Well the abilities i gave him all fall into whites abilities. I suppose one could argue about intimidate in white but it has been done before, see Spectral Rider. Also see Taj-Nar Swordsmith for equipment fetching.
Just because his title is Green Lantern, doesn't mean he should have some form on green in MTG :P. In all seriousness though, when i was designing him the way he translated into a magic card for me fell primarily into white. Also i noticed the white section of the color pie includes 'uncreative' what a bummer for my Hal eh?
First off, i realise some of what i'm about to say should rightfully go into your main set thread but i figured id lump everything here so you could read it all in one place.
- Keywords, they seem to be more of a way of condensing a wordy ability rather than offering a new mechanic, i dunno, maybe i can live with goldrush... However goldkicker is just too blatant, it could very easily and functionally be reworded using just Kicker e.g. Kicker — Sacrifice an artifact token. see Primal Growth, Rushing River
- Hawkeye Dowser, Maybe reword without an activatable ability so that on entering the battlefield, it puts out a number of tokens dependent on some attribute of the enchantment that was destroyed (most likely converted mana cost or chroma i.e. number of colored mana symbols)
- Goldarmor Surrakar, This might just be me being out of the loop but i don't remember blue giving +0/+1, that's more of a white thing imo (again ive been out of the loop for some time, so blue's nature may well have changed and im just not aware)
- Soulseller, Looks fine except maybe its better suited to be blue and/or green, since they are main colors that deal with artifacts and mana generation respectively.
- River of Gold, Okay this is a simple reword:
River of Gold R
Instant
Sacrifice as many artifact tokens as you want. Deal 2 damage to target attacking creature or player for each artifact token you sacrifice.
As an additional cost to cast River of Gold, you may sacrifice any number of artifact tokens.
Deal 2 damage to target attacking creature or player for each artifact token sacrificed this way.
Okay now my thoughts on the card. Its definitely way too cheap, but for all we know artifact token generation may be way restricted in your set, or not. It really depends on how easy it becomes to generate these artifact tokens. But looking at Devouring Greed, you can see it has a similar effect but a higher cost. And if its damage to an attacking creature then i think its out of color, it should be white/red (since white owns the whole 'effect on attacking creature ' thing) or change it to just target creature.
It pays to do a quick google or a search through Wizards official card database just to see how they do a card with similar effects or to get an idea for proper wording (advice i probably should have taken when i made my own collection of cards =\)
Okay i have updated the set of cards.
Changes include:
- Removal of the lantern corps power batteries (they were just a total mess and i didn't want to even think about how to clean it up, so i removed them and kept the rings.)
- Mass rewording. I went back and reworded many of the cards, hopefully they are worded correctly now, though i can think of one that is still messed up, maybe ill have to completely rework it (orange lantern power ring)
- Mass reworking. I went through and reworked most of them .
- Add 9 new cards, 5 heroes, 3 villains and 1 equipment.
Speaking of The Ring, i used to have a T.V in the room outside my room. It was positioned so that it faced me directly, and my room door is always open because the lock is non-existent. O_O'
@iphanx: Thanks for pointing that out. I have no idea what I was thinking when I put that ability with blue... i'm going to rework it asap. Also ill work to find a way to make the 'lantern' cards less messy.
@MOON-E: Yeah I was aware of your project. I actually searched the forum first to see if anyone else had attempted to make comic book inspired cards >_<
Ill use the Black Lantern Power Ring reword you suggested. As for the power levels you are right, I went crazy... definitely too crazy. Ill keep on truckin' for now but later on i might try an overhaul.
So I began my obsession with creating my own magic cards a few years ago however upon beginning University, studies, friends and life in general started creeping in. Fast forward to last week when I stumbled upon a dc comics
storyline called Blackest Night. I had always been enthralled by DC/Marvel (DC more so over the years), I watched the Justice League animated series, the Batman/Superman/Justice League DCAU movies... etc but I was never one for reading the comics (downloaded Blackest Night, still haven't read it =\ I got the gist of it though. damn internet spoilers...). Back the the MTG... Blackest Night subsequently reignited my passion for MTG and custom cards so I decided to use my spare time make a set of magic cards based on characters/object from the comics, starting with DC first then, depending on my follow through, Marvel.
Before you take a peek at the cards please keep the following in mind
- I have been playing Magic for a long time now, but i missed the expansions/blocks/sets between (not including) 8th edition and Avacyn Restored. Alot, I know. I did research the keywords but there are probably a few useful mechanics I may be unaware of.
- I haven't been keeping up with MTG since the M14 expansion. Again, I have researched the keywords but that's it :(.
- Rarities. Yes I know more then a few of the rarities I assigned may be messed up but that's only because I based then primary on how they are featured in the DC universe Okay from now im going to try and assign rarity properly... and probably fail at doing so =\ I'm more then open to your suggestions on proper assignment of rarities and such
- I may have taken a few more liberties, can't remember right now. Ill update this post if anything comes to me.
Tower Prep, it had so much potential building up to a season 2 and possibly 3. Not to mention Paul Dini!
Young Justice. Need I say more? One of the best American animated superhero tv series to come along in modern times. Too bad it had to be cancelled because it attracted more fan girls than boys, like wtf? (same thing goes for tower prep now that ive researched it.)
Oh man, when my sister first rented Stephen King's IT, my mum wouldn't let me watch it because it was apparently too scary and i was "too young to watch", same thing goes for scream although i saw that later on and well.. it wasn't nearly as scary as i though it would be. Guess all the years of desensitization has done a number on me.
I remember back when I was in primary (elementary) school, I must have been at least between 7 & 9 years old, my sister (who was big on scaring my ass) decided one day to show me a movie... Candyman. It scared the holy bahjeezus outta me. After that movie I couldn't sleep right for at least a month. I remember quite vividly a recurring nightmare I had after I saw that movie, I would be walking up some winding circular stairs, in a cathedral/Phantom of the Opera underground lair type place, only to come to a set of double wooden doors on the other side of which was the Candyman (minus hook hand) playing an organ. Upon my entering the room, he would turn around rise from his chair and proceed to strange me until I woke up just before I suffocate.
Needless to say I don't know if I could bare to watch Candyman again or say his name 5 times in front of a mirror, even to this day. Though the temptation to watch all 3 movies again has come over me recently...
Straightforward question. Several contexts to go by, so let me specify.
Background: I was playing magic casually during primary and high school but as soon as I entered University, things started to get in the way so I stopped... then started drafting for the first time when Avacyn Restored came out. I was even lucky enough to win Griselbrand in my first draft. Call it beginners luck if you must. Never got to see Avacyn being played though... and I had the pleasure and honor of having my ass handed to me by the moon sage one time T_T.
Back to the question: Just wondering if there any cards or mechanics of note that I missed out on during that several year break from magic that I had. Also I'd like to add that I briefly went back into drafting when m14 came out but since then Ive stopped. I was considering drafting again for m15 before I found out that the next block comes out on the 20th -_-'
Hi all,
I'm a post-grad from the Land Down Under who's played magic nearly* all his life (you can thank my sister for that >_> ). The journey that brought me here started when I came across the wonder piece of magic software, made especially for MTG geeks n nerds like myself, called Magic Set Editor. As I played with it, my obsession for creating my own MTG cards grew. Mostly for the eye candy, partly for the enjoyment of imagining how they would work IRL.
So now, possibly at/near the peak of my MTG custom card creating nerdiness, I decided to google search the interwebs for a place I could use as my MTG creative outlet and thus happened upon this wonderful place. Turns out though that I already had an account from... WTF 6 YEARS AGO!?... **** me. @_@
Anywho the main reason i'm here is to share with my fellow forum dwellers my WIP DC/Marvel MTG cards. Along with that, i'd like to ask a question if i may. I have read and understand the rules but for clarification, because the artwork im going to use for my DC/Marvel cards will be from the comics, do I have to credit the specific artist or is crediting the artwork as drawn by 'various artists at DC/Marvel' sufficient enough?
Thank you for reading and thank you for being the ones who make this site tick.
*life got in the way of all the expansions/blocks between 8th edition and Avacyn Restored
Just because his title is Green Lantern, doesn't mean he should have some form on green in MTG :P. In all seriousness though, when i was designing him the way he translated into a magic card for me fell primarily into white. Also i noticed the white section of the color pie includes 'uncreative' what a bummer for my Hal eh?
- Keywords, they seem to be more of a way of condensing a wordy ability rather than offering a new mechanic, i dunno, maybe i can live with goldrush... However goldkicker is just too blatant, it could very easily and functionally be reworded using just Kicker e.g. Kicker — Sacrifice an artifact token. see Primal Growth, Rushing River
- Hawkeye Dowser, Maybe reword without an activatable ability so that on entering the battlefield, it puts out a number of tokens dependent on some attribute of the enchantment that was destroyed (most likely converted mana cost or chroma i.e. number of colored mana symbols)
- Goldarmor Surrakar, This might just be me being out of the loop but i don't remember blue giving +0/+1, that's more of a white thing imo (again ive been out of the loop for some time, so blue's nature may well have changed and im just not aware)
- Soulseller, Looks fine except maybe its better suited to be blue and/or green, since they are main colors that deal with artifacts and mana generation respectively.
- River of Gold, Okay this is a simple reword:
River of Gold R
Instant
Sacrifice as many artifact tokens as you want. Deal 2 damage to target attacking creature or player for each artifact token you sacrifice.
As an additional cost to cast River of Gold, you may sacrifice any number of artifact tokens.
Deal 2 damage to target attacking creature or player for each artifact token sacrificed this way.
Okay now my thoughts on the card. Its definitely way too cheap, but for all we know artifact token generation may be way restricted in your set, or not. It really depends on how easy it becomes to generate these artifact tokens. But looking at Devouring Greed, you can see it has a similar effect but a higher cost. And if its damage to an attacking creature then i think its out of color, it should be white/red (since white owns the whole 'effect on attacking creature ' thing) or change it to just target creature.
It pays to do a quick google or a search through Wizards official card database just to see how they do a card with similar effects or to get an idea for proper wording (advice i probably should have taken when i made my own collection of cards =\)
Shimmering Pearl, i don't think it should be common, probably uncommon at the very least. See Star Compass
Changes include:
- Removal of the lantern corps power batteries (they were just a total mess and i didn't want to even think about how to clean it up, so i removed them and kept the rings.)
- Mass rewording. I went back and reworded many of the cards, hopefully they are worded correctly now, though i can think of one that is still messed up, maybe ill have to completely rework it (orange lantern power ring)
- Mass reworking. I went through and reworked most of them .
- Add 9 new cards, 5 heroes, 3 villains and 1 equipment.
Now it includes some villians >:D Anyway, enjoy!
@MOON-E: Yeah I was aware of your project. I actually searched the forum first to see if anyone else had attempted to make comic book inspired cards >_<
Ill use the Black Lantern Power Ring reword you suggested. As for the power levels you are right, I went crazy... definitely too crazy. Ill keep on truckin' for now but later on i might try an overhaul.
And introducing the first villain:
What? you though it was going to be the Joker?
So I began my obsession with creating my own magic cards a few years ago however upon beginning University, studies, friends and life in general started creeping in. Fast forward to last week when I stumbled upon a dc comics
storyline called Blackest Night. I had always been enthralled by DC/Marvel (DC more so over the years), I watched the Justice League animated series, the Batman/Superman/Justice League DCAU movies... etc but I was never one for reading the comics (downloaded Blackest Night, still haven't read it =\ I got the gist of it though. damn internet spoilers...). Back the the MTG... Blackest Night subsequently reignited my passion for MTG and custom cards so I decided to use my spare time make a set of magic cards based on characters/object from the comics, starting with DC first then, depending on my follow through, Marvel.
Before you take a peek at the cards please keep the following in mind
- I have been playing Magic for a long time now, but i missed the expansions/blocks/sets between (not including) 8th edition and Avacyn Restored. Alot, I know. I did research the keywords but there are probably a few useful mechanics I may be unaware of.
- I haven't been keeping up with MTG since the M14 expansion. Again, I have researched the keywords but that's it :(.
- Rarities.
Yes I know more then a few of the rarities I assigned may be messed up but that's only because I based then primary on how they are featured in the DC universeOkay from now im going to try and assign rarity properly... and probably fail at doing so =\ I'm more then open to your suggestions on proper assignment of rarities and such- I may have taken a few more liberties, can't remember right now. Ill update this post if anything comes to me.
The Cards:
Old Versions:
MTG DC Comics Card Collection (v0.1)
Current:
MTG DC Comics Card Collection
Young Justice. Need I say more? One of the best American animated superhero tv series to come along in modern times. Too bad it had to be cancelled because it attracted more fan girls than boys, like wtf? (same thing goes for tower prep now that ive researched it.)
Needless to say I don't know if I could bare to watch Candyman again or say his name 5 times in front of a mirror, even to this day. Though the temptation to watch all 3 movies again has come over me recently...
Background: I was playing magic casually during primary and high school but as soon as I entered University, things started to get in the way so I stopped... then started drafting for the first time when Avacyn Restored came out. I was even lucky enough to win Griselbrand in my first draft. Call it beginners luck if you must. Never got to see Avacyn being played though... and I had the pleasure and honor of having my ass handed to me by the moon sage one time T_T.
Back to the question: Just wondering if there any cards or mechanics of note that I missed out on during that several year break from magic that I had. Also I'd like to add that I briefly went back into drafting when m14 came out but since then Ive stopped. I was considering drafting again for m15 before I found out that the next block comes out on the 20th -_-'
I'm a post-grad from the Land Down Under who's played magic nearly* all his life (you can thank my sister for that >_> ). The journey that brought me here started when I came across the wonder piece of magic software, made especially for MTG geeks n nerds like myself, called Magic Set Editor. As I played with it, my obsession for creating my own MTG cards grew. Mostly for the eye candy, partly for the enjoyment of imagining how they would work IRL.
So now, possibly at/near the peak of my MTG custom card creating nerdiness, I decided to
googlesearch the interwebs for a place I could use as my MTG creative outlet and thus happened upon this wonderful place. Turns out though that I already had an account from... WTF 6 YEARS AGO!?... **** me. @_@Anywho the main reason i'm here is to share with my fellow forum dwellers my WIP DC/Marvel MTG cards. Along with that, i'd like to ask a question if i may. I have read and understand the rules but for clarification, because the artwork im going to use for my DC/Marvel cards will be from the comics, do I have to credit the specific artist or is crediting the artwork as drawn by 'various artists at DC/Marvel' sufficient enough?
Thank you for reading and thank you for being the ones who make this site tick.
*life got in the way of all the expansions/blocks between 8th edition and Avacyn Restored