Shadow Era Card Design Contest

[soothslyr]

Hello everyone,

I am pleased to announce that the Shadow Era Design Team will be hosting a card contest for a card in an upcoming release!


What you need to know:
We are going to provide a blank card image that we want you to use to spur your creativity. Feel free to let your imagination roam in any direction that you would like to see the game take.

Timetable:
A contest winner will be decided at the end of the month, and announced shortly afterwards.

Restrictions:
You may post in this thread as many ideas and posts as you would like. However, you may not seek out Design Team members for guidance on your card ideas before you post them. This is to keep the competition fair to all players and posters involved.




What is needed in a suggestion:
Name: A creative (but short) card name
Casting Cost: How much to cost the card
Card Type: What type of card it is, eg "Human Ally" or "Shadow Ally"
Effect: Describe the effect
Stats: Attack and Health for ally cards
Flavor Text: "Icing on the cake."

Bonus points for describing why you think this card would be a good addition to Shadow Era


Prize:
Eternal fame and glory goes to the best entry, plus 4 digital copies of your card.



DISCLAIMER: The winning card will be one that the Design Team deems to be the best and most fitting entry. That entry may be tweaked or adjusted to fill the needs of the release, or for balance reasons.

[Kross]

NAME: Enigmatic Entity

COST: 4

TYPE: Neutral Ability - Attachment [unique]

EFFECT: Target ally decreases it attack by 2 and its health by 2. While Enigmatic Entity is attached to an ally, that ally is hidden and its maximum health is decreased by 1 once per turn. If the attached ally is killed and sent to the owners graveyard during your turn, you may pay 3SE to select one ally on field to attach Enigmatic Entity to.

FLAVOR: "We attempted to flee, but it proceeded to feed..."


Hmmm maybe this needs a bit of work, but can you see the versatility in this card!!!!

[Preybird]

Hmm, just a quick one off the top of my head.

Deconstruct

Cost 3

Elemental Ability

Destroy target friendly ally and gain resources equal to it's casting cost until the end of your turn.

"Sorry, but your body can serve a better purpose."

Okay, why this would be a cool card:

Elementals could use something that can interact with Feedback, besides the rather inefficient Feedbomb (No offense Blanket, it was a genius idea, it's just so resource intensive). It also keeps on with the ideal that Elementals are willing to sacrifice their allies for their own gain. It could also work with future on death effects, allow you to utilize crippled heavies more effectively than Sac Lamb, and also give you a bank to horde bonus resources.

[Leonhardt13]

Reserved.

IGN: Leonhardt13

[Killtrend]

Name: Undead Shield-bearer
Casting Cost: 3
Card Type: Shadow Ally - Undead
Effect: As long as there is another Undead Ally in play under your control Undead Shield-bearer has Protector and +1/+0.
Stats: 0/5
Flavor Text: "Return with your shield, or on it."


I believe shadow need a protector. This fits nicely into the meta, and the ally pool. At 3, it's played during a critical turn, and can't be spammed with another shadow ally until turn 5-6. It can't do chip damage by itself, which is a balance thing for opponent item durability more than anything else. Will it be widely used? I'm not sure, but I'd definitely have to think about it.

[Demnchi]

Entry 1:

Name: Shade Luminary
Casting Cost: 5
Card Type: Shadow Ally
Effect:

While Shade Luminary is in play, all friendly Shadow Allies have +1 attack and +1 health. When a friendly Shadow Ally dies, Shade Luminary gains +1 base attack and +1 health.

Stats: 3 Attack (claw)/5 Health

Flavor: "May the darkness within us all, glow steadily in the night"

Reason: I actually think it would be awesome to see an interaction like this with the factions specifically. It may not be so great at Meltdown or using a lot of class allies, but it has the potential to bring up some of the weaker shadow allies. Considering he's not unique means multiple of him can be played to have a larger effect over all. This could bring up lessor played Shadow Allies or create some interesting situations in the form of aggro, be it Shade Luminary or something he's buffed (and if its the latter, Shade Luminary will become stronger).

Its also worth noting that his ability works on himself, so while his stats may read 3/5, when he's summoned he is a 4/6. I purposely made him stronger than he probably should be (just to demonstrate he supposed to be an aggro card, we could use more of them I think), but the effect is also what is interesting about him and that is what I would love to see!

Entry 2:

Name: Reckless Abandon
Casting Cost: 4
Type: Shadow Ability
Effect:

Target friendly ally is reduced to 1 health, and has +3 attack until the start of your next turn.

Stats: none

Flavor: "Whatever the cost, this has to work!"

Reason: Shadow have a more difficult time creating rush combinations than human. A card like this could turn a small ally into a ferocious attacker by giving up everything but a single point of life. But its a final attempt sort of thing, he leaves himself very vulnerable. It does reduce the health, so cards like Bloodstained Maurader can't simply boost themselves near or beyond 10 attack so easily. It would assist the rush and combo arch-types, but mostly rush I feel.

Entry 3:

Name: Energy Vessel
Casting Cost: 4
Type: Elemental Ally
Effect:

2: Energy Vessel takes 1 damage and your hero gains 1 Shadow Energy.

Stats: 1/6
Flavor: "This is a piece of me, use it wisely"

Reason: I think an ally that can generate Shadow Energy could be very useful for the Elemental crowd. It could be an alternative to Shadow Font, or could go all out and use both. Since generating shadow energy is pretty strong, I tried to balance it a bit by having it deal damage to itself too, I feel it makes it a bit more thematic with the concept and with elemental play-style in general. Could potentially lower the cost of the effect and increase the damage if that would make it more balanced.

Entry 4:

Incoming later.

[Killtrend]

Hmm, just a quick one off the top of my head.

Deconstruct

Cost 3

Elemental Ability

Destroy target friendly ally and gain resources equal to it's casting cost until the end of your turn.

"Sorry, but your body can serve a better purpose."

That's such a niche card for 5cc+ allies really. A +1 resource wouldn't be useful to take up a whole card slot for only a 4cc and anything less is breaking even. Unless you intend to use it to "unlock" status affected allies.

[soothslyr]

Name: Shade Luminary

More info incoming

PS, we should be basing this off the artwork provided correct?

Yes, just like the previous card contests, use the artwork provided as inspiration for your design(s).

[Jo3yb0i]

Guardian of the Barren lands
2cc Unique
1/5 shadow ally
Allies summoned with cost 3cc or less, while Guardian of the Barren Land is on the field, are disabled for 1 turn.
"Slow down my friend"

The main reason for the effect is to slow down that crazy human rush decks.

P.S. does it have to match the artwork? Or can we just throw ideas?

[Killtrend]

Yes, just like the previous card contests, use the artwork provided as inspiration for your design(s).

Whoops. In that case:



3cc

Undead Steed

Shadow Ally - Undead Horse

Haste

0: Target Friendly Ally gains Haste. Sacrifice target at the end of turn.

0/2




I think it's about time that shadow had a haste engine.