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Elements the Game => Competitions => Events and Competitions => Card Idea Competition Submissions => Topic started by: Ides Usher on October 21, 2017, 08:08:56 am

Title: Goat| Old Goat [Help Wanted][Imitation is the Sincerest Form of Flattery!]
Post by: Ides Usher on October 21, 2017, 08:08:56 am

(https://i.imgur.com/hjKz2Hm.png)	(https://i.imgur.com/bbssR5m.png)
NAME: Goat ELEMENT: :life COST: 5 :life TYPE: Creature ATK | HP: 0 | 3 TEXT: :life :life : Devour. Goats will eat ANYTHING for +1/+1. 30% chance to devour a targeted permanent.	NAME: Old Goat ELEMENT: :life COST: 6 :life TYPE: Creature ATK | HP: 0 | 5 TEXT: :life :life : Devour. Goats will eat ANYTHING for +1/+1. 40% chance to devour a targeted permanent.

ART: IDEA: NOTES: If a permanent is targeted and fails to be devoured the quanta is still used. Creatures must be smaller than it is. SERIES: Imitation is the Sincerest Form of Flattery!

Title: Re: Goat| Old Goat [Help Wanted][Imitation is the Sincerest Form of Flattery!]
Post by: Manuel on October 21, 2017, 08:41:29 am

wut

it auto-devour things at the end of the turn and for  :life :life it can smash perms?

Title: Re: Goat| Old Goat [Help Wanted][Imitation is the Sincerest Form of Flattery!]
Post by: Ides Usher on October 21, 2017, 02:35:19 pm

That was not what I intended. I intended for Devour to cost  :life :life, target everything that can be targeted, and if a permanent is selected have a chance of eating it because, well, goats. So where did I go wrong with that? Part of the problem may have been that it was 3:00 AM and I should have been in bed.

Title: Re: Goat| Old Goat [Help Wanted][Imitation is the Sincerest Form of Flattery!]
Post by: Aves on October 21, 2017, 03:01:11 pm

It helps if you maintain a consistent format in the description with what already exists-- we're already used to the language used in game, so your intent comes across better if you mirror that.

Title: Re: Goat| Old Goat [Help Wanted][Imitation is the Sincerest Form of Flattery!]
Post by: Ides Usher on October 21, 2017, 04:00:44 pm

That should do it. Now, is the rest of the card reasonable? Should I lower the % chance to eat a permanent?

Title: Re: Goat| Old Goat [Help Wanted][Imitation is the Sincerest Form of Flattery!]
Post by: Aves on October 21, 2017, 06:43:07 pm

Balance-wise, the problem is that this is an unrestricted instakill. Otyugh is limited not only by the low attack, but by its targets being limited to the value of its HP. Right now, this is just flat out better because it can get rid of any creature, and that's before we consider the PC aspect of it.

Title: Re: Goat| Old Goat [Help Wanted][Imitation is the Sincerest Form of Flattery!]
Post by: Ides Usher on October 21, 2017, 09:23:50 pm

So my notes need to be on my card. I don't know if I can make that fit. I will try.

Title: Re: Goat| Old Goat [Help Wanted][Imitation is the Sincerest Form of Flattery!]
Post by: Ides Usher on October 25, 2017, 04:31:28 am

Does my change mean that permanents also have to be smaller? What size would each permanent be? I never intended for it to be able to eat any creature larger than itself, but worded it poorly. Sorry it took so long to get this done, I have two jobs and have to compete with the rest of the family for computer time.

Title: Re: Goat| Old Goat [Help Wanted][Imitation is the Sincerest Form of Flattery!]
Post by: Annele on October 25, 2017, 05:19:11 am

As the devour mechanic is already well established in-game (see scarab, which doesn't explain the mechanic), you could probably just remove the explanation for devour and leave the information about potentially devouring a permanent.