Congrats Rudyard! I was so worried about FreshMeat surpassing me that it came to a surprise when you caught up. Overall, the quality of cards were top-notch.
Now to go into creative hibernation for another six months.
For 2014, the cumulative standings system will be modified slightly.
Specifically, I'm going to also track "number of days posted" for the purposes of providing a ranking by average points per submission. This will make it easier to rig the voting for Card Maker of the Year determine who's good at this.
So from next month on you are encouraged to stop posting after getting a high number of votes once?
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Planar Chaos was not a mistake neither was it random. You might want to look at it again.
[thread=239793][Game] Level Up - Creature[/thread]
good point, s.i., maybe it should be tracked both ways, the average and overall total seperately
usually i'll slow down on the posts anyway after a day with a high number of votes as a strategy, because it seems safer to be in 3rd or 4th than 1st or 2nd until the end of the month when there's less swing due to fewer voters
So from next month on you are encouraged to stop posting after getting a high number of votes once?
No; I'm just going to provide both the total number of points people have (over the course of the year) and their average points per submission.
Also, this doesn't affect the scoreboards in the daily threads at all - just the cumulative standings that I'm keeping track of in the first post of this thread. I still find it weird that, by sheer volume of submissions, I have the second-most points this year, because I rarely win days - and so tracking the average number of points per submission (and probably providing a "Top 25, min. 100/250 submissions" list of those averages as well) sounds like a good idea to me.
MDenham, combine your new one with Scry 2 or 3, good god.
Well, yeah, that's kind of the point. It's actually pretty horrible without knowing the top card of your library. That said, scry 2 doesn't do anything for it that scry 1 doesn't already do, other than letting you shift one card to the bottom of your library that you don't want.
But yeah, I know about it and I'm encouraging it in this case because he has a bad habit of dropping out of months after a few days, so anything that gives him a prompt for designing is a good thing.
Chemtrail's card for the 5th is an infinite draw engine if you know the top card of your library as it's currently worded. I doubt he means for it to be, but currently you keep having two draw triggers, which will allow for the replacement effect again - and since you still know what card is on top since you haven't actually drawn any yet (yay replacement effects) you can stack it to draw 4, 6, any even number then stop using the replacement effect once you've had enough.
Nope, it's fine on its own. It replaces "draw a card" with the "name a card, look, if you're right draw two", and since a replacement effect can't replace events it's already been involved with, there's no going infinite.
CR 614.5: "A replacement effect doesn’t invoke itself repeatedly; it gets only one opportunity to affect an event or any modified events that may replace it."
Great stuff today. Difficult choices. Honorable mention to Savia who would have had my vote if the land wasn't so blatantly better than Basic Land - Mountain.
I really thought my submission yesterday (below) was awesome, but it got zero votes. I mean seriously, look at that thing. It's gorgeous! What gives?
Warforge (Rare) 3
Artifact T: Add 1 to your mana pool. If this mana is spent to cast an Equipment spell, when that Equipment enters the battlefield, return target artifact creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield and attach that Equipment to the artifact creature. May it be the heat of battle by which my armies are forged and the cool of victory by which they are tempered. Only then will Mirrodin once again be Mirrodin. - Karn
I really thought my submission yesterday (below) was awesome, but it got zero votes. I mean seriously, look at that thing. It's gorgeous! What gives?
Same happened to me a few days ago. Everyone's always complaining about Hexproof, so I tried to design something that was playable, had hexproof, but wasn't annoying to play against. No one liked it.
Did you consider that it (a) just wasn't conceived as "awesome" by everyone else or (b) other cards just were considered better. I don't think I considered your card even for the top 5.
That's not to say that I wouldn't have voted for it on some slower days when I wasn't even able to fill a top 5.
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Planar Chaos was not a mistake neither was it random. You might want to look at it again.
[thread=239793][Game] Level Up - Creature[/thread]
Now to go into creative hibernation for another six months.
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So from next month on you are encouraged to stop posting after getting a high number of votes once?
Finally a good white villain quote: "So, do I ever re-evaluate my life choices? Never, because I know what I'm doing is a righteous cause."
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usually i'll slow down on the posts anyway after a day with a high number of votes as a strategy, because it seems safer to be in 3rd or 4th than 1st or 2nd until the end of the month when there's less swing due to fewer voters
reminds of Energy Arc
Also, this doesn't affect the scoreboards in the daily threads at all - just the cumulative standings that I'm keeping track of in the first post of this thread. I still find it weird that, by sheer volume of submissions, I have the second-most points this year, because I rarely win days - and so tracking the average number of points per submission (and probably providing a "Top 25, min. 100/250 submissions" list of those averages as well) sounds like a good idea to me.
(Probably NSFW) So you may have heard I'm trying to write a TV series...
Most Nominated for Random Categories, 2013
GWU Rafiq
RWB Zurgo
WBG Ghave
WUB Oloro
WBR Kaalia (Archived)
My Blog, currently working on series about my custom set Cazia.
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I'm not imagining a return of Snow here... Plenty of non-Snow creatures with icy themes in blue.
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Ice Sculpture should've been an artifact creature.
See?
Finally a good white villain quote: "So, do I ever re-evaluate my life choices? Never, because I know what I'm doing is a righteous cause."
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Legendary Journey: Heroes & Planeswalkers
Saga: Shards of Rabiah
Legends: The Elder Dragons
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WHY NOT BOTH
SNOW ARTIFACT CREATURE - CONSTRUCT ILLUSION SHAPESHIFTER SPELLSHAPER BRUSHWAGG
(and of course both are largely irrelevant, because the Clone effect removes all the exist super/types anyway)
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I will always firmly stand by the belief that Magic is a game first and a collectable second.
(Probably NSFW) So you may have heard I'm trying to write a TV series...
Most Nominated for Random Categories, 2013
Choose one of these judge of creation:
Make Strionic Resonator shine!
You can not grasp the true form of Ashiok's attack!
GWU Rafiq
RWB Zurgo
WBG Ghave
WUB Oloro
WBR Kaalia (Archived)
My Blog, currently working on series about my custom set Cazia.
Steam Trades - I play Dota 2, CS:GO, TF2, and trade cards heavily. Add me if you like.
― Anthony Bourdain, Kitchen Confidential
I will always firmly stand by the belief that Magic is a game first and a collectable second.
But yeah, I know about it and I'm encouraging it in this case because he has a bad habit of dropping out of months after a few days, so anything that gives him a prompt for designing is a good thing.
(Probably NSFW) So you may have heard I'm trying to write a TV series...
Most Nominated for Random Categories, 2013
CR 614.5: "A replacement effect doesn’t invoke itself repeatedly; it gets only one opportunity to affect an event or any modified events that may replace it."
(Probably NSFW) So you may have heard I'm trying to write a TV series...
Most Nominated for Random Categories, 2013
I really thought my submission yesterday (below) was awesome, but it got zero votes. I mean seriously, look at that thing. It's gorgeous! What gives?
C'est la vie.
Did you consider that it (a) just wasn't conceived as "awesome" by everyone else or (b) other cards just were considered better. I don't think I considered your card even for the top 5.
That's not to say that I wouldn't have voted for it on some slower days when I wasn't even able to fill a top 5.
Finally a good white villain quote: "So, do I ever re-evaluate my life choices? Never, because I know what I'm doing is a righteous cause."
Factions: Sleeping
Remnants: Valheim
Legendary Journey: Heroes & Planeswalkers
Saga: Shards of Rabiah
Legends: The Elder Dragons
Read up on Red Flags & NWO