Card Ideas

@tolkien I have Spell Skill on one of my Dwarf Wizards and when RNG is on my side, I have drawn cards that have turned the battle around. I think I may come up with a variation of this card.

 

Hat Trick
Assist

Discard 3 cards from your hand. Draw 3 cards and if any of them are Magic, give them mandatory action.

Edit: Above fixed thanks to @tolkien for correct text

 

Instead of 'play them immediately' do you mean mandatory action?

 

Actually, immediately would have been okay (Although overpowered). Mandatory Action changes it completely, as this will end your turn, then each one will be played one at a time. (Mandatory Action doesn't give Cantrip)

 

Yeah I looked that up and figured out that the best chance for the card to make it in game if it is one that ever gets picked was try to make it accessable but not so OP that it ruins the balance of the game.

 

I don't know the current consensus about control wizards (or triple control wizard), but one thing's for sure: with Gusting Feystaff, it's easier to spam control cards than ever. While of course control cards have counterplay, in the form of Immovable and Stone Feet, to be honest, the thing that bothers me about the dynamic between control and its counterplay is that it's way too binary. You either get unlucky and don't draw your Immovable and they throw you around like a ragdoll, or you get lucky and draw it and then they cry. So I thought... What if we had cards that do something reasonably useful in all situations, but for a slightly increased cost mitigate (but not eliminate) enemy control?

Implacable Mail
Armor/Boost, Silver quality
Armor 2, 3+. Keep.
Anchor 1. Keep.

Anchor 1: If you are be moved by an enemy card, you're moved one square fewer. (I wonder if it should be able to reduce enemy-induced movement to zero.)

Even something like...

Unstoppable Frenzy
Attack/Assist, magic unholy, Damage 1, range 6.
Attach to target. Frenzy 2, Anchor 1. Duration 2.

Another thing I noticed that almost all forced discard seems to be linked to some disruption of the mind. Confusion (perplexing rays), startling (Startling Strike, Unnerving Strike), Memory Loss. It got me thinking...

Mental Fortress
Boost
Trait. Whenever an enemy-controlled card would make you discard a card, it has no effect instead. Duration 2.

Feels like a helmet/human skill to me. Or if we make it about willpower, it could go with dwarves. Alternatively, it could even be an assist card for priests without the Trait, obviously (though then again that'd probably make it very niche and therefore unused).

However, considering the handicaps that usually force discards (Cowardly, Dropped Guard):
Trait. Whenever an enemy-controlled card or a handicap card would make you discard a card, it has no effect instead.

The only exceptions seem to be the armour-discarding acid cards and Sundering Strike, so that's a problem. Or maybe it could even make the character resistant to Psychic damage.

I'm just making up stupid ideas, though!

 

The only card I've seen in game that makes any character "resistant" per say to Psychic damage is Adaptable. The best refrence I could come up with any form of "resistance" maybe would do a helmet card perhaps with the basis like like that of the armor card Spiked Mail maybe but with an effect like that of Shimmering Aura? Perhaps as an example such as this:

Brain Guard

Armor (Helmet)

Armor 2. If this Armor prevents damage from a Psychic Attack, the attacker takes 2 Psychic damage.


Psychic Refraction (or Reflection which ever makes more sense)
Armor

Armor 3. This Armor only prevents damage from Psychic Attacks.

Someone I'm sure will come up with better ideas or perhaps there are other alternitives posted for this.

As far as trying to counter armor discarding cards I would say maybe some form of a Boost card lasting 2 turns at most to give your armor temp immunity? It might be OP but it's an idea anyway.

 

Full Defense

Block any roll 4+ Keep
Block any roll 2+ Discard your oldest card

Careless Attack

Melee attack - Type crushing
Damage 5 - Range 1
Discard all your hand, add 3 damage per card discarded.
Add 1 damage per revealed card in target's hand.

 

I would make the attack one damage to check for armor as well.

 

You can always buff it...

 

Pulling Stab
Attack, melee piercing, 4 damage, 2 range, warrior card. Penetrating, Slide 1, target cannot end the slide farther away from you than from the starting position of the slide.
First Strike
Attack, melee piercing, 1 damage, 1 range, warrior card. When this card deals damage, increase it by 7 if this is the first card played this round, also increase the damage by an additional 7 if you or the target are at full health.
Overcharged Spark
Attack, magic electric, 8 damage, 6 range, wizard card. Hard to Block 3, at the end of each round, deal 6 penetrating electric damage to yourself and 3 electric damage to all adjacent characters.
Purging Fire
Attack, magic fire, 3 damage, 4 range, wizard card. Attach to target: Burning 2, at the end of each round, discard a random card other than this attached to the character. Duration 2.
Holy Transformation
Attack/Assist, magic holy, 1 range, priest card. For each unholy card in the target's hand, discard it and deal 3 unpreventable holy damage to the target, then create 2 random holy cards and place them into the target's hand, cannot be played when you have unholy cards in your hand.
Dark Prayer
Assist, magic unholy, priest card. Heal 2 and create a random unholy card in a random ally's hand, this triggers twice if you have another unholy card in your hand, cannot be used if you have a holy cards in your hand.

 

Compression Wave
Attack, Magic Sonic
6 damage
Unblockable, Slide 2
Range 6
Flavor: Ow! That one hurt my ears!

Radioactive Surge
Movement Card
Free Move
5 move points
When you end this move next to blocking terrain, or an enemy unit, deal 3 Radioactive damage and create and attach a random handicap to yourself and all adjacent enemies.

 

Add Unbuffable, from Jim's Magic Missile, then we're good to go.

 

Aether Rip
Attack, magic arcane, 8 damage, 5 range, wizard card. Burst 2, Unbuffable, and create a random arcane card in a random character's hand.
Flavor Text: Ripping holes through spacetime can lead to unexpected side effects.

Ion Storm
Attack, magic electric, 8 damage, 2 range, wizard card. Cone, Encumber 2, Hard to Block 2, and damage increases by 2 for every electric card in your hand. Discard all electric cards in your hand.

Explosive Teleport
Movement/Attack. Range: 5. If you end this card next to an enemy, Push 3, and deal 9 radioactive damage. Deals 2 radioactive damage to yourself.

Mind Expansion
Utility, magic psychic. Create 2 random psychic cards in everyone's hands, including enemies.

 

Laser Gatling
Attack, magic laser, 6 damage, 3 range, wizard card. Cone, Unbuffable, Hard to Block 2. Deals 1 extra damage for each laser card in your hand, and creates difficult terrain.
Flavor Text: Mow 'em down, Soldier.

 

I like these two ideas. The others involve mechanics not coded for. I really like the random aspect to purging fire. Fire does purge. And it counters in itself a burn deck. Great idea. I'm not sure if they'll ever go for allowing wizards to have any purge cards besides warp run. But one could always hope.

 

Echoing Curse

Trait
Duration 1
Deliver 2 unpreventable psychic damage to attached character.
If the duration expires this turn, attach this card to a random enemy.

 

Fixed that for you...not bad, either. I'd call it Traveler's Curse, but that's me.

 

Hated

Trait. Attach this card to yourself.
At the beginning of your turn, all enemies in your line of sight draws a card.
Duration 1.

 

^ and turn to face you. Unblockable.