Petrifaction | Petrifaction

[moomoose]

NAME: Petrifaction ELEMENT: Earth COST: 1 TYPE: Spell ATK|HP: TEXT: The target creature becomes a permanent	NAME: Petrifaction ELEMENT: Earth COST: 1 TYPE: Spell ATK|HP: TEXT: The target creature becomes a permanent

ART: http://www.sxc.hu/photo/1107615 IDEA: moomoose NOTES: The creature becomes a permanent, maintaining their attack power and abilities, but no longer having hitpoints. This card can be used offensively or defensively.  Skills which take into account the creatures hitpoints will be effectively 0, making this a bad choice to use on your own Oty, but making an opponent's Oty a good choice. originally based on a shard suggestion *added 7/27 http://elementscommunity.org/forum/index.php/topic,28937.0.html SERIES:

[Drake_XIV]

So, permanent-creatures will still be able to attack?  Will they basically be treated as non-weapon weapons, if that makes any sense?

[moomoose]

yes, they will still attack, but will not be considered weapons in regards to cards/skills/abilities associated with weapons (animate weapon, endow), their attack will be determined by their slot in the permanents, which occur after creature attacks.

[Drake_XIV]

Hm.  And I'm assuming they don't stack either...
So Armagio-permanents will be destroyed as soon as they activate Gravity Pull?  And if effects like Gravity Pull or Adrenaline are already in effect, does it carry over when targeted by Petrifaction? 

I don't know why, but I feel that 1 / 1 is too cheap.

[moomoose]

gravity pull will have no effect once converted to being a permanent, as they have no hitpoints and cannot sustain any damage.  it would be easiest to just remove it from the card as it is irrelevant, just like poison.  adrenaline and momentum would remain. 

consider that a single act of permanent control can be used to remove the petrified creature from play, this is why the cost is lower.  it has limited use on your own creatures: protect them from cc, give more room for other creatures, have it not be absorbed by chimera. offensively it could be used to move a creature to be then PCd, this would be a two card kill combo (this + pc card)