raw drift
Title
Text: Kill an ally. Apply 3 
to enemies in the row
In line with other skulls that do 3 (status) in the row. Makes azul skull slightly on par with other overburn tools (still worse than azul axe considering summon + sac means it effectively takes 2 turns so 4.5 per turn)
Right now azul skull is extremely bad at at 2 per turn considering a turn to summon a unit to sacrifice. It needs a buff!
bright zephyr
This. Currently azul skull applies just as much as a beepop when the beepop can take a hit and azul skull removes a blocker for -2 hits. Barrage overburn is an incredibly strong effect that would hopefully make azul skull usable
errant chasm
Yeah I wanted this change too
proud torrent
Yes.
This is a really good change. Azul Skull is currently too pathetic to be viable in a dedicated Overburn deck, and it doesn't do enough to be a source of Overburn in other decks.
fallen eagle
I'm iffy about just making all skulls barrage, which would be limiting and a bit boring. Plus 3x3 seems a bit much. A minimum of 3 damage, 18 damage if you chain the whole row, plus more targets to potentially trigger a chain instead of just one enemy you have to keep alive for only 4-12 damage.
IMO, I'd rather make summon+sacrifice cards feel less like you're wasting turns. Like, the chicken-cards are all totally fine with current blue-skull as-is. There were some ideas for a phoenix that can be sacrificed infinitely (if you do it right). Maybe add a companion that just summons junjuns or something? That'd be a little boring, but would lessen the sting. Or maybe they have another minor effect? 🤷♂️
raw drift
Even with chikichi youd rather have other skulls because of how underwhelming azul skull is comparatively. Even with a sacrifice engine if sacrifice payoff is less than say just a generic good SM card (azul axe persay) then you wont be using sac anyways because you gain blockers and can still use other attacks
Sacrifice requires both engines and payoff to be valuable or engines will just be engines for other archetypes
Unless of course you make engines have ‘sacrifice’ specifically in them but i find that a weak way to confine to an archetype
raw drift
Part of the waste of turns is that the payoff feels bad imo
errant chasm
I'm iffy about just making all skulls barrage, which would be limiting and a bit...
3x3 is pretty on par with other overburn units, but if that's too strong just make it 2 in a barrage lol, i think it'd still be a good contender then
whole sapphire
I think 3 barrage is fine
it's probably still worse than the axe
factoring in the cost at least
whole sapphire
well the current version is far outclassed by beepop
which isn't op I'm pretty sure
errant chasm
its not though?
beepop is cool but not stronger than azul axe
azul axe effectively deals 6 damage to a singular enemy (3 + 3) and a potential additional 6 damage via overburn to other enemies
and battle charm makes it into 5 + 5 overburn
which 5 overburn is potentially 15 damage
errant chasm
I'm comparing beepop to azul skull
why tho, we were talking about potentially changed Azul skull, not current Azul skull (which is one of the worst items SM has)
current Azul skull is definitely beaten by beepop and most items out there
but barrage Azul skull would be on par with beepop i think
whole sapphire
yeah
I'm saying if there's that big of a difference it can get away with a more significant buff
on par sounds good
errant chasm
yeah
3 overburn in a barrage to me sounds like the perfect way to balance it, otherwise add noomlin to it by default
whole sapphire
I think sacrifice in general either needs to be more convenient or have better rewards
I'm fine with either, this is more the second one
errant chasm
Well yeah but even if sacrifice in general is good Azul skull will still be underwhelming
This is a change that should happen regardless of if sacrifice as a whole is buffed or not
whole sapphire
I meant more the card could be part of sacrifice being good, or at least decent