Clockwork Golem | Minor Clockwork Golem

[furballdn]

NAME: Clockwork Golem ELEMENT: Time COST: 4 TYPE: Creature ATK|HP: 8 | 4 TEXT: Attack is halved every turn. : Wind Attack is returned to full.	NAME: Minor Clockwork Golem ELEMENT: Time COST: 1 TYPE: Creature ATK|HP: 4 | 4 TEXT: Attack is halved every turn. : Wind Attack is returned to full.

ART: stevemur IDEA: furballdn NOTES: I've wanted to make a decaying time creature for a long time. Time has RT and Eternity, but not many synergies within itself to make use of it. Additionally, the gears in the art make me envision a type of powerful naturalistic looking golem that still must be wound in order to keep it in tip-top shape. Otherwise, it decays with time. Mechanically speaking, Attack is rounded down when halved after attacking. The attack-halving is passive and cannot be lobotomized while it's Wind ability is Active and can be removed. When attack is dropped, it's max ATK doesn't. If a Clockwork Golem gets a blessing, it will be 11|7 which will turn to 5|7 after attacking, and 2|7 after that. If a blessed golem winds, it will return to 11 ATK since blessing increases the max ATK of a creature. I tried to balance it around Phase Recluse and Flesh recluse and Minor Phoenix in terms of burst fractal damage. I think it's fine since their attack will quickly drop. Even when supplied with constant quanta, the unupped is 3 cards + 4 for a 8|4 creature, pretty balanced. The upped is 2 cards + 1 + upgrade for 4|4 so that should be fine as well. Mono time can use these with RT for a renewable creature that always comes out powerful (who really RTs deja vu?) Of course, once ATK hits 0, 0 divided by 2 is still 0. This won the epic card design contest. That should mean something. Probably. Maybe. SERIES:

[Vangelios]

very good, but why gravity as activation?

[GamerJL]

i shall use gravity to make wind !!!! lolz does not make sense....
hmmm should it be like repair or recharge(definitely recharge)

[Drake_XIV]

very good, but why gravity as activation?

It seems to make sense since the act of winding in this sense deals with machinery, which is under

i shall use gravity to make wind !!!! lolz does not make sense....
hmmm should it be like repair or recharge(definitely recharge)

Wind (v) - Move in or take a twisting or spiral course

This would refer to the winding of a spring, or similar device, in a clockwork being.

[GamerJL]

lol forgot the verb meaning of it...... but it seems gravity is not good ;/

[moomoose]

gravity does fit, actually.  gravity is described in the game as the element of 'order', the opposite of entropy, 'disorder'. the winding of a spring is the adding of order to the system.  it is reasoning of physics, and i stand by it. 

i like the idea of a decaying card beyond just something that enters the game poisoned.  balancing it to be worthwhile may be tricky, though.

[furballdn]

i like the idea of a decaying card beyond just something that enters the game poisoned.  balancing it to be worthwhile may be tricky, though.

I haven't touched this in a while so let's see if my memory still serves correctly.

4 + 2 per turn + 1 card = 4 + 3 cards ~= 8 + 1 card for 8|4, which at first seems a bit weak, but Clockwork Golem does full damage the first turn for no upkeep, so there is always that.

1 + 1 per turn + 1 card + upgrade = 1 + 2 cards +upgrade ~= 3 + 1 card + upgrade for 4|4 which is also fine.

The hard part about balancing something like this is fractal or mitosis, but that is also the reason I tried to price it around frog, minor phoenix, and BL.

I can definitely see it being used. It's a compliment to GotP, creates a good + duo, opens up another good usage of Eternity and RT, and also has synergy with mitosis and fractal.

[skyironsword]

Why RT this? Why not gravy mark?

[furballdn]

Why RT this? Why not gravy mark?

Just a possibility. Perhaps the user wants a time mark or they have an eternity. It's also a bit of anti RT.

[skyironsword]

So it's kind of like a mummy, as in you shouldn't use the active ability but it's nice to have?

[furballdn]

So it's kind of like a mummy, as in you shouldn't use the active ability but it's nice to have?

If you don't use the ability it's a pretty sub-par card, like wyrm and pegasus. Mummy can't rewind itself

[skyironsword]

True... but I doubt people will RT this, most likely they'll just get a gravy mark