[CDC] Synergistic but Separate[CLOSED]

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Create 2 cards that are:
-not the same faction
-that combo with each other
-may be used on their own (people must have a reason to use one without the other)

Bonus points if they are an uncommonly used faction combination.

Example:

Pili, Keeper of Balance
1p OoS
4 cost
8 morale
Unique Character- Angel

Pili, Keeper of Balance’s abilities can only be used if she is deployed.
Pay 3, Exhaust: Create 2 4/4 Angels in each player’s Assault Zone.
Pay 2: Until end of turn, target Character on the battlefield's Attack becomes equal to its Health

0/15

A token generator that generates in the assault zone. Can be useful in token buff decks but also can be used with DoD for the balance effect and the fact that you can generate angels for your opponent that attack into your defensive line (which also can then be cleared by yuanshi's wrath)

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Souls of Guilt
1p DoD or 1p Verore
5 cost
8 morale

Consume 2, Vigilance

Whenever a character deals damage to Souls of Guilt, your opponent loses that much morale.

0/10

Can be DoD purity to combo with morale and balance. On its own doesnt use consume at all, but its morale loss ability is more than enough to warrant its use. With Verore same thing can be dropped as a defender or used with verore channeler to eat a line of aspirants. Oddly enough can also be used with Fight and warpath but not sure if morale is something warpath goes for.

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Together they make a pretty strong combo as if Pili is already deployed she can both Balance and feed Souls of Guilt with tokens all in the turn Soul's of Guilt are deployed.

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[NatoPotato]

Flame Dawn Pyro

Character - Human
Cost: 4
Morale: 6
8/7

Flame Strike 3
When Pyro attacks a defending character it deals half its power (rounded down) in combat damage to the next 2 defending characters and immolates them for 1 damage per turn. ('next' characters are to the right of the card entering combat)


Wave of Fear

Ability - Magic
Cost: 4

When you play Wave of Fear, you may Overcharge it once.
Whenever an enemy character on the battlefield takes damage this turn it gets -2/-0 until the end of the turn and moves to the back of the zone (interrupting multi strike or unstoppable).
If you Overcharged Wave of Fear the damaged enemy characters are moved to the support zone if they have half health or less.

Basically the pyros attack is a long stream of fire that doesn't just stop at one character but hits a few enemies (and immolates them) while the pyro only takes damage from one, it can be effective at damaging enemies in the defense zone that are hiding behind a big blocker.

Fear spell is effective at reducing defensive and offensive presence for a turn, including making the enemies multi strike and unstoppable useless (unless they attack a 0 power character), in pure verore it's not too powerful as it's messing with combat, though you can have it stumble attacking characters by dealing some damage to them, so its better in combo with other factions.

With the 2 cards together the pyro sends 3 characters to the back of the defense zone, immolating and debuffing them (if they don't die from the initial attack), possibly stumbling some, allowing the rest of your assault to either stumble some of the defenders and hit the fortress or cycle through the defenders and deal a bunch of damage to them while also taking less damage.

Buff the pyro a bit, add in some ability damage and/or multi strike and the combo can get pretty effective.

[ToxicShadow]

Now that is a tricky one. Alright, here it goes:

The Archivist
Purity: 1SoA
Cost: 5
Morale: 10
Type: Unique Character - Undead
Rarity: Epic
Stats: 8/8

When you deploy the Archivist, you may overcharge him with an ability card. If you do, raise up to two non-unique characters from your graveyard. Their combined cost must be 4 or lower.

If the Archivist is removed from the game while in the graveyard, search your deck for an ability card with cost 4 or lower. Take this card to your hand.

He remembers everyone and everything that has ever been. Except for his own life before undeath.


Lightning Arch
Purity: 2 Verore
Cost: 3
Type: Ability
Rarity: Uncommon

Target two deployed characters your opponent controls. Both of them take 2 damage. If they are in the same zone, all characters positioned inbetween them also take 2 damage.

If you draw this card by other means than the regular card draw at the start of your turn, all damage dealt by all Lightning Arch cards in your hand, deck or graveyard is permanently increased by 3.

If this card is removed from the game, reset the bonus damage on all Lightning Arch cards and shuffle it back into your deck instead.

"It is easy, a spell for elementary schoolers really. You just connect point A with point B. Using lightining. Simple, right?" - Elya, the Elder Witch

So, both of these cards work perfectly without each other, even if you are going for the Verore/SoA deck. They synergize with plenty of cards in their own faction (and some other factions). I wanted them still to capture the essence of their Factions, so the SoA one is all about graveyard interactions (and finally the first SoA overcharge character ) while the Verore one is all about control, opponent's positioning, combos and card draw.

Now, the main synergies here all relatively obvious i think. You can deploy the Archivist and overcharge him with the Lightning Arch, which means the Arch is shuffled back into your deck. Once the Archivist dies (or enters the graveyard by other means), you can remove him from the graveyard (plenty of ways to do that for SoA/Verore) to bring a Lightning Arch to your hand and improve all Lightning Arch spells that way.

[Prince of Lies]

Name: Serena, the Wishmaster
Faction/Purity: 1 Exiles or 1 Cult of Verore
Type: Unique Character - Demon
Rarity: Legendary
Cost: 7
Morale: 14
Attack/Health: 10/16
Rules Text:
Shield 1
Exhaust, Remove from play a Character you control: Select a card from either graveyard that has a resource cost equal to or less than the card you removed from play. Add it to your hand.
Flavor Text: "For every wish, a steep price. Make your choice, you poor unfortunate soul!"

Name: Llywelyn, the Hopebringer
Faction/Purity: 1 Overseers of Solace
Type: Unique Character - Human, Angel
Rarity: Epic
Cost: 0
Morale: 12
Attack/Health: 2/6
Rules Text:
Flying
Exhaust, Pay 2: Increase the resource cost of target card in play, graveyard or hand by 2. Llywelyn cannot target the same card until the end of the next turn. Cards in the deployed area that have their resource cost increased this way cannot be affected by effects of cards with a lower resource cost.
Flavor Text: "May the Light empower and protect you from weaker evils!"

Basically, Serena has an active similar to Adaptive Ritualist's effect although at a more difficult cost requirement which is to remove a Character with the same or higher cost than the targeted card. However, it also affects the opponent's graveyard which allows you to deny Raise Dead/Awaken shenanigans, Infested Abomination stall, crucial spell combos that need to be reused, etc.
It could combo with both Ju Lin and Phase Bot to steal spells with up to 7 or 8 cost respectively.

Meanwhile, Llywelyn functions as an odd reusable Burden of Command which has a semi-protective effect of granting immunity to any effects that have a lower resource cost than their target's. This means anything costing higher than 6 gains immunity to Mass Death, Tome, Death Ray, Heavenly Wish, Undeath Wish, etc.
Of course, it's best to use it when the target is already deployed to maximize effects. Like, a 12-cost Klore will be impervious to anything except a bizarre blocking Ao Shun from Surprise Defense or Heaven's Bell... provided Klore was not withdrawn earlier.
However, Llywelyn is only 5-cost so you need to increase her cost as well before you can pop Klore, Rhaziel, Mechborn Coyle, etc. beyond 6 cost. As now she is 0-cost, her Cost also needs to be upped if you're repeatedly targeting a card with a high resource cost every other turn.
You can also use Llywelyn to deny commanders that need to be deployed to have some impact in the game. Corrupted Hehkeem, Kali, Lucca, Helix Worm among others.
I would like to add that Llywelyn can also work on your opponent's hand if you have something that reveals their hand such as Keeper of Truth, Tower of Truth, removed Defiant Brute, etc. It will also make your Abilities unable to be countered as long as its cost is higher than the counter card. It now only provides protection to Artifacts and Locations which do remain in the deployed area. Abilities can still be countered. It will also stop on-deploy effects such as a cost-increased Splitter Robot will be unaffected by Lucca's artificial buffs and Marina's Untouchable gift.

With both Llywelyn and Serena, you can run token-producing commanders to steal important enemy cards, recycle your own combo cards (or key cards like Mass Death), protect your own cards with Llywelyn's effect and Serena's recycled cards, deny enemy commanders from being deployed, delay enemy spells if with Defiant Brute and Tower of Truth, or simply use an enemy's cards against them.

EDIT: Adjusted Llywelyn. She now requires Cost-increased cards to be deployed in order to gain immunity. She also cannot target the same card consecutively.
EDIT2: Changed some numbers on Llywelyn to avoid her from becoming completely useless in command and from hand. Added Angel subtype for some fun with Azael from hand.

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Name: Serena, the Wishmaster
Faction/Purity: 1 Exiles or 1 Cult of Verore
Type: Unique Character - Demon
Rarity: Legendary
Cost: 7
Morale: 14
Attack/Health: 10/16
Rules Text:
Shield 1
Exhaust, Remove from play a Character you control: Select a card from either graveyard that has a resource cost equal to or less than the card you removed from play. Add it to your hand.
Flavor Text: "For every wish, a steep price. Make your choice, you poor unfortunate soul!"

Name: Llywelyn, the Hopebringer
Faction/Purity: 1 Overseers of Solace
Type: Unique Character - Human
Rarity: Epic
Cost: 5
Morale: 12
Attack/Health: 7/7
Rules Text:
Flying
Exhaust, Pay 1: Increase the resource cost of target card in play, graveyard or hand by 1. Cards that have their resource cost increased this way cannot be affected by effects of cards of a lower resource cost.
Flavor Text: "May the Light empower and protect you from weaker evils!"

Basically, Serena has an active similar to Adaptive Ritualist's effect although at a more difficult cost requirement which is to remove a Character with the same or higher cost than the targeted card. However, it also affects the opponent's graveyard which allows you to deny Raise Dead/Awaken shenanigans, Infested Abomination stall, crucial spell combos that need to be reused, etc.
It could combo with both Ju Lin and Phase Bot to steal spells with up to 7 or 8 cost respectively.

Meanwhile, Llywelyn functions as an odd reusable Burden of Command which has a semi-protective effect of granting immunity to any effects that have a lower resource cost than their target's. This means anything costing higher than 6 gains immunity to Mass Death, Tome, Death Ray, Heavenly Wish, Undeath Wish, etc.
Of course, it's best to use it when the target is already deployed to maximize effects. Like, a 12-cost Klore will be impervious to anything except a bizarre blocking Ao Shun.
However, Llywelyn is only 5-cost so you need to increase her cost as well before you can pop Klore, Rhaziel, Mechborn Coyle, etc. beyond 6 cost.
You can also use Llywelyn to deny commanders that need to be deployed to have some impact in the game. Corrupted Hehkeem, Kali, Lucca. Or delay high-cost commanders from being deployed such as Helix Worm.
I would like to add that Llywelyn can also work on your opponent's hand if you have something that reveals their hand such as Keeper of Truth, Tower of Truth, removed Defiant Brute, etc. It will also make your Abilities unable to be countered as long as its cost is higher than the counter card. It will also stop on-deploy effects such as a cost-increased Splitter Robot will be unaffected by Lucca's artificial buffs and Marina's Untouchable gift.

With both Llywelyn and Serena, you can run token-producing commanders to steal important enemy cards, recycle your own combo cards or just protect your own cards.

For llywelyn, does her effect mean cards cant take combat damage from lower cost cards? Or they cant even be blocked by them? Either way thats a bit overpowered and also needs to be specified in the description.

Also the way her protection works, it seems like she only protects things when you activate her and after she buffs something because the protection sentence is stuck into her activation paragraph. Was her protection meant as a passive as long as she is in play? Also consider that putting her as commander may lead to a bit of overpoweredness in denying opponent early command plays. Perhaps make her only activatable when she is deployed?

[Prince of Lies]

Name: Serena, the Wishmaster
Faction/Purity: 1 Exiles or 1 Cult of Verore
Type: Unique Character - Demon
Rarity: Legendary
Cost: 7
Morale: 14
Attack/Health: 10/16
Rules Text:
Shield 1
Exhaust, Remove from play a Character you control: Select a card from either graveyard that has a resource cost equal to or less than the card you removed from play. Add it to your hand.
Flavor Text: "For every wish, a steep price. Make your choice, you poor unfortunate soul!"

Name: Llywelyn, the Hopebringer
Faction/Purity: 1 Overseers of Solace
Type: Unique Character - Human
Rarity: Epic
Cost: 5
Morale: 12
Attack/Health: 7/7
Rules Text:
Flying
Exhaust, Pay 1: Increase the resource cost of target card in play, graveyard or hand by 1. Cards that have their resource cost increased this way cannot be affected by effects of cards of a lower resource cost.
Flavor Text: "May the Light empower and protect you from weaker evils!"

Basically, Serena has an active similar to Adaptive Ritualist's effect although at a more difficult cost requirement which is to remove a Character with the same or higher cost than the targeted card. However, it also affects the opponent's graveyard which allows you to deny Raise Dead/Awaken shenanigans, Infested Abomination stall, crucial spell combos that need to be reused, etc.
It could combo with both Ju Lin and Phase Bot to steal spells with up to 7 or 8 cost respectively.

Meanwhile, Llywelyn functions as an odd reusable Burden of Command which has a semi-protective effect of granting immunity to any effects that have a lower resource cost than their target's. This means anything costing higher than 6 gains immunity to Mass Death, Tome, Death Ray, Heavenly Wish, Undeath Wish, etc.
Of course, it's best to use it when the target is already deployed to maximize effects. Like, a 12-cost Klore will be impervious to anything except a bizarre blocking Ao Shun.
However, Llywelyn is only 5-cost so you need to increase her cost as well before you can pop Klore, Rhaziel, Mechborn Coyle, etc. beyond 6 cost.
You can also use Llywelyn to deny commanders that need to be deployed to have some impact in the game. Corrupted Hehkeem, Kali, Lucca. Or delay high-cost commanders from being deployed such as Helix Worm.
I would like to add that Llywelyn can also work on your opponent's hand if you have something that reveals their hand such as Keeper of Truth, Tower of Truth, removed Defiant Brute, etc. It will also make your Abilities unable to be countered as long as its cost is higher than the counter card. It will also stop on-deploy effects such as a cost-increased Splitter Robot will be unaffected by Lucca's artificial buffs and Marina's Untouchable gift.

With both Llywelyn and Serena, you can run token-producing commanders to steal important enemy cards, recycle your own combo cards or just protect your own cards.

For llywelyn, does her effect mean cards cant take combat damage from lower cost cards? Or they cant even be blocked by them? Either way thats a bit overpowered and also needs to be specified in the description.

Also the way her protection works, it seems like she only protects things when you activate her and after she buffs something because the protection sentence is stuck into her activation paragraph. Was her protection meant as a passive as long as she is in play? Also consider that putting her as commander may lead to a bit of overpoweredness in denying opponent early command plays. Perhaps make her only activatable when she is deployed?

Yeah, I actually thought about it when I logged off last night.
I'm going to have to cut her stats to Heat Wave range and cost to 0, active ability to 2.
As well as the need to have the cards be deployed in order to gain the immunity.
That should allow some counterplay.

And no, combat damage isn't a card effect so her secondary effect of the active wouldn't protect buffed characters by it.

[Number11]

Fleeting Virus
1 purity SoA - Rare
3 cost
Ability

Target up to four deployed characters with a sum of cost less than 5. You gain control of target characters until the end of turn (They remain in the same respective zones).


Emergency Defense
2 purity DoD - Uncommon
1 cost
Ability

Target any number of characters you control. All target characters are moved to the defense zone and will die at the end of the battle phase.

On its own Fleeting Virus needs to be played at the right time to be of use. It is not helpful if you target characters in the support zone that do not even give passive benefits. What is nice with this card is that it can also combo with Super Infectious Zombie giving you an opportunity to steal more cards from the opponent. Emergency Defense is also good on its own when you need a defense in an emergency and when you combo the card with Fleeting Virus you will not only use the opponents characters for defending, but also prevent him from getting his characters back.

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Fleeting Virus
1 purity SoA - Rare
3 cost
Ability

Target up to four deployed characters with a sum of cost less than 5. You gain control of target characters until the end of turn (They remain in the same respective zones).


Emergency Defense
2 purity DoD - Uncommon
1 cost
Ability

Target any number of characters you control. All target characters are moved to the defense zone and will die at the end of the battle phase.

On its own Fleeting Virus needs to be played at the right time to be of use. It is not helpful if you target characters in the support zone that do not even give passive benefits. What is nice with this card is that it can also combo with Super Infectious Zombie giving you an opportunity to steal more cards from the opponent. Emergency Defense is also good on its own when you need a defense in an emergency and when you combo the card with Fleeting Virus you will not only use the opponents characters for defending, but also prevent him from getting his characters back.

Emergency defense seems a bit low cost for what it does. Compare with Ferocity which only targets 1 character. Though Ferocity is an actual win condition, it still cost 2 and only targets 1 character whereas emergency defense targets as many as you want for just 1.

[Number11]

Fleeting Virus
1 purity SoA - Rare
3 cost
Ability

Target up to four deployed characters with a sum of cost less than 5. You gain control of target characters until the end of turn (They remain in the same respective zones).


Emergency Defense
2 purity DoD - Uncommon
1 cost
Ability

Target any number of characters you control. All target characters are moved to the defense zone and will die at the end of the battle phase.

On its own Fleeting Virus needs to be played at the right time to be of use. It is not helpful if you target characters in the support zone that do not even give passive benefits. What is nice with this card is that it can also combo with Super Infectious Zombie giving you an opportunity to steal more cards from the opponent. Emergency Defense is also good on its own when you need a defense in an emergency and when you combo the card with Fleeting Virus you will not only use the opponents characters for defending, but also prevent him from getting his characters back.

Emergency defense seems a bit low cost for what it does. Compare with Ferocity which only targets 1 character. Though Ferocity is an actual win condition, it still cost 2 and only targets 1 character whereas emergency defense targets as many as you want for just 1.

Well the character targeted by Ferocity will not die. If you use Emergency Defense on multiple character and the opponent does not attack that turn, then you will have killed all those characters without taking out any of your opponents. That is the risk of the card. It is only at the specific purity of 1 SoA and 2 DoD that you get the combo of Fleeting Virus plus Emergency Defense. At worst this will allow you to kill 4 resource worth of opponent characters for 4 resources if you target and get 4 resource worth of opponent characters. The other strong purity for the card is 3 DoD as you will have access to avatars. So it is in only those specific purities that you can counter the negative of the card and if the card is too good when you take out the drawback of the card then I could see a reason for giving it higher cost. It is the sacrificial nature of the card that is the reason for its low cost.

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Well the character targeted by Ferocity will not die. If you use Emergency Defense on multiple character and the opponent does not attack that turn, then you will have killed all those characters without taking out any of your opponents. That is the risk of the card. It is only at the specific purity of 1 SoA and 2 DoD that you get the combo of Fleeting Virus plus Emergency Defense. At worst this will allow you to kill 4 resource worth of opponent characters for 4 resources if you target and get 4 resource worth of opponent characters. The other strong purity for the card is 3 DoD as you will have access to avatars. So it is in only those specific purities that you can counter the negative of the card and if the card is too good when you take out the drawback of the card then I could see a reason for giving it higher cost. It is the sacrificial nature of the card that is the reason for its low cost.

Oh right I see. Kinda forgot about the everything dies part for a sec.

[0100161]

Name: Azazel, the Sinful
Faction/Purity: Exiles/2
Type: Character-Demon
Rarity: Epic
Cost: 5
Morale: 9
Attack/Health: 10/9
Rules Text: Consume 2; When you sacrifice a character Azazel gains power and health equal to that character's power and health.
Flavor Text: And the goat shall bear upon him all their iniquities unto a land which is cut off; and he shall let go the goat in the wilderness.

Name: Inter-Dimensional Phase Suit
Faction/Purity: Genesis Industries/1
Type: Ability
Rarity: Rare
Cost: 2
Rules Text: Target Character gains the following ability: “When this Character is removed from the game it returns to play at the end of the turn. When this character is removed from the game, a copy of this card is created in the same zone it was in” and after 2 turns “Sacrifice all Characters under your control with this Character's name at the end of turn”.
Flavor Text: I have succeeded in isolating the sub-atomic particles but after months of research they defy any predictable behavioral patterns.

[Number11]

Name: Inter-Dimensional Phase Suit
Faction/Purity: Genesis Industries/1
Type: Ability
Rarity: Rare
Cost: 2
Rules Text: Target Character gains the following ability: “When this Character is removed from the game it returns to play at the end of the turn. When this character is removed from the game, a copy of this card is created in the same zone it was in” and after 2 turns “Sacrifice all Characters under your control with this Character's name at the end of turn”.

Inter-Dimensional Phase Suit plus CTA on Lucca equals massive buffing.

[0100161]

Name: Inter-Dimensional Phase Suit
Faction/Purity: Genesis Industries/1
Type: Ability
Rarity: Rare
Cost: 2
Rules Text: Target Character gains the following ability: “When this Character is removed from the game it returns to play at the end of the turn. When this character is removed from the game, a copy of this card is created in the same zone it was in” and after 2 turns “Sacrifice all Characters under your control with this Character's name at the end of turn”.

Inter-Dimensional Phase Suit plus CTA on Lucca equals massive buffing.

Indeed; yet a three cards combo: I don't think it would be too overwhelming. As with my previous card "Only Lovers Left Alive" I was also figuring fun ways to play with or around the Calamity or less useful cards, e.g. No More Heroes with OLLA and Evellee with I-D PS.  Also, in the first version, this card could not target either Unique or Unlimited characters; however I felt like, being a suit, it should fit everyone.

[MSchildorfer]

Name: Poison Nova
Faction/Purity: 1 SoA
Type: Ability
Rarity: Epic
Cost: 5
Rules Text: Poison every Unit in play causing them to take 5 Damage a turn
Flavor Text: "Poison for EVERYONE" - Crazed Poison Salesman

Name: Massproduced Care Package
Faction/Purity: 1 GI
Type: Ability
Rarity: Uncommon
Cost: 3
Rules Text: Heals all your Deployed Units by 2 and Removes Burn and Poison Keywords

Poison Nova is useful as a potential mass wipe as it affects everything on the board including the Support/Command Zone.
Massproduced Care Package is kinda just a bundle of useful effects, but a bit more situational.
I feel like the combo is pretty clear. Poison everything and then heal only your cards.

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Name: Poison Nova
Faction/Purity: 1 SoA
Type: Ability
Rarity: Epic
Cost: 5
Rules Text: Poison every Unit in play causing them to take 5 Damage a turn
Flavor Text: "Poison for EVERYONE" - Crazed Poison Salesman

Name: Massproduced Care Package
Faction/Purity: 1 GI
Type: Ability
Rarity: Uncommon
Cost: 3
Rules Text: Heals all your Deployed Units by 2 and Removes Burn and Poison Keywords

Poison Nova is useful as a potential mass wipe as it affects everything on the board including the Support/Command Zone.
Massproduced Care Package is kinda just a bundle of useful effects, but a bit more situational.
I feel like the combo is pretty clear. Poison everything and then heal only your cards.

Poison nova seems pretty op tbh. Perhaps change it to only deployed and up its cost or only battlefield. Even more fieldwipes/stall for sleepers feels op. Also being at 1 purity allows verore sleeper stall decks to be even more unnecessarily aggravating