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Post by Daij_Djan on Feb 27, 2023 21:24:13 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 four-hundred and fifty-fourth challenge!
The winner of the "BREAKING NEWS!" poll was ZephyrPhantom with... And the challenge issued by our winner was... Create 1-5 cards based around an anime/manga or anime/manga-styled work you like. (I.e. Manwha, webtoon, similarly styled videogames, etc... count.)
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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Post by emberfire17 on Feb 27, 2023 21:56:27 GMT
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Post by sdfkjgh on Feb 27, 2023 22:31:51 GMT
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Post by Daij_Djan on Feb 28, 2023 0:42:18 GMT
Big manga fan, so I have many potential options to pick from - some well known, others more obscure.. After some pondering, I decided to go back to the roots - because the first custom designs I ever tried (before even knowing about this forum) were in fact about an anime: Calling dibs on Neon Genesis Evangelion!
EDIT: How about these:
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Post by sdfkjgh on Feb 28, 2023 8:41:59 GMT
I just binge-watched the entire Code MENT series, so here you go:  I'M AT SOUP!   Enchantment  Flash Shroud, indestructible When I’M AT SOUP! enters the battlefield, exile all Equipment and all Auras with “Enchant creature” until I’M AT SOUP! leaves the battlefield, then exile up to one target nonland permanent until I’M AT SOUP! leaves the battlefield. If an Equipment or an Aura with “Enchant creature” would enter the battlefield, exile it until I’M AT SOUP! leaves the battlefield instead. At the beginning of each end step, if a player feasted four or more time this turn, sacrifice I’M AT SOUP! (A player feasts when they create or sacrifice a Food.)#ShitpostingOnTheSevens |
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Post by Idea on Feb 28, 2023 9:58:36 GMT
I just binge-watched the entire Code MENT series, so here you go: I'M AT SOUP! " style="max-width:100%;"] " style="max-width:100%;"] " style="max-width:100%;"] Enchantment " style="max-width:100%;"] Flash Shroud, indestructible When I’M AT SOUP! enters the battlefield, exile all Equipment and all Auras with “Enchant creature” until I’M AT SOUP! leaves the battlefield, then exile up to one target nonland permanent until I’M AT SOUP! leaves the battlefield. If an Equipment or an Aura with “Enchant creature” would enter the battlefield, exile it until I’M AT SOUP! leaves the battlefield instead. At the beginning of each end step, if a player feasted four or more time this turn, sacrifice I’M AT SOUP! (A player feasts when they create or sacrifice a Food.)#ShitpostingOnTheSevens This really feels like it should be silver border. |
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Post by vizionarius on Feb 28, 2023 18:25:49 GMT
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BinaryBolas
3/3 Beast
Posts: 186
Color Alignment: White, Blue, Black, Red
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Post by BinaryBolas on Feb 28, 2023 18:39:41 GMT
   
Note: a) I tried, but there are not many ideal screenshots/arts for something I truly want to design (I think art is key for this week's challenge). I want to design a cycle of Heist enchantment cards. But hey, this will do. (Can you guess how many Ann Takamaki fan arts, both in and out of line, are out there on ArtStation?) b) I always design cards with a certain limited environment in mind. So, you can imagine what the rest of the Phantom Thieves look like, as I've listed 3/10 of the cycle. c) Joker, the main character of Persona 5, is, as his counterparts in previous Persona games, an almost blank state. So he is hard to be realized without ludecrous number of abilities to define his color identities and such. Therefore, I choose not to design him. |
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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 Feb 28, 2023 18:40:53 GMT
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Post by sdfkjgh on Feb 28, 2023 21:39:37 GMT
I just binge-watched the entire Code MENT series, so here you go: I'M AT SOUP! " style="max-width:100%;"] " style="max-width:100%;"] " style="max-width:100%;"] Enchantment " style="max-width:100%;"] Flash Shroud, indestructible When I’M AT SOUP! enters the battlefield, exile all Equipment and all Auras with “Enchant creature” until I’M AT SOUP! leaves the battlefield, then exile up to one target nonland permanent until I’M AT SOUP! leaves the battlefield. If an Equipment or an Aura with “Enchant creature” would enter the battlefield, exile it until I’M AT SOUP! leaves the battlefield instead. At the beginning of each end step, if a player feasted four or more time this turn, sacrifice I’M AT SOUP! (A player feasts when they create or sacrifice a Food.)#ShitpostingOnTheSevens This really feels like it should be silver border. There's nothing in the rules text of the card that suggests that it could only be done in silver border. Therefore, by the new Acorn rules, it should be legal in all applicable formats. This is the world we live in now. That is a sentence that I actually typed in defense of a design I made based off of a dumb meme that's almost two decades old. Kill me. |
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Post by Idea on Feb 28, 2023 22:27:16 GMT
This really feels like it should be silver border. There's nothing in the rules text of the card that suggests that it could only be done in silver border. Therefore, by the new Acorn rules, it should be legal in all applicable formats. This is the world we live in now. That is a sentence that I actually typed in defense of a design I made based off of a dumb meme that's almost two decades old. Kill me. Yeah it's just due to the feeling it gives off that I said what I did, what with the repetition of that name and that super chaotic remove it all on white... |
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Lady
1/1 Squirrel
Posts: 81
Favorite Card: Saw It Coming, Secret Rendezvous
Favorite Set: Kaldheim
Color Alignment: Black, Green
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Post by Lady on Mar 1, 2023 0:57:17 GMT
    
Casca, Broken Suvivor
Legendary Creature - Human 
Casca, Broken Suvivor can’t attack or block.
At the beginning of your end step, if you gained 5 or more life, this turn, transform Casca.
The horrors she witnessed broke her mind; what is now left of the once proud warrior, is but fumbling shadow of her past self.
0/1
Casca, Reawakened Warrior
Legendary Creature - Human Soldier
Double Strike, intimidate (This creature can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or creatures that share a color with it.)
Battle cry (Whenever this creature attacks, each other attacking creature gets +1/+0 until end of turn.)
Whenever Casca, Reawakened Warrior attacks, you gain X life, where X is the number of attacking creatures.
3/3
| Crimson Behelit  
Artifact - Equipment
: Sacrifice all creatures, other than equipped creature. Put a flying counter and an amount of +1/+1 counters equal to the number of non-token creatures sacrificed this way on equipped creature. Sacrifice Crimson Behelit.
Equip—Pay 1 life. Griffith, Hawk of Darkness
| Griffith, Hawk of Darkness 
Legendary Creature - Demon God
Eminence — As long as Griffith, Hawk of Darkness is in the command zone, creatures you control gets +1/+1.
Flying
When Griffith enters the battlefield, sacrifice all other creatures you control. Put an amount of +1/+1 counters on Griffith equal to the total power of creatures sacrificed this way.
3/3 | Guts, Hundred Man Slayer
Legendary Creature - Human Berserker
Menace, rampage 2 (Whenever this creature becomes blocked, it gets +2/+2 until end of turn for each creature blocking it beyond the first.)
The first time on each of turns, a creature dealt combat damage by Guts, Hundred Man Slayer dies, there is an additional combat step after this one. Untap Guts.
7/7 | The Berserker Armor
Legendary Artifact - Equipment
Equipped creature is goaded
Whenever equipped creature attacks, it deals 1 damage to itself.
Whenever equipped creature is dealt damage, it gets +X/+0 until end of turn, where X is twice the damage taken.
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I always love to try and make fictional characters as magic cards. It is almost always such an interesting a challenge to try and show their way of fighting/them as a person, through the mechanics of magic. This being a challenge about anime/manga, it didn't take long for me to know my entry was gonna be cards based on Berserk. It is my favourite work of fiction, of all I've read, played, and watched, so I had to try and do the best I could to translate Mirua's characters to MtG. The Behelit is a concept I've had for a few months. It first started as a saga, but I weren't happy with it. So it became an artifact, and it worked a lot better that way. The second half of Casca is inspired by her leadership skills, that are seen pre-eclipse, while continuing the lifegain theme I established with the second half. As she hasn't fully recovered yet, I'm taking a guess on what her role will be. Poor, poor, Casca. I am more than open to tips if my cost balancing is off -- especially with Griffith. There isn't many eminence commanders, so it's hard to get an idea of what the cost should be, but I've tried to not make it too cheap. In case they're any other Berserk and power metal fans in here. Yes, I have beast in black playing in my ears rn. Now on to try and do Guts justice. Done. It was hard to make something that could fit golden age Guts, but I am pretty happy with what I came up with. |
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BinaryBolas
3/3 Beast
Posts: 186
Color Alignment: White, Blue, Black, Red
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Post by BinaryBolas on Mar 1, 2023 3:34:30 GMT
Lady Even though the sample size is too small for argument (four, to be exact), Eminence actually specifies the ability to have "~ is in the command zone or on the battlefield". The rulings for three of the Eminence commander with triggered abilities also include both circumstances. This is designed so commander player won't feel bad or be intensified to just hang out with a 99-card deck. ALSO that's probably why they haven't printed more since Edgar and Ur-Dragon is clearly busted. Turns out emblems on game start are not okay.
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Lady
1/1 Squirrel
Posts: 81
Favorite Card: Saw It Coming, Secret Rendezvous
Favorite Set: Kaldheim
Color Alignment: Black, Green
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Post by Lady on Mar 1, 2023 11:13:13 GMT
Even though the sample size is too small for argument (four, to be exact), Eminence actually specifies the ability to have "~ is in the command zone or on the battlefield". The rulings for three of the Eminence commander with triggered abilities also include both circumstances. This is designed so commander player won't feel bad or be intensified to just hang out with a 99-card deck. ALSO that's probably why they haven't printed more since Edgar and Ur-Dragon is clearly busted. Turns out emblems on game start are not okay. Thanks, forgot about it being both on battlefield and command zone. I am aware it is a busted mechanic. In the story, Griffith is extremely powerful and dangerous, so its very much on purpose. I'm trying express the primary ways he's seen in the story, as Griffith in the command zone, and Femto on the battlefield. I might look at downtuneing his eminence ability, but I'm gonna let it stay, even though eminence is broken. |
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Post by twintania on Mar 1, 2023 18:26:32 GMT
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Post by melono on Mar 1, 2023 19:22:51 GMT
Youjo Senki/The Saga of Tanya the Evil   Used cover art of the manga, really love those. |
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Post by sade612 on Mar 2, 2023 6:30:40 GMT
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spazlaz
6/6 Wurm
Posts: 333
Color Alignment: Blue, Black
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Post by spazlaz on Mar 3, 2023 3:32:19 GMT
I don't really watch anime, but here is one I have seen a bit of.
and one reprint!
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Lady
1/1 Squirrel
Posts: 81
Favorite Card: Saw It Coming, Secret Rendezvous
Favorite Set: Kaldheim
Color Alignment: Black, Green
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Post by Lady on Mar 3, 2023 10:20:51 GMT
spazlaz I gotta say. Those are amazing! I love your idea. Just... *chef's kiss*
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Post by Idea on Mar 3, 2023 16:25:33 GMT
Aaaaah, so many options. I ended up narrowing it down to either Bofuri, Eminence in Shadow or Konosuba, but Konosuba had more individually clearly distinct characters in powerset, so that's what I went with. |
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Post by ZephyrPhantom on Mar 5, 2023 23:41:19 GMT
Really glad that people are making full use of the ability to make multiple cards for this challenge. I really appreciate the enthusiasm we're seeing here.
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Fermat
8/8 Octopus
Posts: 430
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 Mar 6, 2023 6:54:27 GMT
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Post by ZephyrPhantom on Mar 6, 2023 9:30:43 GMT
Fuuto Tantei recently came out, which is a stand-alone sequel to another show from around 2010 that features a pair of heroes using six elemental Gaia Memories to combine into a superhero that defends the people of Fuuto from criminal acts while uncovering the mystery of what is so important about these devices. Since Meld now exists, I decided to take a crack at properly representing them this way: My goal was to capture the team's flavor in a way that both players familiar with and not familiar with the show could appreciate: Shotaro is the more upfront investigator of the two and is usually the first to get into physical confrontations at his own expense, so he more actively investigates and 'fights' (removes) threats at the expense of being fairly fragile in his own right and having less raw evidence. Phillip is usually more inclined to sit back and tap into his direct connection to all knowledge on Earth via the Gaia Library, so he produces a steadier amount of evidence as the investigation goes on and more people are connected to a crime or ruled out of it. Phillip's powers are also the main source of how the two can transform, so it fit pretty natural to make him the one who causes the Meld to occur. Normally the Mythic gets the upper half and the Rare gets the lower half of a meld card, but if I had the ability to mess with the printing a bit, Shotaro's card back would be the upper half with the title and main art (reflecting his showmanship and dedication to the title of Kamen Rider) while Phillip's back would be the lower half with the abilities (reflecting him being the source of the powers and abilities.) Note: Shotaro costing   instead of  is intentional - I didn't want to kneecap his ability to work as a standalone Investigate commander. The requisite six Gaia Memories/mana types are instead fully covered on Phillip's ability.
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Lady
1/1 Squirrel
Posts: 81
Favorite Card: Saw It Coming, Secret Rendezvous
Favorite Set: Kaldheim
Color Alignment: Black, Green
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Post by Lady on Mar 6, 2023 16:36:50 GMT
Before this closes I just gotta say that there come some seriously awesome and flavour smackdowns out of this challenge. There are some of the animes and mangas that are being portrayed here, that I don't know enough about to fully appreciate the work done here, but all in all, this is so well made.
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Post by Daij_Djan on Mar 6, 2023 22:34:28 GMT
Almost forgot posting my own designs 
This thread is now closed, the poll can be found here. And here's the next challenge!
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"When in doubt, do a common." 
