Create-A-Card Competition

I did too. He misinterpreted his own idea.

Riiight. I'm fine with ending it, but there's be no winner. That's ok with me if it's ok with Ultros (he can pick the next person.) However seeing as he's on vacation, I'll leave that till he returns.

if there's no winner, you should probably just pick another idea. it's quicker then waiting for Ultros to get back from vacation.

Which is Sunday evening...

...Well then, I guess masa can run the next round.

Huh? I don't think I've even entered one of these yet. But that aside, the next theme shall be...

Sore wa himitsu desu! Wrote:A secret card to finish off the bicolor trio alongside Rust Dragon Lord and Deep Dive. That is, it has to be dark-light, and fit that colour theme. And I also want unlocking criteria too, seeing as it's a secret card. Theme, balance, inventiveness, level of complexity for unlocking, layout/format of your card, text that actually fits on the card... I'll be judging on a whole lot of stuff.

I guess, to be slightly fair, I won't penalise you for having something slightly uncodeable
Edit: Uncodeable unlocking criteria are fine because otherwise they'd be boring.

An example:
1514
1415
Homing Satellite
Call unique satellite
(Entrenching)
Cannot be undizzied
If in combat: Destroy
Into play: Does not
undizzy next turn
500/60

Unlocking requirements:
Have three of your satellites destroy themselves with their "If in combat" ability.
At least one has to have been redirected to attacking directly (and be unblocked) due to your own Targeting Malfunction.

sounds cool, if a bit complex

I thought so too, but I'm exempt from winning.

Or were you talking about the contest itself?

15 16
zero
ZFF-66 Chronos
Call Unique Spaceship
requires 10 power to attack or defend or dizzies.
provides 5 power
Power 15: Target
entity and all cards next to it are obliterated. ZFF-66 Chronos does not undizzy next turn, 5% chance of all your cards are obliterated
137/156                                

Unlock: control 5 Zeus, have them all be destroyed by a Nuclear Plant while the location is Stellar Distances.
(the ability loops to the other side if the entity at the end of the row, obliterates cards left, right and above/below target)

6 6
Big Bang Ammo
attach ammo
attaches to own weapon
end turn: gain counter
monster attack is multiplied by number of counters
if in combat: all monsters with life < attached monster's attack are obliterated

unlock: attach Singularity Cannon with Arm Cannon, singularity cannon must have 10 counters and attack a space ship. both Singularity Cannon and the spaceship must die.


7 7
8 8
Commander Navis
Call Unique Commander
(AKA: Captain Navis)
Allying 5: target ship you control gets (quick hit), (ability immune) and +25/25 untill the end of the turn.
44/49
(hidden: if in combat and you control an Ensign Redshirt, Ensign Redshirt counts as being in combat too)

unlock: control Captain Navis, Ensign Redshirt, 2 ZFF Officers, and a spaceship with ZFF in it's name, Ensign Redshirt is destroyed by Dark Quadrent.

also, I was talking about the contest, though your card was cool too.

Wow, Nacho and M3 are both suggesting abilities that are not likely to be easily found. In fact, I doubt anyone would ever discover Homing Satellite, though I can envision Chronos being discovered by a player that was trying to show off and got punished for it. Makes me wonder about how likely anyone is to find Deep Dive.

6 6
Flip a Coin!

Cast Spell
Equal chance of you win the game -OR- opponent wins the game
Failure: Lose the game


The other chance cards don't have evil failure costs, but a player using this one late game when losing needs some sort of added risk factor.

Unlocked: Player has done the following:
1. Cast Fortune or Bust on themselves or an opponent, and doubled their own mana or removed their opponent's mana.
2. Cast Life or Death successfully.
3. Cast Cruelty or Mercy on their own monsters and doubled attack/life, or on an enemy monster and destroyed it.
4. Cast Time Coin and had an opponent skip their turn.
5. Done none of the above with opposite results (e.g. casting Time Coin and skipping their own turn).
6. Been lucky: There is a 50% chance that even having done all this, the card won't be unlocked.
Assuming a player knows/guesses the secret (and the secret isn't that tough to guess, though testing it is very frustrating), unlocking still will only happen 3.125% of the time. I doubt a lot of this card would show up, which is good. A side benefit is that it will be a big hassle to test in a real game, which serves M3 right for having Deep Dive (when, afaik, nobody else does) because he did the testing.


5 5
Zero
Teleportation Device

Create Device
If room, target entity other than self moves to another column in the same row

To a great extent, the device can act as a counterspell or as a targeting malfunction. It can counter spells and abilities (and cannot itself be countered for fear of countering the spell or ability itself) but cannot counter counterspells. Alas, it lacks surprise value. It is useless on rows with 5 entities, which means using it to protect itself leaves only 3 slots for use as generators or whatever. A player with more mana than sense might stick two in play so that one could be used to protect the other, but this would leave only 2 slots left for use as generators or whatever. Maybe that's workable in a EY-554 Comms Satellite deck.

Unlocked: Player simultaneously controls 2 monsters with Personal Teleporters and has 2 monsters (other than the ones with teleporters) which have (invisible attack) due to Spacewarp Drive or Transporter Pad.

masa wanted a card that fit with RDL and Deep Dive. the only thing they have in common is that both are secret cards that almost no one knows how to get. a difficult unlocking condition to figure out is almost part of the competition. and masa found how to get Deep Dive fair and square. he deserves it, even if it is cheep. also, masa, you have any limitations on the number of these things we should make, like Andriex did?

Mysterious Priest
2525
Zero
(Fleeting 50%)
Destroyed: Remove from game, 20% chance of returning to play during draw phase.
Destroy opponants non-lord dragons, opponants other monsters take 25 damage.
"Why! I'm Xellos the Mysterious Wandering Priest!"
"You bought that, oh good!"
100/100

Alternate quote: "It's a sec-ret!

Hidden ability: When there is a female mage in play, -10 & cost. When there is a gravitron sword in play, -5 &

Unlock conditions: Must have a graviton sword in play in the slot above a female mage. The female mage monster must destroy a dark lord or eternal that has been spiked by the graviton sword during the same combat.

Frankly-couldn't resist ^.^

Now... more seriously... maybe...

Spacial Anomaly
1010
Move to location

Good question.

"Captain, its a spacial anomaly?!"

Hidden effects:
Draw phase:
10%: all monsters have a 10% chance of being obliterated.
10%: all entities are undizzied and gain do not undizzy next turn.
10%: all effects have a 10% chance of being obliterated.
10%: both players have a equal chance of doubling or halfing their mana.
10%: both players draw/discard 2 to -2 cards
15%: both players switch hands for one round
15%: all monsters gain/lose 5 to -5 tokens, and 50 to -50 life and attack.
20%: both players skip a turn
End Phase:
10%: all monsters are dissied and healed
10%: all effects are destroyed
10%: all non-unique monsters are destroyed
10%: all cards are spiked
10%: both players gain/lose 50 to -50 life
15%: all unique entities are dissed and do not undizzy next turn.
15%: both players shuffle their graveyard into their deck, and then discard as many cards from their deck as were in their graveyard.
20%: every monster gains a random status effect, equal chance for any.
Attack Phase: 5% chance either player gains a Invisible Horror from Beyond the Stars that is undizzied and has fleeting.

Unlock conditions: Have a captain, one space ship, two officers, and an ensign in play, alteast one of these must have a personal transporter. All five monsters must take enough damage that they would all have been destroyed, and are saved by ensigns ability, while stellar distances or dark quadrant is present.

Waaait-Ive got one other reference to make akin to my first one... damnit.

Lost Ship
1515
55
(Cannot be dizzied)
Destroy target non unique monster. Can only be used once per turn.
Gains +30/+30 when a unique captain is in play.
End turn: Gains +20 life until end of turn.
70/70


Unlock conditions: Stellar distances is in play, character controls an unique captain and atleast one space ship. Plays ancient legends, and during the same turn, all ships player controls die and captain is damaged, and undizzy.

^.^ okay, so... two of these... and the other ones rather...long... ^.^ ah well. Its fun regardless.

Nacho Wrote:also, masa, you have any limitations on the number of these things we should make, like Andriex did?

If I get bored while reading the entries, I'll stop reading them, which puts them at an ever so slight disadvantage.

Well, since we have a spell and a monster...This is going to be an effect.

ZFF Command Center
44
Zero
Create unique territory
All your cards gain +4/+4 until end of turn


Unlock: Have five different ZFF ships on your field at one time.

Yeah...I started this with an okay idea, but then I just didn't care after that, so my card sucks

Ah, of course!

Prometheus Cannon
44
Attach weapon
All enemy creatures take
power*5 damage
-D-

(Hidden: Dizzies without any effect if not attached to a space ship)

Unlock: Attack with both a ZFF-24 Hermes and a ZFF-90 Zeus, and have other power sources be destroyed so that the Zeus is dizzied due to lack of power instead of attacking. In the same game, get back up to 6 power and use Zeus' ability.

Covert Apparatus
55
66
create unique device
Add 1 counter
Cast a spell: if count > 1,
remove 1 counter and spell
is cast (Face Down)
0

Unlock: 10 spells must be cast on (Face Down) cards only, in a row. This includes spells that don't target cards.

Edit: Forgot card speed.

Ageatii Wrote:Unlock: 10 spells must be cast on (Face Down) cards only, in a row. This includes spells that don't target cards as well as your opponent's spells.

Wouldn't both players unlock it at the same time then?

Oh, you're right..
Scratch that I guess, unless it's too late.

I don't usually enter these, but... what the hell.

Time Paradox
1010
Cast Spell
All entities are destroyed, including those in both player's hands.  Both graveyards are then added to their respective decks, and each player draws five new cards.  Mana totals of each player are now .
Failure: Skip your next three turns.


Unlock: Your opponent must skip ten turns in one game due to cards you control.  You must have a Cosmic Rift in play for every one of those turns, and still on the field when the game ends.  In addition, you do not unlock this card if you are made to skip even one turn by any card's effect.

Essentially, it resets everything but Lifepoints, Location and Obliterated cards.  Knowing my luck, I've probably forgotten something in it, though.

Big Red Button
15 15
15 15
Create Unique Device
Obliterate top half of your deck: Target entity is obliterated and Big Red Button is returned to your hand.
"The time has come... to push the button!"


Unlock: Win by Singularity Cannon with more than 300 attack when your opponent has no cards in their graveyard, all of your monster and effect slots are full, all entities on the field are Dark/Light and under your control, you have only one card in your hand and when precisely 75% of your deck is in your graveyard.

and people said my cards were hard to unlock.