Bobbypim
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Post by Bobbypim on Jan 23, 2014 14:31:09 GMT
Yo all! It's that time again! Here's the “Bobby-card” of the week #9 for you all to comment and discuss. As always tell me your thoughts on balance, possible combos and what kind of deck you could imagine this card being part of!
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renew
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Post by renew on Jan 23, 2014 14:39:32 GMT
Interesting art (Minas Morgul?) and ability. 3cc might be too low, though. Or make it the other way: "Nothing happens if he can't lose shadow energy"?
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Zhou
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Post by Zhou on Jan 23, 2014 15:23:02 GMT
Hmm this card seems weak. And where is the "imprisonment" part of the card?
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Post by renew on Jan 23, 2014 15:30:41 GMT
The lost shadow energy, I guess.
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Post by wyell125 on Jan 23, 2014 15:53:35 GMT
I like it. Would be helpful for those classes that don't have too many effective ways to get rid of a fatty (I'm assuming it works both ways, like health-attack or attack-health, whichever is higher). Bring down an Aeon enough for a creature attack or something. Renew: Why too cheap at 3cc? it's not an instant kill necessarily
Good synergy with crippling strike for a 5cc Aeon/other fatty with irritating ability wipe.
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Post by maximont on Jan 23, 2014 16:14:45 GMT
The art is cool. Needs buff though, how about just make it dmg equal to its attack?
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Bobbypim
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Post by Bobbypim on Jan 23, 2014 19:47:30 GMT
Hmm this card seems weak. And where is the "imprisonment" part of the card? My idea was that going to prison is a sense of punishment and I felt like the art showed an ally being painfully sucked into a keep/prison! Will work on a different title for the alt version though
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Post by Holy Punisher on Jan 23, 2014 20:27:31 GMT
I need a clarification Bobby, so this card does no damage when an ally is e.g. 2/2? and what about 3/2 and 2/3? the result will be the same doing 1 damage?
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Post by wyell125 on Jan 23, 2014 20:58:50 GMT
Holy Punisher: That's my understanding. If it only works (attack)-(health), i'd say it's pretty underpowered. I'll defer to bobypim though ;-)
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Post by Cuzbot on Jan 23, 2014 21:44:49 GMT
The card is cool. Maybe to make it more about Imprisonment have the ally disabled for a turn.
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Post by nerull7 on Jan 23, 2014 22:45:22 GMT
When I read the card name I expected some effect similar to the spell name you are probably aware. You need some kind of cripple/disable or I d change the name.
Good synergy with CB as already said but I doubt anyone would use 5cc to kill 1 ally. Not to mention you need both in hand. Why not disable and some ping damage each turn leaving the ally to use abilty? Its a little underpowered as is.
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Post by Bobbypim on Jan 23, 2014 23:15:38 GMT
My idea with this card was basicly to give lesser shadow heroes (those who do not rely on weapon and ability damage) a "get out of jail" card to deal with say Aeon + those pesky 2/5 and 2/6 allies! Might buff the card to ignoring the stoneskin of Sandy and Gary
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Zhou
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Post by Zhou on Jan 24, 2014 0:22:10 GMT
The card is cool. Maybe to make it more about Imprisonment have the ally disabled for a turn. This is my thought as well. Difference in attack/health is quite minimal at times. The only ally can be killed by this I think is DMT? You can't even damage allies like Ravager Zealot or Priest of the Light, and only deals 1 damage to cards like SK, Death Collector, Puwen, etc. Maybe you can combo cards like this with Raika's ability and Grimgast, but at 3CC, its kinda high and it costs 1SE as well.
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Post by Holy Punisher on Jan 24, 2014 0:25:22 GMT
If that was your intention, then what about an attachment (maybe unique) with the following text? : "Target opposing ally has its base attack (maybe maximum like cb?) reduced to 0 and loses all special text. When Imprisonment is destroyed, your hero loses 1 shadow energy"
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Post by Cuzbot on Jan 24, 2014 0:37:49 GMT
Another idea for the card could be to change it to an attachment and have it say this:
Target's attack power is reduced to 1. Target is disabled until after the controller's next turn.
1 SE: Target takes damage equal to it's health minus it's attack power.
This would be nice because you wouldn't have to spend the SE right away to kill it, you could wait until your next turn. If you did that it would give your opponent time to get it off. Also, if you reduce the attack power to 1 then when you do the ability there ally is still alive, therefore making the card not too powerful. You would still have to deal with the ally but at only 1 hp.
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Bobbypim
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Post by Bobbypim on Jan 27, 2014 8:31:24 GMT
Been thinking about this card a bit and I've come up with this: What do you think? Better? Worse? Spot on?
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Post by wreon on Jan 27, 2014 11:15:19 GMT
Seems overly contrived for a very limited effect.
*second thoughts*
I just realised that this reduces almost any ally to 1/1. Not bad lol.
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Post by Direwulven on Jan 27, 2014 11:19:18 GMT
Its a little tldr for me. Better keep things simple.
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Post by Holy Punisher on Jan 27, 2014 21:42:00 GMT
Hmm I don't know I guess it sounds more powerful in the alt version. I agree though that it's quite complicated with that long text.
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