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Post by Daij_Djan on Feb 24, 2020 21:50:47 GMT
Welcome to the Card of the Week Contest! To participate in this Contest you'll have to design a card along the contest guidelines and throw it into the arena with other competitors' entries! At the end of each week, a winner will be determined by forum poll. The winner's card will be rendered and featured on the Welcome page, and the winner decides the challenge for the next week's Contest! Here we go, competitors: our three-hundred and sixth challenge!
The winner of the "Colorful Language" poll was ameisenmeister with... And the challenge issued by our winner was... Design a card that's a reference to a common movie trope of plot device. Be it the invincible hero, the villains that just can't hit their shots or the damsel in distress which gets the story rolling.
Additionally, please try to keep your entry edits all in one post - if you need to change it you can put your old entry in a spoiler marked "Old entry" and leave the newest rendition to be seen. Just use the edit button in the top/right of your original post.And now, time to begin the challenge! Best of luck, competitors!
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spazlaz
6/6 Wurm
Posts: 333
Color Alignment: Blue, Black
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Post by spazlaz on Feb 24, 2020 23:19:27 GMT
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Post by burntsquirrelman on Feb 25, 2020 0:41:45 GMT
TV Tropes for those that want to lose hours looking for that perfect trope.
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Fermat
8/8 Octopus
Posts: 429
Favorite Card: Force of Will
Favorite Set: Guildpact (set when I started playing)
Color Alignment: White, Blue, Black
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Post by Fermat on Feb 25, 2020 2:48:03 GMT
Redemption Demotion   Enchantment — Aura  Enchant creature Enchanted creature gets -1/-0 and loses all abilities. You control enchanted creature. "It seems being a goody-two-shoes has its side effects."
—Liliana Vess
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Post by ZephyrPhantom on Feb 25, 2020 3:24:10 GMT
Pragmatic Shot  Instant Destroy target legendary creature or planeswalker. The higher you rise, the larger the bounty.In reference to "Why Don't You Just Shoot Him?"
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MaiApologies (She/Her)
1/1 Squirrel
Posts: 61
Favorite Card: Ambiguity
Favorite Set: Ikoria: Lair of Behemoths
Color Alignment: Blue, Red
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Post by MaiApologies (She/Her) on Feb 25, 2020 5:16:13 GMT
Gets better the worse off you are, naturally.
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Post by Jartis on Feb 25, 2020 7:53:29 GMT
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jarribas309
0/0 Germ
TIL my regular lifestyle is called quarantine
Posts: 45
Favorite Card: The Locust God
Favorite Set: Rise of the Eldrazi
Color Alignment: Blue, Red, Green
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Post by jarribas309 on Feb 25, 2020 16:14:18 GMT
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Deleted Member
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Post by Deleted on Feb 25, 2020 18:55:59 GMT
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Post by collex on Feb 25, 2020 21:07:32 GMT
And here I was, toying with the idea of making a movie-themed Un-set. Can't wait to stea... I mean be inspired by all of your entries.
I do have a question before I work on mine - do only in-universe tropes work, or does trope about the business of craft of making movies count as well? Stuff like specific fan reactions, specific acting types, behaviors of creators or studios, type of preserebootquel, etc?
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Post by Daij_Djan on Feb 25, 2020 22:01:15 GMT
Render to be added later on:
Instant Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield. It deals damage equal to its power to target creature you don’t control.
EDIT: Here we go.
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Post by sdfkjgh on Feb 25, 2020 22:16:25 GMT
Iftfy.
Conservation of Ninjutsu   Enchantment  All creatures have exalted.
Only one creature can attack each combat.
Whenever a creature becomes blocked, if that creature attacked alone this combat, its controller sacrifices it at end of combat.
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Post by kefke on Feb 26, 2020 17:28:52 GMT
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Post by sdfkjgh on Feb 26, 2020 18:47:11 GMT
kefke: Too bad you couldn't fit panel 3 as flavor text. I highly recommend you all read this webcomic. It's very good.
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Post by ameisenmeister on Feb 26, 2020 19:34:10 GMT
This Damsel in Distress will certainly get the action rolling! |
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Post by Aarhg on Feb 26, 2020 22:48:56 GMT
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Evil Coco
2/2 Zombie
Posts: 110
Favorite Set: Shadowmoor
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Post by Evil Coco on Feb 28, 2020 0:51:44 GMT
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Post by t2stonerain on Feb 28, 2020 4:30:05 GMT
The best type of group protagonists.  |
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Post by collex on Feb 29, 2020 1:11:28 GMT
So it took me a while, and I went through many tropes and mechanical execution, some pretty far out there, but in the end I decided on a crisp, clean trope and card.  The name of the actual trope is Chekov's Gun, but since Magic has no guns (a few cards from Portal II notwithstanding), I adapted it. |
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Post by kefke on Feb 29, 2020 5:37:21 GMT
The name of the actual trope is Chekov's Gun, but since Magic has no guns (a few cards from Portal II notwithstanding), I adapted it. Why do people think this? It isn't true. Not only are there guns, there's rocket launchers and mech suits. There's not a lot of cards that show guns, but they do exist. Just look at Goblin Sharpshooter or Mog Assassin. |
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Post by ZephyrPhantom on Feb 29, 2020 18:30:53 GMT
The name of the actual trope is Chekov's Gun, but since Magic has no guns (a few cards from Portal II notwithstanding), I adapted it. Why do people think this? It isn't true. Not only are there guns, there's rocket launchers and mech suits. There's not a lot of cards that show guns, but they do exist. Just look at Goblin Sharpshooter or Mog Assassin. I think it's less "Magic has no guns" and more "we're very careful not to go past the Renaissance era with explicit depictions of guns". Almost any magic card like Alaborn Musketeer from back then seems to be a 'weird one-off' and while WoTC hasn't outright stated they won't do a plane that uses closer-to-modern firearms there definitely seems to be a effort to limit how advanced anything resembling a gun can be. Ixalan was a notable example in this regard with all its cannons e.g. Elaborate Firecannon that seems to acknowledge that they'll use gunpowder weapons if necessary, and Kaladesh was practically a mecha/tank set (right down to having the Vehicle mechanic), but I think Rocket Launcher and Power Armor are the exceptions to the rules. (To put it another way, if WoTC wanted Kaladesh and Mirrodin/New Phyrexian natives to have guns, they would've had them by now, but despite their high tech nature there is a very notable absence of advanced guns from both planes.) |
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Post by Daij_Djan on Feb 29, 2020 20:28:59 GMT
Why do people think this? It isn't true. Well, it's indeed not really about them not existing but rather about WotC actively avoiding them whenever possible - as stated multiple times like in this example.
This thread is now closed, the poll can be found here. And here's the next challenge! |
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