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Choose the Other card that you wish to be featured next week:

:aether Shard of Wisdom
2 (5%)
:air Shard of Freedom
3 (7.5%)
:darkness Shard of Void
5 (12.5%)
:death Shard of Sacrifice
2 (5%)
:earth Shard of Integrity
3 (7.5%)
:entropy Shard of Serendipity
3 (7.5%)
:fire Shard of Bravery
6 (15%)
:gravity Shard of Focus
5 (12.5%)
:life Shard of Gratitude
0 (0%)
:light Shard of Divinity
2 (5%)
:time Shard of Readiness
7 (17.5%)
:water Shard of Patience
2 (5%)

Total Members Voted: 39

Voting closed: August 12, 2012, 07:01:37 am

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Re: Weekly Featured Cards poll - Death https://elementscommunity.org/forum/index.php?topic=16848.msg311008#msg311008
« Reply #252 on: April 13, 2011, 12:56:06 pm »
Boneyard.
I WANT MAH SKELETONS!
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Re: Weekly Featured Cards poll - Death https://elementscommunity.org/forum/index.php?topic=16848.msg311033#msg311033
« Reply #253 on: April 13, 2011, 01:59:13 pm »
Second attempt to get Deathstalker featured.  So many fun combos with those guys.
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Re: Weekly Featured Cards poll - Death https://elementscommunity.org/forum/index.php?topic=16848.msg311036#msg311036
« Reply #254 on: April 13, 2011, 02:03:30 pm »
You got me Will, voted stalkers aswell.
I hardly ever use 'em, and the few times I did it was a fail. (think it was vs Nap in the draft where I didn't draw my momentums!)

And to top it off, my star sign is scorpion :D

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Re: Weekly Featured Cards poll - Death https://elementscommunity.org/forum/index.php?topic=16848.msg311044#msg311044
« Reply #255 on: April 13, 2011, 02:19:51 pm »
to know what I voted for, follow these steps:

1. look at my avatar

2. make a random guess

congratulations! now you know.

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Re: Weekly Featured Cards poll - Death https://elementscommunity.org/forum/index.php?topic=16848.msg311098#msg311098
« Reply #256 on: April 13, 2011, 03:45:57 pm »
I'd like to see an article about Soul Catcher (it seems unlikely, though..), I think it's one of the most ignored/underused cards from all..
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Re: Weekly Featured Cards poll - Death https://elementscommunity.org/forum/index.php?topic=16848.msg311124#msg311124
« Reply #257 on: April 13, 2011, 05:16:27 pm »
My Graveyard needs attention!! D:

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Re: Weekly Featured Cards poll - Death https://elementscommunity.org/forum/index.php?topic=16848.msg311132#msg311132
« Reply #258 on: April 13, 2011, 05:26:48 pm »
Mummy ftw.
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Re: Weekly Featured Cards poll - Death https://elementscommunity.org/forum/index.php?topic=16848.msg311141#msg311141
« Reply #259 on: April 13, 2011, 05:45:50 pm »
skull shield deserves the card of the week award because it went pretty far from being less than useless to being pretty good since the last patch. it deserves to be mentionned
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Re: Weekly Featured Cards poll - Death https://elementscommunity.org/forum/index.php?topic=16848.msg311580#msg311580
« Reply #260 on: April 14, 2011, 05:45:46 am »
Deadly poison will end up with a reall lame featured article, despite the fact that I think the card is amazing.

Give Virus|Retrovirus some love here people.
Or Soul Catcher, but I think if death does as well as I'm expecting (top 4 at least), it'll make its own way up.

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Re: Weekly Featured Cards poll - Death https://elementscommunity.org/forum/index.php?topic=16848.msg311616#msg311616
« Reply #261 on: April 14, 2011, 07:40:09 am »
Boneyard ftw. It's so fun to see most of my field full of Skeletons.

On another note, why isn't Bone Shield an option?

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Re: Weekly Featured Cards poll - Death https://elementscommunity.org/forum/index.php?topic=16848.msg311618#msg311618
« Reply #262 on: April 14, 2011, 07:45:55 am »
On another note, why isn't Bone Shield an option?
If you haven't been paying attention, Bone Wall (http://elementscommunity.org/forum/index.php/topic,16848.0.html) has already been featured by the original poster of the original thread, BloodShadow. :) It was the first card voted on by the community actually. ;)

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Re: Weekly Featured Cards poll - Death https://elementscommunity.org/forum/index.php?topic=16848.msg316338#msg316338
« Reply #263 on: April 20, 2011, 05:22:52 pm »
Sorry for the late article all! ^^;; Been a bit lazy busy these past few days. :) Let's go Skull Shield!



Overview
Although not the most reliable source of protection, Skull Shield is a nifty defensive permanent that can turn hostile creatures into frail bones. In addition to reducing all physical damage by 1, attacking creatures have a small chance of transforming into a Skeleton.


General Use
  • Skull Shield reduces all physical damage by 1; creatures with less than 2 ATK aren’t affected by the shield’s special effect
  • The chance of enemy creatures being turned into a Skeleton is based on the equation (50% conversion chance/Current creature HP). Creatures with higher HP have a lower chance of being converted
  • Status effects (adrenaline, immortality, etc.) stay with a creature if they are turned into a Skeleton by the effect
  • Triggers the death effect when a Skeleton is made
Skull Shield is another shield for the Death element (the other being Bone Wall). For 3 :death quanta (2 :death upgraded), Skull Shield will reduce all physical damage from creatures by 1. In addition, the shield’s skill will also cause any non-momentum affected creature that attacks through the shield to have a small chance of becoming a skeleton. The following equation and table below provide the details of Skull Shield’s chance of ‘killing’ off enemy creatures – note that the higher a creature’s health pool is, the less likely they’ll be affected by Skull Shield’s ability:

Equation: 50%/Current creature HP

Current creature HP12345678910...50X
% Chance of Conversion
(approximated)
502517131087665...150/X
Note that Skull Shield’s ability will trigger death effects when an enemy creature is converted into a skeleton; creatures with less than 2 ATK (their entire damage is blocked) aren’t affected by shield’s ability. One small detail about the Skull Shield is that previous effects (immateriality, burrowed, poison, etc.) on creatures will still remain on that creature when it transforms into a Skeleton from the shield. So in other words, an Elite Immortal can easily become an Elite Skeleton with the immortal status effect, or a burrowed Shrieker can turn into a Skeleton that’s burrowed into the ground (but unable to burrow itself out).

While Bone Wall can absorb hits better than Skull Shield can, Skull Shield has unique strengths that Bone Wall cannot provide. Creatures rushes (ones that involve either the spamming of cheap creatures or extremely strong, yet frail, ones) can often overwhelm a Bone Wall unless the player has mass CC – creatures with Adrenaline tear down the counters of Bone Wall faster. However, a Skull Shield can put a halt to a majority of these creature-spam decks. Fire-rushes (ones that often use Lava Golems or Phoenixes) can be stopped dead cold by a single Skull Shield by dramatically reducing the offensive monsters into bones. Mono-life decks that use Adrenaline on Horned Frogs simply give the shield more chances to turn each multi-attacking Frog into a Skeleton on each hit. As most creature-rush decks are based on cheap creatures with moderate or high ATK and low HP, Skull Shield can slow or even put a stop to the creature rush on the first turn its played, assuming its not destroyed in the process.


Synergies
Rain of Fire | Fire Storm can often sweep a field clean of creatures, but in other cases (if the opponent is using more durable fighters), the spell can serve as a softener to make such creatures more vulnerable to Skull Shield. Using Rain of Fire on a field of Toadfish, for example, can increase the chance of converting the creatures into skeletons by 37%! Of course, not all creatures (see Gravity) can be affected by a Rain of Fire spell, but even then, Rain of Fire can also serve as a way of getting rid of the opponent’s skeletons to trigger more death effects…

…and because the death trigger is integral to many of Death’s strategies, Boneyard | Graveyard also becomes a favorite to use alongside Skull Shield. Because of the death trigger from turning your opponent’s creatures, a player can reap these benefits by also generating Skeletons of their own to deal further damage to the opponent. If the opponent doesn’t have a shield, playing a last-minute Nightfall can greatly boost the damage of the Skeletons of the player (although the damage boost also applies to the enemy’s Skeletons as well).

While Skull Shield can be a chancy form of CC, it can also serve as a lockdown mechanic when coupled with the right denial cards. In this case, Aflatoxin | Aflatoxin has wonderful synergy with Skull Shield. Because Aflatoxin poisons a creature, creating a Malignant cell upon its death, the opponent’s field can slowly be infested with Malignant Cells via Aflatoxin and Skeletons from the shield, reducing their damage from creature sources significantly.

Other Cards With Synergy
Cards such as Flooding, Plague, and other CC can double the number of death effects to trigger alongside Skull Shield. Condor and Soul Catcher can also benefit from the Skull Shield procs. The usage of Eternity can also be a major benefit, as one could rewind the shield’s Skeletons into random creatures, then rewound again into your opponent’s deck to deny them a draw (unless the opponent has the quanta to play that creature). Finally, Otyughs and Scarabs can also eat the enemy skeletons as well.


Conclusion
Even though the Death element has a more reliable shield that can block more damage given steady CC, Skull Shield is a much cheaper shield for Death that can halt rush decks and also provide a fun way of killing creatures on the enemy’s field.


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