[VOTING] Card Design Competition : Deck-In-A-Card

[ZephyrPhantom]

Card Design Competition : Deck-In-A-Card!
Original Idea and Art by Vineroz



"Sir Chaos Lord, can you vote for DIAC?"
"..."


Voting has begun!
Vote for the best deck based on the following factors:

1) How well does the card summarize the deck?
2) How faithful does the card stay to the deck's purpose?
3) Is the card balanced if it was to be implemented ingame?
4) How well was the individual card designed? (Mechanics, theme, usability, etc...)

Voting lasts 1 week, with 2 votes per voter. Best of luck!

Spoiler for Ray of Sunshine:

NAME: Ray of Sunshine ELEMENT: Light COST: 4 TYPE: Creature ATK|HP: 1 | 1 TEXT: Damage dealt to you is reduced by 1. : Generates a copy of this card in your hand.	NAME: Ray of Sunshine ELEMENT: Light COST: 3 TYPE: Creature ATK|HP: 1 | 2 TEXT: Damage dealt to you is reduced by 1. : Generates a copy of this card in your hand.

ART: http://www.sxc.hu/photo/1377701 IDEA: russianspy1234 NOTES: RoL/Hope deck Spoiler for Hidden: Hover over cards for details, click for permalink Deck import code : [Select] 5lk 5lk 5lk 6rn 6rn 6rn 6rn 6rn 6rn 7jp 7jp 7jp 7jp 7jp 7jp 7jq 7jq 808 808 808 808 808 808 808 80e 80e 80e 80i 80i 80i 80i 80i Original post (I think) Basically this card is just a combination of all of the important cards in an RoL / Hope deck.  It probably wouldn't fit very well into the deck as is, but it might be interesting to try.  I didn't incorporate the Lobotomizers or shards because those are just supplementary cards.  This captures the damage reduction and ever expanding field of 1 | 1 creatures. SERIES:

Spoiler for AdrenaFrog:

NAME: AdrenaFrog ELEMENT: Life COST: 8 TYPE: Creature ATK|HP: 3x3|3 TEXT: Dodge targeted effects once and become delayed.	NAME: AdrenaFrog ELEMENT: Life COST: 7 TYPE: Creature ATK|HP: 5+4+2|3 TEXT: Ignore shields on the first attack.

ART: nensuru IDEA: Every life player. NOTES: Number of attacks in the unnuped version down to 3 from 4. Anti-cc and anti-shield mechanic added. The anti-cc shield only work once against targeted effects, after being targeted the card will lose the "shield" and will be delayed for 1 turn. Attacking while frozen/delayed count towards the first attack momentum mechanic. Hover over cards for details, click for permalink Deck import code : [Select] 6rk 6rk 7ac 7ac 7ac 7ac 7ac 7ae 7ae 7ae 7ae 7ae 7ae 7ag 7ag 7ag 7ag 7ag 7ag 7an 7an 7an 7an 7an 7an 7bu 7bu 7bu 7bu 7bu 8pn Frogs, and Epi's, and Swords, Oh My!!! Faster than Shrieker rush. SERIES:

Spoiler for Basilisk:

NAME: Basilisk ELEMENT: Earth COST: 3 TYPE: Creature ATK|HP: 3 | 3 TEXT: Delay creature in opposite slot for 1 turn(cumulative). : Slither.  Move one space in any direction.	NAME: Basilisk ELEMENT: Earth COST: 3 TYPE: Creature ATK|HP: 4 | 4 TEXT: Delay creature in opposite slot for 1 turn(cumulative). : Slither.  Move one space in any direction.

ART: Kamietsu IDEA: Kamietsu NOTES: Coastguards Spoiler for Hidden: Hover over cards for details, click for permalink Deck import code : [Select] 6rq 6rq 6rv 6rv 6rv 6rv 6s2 6s2 6s2 77m 77m 77m 77m 77m 77m 78q 78q 78q 78q 78q 78q 78q 78q 7gq 7gq 7gr 7gr 7gr 7gr 7gr 8pp Coastguards Giving the Basilisk a delay mechanic, while letting it move around on your side of the field, sums up the large annoyance factor of this deck. It uses water quanta to move around, water being about flowing, while it is an earth creature making it still powerful in a mono-deck. Along with making the delay mechanic of this card cumulative, you can move several Basilisks around to cause a lot of frustration. The Slither mechanic will just switch places with any creature it is moving over. SERIES:

Spoiler for Opscuritas:

NAME: Opscuritas ELEMENT: Darkness COST: 9 TYPE: Creature ATK|HP: 5 | 8 TEXT: : Drain X life from target. X is Opscuritas' current attack. Devourer.	NAME: Tenebris ELEMENT: Darkness COST: 9 TYPE: Creature ATK|HP: 9 | 3 TEXT: : Drain X life from target. X is Tenebris' current attack. Devourer.

ART: http://www.sxc.hu/photo/1369968 ; http://www.sxc.hu/photo/1271631 IDEA: Annele NOTES: Spoiler for deck: Classic Mono Darkness   by Xenocidius Hover over cards for details, click for permalink Deck import code : [Select] 7t4 7t4 7t4 7t4 7t6 7t6 7t6 7t6 7t6 7t6 7t8 7t9 7t9 7t9 7ta 7ta 7tb 7tc 7tc 7tc 7td 7td 7td 7td 7td 7td 7um 7um 7um 7um 8pt The main point of Mono Darkness is to deny the opponent quanta, so as to slow them from the start; and drain their health away before they have time to recover. Opscuritas | Tenebris does just that. It is unique, so as to not copy Pest's ability, but still denies the opponent. It has a clever combination of Vampire's ability and Siphon Life for CC or extra attacks. Its many uses means that it is flexible, just like classic mono Darkness; Darkness is the most 'complete' Element, and therefore the most flexible. (Which is why I like it so much ) SERIES:

Spoiler for Instodon:

NAME: Instodon ELEMENT: COST: 10 TYPE: Creature ATK|HP: 15 - X | 5 TEXT: X is the number of cards in your deck.  Instodon can be targeted as a permanent. : Momentum, Gravity Pull	NAME: Instodon ELEMENT: COST: 12 TYPE: Creature ATK|HP: 20 - X | 4 TEXT: X is the number of cards in your deck.  Instodon can be targeted as a permanent. : Momentum, Gravity Pull

ART: jawdirk IDEA: jawdirk NOTES: Spoiler for deck: Hover over cards for details, click for permalink Deck import code : [Select] 6rq 6rq 6rq 6rq 6u3 6u3 6u3 6u3 6u3 6u3 74g 7ap 7n9 7q0 7q0 7q0 7q0 7q0 7q0 7q5 7q5 7q5 7q5 7q6 7q9 7q9 7q9 7q9 7q9 7q9 8pj Instosis Like Instosis, Instodon is increasingly dangerous as your cards dwindle. With a splash of , it is unstoppable, but its Achilles heal is permanent control. Instodon can also be used to prevent an attack like chimera and sundial. Instodon is fragile, challenging to play correctly, but devastatingly powerful if your timing is right. SERIES: Card Design Competition : Deck-In-A-Card

Spoiler for Rabbit:

NAME: Rabbit ELEMENT: Life COST: 7 TYPE: Creature ATK|HP: 5 | 5 TEXT: Mitosis: generate a daughter Rabbit.	NAME: Elite Rabbit ELEMENT: Life COST: 6 TYPE: Creature ATK|HP: 5 | 5 TEXT: Mitosis: generate a daughter Elite Rabbit.

ART: http://postfiles5.naver.net/20121020_148/choongmyoung_1350740382900qDRmK_JPEG/Rabbit.jpg IDEA: choongmyoung NOTES: Spoiler for deck: Hover over cards for details, click for permalink Deck import code : [Select] 7gk 7gk 7gk 7gk 7gk 7gk 7gk 7gk 7gk 7gk 7gk 7gk 7h0 7h0 7h0 7h0 7h0 7h0 7i6 7i6 7i6 7i6 7i6 7i6 7i6 7i6 7i6 7i6 7i6 7i6 8pp This summarizes Look Ma! No rares! very well, in version. Spam, spam, spam the Water Nymphs. Spawn, spawn, spawn the Rabbits. 24 pillars, 6 creatures. Is there a deck even simpler than this? Straightforward, Rushy, In mono element. However, Rabbit's ability do not remove pillars, so they have less ATK|HP to balance. (They have same cost/skill cost with Tears) 24 Emerald Towers and 6 Elite Rabbits will make the deck, named "Look Ma! No tears!" Funny thing is, Elite Rabbit's ability and Rabbit's ability are exactly same unless a daughter creature is RT'd or something. SERIES:

Spoiler for Dracosynthesis:

NAME: Dracosyntheisis ELEMENT: Life COST: 5 TYPE: Spell ATK|HP: N/A TEXT: Summon a dragon with attack and health based on your quanta.	NAME: Dracosynthesis ELEMENT: Life COST: 4 TYPE: Spell ATK|HP: N/A TEXT: Summon a dragon with attack and health based on your quanta.

ART: Spore and pepokish IDEA: majofa NOTES: ~~Spammer~~ Hover over cards for details, click for permalink Deck import code : [Select] 7ac 7ac 7ac 7ac 7ac 7ac 7ad 7ad 7ad 7ad 7ad 7ad 7af 7af 7af 7af 7af 7af 7ap 7ap 7ap 7ap 7ap 7ap 7jp 7jp 7jp 7jp 7jp 7jp 8pn Spoiler for revised: Hover over cards for details, click for permalink Deck import code : [Select] 7ad 7ad 7ad 7ad 7ad 7af 7af 7af 7af 7af 7af 7ap 7ap 7ap 7ap 7jo 7jo 7jo 7jo 7jo 7jo 7jo 7jo 7jo 7jo 7jo 7jo 7jo 7jo 7jo 8pn Leaf Dragons are dragons, right? Well, they do know how to spawn them. --- Leaf Dragon converts quanta into quanta. That quanta is then used to summon dragons. This card summons a dragon with stats based on your amount of quanta. Its attack and health are equal to 3 for every 10 quanta. It was hard to think of a name for it, and Dragonsynthesis just sounded weird, as did Dragosynthesis. So I ended up going with Dracosynthesis. A fun card, for an often forgotten, fun deck! SERIES: Card Design Competition: Deck-In-A-Card

Spoiler for Eclipsword:

NAME: Eclipsword ELEMENT: Darkness COST: 3 TYPE: Permanent ATK|HP: 2/4 when flying TEXT: Weapon: deals 2 poison damage and heals. : Animate. Damage doubled in darkness.	NAME: Eclipsword ELEMENT: Darkness COST: 4 TYPE: Permanent ATK|HP: 4/4 when flying TEXT: Weapon: deals 4 poison damage and heals.  : Animate. Damage doubled in darkness.

ART: Shoddy art done in a hurry by Rutarete IDEA: Rutarete NOTES: Total Eclipse of the Arse: Hover over cards for details, click for permalink Deck import code : [Select] 718 718 718 71a 71a 71a 72i 72i 72i 72i 72i 72i 72i 72i 7n2 7n2 7n2 7n2 7n2 7n2 7t9 7ta 7ta 7tb 7tb 7tb 7tb 7ti 7ti 7ti 8pt Poison. Check. Healing. Check. Lots of it. Check.  Despite the funny name, the deck is quite vicious. Cloaks offer almost the best protection possible (quint is a bit better), while poison from the card itself to the actual weapon accumulate quickly. Doubling in darkness (when cloaked), combined with eclipse, makes the card truly formidable. SERIES:

Spoiler for Design Phase:

"Sir Chaos Lord, can I make a submission called DIAC?"
"I don't get it, what's the poi-oh, nevermind."


Create a card idea that captures the Gho- er, spirit of a Deck posted on this forum.
RULES

1. Select a deck posted on this forum. The deck should be created for actual play (E.g. no 30-pillar joke decks) and should at minimum be relatively viable ingame. You may not use decks designed for False Gods or Halfbloods, since they break normal ETG rules. (AI3 decks are allowed though.)
2a. Create a card that summarizes the purpose of a deck. When designing this card, keep in mind key factors such as elements used, key cards to the deck, what the deck's objective is, the deck's impact on forum PvP (if applicable.) (ETG Elements Card Image Builder here.)
2b. Art is not required, but if you use art make sure it is fitting for the deck/card idea and follows normal CI&A rules.
2c. The card must be a normal card - in other words, it must have one unupgraded and one upgraded form and be playable ingame. (PseudoElements are banned.)
3. The card should be relatively balanced.
4. Write a minimum 50-word description describing how the card summarizes the deck. (Use http://www.wordcounttool.com/ to check wordcount.)
5. Submit your entry on this thread in the following format:

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(Note : For those who don't wish to scroll through the code, the required submission is essentially the normal card idea table with the following blurb of code added to the NOTES section: )

Spoiler for Hidden:

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Spoiler for Example Card:

NAME: Parafrog ELEMENT: Aether COST: 3 TYPE: Creature ATK|HP: 1 | 3 TEXT: Attacks twice per turn. : Discard a card and cast Parallel Universe on Parafrog.	NAME: Parafrog ELEMENT: Aether COST: 2 TYPE: Creature ATK|HP: 1 | 3 TEXT: Attacks twice per turn. : Discard a card and cast Parallel Universe on Parafrog.

ART: ETG, Edited by Zblader IDEA: Zblader NOTES: An example of card that could summarize  Parallel Froggyverse well. *insertformathere* Multiple attacks represents Adrenaline, while the 'discard to duplicate' effect is essentially replicating how you're going to be relying on using multiple cards to power 1 Adrenafrog + PU. To compensate for its abilities, Parafrog loses 2 ATK to weaken its rushpower and is in a slightly less-rush viable element than its counterpart, Giant Frog. SERIES:

The winner will receive an award icon!

Design Phase: Polls will be up soon!. Best of Luck!

[Anarook]

So is this more build a card that represents the deck, or build a card that would complement the deck?
I see this as the former but am at a loss as to how I would "represent" a deck in 1 'balanced' card(though I also see that would essentially be the point in this competition)

Guess I'm saying I don't see how a card that is essentially a whole deck on its own could possibly be balanced...

[ZephyrPhantom]

So is this more build a card that represents the deck, or build a card that would complement the deck?
I see this as the former but am at a loss as to how I would "represent" a deck in 1 'balanced' card(though I also see that would essentially be the point in this competition)

Guess I'm saying I don't see how a card that is essentially a whole deck on its own could possibly be balanced...

It's more "build a card that represents the deck". (if it complements the deck in the process that would be nice but it it's not mandatory.)

In relation to balance, you need to do a little thinking outside of the box : here's an example card I made based on Parallel Froggyverse:

Spoiler for Hidden:

NAME: Parafrog ELEMENT: Aether COST: 3 TYPE: Creature ATK|HP: 1 | 3 TEXT: Attacks twice per turn. : Discard a card and cast Parallel Universe on Parafrog.	NAME: Parafrog ELEMENT: Aether COST: 2 TYPE: Creature ATK|HP: 1 | 3 TEXT: Attacks twice per turn. : Discard a card and cast Parallel Universe on Parafrog.

ART: ETG, Edited by Zblader IDEA: Zblader NOTES: An example of card that could summarize Parallel Froggyverse well. *insertformathere* Multiple attacks represents Adrenaline, while the 'discard to duplicate' effect is essentially replicating how you're going to be relying on using multiple cards to power 1 Adrenafrog + PU. To compensate for its abilities, Parafrog loses 2 ATK to weaken its rushpower and is in a slightly less-rush viable element than its counterpart, Giant Frog. SERIES:

[Anarook]

Ah good, the card you posted helped tremendously, I can see several ways to approach this now, thanks.

[russianspy1234]

NAME: Ray of Sunshine ELEMENT: Light COST: 4 TYPE: Creature ATK|HP: 1 | 1 TEXT: Damage dealt to you is reduced by 1. : Generates a copy of this card in your hand.	NAME: Ray of Sunshine ELEMENT: Light COST: 3 TYPE: Creature ATK|HP: 1 | 2 TEXT: Damage dealt to you is reduced by 1. : Generates a copy of this card in your hand.

ART: http://www.sxc.hu/photo/1377701 IDEA: russianspy1234 NOTES: RoL/Hope deck Spoiler for Hidden: Hover over cards for details, click for permalink Deck import code : [Select] 5lk 5lk 5lk 6rn 6rn 6rn 6rn 6rn 6rn 7jp 7jp 7jp 7jp 7jp 7jp 7jq 7jq 808 808 808 808 808 808 808 80e 80e 80e 80i 80i 80i 80i 80i Original post (I think) Basically this card is just a combination of all of the important cards in an RoL / Hope deck.  It probably wouldn't fit very well into the deck as is, but it might be interesting to try.  I didn't incorporate the Lobotomizers or shards because those are just supplementary cards.  This captures the damage reduction and ever expanding field of 1 | 1 creatures. SERIES:

[nensuru]

NAME: AdrenaFrog ELEMENT: Life COST: 8 TYPE: Creature ATK|HP: 3x3|3 TEXT: Dodge targeted effects once and become delayed.	NAME: AdrenaFrog ELEMENT: Life COST: 7 TYPE: Creature ATK|HP: 5+4+2|3 TEXT: Ignore shields on the first attack.

ART: nensuru IDEA: Every life player. NOTES: Number of attacks in the unnuped version down to 3 from 4. Anti-cc and anti-shield mechanic added. The anti-cc shield only work once against targeted effects, after being targeted the card will lose the "shield" and will be delayed for 1 turn. Attacking while frozen/delayed count towards the first attack momentum mechanic. Hover over cards for details, click for permalink Deck import code : [Select] 6rk 6rk 7ac 7ac 7ac 7ac 7ac 7ae 7ae 7ae 7ae 7ae 7ae 7ag 7ag 7ag 7ag 7ag 7ag 7an 7an 7an 7an 7an 7an 7bu 7bu 7bu 7bu 7bu 8pn Frogs, and Epi's, and Swords, Oh My!!! Faster than Shrieker rush. SERIES:

[Kamietsu]

Can we make our own deck and put it on the forum and use that as our deck to make a card for?

Also, can we still use our card ideas for regular card submissions in the CIA?

[ZephyrPhantom]

Can we make our own deck and put it on the forum and use that as our deck to make a card for?

Also, can we still use our card ideas for regular card submissions in the CIA?

Yes, on two conditions:
1) Deck is original.
2) Please don't make the deck just for the sake of making the card. (Submissions with effort are always more appreciated)

Also, to clarify - you're compressing the deck into a normal card, which means the card must be playable ingame and have an unupped and upped form. (PseudoElements are thus banned.)

[Kamietsu]

Thanks! And of course, I just couldn't find a combination I had an idea for and was gonna go for it but I found a different deck already instead haha.

NAME: Basilisk ELEMENT: Earth COST: 3 TYPE: Creature ATK|HP: 3 | 3 TEXT: Delay creature in opposite slot for 1 turn(cumulative). : Slither.  Move one space in any direction.	NAME: Basilisk ELEMENT: Earth COST: 3 TYPE: Creature ATK|HP: 4 | 4 TEXT: Delay creature in opposite slot for 1 turn(cumulative). : Slither.  Move one space in any direction.

ART: Kamietsu IDEA: Kamietsu NOTES: Coastguards Spoiler for Hidden: Hover over cards for details, click for permalink Deck import code : [Select] 6rq 6rq 6rv 6rv 6rv 6rv 6s2 6s2 6s2 77m 77m 77m 77m 77m 77m 78q 78q 78q 78q 78q 78q 78q 78q 7gq 7gq 7gr 7gr 7gr 7gr 7gr 8pp Coastguards Giving the Basilisk a delay mechanic, while letting it move around on your side of the field, sums up the large annoyance factor of this deck. It uses water quanta to move around, water being about flowing, while it is an earth creature making it still powerful in a mono-deck. Along with making the delay mechanic of this card cumulative, you can move several Basilisks around to cause a lot of frustration. The Slither mechanic will just switch places with any creature it is moving over. SERIES:

[furballdn]

I think the hardest part for this will be to get good art.

[ZephyrPhantom]

Bump. Get those submissions in!

[Rutarete]

Thanks for bumping this, I'll submit something soon.