Trap spell, auto-cast from hand

[choongmyoung]

A card (seems spell) that cannot be actually played. So there will be no card cost for them.
Instead, if your opponent do something specific action, this spell will automatically cast to negate or counter it.
Silence will prevent your opponent from casting this / Sanctuary will prevent this you from casting this as well as dissipation shield.
If you have more than two in your hand, the one above will cast only.

Examples:
- A card that if your opponent destroys one of your permanent, this card in your hand will gone and one of your opponent's perm will randomly destroyed as well.
- A card that if your opponent deals damaging spell to you, this card in your hand will gone and it will reflect the spell damage thrice harder.
- A card that if your opponent heals, this card in your hand will gone and the healing will be negated.
- A card that if your opponent uses Precog/Hasten, this card in your hand will gone and you will draw two cards.
- A card that if your opponent uses massive CC card, this card in your hand will gone and the massive CC will be reflected. (But the unupped Panda )

Thoughts?

[BluePriest]

Im guessing to keep with the flow of the game, you would have no way of choosing if you want to activate it or not correct? Activating from the hand automatically would be pretty interesting. Personally I think they should have a quanta cost and automatically activate if there is enough quanta for them. This would also be sort of bad for you and would create some interesting counter gameplay with precog.

[choongmyoung]

Im guessing to keep with the flow of the game, you would have no way of choosing if you want to activate it or not correct? Activating from the hand automatically would be pretty interesting. Personally I think they should have a quanta cost and automatically activate if there is enough quanta for them. This would also be sort of bad for you and would create some interesting counter gameplay with precog.

Yes, you have no way to play this spell unless your opponent triggers the effect.
So if your opponent dont trigger the effect, this card is dead.

Well, quanta cost may work actually that'll be better
I'm worrying that this card can be worked as too specific counter. Like purify is really unused in the past.

[russianspy1234]

i tried something similar recently.  mine had (slightly high) costs though

http://elementscommunity.org/forum/index.php/topic,41295.0.html

i avoided the "too specific" problem by most of them being either soft counters, or unrelated to the situation they trigger on.

[choongmyoung]

i tried something similar recently.  mine had (slightly high) costs though

http://elementscommunity.org/forum/index.php/topic,41295.0.html

Yours can be played without triggering if you have enough quanta to play, right?
Similar idea different concept, my idea was more likely to being a trap, that is actually a dead card without trigger.
Interesting though. This could be fit in your series though, if you think of this "trap" idea and are able to think a way to avoid that problem in the same time

[russianspy1234]

yes they can be played regularly.  i found it made balancing a lot easier. cards that are dead without the trigger are pretty much impossible to make not too specific, and you cant have too many in your deck or youll clog your hand. my necrosis card is the closest to a direct counter, since it makes it impossible to heal past a certain amount. 

[choongmyoung]

How about this?

Note: Cannot reflect Silence.

Explosion = Destroy one of your opponent's.
Steal = Steal one of your opponent's.
Damaging spell = Reflect the damage. (Not SoW and Psion)
AM = One of your opponent's creature is AM'd. If there's non, just gone.

Not sure about Heal, Chaos power, blessing, that affect your opponent not you.