Focus Shield | Focus Shield

[Submachine]

This was my winner card for the Shield Competition, so I thought i'll give it a second chance.

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.
COMPETITION CARD:	http://elementscommunity.org/forum/card-ideas-and-art/(another-thread-under-construction-blame-the-bunchie-carpenters-)/msg1197498/#msg1197498
ORIGINAL:	http://elementscommunity.org/forum/crucible-archive/chain-shield-shield-chain/

[Monox D. I-Fly]

And once their HP reach 6, WHAM! Replace it with Gravity Shield.

[Rutarete]

And once their HP reach 6, WHAM! Replace it with Gravity Shield.

you read my mind

[AD TienzuStorm]

If an opposing creature had one HP with Acceleration/poison/whatever and hit this shield, would it die? Assume only one poison counter.

[Submachine]

If an opposing creature had one HP with Acceleration/poison/whatever and hit this shield, would it die? Assume only one poison counter.

I might be wrong, but i think the game is coded in a way that HP effects always take place before shield effects. So the creature attacking through would die, but as i said, i'm not sure.

[dawn to dusk]

easily tested with purify and fire shield

[Ginyu]

HP changes go first. I know because I tested overdriven Guards against Gravity Shield a lot.

[OldTrees]

If an opposing creature had one HP with Acceleration/poison/whatever and hit this shield, would it die? Assume only one poison counter.

I might be wrong, but i think the game is coded in a way that HP effects always take place before shield effects. So the creature attacking through would die, but as i said, i'm not sure.

HP changes go first. I know because I tested overdriven Guards against Gravity Shield a lot.

A 3|3 with 3 poison counters was turned into a Skeleton by Skull Shield. So I think Shield effects have priority over poison counters but I may be remembering the "reduced to 0hp" case wrong.

Someone should test the purify vs fire shield case.
Edit: A 2|1 with Purify died to Fire Buckler. I think this implies shields have priority over hp status effects.

[Ginyu]

Hm, must depend on the Shield, then. I tested OD Guards one more time now with the same result: An OD 6 HP Guard attacks through Gravity Shield.
Maybe, both shield and HP changes come into effect at the same time?

[Submachine]

Maybe different status effects have different priority:

1. Accel|Overdrive
2. Shield Effect
3. Poison/Purify counter

[Fippe94]

Acceleration is an ability, so it's not odd that it happens at a different time than poison.

[OldTrees]

Hm, must depend on the Shield, then. I tested OD Guards one more time now with the same result: An OD 6 HP Guard attacks through Gravity Shield.
Maybe, both shield and HP changes come into effect at the same time?

Maybe different status effects have different priority:

1. Accel|Overdrive
2. Shield Effect
3. Poison/Purify counter

It is looking like something is going on. (I wish we still had an "ask questions answered by the code" thread like Xenocidius had)

I know how I would have coded it: Categorize effects and then give them priority by category(example in Submarine's post).
1. On Attack abilities (acceleration)
2. On Attack shield (all Shield effects I remember including DR)
3. On Attack status effects (poison/purify)
4. On Damage abilities (vampire)
5. On Damage shield (some kind of scaling retribution shield?)
6. On Damage status effects