You let out a frustrated groan as you open your eyes only to then immediately tighten your fluttering crimson cloak to your body, securing whatever remaining heat you had from the biting cold of your now snowy surroundings. Looking forward, you see a large flight of snow-covered stairs leading to red-pillared, snow-covered building to two magnificient doors. Taking a deep breath, you immediately regret it as the chilling air enters your chest, robbing away the precious heat you sought to preserve and causing your body to shake and your teeth to chatter. As you look down at the now fading seal of a the mist dragon inscribed on to your hand, you curse at the panel of officials that sent you on this mission. They wanted you to investigate the news of a supposed conflict at the Chakri Monastery. Something about an evil sorcerer bridging the gap between worlds or planes or something, you didn’t really pay attention to the briefing. You were more focused on the upcoming Frostfire Festival and what to do when you got the time off to spend with your darling rose. Why couldn’t they have you to investigate after the Festival? Why did they have to send you on a mission right before your vacation?
As you make your way up the stairs to the base of the monastery, you spy a chakri avatar peering at you between a gap of the doorway. As you approach, there is a terrified and hopeless expression on his face. With a voice trembling with fear, he whispers, “You’re… you’re too… too late…”
Before you can ask what happened here, the terrified avatar grabs your hand and pulls you through a myriad of hallways and corridors. As he drags you along, you see an abundance of evidence that a battle had broken out. Scratches, indentations, and burn marks littered the walls along with the multiple dead bodies laid strewn upon the floor, half of them dressed in the usual attire of the Chakri Avatar while the other half donned what are now remains of dark red and purple robes.
Finally after being yanked around by the arm through the hallways of death, the avatar leads you outside what appears to be the monastery’s personal library. What once would have looked like a small quaint room with eight or ten bookshelves worth of literature now looked like a battle that ended in an explosion. Remnants of Books, pages, and bodies were spread along the outside edge of the room. As you look towards the center from outside the doorway, there appears to be a tear in space that floats over another robed figure. The figure is still, laying within a pool of what appears to be blood. As you stare up and down the individual, you see his hands were gripping a knife that is plunged into his chest, and an eerie smile was plastered on his now dead face.
Freeing yourself from the horrified avatar’s grip, you begin to slowly walk closer to the supposed rift in space in order to investigate what it is. However, as you past into the boundary of the room, it begins to warble and fluctuate before widening to become a human sized portal. Freezing in place, you watch the portal bulge and expand before a hand breaks out of the portal and reaches into your world.
“What do I do now?” you wonder as a mysterious entity begins to enter your world.
Now, who is this mysterious entity? Welcome, one and all, to the 6th and last Card Design Contest of 2018. I am your host, DarkJoVo, and I do apologize for taking longer than 2 weeks to set up this new CDC. The only thing I can say is that I have been extremely busy with IRL activities and searching for jury members. In order to end the year on a high note, the theme is a little more open than usual, allowing you guys to be more imaginative and free this time. I would say the theme is about the unknown of the Duelyst Universe but that is all I will be saying since I really don’t know how else to describe it.
For those who are new to the contest: This contest is all about designing an own card following the contest’s prompt.There has been a change due to a lack of jury members for this CDC so instead of the usual 12 card that will be selected, I will follow @anjosustrakr method where the three(3) jury members will select 9 nominations and I will select 1 nomination. Then these 10 nominations will appear in a future poll thread, where you all can vote for your favorite design.
The prompt for this month’s card design contest:
Design a Legendary minion that comes from a Lore/Universe that is different than Duelyst’s Universe. (Please add a lore tag to your description)
The deadline for your submissions will be at 10pm PST on December 15th , 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.
Lore Tag
Example:
Saint Nicholas, the Jolly
Neutral Minion
5 Mana (0/6)
At the end of any player’s turn, reduce the cost of a random card in their action bar to 0.
Lore: Western Christian Culture
- 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 blatantly 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:
Saint Nicholas, the Jolly (Juror)
Neutral Minion
5 Mana (0/6)
At the end of any player’s turn, reduce the cost of a random card in their action bar to 0.
Lore: Western Christian Culture
- 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: An invitiation to become a jury member next month for the next CDC + 5 Orbs + Exclusive Forum Badge “Design God”
Second: An invitiation to become a jury member next month for the next CDC + 4 Orbs
Third: An invitiation to become a jury member for the next CDC + 3 Orbs
These prizes are provided to by Bandai-Namco and their Community Managers. Thank you @yaviey 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:
@excogitator
@niklaren
@alexx55
Good luck to everyone for the Custom Card Design Contest and hopefuly nothing comes out of the mysterious rift.
