a few aether card ideas

[elementarinous]

Having played a mono aether deck for a while, I've found a few niches that are missing. Maybe that's a good thing. No color should be perfect. But I also think those niches make for good potential cards:

- Healing
- A way to deal with enemy shields
- A way to deal with enemy healing
- A way to deal with enemy permanents in general
- A use for excess quanta (think Fahrenheit)

A few ideas for cards:

• Scales of Balance: (permanent) Activate scales of balance to destroy an enemy permanent. Doing so will destroy one of your aether pillars.
• Chain Lightning: (creature) 0 attack / 4 hit points. : Deal one damage to target this turn. Cost of this ability increases by one .
• Warp Gate: (spell) Destroy enemy permanent.
• Mind Wipe: (spell) All permanents are removed from the board for both players.
• Aether Wind: (spell) All healing and poison removed from the board.
• Aethereal Form: (spell) Target creature gains ability to ignore enemy shields.
• Alpha and Omega: (shield) Reverses effect of poison into healing, and healing into poison. May force enemy to take this shield.

No costs yet. I figure that's a question of finding a fair balance. But thought some of these might be helpful ideas.

[NikaZaslavsky]

If these aren't actual cards, I think you should put them in design theory.

[pikachufan2164]

If these aren't actual cards, I think you should put them in design theory.

Not Design Theory, more like Pre-Smithy Ideas. Design Theory is for ... well, theory on card design (card cost balancing formula, etc.); Pre-Smithy is for card ideas that need to be fleshed out before it goes into the Smithy.

[NikaZaslavsky]

Ok, but I meant the whole section, since pre-smithy is part of that.

Back on topic, I like the idea of Scales of Balance and Mind Wipe, and Alpha and Omega, but Warp gate is too much like deflagration, and Aetheral Form is like momentum.

[elementarinous]

Yeah, I was confused about where to post this. Should I repost it or is there a way to move a thread?

[willng3]

Yeah, I was confused about where to post this. Should I repost it or is there a way to move a thread?

Don't worry about it, it was moved for you already.

[elementarinous]

Yeah, I was confused about where to post this. Should I repost it or is there a way to move a thread?

Don't worry about it, it was moved for you already.

Thanks!

[xsindomanx]

I guess you're a fan of mono-aether...
However, some of the ideas that you have suggested don't really seem to fit in with the concept of aether (mind-altering, psychological damaging element)
The ideas you have suggested are already in other elements (heal: , momentum: , destroy: and )
If all those ideas were added to aether, it would simply become the ultimate element.

[elementarinous]

I think you have a point. Having played the element for a long time, I'd say it's pretty darn powerful. It needs to have some drawbacks -- hard to spam creatures, hard to power up creatures, hard to protect and manipulate permanents, hard to heal -- for it to be balanced.

I'm more inclined to say an element like water needs a serious boost. I hardly see anyone play that.