[CDC] Type Change [CLOSED]

[NatoPotato]

Card Design Challenge – Type Change

I want to see your designs for a card that becomes a different type as part of some sort of transformation/transition.


The only existing card I can think of off the top of my head that does something like this is Weaponize, and that just turns an artifact into a textless, generic token.
I'd like to see some more interesting cards using this mechanic on themselves, not just turning a separate card into some token.

Just to clarify it's TYPE, not sub-type (human, beast, etc) or super-type (unique, unlimited), I'm talking Character, Artifact, Location, Ability, Mission. (using Ability or Mission would probably be more difficult but if you can make it work that's cool)

The change could be one-way or reversible, and while it may be practically identical mechanics wise I'm not really looking for a card that is used just to create another card, basically it should be a continuation of the same object/being/effect, just in a different form, more or less.

(Make sure you keep in mind that if it can transform into a character multiple times its stats will be reset each time, unless otherwise specified in your entry)




--- Card Design Challenge Rules ---
1) The Judge appoints a challenge, it can be anything, making new card, redesigning an old one or whatever you wish.
2) All that wish to participate submit their card design. Each participant may only submit one entry per challenge, you may however edit your post as many times as you wish till the deadline.
3) If you edit your post you should make an additional post in this thread informing of the edit to make sure that the updated version of the card will be judged. The post should contain the full updated card details as well as a brief summary of what changed from your original submission.
4) After an announced deadline the Judge decides a winner. The winner then becomes the Judge for the next round.
5) All entries submitted before the deadline are guaranteed feedback, either in this thread or in another detailed feedback thread.

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

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Submissions Close on Friday October 21, 2016 2:30 AM PST

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Haunting Guilt
1p DoD 1p Verore
5 cost
Ability

Target player loses 10 morale

At the end of the turn, if a character your opponent controls died this turn and this card is in your graveyard, return it to play Flipped.

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Haunting Delusion (flipped)
1p DoD 1p Verore
0 cost
0 morale
Character- Spirit

Flying

If this card kills a character your opponent controls or if a character your opponent controls dies while this is in play, return it to your hand and Flip it.

12/1
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Morale drain card that gives you the option of getting it back and using it again.

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Skin Alive
1p Verore 1p Exiles
3 cost
Ability

At the end of each turn, target deployed character gains -0/-4.

If the targeted character dies while this card is in the graveyard, Flip this card, it gains all text and original stats of the targeted character. Deploy this card in your support zone.

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Skin Wearer [Flipped]
1p Verore 1p Exiles
5 cost
7 morale
Character- Demon Horror

Pay 2: If this card dies this turn, return this card to your hand and Flip it.

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A bit more complex method of copying something, but it's a decent repeatable removal. You can also reuse it to copy different things after using it to block or combat things by activating its ability. Comparable with Undead Corruption

[drewmb10]

Michael, Archangel of Heaven
3p Oos
Unique Character - Angel
Legendary
Cost: 6
Morale: 12
10/10

Flying

While Michael, Archangel of Heaven is on the Battlefield, all Angels you control have +2/+2.

If Michael dies on the Battlefield, he instead moves to the support zone and transforms into The Sword of Light.


The Sword of Light
3p OoS
Artifact
Cost: 0

The Sword of Light may not be deployed from hand. If The Sword of Light is destroyed, it is removed from the game.

All Angels you control have +2/+2.

[ToxicShadow]

using Ability or Mission would probably be more difficult but if you can make it work that's cool

Hm, now I have to make one of those .

Festering Infestation
Purity: 2 SoA
Cost: 2
Type: Unique Mission
Rarity: Rare

Your opponent may activate this card to exhaust target deployed character he controls. Festering Infestation becomes 25% more complete for every character exhausted that way. Once it reaches 100%, sacrifice Festering Infestation.

At the end of each turn, Festering Infestation gains an Infestation Level. Once it reaches Infestation Level 4, it transforms into a 14/10 Undead Infested Swarm with infect.

The main force of the sleepers might be gone, but there are still areas tainted by the virus. If left unattended, they might become the cradle of a new outbreak.


Infested Swarm
Purity: 2 SoA
Cost: 5
Morale: 6
Type: Character - Undead
Stats: 14/10
Rarity: Rare

Infect

An accumulation of bugs, small animals, plants, corpses and scrapped machines. In times of need even the virus is not picky.


Comment:
 A slight twist on the mission cards. Instead of giving yourself a mission and gain a reward for your success, you give your opponent a mission and gain a reward for their failure.

Lorewise this represents tainted patches of virus left after the sleepers defeat, scattered around the different worlds that have been attacked. Small infected animals, infected plants, persons, machines or land. Not very dangerous as long as someone cleans up the mess, but leaving it unattended might be a bad idea.

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I dont think the virus ever was very picky.

[JLazeZ]

Merlin Prime

Purity / 3GI
Rarity / Legendary
Cost / 5

Unique Artifact

Overcharge Artificial Characters, The total cost of the Overcharged Characters must be equal to or greater than 9: Transform Merlin Prime into Merlin IX.


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Merlin IX

Purity / 3GI
Rarity / Legendary
Cost / 0
Morale / 15

Unique Character - Artificial
Power / 20
Health / 20

Sacrifice Merlin Prime Artifact: Choose one of the following,
- Create a 10/10 Artificial Character in your Support Zone.
- Merlin IX gains Shield 2
- Merlin IX gains +12/12

[Number11]

Mobile Air Base
2 purity GI - Rare
4 cost
Location

All of your flying characters have Haste.
Pay 5: Mobile Air Base turns into a 20/20 Artificial Character with Flying and retains previous text.


Mobile Air Base
2 purity GI - Rare
9 cost
5 morale
Character - Artificial
20/20
Flying

All of your flying characters have Haste.


If you manage to get Mobile Air Base back to your hand after turning it into a character, it will apply Haste to itself as soon as it is played.

[ecliptix]

Sigil of the Wild Dragon
2p WP
Epic
4 cost
Unique Mission

Whenever a creature you control kills another creature, Sigil of the Wild Dragon becomes 10% more complete per cost of the opposing creature killed. When it becomes 100% or more complete, it transforms into Draco, The Untamed .

Draco, The Untamed.
2p WP
Epic
7 Cost
Unique Creature
Dragon
25/25
15 Morale

Flying, Unstoppable

When Draco, The Untamed is transformed from Sigil of the Wild Dragon, move all creatures your opponent controls to the defense zone and move Draco, the Untamed to the Assault zone. At the end of the turn, Draco, The Untamed transforms back into Sigil of the Wild Dragon and has 0% completion.

"If you can hear his roar, its already too late."

Edit 1: to be more IW friendly and not necessarily reflect "how MTG" would do it. Basically the idea is that you kill some creatures and get a nice beefy dragon that redirects an attack with initiative MID COMBAT letting you go all out with WP for some serious damage thus making "Go for the face" dangerous...For your opponent.

Edit 2: Changed completion conditions for the card to reflect total cost of kills rather than number of creatures killed. Additionally, changed Draco to allow for possible repetition of his ability by permitting him to both attack and transform BACK into a mission.

[NTL]

Self-replicating Nanobots Device
2p GI
Artifact
Rarity: Rare
Cost: 2

At the start of each turn, gains 1 Charge.
Pay 2, target character gains 0/+8 and gains 2 Charges.
If there are 6 Charges or more, transform into Nanite Field Location.
If there is Nanite Field Location already created and there are at least 3 Charges, Self-replicating Nanobots Device destroys itself and your fortress is repaired 5 damage.
If this Artifact is destroyed, creates new Self-replicating Nanobots Device at the end of the next turn.


Nanite Field
2p GI
Location
Rarity: Rare
Cost: 0

At the start of each turn, creates 1 Self-replicating Nanobots Device Artifact.
At the end of the turn, all Characters you control gains 0/+2.

[Interesting_Socks]

Chieftain of Honor
2p DoD
Human
Rarity: Rare
Cost 4
Moral: 0
Unique

8/12 Stats

"If this character would die, it transforms into an artifact instead"

....

Artifact:
Statue of Chieftain

"If this is in play all your characters have a moral cost of 0"
"Sacrifice Statue of Chieftain, lose 10 moral, summon ghost of Chieftain"

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Ghost of Chieftain

Spirit
12/8 Stats

"If this character would die, it is removed from the game instead"

[Grinnin_Gin]

Name: The Visage of the Nameless
Faction/Purity: Factionless
Type: Unique Artifact
Rarity: Legendary
Cost: 1
Rules Text: Untouchable. Whenever a character on the battlefield dies, The Visage of the Nameless gains a counter. When The Visage of the Nameless has 30 or more counters, transform it into The Nameless.
Flavor Text: Looks like an old statue. But who built it? Damn thing looks creepy. - Genesis Field Researcher.

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Name: The Nameless
Faction/Purity: Factionless
Type: Unique Creature - Unknown
Rarity: Legendary
Cost: 10
Morale: 0
Attack/Health: 30/30
Rules Text: Untouchable. The Nameless cannot be killed by non-damage sources. When The Nameless enters play, both players gain 25 morale and 25 life, both players shuffle their graveyards into their decks, and both players draw two cards. If The Nameless dies, you lose the game.

Flavor Text: The truth of creation made nnnnnnnnnnnnnnn-not-flesh. 5. All who gaze upon [indecipherable] are loved. The rifts are lies, cracks in all things. 2. She should not exist. J*#$% should not exist. They r the Devil made flesh. 8. I have seen the top of the great mountain. The G0dhead above the Godhead.[Unknown string of symbols approximately 2135 pages long] I have seen the nature of life, and do you know what I saw? Hell. - Final transmission from Genesis Field Research Team #2215

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Sigil of the Ancient Dragon
2p WP
Rare
5 cost
Unique Mission

Whenever a creature you control kills another creature, Sigil of the Ancient Dragon becomes 20% more complete. When a creature you control is killed by another creature, it becomes 10% less complete. When it becomes 100% complete, it transforms into Draco, The Untamed .

Draco, The Untamed.
2p WP
Rare
7 Cost
Unique Creature
Dragon
25/25
15 Morale

Flying, Unstoppable

When Draco, The Untamed enters the game, return all creatures in the opposing assault zone to their respective support zone.

"If you can hear his roar, its already too late."

Not sure of IW rulings but for MTG things transforming dont trigger enter the battlefield (or enters play) effects so you might need to indicate a special "when it transforms" to make it work when it transforms.

[mew28]

Arcane Demonic Battery
Purity: 1CoV 1Exiles
Cost: 4
Type: Artifact
Rarity: Rare

Spells cost 1 less to play

May overcharge this card to turn this card into a Escaped Arcane Demon

Exploiting the power of an unwilling, wild demon. What could possibly go wrong?

Arcane Demon
Purity: 1 Exiles
Cost: 4
Morale: 5
Type: Character - Demon
Stats: 12/12
Rarity: Rare


Spells cost 1 less to play
Free and very angry!

[ArcaneAzmadi]

Name: Hostile Terrain
Faction/Purity: Warpath 2
Type: Location
Rarity: Rare
Cost: 3
Rules Text: Pay 4: Hostile Terrain transforms into a character until end of turn. Choose a battlefield zone to move it into.
Flavor Text: "Something doesn't feel right here... I can sense something watching us, but I can't see anything..." - Lucca

Name: Hostile Terrain (character)
Faction/Purity: Warpath 2
Type: Elemental Character
Rarity: Rare
Cost: 3
Morale: 14
Attack/Health: 10/20
Flavor Text: "Oh great, I'm going to be killed by a pun." - Lucca

[ToxicShadow]

Name: Hostile Terrain
Faction/Purity: Warpath 2
Type: Location
Rarity: Rare
Cost: 3
Rules Text: Pay 4: Hostile Terrain transforms into a character until end of turn.
Flavor Text: "Something doesn't feel right here... I can sense something watching us, but I can't see anything..." - Lucca

Name: Hostile Terrain (character)
Faction/Purity: Warpath 2
Type: Elemental Character
Rarity: Rare
Cost: 3
Morale: 14
Attack/Health: 10/20
Rules Text: Haste
Flavor Text: "Oh great, I'm going to be killed by a pun." - Lucca

I think the way this is phrased, it wouldn't work at all. Since the transformation is an activatable ability, you would not be able to move the character until the ability has resolved. So haste would do nothing for the character, and at the end of turn it will return to being a location.

It's the same like using awaken or raise dead on characters with haste, you don't really get to use them the turn you raise them from the grave since you can't move them around during planning phase. Maybe remove the haste and change the transform effect to sth like 'Hostile Terrain transforms into a character until end of turn and is moved to a battlefield zone of your choice.'