MTG card "maker"

SkullroidSkullroid
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Before I joined mtg cardsmith. I had a account on a site called mtg card maker to make cards. It was a piece of crap. which is why when i found cardsmith i joined. has anyone else had a account on mtg card maker.

mtg cardmaker

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=3&ved=0ahUKEwjljuCCxJvUAhUI5oMKHXBqAQcQFgg0MAI&url=https://www.mtgcardmaker.com/&usg=AFQjCNFrXtfdynnnCCs63AH7nfyf7o5coA

if there is any other mtg card making sites out there. tell me about them.

Comments

  • modnation675modnation675
    edited June 2017
    Yeah, I used to use the yugioh version of that. It does suck.

    As for if there are others, most of the better ones are programs that must be downloaded and don't have online storage for your cards. Which would mean you'd lose the community aspects that we adore MTGC for.

    But keep in mind they all have various issues and are lacking features in varying areas. This means that the best way to make cards so far is to use MTGC for most of your cards, then occasionally use others for things like unavailable card borders.
  • Arceus8523Arceus8523
    I made my first cards on that site! I still remember revival reaper (it's probably laying around my house somewhere)! I also used the yugioh maker quite a bit when I used to play.
  • modnation675modnation675
    edited June 2017
    Yeah, I used to be into Yugioh when it was the case of the very early sets. But after that, it got really weird and had dumber mechanics.
  • Arceus8523Arceus8523
    edited June 2017
    Yugioh kinda went downhill from the pendulum mechanics forward. On top of that its standard rotation was just modifying a banlist and they'd basically ban or restrict the best deck rather than try to fix the meta.

    The one thing Yugioh did right, though, over both Pokemon an MTG was Stucture Decks. Those things were friggen fantastic for new players by giving them a competitive, buildable strategy. You could basically just purchase 2-3 structure decks and have a good starting deck right there. Certainly beats MTG's planeswalker decks and DEFINITELY trumps Pokemon's theme decks.
  • SkullroidSkullroid
    the yugioh and pokemon card maker versions are slightly better in my opinion. mainly because they don't have have other card making sites as good as mtg smithy. so card maker ends up being your only good web site to create cards on when it comes to yugioh and pokemon.
  • SkullroidSkullroid
    they also didn't have these wierd "you don't have permission" things on everything you clicked on.
  • modnation675modnation675
    Yeah, they were good at giving new players an immediate and competitive option. As a whole it's much easier to start off in Yugioh in the past compared to MTG at any point in time.

    Especially given that they'd give you full playsets of most of the cards.
  • BrainifyerBrainifyer
    I used the Yugioh edition for a while and found it satisfactory. When U first started making magic cards I used a very limited but rather good free app for the iPad. Later I decided to switch to desktop and tried mtg card maker. My first card had flashback. The card maker did not allow it. I switched here, and all was good.
  • SkullroidSkullroid
    edited June 2017
    yugioh maker even have a calendar, with birthdays on it. i had my birthday on dec 16, but cardsmith didn't celebrate it.
  • Arceus8523Arceus8523
    I will say the Planeswalker Decks are definitely better than Intro Packs, but they replaced Event decks, which was a terrible idea. Event decks were the closest standard-legal precon MTG had to Yugioh's structure decks. Also Yugioh was comfortable with printing powerful and well-known cards in their structure decks and products. One of the most recent yugioh products I bought had the three Egyptian god cards in them (with the actual effects, not the crappy non-legal promo versions), which are pretty bad, but they're so iconic that they are really cool to have.
  • modnation675modnation675
    If you bought many of the pre-constructed decks in Yugioh in the past, within the next year or two the promo card covers most or all of the product. Some even more than the original cost by a lot.
  • GelectrodeGelectrode
    Thanks for reminding me about that site! I made some pretty garish designs, which I can try and share later. I think this was the first card I actually made:

    Gaaren, Geist Keeper of Wildwood
    {b}{g}{w} (In that order)
    Legendary creature - (no creature type)
    4/4
    Whenever a creature dies, you may sacrifice a creature. If you do, return the dead creature to the battlefield under your control.

    {t}: Destroy target noncreature permanent.

  • modnation675modnation675
    edited June 2017
    Well you've come a long way, that's for sure.
  • LujikulLujikul
    As a Yugioh player, I've swept more than a couple tournaments with fifty bucks and a basic understanding of the meta. The preconstructed decks are incredibly powerful, especially when you identify mvps and change the card counts to be as seamless as possible.
  • Arceus8523Arceus8523
    Yeah, and that is both a strength and weakness of the game. I love the preconstructed decks, but the lack of effort you need to put in to being "good" at yugioh is a bit of a problem. Like with MTG, you can pilot the best deck in the format and still lose if you aren't good at figuring out what cards to play and when. Yugioh basically ends up being a metagame of combo decks (at least that's what it was when I stopped playing) and 1-3 turn wins. The only deck I've ever had to see a lot of wins that wasn't some form of a combo or a"tribal" (being windups, watts, blue-eyes, red-eyes, etc.) deck was my no monsters lock deck where the entire idea was to stop the opponent from doing anything and just win with Magical cylinder and other burn/damage spells and traps.
  • modnation675modnation675
    Oh, we're not saying it has a healthy format. We're just stating from a finances perspective that it's very nice for the average player.

    But the issues for MTG are technically due to bad re-print ideology and a lacking support of older formats for anything but a small pool of the inflated card prices. This means even with any displays of attempting to make staples more reasonable, they're just having a small portion of the cards give that impression.

    Overall the prices for staples have consistently gone up with any major lowered costs for cards being incidental from things such as meta changes. Otherwise, they end up bouncing back up in price, mainly since the sets used to reprint aren't as high print runs and aren't part of a wider format other than individual drafts.
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