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Place on your Philistine or Egyptian Site: You may add or remove a Lost Soul from that Site once during each discard phase. [A) Protect your Philistine and Egyptian Sites from opponents' cards.] [B) If your Philistine or Egyptian Evil Character is discarded, you may discard this instead.]

I'd change it to singular instead of all sites.

I like it a lot! I wish this card were coming out next set, it would have fit perfectly.

@ Pol - Yes, it would indeed have.

In sad news, the special ability (like many of my ideas) is too long for a real card (I shrunk the font and it still took up 9 lines). As such, I've made up 2 different versions each using a different of the second and third original abilities. I think I like the EC one better, but I'll leave it up to others for comments/suggestions.

OR, I could make a version that has the protection of sites and the EC insteading and nothing about Lost Souls, if that would be more popular/useful.

"Protect your Philistine and Egyptian Sites from opponents' cards. If your Philistine or Egyptian Evil Character is discarded, you may discard this instead."

I'm open to suggestions.

EDIT: Third option added.

Third one doesn't have place on a site.  Other than that, I like it.

Seeing as it doesn't affect the Lost Soul anymore, I didn't see a reason to have the 3rd one still place itself on a site. Do you think it should?

Quote from: SomeKittens on June 06, 2011, 03:40:55 PM

Third one doesn't have place on a site.  Other than that, I like it.

Seeing as it doesn't affect the Lost Soul anymore, I didn't see a reason to have the 3rd one still place itself on a site. Do you think it should?

It means that I can use it without sites, and Draid doesn't kill it.

It'd be in every Philli/Egyptian defense.

It'd be in every Philli/Egyptian defense.

What is this Egyptian defense you speak of?

So, yeah. I like C the best, but apparently it might be OP without the "place on site" part. Thoughts?

The only one that doesn't have an instead for Goliath is the first one, which I'm afraid wouldn't get used much (definitely not for Philistines, who actually uses Ashdod?). The second one differs in that it would require you to have a Philistine site to put it on initially before you could instead for Goliath. Looking at Herod's Temple, I'm inclined to think a self-sacrificing, one-time instead of a specific themed (or, rather, one of 2 themes) character is okay balance-wise. If you think otherwise, feel free to point out where my thinking is flawed.

Egyptians need more fortresses, they only have 3 currently.

So true.