[CDC] Forgotten Powers [Closed!]

[Prince of Lies]

Name: The Authoritarian
Faction/Purity: 1 Cult of Verore, 1 Overseers of Solace
Type: Character - Unique, Human
Rarity: Epic
Cost: 1
Morale: 25
Attack/Health: 0/9
Rules Text:
Opening
You can only have 1 copy of this card in your deck.
While on the battlefield, any other cards in play have their effects negated.
Pay 4: Activate an ability of a target Character in play
Pay 6: Activate an Ability card from any graveyard
If this card is not on the battlefield, it dies and is removed from play.

Flavor Text:
"Free will is an anomaly that needs correction. Respect order and it shall respect you." - The Authoritarian


I don't know if I worded things right.
Limit on card copy, I think it's right, right? Otherwise, if not specified, people would put more than one copy and they all get played when the match starts, right?
The "silence" effect only works when the card is on the field. So while Ability cards will be affected, Characters with Haste, Vigilance and Charge will still function as normal. Effects that resolve from or in the graveyard such as Black Bind Witch, Infested Abomination and self-resurrection effects still work as normal.
Its Pay 4 ability, I hope is worded to only apply to Character Abilities that can be activated such as the Aletas, etc.

[marvelouschester]

*bump*

[Prince of Lies]

Edited description and increased Morale cost of the Authoritarian.

[Benionin]

Demon of Greed
2 purity Exiles
Character--Demon
Rarity: Rare
Cost: 2
Morale: 5X
Attack/Health: 6/6

When you deploy CARDNAME, select a number. CARDNAME gains Plunder X and its morale cost is set to 5X.

Don't get too greedy...
Quit while you're ahead...
When will you have enough?...
Careful, there...

Cowards.

[Hiding]

Demon of Greed
2 purity Exiles
Character--Demon
Rarity: Rare
Cost: 2
Morale: 5X
Attack/Health: 6/6

When you deploy CARDNAME, select a number. CARDNAME gains Plunder X and its morale cost is set to 5X.

Don't get too greedy...
Quit while you're ahead...
When will you have enough?...
Careful, there...

Cowards.

Endgame choose something crazy like 20 then use Descend into Madness= mill yourself to death

[ToxicShadow]

Wow, you didn't make it easy for me...there are a lot of entries that i actually like and it was difficult for me to choose just the best 3...and then even a ranking between those 3. Great work everyone!

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.

Vigilance + Charge = Haste ... Makes sense! A versatile card for the combination of two factions that specialize in opposite tactics and depending on your deck either able to be used for defense or offense. I think that is about what a DoD/FD mixed card should be, so good job here. I also like how deploying him into the support zone makes him just stronger...9/9 for 3 is quite decent, and the 7/9 vigilance with damage reduction is also great. Only the flamestrike variation is a bit weaker imo, since Flamestrike performs best in defense. However, with the buffing capabilities of DoD, even this variation of the character can shine if your deck isn't hyper aggressive. So good job!

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.

Burn you pesky angels flyers! Burn (purify...or cleanse? make up your mind! ) the sky is an aoe with conditional targeting, not unlike Humans must die but restricted to the battlefield. At 3p FD you should have little to no problem to avoid being hit when building your deck accordingly, and the second effect of the card would help in FD mirror matches (and again, against angels too). And what doesn't die with the first hit is likely to die within the next few turns thanks to flame strike. It is at least a very useful sideboard card should you fail to rush an opponent with lots of flyers down and the fire theme fits FD well. Now, what i don't like about this card is actually that I don't really want FD to have a damage AoE like that. I like the way how FD abilities are able to work around characters without actually damaging or killing them (mostly), and i think this faction identity should remain. Also, it is a very niche card that will only matter in certain match-ups and then only if your opponent actually manages to withstand your rush with enough of a board and fortress life remaining till then to make this the best option to play, instead of sacculus/wish or rally.

MerliniX

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

Otherwise known as the flamestone - hah, didn't see that coming, huh?...

I guess you could call it, a Flamestone

Aw, damn - this is a (trolly) nerf of the actual painstone since Flamestrike 2 does not stack and procs at the end of turn instead of immideatly. But at least it fits the challenge requirements (although flamestrike in CoV is kinda weird). So, yay?

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.

I quite like this one. It is rather difficult to make a balanced unblockable card, and i actually like how you have to increase its attack before it is useful at all. Since you placed him at 1purity, there are plenty of possibilities to make it work. The fact that he can damage/kill himself through repeated attacking makes it even more difficult to use, but since the card is really cheap for a might ability like unblockable, i would really like to try out. Nice card!

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

A new member of the infected cycle, this human is really fast to be still human when the game starts, but no one escapes the grim fate! He is interesting, especially since none of his two forms really trades 1:1 with 'standard' 4 cost characters, but both forms togheter certainly can. He combos nicely with tome or just as another stall support for SoA and would probably be an excellent choice against aggressive decks with relatively frail characters (which faction could that ever be ?). All in all a solid entry!

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.

I love the idea behind this entry. Without buffs this character can't even damage the opponents fortress, but he performs pretty good in combat. Again, this character shines against smaller opponents compared to his peers at the same cost, but he can afflict stronger characters with a nasty poison. My main critic is his low health which means that he is sniped very easily...maybe a bit too easily for a 4 cost card, considering all the cards available for direct damage to characters. In many games he will probably share the fate of his 2 cost bloodthirst pal. Oh, and I like that you used 2 keywords, but bonus points are from 3 keywords upwards .

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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

Keep on rolling, rolling....Unstoppable, Consume and conditional bloodthirst make for a hell of good mix. I like how this can eat an entire line of chump blockers and grow when doing it. It would finally be a good card to make you play the ex/wp combination, and if you get it rolling it can be extremly hard to stop. Its last ability is a homage to the only slime in the game so far, giving you some chump blockers yourself when it dies. I think it is not a bad idea to make this kind of spawning of 1/1s a slime theme if ever new slimes were to be added...I like it when cards with similar theme also follow similar mechanics. Another card that I like, great work!

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.

A straightforward mission that screams for demon tribal decks. The payoff of completing the mission is actually very good. Not only are all your demons buffed, your opponents get immolated. Interestingly, the pay-off doesn't stack, so the fact that the mission isn't unique is not much of a problem. The biggest problem of this mission might be the ease which it can be pulled off with...deploying 5 demons in a demon tribal deck is no problem at all, and immolate 2 combined with bloodthirst 2 could even be a bit much for this 1 cost mission. That being said it is still a solid entry.

[ToxicShadow]

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.

Now that is what happens if you sent all your unexperienced, light melee troops against an enemy driven by a highly infectious virus! Smart tactics indeed! And as the flavor text already states, this is stronger version of the vanilla aspirant. Thanks to bloodthirst 3, it performs in battle about as well as other fd charge 2 drops- against low attack targets even better- however doesn't deal the same damage to a fortress. Killing them will transform it to a 4/4 zombie, which basicly means these aspirants have an inbuilt immortal sufferer. This character could be about balanced, if it weren't unlimited or at higher purity. Just imagine this assault paired with xi for example. It could be a truly fearsome aspirant token spam, although it is somewhat countered by the relatively high morale cost. To be completly honest I am not even sure if I am overestimating the sheer potential of spamming those, but i think spamming them might simply be too good.

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.

Another interesting character. You didnt specify it, but given that he is placed at SoA purity, I assume he and his spore mines are undead - which makes them synergize fantasticly with Zombie scavengers. The poison on the spore mines is quite nice too. Poison does not stack, so even if you have a lot of spore mines, the opponent will not be completly shut down. And having your own characters poisoned which 1 can sometimes be suprisingly useful. The cystbearer also goes well with DoD-buffs, allowing him to create more spore mines, and he fits well into the zombie theme. I liked that you placed the actual keyword for this one on the mines and not on himself. The purity prevents it from being used togheter with death blast, which was also a good move. The biggest problem i see with him is that he could be placed with the rita/aleta sufferer engine to stall the game even more reliably. Still a decent entry!

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.

The big brother of the siege breaker is taking the field! His low attack goes well with the fact that he is unblockable, although he has an unholy synergy with balance here due to his extremly high health (for a FD card). His second ability is somewhat similar to sacculas, in fact sacculas does it for more damage, more reliability and you dont have to risk your board if the opponent has a strong defense. In fact, i think in pure FD decks sacculas and wish actually do unblockable and the damage ability better than this card does, but in a DoD/2FD deck it might be worth a try just for balance. But in general i would prefer sacculas over this card in most 2p+ FD decks.

mew28

Name: Dying Knight
Faction/Purity:FD2
Type: Character
Rarity: Common
Cost:3
Morale: 1
Attack/Health:16/1
Rules Text: Flame strike 5
Flavor Text: Teetering on the brink of death, the perfect time for one final heroic strike.

This card is similar to rapier fanatic with its low health and high attack at 3 cost - and in fact i think it is outclassed by the fanatic in any way. Due to the high attack, flame strike will be unnecessary in most engagements, especially since you probably would want this card to lead the attack. In addition, the low health makes it easy for the opponent to get rid of the knight before he even reaches the battlefield, even more so since he lacks charge.

tmoua805

Name: Raining Poison Tipped Arrows
Faction/Purity: 2p DoD
Type: Ability
Rarity: uncommon
Cost: 4
Rules Text: All deployed characters your opponent control take 1 damage and are Poisoned, taking one damage at the end of each turn. For each Eagle Eye you have deployed, this ability deals one more damage and adds one more damage to the Poison. 
Flavor Text: "Foolish of them to bring their armies to try to siege our Great Wall"

I can quite imagine the DoD shooting volleys of arrows down their wall...seems like a good idea. I don't feel like they would rely on poison though, since they feel like they are very honorable, but maybe that is not me and it is a minor point, if any. The bigger problem i see with that card is the fact that it specificly relies on eagle eyes. I don't think that cards should rely on a specific card like that. I don't really mind if a card needs a certain type, like human or beast...that leaves me still plenty of choice to build a deck the way i want. But cards like this, especially when they are good...i hate the feeling when my deck builts itself because taking one card means that i have to choose another very specific card. Plus, for newer players it feels akward to get such a card in a pack, but not having an eagle eye...or only one. Other than that i think the card is balanced...it has a lot of potential as some kind of one-side yuanshi with poison, but that potential needs quite the set-up (considering that eagle eye isnt a cheap card either).

Prince of Lies

Name: The Authoritarian
Faction/Purity: 1 Cult of Verore, 1 Overseers of Solace
Type: Character - Unique, Human
Rarity: Epic
Cost: 1
Morale: 25
Attack/Health: 0/9
Rules Text:
Opening
You can only have 1 copy of this card in your deck.
While on the battlefield, any other cards in play have their effects negated.
Pay 4: Activate an ability of a target Character in play
Pay 6: Activate an Ability card from any graveyard
If this card is not on the battlefield, it dies and is removed from play.

Flavor Text:
"Free will is an anomaly that needs correction. Respect order and it shall respect you." - The Authoritarian

*Correction* This card has opening - another keyword that is rather difficult to master. I am not sure if a card with opening would even cost anything (i believe it wouldn't except when it is sent to command or your hand), so you get him completly for free. And there lies the problem. Being able to be on the battlefield at turn 2, he can completly shut down decks that rely on the abilities of their commanders early on. These decks have it tough thanks to humble anyways. In the worst case, this card is killed by a kill spell relatively early, but while it will have a big morale impact, it will also still be fine tempo-wise...you ll delay ability reliant decks more than the high morale penalty would hurt you (plus, he is an excellent kill spell bait against decks like that). Paying 4 to activate all and every ability can also be quite scary in combination with cards like patient zero in command.

Benionin

Demon of Greed
2 purity Exiles
Character--Demon
Rarity: Rare
Cost: 2
Morale: 5X
Attack/Health: 6/6

When you deploy CARDNAME, select a number. CARDNAME gains Plunder X and its morale cost is set to 5X.

Don't get too greedy...
Quit while you're ahead...
When will you have enough?...
Careful, there...

Cowards.

Took til the last entry until someone dared take on plunder . This is a simple, yet elegant design. It combos well with a multitude of cards without being overpowered, even boyo and honorable farewell can be useful her...or simply splat if you need to get rid of him. you can actually screw yourself over with ridiculous choices for X, but that is on you the player. Or you can choose X=0 if you are tight on morale, which still gives you a decent 2 cost demon for a demon tribal deck without morale costs. I really like it. Well done!

3rd place

Benionin with Demon of Greed: Sometimes, beauty and elegance lay in simplicity. I love how this card links risk and reward. I really like the idea and its smart execution. Great work!

2nd place

Vuurjopi with Traitorous Citizen: Unblockable is not an easy keyword to tackle, and the line between too strong and too weak is thin. I feel this is a good attempt for a cheap unblockable character....without putting more work into him, he isnt going to do anything really. In return, if you manage to invest into him and keep him alive, he can turn into a beast. Nicely done.

1st place:

ecliptix with Flame Dragoon: I love the versatility on this card, and how it changes depending where you deploy it. In fact it might be a bit on the strong side for a haste character - especially outside WP - but it might just be what the rather difficult purity combination FD/DoD needs, and having haste makes kind of sense for a card with that purity.

Congratulations to the winners and thank you for participating. Selecting the winners was very difficult this time, i had around 5 cards in mind that would have deserved a top 3 place, so it could have gone either way.

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That dude had Opening

the authoritarian dude

[ToxicShadow]

You are right. I completly missed that. I am very sorry. He wouldn't have ranked among my top picks anyways, but i ll see to it that he gets a full review like he deserves.

[Prince of Lies]

You are right. I completly missed that. I am very sorry. He wouldn't have ranked among my top picks anyways, but i ll see to it that he gets a full review like he deserves.

Next time, omit the bolded segment when you fail to include someone's entry because you didn't see it. Although, knowing that my post was before the last entry, I should be more skeptical with bias.
But there is no need to disclose your personal rankings regardless if you were thinking of top 5 or top 10. The Top 3 have already been identified.
This is a contest governed by the informed judgment and subjectivity of a single person.

Just a feedback with how this contest is operated, maybe the judge can show how much an entry scores in the criteria. So future contestants can improve from their entries.
I mean, you certainly say that you're judging by Balance, Creativity and Flavor which you did on reviews.
But what I see in the winning cards is mostly how beneficial they would be (especially to established players) when they are converted into actual cards in the game. So is Balance 60%, Creativity 30% and Flavor 10%?
Or maybe you should just replace Flavor with a different criteria if Flavor is not compulsory.
I know running contests is not an easy task. But coming from a new player who abandoned the game in a month last year and only returned like... three months ago, this does not feel like a warm welcome back into the game and much less than the community.

Anyway, congratulations to all of the winners!
Well done on your efforts. It has been nice to know that the forums aren't completely dead.

[NatoPotato]

"It combos well with a multitude of cards without being overpowered"

Um, correct me if I'm wrong but, demon of greed(set X to 20) + infiltrate + called shot(or other kill/deal 6+ damage ability) = 1 turn insta-win. (unless they have Solace Gate)

[NTL]

there is no need to disclose your personal rankings regardless if you were thinking of top 5 or top 10. The Top 3 have already been identified.
This is a contest governed by the informed judgment and subjectivity of a single person.

There is nothing more to say on the subject.
Judge has no obligation to even comment entries outside of his top 3, he could just comment all the rest of it with 'I just like 3 ideas more' and no one should complain.

[ToxicShadow]

"It combos well with a multitude of cards without being overpowered"

Um, correct me if I'm wrong but, demon of greed(set X to 20) + infiltrate + called shot(or other kill/deal 6+ damage ability) = 1 turn insta-win. (unless they have Solace Gate)

You are absolutly right. The idea of infiltrating that one didn't even occur to me. With that combo it would be OP of course.


@prince
All I wanted to say is that i wouldn't have ranked your creation in a top 3 prize rank, that is all. I didn't mean to be rude with that or anything, all i wanted to express was that you didn't miss out on a prize. Of course it sucks that I somehow messed up and didn't see the keyword (and I don't even know how i managed to not see it, I even checked multiple times before ranking it invalid), but i can hardly undo that part.

As for the rest, yes, the contest is highly subjective, especially with only 1 judge....after all I can't test balance, and most people will not submit cards they personally think are bad.

I usually look at the cards and think about how they would behave in game. That of course is only an estimation based on my experience with the game. And it can lead to oversight when some combos do not come to my mind, like the infiltration combo Nato mentioned.

What happens here is a bit like when a new set is released, and you see your opponent pull off a simple effective combo with a new card that seems obvious, but you kind of never thought about it.

I can of course attach numerical values to how i rate the cards, but then again, what is the difference? All of the numbers would be kind of arbitrary since the quantification for creativity and balance without testing (and flavor anyways) would also be highly subjective for something complex as this cards and another judge might give entirely different numbers in all categories to the same cards.

And lastly, I am not sure what you mean that my choices are 'especially for established players'. I don't think that I picked the best choices for existing meta-decks or the cards with the highest skill cap to be used.
 

[ES [BoD]]

Congratulations to the winners!

The upgraded prizes will be given out in the next couple of days.

[Benionin]

CDC Judging is and always has been a subjective matter. It's something you ought to accept when you participate.

That being said, I totally forgot about Infiltration when designing my card.