Thanks to everyone for your entries. This contest will be closing tomorrow.
As mentioned earlier, I'll be judging the best common / uncommon / rare rather than the top three. However, if we can get at least 20 entries for each rarity then I'll judge the top three in each rarity for a total of 9 winners.
The list of entries is on the first page. At the moment we have over 20 commons and uncommons but we're just short in the rare category with 17 cards. We just need three more rare entries!! (and of course feel free to post commons and uncommons as well if you haven't already).
Three more rare entries and you get to triple my workload! Who wouldn't want to do that? :S
Which reminds me... - Would anyone like to help me judge this? If so, shoot me a PM (preference to those who haven't entered but it's okay if you have - you can still be both a judge and participant).
Also, I realised I didn't specify prizes earlier. Probably favourites since I can't really think of anything else at the moment :P
There's still time for those entries! Get them in and there'll be thrice the prizes!
Common: http://mtgcardsmith.com/view/shoddy-tower?list=user Shoddy Tower With this, I was going for balance and flavor- although then again, tower's can't move in the first place. I was thinking of it as on the offence, you can move it around slowly to attack, but if so your defences will be weaker. However, if you are being attacked, you are more focused on surviving and have less power. Uncommon: http://mtgcardsmith.com/view/prowling-hunter-1?list=user Prowling Hunter With this card I was thinking of a cat's perspective- they see some big, defensive, tough creature, they will attempt to take it down- however, if they see a looming, powerful, aggressive creature, they will back down and in general be weaker. Rare: http://mtgcardsmith.com/view/eldrazi-caller-1?list=user Eldrazi Caller So, for this I was thinking of an Eldrazi that rallied other Eldrazi to attack with it- with other Eldrazi, it is extremely powerful. However, alone, if no one answers it's call, it gets destroyed. Imagine if you topdecked this on a clear board. Not that useful, hm?
@Animist, thanks for hosting the challenge, this was a fun one. I really felt like this challenge had rules that nicely balanced constraint and freedom for the designers who participated.
Okay, here are the results. First of all, thanks for being patient with me, and for making my job so difficult. There were so many great entries that even choosing 9 was tough (in fact more than 9 as you'll see below). In a lot of cases it was very close and a different judge on a different day may well have come up with a completely different list. In a few cases, templating errors and art selection (particularly using existing WotC art) made the difference.
I should also note that I was judging the card, not the cardsmith. It didn't matter who you were, newcomer or veteran, and it didn't matter if you were a winner in more than one category.
So today's results are:
Common 1st place - Flesh Tormentor by @ningyounk Joint 2nd place - Hoarfrost Elemental by @saveria201 and Battlefield Wanderer by @KimJongMartin Joint 3rd place - Knight of the Knell by @Beeswax and Longhorn beetle by @MrRansom
Uncommon 1st place - Soul Nibblers by @koover 2nd place - Outrider of Iroas by @Oshuja89 Joint 3rd place - Decaying Moldform by @opcode_6e and Eldrazi Seedling by @seaspray4TF3
Rare 1st place - Archdemon of Mogis by @Oshuja89 2nd place - Strange Companions by @ningyounk 3rd place - Lurking Abomination by @koover
Thanks again everyone and congrats to all the winners.
As always an awesome challenge @Animist and thanks for putting both of my entries into their respective top 3, really aprreciate it. If you find any cards on my profile which you like and haven't favorited yet, feel free to do it now. That's enough for me as a "prize"
@Beeswax@KimJongMartin@seaspray4TF3 - don't forget to drop me a line if you'd like me to favourite any specific cards. Alternatively, I'll choose some that I like. Thanks!
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Please could you publish the card and re-post? At the moment it's just an image link.
As mentioned earlier, I'll be judging the best common / uncommon / rare rather than the top three. However, if we can get at least 20 entries for each rarity then I'll judge the top three in each rarity for a total of 9 winners.
The list of entries is on the first page. At the moment we have over 20 commons and uncommons but we're just short in the rare category with 17 cards. We just need three more rare entries!! (and of course feel free to post commons and uncommons as well if you haven't already).
Three more rare entries and you get to triple my workload! Who wouldn't want to do that? :S
Which reminds me... - Would anyone like to help me judge this? If so, shoot me a PM (preference to those who haven't entered but it's okay if you have - you can still be both a judge and participant).
Also, I realised I didn't specify prizes earlier. Probably favourites since I can't really think of anything else at the moment :P
There's still time for those entries! Get them in and there'll be thrice the prizes!
http://mtgcardsmith.com/view/shadowblood-ronin
http://mtgcardsmith.com/view/angel-of-darkness-11?list=user
The contest is still open for entries for the rest of the day!
With this, I was going for balance and flavor- although then again, tower's can't move in the first place. I was thinking of it as on the offence, you can move it around slowly to attack, but if so your defences will be weaker. However, if you are being attacked, you are more focused on surviving and have less power.
Uncommon: http://mtgcardsmith.com/view/prowling-hunter-1?list=user Prowling Hunter
With this card I was thinking of a cat's perspective- they see some big, defensive, tough creature, they will attempt to take it down- however, if they see a looming, powerful, aggressive creature, they will back down and in general be weaker.
Rare: http://mtgcardsmith.com/view/eldrazi-caller-1?list=user Eldrazi Caller
So, for this I was thinking of an Eldrazi that rallied other Eldrazi to attack with it- with other Eldrazi, it is extremely powerful. However, alone, if no one answers it's call, it gets destroyed. Imagine if you topdecked this on a clear board. Not that useful, hm?
Thanks to everyone who contributed to this challenge - 68 entries in total!
It's going to take me a while to get through them all so please be patient. I'll aim to post the results in about a week's time.
*Thumbsup*
I should also note that I was judging the card, not the cardsmith. It didn't matter who you were, newcomer or veteran, and it didn't matter if you were a winner in more than one category.
So today's results are:
Common
1st place - Flesh Tormentor by @ningyounk
Joint 2nd place - Hoarfrost Elemental by @saveria201 and Battlefield Wanderer by @KimJongMartin
Joint 3rd place - Knight of the Knell by @Beeswax and Longhorn beetle by @MrRansom
Uncommon
1st place - Soul Nibblers by @koover
2nd place - Outrider of Iroas by @Oshuja89
Joint 3rd place - Decaying Moldform by @opcode_6e and Eldrazi Seedling by @seaspray4TF3
Rare
1st place - Archdemon of Mogis by @Oshuja89
2nd place - Strange Companions by @ningyounk
3rd place - Lurking Abomination by @koover
Thanks again everyone and congrats to all the winners.
Please PM me with which cards you'd like me to favourite. Prizes are as follows for each category:
1st place - 5 faves
2nd place - 3 faves
3rd place - 1 fave
Thanks
Oh cool, I got 2nd place
Holy heck! I also got first place!
I'll be back in a min with the 8 favorites
http://mtgcardsmith.com/view/aura-of-the-elder-gods?list=user
http://mtgcardsmith.com/view/aonar-macleod?list=user
http://mtgcardsmith.com/view/grigorin-crusader-of-norn-1?list=user
http://mtgcardsmith.com/view/golgarox-1?list=user
there's four, I guess. I can't think of anymore I'd like to get favorited, so I'll keep it at that. In the meantime I think I'm gonna try and make some mono blue spells. Most everything I want to make is multiple colors, or made with multiple colors in mind... Anyway, that's four
If you find any cards on my profile which you like and haven't favorited yet, feel free to do it now. That's enough for me as a "prize"
And if anyone else is interested, here's the 3/3 contest http://forums.mtgcardsmith.com/discussion/1873/1-mana-3-3
@Beeswax @KimJongMartin @seaspray4TF3 - don't forget to drop me a line if you'd like me to favourite any specific cards. Alternatively, I'll choose some that I like. Thanks!