Eredan's World

[card]Obesity[/card]
Defense=2
The next Action card played by your opponent is ignored.
Chain: Action

[card]Magic Shield[/card]
Unique
Your charactor's Attack is divided by 2(rounded down)
Ignores all spell cards played by your opponent this turn.

Obesity and Magic Shield are both of the same rarity and similar aim - counter some other cards.
but the market price shows huge difference, for Obesity is around 31000,
while for Magic Shield is only around 2200.
that means either one or both of the cards is unbalance.

both cards are released in series Act I. at that time, there are no Desert Nomads.

the "Defense=2" part of Obesity, and the "Attack is divided by 2" part of Magic Shield both act as penalty.
originally, the penalty part of Obesity was already harmless compared to the penalty part of Magic Shield.
since most of characters at that time had defense around 2 if not equiped armors.
this penalty part screwed further when the release of Desert Nomads.
for the card Obesity, the part originally designed as a penalty turns out to be a bonus for almost all Desert Nomads.
while for the Magic Shield, the penalty part is almost always a penalty.
the only possibility this penalty takes no harm to self is when this card followed a card that prevent oneself from executing a normal attack, like dealing-magic-damage-immediately-cards or aiming-out-of-combat-characters-cards.
but either case, the penalty part of Magic Shield never turns out to be a bonus.
furthermore, the possibly-takes-no-harm-act for Magic Shield is by playing this card after some other card. which means one must sacrifice the full potential of Magic Shield -ignore all spell- just for not taking penalty.

there are other demerits for Magic Shield compared to Obesity.
the Obesity has a chance to chain:Action, while Magic Shield chains no card.
one can have 3 Obesity while Magic Shield is a Unique card.

either nerf Obesity or buff Magic Shield, or these 2 cards just show obvious evidance that staff cannot fix unbalance issue in this TCG.

I suggest buff Magic Shield, because nerf Obesity harms most paid-players.
there are scrolls act as the penalty part of Obesity and Magic Shield.
[card]Scroll of Immobility[/card] modifies Defense;
[card]Scroll of Weakness[/card], [card]Scroll of Power[/card], and [card]Scroll of Frailty[/card] modify Attack.

the Scroll of Frailty modifies Attack by setting Min-Attack=2 , which is surely a penalty for all characters, except characters with Attack=0/1 and in that case those characters' Attack cannot be modified. so don't take this approach.

the Scroll of Weakness modifies Attack by substracting Spirit from Attack, which is a penalty except for characters with Spirit=0. might be a good approach because lower spirit characters tends to use Magic Shield more often. but this approach never have its penalty turn out to be a bonus.

the Scroll of Power modifies Attack by setting one's Attack=5/8, which is a penalty for almost all except pure Mage and Priest. this approach might be a bonus to some characters, but those are not prone to be harmed by magic. modify by setting to another score is okay but the exact score needs to be examined carefully.

the Obesity is surely a bonus to almost all Desert Nomads, so the Magic Shield must also be a bonus to some Characters but not Desert Nomads so that this card can have chance to compete with Obesity but not further strengthen Desert Nomads. from this point of view, maybe the penalty part of Magic Shield becomes to modify one's Max-Health is an acceptable option.

any opinion about Obesity vs Magic Shield?

as a thread discussed in this section before,
it seems many players, including me, are frustrated by an awful starting hand.
or sometime, i know exactly what card the opponent will play, and i have the counter built in my deck. but sadly, that counter is in the deck, not in my hand.
such situation is annoying.

so, why not open a new tournament to see how this kind of rule works?

thus, i suggest that player can choose one card in his deck
(of course would have some restrictions, like can't pick unique, or rarity can't be or above rare, or many other ways of restriction)
while registering into tournaments implemented the new rule,
that chosen card is held in a special slot and is playable from the start.
and after you played that card at some turn, that card is removed from the slot and played as a normal card.
because this chosen card is held aside from your hand, you can hold it, until you feel it is the right moment to play, while not limiting your hand.
that means it is equally fair to select a counter or an early preparing cards like equipment in that slot.
i think just add one slot would be enough to reduce the frustration mentioned above.

...and, open a new tournament does not hurt, right?

spell war AOE, unique
your character died at the end of this turn,
deal X direct damage to opposing living characters,
where X is the current health of your character
divided and round down by the number of opposing living characters.

in my opinion, this card is around the same level as [card]Collision[/card]

i recently play war guemelite [card]Shui Khan[/card] trackers,
and his special effect, heal 2 health, won't activate unless he is the only one alive.
that's why i thought this spell would be of some help.

I played [card]Disarmament[/card] ( chained after [card]Shuriken[/card] ) to discard opponent's [card]Tessen[/card]  before dealing damage to him,
but the [card]Shuriken[/card] was discarded after the fight.

I thought it was a bug.
Because the effect of [card]Tessen[/card] should not be activated after that weapon had been discarded.

I attached [card]Improvement[/card] on one of my character,
and when he took his turn, the card was discarded, but the opponent can still attach items on my or his characters.

Does this card effect only on non-permanent cards?

Here are some card ideas.

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The Flawseeker's Fusion:

Action
Tsoutai

Spirit+1.
At the start of the fight, gain order bonus of your other dead Tsoutai characters.
Attach this card to one of your living Tsoutai if this card leaves from play ( including death of character ).
Chain.
Permanent.

Discussion:

Because I believe that Okooni or its revamp will join Tsoutai caste with its flawseeker be Black Tortoise ( yes, the zombie-like doll behind Okooni in Okooni lv1 card art ), the card art being Okooni and Black Tortoise would be good.

I thought Hime is too easily to be killed compared to other Tsoutai, it is seldom to see her be put in fully developed Tsoutai deck.
But I hope she could be more useful as a Tsoutai, and noticed that her order bonus is great if activates each time.
Thus combines these two trait and inspired by SapHeart Hom'Chai Warrior s' "bonus on death of allies", I thought if there is a card like this, the fate of Hime would be changed.

Let's pretend, at the late game, we have Hime and Akutsai be dead, and Toran the Regent has 3 cards attached, then his attributes would be
Spi:2+3+3=8 , Att: 6/9 + 6 + 3 = 15/18 , Def:2
If use the combination TheFlawseeker'sHarmony + Katamaru ,
he can heal 9 Hp , and has Att: 15/18 + 9 = 24/27, aside from the penalty of opponant's defense.
Perhaps too powerful, but I thought this card is around the same level as "Items have a Soul".

Maybe nerf this card such that it can't attach to other Tsoutai upon character's death would be reasonable, but not sure if doing this way, the card would be too weak compared to other castes' key card.

As for the counter of this card, perhaps the right order of killing, or a bow would be helpful.
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Yawarageru ( soften ):

Spell War

Defense + X where X equals your characters Spirit.
The opposing character has Attack - X where X equals his Defense.

Discussion:

The reason I like the Tsoutai caste is because the spell Katamaru,
it is as to use opponent's merit against opponent.
Thus this spell, being an antonym name, acts as a complement of Katamaru,
and hope it pertains the same flavor as Katamaru and Tsoutai theme.

Because the card art of Katamaru is Okooni on it,
card art on this card being Okooni's flawseeker would be good.

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all discussions are welcome.