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2 years ago ::
Jun 24, 2011 - 8:44PM
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Date Joined:
Jun 20, 2011
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Holy crap, I agree with altimis. Not hard to pull off:
T1: Land, Soul Warden 
T2: Land, This, Swing, 19 life
T3: Land, Lone Missionary  , Healing Salve  , +8 counters, swing, 18 life
T4: Land, Lone Missionary , +5 counters, swing, 15 life, sacrifice, 13 damage, bringing them to two.
This is on T4, in white. Not balanced.
Still, welcome to YMTC, and the concept is good, just needs some execution help.
So, it requires the use of multiple cards and this assumes they have no blockers or creature destruction... And it can't kill by turn 4?
Exarch Twin - Kills on turn 4.
My Myr Deck - Which runs a Galvanizer - Twin Kills on turn 4-5.
Valakut - Kills on turn 4-5.
Glistener Elf / Buff Deck - Can kill on turn 2.
My current rogue deck which runs no mythic rares or stoneforge mystics can kill on turn 4.
Killing on Turn 4 using mostly Type 2 cards and assuming no meddling by the opponent?
Not unbalanced.
If your deck can't kill by turn 4-5, assuming a perfect hand, then honestly you are doing it wrong.
Edit: To show another example:
T1, Land, Raging Goblin - Swing 19 life
T2, Land, Signal Pest, Lightning Bolt - Swing 15 life
T3, Land, Dragon Fodder - Swing 12 life
T4, Land, Claws of Valakut on Raging Goblin - Swing -Opponent Dead-
I'm not comparing it to opponent win time, it's giving white direct damage, something very rare. It's doable, but I wouldn't make it as cheap as it is.
Any more expensive and it would never see play, nor would it be useful because in order to use it you have to forgo gaining life. If the cost was raised (to say 4) then it would have to also remove the part about not gaining the life.
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2 years ago ::
Jun 24, 2011 - 9:07PM
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Date Joined:
Oct 17, 2010
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You are drastically overestimating how much people care about gaining life.
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2 years ago ::
Jun 24, 2011 - 9:21PM
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Date Joined:
Nov 25, 2010
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You are drastically overestimating how much people care about gaining life.
but but i care....
but ya gotta agree with you. not alot of decks out there that run life gain unless their running avatar of johnny and even then its really not much into life gain.
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2 years ago ::
Jun 24, 2011 - 9:25PM
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Date Joined:
May 10, 2011
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It's like a Sanguine Bond  that doesn't let you win life but counts the life won in turns 3, 4 and 5 and must pay to activate it. Doesn't seem unbalanced. And if they destroy the artifact when you can't activate it, you didn't win life, didn't make any impact on the oponent and probably played underpowered creatures that gain life to activate it.
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2 years ago ::
Jun 25, 2011 - 5:07AM
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Date Joined:
May 30, 2010
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Altimis's wording is wrong – the first ability should be a replacement effect: "If you would gain life, you may put that many charge counters on Soul Chamber instead."
I say this is balanced. If you build a deck around it, your lifegain will be dead most of the time and the damage can be played around.
My main beef with this is that it has terrible flavor. "I'm locking my life essence in a chamber so I can throw it at you." What's up with that?
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