Storm Colossus – Shockhead
A Beastform Design Concept

You may find this one similar to a certain spell originally casted by a certain Myth Draconian, and while that form is more pip focused than most, as I explained earlier, pips are a Storm thing too! True, no Storm from yet has a specific giving of pips spell that is low in pip cost, but I don’t think that’s a huge issue. Also, the main point of the Draco spell is to remove a trap, which is a Myth thing, and I didn’t transfer that part. Removing DOTs is a Storm thing! I chose the name “Capacitate” since the definition means to enable, which is exactly what pips do, and the word sounds kinda stormy since a capacitor is linked to electricity.

This spell is a 0-pip 50 dmg spell with a condition, which is pretty standard for Storm forms that are medium and large. Its condition is also worth 0-pips or less of value, so it’s not overpowered, especially with the condition of the enemy having a negative charm, which is rare, but it fits as it’s a condition found on other Storm forms like Rat. Overall not super interesting, but with all the blades that Storm Colossus has, this spell can do a decent amount while also building up pips, and possibly even blades! So far, no other form has a blade that casts conditionally on a damage spell, which would be unique to the Storm Colossus, and I think that mechanic could be used in future Storm forms for sure. It’s not the most revolutionary idea, but if any form would be to have this, it’d be Storm!

Possibly the most powerful card that Storm Colossus has in terms of DPP, this snake adds the brand new condition, “if any teammate has DOT” that I felt was needed for the Storm forms. When playing a Fire or Death form, you usually are a little afraid to use a DOT spell on the Storm form specifically, but with this condition and other spells, a Fire or Death form will see the Storm Colossus and be weary to use a DOT on ANYONE on the opposing team. Now obviously, I didn’t make it so that there’s nothing to be done about it. If there are DOTs involved, it doesn’t automatically mean the Storm Colossus will win, but it’ll just do a tiny bit extra damage to you and your friends if you do, which I think is completely reasonable. In general, I’ll tend to have the damage set a bit lower with an easily meetable condition like this, but since it’s one pip, I figured it was okay do have it stay like this.

Similar to Twin Blades on the Storm Krok, this spell gives a blade to your teammate as well as yourself, or two to yourself if you’d like. This is another way to remove DOTs and while it’s a small blade, it can be useful to do a little extra damage or to meet a blade condition. I came up with 50 for this since Twin Blades was 125 for 2 pips, it goes to reason that a 1 pip version would be about half of that, which is between 50 and 75. I chose 50 since we have the added clear DOT mechanic on it.

Much like the Storm Wolf, I thought it best to add a 2-pip 200 blade to Storm Colossus’ arsenal. Without having a 200 dmg spell himself, he can use this to power up his team. PLUS it’ll do a little extra if that teammate has a HOT, which is a pretty common condition for Storm to have. Unlike the Wolf, this would not be a separate extra blade, but just a larger blade. There’s not much else to say about this!

At first look, you may think this looks wildly underpowered, but this heal blade with a conditional damage blade is an AOE (Area of Effect) spell. Still, you may not find this specifically super useful without any Life forms, but as I said above, you could use this to protect other blades, and with the condition, this would be especially helpful after an AOE DOT from the enemy. Especially in Monster Mayhem, this could help. Overall, I fully acknowledge that this spell won’t be used in every battle, but I think it’s a neat conditional that players will be happy to have in their decks and will be able to use sometimes. “Ray Storm” is a bit of a play on sunlight, which has been seen as a theme of heal charms in the past, and adding a storm element to it.

Right off the bat, you’ll probably notice that this spell is actually 75 DPP rather than the usual 100 DPP that Storm spells should be. The reason for this, as seen in other forms across the board, is that forms will sometimes have spells slightly below the normal amount of damage if the condition is very powerful. With this spell, unless the enemy is relentless with removing blades, it’s almost impossible that the Colossus will be unable to have some sort of charm up. With this easily meetable condition, I thought a reduction in health was not only justified, but necessary. This also shows a second case of the new “blade if condition on a hit” mechanic that I added. The Queen Calypso animation is a new one not currently in Beastmoon.

Despite being a team helping form, Mr. Stormlossus needs some love in the hitting department, which is where this next spell comes in. Also like the Storm Wolf, this guy has a 3-pip 300 damage spell, which has a stun condition if you have 400 health or more. The health mechanic is semi-new, and should be easy for the developers to pull off. Partially inspired by the Storm Krokomummy, the reason I added this mechanic was because along with being a helpful teammate, this Colossus is a Tank. If I were going up against the Colossus, I would probably focus my attacks on the hitting forms that he’s blading, but with this spell, I’d get punished for leaving the Colossus alone, so I’d have to consider taking him out first or at least getting him below half health. The reason I didn’t use “50%” as the threshold is because Beastmoon is supposed to use only addition and subtraction, and taking 1/2 of 525 could be confusing for players. I also think Storm Krok should replace its “50%” with a flat 200 or 225 as well.

The next spell is an AOE blade AND heal blade. When coming up with the value for this blade, I looked to other AOE blades from other Storm forms. Firstly, Storm Elf has a 3-pip 125 AOE blade that also removes negative charms, Storm Rat has a 3-pip 125 AOE blade that removes DOTs, and Storm Krok has a 4-pip 100 AOE blade that also removes DOTs. Now, it is well known that the squishy forms, Rat and Elf, SHOULD do slightly more than medium and large forms, but I personally think Storm Krok’s blade is a little under-tuned in comparison to how they handle other situations like this. With 1 more pip, it should do 125. That being said, I gave this spell 125 for 4 pips along with the added effect of the 100 heal charm. Unlike the others, it won’t clear any DOTs, but I had to think to myself, is clearing a DOT equal to a 100 heal blade? Purely numerically, the vast majority of DOTs do 100 damage or more even after the first tic. Also, you must keep in mind that not many forms can use heal charms. With all this into account, I think this spell is balanced. If KI looked at this and said it was too much, I may suggest bumping it to 5-pips or reducing the heal charm to 75.

Lastly, we’ve got our damage AOE. Every form needs one, and I figured I’d add a larger version of Cobra Pulse for this one! At 6-pips, the formula should put it at 300 damage, but again, since the condition is so easily met, the damage should come down a bit. Getting 6-pips is always a struggle, but with the pip gain of this form along with the semi-useful 0-pip hit, I think you will see this spell around. I haven’t mentioned yet, but I chose not to give this form a 0-pip blade since it does have some pretty decent hits, it needs to use some pips to actually gain viable blades. The name “Femme Fatale” for those of you who don’t know, essentially means “dangerous woman” which is exactly what a Siren is!