Project: The 13th Element

[Essence]

How about 'Gain 5 :mind plus 1/3rd of the card's casting cost?'

[OldTrees]

5+X/3 could work.

[Essence]

Round up?

[OldTrees]

Round to closest?
0:5
1:5
2:6
3:6
4:6
5:7
...
13:9
14:10
15:10

[Essence]

Ah -- when I said "+ 1/3rd of the cards' casting cost", I meant including of the quanta type the card was.  So 2 would be 5+1, etc.

Is that cool?

[OldTrees]

Yes.
I think 5mind+5 is more balanced than 10mind.

Final version of forget?

Forget (spell)
     1|0
     Discard a card, and gain 5 and 1/3 its casting cost.

(added 1mind as a casting cost to make the upgrade large enough internally)


New cards:
Joy (spell)
     3|2
     Heal 5 HP per card in your hand.

Psychometabolism | Psychometabolism (spell)
     4 |3
     Target creature gains +1|+0 for every card in your hand.

[Essence]

Does Joy count itself?  Or if you cast it with no other cards in your hand, do you get 0 HP?

Ditto Psychomet.

[OldTrees]

Idea: Quantum Generator: Theory: Generate  :mind = to number of cards in deck divided by 5? 4? Number of cards in hand? in field?

In theory (bad pun there), it would work.

Could Forget be improved?


@Joy and Psychomet
I would assume they do not count themselves because they would not be a spell card in the hand when they become a spell effect.

[moomoose]

forget could possibly be improved, but i think the "Discard a card, and gain 5 and 1/3 its casting cost." is open to more varied uses.

i would suggest maybe bumping up the mind quanta gained to 6 or 7 and limit the extra bonus to apply to only non-mind cards, this would promote duos and limit (but not remove) the rush potential of a mono-mind deck.

"Discard a card, gain 6 :mind and also 1/3 its casting cost if the card's element is not Mind."

[OldTrees]

I prefer the simpler version. However if someone else prefers the enforced duo version than I will change it.
I would change it to 7+X/3 though.

Please comment on Joy and Psychomet.

How many cards do we expect to be in the hand?

[moomoose]

either way is fine, but i think egging people on to doing duos is more interesting than it being more effective as a mono.

some art for consideration for forget:




from public domain: http://www.sxc.hu/photo/1118248

alternative versions with an immortal in there (similar how abomination is used in freeze):


in the process i made this guy, which i think is kinda sorta cool:

[moomoose]

in relation to joy and psycho, if the skill is based on the number of cards in hand, we should assume that it will be optimal at 6-7 cards, effective at 4-5 cards, and preform poorly at 3 or fewer cards. 

for joy, the spell should rival, maybe even *very slightly* outperform, life's heal spell at the optimal level.  as is i think it is a tad too powerful relative to heal.

i think capping psycho at 4 (basic) or 5 (upgraded) would bring it more in line with the atk bonuses already in place and not be overpowered at the most optimal card counts in hand