Hey everyone! The last round ended with a tie, so it's time for an emergency tie-breaker. Once again, vote for the art you like the best! Here are the two options (with card frames) for reference:
Option A by C.W. Sun, Option B by loztvampir3
Time to vote!
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Option A
Option B
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It was at that moment that I realized: I'm kinda just making these things up. We can just write the rules the way we want them to work. People will have fun, and people will get it.
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A tells a story... it just doesn't seem like the story of this card. I mean, the whole setting a curse on the house bit? That's just a bit too abstract for me; all i see when I look at the art is some guy running his bloody hand along the wall, not mass death.
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"In the beginning, MTG Salvation switched to a new forum format.
This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move."
It was at that moment that I realized: I'm kinda just making these things up. We can just write the rules the way we want them to work. People will have fun, and people will get it.
I went with B here - A looks great alright - but it's more of a creature art than a spell reeking of mass death and despair, and I think it takes the "drop of blood" in the flavor text a bit too literally. B better conveys the sentiment of "Everyone's gonna die."
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MOON-E - I think you're underestimating the power of a good name for the card in terms of completing the missing. If we can convey the missing pieces of information to the viewer of the card through the name, the card becomes a cohesive whole without any effort on the viewer's side.
Example: Curse of the Coven (which I was planning on suggesting later on, if the art won)
You read that name, then see the witch in the art, you know its a curse by now, she's obviously smearing blood, you read the mechanic, and then you read the flavor text. Then you go: OH... she's smearing HIS blood... to get this black-magic curse going... awesome!
That's all we need.
Everything left untold only adds to the mystery. (Who's the victim, where is this taking place, why'd he piss off the coven, how does this blood magic work, and so on...)
EDIT:
Other names can achieve similar effects -
Blood-magic Ritual - sets up the viewer's mind to understand it as blood-magic before even connecting the art to the flavor text. Actually, with this name its even simpler and cleaner. (So another suggestion for later...)
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Choose one - Equipped creature gets +4/+0; or Double Strike; or "When this creature deals combat damage to a creature, exile that creature"; or t, unattach ~ from this creature: ~ deals 5 damage to target creature." t: Equipped creature gains flying until end of turn.
Equip 3
I really wish you guys had voted on the name already. That makes all the difference here.
Well the idea was to do the name after the art so that we could have a larger variety of art to choose from. Trying to match art to a name is pretty hard, while trying to come up with a name for art is easy.
@ Bazzal: Both of those names sound like enchantments to me. The art totally oozes flavor of a vampiric curse, but I don't think that flavor matches the effect or flavor text of this card.
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"In the beginning, MTG Salvation switched to a new forum format.
This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move."
It was at that moment that I realized: I'm kinda just making these things up. We can just write the rules the way we want them to work. People will have fun, and people will get it.
I like the first picture better since the ability is referencing a player. I would like B if it had like 1 side dying off instead of just another generic picture of destruction.
It all comes down to a preference of subtlety vs. blatancy. Option A is the before picture that forces you to imagine the following carnage. Option B is the carnage that gives little thought to how the event was initiated.
That said, though Option A is my preference, I think more than 24 hours and a (currently) near 20% lead is enough to go ahead and call Option B the winner.
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Option A by C.W. Sun, Option B by loztvampir3
Time to vote!
This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move."
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Archester: Frontier of Steam (A steampunk set!)
A Good Place to Start Designing
The Simic: we have glow-in-the-dark milk and self replicating cookies.
This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move."
Comic Book Set
Archester: Frontier of Steam (A steampunk set!)
A Good Place to Start Designing
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Example: Curse of the Coven (which I was planning on suggesting later on, if the art won)
You read that name, then see the witch in the art, you know its a curse by now, she's obviously smearing blood, you read the mechanic, and then you read the flavor text. Then you go: OH... she's smearing HIS blood... to get this black-magic curse going... awesome!
That's all we need.
Everything left untold only adds to the mystery. (Who's the victim, where is this taking place, why'd he piss off the coven, how does this blood magic work, and so on...)
EDIT:
Other names can achieve similar effects -
Blood-magic Ritual - sets up the viewer's mind to understand it as blood-magic before even connecting the art to the flavor text. Actually, with this name its even simpler and cleaner. (So another suggestion for later...)
The Simic: we have glow-in-the-dark milk and self replicating cookies.
Sigpic by Rivenor
Artifact - Equipment (R)
Choose one - Equipped creature gets +4/+0; or Double Strike; or "When this creature deals combat damage to a creature, exile that creature"; or t, unattach ~ from this creature: ~ deals 5 damage to target creature."
t: Equipped creature gains flying until end of turn.
Equip 3
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Well the idea was to do the name after the art so that we could have a larger variety of art to choose from. Trying to match art to a name is pretty hard, while trying to come up with a name for art is easy.
@ Bazzal: Both of those names sound like enchantments to me. The art totally oozes flavor of a vampiric curse, but I don't think that flavor matches the effect or flavor text of this card.
This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move."
Comic Book Set
Archester: Frontier of Steam (A steampunk set!)
A Good Place to Start Designing
That said, though Option A is my preference, I think more than 24 hours and a (currently) near 20% lead is enough to go ahead and call Option B the winner.
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