[CDC] First of Many [Contest Closed]

[Nephilim]

Extortion Disciple
2 CoV
Cost 3
Morale 8
Unlimited Character - Human
at the end of the turn, if Extortion Disciple is deployed, if your opponent's health is lower than their morale, they take 1 damage, if Extortion Disciple is on the battlefield then they take 4 damage instead, otherwise, if their morale is lower than their health, then they lose 1 morale, if Extortion Disciple is on the battlefield then they lose 4 morale instead, if the health and morale are equal, do nothing.
5/5

[Grinnin_Gin]

Name: Ascended Acolyte
Faction/Purity: OoS/CoV
Type: Unlimited - Angel
Rarity: Common
Cost: 1
Morale: 4
Attack/Health: 4/4
Rules Text: When you deploy Ascended Acolyte, your champion gains +2/+2. When you Overcharge Ascended Acolyte, Scry 1 at the start of your next turn.

Flavor Text: Putting the Holy back in Unholy.

Yes, I know scry is not an Infinity Wars term, but it needs to be. It really, really needs to be a thing.

So, what scry 1 would mean here is that you look at the top card of your deck, choose to keep it on top, or put it on the bottom.

Now, onto the meta benefits of this card: It's a very good turn 1 drop to help establish a mean early game to help put your opponent on the back foot, while even later on (or early on with the help of overcharge cards), this can help control your draws and give you some good tactical advantages.

In decks with commanders like Tempus, this is good. In decks that run Overcharge cards, this is good. In decks that just want a decent turn one body block, this is a good card. It establishes board presence, and it has decent later utility.

It's a decent tempo 1 drop in something like Tempus, but it also gives Sol more uses in a CoV/OoS deck to push through to deal some real damage.

Granted while it works best in a 1CoV/2OoS deck to get maximum benefit, even 2CoV/1OoS might a few extra ones in deck to help draw fix.

It doesn't single handedly push the deck into meta relevance itself, but in conjuncture with other cards being released, it is a decent tool to use. And if nothing else, it fulfills the premise of the contest because it's playable and desirable, even if it isn't run in vast numbers.

It's relatively balanced because of the Enemy-color purities, as well as the fact its biggest boost is only on a single unit. While it gives more omph than even support drone if its ability procs, it has a very limited number of targets for its deploy effect (although they are indeed good ones).

The 4/4 stats help keep it within kill range of normal AoE or things like Flame Dawn Commando/Lightning Blast, simply to keep it under control. But the Angel typing allows it to be a good Lucca Ascended body as well if you need the extra damage output.

All in all, I think this card would be a decent addition to the game, and it would help promote one of the more powerful and interesting deck types we could see come out of Rebellion thus far.

The morale cost is also a concern, due to the fact that Angels are a high morale deck already, but that's again to help keep the useage of these cards down to a reasonable level. This card is good, but it has things to take into consideration, even if it is very playable.

[xMatanX122]

Shapeshifter Soldier
cost: 1
purity: none
morale: 3
Unlimited character
4/4
When you deploy Shapeshifter Soldier and it has no type or purity you may overcharge a character card. All Shapeshifter Soldier cards in your deck, hand, command, support and field gains its purity and type and gets bonus effects according to the card's purity(does not stack with the same purities).
In case of a card that demands 2 or 3 specific different purities you get both effects.
In case the card says purity x or y you get the purities you have from you deck among them. (if you overcharge lucca ascended and you play oos ig you get both but if you play only ig then you get only ig bonus).
(Notice the cows possibilities to dominate the meta kappa)

Exiles: When this card dies each player draws a card and then discard a card(they choose).

Warpath: -1/-0  on stats, 3 cost enrage 4, when this card becomes enraged all other Shapeshifter Soldier cards in your deck hand support command and field gains +1/+1.

***Sleepers: -1/-1 on stats, bloodthirst 3.

*not finished*

[Number11]

Energy Connector
1 GI
1 cost
Unlimited Ability

Target two Artificial cards to connect. Artificial Character gains +2/+2 from Artificial cards it is directly connected to and +1/+1 for all indirectly connected Artificial cards. If target Cards are already indirectly connected, you are refunded 1 resource.
Choose one:
 - Draw a card.
 - If a connected character leaves play and returns later the connection from Energy Connector is reestablished.

Flavor: As Genesis researched alongside Verore they learned how to make translucent connectors that can transfer energy without causing physical obstruction to the connected machines.

With this card you can make a network of Artificial cards to strengthen your army. How well the card will work will depend on how you network them and what cards you use in the network. For example if you connect every thing to one character then if that character dies all characters will lose the buff they had. On the other hand if networked diffrently then the loss of a character may only affect character so that the will only lose power from a subset of the network or even be unaffected by it other than the single loss of buff from the single lost character. You can even connect characters to Omnitron if you want to. As the card can be connect to Artificial Artifacts means that an Artifacts can be introduce that gives a stat boost to a network it is connected to. And with the option to reestablish a connection you can have a card like Unending Drone that upon return from the grave will reconnect to any Artificial that was connected this way with the Drone.

[Hiding]

Name: Ascended Acolyte
Faction/Purity: OoS/CoV
Type: Unlimited - Angel
Rarity: Common
Cost: 1
Morale: 4
Attack/Health: 4/4
Rules Text: When you deploy Ascended Acolyte, your champion gains +2/+2. When you Overcharge Ascended Acolyte, Scry 1 at the start of your next turn.

Flavor Text: Putting the Holy back in Unholy.

Question here, when you say overcharge ascended acolyte do you mean use acolyte as fodder for overcharge? or is that an activated ability of acolyte?

[Grinnin_Gin]

The first thing, Hiding. When it is used by another card as Overcharge fodder, you scry 1.

[Hiding]

Heads up end of submissions will be this friday. Ill try to get judgements out by sunday no promises tho. Exams and all that

[quangtit01]

Name: Random Demon
Purity: 1 Exile
Type: Unlimited Demon
Rarity: common
Cost: 1
Morale: 2
Attack/Health: 4/4
Rules Text:
Exile 0
Pay 0: discard Random Demon. Your opponent discard a random card, then draw a card (If you opponent's hand is empty, he neither discard nor draw a card)
Flavor Text: We're random, and we are many!

Explain: yes, if u discard 3 "Random Demon" then your opponent will have to discard and draw 3 times (though it is calculated separately, so it is possible for the card your opponent just drew to be discarded)

[ecliptix]

Dead Challenge Again?

[ToxicShadow]

Dead Challenge Again?

Heads up end of submissions will be this friday. Ill try to get judgements out by sunday no promises tho. Exams and all that

Not yet.

[ecliptix]

mbd, was thinking that was last Sunday

[ArcaneAzmadi]

If I could make a suggestion for this contest... I think people need to look at some of the cards they've made and ask themselves how the card really benefits from being Unlimited. A lot of the ones I'm seeing seem like viable cards... but I'm struggling to see why you'd want to run more than 4 copies in a deck. Sorry if that seems a bit arrogant.

[Hiding]

Quick update ima judge these tuesday night after my exam. Gotta study yknow.

[ToxicShadow]

Quick update ima judge these tuesday night after my exam. Gotta study yknow.

Sure thing. Good luck with your exam!

[Hiding]

Judgement:

Pelagoth

Name Unlimited Shattering Giant
Faction/Purity Warpath (1p)
Type Unlimited Character
Rarity Common
Cost 8
Morale 5
Attack/Health 16/20
Rules Text
When this character enters the deployed area, deal 10 damage to all characters.
Flavor Text
UNLIMITED POWER!!!
Like I said before this card is dank as hell so 5/7. Nothing to add.

---
Orisolve

Name: Invincible Defender
Faction/Purity: 1 DoD
Type: Unlimited Character - Human
Rarity: Common
Cost: 2
Morale: 3
Attack/Health: 2/8
Rules Text: Every time Invincible Defender is dealt combat damage, the player that dealt damage loses 1 morale. At the end of the turn, if Invincible Defender was not dealt combat damage, your opponent loses 1 morale.
I really like this remake. Actually forces the enemy to choose between 2 evils. DoD needs something like this to work otherwise they really do not pressure the opponent at all. The slight nerf to only combat damage is fair. 5/5

---
Benioin

Daunting Spirit
2 DoD
Unlimited Character--Spirit
Common
3 Cost
1 morale
6/6
Flying, Vigilance
When CARDNAME dies, it is removed from the game. When CARDNAME dies, your opponent loses 2 morale.
This is an alright card. Unfortunately I don’t find it especially great. I mean I guess it works as an unlimited but I don’t see much flavor or use in having it tbh. 2.5/5

---
ecliptix

Swarmer Larvae
Unlimited Character - Insectoid
Common
1 Cost
1 morale
0/1

If this character is still alive at the end of the next turn, transform it into a random card with the word "Swarmer" in its name which you do not currently have deployed. If you control 1 insectoid of each faction and Swarmar Larvae cannot transform, instead transform Swarmer Larvae into a Caretaker of the Swarm and create the location "Swarmer Hive" if it is not currently a location you control.

"The thing about infinite realities is, sometimes evolution takes a different course."
- Genesis Entomologist Leyton Pierce, Rift Encyclopedia Vol. I

Swarmer Hive
Unique Location
7 Cost

At the end of each turn, create 1 survival swarmer for each Insectoid in your support zone. While this location is in your support zone you may not play any more Swarmer Larvae.

"AHHHHHHHH!!!!!!" - Final transmission from Genesis Entomologist Leyton Pierce.


This card is an ok attempt at making swarmers work but it feels really RNG and also is not exactly unlimited at some point. 2/5

---
drewmb

Synth Technician
1 GI
Unlimited Character - Artificial
Common
Cost: 2
Morale: 4
Attack/Health: 6/6

At the end of the turn, if you have 3 or more Synth Technicians deployed, create a Mechanism artifact in your support zone.
This is a really powerful on curve artificial character that is unlimited. Unfortunately Im not sure why its made unlimited especially when its ability doesn’t stack beyond the 3 technicians[or does it? in which case its rather OP.]. Just have 3 out and constantly generate mechanisms for your early Omnitron 3/5

---
ToxicShadow

Synergetic Astable Drone (S.A.D.)
Purity: 1GI
Cost: 1
Morale: 2
Type: Unlimited Character - Artificial
Stats: 3/3
Rarity: Common

When this character enters the deployed area, all S.A.D.s you control gain +3/+3.

At the end of each turn, S.A.D. gains -2/-2 for every S.A.D. you control.

"With each unit we produce, we get a short energy spike, but the rate of decay increases too!" -Gi engineer

"Just keep making more and it'll be fine" - Tygris

At least there is a point in having unlimited numbers of these, however the downside is rather ridiculous and makes this card a heavy morale drain for a not so great board presence. Turn one play a 6/6 end turn with a 4/4. Turn 2 start with a 10/10, 9/9 and 9/9, not bad I guess you can do something with the 10/10, end of turn 2 you have a 4/4, 3/3, 3/3. Turn 3 if you have only this card in your deck, start with 13/13, 12/12, 12/12, 12/12, 12/12, 12/12. Attack with 13/13 and 12/12’s then end the turn with 1/1 and lose another 10 morale. By now you have no hand and have run out of steam. More or less. Eventually these all combust wrecking your morale leaving you with nothing making this essentially a worse FD deck. Also does the -2/-2 stack? If so this deck is even more so unusable because if you had 2 on the field they would get -8/-8 at the end of each turn because each one makes the rest get -4/-4 [-2/-2 for each on the field] and because there are 2 of them they get -8/-8. Pretty good flavor as an unstable experiment, but it feels kinda odd to use. Still tho 3.5/5

---
ArcaneAzmadi

Name: Fanatical Thrall
Faction/Purity: Verore 2
Type: Unlimited Character - Human
Rarity: Common
Cost: 1
Morale: 0
Attack/Health: 1/1
Rules Text: When you play Fanatical Thrall, draw a card. Fanatical Thrall's stats can never exceed 1/1.
Flavor Text: Driven on by the cruel will of their beautiful but uncaring mistresses, the hapless devotees of the Cult of Verore would kill -or die- for a single smile.
I guess this is an ok card as you basically cycle these for cards and get sacrifice material. Right now I dont think there are many good sacrifice effects to be able to use these with effectively. 3/5

---
NatoPotato

Jinhai Lancer
2 DOD
Unlimited Character - Human
Cost: 3
Morale: 6
Stats: 3/8

Reach
If Jinhai Lancer has Reach and would attack a fortress, it first deals damage equal to its power to the first character in the opponents support zone, then loses Reach and gets -2/-2.
Cool idea of a spear tosser. Helps out DoD because they cant just sit in support. But now they can just sit in defense zone. Costing 3 makes it kinda unplayable. But I like the spear toss idea 3.5/5

---
Nephilim

Extortion Disciple
2 CoV
Cost 3
Morale 8
Unlimited Character - Human
at the end of the turn, if Extortion Disciple is deployed, if your opponent's health is lower than their morale, they take 1 damage, if Extortion Disciple is on the battlefield then they take 4 damage instead, otherwise, if their morale is lower than their health, then they lose 1 morale, if Extortion Disciple is on the battlefield then they lose 4 morale instead, if the health and morale are equal, do nothing.
5/5
Very powerful stall card. Not sure CoV needs any more direct damage or morale drain but I like the concept. Stacks of these can do lot of damage and push your opponent into weird situations. 4/5

---
Grinnin_Gin

Name: Ascended Acolyte
Faction/Purity: OoS/CoV
Type: Unlimited - Angel
Rarity: Common
Cost: 1
Morale: 4
Attack/Health: 4/4
Rules Text: When you deploy Ascended Acolyte, your champion gains +2/+2. When you Overcharge Ascended Acolyte, Scry 1 at the start of your next turn.

Flavor Text: Putting the Holy back in Unholy.
Good stuff with champion in command decks. Also like that they can be used as deck manipulation making it fit pretty well flavor wise with both factions. Its always a bit risky to put champions in command due to stupid hulking snipers but these can really help you out. Gives you good options without taking up space as you can use it as storm fodder to scry. In this scenario, Id say being unlimited isn’t really being played with to its fullest extent, but I feel this card is definitely a card you could run more than 3 copies of. 4/5

---
xMatanX122

Shapeshifter Soldier
cost: 1
purity: none
morale: 3
Unlimited character
4/4
When you deploy Shapeshifter Soldier and it has no type or purity you may overcharge a character card. All Shapeshifter Soldier cards in your deck, hand, command, support and field gains its purity and type and gets bonus effects according to the card's purity(does not stack with the same purities).
In case of a card that demands 2 or 3 specific different purities you get both effects.
In case the card says purity x or y you get the purities you have from you deck among them. (if you overcharge lucca ascended and you play oos ig you get both but if you play only ig then you get only ig bonus).
(Notice the cows possibilities to dominate the meta kappa)

Exiles: When this card dies each player draws a card and then discard a card(they choose).

Warpath: -1/-0  on stats, 3 cost enrage 4, when this card becomes enraged all other Shapeshifter Soldier cards in your deck hand support command and field gains +1/+1.

***Sleepers: -1/-1 on stats, bloodthirst 3.

*not finished*
This card was never finished but I feel it had a cool concept a bit over complicated with the hybrid purity thing but an interesting concept. I notice you can change them by playing more of them and overcharging other cards to fit them on the go with your needs. I would’ve given it a solid 4-5/5 but its unfinished sooo 0/5

---
Number11

Energy Connector
1 GI
1 cost
Unlimited Ability

Target two Artificial cards to connect. Artificial Character gains +2/+2 from Artificial cards it is directly connected to and +1/+1 for all indirectly connected Artificial cards. If target Cards are already indirectly connected, you are refunded 1 resource.
Choose one:
 - Draw a card.
 - If a connected character leaves play and returns later the connection from Energy Connector is reestablished.

Flavor: As Genesis researched alongside Verore they learned how to make translucent connectors that can transfer energy without causing physical obstruction to the connected machines.
Pay 1 for 4/4 stats AND draw a card means this card is a bit OP as you get a constant stream of replacement cards to buff your artificials with. Easy card draw that buffs. Relatively cool concept  to make a network of robots but I feel it starts getting difficult to understand with the indirected connections and remembering whos connected to what without indicators. Still pretty decent idea 4/5

---
quangtit101

Name: Random Demon
Purity: 1 Exile
Type: Unlimited Demon
Rarity: common
Cost: 1
Morale: 2
Attack/Health: 4/4
Rules Text:
Exile 0
Pay 0: discard Random Demon. Your opponent discard a random card, then draw a card (If you opponent's hand is empty, he neither discard nor draw a card)
Flavor Text: We're random, and we are many!
You need to play one and then use its ability to discard another random demon. But once this gets going you can get a ton of free demons and mill your opponent to death. Seems like the beginning of mill in IW. Can get pretty powerful its relatively balanced because they use themselves as resources to power their free ability. 4/5

The winner wouldve been Unlimited Shattering Giant, but I feel Pelagoth should stop entering and winning so many CDC's with his many genius card ideas and give someone else a shot. So Winners:

3rd place we got Grinnin_Gin with Ascended Acolyte

2nd place is quangtit01 with Random Demon

Unfortunately for you, Orisolve you are first and now have to endure the trials of being a judge without much compensation. GL! and Congratulations!

The Loot:
1st place: 1 Faction Pack + 2 Collection Packs
2nd place: 2 Collection Packs
3rd place: 1 Collection Pack