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[Number11]

Those who want to post card ides need to do so before Saturday 8. That is currently the deadline for the challenge.

[mew28]

Name: The Duskbringer
Faction/Purity: Factionless
Type: Charicter
Rarity: Epic
Cost: 6
Morale: 10
Attack/Health: 10/15
Rules Text: Any time The Duskbringer would engage in combat with a demon he kills it and takes no combat damage. If you control two or more cards with a FD purity he gains an extra attack, if you control two or more cards with an OoS he gains flying
Flavor text The one who failed us may still be the one who saves us.

[Number11]

Name: The Duskbringer
Faction/Purity: Factionless
Type: Charicter
Rarity: Epic
Cost: 6
Morale: 10
Attack/Health: 10/15
Rules Text: Any time the duskblade would engage in combat with a demon he kills it and takes no combat damage. If you control two or more cards with a FD purity he gains an extra attack, if you control two or more cards with an OoS he gains flying
Flavor text The one who failed us may still be the one who saves us.

Want to point out that the name of the card is The Duskbringer but in the rules text duskblade is used.

[tmoua805]

Name: Jade Infiltrator
Faction/Purity: 3p DoD
Type: Character
Rarity: Rare
Cost: 6
Morale: 8
Attack/Health: 4/5
Rules Text: When deployed, if your opponent does not deal damage to your fortress starting with the turn this card is deployed, Jade Infiltrator gets one count at the end of the turn. At two counts, Jade Infiltrator is moved to and locked in your opponent's support zone; if this should happen, they lose 8 morale at the end of each turn Jade Infiltrator is in their support zone. If your opponent should deal damage to your fortress before Jade Infiltrator gets two counts, the counts reset to 0. If you attack your opponent's fortress, Jade Infiltrator is returned to your hand.   
Flavor text: "They have no idea what we can do in retaliation if they stop attacking" - Kung Ji

I want to promote pure defense with morale drain which is what 3p DOD should have

[MakinoMane]

Name: Insatiable Nysrugh
Faction/Purity: 3P Exiles
Type: Demon
Rarity: Epic
Cost: 8
Morale: 12
Attack/Health: 12/14
Rules Text: Exile 6
Pay 5: Gain +3/+3, and then gain Consume 2 and immune to single target skills for this turn.

Flavor Text: Nysrughs ever growing hunger could never be satisfied, no matter how much he ate.

[Number11]

Open for 24 hours, no more submission will be accepted after that.

[TameRlane]

Name: Copy Cat
Faction/Purity: 2p Verore
Type: Unique Character- Aberration
Rarity: Epic
Cost: 6
Morale: 10
Attack/Health: 6/6
Rules Text: Whenever your opponent plays an ability card while Copy Cat is deployed, Create a copy of that ability card in your hand and increase Copy Cat's morale cost by 4.

Flavor text: With Candit gone, Rita now found the Lone Keep even lonelier. So one night created herself a new "pet"..... "Me Ow!"

Art: A cat that's made of sewn together pieces of other cats and has Candit's hair and glasses, small collar tag that reads "Candit"and playing with a spellbook. 

[Number11]

Hiding

The Prophet, Ayama
1p DoD
6 cost
10 morale
Unique Character- Human

If a character you control were to die from a nondamage effect or be removed from the game, instead The Prophet, Ayama is removed from the game.

0/10
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Basically Cassial but for nondamage kill/remove from the game effects.

Protects from Mass Death, Calamity all the things DoD needs protection from. Best if played predictively, but can also be played first for the protection later.

Counterplay involves things like CTA/Box or Death Ray to trigger him early.

DoD is supposed to be the protection faction, I feel they need a card like this.

Great card idea.

Prince of Lies

Name: Sara, the Scarlet Maiden
Faction/Purity: 1 Sleepers of Avarrach, 1 Exiles
Type: Unique Character - Demon, Undead
Rarity: Epic
Cost: 8
Morale: 10
Attack/Health: 18/18
Rules Text:
Infect, Consume 5
Each time a Character is killed, Sara gains a stack of Bloodrage which grants her additional abilities for reaching certain stacks. Sara can only access these abilities while deployed.
[Up to 3 stacks: Once per turn, you can pay 1 resource to move a Character your opponent controls to the Assault or Defense Zone of your own choosing.
Up to 5 stacks: Sara permanently gains Unstoppable and heals herself to full health at the end of each turn.
Up to 10 stacks: Once per turn, you can pay 4 resources to grant Sara invulnerability to all other card effects until the end of the turn.]

Flavor Text:
"Fleeing to the Wastes after Veroria's destruction, Sara found herself at the mercy of a stray Avarrach virus infection and the torturous game of hide-and-seek the demons played with her. As the last of her humanity was overtaken by the virus and the demonic corruption, she turned into a monster who only hungered for the taste of blood and the thrill of the hunt."

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Clarification with her additional abilities:
They are cumulative and show up like Agent Zomborg's although she needs to be in play such as the Command or somehow stuck in deploy to have it work.
She will still be affected by card effects that occur at the end of the turn such as Tome of the Dead, Track (and Hunt which occurs at the end of a different turn entirely), poison/immolation effects, Descent into Madness's removal, Demonic Corruption's stat adjustments, etc.

The design of the card would encourage dealing with it using removal and that is due to it having consume 5. Consume 5 is a very strong effect and to make any progress towards killing her you will need to do more than 10 damage with each hit in combat, except if you have a killing blow and you will need to not only damage but kill her in one turn if she is at 5 stacks. Killing 10 characters to get invulnerability to all other card effects is a lot and will only protect the card every other turn due to priority. However it needs to be vulnerable every other turn because it is so hard to kill in combat.

As for the purity, both sleepers and exiles don't have cards for protecting Sara and are also lacking in cards that can move Sara to the battlefield as a surprise move. All in all the card is more resilient to combat than it is to removal.

NTL

Name: Marut, Sentry of Balance
Faction/Purity: OOS+DOD dual faction
Type: Unique Character - Angel
Rarity: Rare
Cost: 7
Morale: 10
Attack/Health: 14/14
Rules Text:

Flying
Whenever a Character you controll is killed, Marut gains +1/+1
When this character is killed, your opponent loses morale equal to Marut's power and your health is recovered by that amount.

Great card that makes it very hard to get rid of without Marut giving the controlling player great value out of his death as well as punish the other player with morale damage.

scotho5

Jekath, The Titan
2p warpath
Unique character-Beast
Epic
10 cost
15 morale
20/20
Unstoppable, Reach
Pay 5, Jekath, The Titan gains +2/+2, and the first time it were to die or be removed from the game this turn, it instead lives with 1 health remaining
Flavor text: "They threw everything they had at the Titan, but when there was nothing left to throw, the Titan still stood tall."
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He basically can primal rage himself, but it will only save you from kill spells if you have the initiative. The cost of the primal rage might need to be increased a bit. He's also a bit calamity proof, ( if you can predict it and have the initiative).
He used to not have the first time thing (thanks hiding), and he was completely overpowered and broken without that

The effect would be absurd without it being only for the first time and it is good that it changed. I would say that the cost for the primal rage effect is too high. While the benefit of the cards effect compared to the ability Primal Rage is that you can use it any turn, it is also much more predictable. Any player can just use removal when they have initiative or if they need to get rid of the card fast they can just use a card like Death Ray plus Lightning Blast or some weak chump blocker to kill it. In the end I could ask myself would I prefer Jekath, The Titan or a Helix Worm and I would pick Helix Worm over Jekath.

Benionin

Interdimensional Monk
2 DoD
Character--Human
Rare
6-cost
6 morale
10/10

CARDNAME cannot be removed from the game. Whenever a card is removed from the game (from play, from hand, from deck, or from the graveyard), CARDNAME gets +1/+1

The world disappeared beneath the monk's feet, the void embraced him, surrounded him, suffused him. And still he stood, defending his post, even as reality fell away.


People trying to make your stuff disappear? Worried about that Calamity? Drop the monk and watch him gain power as your opponent wipes your board that you worked so hard to stabilize in the first place.

I know the rules say no death immunity, but it's not death immunity, just kidnapper, kidnapped, calamity, and even Dojo immunity. A death ray'll take him out. But splitting the universe won't.

A good card idea and nice that it also makes use of overcharging mechanics.

NatoPotato

The Spirit Channeller
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Unique Character - Beast
Rare
6 cost
9 morale
6/8

While Spirit Channeller is deployed, it gains an extra life whenever another character you control dies to a non-combat effect your opponent controls.
Spirit Channeller has +2/+1 for each extra life it has.
If Spirit Channeller would be removed from the game it instead loses 1 life.

"Those who were taken by unnatural means are given a second chance, and they give me strength and protection in return."



Basically not only does it resist removal but it's power is directly relative to how much removal your opponent uses, especially powerful with stuff like mass death, that said it's only 1 character so the opponent may still be better off killing off your other units and of course they do still have ways of dealing with it using things like red tape, humble, hubris or zuza.

Good card that is good agains removal as you said.

ToxicShadow

Krull, the Cautious
Purity: 2EX
Cost: 9
Morale: 15
Type: Unique Character - Demon
Stats: 20/20

Unstoppable, Consume 2, Exile 7

When Krull is targeted by an ability, the ability is redirected to the character with the highest morale cost you control (other than Krull himself). If two or more characters have the same morale cost, the one being in play the longest will be affected first.

Abilities redirected that way ignore all targeting restrictions (for example zones, subtypes and so on) and text of the new target.

Characters you control with less than 6 morale cost have their morale cost raised to 6 as long as Krull is deployed.

"Of course you can count on me. I'll be right behind you." - Krull

Comment:
The type of demon that hides behind the highest profile character available and throws them under the bus before he risks to be hit by something. Has a protection against snipes as long as you control other characters, but protecting him can become a morale heavy investment and if he runs out of people to hold in front of himself...well, out of luck. Of course you can't really buff him either. And he is still vulnerable to untargeted abilities like MD.

Removing the restrictions on redirected abilities makes way for intresting plays. A redirected Zom-b-gone 4000 can now hit a non-undead in the support zone killing it and the adjacent characters. A nice card idea agains single target removal.

ecliptix

Jiro, The Renegade Hero
Purity: FD/DoD
Cost: 9
Morale: 14
Stats: 21/17
Unique Human

"He killed my men. I will see them avenged."

Reach

Jiro takes 4 less damage from all sources.

Whenever Jiro enters combat with another character, remove that character's text and buffs.

The first time Jiro is affected by a kill effect, instead he loses -9/-3. If Jiro is removed from the game by a targeted ability, instead he moves to your support zone.



Comment: Obviously a shout-out here to Ben's character but also a VERY strong hybrid character. (And irrefutable proof that I love FD/DoD and want to see it become viable). This card can be extremely potent and a STRONG RESPONSE TO GENESIS as it will neuter an entire genesis assault line, regardless of whether or not they have flying. Additionally, he has the ability to survive one kill effect, though a second will still eliminate him making vulnerable to removal without being easily cast aside by it.

PS: See? He CAN kill Aberion

I can see that after the first kill effect Jiro has the same stats as Daode's Honor Guard. This card however also can not be removed from the game, has Reach and uses Humble on enemies in combat. A good card with various tools in his purity such as Second Wind, Prayer of The Dragon and Fiery Resolve to protect him.

MerliniX

Name: Bob, The Dragon Mage
Faction/Purity: Factionless
Type: Unique Human
Rarity: Epic
Cost: 7
Morale: 10
Attack/Health: 12/12
Rules Text: When Bob, The Dragon Mage leaves the deployed area through any means, search your deck for a character card with the 'Dragon' subtype and put it into play in your support zone.

CTA or Mysterious Box to spam dragons and having the name Bob makes this card too op

ArcaneAzmadi

Name: Mark IV 'Hellfire' Battle Tank
Faction/Purity: 1 Flame Dawn, 1 Verore
Type: Character - Artificial
Rarity: Rare
Cost: 8
Morale: 10
Attack/Health: 10/18
Text: Flame Strike 10. Whenever Mark IV 'Hellfire' Battle Tank engages in combat, it does its damage to all characters in the opposing battlefield zone instead. If it hits the enemy fortress, it does its damage to all characters in the enemy support zone as well.
Flavour text: The dark sorceries of the Verore and the warlike inventiveness of the Flame Dawn combined to create a mechanical monster more hellish than the worst demon.

Yeah, it's expensive and dies as easily as any other big character (which I'm pretty sure was the entire point of the challenge) but one hit will take out your opponent's entire line. Anything that doesn't die outright will burn to death in short order. And if your opponent decides to just take the hit, they lose everything on their support line. Deal with it or die.

This card is worth the cost. At the given purity you can use Redirect and Fiery Resolve to protect the character and you can also use Ferocity and Word of Command for late game surprise attack. And if you go 2 FD you can also use Herald and Fiery Ascension. However, I think an 8 cost character may be a bit too strong when able to do 10 damage and immolate 10 to everything in either the defense zone or support zone.

Vuurjopi

Name: Trampler of armies
Faction/Purity: 2 WP
Type: Giant
Rarity: Epic
Cost: 7
Morale: 11
Attack/Health: 10/15
Rules Text:
When this card enters combat with a character of 2 cost or lower, it kills that character.
If this creature is targeted, ignore it's effect and give this creature -4/-4.
Flavor Text: Aberions men would all be slaughtered, without even touching the giant.

This is my middle finger to all token decks.

While it can resist a lot of removal it also has some intresting counters to it, such as have Immortal Caretaker debuff the card at 1 cost. A fine entry that punishes spamming 1 and 2 cost cards.

Mew28

Name: The Duskbringer
Faction/Purity: Factionless
Type: Charicter
Rarity: Epic
Cost: 6
Morale: 10
Attack/Health: 10/15
Rules Text: Any time The Duskbringer would engage in combat with a demon he kills it and takes no combat damage. If you control two or more cards with a FD purity he gains an extra attack, if you control two or more cards with an OoS he gains flying.
Flavor text The one who failed us may still be the one who saves us.

Good to side board if you need something against demon decks. In regards to the extra attack and flying, why not just go for 2 OoS and just buff Sol? The card is however balanced and playable and I could see it being used in some situations.

tmoua805

Name: Jade Infiltrator
Faction/Purity: 3p DoD
Type: Character
Rarity: Rare
Cost: 6
Morale: 8
Attack/Health: 4/5
Rules Text: When deployed, if your opponent does not deal damage to your fortress starting with the turn this card is deployed, Jade Infiltrator gets one count at the end of the turn. At two counts, Jade Infiltrator is moved to and locked in your opponent's support zone; if this should happen, they lose 8 morale at the end of each turn Jade Infiltrator is in their support zone. If your opponent should deal damage to your fortress before Jade Infiltrator gets two counts, the counts reset to 0. If you attack your opponent's fortress, Jade Infiltrator is returned to your hand.   
Flavor text: "They have no idea what we can do in retaliation if they stop attacking" - Kung Ji

I want to promote pure defense with morale drain which is what 3p DOD should have

It does well at forcing the opponent to attack. If the opponent did not attack when deployed and intends to use removal instead of attacking, then Prayer of The Dragon or Second Wind can protect Jade Infiltrator for the turn. And you can try keeping him alive in the opponent support for continuous morale damage. A good card idea.

MakinoMane

Name: Insatiable Nysrugh
Faction/Purity: 3P Exiles
Type: Demon
Rarity: Epic
Cost: 8
Morale: 12
Attack/Health: 12/14
Rules Text: Exile 6
Pay 5: Gain +3/+3, and then gain Consume 2 and immune to single target skills for this turn.

Flavor Text: Nysrughs ever growing hunger could never be satisfied, no matter how much he ate.

Same problem as Sara, the Scarlet Maiden and Jekath, The Titan in regards to initiative. I would say the card is not worth the cost.

TameRlane

Name: Copy Cat
Faction/Purity: 2p Verore
Type: Unique Character- Aberration
Rarity: Epic
Cost: 6
Morale: 10
Attack/Health: 6/6
Rules Text: Whenever your opponent plays an ability card while Copy Cat is deployed, Create a copy of that ability card in your hand and increase Copy Cat's morale cost by 4.

Flavor text: With Candit gone, Rita now found the Lone Keep even lonelier. So one night created herself a new "pet"..... "Me Ow!"

Art: A cat that's made of sewn together pieces of other cats and has Candit's hair and glasses, small collar tag that reads "Candit"and playing with a spellbook.

Nice to see a verore card on the list. Very likely you get at least one ability card out of Copy Cat, unless if countered by something like Tracks the Cowardly. A good card idea.

And the winners are:

3rd

tmoua805

2nd

Hiding

1st

NTL

Congratulations to the winners!
There were many good card ideas.

As for my own card idea

Temporal Mech
2 purity GI - Uncommon
9 cost
13 morale
Character - Artificial
20/20

At the end of the turn Temporal Mech leaves the game and returns during the next planning phase unexhausted.

Basically the other player can not see Temporal Mech during his planning phase.

It was great seeing all your ideas. Looking forward to the next challenge.

[Prince of Lies]

I still haven't received the participation prize.
Or has the rewards been changed and I was not aware of this?

[TameRlane]

prizes are on the way 

[Prince of Lies]

Thank you. Case closed.