Cell

To add on to serprex's comment, "too weak" is essentially my opinion as well. Sort of. It would make cell basically useless for all of cell's current uses, but properly balanced it could make cell more useful for its original intended uses. IMO this would move it into a weak, niche use, though not useless. This would not really be preferable to me, though, as it would remove the possibility of several archetypes (i.e. everything cell is currently used for) while providing another way to do something that's already not very hard to do (slowly spam low-power critters as oty fodder or luci fodder or whatever).

If it is determined that it's impossible to balance the double-every-turn cell, this solution would be preferable to just plain removing cell, but less preferable than continuing to have cell work basically as-is.

edit: Removing the poison CC resistance (as mentioned somewhere else, bond thread maybe?) may actually help a good bit if cell still needs further nerfed (which I'm still not convinced is actually necessary).

edit2: Something else I thought of a long time ago and forgot about that might mitigate the problem somewhat is to have negative effects occur if you have too many cells on your field. Something along the lines of an "overcrowding" passive, where any given cell has a chance to die based on the number of other cells (or even number of other filled creature slots), or cell mitosis cost going up related to the number of other cells, or something.

edit3: If any major nerfs happen to cell (i.e. overcrowding or something of that magnitude, not just the poison resistance removal), I'd probably push for moving quanta costs back down somewhat.

Treebeard, this suggestion was made specifically for people who says Cell was overnerfed, since it would lower the cost a lot, but still be useable with some combos. The suggestion might not work in practice, but that was the intention at least.

Possible way to handle an "overcrowding" passive:

Overcrowding: Cell has a percent chance equal to the total hp of all other cells (including malignant cells) on player's side of the field to get -3|-3 (or just die) at end of turn (processes after attacking, assuming they attack. Still can trigger if not attacking due to sundial/sop).

Basically, handling it like this would weight the negative effects of the passive to situations where there are a lot of cells, and specifically punishes situations where there are a lot of buffed cells. Should have fairly limited impact on cell-based decks that use cells alongside other creatures, or that use cells to feed otys or generate death effects, or who are just judicious in how many cells to spawn. Meanwhile, it should have a more noticeable impact on people who fill their entire field with cells, and an even stronger effect on people who fill their entire field with cells and then play a SoP.

Worth noting that malignant cell wouldn't have this passive, so that things that rely upon a full field can still work with malignant cells, but if you want to be free of the overcrowding passive, you'd have to either use aflatoxin or plague, making decks a bit less stable due to requiring additional elements.

Thoughts?