[Official] Eternity | Eternity

[Pineapple]

The thing is, your points are nothing new. Eternity is just an easier-to-counter Reverse Time.

[Poker Alho]

i didnt mean to be rude or even sound like it, but there are a lot of new players that come to the forum and do "cry" on the nerf this card! forum section just because they didnt like losing to a certain strategy

a person can only truly see a card's balance after looking carefully at the rest of the cards and metagame. Eternity can be useful against many things, but it will also get stomped by a lot of strategies. Eternity alone is expensive to use turn after turn unless youre not planning on playing more cards, wich i doubt and i have no idea how do you think  has an easy way to produce quanta.

a good rush can render eternity useless
a bit of denial can render eternity useless
PC obviously destroys it
immortal or untargetable creatures (plus cloak) renders eternity useless


what i think you feel its overpowered is reverse time, the card itself, not the weapon

[dragonsdemesne]

Eternity is a strong card, no question, but there are ways to play around it.  For example, if your creature gets rewound by eternity, don't just keep replaying it and having then use eternity over and over again (like how the AI will if you have eternity) and lock you from ever drawing anything else again, but wait until you can play a few creatures all at once.  They can only rewind one at a time, so if you time things properly, you have a much better chance against it.  The AI fail vs eternity is one of the biggest reasons the deck "I've GotP Time" is one of the better FG farmers.

[oopogo]

i have no idea how do you think  has an easy way to produce quanta.

Because can use multiple ways to draw cards faster than other elements. Faster draw, faster mana.

[mega plini]

It isn't like tha at all! The fact that you use a lot of Quanta to draw extra cards means that you have less  left for actualy playing cards. Unlike MTG the "Manapools" don't empty at the end of turns. When playing a  deck, you will find yourself running out of quanta fast.

[Poker Alho]

i have no idea how do you think  has an easy way to produce quanta.

Because can use multiple ways to draw cards faster than other elements. Faster draw, faster mana.

not necesseraly true, faster draw only means you get more cards from your deck per turn, wether they are pillars/pends or not, wich most of the times can actually mean the reverse, you end up cloging your hand with cards because you dont enough quanta to play them the turn you get them

[Fayceless]

As someone who argues against Reverse Time(I started that RT nerf topic), Eternity by itself, as a weapon, isn't so bad.  Not OP...weapons in general are in a pretty good spot, balance-wise.  Although I would love to see changes to the RT mechanic, I think that if it is ever changed, then Eternity should be compensated with something like lower cost/ability cost or more damage.

[EmeraldTiger]

Don't mess with combo, please.

[stevy4]

It's fine, leave it as is.

[furballdn]

Hardly. Eternity is very, VERY, expensive. 6|5 just to play it, and it costs a hefty 3 to rewind stuff.

[Alchemist]

The fact that this card alone can break a creature based deck is really offputting.

My favourite game creature is Malignant Cell. For 2  you can completely break my photon/aflatoxine based deck.  Is Lightning storm OP? RoF,  Lightning or Freeze are pure CC. Card like Eternity, Maxwell's demon, or Otyugh isn't attack on your creatures, it's direct attack on certain deckbuilds. And none of those cards are OP - they are simply counters to certain strategies.

[Aneninen]

As I said in the Reverse Time topique, Eternity is fine.
It's powerful but expensive to play and especially, to use!

Someone mentioned before, and I agree: sure,  gives most abilities to draw multiple cards in a turn but Eternity runs for the very same  quanta, so, in a mono/duo  deck you're faced with the decision many times: draw an additional card, play a creature or use the Eternity... (In my opinion,  is a strong element but also an expensive one.)

In a Rainbow Deck, it's even worse, since there is no constant and reliable source of  quantum (even if your mark is  it gives only 1 quantum for sure). PLUS, the problem is the same: Hourglass(es) use(s) the same quanta. All in one, I personally ended up removing Eternity because in most cases I'm short of  quantum to use it reliably. [Though, as it comes to Rainbow Decks, I follow the good old "a fine card which I can play for almost sure is better than an excellent card which is unplayable many times since I don't have the quanta for it"]