The Marvelous Market of Magicks

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Post by Juancu » 4 years ago

Welcome spell designers! In this game, you will sell your cards to other merchants! You start with 30 gold and get 2 gold if enough people are interested in your card, but beware! If your card is too popular, the Market Council declares that you cheated on "Mana Effiency" and you don't get any gold!

- To register, pick any Two Color Combination (a guild) that hasn't been picked, and post below. These are your Expertise colors, and your designs can't use other colors. However, you may bid on cards of any color, for at the end of the game, you'll be able to make 2 decks from cards you've bought (sharing no cards between your decks.) These decks decide the final winner!

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- You start the game with 30 gold, 10 of each basic land, and 3 of each tapland.
- I'll annouce the start of each round, with a Challenge and a Floor card.
- Then you Private Message me your design.
- Once everyone has had a chance to send their designs, I'll post all the cards (including the floor card.)
- Now you may Private Message me your bids. You may bid 1-3 gold on any number of cards that interest you (including the floor card, but excluding your own card.)
- Then I'll announce the results. For each card where you matched the highest bid, you pay the gold and get a copy.
- If your card got more total gold bid on it than the floor card, you gain 2 gold... UNLESS your card is in the top 2 of gold bids. The council is very strict on mana efficiency.

We repeat until I decide players have enough cards to make decks (I'll announce this when we get near, for now, expect around 10 rounds. Your input will be taken into account.)
Then we do a final Deckbuilding round, and I'll judge the 2 best decks. Then I'll play them against each other to decide the final winner! See your cards in action!

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Post by void_nothing » 4 years ago

Oh I'm in. WB.
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Post by Raptorchan » 4 years ago

rg reporting in.

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Post by Cardz5000 » 4 years ago

I'll take {U/R}

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Post by Amuzet » 4 years ago

UG
So when making a card, If i can't bid on it myself. The only insentive i have is to make it good enough that other's bid on it, but not too much other wise i'll be taxed?
Also, this is basically Build Our Own Bid Drafting

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Post by Juancu » 4 years ago

Indeed, I'd say the most important skill of this game is card power evaluation. You want to make a card just a bit stronger than the Floor card*, and you want to evaluate well the power of cards you buy, so you don't overbid or underbid on them.

*: I won't allow cards that are a copy of the floor card with a tiny upside. If the effect is similar (ie: both deal damage, or both draw cards) I'll expect at least 3 mana of converted mana cost difference, or I'll ask the player to submit another card.

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Post by Henlock » 4 years ago

I'll do Boros

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Post by slimytrout » 4 years ago

I'll do UW

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Post by Juancu » 4 years ago

Well, we have 6 players for now.
Registration is still open, but we'll start Round 1 to make the most of this Sunday.

Round 1

Challenge: (Private Message to me) A monocolor card which still can be of use if you only have colorless mana. (E.g. morph, cycle, or something else.)
Floor Card: Shock. (Shock will appear in the market alongside your cards. Beat it in bids to get +2 gold, unless you are top 2 in bids. And you can't just design "Shock with a small upside".)

Remember, you can still join at this stage!

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Post by Mergatroid_Jones » 4 years ago

I'll take bg.

We can design colorless cards too, right?

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Post by void_nothing » 4 years ago

I would assume so. After all, colorless cards "don't use any other colors" than your expertise colors.
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Post by Dusk » 4 years ago

I'll take UB
When are submissions due by?
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Post by Subject16 » 4 years ago

I'll pick up BR Rakdos for this challenge. This should be fun.

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Post by Juancu » 4 years ago

Dusk wrote:
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When are submissions due by?
Let's say by Wednesday (if anyone has trouble, try to aim at least for Friday.)
Then again if the game fills and you all submit today, the Market phase could be tonight ;)

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Post by Mergatroid_Jones » 4 years ago

For the convenience of all, there's one slot left, and it's Green White.

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Post by wizyard » 4 years ago

ok i will do selesnya

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Post by Juancu » 4 years ago

Super! While we wait for the final card, I'll open another player slot: the Artificer specialist. So if you join now, you can design cards of any color, but they all must have the word "Artifact" in its text. (And you must PM me the Round 1 card quickly!)

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Post by Dusk » 4 years ago

One more question.
Say we submit a card, but before they are all revealed we want to adjust an aspect of the card. Is this possible? Or is it once we PM you the card it is set in stone?
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Post by Juancu » 4 years ago

Yes, you may edit the card as long as I haven't posted it on the Marketplace. The final card has been submitted, so I'll post the Market tomorrow morning. You can edit (or join as the Artificer!) until then.

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Post by Juancu » 4 years ago

The bells toll in a beautiful morning. The Marketplace is now open!

Consider the following cards for your arsenal. Remember that you'll make two decks (and have 3x of each dual tapland) so pick any colors you like! And please check your card to see if I made any mistakes transcribing it (I removed rarities for now.)
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Veiled Ursa
GG
Creature - Bear
Morph 2
2: Put a +1/+1 counter on Veiled Ursa, then turn it face down.
2/2
Landscaping
1rr
Sorcery
Destroy target nonbasic land. That land's controller may search their library for a basic land card, reveal it, and put it into their hand. If they do, that player shuffles their library.

Basic Landcycling 2 (2, Discard this card: Search your library for a basic land card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle your library.)
Skymount Drake
3UU
Creature - Drake
Flying
When Skymount Drake enters the battlefield, target creature gains flying until end of turn.
Forecast – Reveal Skymount Drake from your hand, Return a creature you control to its owner’s hand: Target creature gains flying until end of turn. (Activate this ability only during your upkeep and only once each turn.)
3/3
Luminous Myr
1{2/g}
Artifact Creature - Myr
T: Add one mana of any color.
1/1
Hyoujin Firespear
{2/r}{2/r}
Creature - Elemental Warrior
When Hyoujin Firespear enters the battlefield, you may have it deal damage to target creature equal to the amount of red mana spent to cast it.
2/2
Shutdown
{2/u}{up}
Instant
Counter target activated ability or non-creature spell.

"You thought you could and tried so valiantly to, but in the end you just can't." - Jin-Gitaxias

Trash Heap
1R
Artifact
Exile an artifact card from your hand: Create a Treasure token. (It’s an artifact with “T, Sacrifice this artifact: Add one mana of any color.”)
1, Exile Trash Heap from your hand: Create a Treasure token.
Soul Flare
W
Instant
You may return a white creature you control to its owner's hand rather than pay Soul Flare's mana cost.

You may put a creature card from your hand onto the battlefield, If you do, return it to its owner's hand.
Dignified Lammasu
2WW
Creature - Lammasu
Flying, protection from Dragons
When Dignified Lamassu is turned face up, your opponents can't cast spells or activate abilities that aren't mana abilities this turn.
Megamorph 3WW
4/3
Spectral Changeling
{2/w}{2/w}
Creature - Spirit Shapeshifter
Changeling (This card is every creature type.)
Flying
Soulshift 1 (When this dies, you may return target Spirit card with converted mana cost 1 or less from your graveyard to your hand.)

What form do the spirits of those who have no form take?

3/2
Shock
R
Instant
Shock deals 2 damage to any target.
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Post by Juancu » 4 years ago

It would help me out to compile the results if you quote this message, post it in a Private Message to me, and fill your gold bids. Remember, you may bid 0-3 on each. Leave your own on 0.
CardGold Bid
Veiled Ursa0
Landscaping0
Skymount Drake0
Luminous Myr0
Hyoujin Firespear0
Shutdown0
Trash Heap0
Soul Flare0
Dignified Lamassu0
Spectral Changeling0
Shock0

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Post by void_nothing » 4 years ago

Shock is an instant. ;)
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Post by Henlock » 4 years ago

Bidding question: If pkayers tie a bid, do all of them get it?

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Post by Dusk » 4 years ago

Follow up bidding question. Who gets the gold? Say my card has four people bid 1 gold and that's the highest. Do I then get that gold?
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Post by Juancu » 4 years ago

1: Oops. Shock is an instant now.

2: Yes, all of the highest bids for a card go through.

3: No, the Magic Market Council is pretty stingy, and keeps all the profits. The only way you gain gold (for now) is +2 if your card has more total gold bids than Shock, and is not the top 2 of gold bids. (Let's say that all bids count for this "total gold", even if they don't go through.)

4: Oh, and I won't credit the designers until the Bidding results, because I'm lazy. You're allowed to announce what your card is (important if it has a problem of transcription that needs immediate addressing), but you can also PM me and I'll fix it, if you want to keep it secret.

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