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[artistx]

Name: Tai Chin, City of Spies
Faction/Purity: 2 Disciples of Dragons
Type: Unique - Location
Rarity: rare
Cost: 3
Rules Text:Tai Chin comes into play under your opponents control replacing any location they have in play.

Attacking characters you control deal 1 less damage.

[ToxicShadow]

And finallly the moment you all waited for, the results *drumroll*.

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Spamware
1p GI
3 cost
Artifact

When you deploy Spamware, target a deployed card.

At the end of each turn create a copy of that card in each player's hand, create a copy of that card in each player's graveyard, and shuffle 1 copy of that card into each players' deck.

If there are no copies of the targeted card in play, sacrifice Spamware.

I like cards like this. You and your opponent get exactly the same, but you pay. What makes this card good is of course that you are going to build your deck for whatever you literally want to spam while it has little to no use for your opponent. Typical targets would be Placebotron in Omnitron decks or Tribal cards like Packleaders. Or even adorable monkeys. Could have some weird effect with tokens though since their cost is often low, and a low cost artificial 16/16 warmachine token for a gi deck is way better than the same card for a non-gi deck.

Prince of Lies

Name: Nyssa, Martyr of Reconstruction
Faction/Purity: 2 Genesis Industries
Type: Unique - Artificial, Human
Rarity: Legendary
Cost: 10
Morale: 15
Attack/Health: 10/15
Rules Text:
When you deploy Nyssa, create a "Fatal System Error" in your opponent's hand.
Sacrifice Nyssa: Remove all cards in play. Create an Artificial Character with power and health equal to the combined power and health of every Character removed from play by this card's effect.
Flavor Text:
"What's the matter, Aberion? Aren't you surprised to see me... or at least half of me that you cut down like an animal? I might return the favor by merging you with a Lil'Timmybot when I get the chance." - Nyssa

Name: Fatal System Error
Faction/Purity: 2 Genesis Industries
Type: Ability
Rarity: n/a
Cost: 1
Rules Text:
Destroy target Artificial Character on the Battlefield, then inflict damage to your opponent's fortress equal to the sum of its power and health.
Flavor Text:
"One surefire way to get yourself killed as a Genesis Industries employee and citizen is not thoroughly weeding out the bugs and glitches in the self-designed combat suits and mechas you decide to use in whatever your line of work is." - Tygris

I really like that you used Nyssa to make a card that nicely ties in with the story and the martyr cycle. I just think she is quite a bit too strong in the end. Her first effect is very similar to martyr of death and calamity, but it removes every card - locations, artifacts and, interestingly enough, missions too - and since it is a remove from game effect, this will also remove 'removal-protected' cards. You could completly counter an omnitron with this and reset the whole board.

Now, the disadvantage is only a real disadvantage if the opponent connects with the 'Fatal System Error' (and your artificial character is big enough to make an impact), which can be prevented by adding cards that give untouchable for example. I don't think it should be too difficult to build your deck in a way that protects your massive unit after a complete board wipe.  All of that being said, i still like the underlaying idea and the mindgame situation this creates.

NTL

Name: Poisonous Spores
Faction/Purity: WP+SOA dual faction
Type: Ability
Rarity: Rare
Cost: 6
Rules Text:

All deployed enemy Characters become Poisoned, taking 2 damage at the end of each turn.
Create Fungus Forest location in your opponent's Support Zone at the end of the turn.

Name: Fungus Forest
Faction/Purity: WP+SOA dual faction
Type: Location 
Rarity: Rare
Cost: 6
Rules Text:

When you deploy Character it becomes Poisoned, taking 2 damage at the end of each turn.

I was actually hoping for at least one entry that gives the opponent a location, and here it is!
It is a dual faction upgrade to Acid Rain and improves on the card in almost every way. For just 1 cost more you only poison your opponents and make sure that every character they deploy later on is poisoned too, if they can't remove the location. That gives it much more impact and staying power and provides you a much better advantage than acid rain. One hidden effect is that this is secretly also a location removal, since gaining a new location while having one already in play means that the old location has to be sacced. A good entry.

ORISOLVE

Name: Esuniverse, False Idol of Dabes
Faction/Purity: Factionless
Type: Unique Character - Human
Rarity: Legendary
Cost: 1
Morale: 10
Attack/Health: 4/4
Rules Text: Whenever Esuniverse becomes the target of an ability, create a "Timeframe" ability card in your opponent's hand.
Flavor Text: "Flame Dawn sucks."

Name: Timeframe
Faction/Purity: Factionless
Type: Ability
Rarity: Legendary
Cost: 0
Rules Text: Temporarily reduce your opponent's resources by 2 next turn. Your max resource decreases by 1. If this card is in your hand at the end of your turn, create a copy of this card in your opponent's hand. If there are 3 copies of this card in your graveyard, you lose the game.
Flavor Text: "You can hold me to that timeframe, I have nothing to lose."

'Hidden' critique aside, this actually has a pretty interesting concept. Playing the card generated by targeting the character with abilities will put you closer to losing the game and hurts your resources on the long run, but hurts your opponent even more temporarily for the next turn. It is a bit weird that the card copies itself back to your hand already at the end of the turn, which means that you and your opponent will most likely hold the same amount of this card in their hand at the start of the next turn after the first Timeframes have been created. I think it would be more interesting to copy them over at the end of the next turn if your opponent doesn't use them.

Number11

Exile Curse
2 purity EX - Rare
1 cost
Ability

While in hand your max hand size is reduced by 1.
Can not discard, overcharge or shuffle this card into the deck.
The first time this card is played, increase its cost by 4 and send it to the opponents hand.

A simple yet intriguing card. It secretly reduces your handsize by 2 even, since it blocks 1 slot of your hand and occupies the other one itself. It can be pretty useful for exiles to decrease their own max. hand size since it enables you to do targeted discards for free, or you can annoy your opponent with it, especially against slower factions. It forces them between giving up a good chunk of resources or comitting cards to the battle that they might wanted to hold back - or even discarding other cards. Yet another good idea, i like it.

ecliptix

Mimic
2p Ex
2 Cost
Epic
Demon Artificial Creature
5/5


Whenever your opponent takes damage from OR deals damage to this creature, create a Cursed Gem in their hand.

"Did that treasure chest just growl at us?"

Cursed Gem
1 Cost
1p EX
Ability

While cursed gem is in your hand you cannot draw any other cards. When you play cursed gem, discard a card of your choosing.

"OH GOD IT TOOK BOB'S HAND"

Who needs spies when you can have fake treasure chest demon thingies? The card is similar to GI spy, but outshines him quite a bit, although it suffers from some of the same problems. The relatively low stats may make it difficult to protect this card from removal or avoid losing it to defenders (and the opponent will surely try to get rid of it), but should it connect it will be causing a lot of problems.

Not only is it guranteed to prevent your opponent at least from drawing a card at the start of the turn, if they want to get rid of it and are unable to do so by overcharging or discard, it will force them to discard another card if played. That generates a huge card advantage. The problem with this card is that if you can't deal with it early, you are probably going to be unable to do so later. Why? Because the gem prevents you from drawing, so if you don't have a possibility to deal with the mimic and its owner can protect it while hitting your fortress, it basicly also prevents you from fishing in your deck for a solution. Now, this situation is not that easy to achieve for the attacker, but if it happens it sounds like a pretty unfun way to lose the game to me.

Vuurjopi

Name: Rita's monstrosity
Faction/Purity: 2 Verore
Type: Aberration
Rarity: Epic
Cost: 7
Morale: 0
Attack/Health: 25/25
Rules Text: Untouchable, Unstopable
If you deploy Rita's monstrosity, your opponent gains control of all your characters (command zone, deployed and graveyard).
The morale cost of Rita's monstrosity is equal to the sum of the morale cost of all characters your opponent gained control of this way.
Flavor Text: Rita was abandoned by her people when she summoned this unholy abomination.

So even for the Verore there is such a thing as too much. I like the flavor of this card, when rita manages to create something that even the powerhungry and mostly amoral cultists are disgusted of, which causes them to switch sides. Needless to say, 7 for a 25/25 unstoppable untouchable is pretty good, but your opponent gets every character that you have played until that very point in return. I like the concept. As you said, it can be either played with little to no characters in support, or you remove them from your grave with a death blast before you play this to give your opponent as little as possible. Or to force characters upon your opponent if they refuse to play any. Great entry.

MSchildorfer

Name: Ball of Lightning
Faction/Purity: Verore 2
Type: Ability
Rarity: Uncommon
Cost: 3
Rules Text:
Deals *4* to target Unit. If the Target is Artificial, deal double amount of damage.

Add a "Ball of Lightning" card to your opponents hand. It will do 2 more damage than the current cast. (This effect takes place even if the target was uneffected)

Flavor Text: "ping...pong...Ping...POng...PING...PONG!!!"

A cool concept. The flavor text basicly describes the mechanic nicely. I think the card suffers from one big problem though: That you are making the start. 4 damage for 3 is pretty bad, and your opponent is by no means obligated to use this card when you give it to him, which would leave you with having played a very overpriced lightning bolt. Maybe better with pain stone to increase the initial damage, but having a painstone just deters your opponent even more from playing the card.

0100161

Name: Krampus
Faction/Purity: Exiles x2
Type: Character- Demon Beast
Rarity: Epic
Cost: 4
Morale: 9
Attack/Health: 10/8
Rules Text: Pay 1, Exhaust: Place one Small Bad Gift in your opponent's deck.
                   Pay 3, Exhaust: Place one Big Bad Gift in your opponent's deck.
                   Pay 7, Exhaust: Place one Huge Bad Gift in your opponent's deck.

Name: Small Bad Gift
Faction/Purity: Factionless
Type: Ability
Cost: 0
Rules Text: If Small Bad Gift is in your hand, it automatically plays itself if possible. All Characters take 1 damage.

Name: Big Bad Gift
Faction/Purity: Factionless
Type: Ability
Cost: 1
Rules Text: If Big Bad Gift is in your hand, it automatically plays itself if possible. Each player discards a target card in their hand.

Name: Huge Bad Gift
Faction/Purity: Factionless
Type: Ability
Cost: 3
Rules Text: If Huge Bad Gift is in your hand, it automatically plays itself if possible. All Characters become infected, taking 5 damage at the end of each turn. Each player discards their Hand.

Krampus, the demon of christmas, arrived early this year! He is a bit of a weird one, and that fits perfectly to exiles! His stats aren't that great, but no biggy, his main function is to give out gifts. And these gifts....I wouldn't say they are worth it.

One thing that is weird about them is that you are actually investing way more than your opponent has to if he draws them - which is still okay I guess, since it denies him a draw (although 7 for the biggest gift is a pretty hefty price tag). One of the problems connected with that is what i call the Ixxi-effect: you don't know when (or even if) your gifts are drawn by your opponent.

The small gift effects your own characters and the one of the opponent alike with minor damage, i don't think that is that good. The discarding of one card for the big gift is certainly advantageous for exiles, and finally the full hand discard of the huge gift can be excellent (not so sure about the poison effect though). However, similar effects can be achieved with ability cards or character abilities - and much more reliably (and often even cheaper).

Benionin

Bribe the Guards
2 Flame Dawn
Ability
Uncommon
4-cost

Target character gains "this character cannot be blocked. whenever this character deals damage to an opponent's fortress, give that opponent a Passing Gift"

How flavorful can a card get without flavor text? The answer can be seen here: Very much so. I love how you literally give out a bribe for every attack, on characters with multi-strike even one per strike. The question is: Is a passing gift per attack enough to make up for unblockable on a character? I think it is alright with all the removal floating around, but i am not 100% certain honestly. Anyways, I really like the card and think it is a great idea.

VefomeT

Name: Feline Pilferer
Faction: 1p Warpath
Type: Character Beast
Cost: 4
Power\Health: 0\4
Morale cost: 0
Rarity: Legendary

Pay 1: Enrage: 0. (It gains +0\+0)
Feline Pilferer shuffles itself in your opponnents deck. At the end of each turn, if enraged Feline Pilferer is in your deck, top 3 cards from your deck are revealed, your opponent choose 1 card - when it is drawn - it is drawn to your opponents hand instead. When Feline Pilferer is revealed, it is removed from the game.

Flavor Text: "A little cat is giant monsters fear."
"For it can be as giant, when it's near."

Little cat, big effect. Way too big even. This card can completly deny the opponent any card draw, even from turn 1 if it is a commander. Once in the deck, if you pay attention to the cards shown to you at the end of each turn, you ll be able to know which card is up next at the end of turn 3 latest. And from there on, you just can draw all cards from your opponents deck until the pilferer is revealed. And while you draw from two decks, your opponent gets nothing.

artistx

Name: Tai Chin, City of Spies
Faction/Purity: 2 Disciples of Dragons
Type: Unique - Location
Rarity: rare
Cost: 3
Rules Text:Tai Chin comes into play under your opponents control replacing any location they have in play.

Attacking characters you control deal 1 less damage.

And yet another location that you don't want to control. This entry concentrates on the fact that giving your opponent a location basicly equals location removal. The negative effect seems minor at first glance, but 1 less attack not only adds up, it might makes an equal trade suddenly one sided, especially if the defender also has cards like the wall of jinhai in play. Good work!

There were a lot of really great entries in this challenge, and i liked almost every idea that you guys came up with, which made the decision for me pretty tough. Great work everyone! That being said, i present to you the winners:

3rd place:

Number 11

2nd place

Benionin

1st place

Vuurjopi

Congratulations to the winners and thank you for participating everyone, it has been a lot of fun to see what you came up with.

[Vuurjopi]

Wouw! Thanks a lot. I'll try to come up with a good design contest before the end of the day.

[ES [BoD]]

Congratulations Vuurjopi , Benionin  , Number11  and all other participants!  , prizes will be sent shortly.