MArcomage

Well then, that settles it! XD

You can't get two rares on your first turn, but you can get a rare and Orc Regiment quite easily on your second turn...

Preemptive Strike (Common) 3B5R
Attack: N*3
If N < 3, card has no effect.
N = # of cards in enemy hand that have attack.

Rush reinforcements (C, 0)
If new:
Recruits -8
Wall +12

Else:
Bricks -7
Wall +10

Sorcerers strike (Rare) 25G
If N > 25 then enemy tower is lowered by N*2
Else: Gems +75
N = # of Gems


(only your own gems)

That'd be overpowered even if it weren't for the alternate massive gem gain. Easiest way to attack the enemy tower ever.

Play Sorcerers strike, get 75 gems plus production.
Play Restoration, spend 8 gems, gain production, receive Sorcerers strike.
Play Sorcerers strike, reduce enemy's tower by some value greater than 90, likely more than 100.

To better balance it, I would say it should cost at least 60 gems and then reduce tower by the amount of remaining gems, not 2x, and not have a gem-gaining option. Since it doesn't require having other gem-costing cards on hand (Mage, Legend, Undead), gathering so many gems in any other keyword deck shouldn't be terribly difficult.

If not a higher cost, it needs a maximum amount of damage that it can deal. The fact that every turn of accumulation makes it reduce the tower by a greater amount is what makes it out of line against existing cards. Only Battalion of fear comes close, and that card -consumes- those recruits while causing attack rather than tower reduction.

Well yes it definitely needs balancing, I just threw out the idea. I was a bit tired and just wrote it out, to see what people thought and hoping for a good balanced version of it :P

How about some zero cost cards w/ forward-looking effects?

Human shield: negates effect of opponents next round of damage to your tower.

Blue/Red/Green shield: opponent may not use gems/bricks/recruits next round. This one I was thinking three separate zero-cost cards, but one cheap card encompassing all three could work. Mode 1: Bricks for the green shield, Mode 2: gems for the red shield, Mode 3: recruits for the blue shield.

I think Mojko's got to make it very clear somehow... It's impossible to effect any turn but your own.

That's true - cards with continuous effects are not supported. But still, people try to suggest such cards. Maybe I should write down some metacard template, i.e. list of all things a card can effect, so people would know what are the constraints, when creating new card.

Roulette
Common
5/5/5/
Opponent discards all rares in their hand and receive random rares from their deck.

Prometheus
Uncommon
15R 10G
Burning
Discard all burning cards from both players' hands. For ever non-Searing Fire card discarded this way, deal 12 damage to the owner.

Defile
10 G
uncommon
Replace all Holy cards in both players hands with Unholy Alter


Unholy Alter
3 B
Uncommon
Quick
+4 Wall
-1 (Your own) tower for every holy card in your hand

I like defile and unholy alter, but both seem a little strong for their costs. Keeping with the undead theme, I think defile should maybe be multicoloered. Unholy Alter appears to do too much (bricks, wall, quick) for a zero cost.

Unholy alter -costs- 3 bricks.

Also: Defile costs more than Cleansing, yet does less (gives the holy deck a card they can at least get rid of quickly and up their wall, instead of a mostly worthless card).

"unholy costs 3 bricks"

i def read that wrong then.

Adapt (Common) 2/2/2
Quick
Next card received will be
Mode 1: Basic Wall
Mode 2: Foundations
Mode 3: Merchant
Mode 4: Militia

Trojan Builders (Rare) 18B18R
Attack N*2
Enemy wall +N*2
If N>25, won't lower enemy tower below 1
N = Enemy Wall

What's N?