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Post by Daij_Djan on Nov 5, 2018 14:12:26 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 two-hundred and fourty-first challenge!
The winner of the "Growing big and strong" poll was spazlaz with... And the challenge issued by our winner was... Design a Story Spotlight card that depicts a pivotal moment from your favorite movie, tv show, video game, book, etc.
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 Fleur on Nov 5, 2018 15:27:46 GMT
 Chosen book: James Stewart's Early Transcendentals, 7E. This represents one of the most fundamental and dare I say - critical parts in the math textbook - the existence of critical points. These points exist where the derivative of a function is equal to 0, and often (but not always) represent where an increase in a function becomes a decrease, or vice-versa. I tried to reflect that meaning in this simple but potent artifact. |
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kinotherapy
6/6 Wurm
stupid kor i just fell out of the floor
Posts: 322
Favorite Card: Ruthless Raider
Favorite Set: Rising Tides
Color Alignment: Blue, Black, Red
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Post by kinotherapy on Nov 5, 2018 15:59:49 GMT
The pivotal moment my entry represents is the comedic peak of the Simpsons' 644-and-counting episode run  Crazy Explanations   Instant  Counter target spell unless its controller pays  . Whenever an opponent casts a spell other than the first spell that player casts each turn, you may discard a card. If you do, return Crazy Explanations from your graveyard to your hand. “Not in Utica, no. It’s an Albany expression.” |
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Post by Tesagk on Nov 5, 2018 17:30:46 GMT
Final Entry: Expelliarmus  
Enchantment - Saga  (As this Saga enters andafter your draw step, add alore counter. Sacrifice afterIII.)
Flash  : Counter target spell, you get X karma counters, where X is that spell’s converted mana cost.  ,  : Pay X karma counters: Choose one: • You gain X life. • Expelliarmus deals X damage to any target. "Harry, the time
for Disarming is
past! These people
are trying to
capture and kill
you" - Lupin |
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kazerima
0/0 Germ
Posts: 36 
Favorite Set: Future Sight
Color Alignment: Blue, Black, Red
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Post by kazerima on Nov 5, 2018 20:27:13 GMT
ooh, where did you get the template for Sagas? I just made do with the Tapped/Future walker template.  EDIT: fixed wording. |
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Post by Tesagk on Nov 5, 2018 21:13:18 GMT
ooh, where did you get the template for Sagas? I just made do with the Tapped/Future walker template.  From Cajun's templates: here. |
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Post by sdfkjgh on Nov 5, 2018 23:07:32 GMT
It took me a long while to remember this scene, but when I did, the whole card just came to me.
Battle of the Catacombs Instant  This spell can’t be countered if there are ten or more creatures on the battlefield.
All creatures gain aggressor until end of turn. (They must attack each combat if able.)
Each creature a defending player controls can block any number of creatures this turn and must block each combat this turn if able.
At the beginning of the next end step, exile each creature that blocked or was blocked this turn. ------------------------ “ON NE PASSÉ PAS!” [/spoiler][/p]
Thanks, Flo00 , for the templating help:
Battle of the Catacombs Instant Cast this spell only during combat before attackers are declared.
This spell can’t be countered if there are ten or more creatures on the battlefield.
All creatures gain aggressor until end of turn. (They must attack each combat if able.)
Each creature can block any number of creatures this turn and must block each combat this turn if able.
At the beginning of the next end step, exile each creature that blocked or was blocked this turn. ------------------------- “ON NE PASSÉ PAS!” [/p] |
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Post by Jartis on Nov 6, 2018 0:08:50 GMT
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Post by gateways7 on Nov 6, 2018 0:44:46 GMT
 {Old Entry}  These are from The Adventure Zone, a D&D podcast created by Griffin, Justin, Travis, and Clint McElroy. Forget represents a point in time where the main character's are erased by one of their best friends because she thinks it will help save the world, and Remember represents when those memories were restored. (Both of the flavor texts are from the podcast, not my words!) |
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lordojutai
0/0 Germ
Posts: 26
Favorite Card: Huntmaster of the Fells
Favorite Set: Fate Reforged
Color Alignment: White, Blue, Red
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Post by lordojutai on Nov 6, 2018 1:29:12 GMT
Attachment DeletedI feel that while this is essentially the end of the book, it is shown to be the most pivotal moment in the main character's life. RIP Old Dan and Little Ann. You will be missed.
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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 Nov 6, 2018 4:04:09 GMT
Stone Wolf  Artifact As an additional cost to cast ~, tap an unpaired Werewolf you control. When ~ enters the battlefield, pair the Werewolf tapped to cast ~ with an unpaired creature you control. For as long as you control ~, each of those creatures has soulbond and "As long as this creature is paired with another creature, each of those creatures gets trample and +X/+X, where X is this creature's power." I was sorely tempted to submit an Aerith skewering card, a Tidus "You are a dream" card, a Dovahkiin card, or even a cerebrovascular accident card (with Adams and Victors Principles of Neurology as my subject) just to be cheeky, but I'm gonna go with a LGBTQ+ series I've recently read and have come to like—TJ Klune's Green Creek series, a series of well-written shifter novels. Here's a brief excerpt from the first book, Wolfsong, to explain the card: {Spoiler}
"Look," he said. "When wolves are born, their Alpha gives them a wolf carved from stone. Sometimes they do it themselves. Sometimes they have others do it. But each natural wolf is given one. I don't know when it started, but honestly, it's some archaic bullshit, but whatever. It's tradition, and you know how Dad is with tradition."
I nodded, because I did.
"It's a wolf's most treasured possession," Carter continued. "Something to be protected and revered. Or so we're taught."
"Then why did he give it to me?"
Carter smiled quietly at me. "Because that's what you're supposed to do with it."
"I don't—"
"When we're old enough, we're told that one day, we'll find someone. Someone that feels good to our wolf. Someone that makes our heart race. Someone that completes us. Tethers us. Makes us human."
Gooseflesh prickled along my skin.
The birds sang in the trees.
The leaves swayed on the branches.
It felt green here. So very green.
"When we find that person," Carter said, "when we find that one person that makes us forget everything bad that's ever happened to us, well... That's what the wolf is for. It's a gift, Ox. A promise."
"A promise of what?" I croaked out.
He shrugged. "It can mean many things. Friendship. Family. Trust." He closed his eyes and listened to the sound of the forest. "Or more."
"More?"
"Love. Faith. Devotion."
"He..."
"Yeah, man. He did."
"He was ten."
Carter opened his eyes."And he spoke to you after not speaking for over a year. We all knew. Even then."
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Post by voltaic-qui on Nov 6, 2018 13:50:04 GMT
kazerimaWhen this enchantment enters the battlefield, destroy... all... enchantments... 
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Post by fluffydeathbringer on Nov 6, 2018 13:56:57 GMT
I was sorely tempted to submit an Aerith skewering card "well I guess the gauntlet's been thrown down" I say as I come into fermat's house and take the gauntlet
FT based on the stuff the FFVII devs said was informing their writing of the death scene:
this is also kinda deliberately an unexciting uncommon for that reason. and yes I call her Aeris. stay mad y'all
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kazerima
0/0 Germ
Posts: 36
Favorite Set: Future Sight
Color Alignment: Blue, Black, Red
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Post by kazerima on Nov 6, 2018 15:18:44 GMT
kazerima When this enchantment enters the battlefield, destroy... all... enchantments... ...overlooked that... will fix. Also, thanks Tesagk, could have sworn I looked through there but it must have slipped by me. Got it now for future use. |
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Post by mrlozano on Nov 6, 2018 18:20:02 GMT
Everyone's favourite spider superhero, your friend and neighbour... Otto Octavius!  |
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Post by spruder on Nov 6, 2018 20:33:44 GMT
WIP Bioexercism  Instant You may sacrifice a creature and exile a black card from your hand rather than pay ~'s mana cost. If you do, you must pay its mana cost at the start of your next upkeep or you lose the game. Exile up to three target creatures. "Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice..." |
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Post by gurfafflekins on Nov 6, 2018 20:48:23 GMT
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Post by Neottolemo on Nov 6, 2018 20:58:04 GMT
Representing the moment in the Orlando Furioso during which Astolfo the mad English knight journeys to the moon (I), which turns out to be a world that mirrors our own (II) but contains everything we've ever lost, to retrieve Orlando's lost mind stored in a flask (III) (and he also finds his own there, by chance, though it doesn't surprise him much)
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spazlaz
6/6 Wurm
Posts: 335
Color Alignment: Blue, Black
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Post by spazlaz on Nov 7, 2018 2:17:09 GMT
Here is one of my more favorite movies Groundhog Day!
I also like edge of tomorrow, since it has the same basic concept.
It works particularly well with telepathy, but takes a total of 3 turns to go off.
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Post by Flo00 on Nov 7, 2018 14:12:25 GMT
 Take a Break Instant Exile each creature you control and put two time counters on it. If it doesn’t have suspend, it gains suspend. |
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Post by Flo00 on Nov 7, 2018 14:30:36 GMT
Some feedback for those who I feel might need it: sdfkjgh: I don't know if it's on purpose, but your card doeas a few confusing things: When you cast it before the declare attackers step, the third line does nothing because there is no defending player yet. When you cast it during or after declare attacks, the second line does nothing. Maybe that was your intention anyway, but it looks very irritating this way. Jartis: For 5 mana "Gain control of all creatures." is a bit OP, no? lordojutai: That's somewhere between better than Ajani's Welcome and Soul Warden. On a land. I think at least you should pay 1 life to get mana out of it and even that might be brokenly good. ALso you might want to use the wording of those cards. Fermat: Maybe only tap an unpaired Werewolf and pair it with an unpaired creature. Else you might get a triangle relation or something...? spazlaz: What if I choose an opponent without hand cards? Do I guess right automatically? |
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Post by fluffydeathbringer on Nov 7, 2018 14:49:16 GMT
Representing the moment in the Orlando Furioso during which Astolfo the mad English knight journeys to the moon (I), which turns out to be a world that mirrors our own (II) but contains everything we've ever lost, to retrieve Orlando's lost mind stored in a flask (III) (and he also finds his own there, by chance, though it doesn't surprise him much)
8.8/10 not enough the wizard Gigiett, dude |
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Post by sdfkjgh on Nov 7, 2018 19:36:41 GMT
Some feedback for those who I feel might need it: sdfkjgh : I don't know if it's on purpose, but your card doeas a few confusing things: When you cast it before the declare attackers step, the third line does nothing because there is no defending player yet. When you cast it during or after declare attacks, the second line does nothing. Maybe that was your intention anyway, but it looks very irritating this way.
Do you have any suggestions on how to solve the issues you've pointed out? You can at least understand my intent with how I want it to work, right?
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Post by Neottolemo on Nov 7, 2018 19:42:51 GMT
Representing the moment in the Orlando Furioso during which Astolfo the mad English knight journeys to the moon (I), which turns out to be a world that mirrors our own (II) but contains everything we've ever lost, to retrieve Orlando's lost mind stored in a flask (III) (and he also finds his own there, by chance, though it doesn't surprise him much)
8.8/10 not enough the wizard Gigiett, dude Dude...
(Art by Phil Meatchem, by the way)
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Evil Coco
2/2 Zombie
Posts: 110
Favorite Set: Shadowmoor
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Post by Evil Coco on Nov 8, 2018 21:16:10 GMT
For those of you who also grew up with The Secret on NIMH...   |
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Post by sdfkjgh on Nov 9, 2018 5:45:26 GMT
For those of you who also grew up with The Secret on NIMH...  Not entirely sure how to feel about  legendary permanents. Obviously, you've correctly intuited that they shouldn't be all that mana-efficient, as evidenced by this list, but I feel that in this day & age, if you're going to do legendary s, they should at least be just exciting enough to make people actually wanna play them.
This is all just one person's opinion, take it or leave it. I do appreciate the reference to the rare bright spot of the Don Bluth Studio.
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Post by Flo00 on Nov 9, 2018 21:11:17 GMT
sdfkjgh: If you want to ensure the aggressor part allways works, you should prabably add something like "You can't cast this during combat/during declare attackers step." or "Cast this only during the beginning of combat step." For the other part, you can just leave out "a defending player controls". Then just all creatures who are able to must block all creatures (they are able to block). It makes a difference for THG if you only attack one player with everything (I think, not sure though), but that's probably for the better anyway.
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Post by korakhos on Nov 10, 2018 0:15:26 GMT
The only idea I could come up for now, will probably change later: 
Q: But Kora, that card does literally nothing, you just force a game in which the outcome has absolutely no effect whatsoever in the bigger picture.
A: JUST LIKE THAT SCENE IN THE MOVIE!!!
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Post by Aarhg on Nov 10, 2018 14:42:25 GMT
The Witcher 3 is still my favorite video game (although Red Dead Redemption 2 is amazing as well) of all time, so it seemed obvious to pick that for my entry.
Baron's Remorse Legendary Enchantment As an additional cost to cast Baron’s Remorse, exile a creature card from your hand.  , Sacrifice Baron’s Remorse: Create a token that’s a copy of the exiled card, except it’s a Spirit in addition to its other creature types. “By the powers of earth and sky. By the world that was to be your home. Forgive me, you who came, but who I did not embrace.”
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Post by spookycowboys on Nov 12, 2018 1:44:07 GMT
Though I might go for the style of those Siege cards (i.e. Palace Siege, Outpost Siege), I would like to give the player the option to choose who wins to make a fun versatile Rakdos card. Neato.
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