Rift | Improved Rift

[moomoose]

NAME: Rift ELEMENT: Aether COST: 4 TYPE: Permanent ATK|HP: TEXT: Creatures are unable to use skills or abilities while in play.  Lasts 3 turns.	NAME: Improved Rift ELEMENT: Aether COST: 3 TYPE: Permanent ATK|HP: TEXT: Creatures are unable to use skills or abilities while in play.  Lasts 3 turns.

ART: public domain: http://www.sxc.hu/photo/1331256 IDEA: moomoose NOTES: Creatures' active abilities will not function while this card is in play.  This aids in Aether's expanding denial motif. SERIES:

[furballdn]

Oh. Nice. It's like a three turn lobotomy. I like the idea as it can quickly stop those growing golems and forest spirits. On the other hand, it'll probably increase my hatred for mono aether.

[Naesala]

I'm a little meh about the name, but otherwise it looks good.

[RRQJ]

I'm not sure how I feel about this negating one major fault of phase shield (momentum) and being in the same element.  It is a nice idea, however.

Edit:

And yeah, the name doesn't seem to fit.

[moomoose]

momentum is a status, not an active or passive skill or an effect. likewise for adrenaline and immaterial.  those will not be affected by rift.

rift is a gap, split, divide, etc- basically between the players and the creatures.

[Thalas]

momentum is a status, not an active or passive skill or an effect. likewise for adrenaline and immaterial.  those will not be affected by rift.

rift is a gap, split, divide, etc- basically between the players and the creatures.

Momentum is skill (Charger's) and Mind Flayer can lobotomise it even if it isn't creature's original skill.

[moomoose]

momentum is a status that charger starts with, just like immortal starts with immaterial status or jade shield starts with immaterial status.

[preimage]

If passive abilities do not function at all, then no creature can pass Wings while this is in play? hmm...

[moomoose]

stupid wings.  may have have to disable shields or let passives persist.

[Naesala]

rift is a gap, split, divide, etc- basically between the players and the creatures.

That wouldn't really explain the loss of passive abilities anyways

[moomoose]

depends on the passive, pest for example acts on the play'ers quanta pool, which i was thinking should be unreachable with rift in play.

edit- yeah, that doesnt make sense either as they can still attack.  so just removing active abilities.

[RRQJ]

I think momentum is defined as a skill, since lobotomize can remove it.