New CCG - With The Elements Community's Help

[majofa]

Here's what I have so far:

The card game is based the color wheel.

Blue, Red, and Yellow are the Primary Colors.
Green, Orange, and Purple are the Secondary Colors.
Black, Brown, and White are the 'others'.

Blue - Water - Healing, Purity
Red - Fire - Destruction, Burning
Yellow - Earth - Defense
Green - Life - Creatures, Plants
Orange - Construct - Permanents
Purple - Sky - Spells

Gameplay:
You start your turn by drawing a card, then you can place a base color 'supplier' into play.
To get a secondary color into play, you'll need to use its two corresponding base colors.
White is from one of each base color.
Brown is from one of each base and secondary color. (or just secondary color?)
Black is from sacrificing one of each color.

^ Just some random thoughts.

Would you like to help expand it some more?

[Rutarete]

I quite like that you need to have the primary colors to play anything with a secondary cost.
So why make a special category for plants? What do they do?

[majofa]

Those parts are just random thoughts on how each color is divided.

Each color could have permanents, spells, and creatures.

[majofa]

Mainly gameplay needs to be figured out. How does a player win?

Also, along with that, what are some card examples?

[Rutarete]

Gameplay thoughts:

What if the goal of the game is to achieve a certain amount of colors/cards? Say, you both (you and the opponent(s)) agree on a number of color cards to have, and whoever reaches that first, wins? Thus, the purpose of many cards would be to fulfill that goal.

Then, another distraction to winning is to keep watch of hp, which deals with creatures.


Winning/Losing methods:
Ways to win: Complete color goal

Ways to lose: lose all hp, deckout, have no colors available.

Will post more later, have class now.

[Chapuz]

It would be pretty hard not making it very redundant with EtG. Are there other CCG/TCGs based in the elements or stuff?

[majofa]

It would be pretty hard not making it very redundant with EtG. Are there other CCG/TCGs based in the elements or stuff?

Nearly all CCGs are divided into different colors, factions, groups.

[ARTHANASIOS]

I find the realm of TGC/CCG to be already full of ideas, so I don't think it is easy to make a new CCG that will make a huge impact or something...

[Chapuz]

About quanta/mana/energy/[insert name here]

Would it be too messy to need, for example,  1 Blue + 1 Yellow to get 1 green? That would make Green creatures/spells/whatever harder to cast and have forced combos.

[majofa]

About quanta/mana/energy/[insert name here]

Would it be too messy to need, for example,  1 Blue + 1 Yellow to get 1 green? That would make Green creatures/spells/whatever harder to cast and have forced combos.

I don't think that qualifies as a forced combo. You get to choose which color sources you put out, so you can get a green out decently quick.

[ZephyrPhantom]

The secondary color system is an interesting way of expressing multicolor. Brown should only require a secondary color since you already have the additional difficulty of putting that secondary color into play.

Any idea what setting you want this game to be in? (Medieval, Action, Fantasy, Futuristic, Spy Drama, All of the above, etc..?)

[majofa]

The secondary color system is an interesting way of expressing multicolor. Brown should only require a secondary color since you already have the additional difficulty of putting that secondary color into play.

Any idea what setting you want this game to be in? (Medieval, Action, Fantasy, Futuristic, Spy Drama, All of the above, etc..?)

I'd say Fantasy/Medieval.