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Post by Daij_Djan on Apr 22, 2024 19:52:54 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 five-hundred and tenth challenge! The winner of the "Reverse Engineering" poll was BunBunGun with...And the challenge issued by our winner was... When numbers are involved, we do math. But math is annoying (for some of us at least) and sometimes a rough calculation or even just "estimating" results is also a way to reach conclusions. Like just rounding numbers. Let's "rounded up/down" with our entries for this one. 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 Idea on Apr 22, 2024 21:41:46 GMT
Not sure yet which of these to go with. The intended effect is that you pay for an ability once and get that life discount, but if you use the same ability again you don't. Not sure which version conveys that better/correctly. Settled on an effect. Thank you vizionarius and Daij_Djan for your help!
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Post by vizionarius on Apr 22, 2024 22:11:05 GMT
Not sure yet which of these to go with. The intended effect is that you pay for an ability once and get that life discount, but if you use the same ability again you don't. Not sure which version conveys that better/correctly. I think the last ability is off for both, since payments don't use the stack, so this trigger won't really make sense. What you can do is maybe something like: "Once per turn per source, you may pay half of any life costs of abilities of sources you control, rounded down."
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Post by Idea on Apr 22, 2024 22:45:12 GMT
Not sure yet which of these to go with. The intended effect is that you pay for an ability once and get that life discount, but if you use the same ability again you don't. Not sure which version conveys that better/correctly. I think the last ability is off for both, since payments don't use the stack, so this trigger won't really make sense. What you can do is maybe something like: "Once per turn per source, you may pay half of any life costs of abilities of sources you control, rounded down." I could be misunderstanding something, but Ashiok Wicked Manipulator does have such a trigger... Admittedly the only card I found that does. If the issue is the 'may' I think I could remove it. Edit: How about "Abilities of permanents you control cost half as much life to activate the first time they activate each turn, rounded up."
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Post by Daij_Djan on Apr 22, 2024 23:19:37 GMT
@ Idea: It needs to be a replacement ability, using the "if..instead" wording in your given example.
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Post by vizionarius on Apr 22, 2024 23:27:57 GMT
Yeah, it can be a replacement, but doesn't have to be. The main thing is that it needs to be a static effect. As a replacement, it could be something like: "If you would pay life to pay for an activated ability, if it's the first time you would pay for it this turn, you may pay half as much life, rounded down, instead."
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Post by mbeefy on Apr 22, 2024 23:56:37 GMT
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Post by sdfkjgh on Apr 23, 2024 0:22:24 GMT
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Post by vizionarius on Apr 23, 2024 7:47:56 GMT
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BunBunGun
1/1 Squirrel
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Post by BunBunGun on Apr 23, 2024 9:08:14 GMT
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Post by BinaryBolas on Apr 23, 2024 10:29:24 GMT
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Post by The Harlequin on Apr 23, 2024 16:03:55 GMT
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Post by emberfire17 on Apr 23, 2024 16:24:51 GMT
Yes the art is from the official MtG card Wizard's Retort but it's too fitting to not use here.
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Post by viriss on Apr 23, 2024 23:46:55 GMT
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Post by melono on Apr 24, 2024 4:27:20 GMT
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Post by fluffydeathbringer on Apr 25, 2024 17:27:39 GMT
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Post by The Harlequin on Apr 25, 2024 18:04:29 GMT
Picky me: So my blood token gonna go fast? :-) I assume you forgot "creature" in there :-) Because you already double it, there should be no need for rounding when you exile half of it -- especially because it only cares about stuff it created itself.
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Post by fluffydeathbringer on Apr 25, 2024 18:07:51 GMT
Picky me: So my blood token gonna go fast? :-) I assume you forgot "creature" in there :-) Because you already double it, there should be no need for rounding when you exile half of it -- especially because it only cares about stuff it created itself. - I felt like making the wording as broad as possible to save effort, so sure, your Bloods have haste if you can animate them, have fun with that :V - the rounding's there in case the tokens get winnowed down before the end step somehow and you end up with an odd number of them at EOT
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Post by melono on Apr 26, 2024 8:55:35 GMT
Picky me: So my blood token gonna go fast? :-) I assume you forgot "creature" in there :-) Because you already double it, there should be no need for rounding when you exile half of it -- especially because it only cares about stuff it created itself. - I felt like making the wording as broad as possible to save effort, so sure, your Bloods have haste if you can animate them, have fun with that :V - the rounding's there in case the tokens get winnowed down before the end step somehow and you end up with an odd number of them at EOT
To add to this: incubate tokens. You want those to have haste with this. If you get to flip 'em. Also, a suggestion about something in the wording of the card: the haste giving might be misconstrued as being for only the doubled half, as that's what I thought at first. Could it not flatout give all your tokens haste? As a seperate rules line. Possibly something like, your tokens have haste, or, tokens that enter under your control gain haste.
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Post by fluffydeathbringer on Apr 26, 2024 9:25:15 GMT
Also, a suggestion about something in the wording of the card: the haste giving might be misconstrued as being for only the doubled half, as that's what I thought at first. Could it not flatout give all your tokens haste? As a seperate rules line. Possibly something like, your tokens have haste, or, tokens that enter under your control gain haste. there's no "doubled half", it's a replacement effect that generates a new token creation event. I honestly think the wording is clear enough: if you would make X tokens, make X*2 instead, and those tokens gain haste. what part of that is unclear
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Post by melono on Apr 26, 2024 10:01:27 GMT
Also, a suggestion about something in the wording of the card: the haste giving might be misconstrued as being for only the doubled half, as that's what I thought at first. Could it not flatout give all your tokens haste? As a seperate rules line. Possibly something like, your tokens have haste, or, tokens that enter under your control gain haste. there's no "doubled half", it's a replacement effect that generates a new token creation event. I honestly think the wording is clear enough: if you would make X tokens, make X*2 instead, and those token gain haste. what part of that is unclear Ruleswise your current text is sound, so it's fine to leave it as is. I am mostly concerned about an expectation people have bleeding over into how they read the card: temporary one-turn tokens need haste. This then leads to the conclusion: only the temporary half gets haste. Which was my thought process at first. It is properly formulated ruleswise though, so you can just as well ignore this suggestion.
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Lady
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Post by Lady on Apr 27, 2024 10:35:57 GMT
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Post by sdfkjgh on Apr 27, 2024 21:47:58 GMT
Pedantic Ass Creature -- Donkey Advisor Your opponents can't round numbers up or down. "No, it's 7.5."
I might be skirting the rules a bit with this one. Leave it, it's perfect.
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Post by The Harlequin on Apr 29, 2024 5:52:45 GMT
Pedantic Ass Creature -- Donkey Advisor Your opponents can't round numbers up or down. "No, it's 7.5."
I might be skirting the rules a bit with this one. Leave it, it's perfect. I highly disagree. It is not perfect. Where is the 1/2 white mana cost? WHERE?? ;-)
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Post by Daij_Djan on Apr 29, 2024 22:25:52 GMT
I'll use a design from my current project this time as I'm still too busy with renovations..
This thread is now closed, the poll can be found here. And here's the next challenge!
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