Black Dog | Hellhound

[Treldon]

NAME: Black Dog ELEMENT: Darkness COST: 5 TYPE: Creature ATK|HP: 4 | 3 TEXT: Septic: on successful attack target my be poisoned (20%) : Maul Deal 2 damage to target	NAME: Hellhound ELEMENT: Darkness COST: 5 TYPE: Creature ATK|HP: 5 | 3 TEXT: Septic: on successful attack target my be poisoned (25%) : Maul Deal 2 damage to target

ART: Treldon - source IDEA: Treldon NOTES: Maul can only target creatures. Septic applies both to normal attacks and Maul. Both are lobotomizable: Maul because activateable ability, Septic because Venom is also loboable SERIES: Skyrim Hold symbols

[AD TienzuStorm]

Make it "20% chance", since right now it reads as "twenty percent to be poisoned".

Any particular thematic reason for the poisoning?

[Treldon]

Updated.

There are two main reasons.
The first is that in most folklore I've read about the Black Dog or equivalent sightings they showed up shortly before the death of someone witnessing them - but I did not want to make it insta/delayed autokill.

Second is that biting/mauling injuries can quite often get infected, for which one of the main contributor is the bacteria in the attacker's mouth (Canine oral flora is quite nasty. Human even more so.)

[OdinVanguard]

20% / 30% seems rather low. At that rate its basically just an owl's eye in creature form.

[Naesala]

Overshadows parasite.

[Treldon]

Overshadows parasite.

As do lots of other CC sources.

20% / 30% seems rather low. At that rate its basically just an owl's eye in creature form.

The point is not to make poison guaranteed, not to completely replace Parasite. And yeah, I have been thinking about lowering the damage of Mauling to 2.

[Naesala]

Overshadows parasite.

As do lots of other CC sources.

Except this uses the exact same two elements and both can do poison as well as serve the role of cheap damage. At least in some formats parasite could see use. With this in game, there is no reason to use parasite period.

[OdinVanguard]

upgraded parasite might still see use as an inexpensive damage source. It is a 3|1 for 2 after all. That bumps up to 5|2 with eclipse.
That makes it a pretty decent hitter for the price.
Its ability will end up being ignored though, which will make the unupgraded version pretty useless.

[Treldon]

2 damage and 20|25% for poison (it is intended to be a bonus only)? Perhaps +1 cost?

[OdinVanguard]

2 damage and 20|25% for poison (it is intended to be a bonus only)? Perhaps +1 cost?

I still think the % chance on poison could be a little higher. Dropping the direct damage is definitely a good idea though. That will keep it from outshining owl's eye. This is an important point because owl's eye is implicit balanced by the fact that you can only wield 1 at a time unless you pack additional cards (e.g. crusader or AW).

If you do go with 20 to 25% it could be interesting to have that just be a passive that applies to anything this creature damages (e.g. players and GP'd creatures).
This would help with the thematics a bit as well since anything the dog bites would get affected, not just creatures.

[Treldon]

-snip-
If you do go with 20 to 25% it could be interesting to have that just be a passive that applies to anything this creature damages (e.g. players and GP'd creatures).
This would help with the thematics a bit as well since anything the dog bites would get affected, not just creatures.

True, but I'm not sure needs its own scorpion variant

[Treldon]

How about this?