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Post by Daij_Djan on Mar 13, 2023 19:47:01 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-sixth challenge!
The winner of the "The Gathering is Real!!!" poll was vizionarius with... And the challenge issued by our winner was... To increase your chances of winning and to also make creating the poll easier on whomever is doing so, please try to use a render.
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 Daij_Djan on Mar 13, 2023 20:15:05 GMT
When in doubt.. 
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Post by BinaryBolas on Mar 14, 2023 7:45:58 GMT
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Post by Flo00 on Mar 14, 2023 11:54:29 GMT
 Rhystic Negotiations   Enchantment  At the beginning of each opponent’s upkeep, put a negation counter on Rhystic Negotiations unless that player pays 1. Remove X negation counters from Rhystic Negotiations: Counter target spell with mana value X. X can’t be 0. |
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Post by sdfkjgh on Mar 14, 2023 19:50:22 GMT
Master Thénardier  Legendary Creature--Human Rogue  Spells your opponents cast cost more to cast and activated abilities your opponents activate cost more to activate unless they’re mana abilities of lands. Whenever a player pays either of these costs, you create a colorless Gold artifact token with “Sacrifice this artifact: Add one mana of any color.” 2/2
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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 Mar 14, 2023 20:35:47 GMT
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Post by sdfkjgh on Mar 15, 2023 18:08:21 GMT
That flavor text hurts me. TOO CLOSE TO REAL LIFE! #EatTheRich |
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Post by Idea on Mar 15, 2023 18:13:18 GMT
 {Previous Version}  thanks for the suggestion! |
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Post by vizionarius on Mar 16, 2023 21:03:49 GMT
 Cleaned up an earlier design of mine from a keyword challenge for "tax", here. |
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Post by sade612 on Mar 17, 2023 4:47:12 GMT
 {Text} Spellspike  Enchantment  Mirage (You may cast this spell for its mirage cost at any time you could cast an instant. If you do, it’s sacrificed at the beginning of the next cleanup step.) Sacrifice Spellspike: Counter target spell unless its controller pays . |
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Post by twintania on Mar 18, 2023 6:42:34 GMT
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Post by Flo00 on Mar 18, 2023 15:43:11 GMT
Mana abilities don't use the stack, so you can't actually counter them with a trigger. How about "Mana abilities your opponents activate cost  more to activate." ? |
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spazlaz
6/6 Wurm
Posts: 335
Color Alignment: Blue, Black
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Post by spazlaz on Mar 18, 2023 17:22:12 GMT
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Post by damyers on Mar 18, 2023 22:07:05 GMT
Can someone tell me how to make my post bigger, it seems so tiny when compared to the rest of you guys that you have to click on it to see the full text
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Post by Idea on Mar 18, 2023 22:37:53 GMT
Can someone tell me how to make my post bigger, it seems so tiny when compared to the rest of you guys that you have to click on it to see the full text You can't make it bigger as an attachment. I can't speak for everyone else, but the method I know involves posting the image in an image hosting site (in my case imgur) and then using the share link to post on the forum. |
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Post by damyers on Mar 18, 2023 22:45:46 GMT
Thanks on that note, what do you think of card ability, I tried to make one that had a unique mechanic and honestly one that I wish existed because when players get there planeswalker combos behind a large wall of monsters due to how the specialize in token creature early in the game it almost over unless get a card with a planeswalker exile ability. I decide -2 because I did not want to overpowered but felt -1 barely did anything
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Post by Idea on Mar 19, 2023 1:42:46 GMT
Thanks on that note, what do you think of card ability, I tried to make one that had a unique mechanic and honestly one that I wish existed because when players get there planeswalker combos behind a large wall of monsters due to how the specialize in token creature early in the game it almost over unless get a card with a planeswalker exile ability. I decide -2 because I did not want to overpowered but felt -1 barely did anything It’s an interesting if potentially niche effect. I don’t think it’s worded right though, but there are people who get this better than I do. |
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Post by damyers on Mar 19, 2023 3:10:52 GMT
Thanks on that note, what do you think of card ability, I tried to make one that had a unique mechanic and honestly one that I wish existed because when players get there planeswalker combos behind a large wall of monsters due to how the specialize in token creature early in the game it almost over unless get a card with a planeswalker exile ability. I decide -2 because I did not want to overpowered but felt -1 barely did anything It’s an interesting if potentially niche effect. I don’t think it’s worded right though, but there are people who get this better than I do. I updated the text of the card to be very specific now, can you can understand the ability now. I also using the official vocabulary terminology of magic the gathering concerning this area. I also made the effect stronger because there are planeswalker card versions of Nicolas Bolas who has abilities that give him +3 loyalty counters so this is the minimum amount that it will actually make a difference for all planeswalkers. Also if you find problem with wording please tell me how you word because I’m pretty sure you can tell the card ability I am trying to achieve. Here is link concerning loyalty abilities vocabulary that I used mtg.fandom.com/wiki/Loyalty_ability |
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Post by vizionarius on Mar 19, 2023 3:50:33 GMT
Do you intend to have the ability cost 3 additional loyalty. And then remove 3 more loyalty after you activate it (for a total of -6)? That seems a little too much. Also, you want the effect to only work on negative cost loyalties? I'd use the following wording: "Loyalty abilities with a negative loyalty cost of Planeswalkers your opponents control cost an additional -3 to activate." |
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Fermat
8/8 Octopus
Posts: 436
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 19, 2023 4:09:29 GMT
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Post by damyers on Mar 19, 2023 6:45:46 GMT
Do you intend to have the ability cost 3 additional loyalty. And then remove 3 more loyalty after you activate it (for a total of -6)? That seems a little too much. Also, you want the effect to only work on negative cost loyalties? I'd use the following wording: "Loyalty abilities with a negative loyalty cost of Planeswalkers your opponents control cost an additional -3 to activate." Thanks I will use that wording instead so as to confuse players, thanks for the advice, yes what I want is an additional -3 cost not -6 |
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Post by sdfkjgh on Mar 19, 2023 15:22:47 GMT
Do you intend to have the ability cost 3 additional loyalty. And then remove 3 more loyalty after you activate it (for a total of -6)? That seems a little too much. Also, you want the effect to only work on negative cost loyalties? I'd use the following wording: "Loyalty abilities with a negative loyalty cost of Planeswalkers your opponents control cost an additional -3 to activate." Thanks I will use that wording instead so as to confuse players, thanks for the advice, yes what I want is an additional -3 cost not -6 "Loyalty abilities cost an additional  to activate." |
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Post by damyers on Mar 19, 2023 19:12:51 GMT
What is the official deadline for cards of the week submission? Is it Sunday or Monday at a specific time and what time zone?
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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 Mar 19, 2023 19:50:00 GMT
damyers It's usually on Monday or Tuesday (UTC +0), there isn't a specific deadline time.
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Post by damyers on Mar 19, 2023 19:58:06 GMT
damyers It's usually on Monday or Tuesday (UTC +0), there isn't a specific deadline time. When you say Monday do you mean like Sunday at 11:59pm or Monday at 11:59 pm |
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Post by Daij_Djan on Mar 19, 2023 20:57:49 GMT
@ damyers: Because of my job (or other RL stuff) there isn't a fixed deadline - but these contests normally end on Monday evening (European time), rarely very late afternoon already, sometimes later in the night. |
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Post by damyers on Mar 20, 2023 8:55:45 GMT
I reworded the abilities to be as simple as possible with as little words as possible. Is it clear now or do I need to add or take more word. I did added the words “to activate” even though increase cost implies activation this traditional wording for mtg cards I discovered (peraphs people might be confused that it would mean something like they have to pay every turn to keep that ability even though that makes no sense) but I did not put in “planeswalker” abilities because planeswalkers do not need to be specified since they the only ones with loyalty abilities. I also put in the plural possessive opponents’ to show this affects all opponents and all the abilities of all their planeswalkers, I also specified “negative loyalty cost” because I do not want the person to think that say their positive +2 loyalty ability will now be -1. other version of wording was “Everytime an opponent activates an (planeswalker loyalty) ability with negative loyalty cost they must pay an additional -3 loyalty counters to activate that ability” however this was used more words and felt too wordy and I prefer the I showed you guys I also want opinion as to what version I should submit, the -4 loyalty counter one or -3 loyalty counter one and if either of the cards mana cost or ability is over or underpowered. I keep in mind that I want this card to be effective against planeswalker cards like nicol bolas scryfall.com/card/e01/85/nicol-bolas-planeswalker who has +3 loyalty ability which is the highest positive loyalty ability a planeswalker can have. I pretty sure I want the -3 loyalty version because it feels more balance since it won’t hurt planeswalkers with lower positive loyalty abilities such as +1 also this card would be more useful in early game so the lower it mana cost the better thus the balanced lower mana cost -3 version would work best, if I were to make -4 loyalty increase I would have to make make mana cost 2 blue blue blue Attachments:
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Post by damyers on Mar 20, 2023 9:16:09 GMT
Word of advice for everybody, use chat gpt to help with balancing your cards since wizards of the coast has not disclosed their balancing formula algorithm for cards and there was way too many cards to reference to be able to tell how their algorithm works unlike when creating your own dungeons and dragons classes which have only few classes and sub classes you can reference to balance your own custom homebrew class or subclass. I also use chat gpt to check if any cards i created have similar abilities or exact abilities to my creations since mtg has such a huge database it would take too long to review all their cards and websites like scryfall only pick up key words and do not correctly interpret the meaning of whole sentences like chat gpt
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Post by damyers on Mar 20, 2023 9:25:04 GMT
I am trying to understand this guys card ability like what does he mean by “each line of text” like does he mean the the actual line in text in which case that make no sense honestly. A better thing would be say bullet point per ability like say how cards have multiple abilities. Such with a card like this 1. gains +1/+1 for very creature destroyed by it 2. Deals an additional 1 damage to player they attacked directly 3.gains life link if pay 2 mana and if I understand it correctly it means that abilities 1 and 2 will each cost 2 mana to activate on this card since there are two total abilities on this card that do not require a mana payement? Or am I misunderstanding this card? |
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Post by twintania on Mar 20, 2023 11:22:39 GMT
damyers If you have an English Jace Berelen, the first and second abilities cost more to activate for they have 1 line in its ability text. The third costs  more in the same way. These costs change depending on what version or what language your card is. It is a non sense effect since it is silver bordered.
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