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Recruiting Adventurers!
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This is a re-vamp of a previous contest, this contest is just for fun. No prizes. But I will fave cards I really like, and I'll ask other participants to fave cards you like as well. There will be no judging and I'll be participating aswell. Lets start with the premise!
We are currently recruiting adventurers to take on the dungeon and beat the final boss! Riches, fame, and glory are your reward! The dungeon has 10 floors and each has it's own theme, only the bravest of adventurers should apply!
The rules:
1: These rules are not set or final, they are more like suggestions. This contest is just for fun and unless you post something completely off topic there will be no re-procession. Off topic cards may be deleted from this page just to maintain order. Feel free though to make Joke cards. I do love a good laugh! PS. This includes cards for your favorite anime, videogame, or whatever! Just have fun!
2: The contest will be in 10 stages (Floors) each stage will have it's own theme! Try to follow the theme. We will explore a new floor every week, or two weeks depending on the preference of the participants! Again this is more of a suggestion to facilitate fun for everybody. So feel free to post cards for previous themes at any time, so that people know what you're doing though, please explain which theme you're using unless you are using the current theme. After each floor/stage I will announce the card/s that I found the most impressive and liked the most! To avoid bias I will not choose my own cards here.
3: Feel free to make up your own mechanics and re-use mechanics! Please explain any new or mechanics or mechanics that aren't well known or self explanatory.
4: We're going to do something a little different with rarity since this contest is just for fun. Rarity will symbolize the adventurers rank rather than the card rarity. The more common the lower their rank. Ranks will be symbolized by plates, example:
*Copper plate- Common
*Silver plate- Uncommon
*Gold plate- Rare
*Mythril plate- Mythic Rare.
5: Adventurers like to party together to take on bigger more powerful foes, and help each-other to symbolize this we will use a new tribal mechanic (Party) Feel free to use Party however you like, be creative! use it as a trigger like enrage, or as a sharing ability like slivers. Just remember that it should affect an adventurer in a positive way!
6: Feel free to create sourceries, enchantments, lands, artifacts, even creatures! Just try to match the contest theme of adventurers and dungeon! This includes the floor boss, if you have a great idea for a floor boss then go for it! I will not be creating the bosses I will leave it open to the participants!
7: Since the contest is just for fun this will be unlimited entries per participant. Submit as many cards as you want, new or old, it doesn't matter show off your creativity! and if you know anyone that might be interested suggest this contest to them. The more adventurers we have the more fun this will be!
8: Again please remember to give credit where credit is due, we are all civil here and do not want to claim others works for ourselves!
9: Last but not least, the most important rule is just have fun!
10: If you want a fave on any cards you create please add a link to the card either in the image or in the comment.
Lets start!
Adventurers beware the GOBLIN hoards in the first floor of the dungeon! These creatures are small and weak, but are not to be underestimated. The floor boss is an epic creature known for its abilities to rally and march the goblins to his aid. This floor is a great starting point for low level adventurers, but high level adventurers are also welcome!
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XP is the keyword.
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What's a party? People probably need to know that if they're actually going to know what they're doing with the mechanic. Also, the wording seems iffy and doesn't really work. Do you think that wording it as something like:
XP N (When this creature dies, put N +1/+1 counters on each creature that dealt damage to this creature this turn and each creature in a party with one or more of those creatures.)
Would do what you're hoping it'll do? Please note that the wording isn't necessarily perfect because I don't know what party does and wordings relating to it and so haven't bothered to get it totally right as a whole, but I hope you get the idea of what I mean.
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Now that that pre-done bit's over with, a few questions for @CatFish21sm aimed at trying to get a little more clarity of what this challenge is about:
- Is our starting task to create an adventurer and a few cards relating to it?
- The aforementioned "What's a party?" question. I've probably just missed something where it's been noted.
- Are you planning for any sort of judging (how well the adventurers do against the foe, whether somethings have done better than others, general continuity and storyline) or is this just a thought-inspiring thread? If it's the former, do you think this would go better in the Saga category (which is for ongoing story kinds of threads)?
At least, this is how I see him.
5: Adventurers like to party together to take on bigger more powerful foes, and help each-other to symbolize this we will use a new tribal mechanic (Party) Feel free to use Party however you like, be creative! use it as a trigger like enrage, or as a sharing ability like slivers. Just remember that it should affect an adventurer in a positive way!
@LordTachanka123 As far a "Party" goes as a mechanic, I don't want to define it, it can literally be anything you imagine I just want to inspire creativity! The only rule is more of an idea, adventurers form a party to help each-other, So creatures with party should either give, or gain something from other party members. This does not have to be an ability, it can be anything you can think of. Another suggestion might be "Whenever another adventurer enters the battlefield under your control. Exile this creature and return it to the battlefield under your control." Literally anything you can I said it should be a good effect, but if you think of a negative ability then you can use that aswell for example marauding raptor deals damage to other creatures you control when they enter the battlefield. This could symbolize a uncooperative party member. So just turn this into whatever you think makes sense! I know this doesn't necessarily answer your question but it's the best answer I can think to give. Sorry!
There is no real "Starting task" The contest is just for fun and you should design whatever you like, whatever makes your ticker click lol. If you want to design an adventurer then great, if you have a better idea for monsters, then great. I'd love to see some artifacts or lands don't have any of those yet. But just remember rule #9 and have fun!
Finally I'm not planning any sort of judging. I'll pick cards that really stood out to me in the various stages and point them out when the stage ends and give some props to the creators, but they aren't going to be the "winners"
As far as story progression there really wont be much. I'm just doing that caws it fits the adventuring theme and is a fun way to introduce the stages and the themes and keep everything on tract! So there won't be any real story behind it its more like flavored stage progression that matches the dungeon theme and keeps it interesting while helping to inspire peoples imaginations. I've learned that posting just "create adventurers" will generally get a few cards from people then they will get bored, but posting themes in stages like this will make things exciting and inspire imagination. And that's what I'm all about! Hope this answered your questions! If you need additional clarification on something then let me know and I'll try my best to explain!
I absolutely love that XP mechanic! That's a great idea! However I do thing it's way too powerful to put on a 10 drop. I think you could play that creature as a 5 drop or even a 4 drop with that mechanic being used to equal out it's other effects.
Or you could lessen the effect so maybe something like (Put a +1/+1 counter on that creature and any creature in it's party with converted mana cost 5 or lower.) IF you did that it would pass for a 10 drop creature.
These are just suggestions though. I think giving your opponents +5/+5 that easily is just begging for disaster lol. But I absolutely love the idea, and if you don't mind I think I might use that for a card of my own!
@The-DM I love your name first of all, perfect for this contest! and I love the boss creature!
Feel free to steal my potion idea and make it your own! Or take do something completely different with it!
PS. There are a few cards that were submitted here by @LordTachanka123 and @The-DM I'd like to fave, but the images are not clickable. If you make them clickable or just add a link to them somewhere I'll go in and fave them!
https://mtgcardsmith.com/view/goblin-king-koo-sazk?list=user
When will the next floor be introduced?
Not completely sure lol. Most likely this Sunday, but if anyone wants more time I'll probably extend it a week.
I plan to announce the stages/floors every week on sunday, unless someone asks for more time in which case I'll give as much as reasonably necessary (most likely a week) Sunday is my least busy day so it's pretty much the only definite day I can get all my stuff together and make a big post.
Also whenever I hear the word bard it reminds me of a kinku bard I played in D&D once. Everyone hated me... They were just jealous of my pet roosting tree(It was a living tree that spoke avian and followed me around)... It was a portable nest! SQUAAAAKKK!!! Lol... It's past my bed time tuning out for now have a great day all!
Homunculus/Cyclops level.
10: If you want a fave on any cards you create please add a link to the card either in the image or in the comment.
@LoL_NOOB Yeah, no constraints on when you can join. It's not really a story progression contest, the floors or stages are just for some extra fun and to help inspire imagination. Anyone can join at any time! I can't wait to see what you come up with!
PS.Let me know if you need an extension, otherwise the next stage will be announced Sunday.
https://mtgcardsmith.com/view/prepared-adventurer
Not really! Actually it's time to pick some cards I really liked! To be honest I loved all of the cards submitted so the ones I'm pointing out I thought had the most interesting mechanics or best fit the theme!
If you enjoy these cards as much as I did please give them a fave!
Now Lets getadventuring!
When we had last left our brave heroes they were all completely wiped out by the goblin hoards. It seems even the first floor was too touph for them. But luckily the goblins being over confident in their own abilities decided to take it upon themselves to conquer the next floor. And they themselves were completely wiped out by the dangerous beasts that roam the second floor!. This left plenty of room for the adventurers to sneak through the first floor. How will our adventurers who barely survived the whimpy goblins even get past these tyranical packs of man eating monsters that are now stairing them down?
Have fun guys and keep coming with the interesting ideas!