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Card Challenge Wars (Card Challenge Discussion+Saga)
Ok, so the first thing you do if you want to join is pick a premade character card to represent you, or create your own three-mana rare legendary creature. Participants who use the same character are considered on a team and adventure together and get the same personalized challenges. The first card challenge will be a general one that everyone can attempt, which I will write later. After the general challenge, each character's participants can ask to "venture forth" or request a challenge as well as a story relating to the saga part. Prizes will be available.
Premade Characters:
Brew a monocolored battle that ferments (transforms) into a monocolored card of a different color than the front side.
Premade Characters:
General Challenge
from the barkeep:Brew a monocolored battle that ferments (transforms) into a monocolored card of a different color than the front side.
Comments
Do I ask to 'venture forth' now, or wait until others join?
You may ask whenever you want.
As you venture into the Desert of Doom, you spot a ruined temple with skeletons wearing Amonkhetian style armor. You being a lich, they don't attack you and instead rush toward you, gasping "Order us, o master! What shall we do?"
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Challenge: Create a Skeleton creature with the Amonkhet set symbol that has an ability that interacts with Deserts. (You may also respond to the RPG part of the post if you'd like.)
Nonplussed, Eiki will take the skeletons as bodyguards. I'd like to venture forth again.
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Challenge: Create a Saga with each chapter triggering a new custom ability designed by you or another cardsmith.
You may respond to the Saga part again if you'd like. Challenges will not always relate to the story.
I'd like to venture forth again.
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Hinder N (Choose a creature with the greatest toughness from among creatures you don't control and put N -1/-1 counters on it.) By Dechujoh64.
Transcend ___ (Exile them with a transcend counter on it. You may play cards you own in exile with transcend counters on them.) By ArmisJoe
Reave ___ (For each colored mana symbol in its mana cost, add one mana of that color, then put a -1/-1 counter on it.) By Animist.
You continue toward the edge of the Desert of Doom, finally stopping in an age-old pyramid at the edge, sand swirling around it mysteriously. At the top of the pyramid rests a statue of a serpent, twelve feet in height. Its eyes seem to follow you everywhere you go, and before you know it, you are facing a gigantic serpent. Battle ensues, unless you prefer to attempt to tame it.
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Challenge: Create a Eldrazi Phyrexian creature. (Not Phyrexian Eldrazi, an Eldrazi-corrupted Phyrexian.)
You may respond to the saga. If not, next venture will be a story about the fight
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Eiki gazes up at the serpent for a long moment. "Hmm…it'd be such a waste to kill such a magnificent creature. It'd make for a wonderful pet; preferably alive, but having it as an undead thrall could work… On second thought, perhaps it's best I leave it be if it can't be tamed or coerced." (Would like to attempt taming it, and will withdraw if it proves unreasonably difficult.)
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I'd like to venture forth.
The serpent rams its tail into the wall of the pyramid, causing gravity to knock you off your feet. You get up and try again to tame it. It eats your last skeleton bodyguard but lies down at your feet, tamed. You decide to leave the pyramid and continue to the Forest of the Ancients.
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Challenge: Create a new card type. Create a card for it.
Bonus Challenge: You tamed the serpent! Create a creature card for it. Doing so will result in 3 faves of your choice ?.
Bonus Challenge: You tamed the serpent! Create a creature card for it. Doing so will result in 3 faves of your choice ?.
Please put the favorites on whichever of my cards strike your fancy. ? I'd like to venture forth.
After walking on a dark road for a while, you find that it has led into the footpath of a creature seemingly more powerful than your "pet." You decide to follow the footpath, but stealthily and battle-ready, fully prepared to call the spirits of whatever creatures died here to aid you should you have to fight.
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Challenge: Create an instant or sorcery that interacts with Mana-Birds, an obsolete MTG creature type.
I'd like to venture forth.
As you venture deeper into the forest, you hear a rustling behind you and then a huge crash as a full-sized green dragon charges into the clearing created by its stomping, then dives down with jaws open wide at you. Fight! Please respond with what you will do and what your pet will do. There are no exact rules.
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Challenge: Create a Planeswalker card with five loyalty abilities.
Please respond to the saga part.
(Welp, there's no way for me to properly accomplish this, so… ??♂️)
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Eiki will summon a series of bone spikes to pierce the dragon's jaws and keep it from reaching him, as well as a barrier of negative energy should that fail.
The Blacksand Serpent will attack from the side, attempting to throw the dragon off course and cause internal damage with its venom.
I'd like to venture forth.
The dragon roars in pain, then unleashes a cloud of poison gas, stunning the serpent, rendering it unable to take action, then bends nearby trees to attack you with their branches, and finishes with an attempt to rend you with its claws.
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Challenge: Create a five-colored commander for a Wall Tribal deck.
Again, please respond to the saga part.
Well, Imma go ahead and try it out.
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Eiki will use his magic to move through the shadows in the darkened wood, evading the dragon's attacks. He'll then continue to attack the dragon's head with bone spikes, aiming to pierce something vital and end this quickly.
I'd like to venture forth.
The bone spikes pierce the dragon's neck, and blood gushes out. Roaring in agony, the dragon makes one last attempt to bite you in half before falling to the ground dead. You now notice a nest nestled in the branches of the tree where the dragon never seemed to have left completely uncovered. As you look closer, you notice a shimmering green egg the size of a chicken.
What do you wish to do to it? Options:
A - Destroy it. I don't want another bloodthirsty monstrosity on my hands.
B - Keep it. It might hatch into a powerful ally someday. And if it doesn't, you can always kill it while it's still young and weak.
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Challenge: Create a new mechanic that transforms when a condition is met and a card with it.
@FireOfGolden
As you venture into the Wastelands of Depletion, you come across a cracked skeleton of a Figure? You can't tell, but it looks like trails of fading graphite are left in the rocks. Maybe if you mine it, it will give you some extra graphite to draw with, or maybe it's a good idea to leave the dead alone.
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Challenge: Create a tribal artifact Figure Skeleton that interacts with Wastes.
You may respond to the saga part if you'd like.
I never made a tribal cards before, so forgive me if it's not very bright.
Error paused as he would take a time to examine the cracked skeleton. "Ack, what is this? An anomaly whose dying to what something is inside the stones? Well, I would prefer to leave it be, after all, this timeline is destroying itself either way." Error muttered as he would steps back from the fellow skeleton. He then would wander around this plane before he consider to hop to different plane.
As you continue through the Wastelands of Depletion, you notice smoke and bright light on the horizon. As you get closer you notice a large group (Maybe 30-40) of fire elementals, which is unusual for the Wastelands of Depletion. They all seem to be marching to the west, the direction of Solamara, the Land of Clouds. Could this be an invasion army? You wonder. Would you like to stop them and ask questions, attack, or ignore them?
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Challenge: Create a joke card whose jokyness lies only in name and flavor text. There cannot be jokes in the rules text.
So, it's a uncard which its name and flavor text should be joke but not rules text? What exactly is rules text?
Is this a card what are you looking for?
So then Error notices the army of fire elementals, he would brings a string into the sky as string slices through sky then hooks it as if it were a tree's branch. He pulls himself up to check them out; "This looks interesting, I will watch em and hoe it turns out. Oh boy, I hope it will be dramatic!" Error chuckled.
(Resonant/Discordant functions similarly to Daybound/Nightbound.)
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I'll keep the dragon egg. Even if it doesn't end up becoming my ally, raising it until we part ways could be enjoyable.
I'd like to venture forth.
Prize Awarded: Dragon Egg?: You get 5 favs of your choice and 2 hugs of your choice.
As you venture further into the Forest of Ancients, you notice that the serpent seems to be incubating the egg. Then you stop at the very heart of the Forest of Ancients, which is as tranquil as an autumn breeze. Suddenly, the silence is penetrated by a deep, resonant voice from the largest old growth tree in the whole forest. It says: "We are the Ancients, protectors of this forest. What do you seek from us?
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Challenge: Create a monoblue Goblin Warrior Rebel creature.
@FireOfGolden
I meant a joke card with realistic wording, but funny name and flavor text. It's okay, but I won't count this entry for prizes.
Anyway, as you follow the fire elementals to Solamara, suddenly twelve griffin riders swoop from the sky and attack the fire elementals with blasts of wind in an attempt to put them out. What would you like to do about it?
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Challenge: Create an aura with the white Mirran watermark. This card has the watermark:
(Had this ready a while ago, just forgot to post it since I made this on mobile. ?)
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Please favorite these cards: Yoran, Gozuki, Mezuki, Demon of Gilded Wrath, Celestial Orrery, Chronografter, & Lhamborin
I'd like to venture forth.