Guest posts by smuglapse

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Aether / Re: Mind Gate | Mind Gate

« on: August 07, 2010, 08:35:40 pm »

if you honestly want to copy a creature, just use TU, as the Duality+RT combo is an extra card for less bonus

Exactly.  Rewinding a card just to copy it seems very inefficient when you have TU and Fractal available in Aether.

About the card art--it looks like it has some kind of watermark in the middle, or is that just part of its glitz?

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Forum Bugs, Suggestions and Feedback / Re: Small smiley change

« on: August 07, 2010, 10:25:06 am »

Thanks for the tip.  I can copy and paste what you have there, unfortunately the keycode doesn't work for me. I googled it and one of the resource pages suggested it might be something in the registry preventing the keypad from entering in the code--so I didn't want to go any further with that.

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Duo-Decks / Re: Mirror Match, and... MORE!

« on: August 07, 2010, 09:31:12 am »

Whoa.  That is just fun.

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Patch Notes and Development News / Re: New pillars art poll - the final act

« on: August 07, 2010, 09:11:40 am »

They're in the trainer

And they look epic.

Also: Sapphire changed to Water.

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Trial of Air / Re: Phase 1 - Proving of Worthiness

« on: August 07, 2010, 06:54:31 am »

Google: Proving of Worthiness.  You made second result!   

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Forum Archive / Re: Polls

« on: August 07, 2010, 06:47:15 am »

HEY! That's my card idea!   

I voted for it.   

...only partially because of the unupped name.   

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Buff This Card! / [Official] Chaos Seed | Chaos Power

« on: August 07, 2010, 06:36:22 am »

Chaos Seed and Chaos Power have two totally different effects and this poll is ONLY for Chaos Power (the upgraded one.)

Yes, Entropy is disorder and randomness, but that should not be an excuse for failure.  The only guarantee from this card is that your creature will gain 1 HP, making it useful for Ball Lightnings and in very marginal circumstances where you would want to protect a specific creature from a specific attack spell.

With the development of 2 cards that have 0 attack, but need to attack to be effective (Deathstalker and Dune Scorpion), I think Chaos Power would be a good synergy IF you were guaranteed some attack benefit.  Making the attack bonus match the HP bonus (1-5) still gives you a range to randomly pick from, but it would no longer include a chance for failure.  As it is now, your only choices for comboing with those scorpions are Blessing, Eclipse (Deathstalker only), Momentum, or a three-element combo (Armor/BB + Rage).  Changing Chaos Power's attack bonus from 0-4 to 1-5 would put Entropy in the mix.

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General Discussion / Re: Weekly Featured Cards poll - Time

« on: August 07, 2010, 05:54:50 am »

Part of the issue may be the working of the poll, though it probably wouldnt make much difference. It probably should just say what card do you think should be featured, rather than what is your favorite card to be featured, since ppl just see favorite card and vote for whatever card they like/use most. People would probably vote that way anyways but yeah...

True.
Put "favorite" in a poll, you are going to get popular cards.  If you want to make it educational you could ask "Which card would you like to know more about?"  Of course, people could still pick their favorites to see if they are missing some info about them.  And if you don't like cards that are popular, get rid of the poll...

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Forum Archive / Re: Polls

« on: August 07, 2010, 03:13:41 am »

cant wait for the new cards...

They might not even make it into the game.




Nightmare is only useful on AI, because AI  is dumb and will play they cards instead of discarding them.

Not true nightmare prevents the next draw.  That makes it very powerful in a denial deck, which dark already is good at with the pest quicksand combo

Look how much a card in the Crucible was going to charge for just the draw prevention:

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Buff This Card! / Re: Puffer Fish

« on: August 07, 2010, 01:17:19 am »

wont mutate also allow you to oty eat them

Passives depend on the portrait.  So as long as it does not mutate into another poisonous creature, it will be safe for the Oty to eat.

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Other / Re: Short Bow | Longbow

« on: August 07, 2010, 01:06:51 am »

Finally, Air has an answer the Earth and Gravity's Hammer/Gavel. Looking forward to this. But I wonder if Zanz'll find a way to expand this to other Elements?

Any ideas, guys?

Well, you can't give it to every element because then Short/Long Sword would be virtually obsolete.

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Buff This Card! / Re: Fate Egg | Elite Fate Egg

« on: August 06, 2010, 09:12:57 am »

"Fate Egg to be removed from Hatch list"

I think the Hatch List is just the list of creature cards and is automatic.  That's why you see it hatch into cards that have just came out in the trainer.  I assume it would require a lot more coding to take out Fate Egg from the list.  But it is a good idea if it could be implemented fairly easily.  That PLUS one or two of the other buffs in the poll.