Submission: denial of service attack

Name: denial of service attack
Cardtype: Action
Cost: N/A
Capacity: N/A
Discipline: N/A
Clan: N/A
+2 stealth action. D Tap x electronic equipment in play to burn x-1 pool from your prey (This is D action against your prey and against controller of those equipment).

Flavor text: "Those anarchs sure love their phones. Let's see how they like 'em after I route 'em to repeatedly call to every callback service and xxx number on yellow pages." Synner-G, City Gangrel antitribu hacker

Art notes: A web page showing 'busy or temporary down' error message.

World of Darkness reference: none

How does this card address a compelling game need?: Non bleed source of damage for your deflection heavy meta.

Created by: Mikko Moisander

I like it. Something about that card screams "Nobody expects the spanish inquisition". It will not be usefull every game, but when it will be it'll be very effective. But you can't warrant more than one in a deck.

But tapping your own shouldn't be allowed.

2wayspeaker wrote:

I like it. Something about that card screams "Nobody expects the spanish inquisition". It will not be usefull every game, but when it will be it'll be very effective. But you can't warrant more than one in a deck.

But tapping your own shouldn't be allowed.

Heh funnily enough, first thing that came to my mind when I saw that is weenie bleed deck with lots of camera phones and then tapping them (which doesn't even prevent you from using them) to do some crazy amounts of undeflectable pool damage.

Heh funnily enough, first thing that came to my mind when I saw that is weenie bleed deck with lots of camera phones and then tapping them (which doesn't even prevent you from using them) to do some crazy amounts of undeflectable pool damage.

I was actually first considering having the wording to be, to remove those equipment from game until their controllers next untap phase, but decided it not worth the extra lines, as you could still use them to bleed first and do denial attack after. Of course if you can successfully bleed with your equipment, there is probably no need to use my card in first place.

Whisker wrote:

Heh funnily enough, first thing that came to my mind when I saw that is weenie bleed deck with lots of camera phones and then tapping them (which doesn't even prevent you from using them) to do some crazy amounts of undeflectable pool damage.

I was actually first considering having the wording to be, to remove those equipment from game until their controllers next untap phase, but decided it not worth the extra lines, as you could still use them to bleed first and do denial attack after. Of course if you can successfully bleed with your equipment, there is probably no need to use my card in first place.

I am not sure if I would agree to that, your action is at 2 stealth, and depending on the number of equipment there is out, can potentially burn lot more pool than the 2 from a phone bleed, and of course also can't be reduced or bounced.

Yes, building deck entirely around this concept has potential to be brutal. Crypt of obfuscate weenies, library of 20 camera phones, 20 service denial and some extra stealth. Equip each of your minions with 2+ phones, and once each turn you can easily do 8+ damage that can not be bounced of reduced. Also you have backup option of simply stealth/swarm bleeding with your phones.

How to tone down the card without making it wallpaper?