Level 4 - Reliquary

[RootRanger]

The rule has to be made, and the line has to be drawn somewhere. I think cards should only enter the Reliquary if Zanz says they influenced the cards introduced into the game.

New cards are added to the Crucible every day.
Every update, more ideas are exhausted and put into cards.
As time passes, new ideas in the Crucible and cards designed by Zanz will become more and more similar to cards already in the game or crucible/forge archive because the amount of possible unique ideas will run out.
Eventually, more and more of Zanz's ideas will be similar to cards in the archives or polls even if Zanz has never seen those cards before.
Finally, after enough updates and time that has passed, the new cards will all look similar to something that already exists.

So should we give recognition to everyone who just happens to come up with an idea that Zanz also happened to come up with? I think not. In the future, dozens of people would claim they have a card that influenced Zanz just because they created a similar idea by sheer luck. Is this what we want to award? No, we should award the people who directly influence Zanz.

[assassim]

If I remember correctly, zanz did say he was thinking of making a cloak card in chat which was posted as an interview under general discussion quite a long time ago..

[Jappert]

If I remember correctly, zanz did say he was thinking of making a cloak card in chat which was posted as an interview under general discussion quite a long time ago..

You mean Cloak | Cloak?
http://elementscommunity.org/forum/index.php/topic,17613.0.html

Sorry for going off topic!

[wizelsnarf]

My card is nearly identical to the one Zanz came up with - the difference being it didn't cover permanents. Mine had 3 turns of coverage - Zanz originally had 2 for cloak but made it 3 this update as 2 didn't work. Incredible how close my card came.


Zanz specifically said my card did not influence him though - despite the nearly identical idea. For me that is the end of it - I was just ahead of my time.

[Zeru]

So should we give recognition to everyone who just happens to come up with an idea that Zanz also happened to come up with? I think not. In the future, dozens of people would claim they have a card that influenced Zanz just because they created a similar idea by sheer luck. Is this what we want to award? No, we should award the people who directly influence Zanz.

And we simply can ask Zanz whether he was influenced by someone or not.

[Kuroaitou]

Thanks to Xenocidius for updating the main post and writing an article for Shard of Intuition!

[SamuraiZach0]

I'm not exactly sure how the votes for new cards works out, and I really don't even know where I should be asking this, but what I wonder is how the voting works. Are the cards from The Forge open to votes for one week, then the top 2, 3 or 4 highest voted ones move on over to The Armory, then the Reliquary? After said cards have been moved/taken out or whatever happens is the voting refreshed and the same cards plus new ones added and voting begins again?

[furballdn]

I'm not exactly sure how the votes for new cards works out, and I really don't even know where I should be asking this, but what I wonder is how the voting works. Are the cards from The Forge open to votes for one week, then the top 2, 3 or 4 highest voted ones move on over to The Armory, then the Reliquary? After said cards have been moved/taken out or whatever happens is the voting refreshed and the same cards plus new ones added and voting begins again?

Cards are only moved to the Reliquary if they actually become added to the game or inspire a new card that is added to the game.

[The Chosen One]

vodoo doll 

[nickis200]

love them gotta think of more cards

[Heavenscall]

Particulary very old thread. Whats about that Entropy Shard? Will it replace the SoS? And Minotaur, will come next time?

[ZephyrPhantom]

Particulary very old thread. Whats about that Entropy Shard? Will it replace the SoS? And Minotaur, will come next time?

No. Level 4 essentially contains what is the 'prototype' form of the ingame counterpart, so to speak.