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[NUKE9.13]

Spoiler: Decklist: If It Ain't Broke (click to show/hide)

HUMAN-READABLE FORMAT:
4x Morphic Gem
4x Silver
2x Gold

1x Aruza
1x Curio Collector
3x Elvish Reporter
2x Mercenary Soldier
2x Loot Hoarder

2x Mercenary House
2x Recycling Center
2x Egypt Expedition

2x Horrify
3x Unmake
3x With Relic And Ritual
4x Lightning Void
2x Lightning Storm
1x Morphic Ritual


BOT-READABLE FORMAT:
Morphic Gem, Morphic Gem, Morphic Gem, Morphic Gem,
Silver, Silver, Silver, Silver,
Gold, Gold,
Aruza,
Curio Collector,
Elvish Reporter, Elvish Reporter, Elvish Reporter,
Mercenary Soldier, Mercenary Soldier,
Loot Hoarder, Loot Hoarder,
Mercenary House, Mercenary House,
Recycling Center, Recycling Center,
Egypt Expedition, Egypt Expedition,
Horrify, Horrify,
Unmake, Unmake, Unmake,
With Relic And Ritual, With Relic And Ritual, With Relic And Ritual,
Lightning Void, Lightning Void, Lightning Void, Lightning Void,
Lightning Storm, Lightning Storm,
Morphic Ritual,

Only a few tweaks compared to last turn's decklist. Swapped Quake for Lightning Storm, Horrify for Bought Peace (mainly to test it out, I feel like it's actually notably worse without the secondary use), one additional Reporter and one less Hoarder.
E: Swapped the DQTs for Golds.
E2: after two test matches (and realising you can't manually unequip), I have swapped the Bought Peaces back for Horrifies.

[Megam0nkey]

Spoiler: Decklist: Nightmare Bugs (click to show/hide)

HUMAN-READABLE FORMAT:
4x Morphic Gem
3x Royal Jelly

3x Infested Husk
3x Regenerative Locusts
2x Bioartillery
2x Drone Ball
1x Artemis, the Aspirant
1x Broodmother Queen


4x Infested Basket
1x Egypt Expedition

4x Here Comes the Swarm
3x Unmake
3x With Relic And Ritual
3x Lightning Void
2x Lightning Storm
1x Morphic Ritual


BOT-READABLE FORMAT:
Morphic Gem, Morphic Gem, Morphic Gem, Morphic Gem
Royal Jelly, Royal Jelly, Royal Jelly,
Infested Husk, Infested Husk, Infested Husk,
Regenerative Locust, Regenerative Locust, Regenerative Locust,
Bioartillery, Bioartillery,
Drone Ball, Drone Ball,
ARTEMIS,
Broodmother Queen,
Infested Basket, Infested Basket, Infested Basket, Infested Basket,
Egypt Expedition,
Here Comes the Swarm, Here Comes the Swarm, Here Comes the Swarm, Here Comes the Swarm,
Unmake, Unmake, Unmake,
With Relic And Ritual, With Relic And Ritual, With Relic And Ritual,
Lightning Void, Lightning Void, Lightning Void,
Lightning Storm, Lightning Storm,
Morphic Ritual,

[TricMagic]

Appeal for next round-

Infested Basket:
When this card enters, Spawn 1 Drone.
At the start OR end of your turn, if you control less than X Drone (T): Spawn 1 if it does not overflow the limit.
X is equal to the number of Infected Baskets you control +1. You can only resolve this card once per turn.

Not to mess with deckbuilding. Basically this sets an upper limit to how many a single basket can spawn at once. At start of turn baskets produce. If they can't spawn any, it's check is moved to the end of the turn.

Spoiler: Unleash Your Anime Spirit! (click to show/hide)

4x Rose Quartz
3X Dream Quartz Trasure
2x Powerstone
2x Victor's Warbanner
2x Cheerleader
3x Gallant Knight
2x Apprentice White Mage
2x Barrier Mage
2x Army Recruiter
4x Animepotheosis
2x Minion Squad
2x Treehouse Library
2x Quake
1x Spirit Arrow
2x Flourishing Ent
2x Egypt Expedition
3x Unmake

Rose Quartz, Rose Quartz, Rose Quartz, Rose Quartz, Dream Quartz Treasure, Dream Quartz Treasure, Dream Quartz Treasure, Powerstone Gem, Powerstone Gem, Victor's Warbanner, Victor's Warbanner, Cheerleader, Cheerleader, Gallant Knight, Gallant Knight, Gallant Knight, Apprentice White Mage, Apprentice White Mage, Barrier Mage, Barrier Mage, Army Recruiter, Army Recruiter, Animepotheosis, Animepotheosis, Animepotheosis, Animepotheosis, Minion Squad, Minion Squad, Treehouse Library, Treehouse Library, Quake, Quake, Spirit Arrow, Flourishing Ent, Flourishing Ent, Egypt Expedition, Egypt Expedition, Unmake, Unmake, Unmake,

It is now next round.

Guard Tower: Reduce health by 1 to 4. Reasoning is right now it can't be killed from an empty board. With 3 attack it has no trouble clearing 0 cost summons, and can kill most early game things with a single powerstone buff, so I think it's slightly overpriced.

Territorial Snapjaw: Same deal. It's continuous two damage a snap. As it hits both sides it can go down to 5. Just feel these had a point too much health for the amount of advantage they can give. The reduction isn't going to effect cards with the strength to kill them normally. Other than Brutal being able to swing over it with a buff.

I'd also like to give Quake an All Disrupt effect on items. So it hits both sides just like the damage. And make it more tempting to use.
Or just make Quake common given the monkey is. But All Disrupt seems more AoE for it's thematic and gives it turnaround power.

[NUKE9.13]

Appeals:

I would argue that as it stands, the effect of Bought Peace would be balanced if it had no upkeep cost at all. That is, if the last line was stricken entirely. I do not want that change, however, as that goes against the entire theme of the card (and Market).

Instead, I have a couple of suggestions for changes to make it worth the upkeep.

Effect: You may equip this to enemy summons.
   Equipped summon's strength is always zero.
   At the start of your turn, pay 1 mana or destroy Bought Peace.

This would be similar to if Horrify didn't modify health. It would allow one to safely destroy the victim over time. The upkeep pays for the reusable nature. I don't like this option, because the theme of the card is supposed to be peace- but it would at least be worth playing.

Effect: You may equip this to enemy summons. You may unequip this manually.
   Equipped summon is Pacified ((cannot attack, block, or be attacked)).
   At the start of your turn, pay 1 mana or destroy Bought Peace.

This is what the card proposal was intended to be. I do not think this is overpowered. Manually unequipping still wouldn't let you reequip the same turn, so it's not something one would do lightly, but it provides longer-term use in exchange for longer-term costs.

Effect: You may equip this to enemy summons. You may unequip this manually.
   Equipped summon cannot attack or block.
   At the start of your turn, pay 1 mana or destroy Bought Peace.

This is the same, but without the niche use case of being able to protect your own summons with non-combat utility. I feel that having the same effect having different applications is a fun gimmick, but if that is considered to be too much, I'd at least want the ability to move the thing manually.

An immobile building being a summon capable of attacking, as opposed to an item (like Mercenary House, the Libraries, Recycling Center), is jarringly incongruous. The only change needed to resolve that is swapping the art.
or

I won't argue the point that this doesn't feel like a Might card. But I will argue that the way it generates mana-generating spell tokens is needlessly complex, and unnecessarily confusing to the opponent. The card is pretty much the same if it just generates mana normally.

I would also argue that "can't attack" being a downside sufficient to justify "generates 1 mana per turn" is dubious, especially on a zero-strength summon that would rarely have a reason to attack in the first place. Knock a point or two off the health, I'd say.

Rather than an overcomplicated drone-cap, just remove "When this card enters and". Infested Basket is too strong, but not by a massive margin, and removing the immediate spawn should suffice to weaken it, I think.

Card proposals:

This one is just a fun idea. No specific reasoning behind it other than that.

Name: Precocious Waif

   Cost: 5
   Type: Anime/Eldritch
   Class: Summon
   Subclass: Waifu
   Rarity: Unique
   Effect: You may not target Precocious Waif with your own cards, nor sacrifice her. She may not attack.
      If Precocious Waif would leave play, instead transform her into The Siren.
   Strength/Health: 1/1
   Flavour Text: I always wondered what became of the unfortunate little waif...

Name: The Siren

   Cost: Transform
   Type: Eldritch
   Class: Summon
   Subclass: Horror
   Rarity: Unique
   Effect: When this transforms, you may immediately take control of an enemy summon.
      If this has not taken control of an enemy summon before, you may take control of an enemy summon during your turn.
      The controlled summon has Haste and Guardian.
   Strength/Health: 4/7
   Flavour Text: The aquatic devils have remade the poor girl in their image!
   
Notes: Transform keyword: This card changes into another form. Its health and strength are reset. Any cards or effects attached to it remain, and it does not count as having moved to or from play in the process of transforming. The alternate form is not a token, and has the same mana cost as the base form*. In any zone other than the battlefield, a Transform card reverts to its base form.
   Also, the wording is a bit awkward, but the idea is that since it probably transformed during the enemy turn, you can 'interrupt' to ensnare something to defend it (as this is known to the opponent, there's no chance of the opponent accidentally continuing their turn, which is the problem with actual interrupt cards). But if there is no target, or no desirable target, the ability can be used later on instead (on your own turn, so no interrupt issues).
   
*suggestion: replace cost area on Transformed side with the following symbol:

Finding things to cut from decks is increasingly a challenge. So we should look into improving/specialising cards that we already have. Like gems.

Name: Uncanny Eye-Gems

   Cost: 1
   Type: Anime/Eldritch
   Class: Gem
   Subclass: Duo
   Rarity: Common
   Effect: At the start of your turn,
      gain 1 Anime or Eldritch Mana.
      Then deal 1 damage to a summon,
      then give a summon +1 health.

Name: Gacha Gem

   Cost: 1
   Type: Anime/Market
   Class: Gem
   Subclass: Duo
   Rarity: Rare
   Effect: At the start of your turn,
      add 1 Anime or 1 Market Mana.
      Then reveal the top of your deck.
      If it is Common, put it into your hand. 
      Otherwise, shuffle it into your deck.

(Or, in the case of Swarm, Queens)

      
Name: Corrupted Queen

   Cost: 1
   Type: Swarm/Eldritch
   Class: Summon
   Subclass: Queen
   Rarity: Rare
   Effect: Whenever you discard cards, Spawn 1. ((Discarding multiple cards at once (eg WRAR) only triggers this once))
      When this enters play, discard a card.
      At the start of your turn, add 1 Swarm or Eldritch Mana.
      This is Royalty. 
   Strength/Health: 1/3
   
   Notes: Royalty keyword: So long as you control a drone, this card cannot attack, be attacked, or be targeted.
      (I would tie this to the Queen subclass, but Team 2 already made a Queen)