[CDC] In Quest for Interaction [CLOSED]

[ToxicShadow]

Greetings, fellow card designers.
We all know missions. The newest card archetype in the game, yet except from their conditions to progress them, they are basicly inert. As soon as they have been played, they will either get finished or remain unfinished until the end of game. Time to change that!

For this challenge, I want you to create a card that interacts with the 'Mission' card type.

There are no limitations in purity, cost or cardtype you can use (although, should you desire to make a mission that influences missions, please note that it must influence missions OTHER than itself). Also, there are no limitations of how the mission is influenced, it is all up to you. Go wild and enjoy .


--- 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: 3 alt art packs and 3 collection penta packs
2nd place: 2 alt art packs and 2 collection penta packs
3rd place: 1 alt art pack and 1 collection penta pack
All participants who submit an entry will receive a collection penta pack

SUGGESTED SUBMISSION FORMAT
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Contest closes Friday the 23rd.

[Prince of Lies]

Name: The Witch's Tower
Faction/Purity: 1 Cult of Verore
Type: Location
Rarity: Legendary
Cost: 6
Rules Text:
At the start of each turn, you may search your deck for a Mission and play it into the deployed area by paying its appropriate costs.
While you control a Mission, The Witch's Tower gains the following effects:
Exhaust, Pay 3: Create a Witch in the Support Zone. You can only create and control one copy of each Witch during this entire game from any sources (including this card).
Exhaust, Pay 10: Destroy The Witch's Tower and all Missions in play. Declare a card type. While The Witch's Tower is in the graveyard, the first card of the chosen type played by your opponent has its effects negated and is immediately sent to the graveyard.

Flavor Text: "You would dare stand in the way of a witch? Stand aside, you primitive brutes!" - Rita
Alternate Flavor Text: "Hey, Princess! Go to another castle!" - Candit
Alternate alternate Flavor Text: "With the destruction of Veroria, some of the surviving witches sought refuge in an abandoned citadel made of black stones and luminous crystals. Their fervent use of magic corrupted the very air and land itself, creating constant thunderstorms and sprouting an endless forest of thorns which both served as protective barriers to their new abode."

Name: Witch of the White Flames
Faction/Purity: Cult of Verore
Type: Character
Rarity: n/a
Cost: 3
Morale: 5
Attack/Health: 8/10
Rules Text:
While deployed, all other Characters you control except this card gain Untouchable.
If Witch of the White Flames is in the graveyard while you control another Witch with a different name, she is raised to the Support Zone at the start of the next turn.

Name: Witch of the Azure Blades
Faction/Purity: Cult of Verore
Type: Character
Rarity: n/a
Cost: 3
Morale: 5
Attack/Health: 8/10
Rules Text:
While deployed, all enemy Characters lose -2/-2 at the end of each turn.
If Witch of the Azure Blades is in the graveyard while you control another Witch with a different name, she is raised to the Support Zone at the start of the next turn.

Name: Witch of the Ebon Crown
Faction/Purity: Cult of Verore
Type: Character
Rarity: n/a
Cost: 3
Morale: 5
Attack/Health: 8/10
Rules Text:
While deployed, the first Ability card you play costs 2 less resources and creates a copy of itself in your deck.
If Witch of the Ebon Crown is in the graveyard while you control another Witch with a different name, she is raised to the Support Zone at the start of the next turn.

Name: Witch of the Crimson Wings
Faction/Purity: Cult of Verore
Type: Character
Rarity: n/a
Cost: 3
Morale: 5
Attack/Health: 8/10
Rules Text:
While deployed, your opponent loses 1 fortress health and 1 unit morale for each card in his hand at the end of each turn.
If Witch of the Crimson Wings is in the graveyard while you control another Witch with a different name, she is raised to the Support Zone at the start of the next turn.

Name: Witch of the Silver Bell
Faction/Purity: Cult of Verore
Type: Character
Rarity: n/a
Cost: 3
Morale: 5
Attack/Health: 8/10
Rules Text:
While deployed, you pay half the resource cost (rounded up to the nearest whole number) to activate any effects on a Character or Artifact you control.
If Witch of the Silver Bell is in the graveyard while you control another Witch with a different name, she is raised to the Support Zone at the start of the next turn.

Basically, it supports the use of Missions in decks splashed with Verore purity.
The Witch's Tower itself is very reliant on Missions to actually be of a threat in play. Therefore, the user needs to use Missions that aren't easily completed. One of the good ones to use is Struggle for Power which stays for a while due to the tug-of-war between you and the opponent.
Its final effect allows you to put a permanent Counterspell that simply sends the first Character, Spell/Preemptive Spell, Location, Artifact and Mission to the graveyard without any effects activating... as long as The Witch's Tower is in the graveyard. However, this effect can only be activated if you still have a Mission by Turn 10. Another setback to its final effect is removing it from the Graveyard with Purify, Spirit Guide, etc. Even Grave Rob. Or you can simply destroy it there and then.
However, the primary deal in The Witch's Tower is the production of Witches although only one copy of each can only be ever created in the game. If they get removed, there is no way to make a second copy. Not even with a second Witch's Tower.
The Witches make it worthwhile to consider including the location in such decks besides the usual Lightning Blasts and Death Rays. With the right decisions in making your plays, you can protect key characters with White Flames, take advantage of Silver Bell and Ebon Crown's effects, utilize burn damage with Crimson Wings, and debuff enemies with Azure Blades.
While some of the Witch's effects seem extremely powerful, it is worth to note that the Tower has a cost of 6 which means it will be played well far into the midgame. An additional cost of 3 is to create a selected Witch whose effects will only take effect in the following turn and they can all be easily removed with proper tools. Moreover, a quick Tome of the Dead will ensure that Corrupted Hehkeem will bring them back against you in 3 Sleepers decks.

Decks that can potentially benefit from Witch's Tower can include Tinker-based Verore decks (Ebon Crown and Demon of Dark Bargain can help you toss every card from your hand), slower variants of Death Blast (or as a sideboard in standard decks where games can reach into the lategame phase, I guess), Defiant Hermit (as long as all your Witches do not die at the same time, or as a failsafe when Hermit is removed via Humble or some other spell), Malignant decks (adding up to 5 more cards that raise themselves besides your Malignants), Enyah decks (can use the utility of the Witches).

Other missions that can assist the Witch's Tower include Counting the Days (which can buff your Witches too), Tactical Retreat (although it makes you weak against Mass Death and other Verore Battlefield spells, you can extend the duration of the mission by simply attacking), Purge the Unworthy (if there is minimal overcharging and removal in both decks, the Witches can help your angels pound the enemy), and Quest for Balance (which will probably never get finished by both Descendants and Verore, making it an okay choice to help with making its effects activatable for a long while).

EDIT: Modified Witch-creation effect for clarity and prevent copying exploits. Also made text less wordy on the Witches.

[Number11]

Suppressor of Resolve
3 purity OoS - Epic
4 cost
7 morale
Unique Character - Angel
10/10

Pay 5: Destroy target Mission card and deal 10 morale damage to the owner of the card as a result.

The card has a very strict purity requirement as the strength of mission cards is how there is a lack of removal for them. When I had thought of this card in the past, I was also thinking of how to make a 2 SoA 1 OoS deck type focused on stealing cards. A 2 SoA 1 OoS version of this card could steal Mission cards and a 1 SoA 1 OoS version of Consecrating Angel could steal Location cards.

[mew28]

Name:Goal Keeper
Faction/Purity:Factionless
Type:Character Human
Rarity:Rare
Cost:3
Morale:8
Attack/Health:8/8
Rules Text:Anytime a mission is completed goal keeper gains it's texts as an Pay X ability where X equals it's cost.

[Hiding]

Instigate X; Y- Target X type card(s) gain(s) Y% completion.

Djinn of the Voyager
Neutral Purity
4 cost
10 morale
Unique Character- Djinn

Sacrifice a Character, Exhaust: Instigate Any; 10

Exhaust 2 characters for 2 turns, Exhaust: Instigate Any; 10

Pay 4, Exhaust: Instigate Any; 10

Overcharge 2, Exhaust: Instigate Any;10

1/10

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Hero of the People
Neutral Purity
3 cost
10 morale
Character- Human

Multistrike 2

You may only deploy Hero of the People if you control a Deployed Human.

Whenever Hero of the People deals damage to your opponent's fortress, Instigate All; 8. Hero of the People only affects cards you control.

6/9

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If this thing manages to multistrike opponent's fortress everything you control, not just missions, gains 16% completion. Made it neutral to be usable in any deck, however you have to have a human to play this guy. Untouchable things are not effected because Instigate requires targetting.

[0100161]

Name: Carl von Clausewitz
Faction/Purity: Flame Dawn/3
Type: Unique Character
Rarity: Epic
Cost: 8
Morale: 10
Attack/Health: 10/10
Rules Text: Unstoppable, Charge. When you deploy Carl von Clausewitz all Artifacts, Locations and Missions in play are destroyed. Create a card named Blitzkrieg in each player's support zone.
Flavor Text: "It is even better to act quickly and err than to hesitate until the time of action is past".

Blitzkrieg
Faction/Purity: Flame Dawn/3
Type: Mission
Rarity: Epic
Cost: 8
Rules text: At the end of the turn, if you didn't deal damage to an opponent's fortress, Blitzkrieg becomes 20% more complete. When Blitzkrieg is 100% complete, you loose the game.

[Benionin]

Jacob Elwood
1 DoD
Unique Character--Human
Rare
3 cost
6 morale
8/10

At the end of each turn, CARDNAME gets +1/+1 for each mission you control, and each mission you control becomes 10% more complete.

We're on a mission from Ao Shun
30 second delay
It's 106 miles to the Rift, we got a fresh set of mounts, half a pack of rations, and it's dark... better grab those sunglasses.


In a somewhat blatant homage to the Blues Brothers (which, ironically, I have not yet seen all the way through), This fella's on a mission from Ao Shun.

[NatoPotato]

Memory Seizing Tome

Unique Artifact
2 cost

When you play Memory Seizing Tome remove all Missions owned by the opponent from the game and any enemy Characters that started the turn deployed cannot be moved this turn.
At the start of each turn you may Overcharge a card, if you do not Memory Seizing Tome is destroyed.
When Memory Seizing Tome is destroyed return the removed Missions to the game at the same level of completion as when removed and move any enemy Characters that were in play on the turn this was played to where they should have moved that turn.




Basically take the enemies memories, making them forget what they're supposed to be doing, hold onto the memories for a while, then give them back, tricking them into doing something they probably shouldn't.

The 'movement prevention' triggers during the deploy phase so you do actually get to see where the enemy units moved to, essentially you see the units move, then the ability goes off, then they all move back to where they were at the end of the last turn.

Allows you to not only mess with their missions but also with troop deployment/arrangement, the opponent can destroy the artifact themselves but they do have to keep their unit movement in mind.

[ToxicShadow]

Memory Seizing Tome

Unique Artifact
2 cost

When you play Memory Seizing Tome remove all Missions owned by the opponent from the game and any enemy Characters that started the turn deployed cannot be moved this turn.
At the start of each turn you may Overcharge a card, if you do not Memory Seizing Tome is destroyed.
When Memory Seizing Tome is destroyed return the removed Missions to the game and move any enemy Characters that were in play on the turn this was played to where they should have moved that turn.




Basically take the enemies memories, making them forget what they're supposed to be doing, hold onto the memories for a while, then give them back, tricking them into doing something they probably shouldn't.

Allows you to not only mess with their missions but also with troop deployment/arrangement, the opponent can destroy the artifact themselves but they do have to keep their unit movement in mind.

When the Tome is destroyed and the missions return, will they keep their progress or will they have to start from 0% all over again?

Also, 24 hour warning. Judging will be tomorrow when i get home. Time for last minute (or day ) entries has come.

[NatoPotato]

Since characters stats are reset when removed and returned to the game maybe it should set missions to 0% just for the sake of consistency, but I was thinking the missions could continue where they left off.

I'll probably add a bit of text for it, but if not then just assume it resets to 0.

[ToxicShadow]

After meditating in a secret card creation dojo, i have come to the following judgement:

Prince of Lies

Name: The Witch's Tower
Faction/Purity: 1 Cult of Verore
Type: Location
Rarity: Legendary
Cost: 6
Rules Text:
At the start of each turn, you may search your deck for a Mission and play it into the deployed area by paying its appropriate costs.
While you control a Mission, The Witch's Tower gains the following effects:
Exhaust, Pay 3: Create a Witch in the Support Zone. You can only create and control one copy of each Witch during this entire game from any sources (including this card).
Exhaust, Pay 10: Destroy The Witch's Tower and all Missions in play. Declare a card type. While The Witch's Tower is in the graveyard, the first card of the chosen type played by your opponent has its effects negated and is immediately sent to the graveyard.

Flavor Text: "You would dare stand in the way of a witch? Stand aside, you primitive brutes!" - Rita
Alternate Flavor Text: "Hey, Princess! Go to another castle!" - Candit
Alternate alternate Flavor Text: "With the destruction of Veroria, some of the surviving witches sought refuge in an abandoned citadel made of black stones and luminous crystals. Their fervent use of magic corrupted the very air and land itself, creating constant thunderstorms and sprouting an endless forest of thorns which both served as protective barriers to their new abode."

Name: Witch of the White Flames
Faction/Purity: Cult of Verore
Type: Character
Rarity: n/a
Cost: 3
Morale: 5
Attack/Health: 8/10
Rules Text:
While deployed, all other Characters you control except this card gain Untouchable.
If Witch of the White Flames is in the graveyard while you control another Witch with a different name, she is raised to the Support Zone at the start of the next turn.

Name: Witch of the Azure Blades
Faction/Purity: Cult of Verore
Type: Character
Rarity: n/a
Cost: 3
Morale: 5
Attack/Health: 8/10
Rules Text:
While deployed, all enemy Characters lose -2/-2 at the end of each turn.
If Witch of the Azure Blades is in the graveyard while you control another Witch with a different name, she is raised to the Support Zone at the start of the next turn.

Name: Witch of the Ebon Crown
Faction/Purity: Cult of Verore
Type: Character
Rarity: n/a
Cost: 3
Morale: 5
Attack/Health: 8/10
Rules Text:
While deployed, the first Ability card you play costs 2 less resources and creates a copy of itself in your deck.
If Witch of the Ebon Crown is in the graveyard while you control another Witch with a different name, she is raised to the Support Zone at the start of the next turn.

Name: Witch of the Crimson Wings
Faction/Purity: Cult of Verore
Type: Character
Rarity: n/a
Cost: 3
Morale: 5
Attack/Health: 8/10
Rules Text:
While deployed, your opponent loses 1 fortress health and 1 unit morale for each card in his hand at the end of each turn.
If Witch of the Crimson Wings is in the graveyard while you control another Witch with a different name, she is raised to the Support Zone at the start of the next turn.

Name: Witch of the Silver Bell
Faction/Purity: Cult of Verore
Type: Character
Rarity: n/a
Cost: 3
Morale: 5
Attack/Health: 8/10
Rules Text:
While deployed, you pay half the resource cost (rounded up to the nearest whole number) to activate any effects on a Character or Artifact you control.
If Witch of the Silver Bell is in the graveyard while you control another Witch with a different name, she is raised to the Support Zone at the start of the next turn.

Oh boy, this is quite a complex card and i can see that a lot of thought and effort went into it. At first glance, an investment of 6 without immideate payoff is quite the burden, but starting next turn it takes off. Being able to play any mission from the deck as if it were in your hand (without any additional cost) is pretty strong. It also somewhat undermines the Towers dependance on a mission card since you are guranteed to get one at the start of next turn, which i personally dislike. I would prefer that you are forced to set up a mission for the tower to work.

And then the ability to conjure up witches...I don't want to go into detail for each of the witches, but pretty much all of them are pretty strong for 3. Especially since they have the Unending Drone effect going for them. They are probably well worth the investment, and are relatively hard to get rid of. And once the tower has fullfilled it's duty and has no more witches to produce, it can counter a card (maybe an incoming calamity if you play right?) for 5 (if the appropriate witch is alive). Of course it is also very vulnerable to artifact removal which can be pretty rough if it happens before you get the 2nd witch, so that kinda counterbalances it too.

I will admit openly that i have trouble to estimate the strength of this card since it has so many different effects going for it. Is it too slow? Maybe. Is it too potent when you get it going? Might be the case. Considering that it is very vulnerable to artifact removal it probably is alright in a bo3, might be a bit strong in casual. Still an interesting card.

Number 11

Suppressor of Resolve
3 purity OoS - Epic
4 cost
7 morale
Unique Character - Angel
10/10

Pay 5: Destroy target Mission card and deal 10 morale damage to the owner of the card as a result.

Now here is a rather simple card that the game would do well with. Stats are decent and the restricted purity (as well as the relatively high activation cost) make sure that missions don't get too devaluated while still providing some direct counterplay.

My only critique really is that it does morale damage. Morale damage at 3OoS is kind of an akward thing. If you ever tried a Melosia deck, you will know how awkward morale damage with overseers feels because most of their cards don't synergize too well with that tactic. Still, a very solid entry.

mew28

Name:Goal Keeper
Faction/Purity:Factionless
Type:Character Human
Rarity:Rare
Cost:3
Morale:8
Attack/Health:8/8
Rules Text:Anytime a mission is completed goal keeper gains it's texts as an Pay X ability where X equals it's cost.

Goal keeper. Ha, I get it. Nice word play. That being said, he is probably way too strong. Missions have low cost for their effects, but make up for it by the time/task they need until they are completed. If you deploy a Goal keeper right the turn a mission ends and then get to use him at least once, you'll get an enormous advantage. Of course that means that your opponent will desperatly try to get rid of every goal keeper that successfully got hold of a mission ability.

Hiding

Instigate X; Y- Target X type card(s) gain(s) Y% completion.

Hero of the People
Neutral Purity
3 cost
10 morale
Character- Human

Multistrike 2

You may only deploy Hero of the People if you control a Deployed Human.

Whenever Hero of the People deals damage to your opponent's fortress, Instigate All; 8. Hero of the People only affects cards you control.

6/9

I was going to complain about the interaction of this card with Shrine, but i see you are already ahead of me on this. I like that Hero of the people is a good factionless card. With the high cost in morale and the need to have a deployed human he should be relatively balanced.

Needing a deployed human is also kind of a hidden limitation on purity, especially since most of the other factionless humans are pretty bad. If you can make him hit the fortress, he will synergize nicely with about every deck that has something to complete, be it a mission or a warmachine.

Now, the only problem that i have with this card is not directly a balance issue, it is more of a technical question: Can you even target an ability that targets things after hitting the fortress? Because i think it would not work that way. However, it should not be a big problem to shift the instigate targetting effect to the start of next turn, so no big deal. Just a technicality.

0100161

Name: Carl von Clausewitz
Faction/Purity: Flame Dawn/3
Type: Unique Character
Rarity: Epic
Cost: 8
Morale: 10
Attack/Health: 10/10
Rules Text: Unstoppable, Charge. When you deploy Carl von Clausewitz all Artifacts, Locations and Missions in play are destroyed. Create a card named Blitzkrieg in each player's support zone.
Flavor Text: "It is even better to act quickly and err than to hesitate until the time of action is past".

Blitzkrieg
Faction/Purity: Flame Dawn/3
Type: Mission
Rarity: Epic
Cost: 8
Rules text: At the end of the turn, if you didn't deal damage to an opponent's fortress, Blitzkrieg becomes 20% more complete. When Blitzkrieg is 100% complete, you loose the game.

I have to say: I quite like the idea behind this card. But i am afraid it suffers from a typical problem for high cost 3p fd cards: It comes too late to the party. The Blitzkrieg mission is cool, I really like the idea to give both you and your opponent a mission that can lose the game. But at this point of the game for 3p fd you are probably either winning by fortress damage already or your opponents board is so good that he can deal with the mission (that basicly needs you to successfully attack and defend) better than you. I suppose you could drop this before calamity, but then again if you can attack right after calamity without the opponent being able to defend, you probably win with fortress damage.

That leaves carl himself. His ability to destroy all artifacts, locations and missions may makes him sideboard worthy for that alone. He can hardcounter an omnitron (if it was not already deployed at that point) and can get rid of pesky locations or artifacts like Wall of the Dead or Veroria the lone keep, which might enables you to win the game. That is especially useful since FD has currently no good way to deal with artifacts at all. His stats are naturally not great, which is okay considering his abilities. However he has the very valuable unstoppable and charge abilities which might helps a bit against token heavy decks. I really would like to see a mission like the one this card creates, but it would probably need more polish.

Benionin

Jacob Elwood
1 DoD
Unique Character--Human
Rare
3 cost
6 morale
8/10

At the end of each turn, CARDNAME gets +1/+1 for each mission you control, and each mission you control becomes 10% more complete.

We're on a mission from Ao Shun
30 second delay
It's 106 miles to the Rift, we got a fresh set of mounts, half a pack of rations, and it's dark... better grab those sunglasses.

I have to admit i did not see the movie either. Still nice reference . Jacob is good without being too flashy. He is straight forward and synergizes really nicely with every mission, the more missions you have the better. Being unique prevents him from being abused too easily. Like Hidings entry, he can be used to make Quest for balance more viable, although should you go for that combo your opponent will probably set heaven and hell into motion to get rid of this agent of Ao Shun. Good job.

NatoPotato

Memory Seizing Tome

Unique Artifact
2 cost

When you play Memory Seizing Tome remove all Missions owned by the opponent from the game and any enemy Characters that started the turn deployed cannot be moved this turn.
At the start of each turn you may Overcharge a card, if you do not Memory Seizing Tome is destroyed.
When Memory Seizing Tome is destroyed return the removed Missions to the game at the same level of completion as when removed and move any enemy Characters that were in play on the turn this was played to where they should have moved that turn.

A very interesting card in many ways. I like how it kind of starts a new card cycle with Tome of the Dead. Now there are two tomes, and maybe more to follow? It doesn't outright destroy missions, but prevents any progress as long as it is deployed. Overcharging a card for it every turn can be pretty taxing, but the defiant cards may help with that. I also like that the mission progress is not reset when they return, that would just be too much for 2.

Now, the freezing of characters is an interesting mechanism. It is good that the tome is 2 purity to avoid the cheesy fear combo. It can provide great help for you to know where most characters of the opponent will be this turn, but vigilance, charge or haste may still screw you over. In addition to that, if you use the overcharge to keep the tome in game and it gets removed, you might have been lured into a false sense of security and now pay a steep price for it. I like this card, not sure if it is maybe a bit strong considering the rush-y nature of OoS decks, but I think it should be quite alright. Good entry.

Thank you everyone for participating. There were great entries and as usual it was difficult to decide on the winners, but here they are:

3rd place

Prince of Lies

2nd place

Benionin

1st place

NatoPotato

[Prince of Lies]

You actually pay for whatever mission you pull out from Witch's Tower.
I thought I made that clear with the phrase "by paying its appropriate costs".
This actually leads to a delay of one turn in making Witches or using a permanent card counterspell unless you already had a Mission in play or take some low-cost one like Ritual of Summoning, I suppose.

[ToxicShadow]

You actually pay for whatever mission you pull out from Witch's Tower.
I thought I made that clear with the phrase "by paying its appropriate costs".
This actually leads to a delay of one turn in making Witches or using a permanent card counterspell unless you already had a Mission in play or take some low-cost one like Ritual of Summoning, I suppose.

I understood that you pay. But you also directly deploy that Mission from your deck. That is really powerful. Compare it to the DoD mission finding ability, it needs you to pay 2, take the mission to your hand and then play the mission next turn. As for the delay, i also understood that right. I personally just find it more interesting to have to set up the tower with a mission as opposed being guranteed one the next turn (even with 1 turn delay in the towers activation compared to already having one when playing the tower). That might only be personal preference though.