Guest posts by smurrf

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Tournament Archive / Re: Western Tournament - June 4th - Heart of the Swarm - Unupgraded

« on: June 04, 2011, 07:49:28 pm »

Click on the link above.  It's a direct link, and it's working.

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Card Ideas and Art / Re: Magpie | Magpie

« on: June 04, 2011, 07:05:12 pm »

I figured that'd be a bit OP...after all, you could just throw in, say, three copies of Pharaoh with the hope of getting two early on.  Once you do, discard one and cast the other, on turn two, for next to free.

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Card Ideas and Art / Klein Bottle | Klein Bottle

« on: June 04, 2011, 07:02:10 pm »

NAME: Klein Bottle ELEMENT: Other COST: 3 TYPE: Permanent ATK|HP: TEXT: 5 : Gain 7 random quanta.	NAME: Klein Bottle ELEMENT: Other COST: 3 TYPE: Permanent ATK|HP: TEXT: 5: Gain 4 .

ART: Lethe IDEA: Smurrf NOTES: Created for Quantum Generators Challenge (http://elementscommunity.org/forum/index.php/topic,26873.0.html). Art is not really sized well for the card, I actually wanted the pictures shown here and here for the different versions, but they're both copyrighted as far as I can tell.  If someone would like to take a stab at creating artwork for this card, I'd greatly appreciate it. Mirror quanta image is Hyroen's creation. Change Note: Changed upped from gaining 7 mirror to gaining 4 mirror for the same cost. SERIES:

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Design Theory / Re: Pseudoquanta

« on: June 04, 2011, 06:23:22 pm »

So, how does one put the pseudoquanta into their card designs for upload to the site?

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Card Ideas and Art / Re: Magpie | Magpie

« on: June 04, 2011, 05:37:07 pm »

Which is why I made it both very easy to kill, and random quanta instead of based on card's element.

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Card Ideas and Art / Re: Quantum Generators Challenge [Hosted by the Idea Factory]

« on: June 04, 2011, 05:05:48 pm »

Magpie | Magpie (http://elementscommunity.org/forum/index.php/topic,27216.new.html#new)
Edit: Add Klein Bottle | Klein Bottle (http://elementscommunity.org/forum/index.php/topic,27217.new.html#new)

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Card Ideas and Art / Magpie | Magpie

« on: June 04, 2011, 05:05:21 pm »

NAME: Magpie ELEMENT: Air COST: 5 TYPE: Creature ATK|HP: 0|1 TEXT: : Discard target card from either player's hand. Gain random quanta equal to card's casting cost.	NAME: Magpie ELEMENT: Air COST: 4 TYPE: Creature ATK|HP: 0|3 TEXT: : Discard target card from either player's hand.  Gain random quanta equal to card's casting cost.

ART: Arpingstone IDEA: Smurrf NOTES: Created for Quantum Generators Challenge (http://elementscommunity.org/forum/index.php/topic,26873.0.html) Airborne Magpies are known for, among other things, taking stuff (whether trash or treasure) and using it in forming their nests.  This card is for all those situations where you drew both copies of the card you only need one of (weapons, for instance), or as a way to get rid of junk put in your hand by Nightmare. Change notes: The graders from the challenge this was made for pretty universally panned this as not being very useful.  I've changed it up some to make it more offensive.  Original cost  | 2 to cast, activation was  | to use, and only allowed you to discard one of your own cards for random quanta. SERIES:

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Crucible Archive / Re: Level 1 - Crucible - Earth Card Ideas - 22 Cards

« on: June 04, 2011, 04:16:31 pm »

Just noticed in passing that when I updated Wall | Great Wall (http://elementscommunity.org/forum/index.php/topic,26843.0.html), that I'd neglected to put art credit on the card.  It's been fixed, can that be updated here?  Thanks.

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Crucible Archive / Re: Temporal Spire | Temporal Spire

« on: June 04, 2011, 03:36:46 pm »

To avoid this, you can phrase it like this:
"Next card you play costs 1 less for each counter on this card."

That changes the entire effect of the card.  The original, you're choosing which card to lessen, whereas this version you only get to choose if you hold off on playing other cards.

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Crucible Archive / Re: Kelvin | Kelvin

« on: June 04, 2011, 01:48:17 am »

Maybe have upped & unupped identical, except unupped Congeals weapon, while upped only Freezes?

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Card Ideas and Art / Re: Quantum Generators Challenge [Hosted by the Idea Factory]

« on: June 04, 2011, 01:44:49 am »

I'm toying with one as well, I'll toss it up here sometime this weekend.

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Card Ideas and Art / Re: Life-Giving Cypress | Life-Giving Cypress (was Stream/Tree of Life)

« on: June 03, 2011, 07:04:37 pm »

Holy crap, am I missing something, or is this card incredibly overpowered? after a couple turns, it's a self contained frog generator, giving you a bunch of frogs for two.

Countered by the fact that it is Solid, and it doesn't spawn Frogs, it spawns Tadpoles which turn into a Frog one turn later.  There's plenty of opportunity to Deflag, Steal, Pulvy, etc. the tree itself, and as for creatures, well, it definitely fits Life's rush theme.