Buff This Card! » Shard of Focus | Shard of Focus

[Wizy]

SoF is currently one of the most UP cards.
Without the help of other cards, it can only destroy up to 3 permanents.
Before it has the chance to use its ability, it is easily killed by: 3 Lightnings, a Firebolt with 40+ , or a Freeze+Shockwave combo.
It is cheap for a rainbow, but you have to pay 4 for the BH!
Each SoF can only destroy one permanent per turn, if you want to destroy all of the enemy pillars you need atleast 2.

So I think it needs atleast one of these buffs:

• Make the HP limit 100 ; That way it can destroy more permanents and survive more attacks with GP.
• Instant Black Hole ; Instead of adding the BH to the hand, cast the effect.
• EQ effect ; When targeting clusters of pillars with the ability, destroy 3.

For more UP shards, see also Shard of Sacrifice | Shard of Sacrifice

[Cheesy111]

Another thing to consider: Freeze + Shockwaves kills the SoF no matter what HP it's at.  Just making it immune to Freeze would be a good start for buffing this.

[ddevans96]

You forgot it's weakness to flooding. If there are more than 5 of these on your field, you can't play a sixth or it dies! So underpowered.

[Drake_XIV]

You forgot it's weakness to flooding. If there are more than 5 of these on your field, you can't play a sixth or it dies! So underpowered.

You forget.  Other creatures are not affected by Flooding.  But I must digress, at 7 , it is too expensive to play properly.

[dragonsdemesne]

Everyone vote for spawn Holy Cows.  It is the only logical buff to this card.

[Drake_XIV]

Everyone vote for spawn Holy Cows.  It is the only logical buff to this card.

Possibly one of the only ways to get new cards into the game too for now...

[whatifidogetcaught?]

Maybe it should spawn Singularities on the enemies side!

[Wizy]

Added another poll, you can vote up to 2 options.

[plastiqe]

Turning into Black Hole is kinda useless without Discord, it should scramble quanta passively.

[dragonsdemesne]

As another much needed buff, instead of +0/+15 each time you use it, it should be +15/+0.  That way, the shard can actually attack, and you can destroy 1 permanent each turn for the rest of the game, rather than three total, because the 50hp will not be reached.  Of course, this is balanced because you can still kill shard of focus incredibly easily with two basilisk blood, and there is the nerf that you will never get the black hole unless you use basilisk bloods or a ton of blessings/chaos powers.

[YawnChainHow]

As another much needed buff, instead of +0/+15 each time you use it, it should be +15/+0.

Ugh. I don't want my SoF freezing to against someone with a  Permafrost Shield! It should come with Momentum to fix this hideous limiting factor. That makes sense thematically, because it is the gravity shard after all.

[mesaprotector]

As another much needed buff, instead of +0/+15 each time you use it, it should be +15/+0.

Ugh. I don't want my SoF freezing to against someone with a  Permafrost Shield! It should come with Momentum to fix this hideous limiting factor. That makes sense thematically, because it is the gravity shard after all.

Quintessence too, as it is the card's way too easy to mutate or RT!

New card text: Shard of Focus (Cost 7 )

0|15

Accretion:
Destroy a permanent and
gain +15|0 and spawn a Holy
Cow. Momentum, Immaterial.