This time around we have made a little change to how much of the judging process we reveal to the public. This time you will be able to see the exact comments from each judge. Below are all the entries, quoted in chronological order, along with the judges comments.
The winner is announced at the end of these judging posts.
As a reminder, here is the card art the contestants were asked to design for (click here for more information on the contest rules):
shreyash wrote: Name:crystal general,the sparkling steel survivor
Civilization: Water
Race: Liquid People/survivor
Cost: 13
Rules Text:
1.soul shift
2.Evolution:put this creature on top of one of your creatures that has liquid people or a creature that has survivor in its race
3survivor:wave striker:this creature gets 5000 power,double breaker and when this creature is destroyed return it to your hand instead.
4.When this creature's wave striker ability is activated this creature gets triple breaker,other wise it has double breaker.
Power:8000+
Flavor Text:"I strike with my friends that strike with a wave and make me a real powerful creature in the water world"-crystal general,the sparkling steel survivor
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1.soul shift-the cost of this creature is reduced by the cost of the creature this creature is evolved on.eg.if this is evolved on aqua hulcus the cost will be 13-3=10
2.survivor:-all survivors share there abilitys with each others.
3.wave striker:-all wave striker creatures have some ability.those ability activate when there are 3 or more wave striker in the battle zone(it includes you and your opponents creatures).
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this section is for clearing the doubts on this card
this creature ability activates when there are three wave strikers(survivors, because all the survivors become wave strikers).
also this creature has triple breaker only others are double breakers.
all of the survivors in the battle zone become wave striker.it is not neccessary for them to have a ability when wave striker activates but they have wave striker and contribute in making three wave strikers.
btw also my cres name short form: CGTSSS.if u add a "K" in start it becomes "KCGT" and if u reverse the last words it becomes "SST" a subject.i found it long after my post
Bell wrote:Needlessly complicated, overdone in every possible way, and that isn't a good thing here. The thing is I could have liked it in smaller amounts quite a bit, but it just went ridiculously over the top. Once I got to 'All Survivors become Wave Strikers' I was done. Sorry, but I can't really give a good rating to something that doesn't seem to temper itself at all. That said, Soulshift was a nice idea for it, and I can say that the Soulshift part for this particular creature, if its effect made more 'sense', would be great, since it really does a good job of limiting how quickly you could play a card this powerful and the habit of evolving on Aqua Guard.
Kyuukei wrote:Too much stuff. A card should never give you a headache simply by virtue of trying to read it. Conceptually I love Soulshift but it should not be percieved as an excuse to throw on anything else you can think of.
Micky wrote:Absolutely hate the name, mainly for its length, clearly he didn't pay attention to the hint that suggested looking at other LP for name trends.
I see what he was trying to do with Wave strikers + Survivors, and clearly he too noticed he was doing something that could very easily become broken, but his method of balancing it (13 cost with soul shift), doesn't impress me. I personally would prefer if people stick with our current KP DM mechanics. But nonetheless a daring attempt, *claps for him having the guts to make it*.
The flavor text is also very sad, it seems like he had something nice going on in his hand when he through about it, but not well executed.
Devil wrote:Name- Aqua General
Race-Liquid People
type-Creature
cost-5
power-2500
mana-1
rules-
when you put this creature into the battle zone choose one creature and return it to its owner's hand.
" He is Super Hero, He is Super Villon in other words He's super Freak!!!!"
Bell wrote:Well, this is a good idea in its own small corner but when you look at the gamestate, giving Liquid People cost 5 bounce to go with their cost 6 bounce and having it be this strong... Also why does it have that extra 500 power? I really hoped that whatever got the Aqua General name would wow me, this doesn't, and now I rather hope that someone else still used General regardless. Flavor text, I cannot be kind about. Absolutely ridiculous and would have dragged down a card even with a fairer effect.
Kyuukei wrote:The maths, they do not check out. Neither does the flavour text. Civ blocker is in itself a neat way to spice up a card, but throwing it onto a Corile with 500 extra power (note: only Light gets that) just doesn't work.
Micky wrote: I'm not sure if the trend in only Light creatures having the 500 power is consistent, but since that's how it usually is and since he went there I'm going to penalize him for it.
I can't help but compare this will Corile, but I don't REALLY mind that part of it. I like the Fire Blocker bit, I can totally see the creature being an anti-fire warrior in some way, he has a nice shield too, so Fire Blocker really fits well for me. But I dislike the Flavor Text, makes no sense with he name in mind.
Moving on I hope to see more entries with Fire Blocker for this card art, and also come great references in flavor texts. *fingers crossed*