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General Category => Cards => Chroma => Topic started by: Chapuz on May 02, 2018, 08:47:47 pm

Title: "Select element" update (Quantum Locket)
Post by: Chapuz on May 02, 2018, 08:47:47 pm

For quantum Locket, and potential future "select element" cards, PLEASE change the current format.
Current: select any card on play or in your hand and pick that element
My idea: select the element from your quanta pool

Why is that? Because you may want to select an element that's not of any card on the board. The basic example is to activate off-element abilities of creatures and permanents, like Parasire, Tesserract, Clepsydra or Unstable Gas. The other example is to fuel a card that you are expecting to draw and didn't draw yet, of one-offs like combo cards in a OTK where you aim to have the exact quanta you need and no more.

Please. Support a good quanta selection method.

Title: Re: "Select element" update (Quantum Locket)
Post by: cg on May 02, 2018, 08:50:48 pm

This is an enormous buff to an already-extremely-good card. The selection method is a deliberate design choice. Disagree.

edit: What you are asking for is literally a pillar that produces your choice of quanta. We might as well remove different elements.

Title: Re: "Select element" update (Quantum Locket)
Post by: Chapuz on May 02, 2018, 08:57:03 pm

Unupped costs 1 quanta, upped doesn't provide the initial quanta, so it's virtually worse than a pillar. If it's for me it can cost 2/1, a reasonable prize for the buff that makes it more elegant.

Title: Re: "Select element" update (Quantum Locket)
Post by: serprex on May 02, 2018, 10:00:30 pm

You're not bringing anything new to this argument https://etg.dek.im/forum/index.php?topic=290