Where I live right now, a failing grade is anything below 12.5/25. (Though in some places anything below 15/25 is failing; depends where you live. It may vary in other places.)
I try to keep things in easy-to-see flavor when possible. Flavor of what happens in the exile zone in general isn't easy to see for me; if a card exiles something and returns it, it's easy to see where it's coming from. Something that can exile either a Cremated card or a card that was Lobotomized from the mind just strikes me as odd. If you have to give me a failing grade for not being creative enough and going outside the box, so be it.
I'm kinda iffy on playing in the exile zone... when something is exiled, it's usually there for a specific purpose. Things like Oblivion Ring exile so that the card can be retrieved again. Things that imprint do things specifically with the exiled card. The list goes on, and while I'm fine with things like Pull from Eternity and Riftsweeper who try to "exile things from exile" to foil other plans, I don't quite dig the flavor of having something return from exile to the battlefield, especially since exile can mean verydifferentthingsflavor-wise.
You have to either affect all players directly, or interact with them in some fashion. I'll try to draw the line by examples:
- "Destroy all creatures." does not satisfy Challenge 2.
- "Each player sacrifices a creature" satisfies Challenge 2.
In a similar way, Ghostly Prison's effect is fine, but Moat's isn't. I'll add this to the Clarifications.
That seems like it should fulfill the requirements. But Challenge 2 is the gray area I'm questioning as well. What does "affects all players" mean specifically? Does it have to specifically affect the players themselves, or is it okay to just affect the board on all sides (ie. Final Judgment)?
Anyways:
R1: WU
R2: UB
R3: WB
R4: WUB
Looks like I managed to stay in Esper this whole month... not sure if my strengths and weaknesses as a designer allow me to do this pattern for any other shard though.
I saw that... 1/25000 is 0.004%, which is really really small (even smaller than that 0.4% I lost by in Feb 2011 R4). I do things by 1% when I judge...
@Megiddo and Eventide Sojourner: Since both of you have judge submissions, you could judge each others' cards in addition to the ones assigned to you...
(Though Eventide Sojourner's card is silver-bordered, so I'm not sure how that works there.)
(I always have a judgentry when I'm judging, and I do judge other judgentries if I'm judging and there are more to judge.)
You were judged by Megiddo, and didn't advance to the next round. The reason you probably didn't notice it is that Megiddo forgot to write your name on the spoiler tag. (Or knowing Megiddo, he decided not to write your name because you're "nameless".)
From how everyone else was scored, looks like I'm the hanging judge this round. If any of the other judges feel I was overly critical, feel free to let me know. I'd hate to be the judge people dread having review their cards.
It's definitely not common for someone to advance with a score of 46%. But either way, the main thing that matters for the first two rounds is that half of them advance and half don't, so you are still doing your job. I haven't looked at your cards to determine if failing grades were warranted, but as long as you're always consistent within a round and everything is your own honest opinion, everything should be fine.
Well, the average for your pod was 13/25 (52%), not including the zero. But if it's your honest opinion, you may stick to it. In theory, the average should increase as the rounds go on.
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Alright, got that. Thanks.
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Anyways:
R1: WU
R2: UB
R3: WB
R4: WUB
Looks like I managed to stay in Esper this whole month... not sure if my strengths and weaknesses as a designer allow me to do this pattern for any other shard though.
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Well, at least we have a new rubric that popeclone could use.
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@Megiddo and Eventide Sojourner: Since both of you have judge submissions, you could judge each others' cards in addition to the ones assigned to you...
(Though Eventide Sojourner's card is silver-bordered, so I'm not sure how that works there.)
(I always have a judgentry when I'm judging, and I do judge other judgentries if I'm judging and there are more to judge.)
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...If your idea is that good, it may be worth sacrificing that bonus point.
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Does it have to be specifically your hand (and your library)?
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It's definitely not common for someone to advance with a score of 46%. But either way, the main thing that matters for the first two rounds is that half of them advance and half don't, so you are still doing your job. I haven't looked at your cards to determine if failing grades were warranted, but as long as you're always consistent within a round and everything is your own honest opinion, everything should be fine.
Well, the average for your pod was 13/25 (52%), not including the zero. But if it's your honest opinion, you may stick to it. In theory, the average should increase as the rounds go on.
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