Create-A-Card Competition

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.

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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.


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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.