The Act of Treason Contest

[alexx55]

Cataclysmic Snap

Thanos wants to know your location

[victorious23]

Ok, some quick things from my own play testing: The rules don’t have much about phases and activation priority, so I used MTG phases. All Actions were played as fast (instant speed), as well as abilities. Game was played with a growth of two mana every turn, capping at 10.

Enemy of my Enemy: Text might need some adjustments. Maybe my english sucks, but I was a bit confused who was supposed to be gaining health, the attacker or the defender(s). If multiple players are attacked do all defenders gain health? (Settled on attacker gains health).

After a couple playtests, I think some of the rrasons why the game stretches on so long is because of cards like Qui Pro Quo (QPQ), Enemy of my Enemy, and Morbid Curiosity kept healing players and allowed Walls to stay in play for a long time. Using QPQ on Walls means both players stall out the game, one by healing 4+ each turn, and refreshing the other’s Walls’ health.

Some of the minions are weak because they are too fragile and don’t have a strong effect the moment they enter play. A lack of strong single target removal and a large amount of AoE means these small minions are even worse to play. Large minions like Rogue Knight and Bloodcrazed Berserker threaten the enemy the moment they are played. Cutting Edgelord and Silent Shinobi are too easily removed by Loot Box and Generic AoE.

Walls themselves are fine, I actually like Wall of Text, the Terms prevent you from blasting the board with AoE and can block the big minions for a few turns. When the opponent has QPQ however. this leads to long games with little board development.

I’m going to play a few more games tomorrow with Actions at Sorcery speed (slow) and see if that makes the game go on too long. I also suspect that gaining 2 mana a turn pushed the game too quickly into the end game.

Will probably comment more tomorrow (or in a few days) when I play it more. It’s getting late here so I can’t type as much as I wish I could.

[anjosustrakr]

Wow, you playtested that very quickly – thank you!

The rules don’t have much about phases and activation priority

That is true. I didn’t want to copy Magic, but perhaps adding phases to the rules will clarify things.

All Actions were played as fast (instant speed)

Does that mean you could play Harakiri on an attacking minion? If so, that is not what I intended (although does it really matter?). I probably should clarify that…

Enemy of my Enemy: Text might need some adjustments

Oh, it definitely needs some adjustments. The effect used to be different, so I changed it, but couldn’t figure out a way to make it easily understandable.

Using QPQ on Walls means both players stall out the game, one by healing 4+ each turn, and refreshing the other’s Walls’ health.

Oh, that is a good point. I didn’t run into that, but that sounds terrible. I was wondering if QPQ would slow the game even more… I might have to rework or replace Enemy of My Enemy and QPQ. I like Morbid Curiosity, though.

Some of the minions are weak because they are too fragile and don’t have a strong effect the moment they enter play

That is true. Although Silent Shinobi can be a Flash blocker, Cutting Edgelord can remove stuff instantly (and his negative effect is optional, making him arguably the best minion in the game), it’s not a tragedy if Pungent Anchovy dies, and Fair-Weather Friend is a 1-cost. Would you say that I should rework all of these cards, or just make one more expensive and with higher stats?

this leads to long games

gaining 2 mana a turn pushed the game too quickly into the end game

How long did your game go on for?

Will probably comment more tomorrow (or in a few days) when I play it more

Thank you again! I hope overall you enjoyed the game?

[victorious23]

Played another game with slow actions just now, some of my concerns from yesterday seemed to stem from the ability to cast Actions at instant speed. Small minions don’t die as quickly because you opponents have to wait for their turn to respond to them.

One game i played last night took a few hours to complete, and it ended with me landing a lucky Snap to kill both Exulting Torturers. We were all under 0 health and I managed to heal by using Harakiri on my own Silent Shinobi before Snap.

[anjosustrakr]

cast Actions at instant speed

Oh, it says in the rules that you can only play cards on your turn.

We were all under 0 health

Wow, sounds like an epic finish!

Are there any cards that you think should be changed? And did you prefer the game gaining 2 mana per turn or 1?

[anjosustrakr]

The contest will end when this poll closes:

• I refuse to believe it!
• Ok, whatevs.
• Time waits for no one!

[limango]

I made a flavorful edit on my card. Just because. Also a chance to clarify that they are the most unique and ultimate masochist.

[alplod]

You’re a medieval lord and you must make investment decisions every season (armies, crops, political favors, etc.). And every season there’s a random catastrophe that can ruin the players who didn’t plan wisely. Nobody comes out unscathed

Kinda reminds me of Genesis/SNES Gemfire title, but with much more depth. I’ll check it out. And you may check Gemfire, loved this game when I was a teen.

[anjosustrakr]

No one else wants to try to get their design into the game? Not even you, @victorious23?

[excogitator]

Art Critic
At the start of your turn, all opponents draw an object of your choice. You choose which drawing is best, and the player who drew it gains control of Art critic.
3 mana
3/5
Minion — human

Try not to bore me

[victorious23]

Patient Waiter
Minion (3 Mana, 4/5)

Can only attack enemies that control at least 1 Minion.

An empty table serves no one.

[anjosustrakr]

I replaced Quid Pro Quo with Bad Blood and fixed the wording on Enemy of My Enemy. Tomorrow we shall see which card will complete the decklist…

[anjosustrakr]

Thank you all for participating in my treasonous contest! This was a tough decision for me, because all of the submissions are really cool and unique.

But there can only be one, so the winner is… @ryousen!

Collagist’s Scissors (4)

Minion - Construct [4/2]
Destroy a card you control to use any one word or number contained in it to replace any one word or number contained in any other card in the field.

Make art everyone!!! - Brackets

This card is just awesome. It has a really creative design and will allow players to pull off crazy combos. I did actually have a similar design to this already (for a future expansion (that’s right, I have three expansions designed before the base game is even released)) called Wordsmith, but it changed the words on actions, and I liked the design and flavor of Collagist’s Scissors more.

What name do you want to go by on the card, @ryousen? Also, I don’t understand the flavor text of the card. Is it a reference to something? What are the brackets?

[anjosustrakr]

There ya have it, folks. A bit wordier than @ryousen’s version for clarity’s sake, but otherwise the same. And with that (and this) my treason is at an end… for now. MUHAHAHAHAHA!

[ryousen]

aw shit, fuck yeah!!!
One of my catchphrases is “Make collages everyone”, or “Make art everyone”, and the pseudonym I use in art accounts is ]][[, or Brackets i find it actually cute when my username is ]][[ and people call me Brackets instead
So Id probably go with Brackets in the card
As mentioned by Centuryboy in the other thread ive been too busy skipping classes so I ended up not playtesting, but me and my other cardgame addict friend will be trying this out, just have to find an opening to stop unrealistic expectations of productivity and just take a day off to do nothing and play stuff

[anjosustrakr]

So Id probably go with Brackets in the card

Ok, I’ll change it. Unfortunately, there’s no space for your flavor text, though (I don’t want to reduce it below 8 point font).

me and my other cardgame addict friend will be trying this out, just have to find an opening to stop unrealistic expectations of productivity and just take a day off to do nothing and play stuff

Sounds good!