ah cool i like the idea of the gold/emeralds giving you 1 thorn and the rest goes into the bank.
there's also this bounce friend aura that i dig, here's alpha member omnigryphon playing with it to pretty interesting/cool effect: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nvi5bxDAF0w&feature=youtu.be&a (i haven't gotten it in natural play yet)