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9 months ago ::
Oct 06, 2012 - 10:23AM
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 Welcome to the 9th round vote-off of YMTC Idol! Below are two of the three remaining contestants. Each has been nominated by at least one judge to be eliminated from the contest. I will post the criteria they were given and the submissions that they created. Your job, adoring public, is to vote for the submission you felt was WORST. The person with the most votes will then be eliminated from this year's competition. EVERYONE is encouraged to join and vote. That includes previous contestants, current contestants, those who didn't participate before, and the judges. Criteria
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Round 9 Criteria: And then there were none... I mean three. (Too much Agatha Christie of late.) A lot of interesting designs come in threes. The game usually produces cycles horizontally across the colors, but the rarities have been used as an equal format for connected designs. The fun of this round will be doing both.
Assignment: Design a vertical cycle (that is, one common, one uncommon, one rare). Each card in this cycle should be a single color, but each part of the cycle should be a different color. Your overall design will be showing the evolution of an idea (whatever idea you choose, no card-type restrictions) from one color to another to the next, while simultaneously creeping up in rarity. Your theme can be whatever you choose, as long as we can see how it grows. Detektor's submission
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Imidazoline's submission
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Voting closes on Tuesday. Good luck, contestants!
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9 months ago ::
Oct 06, 2012 - 10:34AM
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What happens if this vote off is a tie?
Blocks I liked: (+1) Invasion Onslaught Mirrodin Time Spiral Lorwyn Zendikar Return to Ravnica Blocks I disliked: (-1) Oddesy Champions of Kamigawa Time Echoes Innistrad Any Released Blocks not listed in this Sig Blocks I neutralize: (+/-0) Ravnica City of Guilds Shadowmoor Shards of Alara Scars of Mirrodin http://community.wizards.com/paranoia
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9 months ago ::
Oct 06, 2012 - 10:40AM
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Mar 10, 2003
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In the event of a tie, I flip a Chaos Orb to choose the winner.
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9 months ago ::
Oct 06, 2012 - 10:41AM
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Detektor's submission
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That's wasn't Detektor's Submission. I don't think.
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9 months ago ::
Oct 06, 2012 - 10:44AM
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Date Joined:
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Frickin frick. Changing the poll, changing the thread, revote! EDIT: If you already voted, I've changed the poll, so revote. Take into account that I put the wrong submission up for Detektor (and that it was mostly his fault.  )
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9 months ago ::
Oct 06, 2012 - 11:02AM
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Heh, currently, things don't look good for one of them.
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9 months ago ::
Oct 06, 2012 - 11:40AM
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- Unconventional Mafia Pro
- The Big Card Project Director
- Any way you slice it...
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Detektor's cards all read "target game stops being fun" to me, so I had to vote for him. Imi's cards look like they may be on the "nuts" end of the power curve, but I think his core idea is sound in a way that Detektor's is not.
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9 months ago ::
Oct 06, 2012 - 12:02PM
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Date Joined:
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this is a little awkward as a contestant, but here goes. I agree with Mown that, in the context of a set, you would never notice that either of these were a cycle. therefore, we can ignore that and look at the individual cards. I think that Imi's cards had a lot more basic flaws, like the preacher's mana being hard to access unless you're willing to just waste his ability outside of combat, or unravel being probably pretty underpowered compared to naturalize . but I think the flaws Detek's had were much more severe where they existed, amounting often to, as Turnip said, "target game stops being fun." the Miscarriage especially is just brutal on the enjoyment aspect of the game. it's tahnargth's glare , except you never get the cards they don't want you to have, and it's card neutral (it stops their spell) so it's easier to run, which is a bad thing for blatant griefer cards. Unfair Trade is the best of the bunch, I worry about the power, but even giving them three crappy cards is still a relevant drawback. the demon comes out so late that it can get away with being that funsmashingly crazy, but even then, it feels lackluster. as one of the judges (Kavu I think) pointed out, your opponent will rarely have more than three cards anyway by that point, so they wind up with nothing. also on top of that, that seems like the only goal, since, if they have four cards, they still get to cast their best instant or sorcery, they just discard everything else. so the two part look connected in ways they really aren't. maybe if the discard was at random it'd be better. but then that'd be even worse in other ways. there's also the issue of pay 8 to cast a spell for free. this is a hard call, and I'd be tempted to let it be swayed by who I'd rather face in the finals, but I don't want to face either of you in the finals, so I'm gonna vote to eliminate both of you and declare me the winner of everything. I can do that, right? no? fine, I think I have to vote for Detek. sorry bro.
120.6. Some effects replace card draws.
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9 months ago ::
Oct 06, 2012 - 12:23PM
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- YMtC Idol
- YMtC Drafter of Champions
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Detektor's submission has the redeeming quality of having Miscarriage of Justice in it, which is a flat-out really awesome design. The other cards were good designs, but not spectacular. They were really average. And I agree with Raze and Mown that they aren't very recognizable as a cycle.
Imidazoline's cards lacked that flair that Miscarriage of Justice had, and suffers from the same problems that the rest of Detektor's submission had. So, sorry Imid, but I voted for you.
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Raze, your submission was awesome, by the way. I particularly enjoyed the blue common. The effect is definitely very blue, very common, but still super excellent. Unless if the other finalist proves otherwise, you have my vote for the final.
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9 months ago ::
Oct 06, 2012 - 12:26PM
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Raze, your submission was awesome, by the way. I particularly enjoyed the blue common. The effect is definitely very blue, very common, but still super excellent. Unless if the other finalist proves otherwise, you have my vote for the final.
aw, thanks. here, I got you a picture of a snake.
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120.6. Some effects replace card draws.
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