Competition- A New Slot [Voting]

[moomoose]

"Gem (most useful/unique/balanced supplementary cards)"
the card ideas he had were far from unique, at least 2 of them had been posted before.

[Xenocidius]

I definitely came up with them on my own. It doesn't matter if an idea's been posted before, only if it's in the Crucible polls, Forge polls or Armory.

[Scaredgirl]

Here's an idea I had (or basically stole from other games) when I was thinking about all the possible slot mechanics:

Location Slot
Both players have a location slot, but when one person plays a location card, both slots get filled (replacing the card that was there previously). Idea is of course that elementals can dictate the place where the fight takes place, giving them a possible advantage over their opponent. For example you could play "Burning Island" that slowly damages all the creatures (you don't care because yours have high HP), or maybe "Tower of Anti-Magic" that makes spells cost +2 quanta (you don't care because you have no spells). Deckbuilding-wise, the cool part would be to make the choice between taking lots of location cards and being able to dictate where the fight takes place, or taking no location cards and praying that the location of your opponents choosing doesn't destroy you. What would make these location cards different from regular permanents is that they would be more powerful since they are easier to counter, and they would always effect both players.

Why I'm telling this? Well, Field slot suggestion is surprisingly close to what I had in mind. The card mechanics are exactly the style I was thinking so I was really excited when I started to read about it. Unfortunately the two cards active thing was not that great imo. I kind of dislike the fact that it's complicated like that and requires that extra click. One card is simpler and better imo. I'll still vote it though.

I also liked Familiar and Rune. Latter maybe has a bit more interesting mechanic.

Som yea.. I picked those 3. I think the overall quality of submissions was surprisingly good and I could have easily picked more.

[Brontos]

I think someone proposed Location already but didn't make it to the end.
Sadly, because the idea is really cool.

[mwaetht]

Field slot suggestion is surprisingly close to what I had in mind. The card mechanics are exactly the style I was thinking so I was really excited when I started to read about it. Unfortunately the two cards active thing was not that great imo. I kind of dislike the fact that it's complicated like that and requires that extra click. One card is simpler and better imo. I'll still vote it though.

I also liked Familiar and Rune. Latter maybe has a bit more interesting mechanic.

Som yea.. I picked those 3. I think the overall quality of submissions was surprisingly good and I could have easily picked more.

The Field slot seems too familiar to the Field spells from Yugioh for my taste, though (they're even called the same thing!), so there didn't seem to be much originality involved.

[dragonsdemesne]

I wish I'd had time to enter with my Ring idea.  Simply having two ring slots alone would change the game mechanic quite a bit, since you could have two of the ring, or one each of two different ones.  The big issue in my mind was what happens if you play a third one?  I'm not sure if having two slots like that was within the competition rules, though, but it seemed like a great idea to me   But then, I'm biased...

[hello12]

They're all so good.

[Jenkar]

Field slot suggestion is surprisingly close to what I had in mind. The card mechanics are exactly the style I was thinking so I was really excited when I started to read about it. Unfortunately the two cards active thing was not that great imo. I kind of dislike the fact that it's complicated like that and requires that extra click. One card is simpler and better imo. I'll still vote it though.

I also liked Familiar and Rune. Latter maybe has a bit more interesting mechanic.

Som yea.. I picked those 3. I think the overall quality of submissions was surprisingly good and I could have easily picked more.

The Field slot seems too familiar to the Field spells from Yugioh for my taste, though (they're even called the same thing!), so there didn't seem to be much originality involved.

I never played Yu-Gi-Oh, so ...
Thanks ScaredGirl. I had an inside debate about werether one or two field slots were best. Thought that two made it more versatile, but... your way of putting it in a thematic sense makes one more ... logical.

[OldTrees]

I wish I'd had time to enter with my Ring idea.  Simply having two ring slots alone would change the game mechanic quite a bit, since you could have two of the ring, or one each of two different ones.  The big issue in my mind was what happens if you play a third one?  I'm not sure if having two slots like that was within the competition rules, though, but it seemed like a great idea to me   But then, I'm biased...

I don't know about you nor about Elementals, but I have 8 fingers and 2 thumbs to put Rings on. I even can put more than 1 ring on each finger. So Rings would make more sense as a normal permanent than a special slot permanent.

Aura: This seemed the most thematically elegant way of the themes suggested to have "Enchant Player" slots.

Familiar: This was similar to Aura but the enchantment came in the form of a bonded creature.

Coin: A simple cheap way to change 1 rule of the game.

[moomoose]

I definitely came up with them on my own. It doesn't matter if an idea's been posted before, only if it's in the Crucible polls, Forge polls or Armory.

i refuted the comment that the card ideas were unique, not that you thought of them.

[Jappert]

I voted Gem + Familiar.

Quite a few nice submissions in this comp! Very well done everyone.

[Tremulant]

Oh, it occurs to me that I forgot to mention that the 'Tune' card would actually play a tune...No, really.
So the time tune card would play the theme to benny hill as your spamming precogs, the entropy tune would be playing The Mars Volta and the darkness tune would be playing some kind of crappy emo music...like 30 Seconds to Mars.