Create-A-Card Competition

Well since this seems to have been handed off to me this time. Or well, froze up. Ill grab up the reins, sadly I was sick or I would have done so earlier.

The new subject is...

Sickness. Flus, colds, fevers, plagues, horrors from the great beyond that eat your flesh.

You name it. Hopefully we (don't) got it.

Bubonic Fever
9
Cast spell
All monsters gain the "Plague" status.
(After 4 turns the monster is destroyed, when a monster with Plague is destroyed all other monsters on the field gain the plague status)

11
Laryngitis
Cast spell
Target monster loses its activated ability for 5 turns.


32
The Flu
Attach sickness to monster
Draw phase: Monster takes 15 damage;
25% attach a copy of The Flu to a random monster
25% The Flu is destroyed

6 4
2
Weaponised Smallpox Delivery System
Call Horror Effect
Target monster gains the "Smallpox" modifier.

4 3
Smallpox
Attach Disease Horror to Monster
Draw Phase: The equipped monster takes 20 damage
End Phase: 40% chance to attach "Smallpox" to adjacent monsters.
On Death: 40% chance to attach "Smallpox to adjacent monsters.

In case it isn't clear, you can play Smallpox as a modifier, or inflict it through the effect.

Microbe
zero
1
call microbe
sac microbe: attach microbe mod to target monster, or add 2 counters to microbe mod on target creature
0/1

microbe
zero
zero
attach microbe to monster
into play:gain 4 counters
draw phase: attached monster takes damage = number of counters, add 1 counter
if monster is destroyed, attach microbe to all monsters, and add counters = number of counters on microbe/number of creatures to each

oh yeah, if i happen to win, someone lemme know...i don't pay much attention to the cmc threads...

seems like every disease here but Laryngitis is highly contagious.

333
AIDS
attach modifier to monster
equipped monster takes double
damage from and deals half damage
to disease type monsters

10
zero
Flesh Eating Virus
Call disease
Maintenance: one random non-disease type monster
you control is destroyed
draw phase: create a Flesh Eating Virus
in a random slot
Touch Of Death: 100%
20/40

Mana uses lowercase, dear

maybe I wanted to use smiley face mana. ever think of that?

Common Cold
2 2
Attach Disease to Monster
Draw phase: This monster loses 10 attack
End Turn: Each nearby monster has 20% chance to be infected

(Adjacent ones on your side and the 2-3 nearest on opponent's)

2 2 2
Bad Space Burrito

Attach Food Poisoning to Monster
Into play/Monster is dizzied: gains "does not undizzy next turn" and 2 poison counters


Note that the into play ability does not dizzy the monster. So many players are using contagious sicknesses, so I decided to avoid them.

Cancer
5 3 1
Attach disease to target monster
Monster gains: (Cannot be Sacrificed) (Cannot Attack)
Draw Phase: 50% Chance of monster cancer is attached to taking 30 damage
End Phase: 30% chance of you taking 50 damage.
Destroyed: Cancer is added to your hand.

Mummy Rot
21
Cast spell
Target monster gains Mummy Rot


The status effect "Mummy Rot":
Draw Phase: (85-5*monster's mana cost)% chance, if monster's life is less than (5*monster's mana cost) it is obliterated, otherwise, it takes that much damage.

My Comments:
-A supernatural disease in D&D. Unlike other D&D diseases, two successful saves in a row does not remove it.
-The draw phase ability, although its wording is awkward and might not work, should first see if the monster avoids taking damage, then figure out how much to deal, then if the damage should destroy the monster, it obliterates it rather than dealing the damage.
-The spell struck me as being slightly less useful than Space Leech: it deals less damage against anything that costs 1-3 even if it works all the time. Larger monsters have a better chance of resisting it. It doesn't prevent your opponent from modding their monster. It also is counterable. Thus, it costs less.
-The % chance of its draw phase ability working comes from the fact that it deals no damage on a successful save. The monster's fortitude save bonus is assumed to be roughly approximated by its mana cost. Mummy Rot's save DC is 16 (coming from a normal mummy), so a 1st level commoner with average constitution should save 20% of the time.
-Since Mummy Rot in D&D does constitution damage, it deals more hp damage to characters with a larger amount of hit dice (or in this case, a higher mana cost).
-The obliteration part of the ability comes from the description of the disease in the Monster Manual. "An afflicted creature who dies of mummy rot shrivels away into sand and dust that blows away into nothing at the first wind."
-If this card existed, I bet few people would use it, due to the randomness. Could probably stand a damage boost.

34

Lycanthropy
Attach disease to monster
Monster has (second life)
Lycanthropy has (second life)
Draw Phase: 50% chance transforms
Into a werewolf until end of turn
and you lose 30 life
(Werewolf transformation gives it +30%/+30% until end of turn and the type "Werewolf")
(Hidden: whenever a monster with lycanthropy is a werewolf and damages another monster, that other monster has a 25% chance to gain type "werewolf")

23

Silver Weapon
Attach Equipment to monster
Modified monster has 25 extra attack
And whenever it damages a werewolf
It is obliterated

So it looks like the most common strategy with these cards is to use them both to obliterate your opponent's monsters. Seems like a workable strategy, but it would probably work best using monsters that only take partial damage like Eikre and then only with some life boosts.

A disease is an abnormal condition of an organism that impairs bodily functions,[1] associated with specific symptoms and signs.[2][3]

In human beings, "disease" is often used more broadly to refer to any condition that causes discomfort, dysfunction, distress, social problems, and/or death to the person afflicted, or similar problems for those in contact with the person. In this broader sense, it sometimes includes injuries, disabilities, disorders, syndromes, infections, isolated symptoms, deviant behaviors, and atypical variations of structure and function, while in other contexts and for other purposes these may be considered distinguishable categories.

                                               - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disease

with all that said, here is the 1st card i thought of after reading:

Flood
444
Potato Alien Modifier

Attach to Own
Equipped monster gains Target monster you control gains a Flood attached
Draw Phase:Equipped monster gains +10/+10
Hidden: If equipped monster has lifebar, it gains +11/+0 instead



While many diseases are biological processes with observable alterations of organ function or structure, others primarily involve alterations of behavior.

Same wiki page... with this said, here is my only other submission...:

Crazy-Madness
4
Zero
Call unique mad madness (yes this is defenitely a miscelanious cmc wiki category application)
1/1
Entrenching
, destroy all other monsters you control: All enemy monsters are dizzied and dizzy locked



im not sure, i dont have card making experience, but id say Flood is ok (yes i based myself on Halo, not particularly from the game, but from the Halo Graphic Novel, Bungie's 5th comic tough the other 4 are erm... almost entirely unknown by our comic-ignoring society), and that Crazy Madness would have to be Rarity 100 or something like that, and would be about 10-15k market value since itd be so easy to make a Boss non-TDQ deck with it...

then again, webrunner doesn't create our cards, tough i am suspicious he could even if just subconsciously get inspired by reading our entries. Thing im not even sure he does. I know you have wiki open, search the defenition of suspicious while you are at it. You are bound to find that it includes the one who suspects to not be entirely certain of what he says.

oh, and if i am chosen, please C-Mail me cause i only stopped by this because i added this to Favorites. why? cause i was enjoying the sea-related cards. i would give 10k points to someone if that person actually got the fish-eating-smaller-mana-costing-fish-cards to exist!!
:):\'(

Crazy-Madness is really broken.

32

Computer Virus
Cast Spell
Dizzy all robots, space ships, computers,
and devices, they don't undizzy next turn
Allying 4: Draw a card



It's a broad-range hoser made like the MC hosers. It's a bit stronger due to targeting everything, so its allying requirement and cost are higher than dimensional disrupt and exhaust port torpedo.

3
Hemophilia
attach disease to monster
Cannot be healed
Draw Phase: If damaged,
this monster takes 21
more damage

33
Alzheimer's Disease
attach disease to monster
This monster is spiked when
dizzy and it's activated
ability has a 50% chance
to fail

I'm not sure if this really counts, but worth a try.


2
Hypochondriasis
Attach Disease? to monster
Monster always counts as being damaged, and can't be healed.

E-Mouse (Sorry, your forum name doesn't show up on this system and I can't remember it XD) wins this-un.

Common cold. Clear. Simple. Viscous. Feared intergalactically. Probably needs a % chance of going away turnwise too. But otherwise just the kind of crazyness ah was hoping for, without the overcomplexity or rediculous power. (although, sheesh, in a defensive deck...)

Honorable mention to King Bagbuss's Hypocondriasis, that would be an annoying bugger! Combo with salvager for PAIN.

Well, the easy way to get rid of it is to kill everything that has it, but I guess if your opponent doesn't care about their own monsters' attack... oh well.

I think most of the board knows what I'd LIKE to have for the topic here, but since it's a little too specific I'll have to settle for something else.

Hm... how about sleep and dreams?

Sleep Paralysis
6
Attach modifier to monster
Every time attached monster is dizzied, it does not undizzy next turn.
Whenever attached monster is dizzied, it gains -5/-5.

21
Narcolepsy
Attach modifier to creature
Creature has a chance to undizzy or dizzy each phase
"How'd you like to be alone and drowning?"

That will get annoying fast. I really just wanted to reference that song.