“As you walk down a tiled street, you hear and see a bustling populace as merchants and peddlers vie for the attention of numerous tourists and shoppers with promises of enchanted bobbles and mystical elixirs. A multitude of stands have been erected with diversity of colorful vendors ranging from the light-blue as vanar merchant women are selling small, glistening blue crystals to passerbyer to a red, songhai mages holding up scrolls that hum with a fiery magic. Suddenly, a wave of pressure and heat rushes over the back of your neck. As you turn, you watch a pillar of flame explode brightly into the sky from the palm of a Vetruvian demonstrator. Hearing whoops, yelps, and laughter, you see his audience applauded excitedly from the display. All except an magmar gentlemen who instead of clapping is looking down into a small book, jotting down notes in hopes to understand and potentially replicate what he saw. With a sigh of relief, you continue down the street, making your way towards the heart of the Monolith Fair, home of innovation and the Trial of the Cores.”
Welcome, one and all, to the Monolith Fair and the 5th Card design Contest of 2018. My name is DarkJoVo and I will be your new host from here on out. After much deliberation from the jury and myself, the theme of this contest will be based on innovation and the exchange of information, techniques, and abilites between factions.
For those who are new to the contest: This contest is all about designing an own card following the contest’s prompt. A jury will then nominate 12 cards that are going to appear in the poll thread, where you all can vote for your favorite.
The prompt for this month’s card design contest:
Design a card that incorporates abilities/archetypes from two different factions
The deadline for your submissions will be at 10pm PST on October 28th, 2 weeks from today.
Here are the rules for the contest:
- Everyone is allowed to submit only ONE card Design per Contest (including jury members)
- All submissions must follow this basic template:
Name
Faction, Type
Cost / (Stats)
Card Text.
Example:
Shallow Gravedigger
Vetruvian Minion
7 Mana (3/3)
Deathwatch: Whenever a minion is destroyed, transform that space into Exhuming Sand.
- Cards that are clearly overpowered, underpowered, or meant to be a meme are NOT allowed.
- Cards must follow the current contest’s prompt. All other submissions will be disregarded by the jurors and then promptly disenchanted into spirit.
- Unless stated otherwise, you may NOT submit a card with a custom keyword of your creation.
- You may submit card art, as long as it is created by yourself. Art is not taken into consideration from the jury and will not appear in the poll thread.
- Please avoid copying cards from other CCGs.
Additional Rules for Jury Members if you choose to submit:
- As part of your submission, please mark “Juror” in parenthesis next to the minion’s name like so:
Example:
Shallow Gravedigger (Juror)
Vetruvian Minion
7 Mana (3/3)
Deathwatch: Whenever a minion is destroyed, transform that space into Exhuming Sand.
- Please do not include your fellow juror’s in your nominations, you won once already, wait til you are not apart of the jury to win again.
We also have prizes for the best three cards:
First: Place in the jury next month + 5 Orbs + Exclusive Forum Badge “Design God”
Second: Place in the jury next month + 4 Orbs
Third: Place in the jury next month + 3 Orbs
These prizes are provided to by Bandai-Namco and their Community Managers. Thank you @yaviey and @stormshade for making this possible.
Please do not discuss ideas here. Feel free to discuss thoughts about submitted cards here instead.
This is how the jury will evaluate cards.
Your jury for this contest are:
@thematsjo
@oranos
@halcyon98
@anon52821416
Good luck to everyone and may your creativity lead to innovation at the Monolith Fair.
