Corpse Explosion | Corpse Explosion

[moomoose]

NAME: Corpse Explosion ELEMENT: Death COST: 3 TYPE: Spell ATK|HP: TEXT: When the target creature dies, deal 3 damage to all creatures	NAME: Corpse Explosion ELEMENT: Death COST: 5 TYPE: Spell ATK|HP: TEXT: When the target creature dies, deal 3 damage to all enemy creatures

ART: public domain: http://www.sxc.hu/photo/1160586 http://www.sxc.hu/photo/1280244 IDEA: moomoose NOTES: the basic card deals damage to creatures on each side, the upgraded only damages the opponents creatures.  conceptually this is somewhere between rain of fire and explosive gas. if the target creature does not die, the effect is entirely irrelevant.  Schrodinger's cat does not trigger this effect. SERIES:

[OdinVanguard]

Nice! Me like.

[Drake_XIV]

Cheaper than RoF for same effect (See: Photon + "Corpse Explosion."  So much potential death triggers for third/half  of RoF).  I suggest raising cost.  Or, at least for the unupgraded version, drop the damage to 1.

[moomoose]

the basic card is a lower cost, but also damages your creatures, unlike rain of fire, and requires a a specific creature to die, unlike rain of fire.
the upgraded is the same cost as firestorm, only damages the opponent's creatures (like firestorm), but requires a specific death trigger as well.  if anything, i should lower the cost of the upgraded to account for the specific death trigger requirement.

[darkrobe]

how does this work with shrodinger's dead and alive?

[moomoose]

it doesnt- "Schrodinger's cat does not trigger this effect. "  if it were to work, the cat would have to explode.  it may not appreciate that very much.

[darkrobe]

ah. didnt see that. What about pheonix? does the ash have to explode?

[moomoose]

phoenix explodes upon death, still produces ash.

[SevenSapiens]

I really think it should work with Schrödinger's Cat. The dead/alive + corpse explosion effect would the cat exploding while being still alive. Then the cat would die  because it'd take the damage.

And it'd very fun with the upgraded version: if you targeted your own cat, you could use it every turn!

[moomoose]

the last statement is another great reason why it shouldnt work with the cat.

[SevenSapiens]

This obsession people here have on making 100% balanced cards is what is going to make this game stagnate.

[Drake_XIV]

The same could be said about unbalanced cards.  Everyone will end up using them and there'd simply be a lack of creativity.