Project: IF Boutique

[moomoose]

ill nab it for you when i get home if nobody else does sooner

*edit- sorry, completely slipped my mind, ill try to remember today

[moomoose]

sorry for the delay, finally remembered to do this while i was home

and for the fun of it, changed the art to not have a baby-blue background

[ZephyrPhantom]

sorry for the delay, finally remembered to do this while i was home
and for the fun of it, changed the art to not have a baby-blue background

Nice.

[majofa]

Simply beautiful, thanks moomoose!


This was the first card I ever saw in the Card Ideas & Art section that made me go: "Wow that's a cool card!"
The cost is good at 6 / 4 and fits well with the thematics of (which I'm not really stingy about).
With the healing in or other elements it seems like a card similar to Fire Shield, but it works better against low attack creatures.

[moomoose]

i think this thread would get more use/attention if instead of each of us being limited to 10 cards, we simply highlight those which we feel strongly about as they come up, should we wish to either raise awareness for the card or find other ways to either utilize or improve/build upon a suggested mechanic.  may be an entirely different thread altogether, though.

[OldTrees]

So you are suggesting that we post short reviews of the best quality cards we notice when we noticed them?
From my experience with the newsletter, I can confirm that this is possible provided we maintain high standards.

[moomoose]

something to that effect, not restricted to summaries alone, we could also discuss some of the more interesting novel ideas from the card suggestions and potential applications of those ideas.  in my experience, if a card is not in the front page of level 0 or in levels 3 or 4, it will likely receive very little, if any, attention or discussion.

[The_Mormegil]

I like this suggestion, but I will also keep up the Shelves idea. I rather doubt many of us will have more than 10 highlighted ideas, and in any case nothing stops us from highlighting ideas without putting them on our shelf (maybe other people will).

In the end, this thread's purpose is to highlight quality cards. If this is a better route to do it, we'll embrace it.

[moomoose]

i was thinking about http://elementscommunity.org/forum/index.php/topic,38734.0.html and http://elementscommunity.org/forum/index.php/topic,38535.0.html earlier, while i don't particularly like the way the cards are currently designed (not adding to my shelf), it does remind me of SoF/phoenix/pharaoh/undead- generating another card after a card is removed from play (in SoF's case having > N hp, in ascension's a selected creature being killed, etc).  so they bring up a potentially interesting continuation of the 'specific unusual consequences' mechanic, something that may warrant further exploration, here or elsewhere.

generalizations/summaries/brainstorming-

potential triggers:
too much hp (SoF)
0 hp (phoenix)
being targeted
specific spell/effect/ability (aka reverse time on pharaoh/undead)
being damaged at all
too many/few of a particular card in play, or put into play on the same turn

potential implementations:
creature/permanent with the ability (phoenix/SoF/pharaoh/undead)
spell/ability granting the mechanic (ascension)

potential results:
established spells (SoF)
established creatures (pharaoh/undead)
established permanents
novel creatures (phoenix's ash/combustion)
novel permanents
novel spells (ascension)
a one time effect

[OldTrees]

@moomoose
That manner of effect has a few primary usages:
Mitigating your opponent's actions (-+)
Encouraging your opponent to act (--)
Dampening a synergy (+-)
Supporting a combo (++)