Elements 1.30

[Powerfrog]

Shard of focus sounds waaaay overpowered.
It's like a less killable pulveriser that is cheap, works in any deck, is free to activate, and gives incredibley high denial/healing vs a rainbow (Hell, with their pillars gone, the denial is good even on a mono.)

Shard of Conscience on the other hand sounds quite useless. Three shards must be played to reduce their quanta to 10. Four to make it 8. First of all, most cards cost under this, and you generally play them as you get them. Secondly, even if they are high cost, you'll probably be able to play a few before your opponent gets 3-4 shards out.
I mean it would effect you a little in the end game, if you had 6 pillars and 4 quanta, you should have 10, but this caps you at 8. But i personally don't think that's big enough a nerf to put 4+ shards in my deck.

[mega plini]

Shard of focus is not so cool; But that shard of conscious is awesome! It is everything you want against stall decks. A maximum quantacap of 8 means that farhrenheit is useless, together with fractal, stoneskin and all others.

[silux]

More shards=more frustrating farming...

Conscience brings on the game a (1/2)^n curve which it's balanced pretty well with max 6 copies per deck.
A deck with 30 cards can lock opponent at 10 or 8 quanta around turn 15 having 6 shards in deck, forcing all non-sanctuary decks not to use more than 10 or 8 quanta per turn.
That itself is useless against rush decks, pillarless decks, any deck with more than 2 PC cards, rainbow decks and even stall decks.
It's a win against any slow fractal charging deck and helps with stoneskin.
Used by a fake god would be the RoL-Hope ultimate enemy.Unless Sanctuary...
It would be also requiring at least 1 week of farming to get 6 of these and make with them a good deck.
Suggestions
-spell form
-instead they raise your quanta cap
-opponent pays +2^n to play cards.n is the number of shards.

Focus would be the Conscience nemesis; one of them destroys 5 of them  and can be played also if there are 6 in play.
They would make Eternity a sort of mass permanent destroyer, until 4 permanent destroyed every turn and no end-deck loss.
As it is it should cost 18 or 20 , given the ability and the hp.
Suggestions
-change destroy to when a permanent or creature is destroyed
- or lose 10 life as a cost for the ability
- no active ability, but a passive ability that makes he gain 10hp per turn, and black hole at 40.cost raised to 5 or 6.

[AnimationX]

Shard of Focus...gah
Ideas:
-Increase Cost
-Have the ability cost gravity quanta
-Give it more hp, have accretion make it lose hp, and have it come into play gravity pulled so you can't destroy as many permanents.

Note-Shard of Focus can be put in a Discord/BH deck to destroy those sancs. @_@

[dragonsdemesne]

On a note unrelated to shards, I'm hoping Zanz will see this here.  The arena rating system is really messed up right now.  There's several threads on it, so I won't elaborate, but something happened to screw it up.

[zanzarino]

Added Seraph to trainer, updated OP.

Now working on the shards.

[UTAlan]

Added Seraph to trainer, updated OP.

Now working on the shards.

Hurray! Thanks, Zanz!

[Xenocidius]

Wow ... that was unexpected.

Looks great, Zanz! Time to test this baby out.

EDIT: Seraph and Shard of Focus images here (http://elementscommunity.org/forum/index.php/topic,35190.msg473814#msg473814).

[Onizuka]

Dat unexpected card

[Chapuz]

I can't find Seraph in the trainer o.o

[Rutarete]

Hooray!

[ddevans96]

I can't find Seraph in the trainer o.o

You have to buy it from the bazaar. If you're still not finding it, clear your cache.