synergy with adrenaline is another thing that makes this card strong.  Life already has healing from Staves/SoG/Heal, but sometimes fails to have enough room to use its massive sustain. SERIES:

Spoiler for 9. Syzgy (andretimpa):

NAME: Syzygy ELEMENT: Gravity COST: 5 TYPE: Permanent ATK|HP: TEXT: Shield Alignment : Target creature you own gains gravity pull	NAME: Syzygy ELEMENT: Gravity COST: 3 TYPE: Permanent ATK|HP: TEXT: Shield Alignment : Target creature you own gains gravity pull

ART: IDEA: NOTES: Just a simple idea. In astronomy Syzygys refer to straight lines formed by bodies under gravitational interaction, so the shield would be putting your creatures between you and the incoming creatures. SERIES:

Spoiler for 10.Boomerang Shield (Treldon):

NAME: Boomerang Shield ELEMENT: Earth COST: 5 TYPE: Permanent ATK|HP: 5|7 (when flying) TEXT: Shield: reduce damage by 2   Flying Shield: Boomerang Shield becomes a creature with 5|7 for 1 turn	NAME: Boomerang Shield ELEMENT: Earth COST: 5 TYPE: Permanent ATK|HP: 6|8 (when flying) TEXT: Shield: reduce damage by 2   Flying Shield: Boomerang Shield becomes a creature with 6|8 for 1 turn

ART: - IDEA: Treldon (and Stan Lee I guess...) NOTES: So basically it is a simple shield with the added ability to temporarily become a creature, for those cases when you need just a bit more damage. When flown, it becomes a creature, in that time it does not negate any damage. On your next turn it returns to the shield slot (replacing any shield occupying the slot). On the turn after that you can throw it again. If it was delayed in that time it will remain a creature for the duration of the delay. SERIES: Weekly Challenge - CIA

Spoiler for 11.Colossal Wall (Opsinis):

NAME: Colossal Wall ELEMENT: Gravity COST: 7 TYPE: Permanent ATK|HP: TEXT: Shield: Reduce physical damage by 4. Only your opponent can activate this card's ability.  : Steal	NAME: Colossal Wall ELEMENT: Gravity COST: 10 TYPE: Permanent ATK|HP: TEXT: Shield: Reduce physical damage by 6. Only your opponent can activate this card's ability.  : Steal

ART: IDEA: Opsinis NOTES: It's different. SERIES: Weekly Challenge #2

Spoiler for Challenge Premise:

Welcome to the Weekly Card Design Challenge! Each week, the Curators will host a card design challenge with a certain theme or gimmick; for the rest of the week, your goal is to design the best card you can that works with the challenge! Once that week is up, a new weekly challenge will start and the current challenge will go into the Voting Phase! The winners of each poll will be awarded points; your current score can be found on the Monthly Leaderboard!

Each month, the top 1-3 players on the Monthly Leaderboard will get a cool award icon, depending on the number of people that participated.

Spoiler for Score Table:

Amount of people	Points given/scored
3	1 point for first.
4-6	2 points for first, 1 point for second.
7-8	3 points for first, 2 second, 1 third.
9-11	4 points for first, 3 second, 2 third, 1 fourth.
12-13	5 for first, 4 2nd, 3 3rd, 2 4th, 1 5th.
14-16	6 for first, 5 2nd, 4 3rd, 3 4th, 2 5th, 1 6th.

With that all said and done, let's move onto this week's challenge! Your goal this week is to Design a new shield!

Remember to not use art and only submit the upped and unupped of one card.

Spoiler for Specific Rules:

A shield is a card that goes into the shield slot.
A shield generally... Well. Prevents damage in a large manner of ways.
However, all a shield really has to do to qualify as a shield is go into the shield slot.

Please submit your ideas in this thread - whether you make a separate thread for your card idea is up to you. Challenges start and update themselves each Sunday/Saturday.

We are in the Submission Phase! There's No time remaining. Good luck!

[ZephyrPhantom]

Challenge is now open!

[Monox D. I-Fly]

NAME: High Wall ELEMENT: Earth COST: 4 TYPE: Permanent ATK|HP: TEXT: Only burrowed creatures can harm you. Lasts 3 turns.	NAME: High Wall ELEMENT: Earth COST: 3 TYPE: Permanent ATK|HP: TEXT: Only burrowed creatures can harm you. Lasts 3 turns.

ART: IDEA: NOTES: I always think that the opposite of Airborne in this game is Burrowed since Airborne creatures are high above the ground surface while Burrowed creatures are deep below the ground surface. Thus, I think that if there's a Shield that can only be bypassed by Airborne creatures, why don't I make its counterpart? SERIES: design a shield - card comp

[Submachine]

NAME: Focus Shield ELEMENT: Gravity COST: 5 TYPE: Permanent TEXT: Shield: reduce damage by 1. Attacking creatures get -1|+1.	NAME: Focus Shield ELEMENT: Gravity COST: 3 TYPE: Permanent TEXT: Shield: reduce damage by 1. Attacking creatures get -1|+1.

NOTES:

Only those creatures are affected who are attacking through the shield, successfully damaging the user behind it. Text under shield when in play: decelerate. Antimattered creatures ignore this shield. This card thematically fits with Gravity, because as gravity intensifies, all creatures who are affected will feel slower and heavier. Since all shields have a small one-word text under their slots in-game, i chose 'deceleration', because the effect is the opposite of Acceleration's. The in-element Gravity Shield grants a possible synergy with the card, though this synergy would be the first which incorporates 2 different shields. The card also works as a standalone card in any gravity deck; damage reduction alone is something that gravity didn't have so far, but with deceleration, it slowly adds up.

ORIGINAL:

http://elementscommunity.org/forum/crucible-archive/chain-shield-shield-chain/

Question for the moderators:

Can other, inactive users' ideas be posted here? I think Repulsor and Debris Barricade - cards that both made it into oEtG - are good ideas and should be given a chance too.

[Zyardran]

NAME: Hatred ELEMENT: Fire COST: 7 TYPE: Permanent ATK|HP: TEXT: Prevents 2 points of damage, creatures begin to attack other creatures after 3 turns.	NAME: Hatred ELEMENT: Fire COST: 6 TYPE: Permanent ATK|HP: TEXT: Prevents 3 points of damage, creatures begin to attack other creatures after 3 turns.

ART: IDEA: Discord NOTES: SERIES:

[Espithel]

Can other, inactive users' ideas be posted here? I think Repulsor and Debris Barricade - cards that both made it into oEtG - are good ideas and should be given a chance too.

The point of these is for people to make cards.
It would go against the point if people could do a search of cards for a really good card that matches the design conditions and then just paste it here.

Old cards like repulsor and debris barricade can be resubmitted for the crucible.

[xray1324]

CURATOR COMMENT
Upped card was missing. I've created an image for the card based on the text submitted in the post.

-Frozen

NAME: Mirror Shield ELEMENT: Light COST: 6 TYPE: Permanent ATK|HP: TEXT: Shield: Reflect 25% of all physical damage dealt to you. Lasts 3 turns.	NAME: Mirror Shield ELEMENT: Light COST: 4 TYPE: Permanent ATK|HP: TEXT: Shield: Reflect 50% of all physical damage dealt to you. Lasts 3 turns.

ART: IDEA: Xray1324 NOTES: I got the idea for this card from a yugioh card (Just the name) the actual effect came from a balancing idea for the effect, and the fact that when you throw things at a mirror, they bounce off. SERIES:

[dragonsdemesne]

NAME: Force Shield ELEMENT: Aether COST: 5 TYPE: Permanent ATK|HP: TEXT: Shield: reduce damage by 4.  Lasts 3 turns.	NAME: Force Barrier ELEMENT: Aether COST: 7 TYPE: Permanent ATK|HP: TEXT: Shield: reduce damage by 5.  Lasts 3 turns.

ART: IDEA: NOTES: In conversations long past, this was basically my suggestion for a possible dimensional shield replacement, for those who thought it was overpowered. SERIES:

[Ghaladh]

NAME: Shield of Confusion ELEMENT: Entropy COST: 5 TYPE: Permanent ATK|HP: TEXT: On the successive turn, each creature that attacked you will attack its owner.	NAME: Shield of Confusion ELEMENT: Entropy COST: 4 TYPE: Permanent ATK|HP: TEXT: On the successive turn, each creature that attacked you will attack its owner.

ART: IDEA: Ghaladh NOTES: Introduce a little anarchy. Upset the established order, and everything becomes chaos. I'm an agent of chaos. Oh, and you know the thing about chaos? It's fair! SERIES:

[theelkspeaks]

NAME: Shield of Vitality ELEMENT: Life COST: 6 TYPE: Permanent ATK|HP: TEXT: Shield.  When a creature you control attacks, gain 1 maximum HP.	NAME: Shield of Vitality ELEMENT: Life COST: 5 TYPE: Permanent ATK|HP: TEXT: Shield.  When a creature you control attacks, gain 1 maximum HP.

ART: IDEA: theelkspeaks NOTES: This card is designed to be a shield that feels very much like the element - it tries to win by outlasting the foe via sheer volume of living things!  Bonus synergy with adrenaline is another thing that makes this card strong.  Life already has healing from Staves/SoG/Heal, but sometimes fails to have enough room to use its massive sustain. SERIES:

[Cardplayer]

Frogtal just became more fun! 

[andretimpa]

NAME: Syzygy ELEMENT: Gravity COST: 5 TYPE: Permanent ATK|HP: TEXT: Shield Alignment : Target creature you own gains gravity pull	NAME: Syzygy ELEMENT: Gravity COST: 3 TYPE: Permanent ATK|HP: TEXT: Shield Alignment : Target creature you own gains gravity pull

ART: IDEA: NOTES: Just a simple idea. In astronomy Syzygys refer to straight lines formed by bodies under gravitational interaction, so the shield would be putting your creatures between you and the incoming creatures. SERIES: