Shard of Gratitude | Shard of Gratitude

[justaburd]

I think SoG stands in a position where a quanta based change would not work.
If you reduce it to 1, it starts conflicting with sanc and if it stays at 2, it's too little healing for the cost.
I'd say increase the healing to 4, 6 or 7 when upped.

[plastiqe]

I like elemental affinity because it makes for more interesting deckbuilding limitations.  On the one hand you could have boring cards that just do the same thing all the time, or you can have a convertable card where you have to make a strategic choice on which mark to use.

I would only change it so that the elemental affinity bonus is closer to the standard use of the card.  In SoG's example I'd like to see it at 4 Hp/turn or 5Hp/turn with life mark.

It should be good enough to play without the bonus, but really shine when you incorporate the correct mark.

[Helston]

I'm not a fan of the elemental affinity. It was designed to weaken its uses in standard rainbows while keeping it stronger in life-based decks (or life-based rainbows). As this is no longer the case, no elemental affinity is really needed.

Secondly, mark-based affinity is really quite a strange way to go about it. It means you could never gain the full 5 HP while getting the most out of Shard of Void, Shard of Divinity or Shard of Bravery, but you CAN with any of the other shards.

Finally, this punishes duos or trios which have arbitrarily been designed to have a certain pendulum/pillar split. This then bleeds into events, and in particular War, where any non-Life element has a much easier time gaining the full 5 HP bonus, but Life itself can't pull the same trick without running a mono (or close enough).

5 HP per turn would indeed be very good, and probably put Life's healing to just below where Light was prior to this change (SoD's change being a large boost to Light's healing too). For an element which supposedly focuses on healing, there isn't usually enough of it at hand due to how specific Empathic Bonds' healing is. And rather than outshining Empathic Bonds, this should complement it by helping stabilise decks until they can fall back on the crazy high healing that only Empathic can provide.

[Cunning_Wish]

deck without  mark, sog is weak to use
but for mono life, it needn't sog

upped heal is more better whether it is a life deck, or a rainbow deck

sog should be buffed,at least heal 4 per turn. you can just image it to a small Sanctuary .

[qetuol]

nononono... shards should remain colorless. otherwise the non-elemental specific ability looses its meaning.

[Luminous]

nononono... shards should remain colorless. otherwise the non-elemental specific ability looses its meaning.

No, it doesn't. They just been shaked a little, small meta-changing. Not that big deal as I thought before.

[Vangelios]

Believe me, this shard is still very good, with life-rainbow, firestall, and monolife of course, and I think this is wonderfully harmonic, I really liked these changes.

[Luminous]

Believe me, this shard is still very good, with life-rainbow, firestall, and monolife of course, and I think this is wonderfully harmonic, I really liked these changes.

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[Vangelios]

 Look for this with this deck-out I won many duels in BL
Now with the changes is to remove carapace and put reflective shield (and bye firestall), also think about removing druidc and put stiletto.

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[UndeadSpider1990]

I support what a lot of people are saying about buffing the effect when there's no Life Mark. I do think 5 should remain the highest though. Which I suppose means I'm suggesting, buff it to 4 / 5 with mark!