Rogue | Assassin

[Werdbooty]

NAME: Rogue ELEMENT: Darkness COST: 4 TYPE: Creature ATK|HP: 1|2 TEXT: Automatically Endows the last dagger played. If Cloaked, invisibility does not wear off as normal.	NAME: Assassin ELEMENT: Darkness COST: 4 TYPE: Creature ATK|HP: 2|3 TEXT: Automatically Endows the last dagger played. If Cloaked, invisibility does not wear off as normal.

ART: Werdbooty IDEA: Werdbooty, with a tip o' the hat to Drobbit & YoYoBro. NOTES: Another "came-to-me-in-a-rush" card. I did this one more or less for myself. The term "Cloaked," of course, refers to the Darkness card Cloak (http://elementscommunity.org/forum/index.php/topic,17613.0.html). By "invisibility does not wear off as normal," I'm referring only to Cloak's two turn limit. Rogue & Assassin's invisibility is still vulnerable to mass CC. "Last dagger" implies that, when summoned Rogue|Assassin will automatically Endow a dagger if it is already on the field. It doesn't matter whether it's you or your opponent that plays the dagger. This follows jmizzle's Crusader (http://elementscommunity.org/forum/index.php/topic,5815.msg65999#msg65999) Endow formula; that is, Rogue|Assassin will gain the last played dagger's ability and +X|+2, where X is the weapon's attack. Daggers include: Dagger|Dirk (http://elementscommunity.org/forum/index.php/topic,2018.0.html) Arsenic|Arsenic (http://elementscommunity.org/forum/index.php/topic,1952.0.html) Discord|Discord (http://elementscommunity.org/forum/index.php/topic,2028.0.html) Vampire Stiletto|Vampire Dagger (http://elementscommunity.org/forum/index.php/topic,2196.0.html) Stat Table Element Weapon Damage Bonus Rogue Assassin Ability Other Dagger 2 3|4 4|5 Dagger Other Dirk 4 5|4 6|5 Dagger Arsenic 2 3|4 4|5 Venom Arsenic (Elite) 4 5|4 6|5 Venom Discord 4 5|4 6|5 Scramble Discord (Elite) 6 7|4 8|5 Scramble Vampire Stiletto 4 5|4 6|5 Vampire Vampire Dagger 6 7|4 8|5 Vampire SERIES:

[YoYoBro]

Nice concept and fits the theme of Darkness and Rogues. You could consider renaming the upped version Assassin, but the current name is cool too.

A few suggestions:

1) Put a comma after Cloaked (If cloaked, invisibility...) or some people could get confused and understand: "If cloaked invisibility (which could be the invisibility given by cloak) doesn't wear off..." and think you've forgotten to complete the sentence. Just a thought

2) More than gaining poison when there is a dagger in play, it would be cooler (IMHO) theme-wise if it caused ALL the daggers and stilettos (which are the typical rogues' and assassins' weapons) to become poisoned.

Nice card overall

[Werdbooty]

I like your suggestions. The name change I'll go with for now, but it wouldn't surprise me if there's another card out there already with the name Assassin. Menh. Like I said, this one's more or less for me

As for making weapons poisonous, I'm not too sure. Don't wanna take away from Arsenic's glory, right? You might be onto something tho.

[Drobbit]

It could gain automatically endow when a dagger is in play, and gain the current benefits of it.

[Werdbooty]

  New and improved!

[YoYoBro]

Now it's fine, really great thematically.

[Drobbit]

Great card. Good job

EDIT: and thanks for the mention

[Werdbooty]

Stat Table added. Any comments before I take it to the Crucible?

[Drobbit]

Maybe the ability is too powerful for just 3 cost increase. It has two abilities that depends on other cards, right, but after played you have a forever invisible creature with an endowed dagger. Maybe 5 would fit better, imo.

[Werdbooty]

Perhaps I should clarify: the "wear off as normal" refers to the Cloak's two turn limit. Still vulnerable to mass creature kill. I did debate the casting cost, but settled on this mostly because it "felt right."

*shoulder shrug*

[Drobbit]

Ah, ok. I didn't know that part. Then go on, the combined abilities suits perfect the theme.

[rowcla]

discord and arsenic are daggers? are you sure?