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| Felipe Musco |
![]() Posted: Wed Feb 07, 2007 4:55 pm |
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| Well, ok, got kind of a connection back, so, from today, contestants have until saturday to PM me their cards, corrected cards, or all the cards they could make (you get the idea), and posting/judging will begin on sunday, following the same order as last time. Also, contesntants who missed the first challenge and second challenges, that happen to miss the third one, will be utterly eliminated, and this WON’T count against the Elimination that’ll happen after the third round. Do your best, guys. |
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| AnxiousChieftain |
![]() Posted: Wed Feb 07, 2007 7:52 pm |
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Sorry, but I’m skipping this round. I have no desire to make 16 parody cards. 
Let me know when we get back to making pure LOTR cards. |
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| bobtheorc |
![]() Posted: Wed Feb 07, 2007 8:44 pm |
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| corvus |
![]() Posted: Thu Feb 08, 2007 5:36 am |
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| Echo from me! It was such a fun thing to do! |
Click here if you want to trade some foils away 
Far, Far beyond the island we dwelt in shapes of twilight
Through draught and weary days
Through grief and endless pain |
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| bobtheorc |
![]() Posted: Thu Feb 08, 2007 11:37 am |
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| corvus |
![]() Posted: Thu Feb 08, 2007 11:41 am |
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Yey! The brazilian ring is up for grabs!  |
Click here if you want to trade some foils away
Far, Far beyond the island we dwelt in shapes of twilight
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Through grief and endless pain |
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| sickofpalantirs |
![]() Posted: Thu Feb 08, 2007 2:48 pm |
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Location: somwhere, over the rainbow way up high. There's a land that I heard of once in a lullaby.
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 Sop's haves/ top wants
(mm)"SoP: you will always be the Official CC Spammer in my heart"
"DáinIronfoot"
Spammers really are amazing creatures. You can learn all there is to know about their ways in a month. And yet, after a hundred years, they can still surprise you. |
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| Felipe Musco |
![]() Posted: Thu Feb 08, 2007 2:56 pm |
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So far, I’ve gotten DCs from sickofpalantirs, bobtheorc, Turin06, thonnas7, CarpeGuitarrem and corvus.
Still a good number of people (including AC, which skipped this phase, but not necessarily the Contest) running for "•O Anel". |
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| bobtheorc |
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| Felipe Musco |
![]() Posted: Tue Feb 13, 2007 2:54 pm |
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Well, let’s get this show on the road while I still can. Still out of internet connection at home (I’m growing tired of this engineer, I might have to kill him), but I’ll do my best. As I said, no "Grading Guide" for this round, ’cause I don’t really think it’s fair, after all, it’s pretty much "everything goes"! I’ve randomly selected sickofpalantir’s cards, to start with, so here they go!
Btw, as sop submitted 17 cards, his last card will be ignored.
 Elven Hoodie 
Possession • Hoodie
Bearer must be a elf. Bearer is strength +1 for each emo, goth, or gangster you can spot. Skirmish : Exert bearer to make him gain gangster until the regroup phase.
The gangster elves were a relatively obscure group of elves easily recognized by their hoodies.
Comments: I had a good laugh with this card! Simple, cool, and funny. Right on target! I just think you SHOULD have mentioned an alley or dark alley SOMEWHERE on this card, maybe in the flavor text... Also, it’s missing its rarity.
Final Grade: 9.0
Unbeatable 
Condition
Strength: +3
Bearer must be Aragorn.
Response: If Aragorn is about to be killed, yell HA HA I DON”T DIE! To prevent that and heal him once.
HA HA YOU CAN”T KILL ME, SINCE I DON”T DIE IN THIS MOVIE!
R
Comments: Now THAT’S parody ability alright! I personally LOVED the flavor text, but then again, the card becomes AMAZINGLY broken. Not that this is a bad thing, but keep in mind that, when we design cards, people are intended to play with them, so a card cannot be SO good that NOTHING stands on its way, and this would be too good of a card to pass on playing Aragorn-based decks. Not to mention, this with Aragorn, Ranger of the North would be AMAZING! Now, this one had two alternatives for doing the very same thing while maintaining a level of broken-ness AND game level: returning Aragorn to your hand (and then it could be a Response Event), or shuffling him and all other cards (or all cards, should this be an event) in your draw deck. But still, VERY cool thinking! Should’ve been your opener!
Final Grade: 8.0
 Expendable Orc 
Minion • Orc
Strength: 2
Vitality: 2
Site Number: 5
This orc cannot win a skirmish versus a unique companion. Assignment: Exert this minion to assign him to an unique companion.
Expendable orcs bore the brunt of all battles, and were next to useless, Thus while the expendable orcs kept the heros busy, the non-expendable ones fought the basic foot soldiers.
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Comments: I like it! Cool, simple and full of movie-related flavor (I liked how sop went after the MOVIES rather thanthe TCGfor flavor and ideas, THERE is where the best ones lie, really!). Not to mention, they COULD be considered broken due to swarming purposes, but you pile then on the R-b, and it’s no good! REALLY cool! Minor formatting errors, though. As I warned before, I HAVE to take it down a little for that.
Final Grade: 9.25
 Play-by-play
Event • Archery
Spot Legolas to make Gimli unable to participate in archery fire, but at least able to know what in the world is going on out there.
“The Uruk-hai is down, no wait he’s getting up, Ooo ow that has to hurt, Thonnas just got him in the eye, he’s officially dead.”
Comments: Completly useless cards are, for the same reason I stated in Unbeatable’s analysis, not a VERY good thing. This card should cost 0, and at least do a MINOR thing, like removing a threat or something. Orit could be an ability built in a companion or condition, then it’s ok to add in a useless one. Also, it’s missing rarity.
Final Grade: 6.5
 Just kill the dang thing Legolas!
Event • Response
When all archery wounds have been assigned, spot a wounded minion, Aragorn and Legolas to kill the dang thing once and for all. Do this as many times as you feel like.
“Legolas this isn’t a hard concept. Shoot the uruk-hai in the head. Kill the uruk-hai. Repeat process for each uruk-hai”.
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Comments: Too powerful! I guess you could, for flavor, limit it to berserkers (or uruk-hai in general) (after all, it’s the ONE minion that doesn’t drop with a single arrow, except for the Cave-Troll), or make the cost REALLY high.
Final Grade: 8.0
Not the Scissors! [NPE]
Event • Response
If your opponent plays a card, take a pair of scissors and yell “Scissors forever!” to cut the card in two and prevent any effects it would have had on the game.
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Comments: Now this one is cool to picture being played against that pesky rare-filled friend of yours, who always maul down your budget decks conceived so hard... However, two MAJOR things for everyone: first, you shouldn’t create a whole new category of cards, like a new culture, but sop did it with perfection on this one! Who cares if it’s a "new" culture? No spotting requirements, or nothing attached to it anyway! Second, you could have a card do that to itself, but do it to someone else’s card... and a COMMON doing that! Now, it could’ve been made like this: "If your opponent plays a card, take a pair of scissors and yell "Scissors forever!" to cut the card in two unless your opponent removes it from the game and prevent any effects it would have had on the game (cut cards in play are still considered as being one, for spotting and removing purposes, but a deck can’t start a game with a cut card)." This way, you’d still get to see the look on your opponent’s face when they had to decide wether or not to let you cut that foil Shelob, for a chance of winning. And then, see it when they DIDN’T win anyway, AFTER letting you cut it! Oh, yes, and you’d solve the problem of OTHERS playing him later!
Final Grade: 8.0
FOIL Sweetness [FOIL]
Event • Regroup
If you cannot spot a non-FOIL free peoples card, you win the game.
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Comments: Again, too broken. Play a foil ring, frodo and any 4-cost companion, move once, cancel skirmishes or pump accordingly, and win the game on site 2. Big deal. Now, you could make something like: "Spot 5 companions and no non-foil Free Peoples cards to make the move limit +1 for this turn and play the Fellowship’s next site. The Shadow player cannot reconcile". This would symbolize the Shadow Player being blinded by all your foils, and give you a much-needed reward for going through so much effort. Flavor text could be something like: "Ok, so it’s my Answer to All Riddles, Foe-Hammer and Pallando for your foil The One Ring, The Ruling Ring and foil Lorien Elf..." Potential, but wasted potential... Kudos for the capitalized title, though! Really cool for the parody idea!
Final Grade: 6.0
Opportunity to Cut [NPE]
Condition
This card is always considered in play. When your opponent give you the opportunity to cut his deck discard this condition to take a kitchen knife and cut it in two. If he was bragging about how good it was cut it into fourths instead.
R+
Comments: Same problem as above, and remember that this is a children’s game! It’s ok to have a round-pointed scissor, but playing with kitchen knives? Not cool! You could make "Opportunity to Cut" in a sense of "cutting out". So, for instance:
Opportunity to Cut [NPE]
Event • Response
You may play this card before the game begins from your draw deck.
If you opponent was bragging about his deck upon shuffling or any other time before the match, instead of cutting his deck, tear Opportunity to Cut into pieces and remove them from your deck to search his deck for any card. Remove that card and all copies of it from the game. Then, your opponent shuffles his deck again (limit once).
R+
Final Grade: 6.0
Do you have 6 fingers? [Inigo]
Event • Maneuver
Count your opponents fingers. If the number is more or less then 10 make a companion strength +5.
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Comments: First issue, game issue: how does raising strength during maneuver helps at all, unless it lasts until the regroup phase? Other than that, it’s not nice to punish people for a condition they might have, specially a deforming one! Nope, not cool. Sorry. It could BENEFIT them, though... Sense of inclusion, you know...
Final Grade: 1.0
Contest of Strength [Westley]
Event • Response
If a minion is played, Immediately begin a skirmish phase between Westley and that Minion. When the skirmish is resolved, exert each character involved and resume the Shadow phase.
“So you put down your rock and I put down my sword and we kill each other like Civilized people?”
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Comments: Should have spotting requirements, otherwise Shadow players could use it as a hoser, or to benefit Enduring Nazgul or Uruk-hai Berserkers, for instance. I think sop chooses GREAT titles, but end up somewhat lost making the cards to fit them. For this one, you could do: "Spot a companion (except the Ring-bearer) and arm-wrestle your opponent. If you win, discard that minion. If you lose, discard that companion". Although this one is not a bad card at all. Just could’ve been an AMAZING one.
Final Grade: 8.0
Contest of Smarts [Westley]
Event • Regroup
Guess how many Free Peoples cards the Shadow player has in hand to have him reveal his hand. If you guessed right, discard all the free peoples cards in his hand. If you guessed wrong, you cannot reconcile this turn.
“Have you made your choice then?”“Not remotely.”
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Comments: Cool! A LOT of errors, so it’ll bring the grade down a fair bit, but still, REALLY cool, and great synergy with OTHER cards that reveal the Shadow player’s hand, which TEND to beless than optimal most of the times. At least, this one threatens a shadowkill, and it’s even "kind" of easy to pull off without looking at their hand priorly! A lot of bluffing into the game, I like that! Nice one!
Final Grade: 8.75
Contest of Swordsmanship [Westley]
Event • Skirmish
If Westley is bearing a hand weapon, exert him to discard a minion bearing a possession.
U
Comments: Plain and simple. Not all parody cards have to do a gazillion things, for sure! But this one kind of loses the parody sense, since the REAL parody is the card bearing the hand weapon... Not so sure on what grade to give this one, but anyway...
Final Grade: 8.0
•Storming the Castle! [Westley]
Condition • Support Area
To play Spot Wetsley, Fezzik or Inigo. When you play this, discard a Shadow condition. Each time Westley, Fezzik or Inigo wins a skirmish, you may make the Shadow player remove or discard a card from hand
Have a good time storming the castle!
C
Comments: Same problem as above, but this time not linking to the title very well, too...
Final Grade: 8.0
Inconceivable! [Vizzini]
Event • Response
Playitwheneversomethingreallybadhappenedtoyourminionandyouwanttogeteven.
If your minion just took a wound, or was killed, yell “Inconceivable!” To kill 2 companions of your choice (except the ring-bearer).
He didn’t fall? Inconceivable!
R
Comments: I fixed the beggining due to possible lack of card space to squeeze that monster besides "Event". Problem? Too powerful. Maybe "If your unique minion was killed while skirmishing an unbound companion, if the Free Peoples player played a skirmish event during that skirmish, kill that companion." Has more flavor this way, not to mention linking better with the flavor text. But REALLY cool parody-like idea!
Final Grade: 8.75
Prepare to die! [Inigo]
Event • Skirmish
Wound Inigo to discard all minions skirmishing him.
“My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father, prepare to die”
R
Comments: Ok, same problem, thrice. Too much.
Final Grade: 7.5
He Is Only Mostly Dead [Westley]
Condition • Support Area
To play spot Miracle Max. If your companion is about to be killed in a skirmish, discard all minions in that skirmish, and discard him or her at the end of your next turn.
“He is only mostly dead there is a difference.”
U
Comments: Should have added a "Point at the Shadow player and laugh" at the end!  Although it has the same problem as the one above, it’s somewhat more flavorful, although I’m not sure how to explain that. Gives a good impression, that’s all.
Final Grade: 9.0
Overall Grade: 7.484 |
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