[CDC] Glory or Death [CLOSED]

[Benionin]

Don't really feel up to a redesign, good luck to the rest of the participants

[ToxicShadow]

Alright, judgement shall begin. No new entries from here on.

[ToxicShadow]

Here is the judgement for this challenge:

ecliptix

Name: The Untamed World
Faction/Purity: 3WP OR 2WP/1GI
Type: Unique Location
Rarity: Legendary
Cost: 10

When you play The Untamed World reset your base maximum resources to 1. Neither you nor your opponent may play any non-ability cards costing less than the most expensive creature on the battlefield controlled by any player at the start of the turn. If you do not control any creatures you lose the game.

"The warbands have assembled and the rifts are under our control. Now we drive out the invaders.

This card will probably win you the game if you have the better board at the turn you play it. With the reduced resources and the restriction on playing abilities, there won't be much your opponent can do to resist. Abilities wont save him, and they are unable to play any worthwhile characters until their resources recovered. While it certainly qualifies for the challenge, it is simply too strong and will easily win you the game as long as your board is better than your opponents. And if it is much worse, why would you play the card then?

Grinnin Gin

Name: Ode to Doom
Faction/Purity: CoV/Ex
Type: Mission
Rarity: Epic
Cost: 5
Rules Text: You cannot lose the game while Ode to Doom is in play. Whenever a creature your opponent controls dies, Ode to Doom loses 5% completion. Whenever your opponent deploys a creature, Ode to Doom gains 10% completion. If Ode to Doom reaches 100% completion, you lose the game.

Flavor Text:

Let me spin you the tale of doom,
When the witching hour loomed,

Darkness fell upon the pair,
As they plotted in their lair,

Aleta, hale with hair of gold,
^a%3& , pale and sickly cold,

Scraps of power in words of ink,
Death betwix'd the chains that link,

Comfort could not again be sought,
though they held each other for naught.

They came apart in a bloom and,
Their dying hour was all gloom.

-Cult of Verore Folksong

First and foremost, this certainly qualifies for the challenge. It is a beautifully flavorful card (nice song in the flavor) and fits the main theme of the Verore/exiles well. Good job. It might ends up to be extremly stally though, and it allows you to completly forsake any kind of defense and fully commit to attack and removal. Many decks will struggle to deploy a sufficient amount of characters fast enough to actually be able to complete the mission, even if you only kill every 2nd character deployed they ll need 20 characters. It also counters tokens and mass summoning since those kind of characters would not count as deployed, but still count when being killed. All in all probably too strong, especially since it is a mission and there is currently no other way to get rid of missions than completing them.

mew28

Name: Aberion Champion of the Dawn
Faction/Purity:3FD
Type: Unique Creature - Human
Rarity: Legendary
Cost: 8
Morale: 15
Attack/Health: 15/15
Rules Text:Charge. unstoppable, indestructible
If your opponent did not play any cards this turn and you did not damage there fortress you lose the game.
Aberion can not be moved out of the assault zone
Flavor Text: Once Aberion takes to the field it is like a force of nature that will end with either his victory or the death of a nation.

An interesting rework of Aberion. With 8 cost he comes at the right time when it is valueable for FD to have a linebreaker, and boy is he good at doing that! He could be quite the leader of the last charge to defeat the defenders and push that last needed damage in, or attack repeatedly as invulnerable threat. The idea to lose the game when you dont deal damage is also interesting, but why the addition of your opponent having to not play a card? This is a really strong character, and the high risk of being defeated by suprise defensive actions would suit it well imho...even if it means that a well placed fear could lose you the game. This way, your opponent either needs to have extremly good defenses to deal with aberion without new cards (and why would you play him then?) or they ll have no chance to actually trigger his losing condition.

MerliniX

Name: The Final Ritual
Faction/Purity: 2 CoV
Type: Location
Rarity: Epic
Cost: 1
Rules Text: Untouchable. While 'The Final Ritual' is in play characters cannot attack. Your opponent may exhaust any number of characters they control each turn. For each character exhausted in this way 'The Final Ritual' becomes 2% more complete. Once 'The Final Ritual' reaches 100% completion your opponent wins the game.

Otherwise known as the reverse shrine, Final Ritual is a superior stalling card for CoV. Despite its name which suggests an ability or mission, it is a location which means that you can get rid of it at any time easily - simply by playing a new location. This makes the danger of actually losing through this card very small. That way it creates a pretty frustrating situation for your opponent, since there are little possibilities in the game to actually deal with untouchable locations (I think there is only consecrating angel? and 2 cov should have little problem to get rid of him too as soon as he shows up). All in all, it is probably an op card that would kill any possibility to actually play the game for your opponent with very little (if any!) counterplay possible.

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Djinn of Eternal Thirst
2p FD
5 cost
0 morale
Unique Character- Djinn

Untouchable, Consume 3

Djinn of Eternal Thirst can only be in the support zone if deployed.

If deployed, at the beginning of each turn, choose one:
-Characters in your assault zone gain indestructible until end of turn. Remove this line of text from this card.
-Destroy target deployed permanent. Remove this line of text from this card
-Draw a card, if that card is a character deploy it in your assault zone, at the end of the turn sacrifice that character. Remove this line of text from this card.
-Djinn of Eternal Thirst kills all characters you control, deal 4 damage to target opponent's fortress for each character killed this way. Remove this line of text from this card
-You lose 88 morale. Remove this line of text from this card.
-You lose the game at the end of the turn.

0/20

This is a very interesting card! It brings you no immideate benefit the turn you deploy it which is unusual for most FD cards and will slow you a bit down, but from the next turn on you can start to pick 'wishes'. The fact that you have to pick an option every turn makes this card very strong. There first two options are really useful and strong. the next two options can already become problematic. If you pull a character out of the deck that you wouldnt want to deploy now (sacculus when you dont have enough characters for meaningful damage). The option to kill your board for damage is very strong, but will also deal morale damage and leaves you wide open if it doesnt finish the opponent off. Finally, 88 Morale damage might kill you, and the last option will! kill you with little possibility to avoid it (of course, calamity being an option). Consume 3, although somewhat being an exile ability, is a nice touch on this card if you are able to make it work (and yes, there is at least one way ). All in all it is a very strong card with the potential to win you the game, but if your opponent outlasts your 'wishes' it will lose you the game for sure. Good job!.

Number11

Super Virus Bomb
1p GI, 1p SoA, 1p CoV
3 cost
Artifact

This card enters play under the opponents control. Gains 10% completion at end of turn. At 100% completion the player controlling the card loses the game. The player controlling the card at end of turn loses 5 morale.
Pay 3: Give the opponent control of this card.
Pay 1(Opponent): Negate the effect of the card switching sides until the start of the next turn.

An unfavorable card that can be given to any side with the advantage for the player that plays it. I like that. It costs you morale when you control it, and it kills you the 10th turn after it was played (if you own it then). That is interesting design, and the factions you chose for it are very fitting. The only thing that bugs me about it is how easy the person who doesnt control it can prevent it from changing sides. Especially towards completion, it doesnt seem to be too difficult to pay an upkeep of 1 to keep it under opponents control. But since it is only an unprotected artifact, the controller also has the possibility to get rid of it with artifact hate, so i guess there is always a way out of it, which is nice.

Benionin

Heresiarch Demon
2 CoV
Character
Epic
6 cost
20 Morale
30/30
Flying
You cannot win the game. Your opponent cannot lose the game. (Note: this means that there cannot be a draw)
CARDNAME cannot be the target of your own abilities.
When you play CARDNAME, you lose 20 morale.
Behold the dark summoning circle, splashed with blood. Each sacrifice was cut in two, unholy food. Three bodies there were, angels from afar. Their pieces formed a six-pointed star. Fell was the creature that sprang forth. A shadow cast from south to north. The summoners fled, all betrayed. Their spirits broken by the demonic raid. Treacherous Heresiarch. Your villainy ne'er misses its mark.

As I said before, i actually like the card, but it somewhat reverses the challenge. Not being able to win and your opponent being unable to lose doesnt offer the opponent a new way to win, he actually will win the old way by morale or health. So unfortunatly an invalid entry, but still a cool idea!

ArcaneAzmadi

Name: Take the Field
Faction/Purity: Neutral
Type: Ability
Rarity: Legendary
Cost: 10
Rules Text: Create a personal incarnation in your support zone with your name. Your Fortress health and Morale are removed; your Fortress cannot take damage and you cannot lose Morale.
Flavor Text: If you want something done right...

This ability creates the following character in your Support Zone:

Name: [your player name]
Faction/Purity: [your purity]
Type: Character [gains type for each purity it has: Verore/Genesis/Flame Dawn/DoD=Human, Warpath=Beast, Exiles=Demon, Overseers=Angel, Sleepers=Undead]
Rarity: Legendary
Cost: 0
Morale: 0
Attack/Health: [your remaining Morale when you play Take the Field]/[your remaining Fortress health when you play Take the Field]
Rules Text: Shield 1
[card name] cannot be removed from play by any means other than its destruction, or have its base text altered.
If [card name] is not exhausted, you must move it to the battlefield on your turn.
If [card name] is destroyed, you lose the game.
Pay 10: Destroy target character.
Flavor Text: ...best to do it yourself.

Out of my way, weaklings, it is my turn now....take the field looks really cool and fun to me. With a cost of 10 it depends how much health and morale you still have, but if you have enough left this can be your mighty avatar. Cards like hubris and equilibrium can completly destroy you, and so can double deathray, word of command and so on, so it is a really risky card, but depending on your opponents deck it can also win you the game in one to two turns. Especially with the help of cards like Unstoppable or Give him a jetpack. I think it is a fun card that turns the game for your opponent to a hunt for a giant beast.

Equastro

Name: Mind and Body One
Faction/Purity: 2p DoD
Type: Unique Ability Card
Rarity: Epic
Cost: 4
Morale: -
Attack/Health: -
Rules Text: At the end of the turn, your morale and health are mediated. Starting next turn, for each point of morale damage taken, your fortress now also takes a point of damage. For each point of fortress damage taken, you also take a point of morale damage.
(Your morale and health are set to your current health and morale added together, divided by 2, plus a bonus equal to the current turn count.)
Flavor Text: One can only truly shine, when heart and mind align.

Hm. Not sure if that actually opens up a new way for your opponent to win or you to lose, but i ll let it count. It follows an interesting idea, allowing you to buy time if you are losing on either morale or fortress health alone. It will make it fairly difficult for you to survive since you are basicly adding an invisible, unremovable meliosa for your opponent to the game, which means your morale is going to melt...you lose it with fortress health AND if your characters die. However, it may buys you the time you needed to win yourself. I think it is a solid entry that might doesnt fit the challenge perfectly, but it is still a nice idea.

And here are the winners:

3rd place:

mew28 with Aberion, Champion of the Dawn

2nd place:

ArcaneAzmadi with Take the Field

1st place:

Hiding with Djinn of Eternal Thirst

Drew has been informed about the winners already by me, so you should receive your prizes from him. If your forum names differ from your ingame names though, you might wanna contact him to inform him about that.


Thank you everyone for your submissions, there have been a lot of interesting ideas and it has been a fun to judge the challenge!

Congratulations to the winners and i am looking forward to the next challenge!

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Ill make one eventually got tests coming up. Ill try to get one out thursday