Guest posts by SteppingStone81

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Draft - Battle Results / Re: The Draft, Round 5

« on: March 20, 2011, 07:36:59 pm »

SteppingStone81  2-1  Tichan

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Auction Archive / Re: SteppingStone81

« on: March 16, 2011, 04:32:12 pm »

   Death comes for us all.   

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Auction Archive / Re: SteppingStone81

« on: March 15, 2011, 05:00:21 am »

Thanks for the bid ... I'd be proud to fight for Team Air!

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Off-Topic Discussions / Re: Improved and more accurate quiz: What is your dominant Element?

« on: March 12, 2011, 06:32:36 am »

I think part of the problem is that we are all stroking our egos by answering that we are smart and wise to every question...

Self-reporting bias --> everyone is wise

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Propaganda Archive / Re: Life

« on: March 12, 2011, 04:38:48 am »

Epic banner, wizel!  Thug Life ftw ...

edit:  The forest scorpion double-fisting beers is especially awesome.

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Humor / Re: We really should stop starting pointless topics.

« on: March 11, 2011, 05:50:02 pm »

I fail to see the point of this thread.

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Draft - Battle Results / Re: The Draft, Teams

« on: March 11, 2011, 05:47:36 pm »

SteppingStone81 added to Team White as a replacement for Krathos.

Awesome!  Team WHITE will now be WINNING

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Gravity / Re: Armagio Acceleration Deck (Un-upgraded)

« on: March 11, 2011, 05:45:20 pm »

SteppingStone, I took your advice and did both of those things, the deck improved a lot. The Chimeras especially helped in those situations where the opponent either stole my Gravity Shield or had one of their own. Thanks!

Awesome. 

The earthquake protection is very situational, but in a mono gravity deck, there is essentially no downside to using half pillars and half pendula.

The chimera is a cool mid- to late- game card for gravity.  You might considering adding a second chimera to decrease the probability of not drawing your chimera in time, although this hurts your deck whenever the chimera is not necessary.  This is a stylistic choice.

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Draft - Battle Results / Re: The Draft, Teams

« on: March 09, 2011, 11:06:59 pm »

I am available / interested in subbing should any team need a sub!

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Card Ideas and Art / Re: Gold Mine | Diamond Mine

« on: March 09, 2011, 10:46:07 pm »

I like the card concept (generating   based on the number of burrowed creatures) - an interesting idea with a useful niche in earth-based decks.

As OldTrees notes, however, 3   is a lot of quanta to generate per turn per burrowed creature.  1   per turn per burrowed creature might well be more balanced.

Another possibility would be a strip mine (as a spell instead of a permanent) which provides the larger amount of quanta from your original idea (3   per burrowed creature) but only once upon play instead of every turn.

As for the name, diamond seems right for the upped version, but gold seems a bit soft for the unupped version - maybe titanium|diamond as with the earth shield?

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Gravity / Re: Armagio Acceleration Deck (Un-upgraded)

« on: March 09, 2011, 09:15:11 pm »

Good starter mono-gravity deck for AI3 grinding.  Two suggestions:

1.  replace half of pillars with pendula (EQ protection)

2.  add a chimera (allowing all of the damage potential built up by your armagios to bypass annoying shields like gravity/dimension/wings/etc.)

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Card Ideas and Art / Re: Satyr | Pan

« on: March 09, 2011, 08:27:35 pm »

Synergy with nymphs is a great and thematic idea!

Going along the idea of thematic buffs, perhaps the satyr could give a little extra attention to one nymph and make her ability free, e.g.

: Target nymph's ability now costs 0 quanta

I'm afraid it could be too situational with an ability linked only to nymphs.^^

An ability linked only to nymphs would certainly not see all that much play; nonetheless, it could be a nice thematic twist for a satyr|pan card whose stats were otherwise differentiated among life creatures (maybe a robust creature with 3 or 6 attack for adrenaline synergy?)