Penguin | Emperor Penguin

[Hyroen]

NAME: Penguin ELEMENT: Water COST: 4 TYPE: Creature ATK|HP: 2 | 2 TEXT: Penguin: Gain +1 | +1 per each frozen card on the field.	NAME: Emperor Penguin ELEMENT: Water COST: 4 TYPE: Creature ATK|HP: 4 | 2 TEXT: Penguin: Gain +1 | +1 per each frozen card on the field.

ART: Hyroen IDEA: Hyroen NOTES: Treats the Congealed status as Frozen. Bonuses only persist while cards are frozen. Each frozen card on the field is a +1 | +1 bonus. This includes even your frozen creatures and permanents. As for Ice Bolt aiming at Penguin, I believe Ice Bolt applies damage first and frozen status second. Therefore an Ice Bolt could potentially kill a Penguin. If the other way around is true, then you end up with a 1-health, frozen Penguin. From the Concept Crypt (http://elementscommunity.org/forum/index.php/topic,29136.0.html). SERIES:

[moomoose]

i like it, my only concern is how many frozen creatures could be made with the ice shield each turn and the duration of the freeze effect

[Jenkar]

I likes. It's water, has potential to be epic, has potential to fail. Maybe a tadbit powerful against creature spammers, but not so against other decks.

[thekillergames]

I likes. It's water, has potential to be epic, has potential to fail. Maybe a tadbit powerful against creature spammers, but not so against other decks.

that is if you can survive the creature spam long enough for this card to reach full potentional.
I really like this card, sort of like vulture, but then in the theme of water.

[Hyroen]

Remaking the card to update card text. Forgot permanents could also be frozen. Thank you Jenkar.

Done.

[Jenkar]

Rawr. Y u no submit to crucible?

[Hyroen]

Lulz. Submits.

[Scaredgirl]

I like the simple mechanics a lot, but the theme... I don't know. Penguins? I just don't see a highly non-aggressive creature like that doing high damage. If there were Penguins, I think they should have 0 or 1 attack and an ability that has nothing to do with attack increase.

Being able to build a "Killer Penguins" deck would be funny at first but could also feel really lame. IT would feel like I kiddie game. I mean it's just one step away from having a 10|5 Fluffy Bunny or 12|3 Cute Panda.

But yea.. the mechanics are pretty cool.

[Jenkar]

You've obviously not had your hand in penguin's beak. They hurt. TONS.

[Hyroen]

If we have Giant Frogs doing 5 damage, I'd say it's safe to give an Emperor Penguin 4 damage. Especially considering that for a frog to be giant it could still be half the size of an emperor penguin.

EDIT: Woot, current year = my post number! ^_^

[Scaredgirl]

If we have Giant Frogs doing 5 damage, I'd say it's safe to give an Emperor Penguin 4 damage. Especially considering that for a frog to be giant it could still be half the size of an emperor penguin.

Yes, but this is a fantasy game and we have no way of knowing the actual size of a "Giant Frog". For all we know it could be as big as a house. Also we don't know how it does damage. Maybe it has some kind of an attack what does not require a big size.

This is different with Penguins because Penguins are not fantasy creatures. We know exactly how small they are, how little they do damage, and how non-aggressive they are. Not only do these Penguins here have a relatively high starting attack, their ability makes them even more aggressive and strong. You made them offensive creatures, when in real life Penguins are anything but that.

Thematically, the best way to use Penguins would be to make them support creatures with a low attack. Making them offensive creatures like this just doesn't make sense to me.

[moomoose]

good points-

"Thematically, the best way to use Penguins would be to make them support creatures with a low attack. Making them offensive creatures like this just doesn't make sense to me."

seconded.