Aetheric Ray | Aetheric Blast

[moomoose]

NAME: Aetheric Ray ELEMENT: Aether COST: 5 TYPE: Spell ATK|HP: TEXT: Deal 3 damage to your opponent for each card in your hand	NAME: Aetheric Blast ELEMENT: Aether COST: 5 TYPE: Spell ATK|HP: TEXT: Deal 4 damage to your opponent for each card in your hand

ART: public domain: http://www.sxc.hu/photo/1106413 IDEA: moomoose NOTES: originally suggested within the idea factory the card being played does not count as part of your hand when damage is calculated. SERIES:

[n00b]

Me like... maybe a little OP since you don't have to do much to deal the 24, but idk what you'd change, so as of now I give you an Almost-Seal-of-Approval-Thumbs-Up!

[RagingAlien]

I find it extremely underpowered. Aether usually has high-cost cards, yes, which means it has a lot of pillars, and after a few turns can play creatures and shields rather fast. Oh sure, Fractal, but that would require all your aether quanta + 5 + 1 card (that you'll discard) + 1 turn. All that do deal a simple 24 damage that you could get by using the two immortals you could put out in that time for a long-lasting, really pesky 8/10 damage per turn.

[Pwnator]

^^^ That, and it's worthless once the opponent sets up a Mirror Shield.

I would have said to let it target creatures as well, but Lightning would still outshine it. D:

[Pineapple]

Oh sure, Fractal, but that would require all your aether quanta + 5 + 1 card (that you'll discard) + 1 turn.

Or you can play only one of your creatures, draw a card for 8 cards and gain 5 aether, and deal 24 damage before placing the fractaled cards onto the field.

[moomoose]

its not too dissimilar from explosive gas in terms of how much damage it does, but instead of dealing 1 damage to all creatures, this can deal up to 8 more damage.  and it is a good point that you can utilize this in pairing with fractal to produce a strong effect. 

but also to the people saying it is UP- this does have OTK potential if you save up cards and quanta, staying alive with dim shields if necessary. 28+24+20+16+12=100 for 25 .  but its not a likely scenario, its much more likely that you can use creatures to get rid of the first ~50 damage and then use two of these with 7 and 6 cards in hand respectively to finish them off.  its an easier combo to pull off than fractal sparks, even though this could be used in combination with a fractal sparks deck.

^^^ That, and it's worthless once the opponent sets up a Mirror Shield.

I would have said to let it target creatures as well, but Lightning would still outshine it. D:

uhm, yeah, mirror shield makes firebolt worthless too.  but you still dont see many mirror shields being put into play.

it doesnt target creatures because that is not this card's purpose, i knew lightning already handles CC fine.  this card is sort of like aether's nuke spell, but unlike firebolt/siphon/frostbolt it is not dependent on having a stockpile of quanta to power it, or explosive gas being exposed to PC for one+ turns.


or you could have it do 28 damage four turns in a row if you set it up to do so

[Kardo]

Also, correct me if I'm wrong, but could be used in conjunction with Mindgate:

8 Cards in hand, 4 of them Aetheric Blast
28 Damage
Mindgate
28 Damage
24 Damage
20 Damage
100 Damage for just 22  (26 if you count the Mindgate).

Does require Mindgate to be in play and the opponent to have at least one card in their deck (fixed). Also there's a potential 168 damage in one turn if you had 5 Mindgates in play + 6 Aetheric blast in your hand and at least 40  . I think it actually has very good synergy with Mindgate since those can (slowly) fill your hand without consuming all  like fractal.

Either way I don't see a problem with this as it specifically targets the opponent, just like Unstable gas, making you unable to reflect it off your own shield.

[moomoose]

yep, mindgate is another good combo.  and by "at least one card in their hand" i'll assume you meant deck instead of hand, but yeah, thats a good point.

if anything i think it may be too powerful as is, but hearing people suspect it to be UP was a tad surprising.  i thought i would have to argue that it isnt OP.

[Kardo]

Right I meant "at least one card in their deck," thanks. Fixed!