[CDC] Forgotten Powers [Closed!]

[ToxicShadow]

Card Design Challenge - Forgotten Powers - Contest Closed

Greetings, fellow card designers.
You all know keywords. Abilities that occur so often that they get a standard word to save text on the cards. A prime example would be flying or charge which have a ton of cards connected to them. However, there are some keywords that don't occur often at all. Time to change that:

Design a card that revolves around an underused keyword!

To make things easier for you, I have made a list of keywords that are currently used for 5 or less cards:
Flamestrike/Immolated
Poison/Poisoned
Opening
Bloodthirst
Plunder X
Unblockable


There are no restrictions on purity or card type. Every entry must revolve around one of these keywords. It is perfectly fine if the card itself doesn't have the keyword, but gives it to other cards (like kyrallic) or interacts with cards that have the chosen keyword (like drag down). Conditional keywords (like reach in killaroo) are also welcome.


I will judge the card to the best of my abilities for:
-Balance (is the card underwhelming/OP or opens up op combos?)

-Creativity (is the card adding something intruiging that we didn't see yet?)

-Flavor (does it fit to the faction it is placed in? I appreciate if cards tie into the current lore, but it is by no means required)




--- 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

SUGGESTED SUBMISSION FORMAT
Name:
Faction/Purity:
Type:
Rarity:
Cost:
Morale:
Attack/Health:
Rules Text:
Flavor Text:


The challenge is open for submissions until Friday, 17th February.

[ecliptix]

Name: Fire Dragoon
Faction/Purity: 1 DoD / 1 FD
Type: Creature - Human
Rarity: Uncommon
Cost: 3
Morale: 4
Attack/Health: 7/7

Rules Text:

Haste

The first time you deploy Fire Dragoon choose one of the following:

Overcharge Fire Dragoon with a Flame Dawn Card. It gains charge and flame Strike 3.

Overcharge Fire Dragoon with a Descendants of the Dragon card. It gains vigilance and the text "This card takes 2 less damage from all sources"

If you do not overcharge Fire Dragoon, it gains +2/+2 when you deploy it.



Flavor Text: To simply become a dragoon is considered a great honor. To die to one is an even greater one.

Edit: Altered abilities to make them a "Toggle" and changed stats to reflect.

[TameRlane]

Name: Burn the Sky! (Purify the Sky), (Cleanse the Skies)
Faction/Purity: 3p FD
Type: Ability
Rarity: Epic
Cost: 7

Rules Text:
Flamestrike 8
Deal 8 damage to each character on the battlefield with flying. (Characters dealt damage this way become immolated, taking 8 additional damage at the end of each turn.)

Characters you control that started the turn on the battlefield cannot be moved to the support zone this turn.

Flavor Text:
"...For this is the hour of the Phoenix.
When skies are awash with flame.
As we fight beneath pyres,
and the sky cries tears of fire..."
from "Under the Flaming Banner"- anonymous Flame Dawn poet.

[MerliniX]

Name: Painstone
Faction/Purity: 2CoV
Type: Artifact
Rarity: Rare
Cost: 4
Rules Text: All Abilities you control have Flamestrike 2

[Vuurjopi]

Traitorous Citizen
Faction/Purity: 1 EX
Type: human
Rarity: rare
Cost: 2
Morale: 2
Attack/Health: 0/7
Rules Text: Unblockable, every time Traitorous Citizen attacks, it deals itself 4 damage.
Flavor Text: Even the great wall of Jinhai can't stop the corruption of the mind.

[marvelouschester]

Name: The first infected
Faction/Purity: 2p SoA
Type: Human
Rarity: rare
Cost: 4
Morale: 0
Attack/Health: 6/6
Rules Text: haste. if the first infected were to die, he moves to the support zone and transforms into undead with 6/6 with blood thirst 3
Flavor Text: knowing well from the results of the previous experiments, the scientist ran as fast as he could thinking he may save his colleagues from his fate. but no one out runs this virus

[NatoPotato]

Diseased Parasite
2 SA
Undead Character
Cost: 4
Morale: 5
Stats: 0/4

Bloodthirst 6
When Diseased Parasite deals damage to a Character, that character becomes Poisoned, taking 2 damage at the end of each turn.



Basic idea is it feeds off its victims similar to consume, except instead of killing the enemy and eating them it infects the enemy and gradually drains their vitality.
By using a high bloodthirst level but low max health it's quite resilient to combat but also quite weak to other sources of damage.
Since bloodthirst doesn't lower current health when it reverts it's possible for the card to be fully healed simply by fighting characters with less than 6 attack.
It's used well in defense, as that way you can poison a decent number of units, ideally their whole assault zone.
Bonus points for using multiple keywords?

[Hiding]

Rolling Ooze
1p Warpath + 1p Exiles
6 cost
8 morale
Character- Slime

Unstoppable, Consume 2

Rolling Ooze gains Bloodthirst 2 while in the assault zone.

When Rolling Ooze dies, deploy 1/1 Slimes in your support zone for each 10 max health Rolling Ooze had before it died rounded down.

8/12

"You know what snowballs are right? I mean you don't see too many in the desert, but the idea is as a snowball rolls, it collects more pieces of things around it getting bigger and bigger. The same concept applies here." -Balrik, the Rune Channeler

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Ion Excavator
1p GI
7 cost
Location- Artificial

Plunder X

At the end of each turn Ion Excavator deals 5X damage to your opponent's fortress where X is the number of Charge counters on Ion Excavator.

Exhaust 3 characters: Ion Excavator gains 1 Charge counter until end of turn.

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Blood Fervor
1p Exiles
5 cost
Ability

All deployed characters gain an additional bloodthirst 4.
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Idea is, if everything gets bloodthirst, nothing really does until new things get played without bloodthirst. "Additional" is to add onto anything that already has bloodthirst so bloodthirst 2 would become bloodthirst 6

[Hiding]

Name: Painstone
Faction/Purity: 2CoV
Type: Artifact
Rarity: Rare
Cost: 4
Rules Text: All Abilities you control have Flamestrike 2

I guess you could call it, a Flamestone

[Hiding]

What about keywords like Shield or Multistrike or Lives? I feel like those are used not so often I could be wrong though.

[NTL]

Name: Sigil of Insanity
Faction/Purity: 2 Exile
Type: Mission
Rarity: Rare
Cost: 1
Rules Text:

This card becomes 20% more complete for each demon you deployed.
If Sigil of Insanity is complete, all deployed demons gain Bloodthirst 2 and all non-Demon deployed Characters are getting Immolated and take 2 damage every turn.

Flavor Text: Only madness can be shield in chaotic times.

[ToxicShadow]

What about keywords like Shield or Multistrike or Lives? I feel like those are used not so often I could be wrong though.

I wanted to give the rarest keywords a chance, so I decided for those which have 5 or less cards associated with them. All the keywords you mentioned have more than that. However,  it is true that in IW the majority of keywords are not used a lot. If I had gone for keywords with 10 or less cards, then it would have about doubled the amount of keywords available for the challenge, including such keywords as enrage, consume, exile and more.

[ORISOLVE]

Name: Infected Aspirant
Faction/Purity: 1 Flame Dawn
Type: Human
Rarity: Common
Cost: 2
Morale: 6
Attack/Health: 4/2
Rules Text: Unlimited, Bloodthirst 3, Charge

When Infected Aspirant is killed, it transforms into an Undead Character (Zombie - 4/4) and moves to the Support Zone instead.

Flavor Text: In all our years of battle against the Sleepers Of Avarrach, did you not think that it was strange that not a single Aspirant had been infected. Come at me bruh, I'm a OP Aspirant.

[Assamit3]

Card Name : Cystbearer
Card Cost : 3
Morale Cost : 6
Type : Character
Stats : 4/8
Faction : Double SoA Purity

Each time Cystbearer is damaged while deployed it creates a Spore Mine on the Support Zone.

"Go forth and spead the virus my child" Aleta, Immortal Sufferer

Spore Mine
Cost : 1
Morale : 1
Stats : 0/2

When Spore Mine dies on the battlefield every other character on the same zone and the zone opposing it becomes Poisoned taking 1 damage and the end of each turn.

[MakinoMane]

Name: Siege Breaker
Faction/Purity: 2 Flame Dawn
Type: Character
Rarity: Epic
Cost: 7
Morale: 9
Attack/Health: 5/20
Rules Text: Unblockable

If this unit is in the front of the assault zone, all friendly units deal 1 damage to the enemy fortress when they attack this combat.

Flavor Text: Sometimes, you just need a really big weapon to get the job done.