Blood Revisited

[Hyroen]

Seeing as Life has many HP healing cards and components, I figured why not allow it to have the Blood alternate cost mechanic.

e.g.
(Maybe something like that)

Discuss.

[Xenocidius]

We already have one HP-cost card (Shard of Sacrifice), though it's not so much casting cost as ability.

Note that 'damage', not 'spell damage' would be dealt (spell damage is reflected by shields).

Preferably, these cards could have a type of pseudoquanta where it would be implied that the card costs HP as opposed to quanta. This would allow these cards to have other skills.

Assuming the HP-draining aspect is a passive skill or part of a spell's ability, it could have other skills anyway.

Sacrificing your life force for something else really seems like a Death theme in my opinion (as shown by Shard of Sacrifice).

Incidentally, the idea of 'Blood quanta' was suggested (http://elementscommunity.org/forum/index.php/topic,27033.msg403198#msg403198) in your pseudoquanta thread.

Cute quanta symbol though. ^^

[OldTrees]

Also: Blood is an alternate cost mechanic. It is NOT a pseudoquanta because it does not use quanta.

[Hyroen]

Gak. Too true, it appears that there are multiple levels of fail in my post, however, Blood as an alternate cost mechanic, should it go under ? ?

If it were to go mainly under Death you'd have yourself some nice synergy with SoSa however, mainly under you have nice synergy with Heal, Empathic Bonds, Druidic Staff, etc.

It could also be just spread out through the elements...

What do you guys think?

[OldTrees]

Blood costs would not be healed by Shard of Sacrifice.

Blood costs could be used to represent deals or sacrifice. Blood's theme of losing hp seems counter* to Life's theme of growing hp. I feel that most implementations of Blood costs would fit Death however the particular usage might suggest a different theme.

*Cross element synergy not in element synergy

I figure any card that uses Blood costs should be focused on the Blood cost. A free creature is not focused on Blood costs.

[EmeraldTiger]

Would Blood cost be part of text or at top like other cost?

[OldTrees]

Would Blood cost be part of text or at top like other cost?

Shard of Sacrifice uses text. I would suggest card designers follow suit.