Sanfonier of the Night
7/7 Elemental
Posts: 399
Favorite Card: The Prismatic Bridge
Favorite Set: War of the Spark
Color Alignment: White, Blue, Black, Red, Green, Colorless
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Post by Sanfonier of the Night on Nov 29, 2022 11:43:10 GMT
Any more entries? Judging on Friday.
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Post by ameisenmeister on Nov 30, 2022 23:32:31 GMT
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Sanfonier of the Night
7/7 Elemental
Posts: 399
Favorite Card: The Prismatic Bridge
Favorite Set: War of the Spark
Color Alignment: White, Blue, Black, Red, Green, Colorless
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Post by Sanfonier of the Night on Dec 2, 2022 15:17:10 GMT
Idea a winner is you, you captivate me with your card since the beginning, I thought it could be multicolor, but the weakness counterbalance it. Nice work.
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Post by Idea on Dec 4, 2022 14:20:55 GMT
Thank you for the win Sanfonier of the Night ! For the next challenge, I’ll ask for a card based on any entry on the fate franchise, be it shows or games (“fate/(zero/stay night/unlimited blade works/apocrypha/grand order/extra/etc…)”, “lord el Melloi case files”) Or alternatively A card based any anime or game with a battle royale type premise (a somewhat defined group of ‘contestants’ in a free for all fight to the death with certain supposed rules) Edit: Wouls be grateful if you could specify what piece of media your card is based on, just in case I don’t recognize it and need to look up info. |
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pernicious
8/8 Octopus
Posts: 440
Favorite Card: Mistmeadow Skulk
Favorite Set: Shadowmoor block
Color Alignment: Red
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Post by pernicious on Dec 5, 2022 16:04:41 GMT
Idea Thank you for the praise. I used ward to represent Presence Concealment. |
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Post by ZephyrPhantom on Dec 7, 2022 8:35:46 GMT
 Meltryllis, the Fading Swan   Legendary Creature - Elemental  You may cast ~ without paying her mana cost as if she had flash. If you do, at the beginning of your next upkeep, pay . If you don’t, you lose the game. : Untap Meltryllis. : Meltryllis gets +1/-1 until end of turn. : Meltryllis gets -1/+1 until end of turn. 3/3 Lore and Explanation (Spoilered for FGO Part 1.5 spoilers) In 2030, a composite Servant was created using data of Artemis, Leviathan, and Saraswati for nefarious purposes - Meltryllis is the result of this particular experiment, an egotistical water elemental that planned to kill everyone she encountered and break them down into data to absorb any useful knowledge or skills they had. To make a long story short, she was stopped and killed, but not before starting to have a change of heart. This affected her next summoning considerably as she fell in love with someone (the player) that had come to fix a time warp in the Marianna Trench, but they were killed before her very eyes by the villain that had caused the time distortion. Exploiting the nature of the time warp that caused time to scale with the depth of the ocean, she broke the speed of sound and shot herself back up to the surface of the ocean - back when the player had first arrived, and successfully managed to save both them and the timeline as a whole, but the process was too hard on her body and she died shortly after. Due to being crafted from data of three different goddesses, Meltryllis is very flexible and able to adapt to a wide variety of conventional situations by turning into water, so I started with Morphling as the base card. (The idea of shifting P/T has also been used to represent water elementals on cards like Watercourser and Water Servant, so I wanted to keep those abilities in particular.) I then took inspiration from Pact of Negation to represent her one-shot time travel act - from the player's perspective, she's arriving from the future to protect them in the present, but this was an intense process that pretty much costed her her life in the long run, so I felt the risk of losing the game unless mana was spent to keep her alive just for the battle made sense - after all, if she doesn't arrive in time, you're dead anyway. (Note: This is a bit of condensed explanation so that people not familiar with the Nasuverse would still be able to understand it in a vacuum. I assume people who have played FGO understand the events I'm talking about in more detail.) |
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Post by ameisenmeister on Dec 7, 2022 16:00:04 GMT
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Post by Idea on Dec 15, 2022 3:28:09 GMT
I'll be judging either tomorrow or the day after. Anyone who wants to get some last minute entries in, this is your chance!
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Post by Idea on Dec 17, 2022 2:28:47 GMT
pernicious{Spoiler}I really like the use of a modular card to capture the idea of a noble phantasm and a servant, and I like how you incorporated the lore by making both sides stronger against humans. I feel some of the idea is lost in that the noble phantasm is more about copying according to the wiki (though perhaps that might have been a little too complex to portray), and the choice of ward over something like, say, first strike. ZephyrPhantom{Spoiler}What can I say, this just seems brilliant. Your approach here was very satisfying in a lore perspective, balance perspective and mechanical perspective, as you adapted an existing card to better fit the lore while keeping the changes individually balanced and flavorful, but nonetheless providing an interesting new interaction. Basically super flash on a card which can adapt to a new situation if you just have the mana. {Spoiler}After some reading, it seems the card's design is more around her mechanical in-game abilities than the lore. Fair enough, I do think it is conveyed pretty well, in particular because the first (card) ability can kinda represent either or both of her first two (Apex) abilities. Balance-wise I think it's pretty good, though maybe the cost for her last ability doesn't need to be so high, I would reduce it by one maybe even two mana. Winner
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Post by ZephyrPhantom on Dec 17, 2022 9:00:31 GMT
Thanks for the win. I put a lot of effort into that one.
Your next challenge is to make a crossover referencing one of the following:
1) A videogame like For Honor or Mordhau that features middle age-era warriors in melee combat.
2) A futuristic sci-fi shooter like Halo or Mass Effect.
Good luck!
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Post by Idea on Dec 17, 2022 20:18:15 GMT
Thanks for the win. I put a lot of effort into that one. Your next challenge is to make a crossover referencing one of the following: 1) A videogame like For Honor or Mordhau that features middle age-era warriors in melee combat. 2) A futuristic sci-fi shooter like Halo or Mass Effect. Good luck! For that number 1, would something that contains fantasy still be valid? I'm thinking of something like Dark Souls or Elden Ring. |
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Post by ZephyrPhantom on Dec 18, 2022 7:39:57 GMT
Thanks for the win. I put a lot of effort into that one. Your next challenge is to make a crossover referencing one of the following: 1) A videogame like For Honor or Mordhau that features middle age-era warriors in melee combat. 2) A futuristic sci-fi shooter like Halo or Mass Effect. Good luck! For that number 1, would something that contains fantasy still be valid? I'm thinking of something like Dark Souls or Elden Ring. Souls games of the appropriate flavor count. |
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Post by Idea on Dec 18, 2022 9:22:15 GMT
For that number 1, would something that contains fantasy still be valid? I'm thinking of something like Dark Souls or Elden Ring. Souls games of the appropriate flavor count. Appropriate flavor? |
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Post by ZephyrPhantom on Dec 18, 2022 9:55:05 GMT
Souls games of the appropriate flavor count. Appropriate flavor? Basically I think I'd probably start being skeptical about entries from Bloodborne since the Victorian era definitely takes place after the Middle Ages. Sekiro on the other hand I can probably be more open minded on since it happens right after Japan's feudal era (though I would probably suggest not depicting a guy holding a gun, for example.) The mainline Dark Souls games and Elden Ring should be okay. |
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Post by Idea on Dec 18, 2022 12:51:27 GMT
Basically I think I'd probably start being skeptical about entries from Bloodborne since the Victorian era definitely takes place after the Middle Ages. Sekiro on the other hand I can probably be more open minded on since it happens right after Japan's feudal era (though I would probably suggest not depicting a gun holding a gun, for example.) The mainline Dark Souls games and Elden Ring should be okay. Got it so "appropriate flavor" meaning that it stays within the "medieval warriors" type of thing. |
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Post by Idea on Dec 18, 2022 23:15:12 GMT
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Post by ZephyrPhantom on Dec 24, 2022 1:04:07 GMT
Bump for more entries. I know there's at least some Dark Souls Magic in y'all out there.  |
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Post by ZephyrPhantom on Jan 2, 2023 19:16:56 GMT
I'll give this one last bump for the week and then judge this alongside What the Flavor this weekend.
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Post by ZephyrPhantom on Jan 6, 2023 2:53:49 GMT
Unfortunately this is the best time I have to judge in the near future, so I'm going to close this challenge and declare Idea the winner. I suppose Dark Souls was yesteryear's trend. Idea - Very neat idea. I like that it uses entirely recognziable mechanics but creates something new out of it, and using Jund for Fight/Ping/Deathtouch shenanigans is a great way to get the Melvins in the crowd thinking while the Vorthoses enjoy the flavor of the card whether they recognize the IP or not. Set-ready, frankly. |
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Post by Idea on Jan 6, 2023 20:48:28 GMT
As with the Flavor one, it's a shame there was no one else to run an entry as well, but thank you for the win nonetheless.
I'll make a simple prompt this time. Any fandom with that is visibly or otherwise provably D&D-inspired is fair game for this one! (Note: You do not have to use adventures in the forgotten realms mechanics, but you can if you want. No bonus points taken nor given for it).
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Post by twintania on Jan 6, 2023 21:58:26 GMT
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Post by ameisenmeister on Jan 12, 2023 16:40:44 GMT
Wall-tribal isn't something that I usually like but this had so much flavor that I couldn't hold myself. Card is inspired by Titanfall. |
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Post by Idea on Jan 12, 2023 17:21:44 GMT
Wall-tribal isn't something that I usually like but this had so much flavor that I couldn't hold myself. Card is inspired by Titanfall. Why do you say Titanfall is D&D inspired? |
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Post by Idea on Jan 14, 2023 1:13:04 GMT
If there are any more entries, I'll judge this on Sunday! Otherwise, I'll probably do it tomorrow.
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Post by ameisenmeister on Jan 14, 2023 14:21:02 GMT
Wall-tribal isn't something that I usually like but this had so much flavor that I couldn't hold myself. Card is inspired by Titanfall. Why do you say Titanfall is D&D inspired? Oh well, I designed this card for the previous challenge. Just ignore it. |
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Sanfonier of the Night
7/7 Elemental
Posts: 399
Favorite Card: The Prismatic Bridge
Favorite Set: War of the Spark
Color Alignment: White, Blue, Black, Red, Green, Colorless
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Post by Sanfonier of the Night on Jan 14, 2023 14:38:41 GMT
This card was inspired by Dragon Age: Origins. |
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Post by Idea on Jan 15, 2023 11:23:55 GMT
twintania{Spoiler}I was initially under the impression this card was undercosted, however after looking it up, this arrangement of stats and cost actually seems to be very prone to vanilla creatures or creatures with just a keyword at common rarity. I think it's neat if potentially a bit confusing to have the food tokens be worse because it's "bad meat". That being said, I think 2 mana for gaining 1 life is a bit much of mana dump for that kind of effect. Gaining life is already notoriously not that great an effect, and when you have the direct comparison to the normal food tokens this just feels weird (and I get the point that it is supposed to be worse food, but nonetheless I think either the reduction in life gain should be smaller, or better yet the cost to sac the token should be smaller). Sanfonier of the Night{Spoiler}Morrigan is screaming "combo me" in this card, and the effect would be decent at 3 mana just from her entering the battlefield (not decent for a mythic rare, but decent enough as a common or uncommon, perhaps even as a rare). Plant and saproling are both very common types of tokens, so the ETB effect of Highway Robber, Bloodhunter Bat or Vampire Spawn, plus card draw every time you get one of those in the battlefield, I think you're really underpricing this half of the card. As for Spider shape, I really like the idea of venomous as a mechanic, it's like a halfway point to a creature with double strike and infect. At first it might also be undercosted, though looking at the mechanic more closely it doesn't enable increasing the counters through increasing the power and it has an additional colored mana compared to Blightwidow. Solid design on this half. Winner {Spoiler}Not a lot of competitors this time, which is a shame, but oh well. I'll give this victory to twintania , for a far more balanced card.
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Post by twintania on Jan 16, 2023 12:39:11 GMT
Thx for the win. The next theme: Alice in Wonderland, Through the Looking-Glass, or something inspired by them. You can post something already crossovered in other contents such as Alice in Megami Tensei. Another theme is Naruto.   |
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pernicious
8/8 Octopus
Posts: 440
Favorite Card: Mistmeadow Skulk
Favorite Set: Shadowmoor block
Color Alignment: Red
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Post by pernicious on Jan 16, 2023 15:51:35 GMT
He's based on the Queen of Hearts.
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Post by gluestick248 on Jan 16, 2023 19:00:38 GMT
Cardboard Realization  Sorcery Each player shuffles all creatures they own into their library. “Who cares for you? You're nothing but a pack of cards!” |
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