New Archtype Shadow Beings

[lewis atherton]

If people are going to rate my cards please concentrate on the ideas and effects and not the OCG as I know its not perfect.

[img]http://img602.imageshack.us/img602/5528/303169q.jpg[/img]
When you draw this card, if possible. you must Special Summon it to your side of the field If you cannot Special Summon this card then remove it from play and inflict 500 Lifepoints to your Opponents Lifepoints.
[img]http://img255.imageshack.us/img255/7441/303169m.jpg[/img]
When you draw this card, you must discard it to the Graveyard. As soon as this card is sent to the Graveyard Special Summon a level 4 or lower
"Shadow Being" from your Deck.
[img]http://img255.imageshack.us/img255/1451/303169x.jpg[/img]
When you draw this card, if possible. you must Special Summon it to your side of the field If you cannot Special Summon this card then remove it from play.
[img]http://img560.imageshack.us/img560/6562/303169b.jpg[/img]
When you draw this card, if possible. you must Special Summon it to your side of the field If you cannot Special Summon this card then remove it from play. For every card removed from play with "Shadow Being" in its name this card gains 400 Attack Points.
[img]http://img689.imageshack.us/img689/9065/303169.jpg[/img]
When you draw this card, if possible. you must Special Summon it to your side of the field If you cannot Special Summon this card then remove it from play. If this card is Destroyed in battle Remove it from play.
[img]http://img585.imageshack.us/img585/6941/303169r.jpg[/img]
When you draw this card, if possible. you must Special Summon it to your side of the field If you cannot Special Summon this card then remove it from play. Decrease the ATK of this card by 300 for every "Shadow Being" on your side of the field.
[img]http://img830.imageshack.us/img830/4540/303169y.jpg[/img]
When you draw this card, if possible. you must Special Summon it to your side of the field If you cannot Special Summon this card then remove it from play. Decrease the ATK of this card by 350 for every "Shadow Being" on your side of the field.
[img]http://img560.imageshack.us/img560/2372/303169k.jpg[/img]
When you draw this card, if possible. you must Special Summon it to your side of the field. If you play no Trap or Spell Cards whilst this card is on the field destroy this Card and remove it from play.
[img]http://img255.imageshack.us/img255/3903/303169hc.jpg[/img]
When you draw this card, if possible. you must Special Summon it to your side of the field. This card cannot attack. If this card is not played within 3 turns of it being in your hand remove this card from play.

[eldest]

The images are great but i cannot clearly understand what do you mean with the first effect : 1) That those card can be Special Summoned when they are drawed. 2) That when you draw those card you must find a way to Special Summon them (in this case is quite hard to play with them)

P.S. For the 7th card have you used the image of Joshiro Ukitatake from Bleach ????

[lewis atherton]

oh for the first point the idea that you must special summon if possible means that you get to summon as many monsters as possible. So as soon as you draw a monster you must summon it thats wht the higher level monsters have a bad effect. So its like swarming creatures idea and 2nd point i have never watched or read bleech so i wouldn' have known i may change it, if i find time.

[lewis atherton]

bump

[lewis atherton]

bump

[lewis atherton]

bump

[Bahamut - Envoy of the End]

Sorry Lewis but I'm struggling to understand what you were going for here.

When you say 'must Special Summon' my interpretation is you have to summon it if you have an empty MCZ to put it in, and if you have 5 monsters out and there's no room to summon it (which given the nature of these cards looks quite likely) it is removed from play. Is this right? That needs re-wording, it's not a bad effect just needs work in the use.

The above effect seems to be the only thing these cards have in common, they doesn't seem to be any playing style or strategy here. It's all well and good being able to swarm but you need the cards to do something when they get on the field. I think things would be a lot clearer if you made some M/T support, maybe took out a few of the high level monsters (which have little use with their current effects) and put more Lv4 and lower in.

Dracoh I don't understand at all. Awesome picture though.

Other details - Don't like Shadow Beings as a name, think it's quite dull.

Having said all that, there is some raw potential here to build on their summoning abilities. You just need to work out what you want to do with them once their on the field.

[lewis atherton]

right well the idea i was going for was to swarm the field but with drawbacks for the special summon with higher creatures i know the wording isn't perfect and quite unploished but i feel the idea is raw and new.

Basically the stratery of the deck is go get as many creatures out asap, then as an obvious drawback its really about luck and what you get in your hand to begin with. So if you had 3 creatures in your hand you must special summon them but the spell and trap cards would be different. Also some of the weaker ones are versitile as you can get a fairly strong monster out asap.

I was going to make 3 spell cards - 1 to make all shadow beings out of play to your Graveyard.
and the other was was to restrics the amount of special summoning you could do to 1 per turn for you only
and the final 1 was going to be an equip spell that retured them to your hand removing the effect that the cards must be summoned.

I do intend to re work and work on the effects but i really wanted an opinion first of all.

[lewis atherton]

bump