[RULES] Battle Boards V1.218 - Neo Dynasty - Battle Gaiden

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You then need to create a Profile, which will determine what cards you can initially design. Initially, you'll be a blank slate, which means you start with the following:

- You can make colorless cards.
- Your cards can only be CMC .
- Your cards can only use evergreen keywords.
- Your cards can only be or .

However, that'll change very quickly!

You also start off with 10 skill points, and can spend those skill points on anything mentioned in the "Skill Point Spending" section!

Once you've created your character, you can start attacking other Battle Board players by sending a minion(a card idea) to attack them! In return, the defender must respond to your card by trying to design a card(s) using limitations of their own, in addition to rating your card out of 10 based on how well it was designed. That rating is then added to the player's Score.


Once they've designed a card that is supposed to respond to yours, you rate the card out of 10. That rating is then added to the player's Score. (Note: If the card doesn't respond to the attacker's card at all, at all, e.g. Black Lotus in response to Grizzly Bear, the attacker has a right to give you a 0/10.)


Alternatively, if you help defend a player while fulfilling your requirements with your cards, the attacker rates your card out of 10 as well. You gain that rating in Score. If the main defender doesn't respond with a card, either by choice or inaction, you may take full valor instead.

If you feel like you are being deliberately approached with cards designed to create a frustrating or no-win situation, you may chose to reject the attack entirely. Use this option with care - if a card is poorly designed but something you can respond to, you should be giving it a low rating and a response instead.

You may respond to each individual card attacking you with up to one card only, but remember that you can Call for Aid! (see relevant section). You can also opt to collaborate your design attacks with other players, but on the flipside, a player can also design a single card to respond to multiple attacks at once!

If a player sends you a 'gift' card, you may choose to accept or reject the gift. If you accept the gift, you are restricted to making a card that somehow makes the gift better for you - at minimum, it needs to be non-harmful to be considered an acceptance. (E.g. a gift of Divination could be responded to with Chasm Skulker) The attacker and defender are free to use their own discretion on how the gift improves relations.

If you choose to reject the gift, treat it as a normal attack.

You can repeatedly attack a player as much as you like so long as you do not have an attack waiting for a response from that player.

Attacking and Defending with Multiple Cards: 

Whenever you attack, you may create one card, and you may also choose to invoke card(s) in your Command Zone, or bring existing cards in using Call for Aid.  If you are creating cards using the any of the following mechanics, you may create two cards using these mechanics in a single interaction with the following conditions:

- The second card must be a creature (unless you are creating a Fortification, in which case it must be a land.)
- The combined CMC of the two cards must be less than your current CMC.



The Tactical Imperator perk allows a player to pay , if they are not already creating a second card because of one of the mechanics listed above.

Whenever multiple cards are used in an interaction, the player rating the attack or defense has free reign to factor in all cards involved in the rating.  Only the card(s) created in that attack or defense will be rated, but how those cards interact with other cards invoked from a Command Zone or summoned with Call for Aid should absolutely be factored into any rating given.  When multiple cards are created for a single attack or defense, the total Score received is equal to the average rating of the cards created for that action.


Hey! What if I want to play, but don't want to go through the whole Battle Boards creation process?
For you busy folks, look no further than the walk-on Guest System. Even if you don't have a battleboard you may chose to a send an enemy card at a player's Battle Board - since you have no profile of your own, you won't gain any Score, but you can participate in all the fun without any of the hassle! Just remember to rate the card the Board player attempts to respond to you with.

Additionally, If you want to do silly things that break the game to give players a challenge to respond to, the Guest System is always available. You may attack with no restrictions, however you do not earn Valor or Score.

For every 100 Score you gain, you automatically gain 1 Skill Point. This Skill point can be spent on any perk mentioned under Skill Point Spending.

Achievements also grant Skill Points. See their respective section for more details.

If you don't like a perk you've picked, you may refund it and regain your skill points back at the cost of half the Score you originally accumulated for it. For example, a skill that cost 2 skill points would require you to pay 100 Score. Note that you can't refund any of your starting 10 skill points this way.

Characters start the game with a Mana Pool of 10. This mana is spent to use Call for Aid (casting existing cards from sets you've unlocked), to pay for cards in your Command Zone, and to activate certain perks. The Mana Pool refills every week (to be precise, every Sunday at 12 : 00 PM (0 : 00) GMT +0; you can check your current GMT time here.), not counting mana reserved for cards in your Command Zone. For every 100 Score the character gains, their Mana Pool permanently increases by 2. Players may also spend 1 Skill Point to increase their Mana Pool by 5.

Characters begin with the ability to Call for Aid from any Core Set. At every 100 Score the character attains, the player may unlock the ability to Call for Aid from an additional set. In addition, players may spend 1 Skill Point to unlock two additional sets from which they can Call for Aid. Masterpieces from each set (Expeditions, Inventions, Invocations, etc) are considered a separate set; in other words, if you want say, Kaladesh Inventions and Aether Revolt, those cost a full skill point. Mythic Editions are considered separate sets. When Calling for Aid, players must spend mana equal to the CMC of the card they are calling for. If a player has a free set unlock available, and wishes to unlock an eligible set, the player must use that free unlock before spending Skill Points to unlock sets. If a player wants to unlock a set created by a another user on MSE or some other website, they may do so, provided the set is linked. Good and bad usage of Call for Aid can and should be reflected in the rating an attacker/defender gives the user of Call for Aid.

Keep in mind that character restrictions do not apply when calling for aid! If you are mono but desperately need Giant Growth? Go for it. Playing Storm, but your opponent has given themselves Protection from Black somehow? Get yourself a Grapeshot and combo off!

A player's first character may reincarnate after attaining 300 Score.  Subsequent characters made by that character may reincarnate at any time after attaining 500 Score.  Upon reincarnation, determine any achievements that the character qualifies for and note those achievements on the character's sheet.  Save that character's sheet, either in a spoiler in the main post or in a separate post on the character's board, then create your new character.
Reincarnated characters can receive additional Skill Points based on achievements earned on prior characters.  However, your new character can only claim the Skill Points for an achievement once, no matter how many times it is earned (with the exception of Enter the Infinite, Wojek Veteran, and Old Fogey). 

When a character is reincarnated, you may choose to Switch back to the character at a later time, so long as your current character has met the requirements for reincarnation.  You will reincarnate the current character as normal, but then restore your previous character's sheet as it was at the time of their reincarnation.  You do not receive any additional Skill Points on the reinstated character for achievements earned on that character or subsequent characters.  All Skill Points gained and spent on the character remain as they were at the time of reincarnation, but the character begins tracking score again from 0, and unlocks additional Skill Points, Mana Pool increases and Call for Aid sets accordingly.  If this character earns further achievements through the course of play, skill points obtained from those achievements are only applied to new characters made afterwards, up to the cap.

If you are at any time dissatisfied with your current character, you may choose to Null the character - simply indicate that you are choosing to Null your character in a post.  The character is discarded - no achievements are earned from playing them, and you cannot resume play with the character in the future (you may choose to recreate the character for roleplay purposes later on, but they will be treated as a new character mechanically speaking).

While creating your new profile after a Reincarnation, you gain 1 additional skill point for each achievement below you've fulfilled below. New characters can only claim the Skill Points for an achievement once, no matter how many times it is earned (with the exception of Enter the Infinite, Wojek Veteran, and Old Fogey).

1. Lotus Guardian: A previous character obtained a mastery of all five colors of mana.
2. Conflux: A previous character obtained a multicolor level of 4.
3. Epic Proportions: A previous character obtained a converted mana cost level of 10.
4. Holistic Wisdom: A previous character obtained a mastery of all card types. (Artifact, creature, enchantment, instant, land, planeswalker, and sorcery are card types.)
5. Enter the Infinite: A previous character reincarnated with 12 or more Skill Points spent in addition to the starting 10. Can be obtained multiple times.
6. Heroes Remembered: Your character forever leaves the game in a dramatic conclusion to their story. You can never play this character again.
7. Three Visits: You are on your third or higher character.
8. Lotus Bloom: Your previous character has created a new color that has had at least five cards with ratings of 8/10 or above.
9. Librarian of Leng: Your previous character created a new card type or subtype that has had at least five cards with ratings of 8/10 or above.
10. Humility: A previous character had no perks.
11. Not of This World: A previous character had no color.
12. Wojek Veteran: Reincarnate with 1000 score. Can be obtained multiple times.
13. Old Fogey: Reincarnate with 2000 score. Can be obtained multiple times.
14. One with Nothing: A previous character had a converted mana cost of .
15. Arbiter of the Ideal: A previous character had only one color.
16. Enchanted Evening: A previous character had only one card type mastery.
17. Blind Seer: A previous character purchased the ability to call aid from at least 8 non-Core Sets.
18. Akroma's Memorial: A previous character had no keywords outside of the evergreen.
19. True Classicist: A previous character had no keywords outside of the evergreen and no new card types and one of your previous incarnations had Akroma's Memorial.
20. Homicidal Seclusion: A previous character you had never called for aid and had at least one encounter where at least two players attacked them at the same time (either by having multiple players attempt an attack on the same board, or having at least one other player come to the aid of a defender when you attacked).
21. Modern Master:A previous character had at least seven non-evergreen keywords unlocked.
22. Conqueror's Pledge: Cause a Board conflict that lasts across 4 or more boards. Requires mutual agreement between all Board owners involved.
23. Helix Pinnacle: Your previous character had 10 or more cards with total ratings of 10 or more.
24. Heroic Intervention: Assist the defense of another player 20 times.

Restriction Achievements: (These achievements are closer to challenge runs that must be adhered to at any time you are using this character to obtain the achievement. (You may 'break' these restricted achievements on a character, but, doing so must immediately adjusted on any characters affected by it the next time you play each of those characters.)

1. Gamble: You're a risk taker, a know it all, a hotshot, a cocky kid - whatever you want to call yourself, whenever you receive a score of 8(9?) or higher, you take double valor, but anything less results in 1(0?) valor.
2. Evil Twin: Your new character cannot have colors or card types that your last previous character had.