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[NUKE9.13]

^DIYCCG

TEAM ONE

Core Thread

Welcome. If you haven't read the core thread, or if you haven't joined Team One, do those things first before reading on.

Right. You can start proposing cards. The first 3 turns will not have battles.

Here's the template you should use when proposing a new card. The three fields marked with an asterisk are mandatory, everything else can be left vague or blank. 

NAME*: [Not too long]
COST: [For the first few turns at least, you can ask me for an estimate of the cost of a proposal]
IMAGE*: [210x120 pixels]
COLOUR*: [One of the six colours, or a combination]
TYPE-SUBTYPE: [Critter, Sticky, Trick][Subtype is optional]
EFFECT: [Go nuts]
FLAVOUR TEXT: [If you want]
STRENGTH-VITALITY: [N/A for Stickys and Tricks]
RARITY: [Common (6 copies max per deck), Rare (3 copies max per deck), Unique (1 copy max per deck)]
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NOTES: [If you want to explain something about the proposal that isn't obvious from the above, mention it here. This can be explaining a reference, describing the general intent, or if it's crucial that it has exactly this cost or that strength or those effects (etc). I'll try to take this into account, although I make no promises]
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[If a card has sub-components, like if it creates token cards or whatever, include the name/image/etc for those down here]

Spoiler: Balance (click to show/hide)

While I can't possibly give a perfect, or even comprehensive, description of all balance factors, I can give you the very basics.

A 0-Rad Critter with no abilities can have a total of 50 Strength+Vitality 'Potential'. Each additional Rad is worth about 25 Potential, meaning a 2-Rad Critter can have a total of 100.

Adding abilities to a card can be thought of as 'costing' some of their Potential. Some have flat costs, some have scaling costs, and some may have negative 'costs'. In all cases I reserve the right to tweak their costs if necessary (eg if a combination of abilities on the same card has a greater impact than those two abilities separately, I will take that into account).

Stickys and Tricks Potential is harder to nail down, since they don't have S+V to compare. As a very rough guideline, Stickys have 80% of the Potential of Critters, whereas Tricks have 120%.

...at least, this is the idea going in. This is based on the balancing guidelines of CYOGTCG, but maybe it'll turn out that some types of cards are far more powerful than intended, requiring the entire scale to be adjusted. We'll see.

When voting, each player has two votes (which have to be for two different things). Tally votes in a quote box, aka a votebox:

Amazing Card: (3) Alice, Bob, Cyanide
Great Card: (2) Alice, Cyanide
Decent Card: (2) Bob, DAVE
Awful Card: (1) DAVE

Team One's current collection looks like this:

Spoiler: STARTER CARDS (click to show/hide)

Spoiler: CREATED CARDS (click to show/hide)

Spoiler: KEYWORDS (click to show/hide)

Exhaust: Choose a Critter you control that has not attacked this turn. It cannot attack this turn, and does not prevent attacks on you in the opponent's next turn (but can be attacked if desired). It cannot activate abilities or be used to activate abilities this turn.

Rebellion Threshold [X]: If this card has more than X Rebellion Counters on it, remove all Rebellion Counters and give control of this card to the opponent.

Quickplay: This card does not count towards your plays-per-turn limit (which is normally one).

Shielded: This card cannot be the target of cards your opponent controls. This does not prevent it from being attacked. It also does not prevent effects that do not target. So, it can not be targeted by Dies to Removal, but could be destroyed by a card that says "Destroy all Critters".

Trample: When attacking, if this Critter destroys the Critter blocking it, it may attack again. Its strength is reduced by the Vitality of the blocker until end of turn. If a 50/50 Trample Critter attacks a 30/20 Critter, it will be able to attack again, this time as a 30/20 Critter.

[Kashyyk]

Alright, let's do this thing! Hopefully I've done this right.

Name: Big Shield Girlfriend
Cost: 1?

Spoiler: Image (click to show/hide)

Colours: Pink / White
Type: Critter - Girlfriend Waifu
Effects:
   Defender - Big Shield Girlfriend can't be used to attack
   Bodyguard - When Big Shield Girlfriend enters play, you may select a friendly Critter to Bodyguard. If the Bodyguarded Critter is targeted by an Attack or other harmful affect, it instead targets Big Shield Girlfriend. If multiple Bodyguards are protecting a single target, they combine their Strengths for the fight, but receive damage by attacker's choice.
Flavour Text: In front of each great person is an armoured and well trained warrior.
Strength-Vitality: 20-80
Rarity: Common

[NUKE9.13]

Yup, that checks out, both in terms of being a valid submission and being reasonably balanced. Only thing I'd change is the subtype, which would be better as Waifu, both for theme and mechanical reasons (synergy with any cards that care about/affect Waifus).

[Jerick]

Name: Twisted Hound
Cost: 0

Spoiler: Image (click to show/hide)

Colours: Green
Type: Critter - Mutant
Effects: Gains 10s and 5v every time rad is generated
Flavour Text: Each new mutation made it that little bit hungrier
Strength-Vitality: 20-15
Rarity: Common

My attempt at a card

[NUKE9.13]

Name: Twisted Hound
Effects: Gains 10s and 5v every time rad is generated
Strength-Vitality: 20-15

Hmm. My intention was for S-V to be exclusively multiples of 10, but I don't have to stick to that. In situations like this, I could allow multiples of 5. This would probably get nerfed to a starting S-V of 20-10, and I'd change the wording so that it's only when you generate Rads.

[Kashyyk]

Awesome. A few more ideas. I'm gonna stick them in spoilers cos otherwise they'll clutter the thread.

Spoiler: Tea Plantation (click to show/hide)

Cost: 0

Colours: Red
Type: Sticky - Land
Effects:
 - At the beginning of your turn, you may gain 1 Tea, and you may remove 1 Rebellion token from this card
 - Work X: On each turn, instead of attacking, any number of Critters may work the Plantation, generating 1 Tea and 1 Rebellion per Critter. These Critters do not prevent your opponent from targeting other Critters or You with Attacks or other harmful affects until the start of your next turn
 - Rebellion Threshold: 3
Flavour: The sinews of the Empire are lubricated with Tanin
Rarity: Common

Spoiler: Pressed into Service (click to show/hide)

Cost: X

Colours: Red
Type: Trick
Effect: Place 2 Reluctant Conscript Critter Tokens into play for each Rad paid when playing this card
Flavour: Don't be first, don't be last, and don't volunteer for anything
Rarity: Common
Name: Reluctant Conscript
Cost: -

Colours: Red
Type: Critter - Token Soldier
Effect:
 - At the end of a turn in which Conscript Attacks or Defends, it gains 1 Rebellion token
 - Rebellion Threshold: 0
Flavour: Just because you gave a man a weapon, it doesn't mean he wants to use it
Strength-Vitality: 30-30

Spoiler: Overclock (click to show/hide)

Cost: 0

Colours: Yellow
Type: Sticky
Effect:
 - Once per turn, You may pay 10 vitality to either Draw a card or play a Card
Flavour: Warning, Core Temperature at Critical levels
Rarity: Common

Edit to add another with an actual use for Tea:

Spoiler: Tea Break (click to show/hide)

Cost: 0

Colour: Red
Type: Trick
Effect: Select any number of Cards you own with a Rebellion Threshold. You may pay 1 Tea for each. If you do, remove all Rebellion tokens from, and restore all Vitality to, each such Card.
Flavour: Put the kettle on love, and lets talk it out
Rarity: Rare

Edit 2: and more

Spoiler: Stern Officer Girlfriend (click to show/hide)

Cost: 2

Colours: Red / White
Type: Critter - Waifu Soldier
Effects:
 - Other Red Critters do not gain Rebellion
Flavour: Ready to charge the enemy Machinegun on your order Ma'am!
Strength-Vitality: 40-60
Rarity: Rare

Spoiler: Watchful Sentry (click to show/hide)

Cost: 2

Colours: Black
Type: Critter - Soldier
Effects:
 - First Strike: Watchful Sentry deals damage before Critters without First Strike
 - Any Hostile Critter that attacks You or a Critter friendly to Watchful Sentry takes additional damage as if Attacked by Watchful Sentry
Flavour: If you heard the gunshot, it wasn't aimed at you
Strength-Vitality: 70-20
Rarity: Rare

[a1s]

NAME: Mountain
COST: 0
IMAGE:
COLOUR: Red
TYPE-SUBTYPE: Sticky - Land
EFFECT:
- Rebellion Threshold: 5,
- Once per turn put a rebellion counter on this card to gain a red Sepoy token
- Any player may pay a rad to put a rebellion token on this card.
FLAVOUR TEXT: Hard times breed hard men
RARITY: Common
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Name: Sepoy
Image:
Colours: Red
Type: Critter - Token Soldier
Strength-Vitality: 20-20

[a1s]

NAME: Factory
COST: 2
IMAGE:
COLOUR: Red
TYPE-SUBTYPE: Sticky - Industry
EFFECT:
Choose a critter, that critter may not attack, defend or use abilities until the start of your next turn. lose 1 tea and gain 1 rad. You may use this ability multiple times per trun, provided you choose a new critter each time.
FLAVOUR TEXT: Feed the fires of industry and they will feed you
RARITY: Rare

[Jerick]

Name: Polluted Wasteland
Cost: 1

Spoiler: Image (click to show/hide)

Colours: Green
Type: Sticky -  Land
Effects: Deals 10v damage to every critter that attacks. Every time this damage kills a critter you generate 1 rad
Flavour Text: Thick radiation and pollution choke everything making life impossible. Yet the remains of those who fell there lie waiting for scavangers brave enough to risk it
Strength-Vitality: NA
Rarity: Unique

[Supernerd]

Allow me to make the following proposal. Bit pessimistic that the GM might Veto this, but I have a bit of capital for giving them permission to host a game based on my own so it might get through. Also, the effect field totally said to 'Go Nuts' so I did. This one takes several cards from you guys' proposals and combines them into this monstrosity of a card!

NAME*: Meet the incredible Team 1
COST: 0
IMAGE*:
COLOUR*: Pink/White/Green/Red
TYPE-SUBTYPE: Trick-Innate
EFFECT: If you have no other unique cards in your deck, this card will be in your opening hand at the start of the game, and will return to your hand when you have no cards in play. When you play this card, choose one of the following tokens and play it. All costs associated with the token must also be paid and this can never play the same token more than once in a single game. Remove this from the game when you play the final token it can choose.
- Big Shield Girlfriend
- Twisted Hound
- Pressed Into Service
- Mountain
- Factory
- Polluted Wasteland

FLAVOUR TEXT: Team 2 had better watch out!
STRENGTH-VITALITY: N/A
RARITY: Unique
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NOTES: It is okay to say no to an idea. Its part of being a GM.

Spoiler: Token 1 (click to show/hide)

Name: Big Shield Girlfriend
Cost: 1?

Colours: Pink / White
Type: Critter - Girlfriend Waifu
Effects:
   Defender - Big Shield Girlfriend can't be used to attack
   Bodyguard - When Big Shield Girlfriend enters play, you may select a friendly Critter to Bodyguard. If the Bodyguarded Critter is targeted by an Attack or other harmful affect, it instead targets Big Shield Girlfriend. If multiple Bodyguards are protecting a single target, they combine their Strengths for the fight, but receive damage by attacker's choice.
Flavour Text: In front of each great person is an armoured and well trained warrior.
Strength-Vitality: 20-80
Rarity: Common

Spoiler: Token 2 (click to show/hide)

Name: Twisted Hound
Cost: 0

Colours: Green
Type: Critter - Mutant
Effects: Gains 10s and 5v every time rad is generated
Flavour Text: Each new mutation made it that little bit hungrier
Strength-Vitality: 20-15
Rarity: Common

Spoiler: Token 3 (and its token) (click to show/hide)

Pressed into Service
Cost: X

Colours: Red
Type: Trick
Effect: Place 2 Reluctant Conscript Critter Tokens into play for each Rad paid when playing this card
Flavour: Don't be first, don't be last, and don't volunteer for anything
Rarity: Common
Name: Reluctant Conscript
Cost: -

Colours: Red
Type: Critter - Token Soldier
Effect:
 - At the end of a turn in which Conscript Attacks or Defends, it gains 1 Rebellion token
 - Rebellion Threshold: 0
Flavour: Just because you gave a man a weapon, it doesn't mean he wants to use it
Strength-Vitality: 30-30

Spoiler: Token 4 (and its token) (click to show/hide)

NAME: Mountain
COST: 0
IMAGE:
COLOUR: Red
TYPE-SUBTYPE: Sticky - Land
EFFECT:
- Rebellion Threshold: 5,
- Once per turn put a rebellion counter on this card to gain a red Sepoy token
- Any player may pay a rad to put a rebellion token on this card.
FLAVOUR TEXT: Hard times breed hard men
RARITY: Common
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Name: Sepoy
Image:
Colours: Red
Type: Critter - Token Soldier
Strength-Vitality: 20-20

Spoiler: Token 5 (click to show/hide)

NAME: Factory
COST: 2
IMAGE:
COLOUR: Red
TYPE-SUBTYPE: Sticky - Industry
EFFECT:
Choose a critter, that critter may not attack, defend or use abilities until the start of your next turn. lose 1 tea and gain 1 rad. You may use this ability multiple times per trun, provided you choose a new critter each time.
FLAVOUR TEXT: Feed the fires of industry and they will feed you
RARITY: Rare

Spoiler: Token 6 (click to show/hide)

Name: Polluted Wasteland
Cost: 1


Colours: Green
Type: Sticky -  Land
Effects: Deals 10v damage to every critter that attacks. Every time this damage kills a critter you generate 1 rad
Flavour Text: Thick radiation and pollution choke everything making life impossible. Yet the remains of those who fell there lie waiting for scavangers brave enough to risk it
Strength-Vitality: NA
Rarity: Unique

[a1s]

NAME: Hot Potato
COST: 0
IMAGE: TBD
COLOUR: Red
TYPE-SUBTYPE: Sticky
EFFECT:
- At the beginning of your turn roll a six-sided die, if you roll a 6 - take 50 damage and discard Hot Potato.
- Rebellion Threshold: 0
- Whenever a card under your control gains a rebellion counter, you may place one on Hot Potato.
RARITY: Rare

[Supernerd]

I feel that we shouldn't make cards like Hot Potato until we have at least once card that actually uses the rebellion mechanic. Otherwise its just a useless card that hurts us for no reason.

[a1s]

I'm just throwing ideas at the wall here. But point taken.

[Supernerd]

On a related note, what even is a rebellion threshold?

[a1s]

"Rebellion threshold X" is shorthand for "if this card has more than X rebellion tokens, discard all rebellion tokens on it and transfer control of this card to an opponent of your choice"