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[notquitethere]

This is the spinoff thread for the Choose-Your-Own-Trading-Card-Game.

This is a game where you make your own deck (think Magic: The Gathering, Pokemon, Yu-Gi-Oh! etc.) of forty cards and face them off against each other. To make your own deck, follow the rules below. If you don't want to make your own deck but you still want play, you can play with one of the house decks. There's currently only one house deck: Anarchy, but more could be made on request.

Spoiler: Game Rules (click to show/hide)

Game Rules
1) You start off each game with 20 hearts, and 5 cards in your hand. For any given game, you and your opponent may decide to start with a different amount of any of those three things.
2) If you have 0 or less hearts, you lose.
3) At the start of your turn, you draw one card.
4) Unless stated otherwise, you can only play one card per turn.
5) Cards also have hearts. If they have 0 hearts, they go away, unless stated otherwise. If a card says it has attack power, it can only damage the player directly if they have no cards defending them.
6) If a card has zero hearts when you play it, it will be destroyed after it does its effect.
7) There is a kind of resource called Stars, and you start the game with 0 of them. Strong Cards cost Stars to play, and they can be gained with the effects of weak cards. This prevents your best cards from being played immediately. Cards may also have effects that cost stars to use. (Stars carry over between turns)
8 ) The player who goes second starts the game with one star.
9) You can also make up your own resources for your cards if you really want.
10) Cards ordinarily cannot attack on the same turn they are played, and can only begin to attack after their owner has begun a new turn. They can also only attack once per turn unless otherwise stated. When a card attacks another card, both cards lose hearts equal to the other card's attack.
11) By default, if a card is face down it cannot be attacked. Cards may be attackable when face down, in which case this must be declared when playing the card.
12) Face Down cards cannot protect you from being attacked until it is flipped up. If a facedown card does something it will be flipped.
13) The game will typically use the honor system, so players can randomize their own deck and draw cards without GM intervention. If you suspect someone is cheating, inform the GM. Its just sad if you feel the need to cheat in this game. For grudge matches, you can request the GM do all the random stuff.
14) Strive to avoid situations which will require a retcon. Those are a big pain to clean up.
15) In the event of a disagreement, the GM will decide what happens.
16) Don't be afraid to get creative with your deckbuilding!

Spoiler: Card Creation (click to show/hide)

Relative card strength
A card that costs no stars to play would typically have a combined stat total of 5. (Example, 2 attack and 3 hearts). Useful effects will generally lower this, and detrimental effects can raise it. You can also make cards with no hearts which act like "Spells". Each star a card costs will typically raise its base stat total by 3 or 4. Very high star costs can have ridiculous effects.

Tips
Cards can do all kinds of things if you want them to! Want to attack on the turn a card is played? You can give it an effect to let it do that. Don't like only playing one card per turn? Make some cards that don't count towards the limit, and some other cards that let you draw more cards!

You'll want to consider your "Star economy". You can have just a few cards with a very high star cost, or maybe an equal amount of star generators and star consumers. Or maybe just skip the stars altogether and have a lot of basic cards.

You can give cards effects that trigger when they are destroyed, when they attack, when they are attacked, when played alongside another card, cards with an effect depending on how long the game has been going on for, or any number of things really. Surprise me!

It's recommended you look at some cards in play to get an idea for what they can do.

Deck Creation
Decks will start out with 40 cards. This may be negotiable in the future. You can have multiple copies of the same card in your deck and I recommend having at least a few multiples to make this a bit easier on the GM. For each card you want to make, provide the following information. PM your card information to the GM, do not post it in the thread!

1) Card Name
2) Star Cost if applicable
3) Card effects and/or flavor text
4) Hearts and Attack.
5) Card background colour
6) A picture for the card. All pictures should be 100 x 180 pixels in size. (100 vertical and 180 horizontal)

It is recommended to use terms such as "Low" or "High" when discussing what you want a card's stats to be. The GM reserves the right to refuse any card for any reason.

Spoiler: Additional Mechanics (click to show/hide)

Facedown Cards
In the event that a card says it can be placed face down, use this image to represent the face down card. Somewhere along the lines it was decided that this is to be the back of all CYOGTCG cards forever. Its a tradition I don't intend to break.


Player Mechanics
These game mechanics are used by some cards and cannot easily be explained with card text alone. You only need to pay attention to these if a card actually uses them.
[spoiler=Player Mechanics]
Adjacency: Your cards may be treated as being physically to the left or right of other cards when played, which may make a difference based on certain card effects.
Token: This is a card that is "Created" by another card which is not an actual card you can draw from your deck directly. Tokens should have their own card made for them, (There is at least one grandfathered exception)

Spoiler: Example Cards (click to show/hide)

These are all card which have been featured in game-legal decks:

When you have a deck, go ahead and challenge someone in the thread (or the main thread). You can even challenge someone with a game variant! Here are some example variants:
- 1v1v1 (three players against each other)
- Extra Stars (player 1 starts with 1 star, player 2 with 2 stars)
- Flexible (Instead of drawing a card, you can choose to play two cards, or instead of playing a card you can choose to draw two cards)

[Kashyyk]

I challenge you Supernerd! As the challengee you can pick a variant:
- Vanilla
- Extra Stars
- Flexible

[Supernerd]

I'll accept your challenge, going with the Vanilla game variant for now. If my previous actions are any precedent, I think it is the GM's decision to arbitrarily decide who goes first.

[notquitethere]

Supernerd wins the flip and will go first.

[Supernerd]

VS Kashyyk

Got it.

First I draw a card at the start of my turn. I will then play Mortician of Ill Repute!


This card's effect forces me to discard the top three cards of my deck.

Spoiler: Discarded (click to show/hide)

And this ends my turn.

Spoiler: Status (click to show/hide)

Cards in hand: 5
Hearts: 20
Cards in play:

Mortician of Ill Repute: Base Stats and Abilities
Discard Pile:
Extinguish Life
Carrier of the Disease
Call of the Grave

[Kashyyk]

I see it's a self-milling deck. This should be interesting. I'll keep a tab of my discard pile as well, as I suspect it may become important.

To begin my first turn I draw a card, then I play Crystal Cluster, giving me two Energy Crystal tokens.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

I then play Construction Drone, and use its ability to then play a second card; Perimeter Defence. Finally, I destroy an Energy Crystal to give Perimeter Defence one extra heart.

Spoiler: Status (click to show/hide)

Hand: 3
Stars: 1
Hearts: 20

Board

+1 ♡




Discard
Crystal Cluster

[Supernerd]

VS Kashyyk

You just played three cards that turn! Can't complain too much considering what I can do too~

First I'll draw a card...

I'll then play Call of the Grave!


I choose to discard two cards.

Spoiler: Discarded (click to show/hide)

This triggers the effect of Endless Horde! Another Endless Horde is created in my hand and I gain 1 star.
In addition to this, two effects are triggered from Call of the Grave. Dice rolls are 4 and 3. I gain a star and draw a card.

Since Call of the Grave doesn't take up my card action, I will play an Endless Horde card!


I will then attack your Perimiter Defense with my Mortician of Ill Repute, lowering the hearts of both cards to 1.

This ends my turn.

Spoiler: Status (click to show/hide)

Cards in hand: 5
Hearts: 20
Stars: 2
Cards in play:

Mortician of Ill Repute: 3 Attack, 1/3 Hearts.
Endless Horde: Base Stats and Abilities
Discard Pile:
Extinguish Life
Carrier of the Disease
Call of the Grave
Vengeful Spirit
Endless Horde

[Kashyyk]

First, I draw a card.

Then I play a second Construction Drone and trigger it's alternate ability to search my deck for a card. I select and play Crystal Mine. Then, thanks to my first Construction Drone, I can play Deployment Initiative.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Finally, I sacrifice my other Energy Crystal to bump Perimeter Defence's hearts back up to 2.

Spoiler: Status (click to show/hide)

Hand: 2
Stars: 1
Hearts: 20

Board

Actually 2 ♡



Discard
Crystal Cluster
Construction Drone
Deployment Initiative

[Supernerd]

VS Kashyyk

I'll start by drawing a card...

I'll then make the seemingly terrible action of attacking your Perimiter Defense card with my Endless Horde, which destroys my horde and lowers your perimiter defense to 1 heart again. What's important is that this gives me a star and puts another Endless Horde into my hand!

I can then play Twisted Necromancer at the cost of 3 stars!



Twister Necromancer's effect allows me to play a card straight from my discard pile once per turn, without counting to my turn limit! Using this effect I play Extinguish Life from my Discard Pile! I choose the first effect, and this destroys your Perimiter Defense and moves it to my discard pile.



This gives me an opportunity to attack your Crystal Mine with my Mortician of Ill Repute, destroying it! The mine has no attack so my Mortician survives!

This ends my turn.

Spoiler: Status (click to show/hide)

Cards in hand: 5
Hearts: 20
Stars: 0
Cards in play:

Mortician of Ill Repute: 3 Attack, 1/3 Hearts.
Twisted Necromancer: Base stats and abilities
Discard Pile:
Extinguish Life
Carrier of the Disease
Call of the Grave
Vengeful Spirit
Endless Horde
Endless Horde
Perimiter Defense

[Supernerd]

Hold on a minute. notquitethere, I think the cost to transform Twisted Necromancer into a Lich was supposed to be 3 stars, but the card you gave me says "You may pay 3 cards". Could you give us a clarification on this? Ideally before the necromancer gets destroyed.

[notquitethere]

Hmm, the effect you originally sent me definitely said 3 cards and at the time I made a calculation and deemed it okay. If you intended it to cost three stars to transform on death, I can accept that (liches are powerful), but having to field then lose the necromancer to get the lich and having to keep three cards on by to lose (perhaps permanently without the necromancer) and the reduced stats of the necromancer I consider about adequate cost. If you want to amend the card to 3 stars, do so now, otherwise we can review the balance when the game ends.

[Supernerd]

Huh. I guess I did mess up with that. Now I need clarification on what paying 3 cards means, as it doesn't specify if said cards would need to be in play or if you could just pay them from your hand.

[notquitethere]

I understand paying cards as a currency as being only from cards in your hand- these go in the discard pile but they don't trigger discard effects. Does that make sense? We can reword for clarity post-game.

[Supernerd]

If it doesn't allow discard effects, that should definitely be specifically stated on the card.

I'll probably just replace the card with one or two similar ones after this game. In the meantime, is that the official ruling?

[notquitethere]

Yes, for this game that's the ruling.