Round 4 - Gaia's Pride Submission Topics Here

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[rob77dp]

I have chosen my childhood sports hero, Brett Favre as the basis of my deck.

rob77dp's Homage to Brett Favre, Retired NFL Quarterback

Brett Favre, QB

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5ih 5ih 5oh 5oh 5uq 6u3 6u3 6u3 6u3 6u3 6u3 6ve 6ve 6ve 6ve 6ve 6ve 77a 77m 77m 77m 77m 77m 7ai 7ai 7ai 7jr 7jr 7jr 7qb 8pm

*Note* While this deck does not play particularly well, each card has been selected with a purpose and therefore it has very solid ties to the task of connecting a deck to a hero.

Explanation of cards:

Steel Golem
Brett Favre - 4 cost creature representing his jersey number (4) and the Steel Golem's 9 HP are representative of his toughness (record 297 consecutive regular season starts).

Vanadium Warden
Offensive Line - 'Guard' ability represents what offensive lineman do for a quarterback (such as Brett Favre) with the quantity 5 being representative of the typical NFL 5 offensive lineman sets or lineups. Also, they are the same element, like a 'team', as the main hero!

Pegasus
Receivers - Fast and can 'fly' down the field (airborne in Elements; running fast in slang real life language) for targets for the Quarterbacks to throw to.

Precognition
Pre-snap read of the defense by the quarterback.

Improved Heal
Trainers and team doctors.

Nightfall
Let's play this game at night...

Thunderstorm
...in bad weather...

Flooding
...flooding the playingfield.

Entropy Pendulums and Supernova
Quanta generation so the deck can play cards as a deck and not just be a lifeless pile of cards.

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An elements landscape!

[rob77dp]

Augmentation
verb
ôɡˈment/
1. make (something) greater by adding to it; increase.

Augmenting is a new mechanic that affects quanta. The most basic form of it will be:

Double a quanta pool

This can be seen in a spell form like this:

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NAME: Augment ELEMENT: Other COST: 9 TYPE: Spell ATK|HP: TEXT: Double the amount of quanta in target's element; drain all quanta not of that element.	NAME: Improved Augment ELEMENT: Other COST: 8 TYPE: Spell ATK|HP: TEXT: Double the amount of quanta in target's element; drain all quanta not of that element.

ART: N/A IDEA: Gaia's Pride NOTES: This will affect your quanta even if the target is not on your field. SERIES: Card Designer Task, Brawl 5 Round 4

However, this will also be available on creatures as well. For example:

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NAME: Nature Queen ELEMENT: COST: 6 TYPE: Creature ATK|HP: 5 | 1 TEXT: Augment: Your quanta pool is doubled while Nature Queen is in play.	NAME: Nature Queen ELEMENT: COST: 6 TYPE: Creature ATK|HP: 5 | 2 TEXT: Augment: Your quanta pool is doubled while Nature Queen is in play.

ART: N/A IDEA: Gaia's Pride NOTES: This only happens with Nature Queens on your field (so you would not gain the bonus as well when the opponent plays a Nature Queen). SERIES: Card Designer Task, Brawl 5 Round 4

This ability could be altered to fit other elements and be placed on several vanilla creatures throughout the game (with obvious re-balancing since it is a fairly powerful ability). For example, this ability could be given to creatures like



Now obviously, having a bunch of creatures with the same ability with different elements is boring (*cough cough* every creature quanta generator *cough*). So here's another card to settle that problem. It's not even a creature; this one's a permanent! (ooh how exciting)

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NAME: Bizarre Beacon ELEMENT: COST: 6 TYPE: Permanent ATK|HP: TEXT: While Bizarre Beacon is in play, your quanta is generated into random elements.	NAME: Bizarre Beacon ELEMENT: COST: 5 TYPE: Permanet ATK|HP: TEXT: While Bizarre Beacon is in play, your quanta is generated into random elements.

ART: N/A IDEA: Gaia's Pride NOTES: For clarification, think of this like regular augmentation but the doubled quanta is placed in random quanta pools rather than all in Entropy Example situation: You have 75 quanta. You cast an upgraded Bizarre Beacon. You now have 70 quanta. 70 quanta is now spread out throughout the 12 quanta pools (this quanta is NOT the 70 you currently have, it's quanta that is being created right now and being spread around) You now probably have 75 and around 5-6 quanta in all the others. SERIES: Card Designer Task, Brawl 5 Round 4

[dawn to dusk]

Cards of War
When an unknown ally enters the field of battle, allies are given the element of surprise. The opponent is caught of guard, and can give an edge in war. This card represents that, by buffing allies that may not be expected, emphasising this advantage that it may hold.

Alternatively, it may also give the weak and unfamiliar a starter, to get them going to achieve great things. Totally not foreshadowing

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The Deck to Face the Apocalypse
In a post-apocalyptic world, where little remain, those who do remain must scavenge off the scraps that remain. They can multiply quickly, and given their situation, they will accept any advantage they get. They can obtain energy from spectral towers, a protection against the dangers from the apocalypse, and may even be given blessings from the stars! Phase Salvagers are used to represent these here, as they salvage what they can find, protecting it from further harm, or they can band together, potentially risking the harm of others, but creating a larger, and safer, group.

The void is unhappy with this. They do not like the revolt that is coming, and will do whatever it can to take the remaining back into its blackened depths. Even if it means helping one enemy to take down another.

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7tb 7u2 7u2 7u2 7u2 7u2 7u2 808 808 808 808 808 808 808 808 808 808 808 808 80i 80i 80m 80m 80m 80m 80m 7ss 8sc 9bd 5xa 8pt

So how does this tie in with Sci Fi?
When one hears "Sci Fi," either one of 2 images comes to mind. The first is a laser battle in space, with a race (humans for instance) in spacecrafts, in a war against a harmful race of aliens. The other option is a futuristic civilisation, perhaps dystopian, with super-advanced technology (or the remnants of it), and toys with the theory of the unknown and "what could be in the future".

We toy with the latter, to bring a card, scavenged after the wreckage of the armageddon, and brought as a blessing from the stars to assist in those fighting to survive. The deck follows on with this story and theme, with the only creatures being frail and dying if not helped, but when given assistance, they can do great things. While their enemy is struggling to fight the planet as they slowly wither away from the harsh conditions, their fragmented sanity broken beyond healing.

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The girl with the red hair straightens as she speaks, as if her height correlates directly with the validity of her argument. "Would you challenge the one that created you?"

A man in a suit and tie sits motionless at his desk, seemingly ignoring the teenager standing in front of him and continuing to scribble on the papers in front of him. "They've created nothing. Even if they had, I'd be all for challenging them if the situation demanded it."

"I can't believe this."
 The girl glares at him sharply before continuing. "Don't you have any respect?"

"Respect for what? I don't know who told you that some random rich people made the universe, but they're a lunatic."

"Don't call the Oracle a lunatic! His prophecies come true!"

"The Oracle...? You know what a self-fulfilling prophecy is, right?"

The girl seems to waver a bit at this, making a halfhearted attempt to stare the businessman down.

"It's not practical to participate in the Arena," continues the man in the suit. "Challenging these so called 'gods' of yours is far more profitable when it comes to competitive battling."

"You're not the one doing the battling!" *exasperated sigh* "So stop paying the people who do!"

"Money makes the world go around, young lady."

"Why's it always about money with you? My mother made a living in the Arena."

A brief flash of... something... crosses the man's face. "Your mother, frankly, is irrelevant."

"I knew it. You never loved her."

The sound of the door slamming doesn't even register with the girl's father as he begins to quietly weep.

[Zyardran]

Spoiler for Hidden:

A - Absol
B - Belligerence
C - CleanOnion
D - ddevans96
E - Espithel
F - Fippe94
G - Gandora
H - Hyroen
I - iancudorinmarian
J - Ji412jo
K - Khaleesi
L - Linkcat
M - Mathman101
N - Newbiecake
O - Opsinis
P - Physsion
Q - qwerter
R - Russianspy1234
S - Skyironsword
T - TheonlyrealBeef
U - UTAlan
V - vrt
W - willng3
X - Xenocidius
Y - YoungSot
Z - Zblader

[rob77dp]

Spoiler for Hidden:

A - Absol
B - Belligerence
C - CleanOnion
D - ddevans96
E - Espithel
F - Fippe94
G - Gandora
H - Hyroen
I - iancudorinmarian
J - Ji412jo
K - Khaleesi
L - Linkcat
M - Mathman101
N - Newbiecake
O - Opsinis
P - Physsion
Q - qwerter
R - Russianspy1234
S - Skyironsword
T - TheonlyrealBeef
U - UTAlan
V - vrt
W - willng3
X - Xenocidius
Y - YoungSot
Z - Zblader

I have to say that this list, as submitted here and shown in the Voting topic, strikes me as lesser than the image list that is in chat and was here when I left before deadline. Any ideas why it changed suddenly and last minute? The colors ended up quite awkward and off, the previous list names had a relation together...?

[Zyardran]

Spoiler for Hidden:

A - Absol
B - Belligerence
C - CleanOnion
D - ddevans96
E - Espithel
F - Fippe94
G - Gandora
H - Hyroen
I - iancudorinmarian
J - Ji412jo
K - Khaleesi
L - Linkcat
M - Mathman101
N - Newbiecake
O - Opsinis
P - Physsion
Q - qwerter
R - Russianspy1234
S - Skyironsword
T - TheonlyrealBeef
U - UTAlan
V - vrt
W - willng3
X - Xenocidius
Y - YoungSot
Z - Zblader

I have to say that this list, as submitted here and shown in the Voting topic, strikes me as lesser than the image list that is in chat and was here when I left before deadline. Any ideas why it changed suddenly and last minute? The colors ended up quite awkward and off, the previous list names had a relation together...?

Blame AD, he made me change it

[AD TienzuStorm]

Spoiler for Hidden:

Spoiler for Hidden:

A - Absol
B - Belligerence
C - CleanOnion
D - ddevans96
E - Espithel
F - Fippe94
G - Gandora
H - Hyroen
I - iancudorinmarian
J - Ji412jo
K - Khaleesi
L - Linkcat
M - Mathman101
N - Newbiecake
O - Opsinis
P - Physsion
Q - qwerter
R - Russianspy1234
S - Skyironsword
T - TheonlyrealBeef
U - UTAlan
V - vrt
W - willng3
X - Xenocidius
Y - YoungSot
Z - Zblader

I have to say that this list, as submitted here and shown in the Voting topic, strikes me as lesser than the image list that is in chat and was here when I left before deadline. Any ideas why it changed suddenly and last minute? The colors ended up quite awkward and off, the previous list names had a relation together...?

Blame AD, he made me change it

I had nothing to do with the coloring.

I suggested that we change some names to names of people in Brawl because of the sense of "hey why was this person chosen over me" while voting.