a partridge in a dormant tree
#One Card For Every Single Collection In The Game 2: Electric Boogaloo (OCFESCITG2EB)
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2EB081: Dire Wolf Project
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The Little Blue Macaw is a species of bird that is extinct in the wild
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The dream of every modern man is to be like a Leptophis mystacinus: Have a big heart and a big moustache! This species was described in 2025 (not in this year anymore, missed the date) and is characterize by the black lips that resemble a moustache above its mouth.
Remake of Scutigerella to fit the challenge
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Day 82: Little Critters
Oh good, a collection with a well defined theme again. This is the collection for all known organisms that are the smallest within some category. Since such creatures are inherently sneaky and hard to find, this designation is always subject to change. Customarily, being small has the benefit of making a creature stealthier and require less total food, but the downside of making them weaker and lose heat faster.
The card should:
- mention another collection that it would be classifiable in
- must have 1 less Base Energy and 1 to 5 less Base Power than the lowest Base Power card in that collection sharing a trigger with this card
Example card: Acmella nana
This card's stats are pegged to those of European Medicinal Leech. Note that this card could not have a 
ability due to the existence of Diving Beetle, a 0 Base Power card.
oak hare
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2EB082: Borneo Pygmy Elephant & African Barred Owlet
NOTES:
- Borneo Pygmy Elephant was made for the challenge. It has 3 less base Power than the card with the lowest base Power card in Mammals with a ability (Vietnamese Pot-Bellied)
- African Barred Owlet could not unfortunately apply for the challenge, since Common Cuckoo has 0 base power, so it has 1 less base Power than Vogelkop Superb Bird-of-Paradise.
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buoyant hull
Just see the giveaway my ign is HeyDot btw @shrewd creek
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Horsefly
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The Common Bony Crocodile is a small black-ish crocodile, one of the dwarf crocodiles. Scientists recently discovered individuals of this species found in caves that are significantly more orange than individuals that live in other habitats. Also yes, this card is stupidly op just by the fact that it starts as a 0/61, but what can i say, rules are rules and challenges are challenges.
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Day 83: Lost Treasures
It's easy to think "well I would simply not lose this extremely valuable object if entrusted to me". And ok, it's true enough for the subject of my card. But in most cases it's not that easy:
- Most commonly it gets stolen. Now it isn't exactly lost yet because the thief (or wartime occupier) knows where it is, but they tend to be secretive so the world at large doesn't know about it, and if they die, then it's lost for good.
- Occasionally things are just lost in transport due to adverse weather conditions and the sheer amount of other things to track.
- Sometimes it's a hybrid of these where a ship gets destroyed. Usually this is by someone hostile who would like to do some stealing but the treasure is inadvertently destroyed (or at least not found before sinking).
The card should:
- have a permanent harmful effect that affects itself
Example card: Docksway Landfill Bitcoin
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fluid juniper
clear fable
Tealightful
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The Royal Merchant Lost its Treasure...But it's a boat, shouldn't it be in Riding the Waves? And i answer: Shut up no one asked and no one cares + take the L + Ratio + Get outta here (you can clearly see my lack of interest with this collection)
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totally not captain hook
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Day 84: Machines of War
It is often said that logistics wins wars. But the tanks, munitions and superweapons are what capture the people's attention. Weapons with huge effects are visually stunning, and while they don't usually win wars, there was one famous case in 1945 where they did, and since then a lot of effort has gone into properly regulating weapons deemed overpowered to cause unnecessary suffering.
The card should:
- not mention numbers smaller than 30 except for base energy and possibly the names of cards
- have exactly 1 trigger, which must be able to affect more than 1 card
Example card: M29 Davy Crockett
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j*baria
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chase
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War? Whjar?
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tractor
fluid juniper
silent quartz
2EB083 & 2EB084: Head of a Faun and Little Willie
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dawn elk
Day 72: Textiles
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The Boirault Machines is an unusual project of armored vehicle, designed before Little Willie, the first tank. While this wasn't used in combat, it succeded in every test and achieved everything it was expected from it.
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Day 73: Ambulance
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Day 74: Conch Shell
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Day 75: Jubokko
Jubokko are yokai that appear in former battlefields where many people died (
). They look like a regular tree, but when a human walks by, it quickly grabs them and sucks out their blood (). Jubokko live off of human blood because they form from trees that sucked up large amounts of human blood, hence the hunting strategy. If you manage to kill a Jubboko however, its branches are said to have healing properties for injured people.
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Day 76: La Brea Tar Pits
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Day 85: Majestic Mountains
A mountain is a generally rocky protrusion that stretches high above the surrounding terrain. Mountains tend to hunt in groups (called mountain ranges). There are a few other ambiguities to address:
A volcano is a hollow landform that currently or formerly contains magma. Although they often form mountains (per the definition above, and many volcanoes being called mountains), we're not supposed to talk about these today.
A hill is another kind of protrusion, distinguished from a mountain by shorter (than for instance 600 meters) or having a rounded instead of a steep top (what does that mean exactly? We'll get there...)
A mountain is a generally rocky protrusion that stretches high above the surrounding terrain. It can be distinguished from nearby mountains by a measure called prominence, which is its height above the lowest contour containing it and no taller mountains; in other words, if we have a mountain that seems to split into 2 peaks near the top, the shorter peak will have little prominence.
The card should:
- have a power gain effect where the total power gained in one play can be considered as a non-random function of two or more variables that each have 5 or more possible values, assuming a normal game (5 rounds, 3 turns/round, etc)
- there must be exactly 1 maximum (peak) and it canât be on the boundary of the support (subset of the function's domain where it isn't 0)
- each axial step going directly toward the maximum must attain steepness at least median out of all steps in the same axis within the support
- canât use conditions requiring a variable to be (or not be) exactly a certain value
Example card: Mount Fairweather
The variables are x = turns completed, y = # of mountains + forces in deck.
The total power gain is 3 * min(x+1, 15-x) * (13*y - 28*max(y-11, 0))/18.
It has a max at (x,y) = (7,11).
justification (cont'd):
Increasing x by one has (absolute) steepness = 3 * (13*y - 28*max(y-11,0)) / 18, which is maximized at y=11.
Increasing y from 10 to 11 at x = 7 has steepness 52/3, which is more than any increase from y to y+1 with x =/= 7 and y < 11, which form 14/15 * 10/17 > 0.5 of all steps within the support, so it is above median.
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Little Willie edit
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these mountains are pretty massif
-# skipping today's challenge
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yea i have enough pstd with math
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Remade to fit the challenge
dawn elk
Day 77: Tecumseh
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Puncak Jaya is the highest peak in Papua New Guinea, reaching 4884 Meters High. It's also the highest peak in geographical Oceania, but not in the geopolitical Oceania, as it stands in the Indonesian part of the island of New Guinea. It's sometimes considered one of the Seven Summits, specially in versions that take account the geographical continents, while it gets replaced by Mount Kosciuszko as the highest peak of Oceania in geographical accounts.
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Day 86: Mammals
Mammals are named for having breasts that (in females, sometimes) produce milk, which is a liquid form of nutrient transfer from mother to child. Perhaps it is human bias, but many of the human species' most valuable friends such as cats, dogs, cows, and elephants, are mammals.
The card should:
- have a non-permanent
or 
ability with a condition
Example card: Impala
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blue cow
eager bloom
-# holy crap it's the horse from umamusume
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-# holy crap it's the horse from umamusume
-# There are more horses from Umamusume in card ideas
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The days go by so uniformly
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The Southern Three-Banded Armadillo is one of the few species of armadillo who can curl into a ball, and also one of the few who are not fit for Going Underground. Mammals be balling!
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Day 81: Jeremy The Snail
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||5 less base power than north african elephant shrew||
||also yeah the picture is a baby 
||
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||5 less base power than north african elephant shrew||
||also yeah the picture ...
is that moo deng
dawn elk
is that moo deng
its a wild one
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its a wild one
oh moo deng is a pygmy hippo
dawn elk
but from an article anbout moo deng
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Day 83: SS Central America
Ingredients:
1 1849 Gold Rush
5 New Orleans
10 Hawker Hurricane
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Day 84: MIM-104 Patriot
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Day 87: Marsupials
Marsupials are a special kind of mammal, where (in most species) the female has an extra flap of skin in front in the shape of a pouch. Baby marsupials ("joeys") are born looking like embryos, and they go inside the pouch to nurse, hide from predators, and be carried around by the mother.
Kangaroos are the most iconic marsupials, being a national symbol of Australia. There is such a thing as a "kangaroo word" which references the pouch common to most marsupials: from a kangaroo word, you can remove letters without changing the order to form a smaller "joey word".
The card should:
- have an effect text (excluding effect name) that is the same as that of a specific card in game with higher base energy that is Life on Land, Paleontology or whose image includes any female, but with some elements taken out (but order canât be changed)
- include parts from each trigger of the original effect (i.e. you can't just cross out an entire trigger)
- you can freely add âMarsupialsâ or the name of any Marsupial to the effect
Example card: Western Grey Kangaroo
image
Koshchei is not female, but I'm pretty sure the person next to Koshchei in the image is female. So:
~~If you lost the turn, ~~this card loses -59 until played.
If your deck contains cards from 9 or more collections [Marsupials], your remaining cards in hand gain +50 until played.
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2EB087: Boodie
NOTE: 
taken from River of Heaven, which definitely had a girl in it
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Ballet
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Ballet
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The White-Eared Opossum... is an Opossum, i think you can see that. Also, it works with SaruĂȘ because avid is inconsistent and lazy with wording, thus this is completely normal wording for a buff in hand.
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Last of the Old Masters
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Ingredients:
20 Thrust
4 Galapagos Tortoise
7 Galactic Collision
2 Oviraptor
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Day 88: Marvelous Medicine
Graduating medical school students traditionally recite an oath of ethics, similar to the following:
I (the card) will:
- respect the hard-won scientific gains of those physicians in whose steps I walk
- (not harm your Marvellous Medicine cards)
- apply, for the benefit of the sick, all measures that are required
- (have beneficial effects requiring or iterating by you or your cards having less power or more harms)
- remember that there is art to medicine as well as science
- (affect or require a non-Science card)
- not be ashamed to say "I know not"
- (there must exist a card that, under at least some circumstances, this card cannot affect)
- respect the privacy of my patients
- (not iterate by opponentâs cards)
- not play at God
- (don't use any sentences found on any card from a "Mythology" or "Folklore"-name collection)
- remember that I do not treat a fever chart, a cancerous growth, but a sick human being
- (interact with or require a card whose image includes a human)
- prevent disease whenever I can
- (idk this point is a freebie)
- remember that I remain a member of society, with special obligations to all my fellow human beings
- (be a cue card with a name, rarity, base energy and power)
If I do not violate this oath, may I enjoy life and art, respected while I live and remembered with affection thereafter.
- (you get one challenge credit which may or may not be the difference between winning or not winning a wheel spin)
Example card: Naloxone
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Dominique Jean Larrey was a French surgeon and soldier under Napoleon Bonaparte, crucial for the success of "La Grande Armée". An important innovator in battlefield medicine and triage, Larrey invented the flying ambulance and is sometimes considered the first modern military surgeon.
As a great man of science, i should recite the
oath for my conclusion:
- He can't harm anyone;
- He requires a Medicine card with 41 or less base power;
- He requires Napoleon, a History card;
- There's this Melanorosaurus card that i created but didn't posted yet (not for today's challenge, of course), which is immune to powerloss and can make cards in your hand immune to powerloss aswell, making them immune to Dominique's effects (he can also never affect opponent's cards if that also counts);
- He does nothing to opponents as mentioned;
- I did not found a card in the banned collections that mentions "Remaining" and requires a Specific card to work;
- Napoleon is a Human;
- He is a CUE card in the normal procedure
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shrewd creek
Day 89: Mega Math
It is hard to imagine that everything studied in math class is still the same subject, being that it looks so different. First a student learns of numbers and arithmetic, later comes variables and geometry, after that is the art of chaining together ideas into a proof. But did you know, technically all mathematics had to be basically rebuilt in the late 1800s? (you do if you've read all the CUE card backs!)
At that time, there was a bit of a crisis of faith in mathematics, where prominent mathematicians such as David Hilbert and Bertrand Russell looked deep at the foundations of earlier proofs such as those of Euclid and found them lacking in rigor; sometimes an assumption went unstated or some paradox lurked unresolved. To address this, a foundational set of assumptions (commonly called axioms in this context) called Zermelo-Fraenkel set theory was introduced, upon which all of modern mathematics now relies.
The card should:
- have at least one trigger that satisfies the following condition (that models a chain of non-circular reasoning):
- has 2 or more sentences
- the 1st sentence should require or iterate by something; if that is a group of cards, it shouldn't affect any of them. subsequent sentences should require or iterate by a group of cards affected by the previous sentence, and only affect cards not part of any previously mentioned group
Example card: Rising Sun Lemma
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A Quasiperfect Number is a natural number n for which the sum of all its divisors (the sum-of-divisors function Ï (n)) is equal to 2n + 1. Equivalently, n is the sum of its non-trivial divisors (that is, its divisors excluding 1 and n). No quasiperfect numbers have been found so far.
Hmm, a new Mega Math card...It requires 1 Magical Numbers card, it buffs Mega Math, wherever they are, +33 POWER THIS TURN! wait what. Oh damn, that is a quasiperfect ability.
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Day 85: Alpamayo
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Day 86: American Bison
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Welp, might as well just dump some of the cards for the remaining easy challenges
shrewd creek
Day 90: Molluscs, Worms and Water Bugs
What even is this collection? Molluscs is the second most speciose animal phylum, it surely doesn't need to team up with the one in first place (arthropods).
Molluscs are so diverse it's hard to find something they all have in common, beyond the basics: they are all soft-bodied creatures with bilateral symmetry that secrete some kind of hard substance that incorporates calcium carbonate.
Worms are even more diverse to the point that they're not even a good taxonomic grouping. All they have in common is being long and having no limbs. In fact, slugs that we now know as molluscs used to be called worms, and there are some other weird molluscs called aplacophorans that are still thought of as worm-like.
Aquatic arthropods (excluding crustaceans) are obviously not a taxonomic grouping but they are kinda interesting I guess. They tend to be offshoots of orders that have non-aquatic members, since unlike molluscs they're not really inherently designed to take in oxygen through water.
The card should do at least 1 of these:
- have a turnstart effect, one trigger with a random effect and another trigger with a non-random effect
- have exactly 1 trigger and only effects with multiple turns of duration
- mention a Life on Land card that shares with it a word in its name
Example card: Gumboot Chiton
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great scallop
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2EB090: Manila Clam
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Might as well just put a hold on the Majestic Mountain challenge for now
hot matrix
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The Lesser Water Boatman (Corixa punctata) is a little bug in the Heteroptera group, the "True Bugs", that group that belongs to Hemiptera, the "True Bugs". So i guess they are the "Truest Bugs"? They breathe oxygen by trapping air beneath their wing cases when they are on the surface as the oxygen is trapped by tiny hairs. They use trapped air in their physical gill to convert water-borne sounds into airborne sounds that they can hear.
shrewd creek
Day 91: Money, Money, Money
Well, individual units of currency aren't all the captivating. I mean look at all the currency cards in game whose effect name is just a name pun. But think about all the things you can do with money! Apparently, money can be exchanged for goods and services. Even more enticingly, you can use it to gamble on the fate of public companies in the stock market. You know you want to invest in the stock market because all the rich people are doing it.
The card should:
- have 4 or more base energy and 20 or more base power
- have a range effect with positive and negative values whose extremes are at least half of this cardâs corresponding base stat in absolute value
Example card: Hungarian Forint
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Now im late
dawn elk
Day 67: Mountains of Kong
Day 82: Pygmy Hippo
Day 87: Ornate Cuscus
From Eleusinian Mysteries: Your Persephone, Demeter, and Hades Marsupials cards, wherever they are, gain +10 permanently.
fluid juniper
clear fable
Ketchup
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using Impact Regular, Runescape UT, and Kristen ITC
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The Cruzeiro Real (Cr$) had big inflation rates. I could go on but cost per word is growing rapidly.
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dawn elk
Day 88: William Osler
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Late
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Day 92: Monsters of the Deep
Yep, it's Ancient Creatures, but only creatures that regularly live in water at least some of the time (which still includes a huge variety of them). Despite being "monsters", scariness is optional, as demonstrated by specimens like Shastasaurus. In Avid Games' previous creative work, this collection was merged with Fearsome Flyers into "Creatures of the Sky and Sea", but I guess they had a falling out because the distance was too large to overcome.
The card should:
- mention an Oceans or Monsters of the Deep card with the 2019 or 2020 tags
Example card: Pezosiren
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late anvil
plesionectes update
dawn elk
Day 89: Torricelli's Trumpet
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shrewd creek
Day 93: Moon in Motion
Well, it's the first collection that might be considered hard to write an idea for. Unfortunately for someone wanting to make one card for every single collection in the game (for possibly the second time), there is not that much symbolism to assign to the different ways the moon can be illuminated at night and how they map onto the solar calendar. So now is a good time to remind everyone that this event is inclusive of cards outside the collection that interact with the daily collection, if they are done with intent.
The card should:
- interact with a collection (not Moon in Motion or this cardâs collection)
- make a second card in that collection of the same rarity that interacts with the challenge-credit card
- both cards should have a play effect and mention the quantity 29 power
- make a second card in that collection of the same rarity that interacts with the challenge-credit card
Example card: Cheshire Moon, with companion card Aileach
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Late
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Gonna do the card that affects Egg Moon Tomorrow
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have to make 4 cards for today's challenge
shrewd creek
Day 94: Musically Minded
Music is an arrangement of sound, usually structured. It is enjoyed by humans and some other species, most commonly because it's an easy way to evoke emotion, but the specific enjoyment of music is highly subjective. In fact, genres of music are so diverse that it's hard to come up with any more precise definition of music (as opposed to just "sounds" or "noise").
Most humans are able to keep a beat when they hear one, in a phenomenon called entrainment, which is fairly rare in other species. The evolutionary purpose of this is still not clear, but it does add enjoyment to amateur synchronization activities such as dance, karaoke, and rhythm games.
The card should:
- have at least 1 base energy, and between 8 and 11 base power per base energy
- mention exactly 1 non-Arts collection, which canât have been mentioned by any previous challenge-credit Musically Minded card
- at least one card in that collection affected by all of this cardâs applicable effects and no others should have the same stats as this cardâs base stats
Taken collections: Useful Software, World in Ruins, Forces of the Universe, The Roman Empire
Example card: Free Software Song
Firewall #1231994050677313586 message becomes a 3/33 when affected by this card's effect.
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https://discordapp.com/channels/646709318904840197/1336242634922135593/1337426398066901074
Pripyat becomes a 9/99 card after this card's effect
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Kepler 13 A B becomes a 7/73 and recieving the maximum possible from Krautrock + bonus card that I had prepared before this
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fluid juniper
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*Zygophyseter is a prehistoric genus of whale dating to the Miocene. Its nickname is "Killer Sperm Whale", due to its similar feeding behavior with the Killer Whale (aka Orca, aka The Apexiest Predator on Earth)
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Lunar Recession is the process which makes the moon go a little bit away from Earth each year, while Gravitational Pull is the pull made by anything really, but more intense and noticeable on celestial bodies, which is what makes the Moon stay in Earth's orbit. I guess they are opposites in this case.
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Terpander's story is really a curious one. Considered the first Greek musician, he gained a reputation as a singer and composer, but after having killed a man in a brawl, he was exiled. Also, Terpander is said to have died by choking on a fig when the fruit was thrown in appreciation of one of his performances. I don't know if he liked Brocolli though.
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Day 95: Mythical Creatures
What's the difference between a Mythical Creatures card and a Life on Land Mythic card? Wait, I used this joke already.
While I suppose it is technically possible to come up with a new kind of mythical creature entirely from thin air, most are based heavily on real observations. Maybe someone sees some real creature, and distorts or embellishes certain attributes, usually with the effect of making it scarier or stranger than it really is. Or possibly some phenomenon is observed and a creature is invented to explain it. Both cases have become less prevalent with the advancement of modern day science, which is better able to explain various strange natural phenomena and to categorize previously unknown creatures.
The card should:
- not mention Science or any card or collection from it and either:
- mention a number greater than 79 in absolute value in the effect, or
- mention 2 or more cards not from âMythâ or âFolkloreâ collections
Example card: Redcap
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Kinnara
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hot matrix
Made Kinnara more clearer
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pure bridge
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The Rooster of Barcelos comes from a story where a rooster saves a innocent man from being exectued. The poor man pledged for his life saying "It is as certain that i am innocent as that roasted rooster will crow when they hang me." Said and done, the rooster came back to life to crow for the man's innocence, and so he was freed.
prime umbra
fluid juniper
clear fable
Spaced out
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Spaced out
spark?
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âlateâ some random furret-2026
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Day 96: Natural Monuments
Natural means that this feature was not built by humans (though there may be human influence in or around it), and monument means it is of interest in some way. Super vague, basically any geological feature with a WIkipedia page could be called a natural monument. I guess these cards shouldn't include mountains, volcanoes, rivers, fossil sites or anything outside of Earth though, because those are better classified elsewhere.
Since rocks tend to last a while, the vast majority of natural monuments tend to involve rocks in some way. However, even the longevity of rock-based formations has its limit, due to erosion and weathering, caused by factors like water flow, wind and sunlight.
The card should:
- not affect players
- not mention human centred collections or cards from them, except Majestic Mountains, Natural Monuments, and Volcanoes (list here: #1421882914404040936 message)
- have a permanent turnstart effect with a value between -1 and -9 (inclusive)
Example card: Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump
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Day 95: Timingila
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waterfall
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Day 96: Valley of Flowers
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- TRY TO GO DOWN THE NIAGARA FALLS ON A BARREL
- It's prohibited :(
- Does it anyways
- HOORAY
fluid juniper
pure bridge
(my bad, it's also the card "traverstine deposit")
dawn elk
Day 80: Herds
Ingredients:
20 Boops Boops
10 Brontosaurus
5 Snowflakes
1 Earth
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Chicken And Mushroom, Anyone?
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Day 97: Nebulae
Nebula is Latin for fog. Like fog on Earth, it isn't very dense, and like other objects in space, that sparsity is taken to difficult-to-imagine extremes. Most nebulae are at least several light years wide, and have densities 1 quadrillion times less than the Earth's atmosphere. Though they are insubstantial themselves, over time the fog in a nebula coalesces into stars and other celestial objects, so you could think of them like incubators for stars. (Correct me if I'm wrong, but this is the reason for the name of the streaming service Nebula, by analogy but instead of literal stars it's video stars.)
The card should:
- have less than 4 base power per base energy
- interact with at least 2 of the collections Constellations, Exploring the Stars, Forces of the Universe, Planetside, Space Oddities, The Solar System
- interacting with a card counts as interacting with its collection here
Example card: Abell 12
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Sharpless 1
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Day 97: Bubble Nebula
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604
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HOLY MOLY HAVE YOU SEEN THAT PASSING? Well, it kinda...made a mess, which is now Messier 78
Weather Update
Is a nebula in the constellation Orion;
Weather Update
It is a popular target for amateur astronomers, who have given it the common name Casper the Friendly Ghost Nebula.
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Discovered by Pierre MĂ©chain in 1780, M78 was included in Charles Messier's catalog of comet-like objects that same year.
Weather Update
It's raining. (On earth not on messier)
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Day 98: Norse Mythology
In the modern era, as Christian states have become less domineering, interest in pagan religions has renewed, Norse mythology perhaps chief among them. Much of what we know of it comes from poetry (as opposed to prose writing or oral tradition, as many other religions rely on). "Skaldic" poems are composed by skalds, and have higher prestige than "eddic" poems, composed by people whose names are not attached to them.
All Norse poetry counts stressed syllables for meter (like English poems), and rely on alliteration for assonance (in place of or additional to a rhyme scheme). They also group poems into 8 half-lines (or 4 full lines). The simplest form of Eddic poetry, called fornyrĂ°islag, cares about little else; even the syllable count is kept vague.
The card should:
- not use "multiple turn" effects
- in the whole effect have at least 4 norse alliterations. if effect has more than 3 full lines, add 2 more alliterations per extra full line. each trigger must have at least 1 alliteration
- a norse alliteration means the two words have the same first sound except that all vowels alliterate with each other, and every cluster starting with s only alliterates with itself (e.g. sk, sp, st are all different). note that some letters make different sounds in different situations, for instance there are 2 kinds of th: Ă° and ĂŸ/Ξ.
- alliterating words have at most 5 syllables between them
- one alliteration should finish before another starts
- alliteration can cross trigger boundaries
- only nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, pronouns and interjections count for syllables and alliteration.
- a word can't alliterate with itself or directly derived forms, and can't appear in more than 1 alliteration
- it should not be possible to add another line above the text without overlapping other text, or below the text without leaving the text box
Example card: Naglfar
Naglfar has 7 alliterations (it needs 6 because of having 4 lines):
For each trigger on a card played last turn that did not activate since it was last drawn, this card costs minus two energy and gains two power permanently.
Your Norse Mythology cards, wherever they are, gain eighteen power for two rounds. Repeat for other "Mythology"-name collections if Muspelheim was played this game.
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Alliteration pairs have the same non-grey colour
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minor change
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oak hare
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DĂĄinn, Dvalinn, Duneyrr and DuraĂŸrĂłr are 4 stags that graze the leaves of Yggdrasil. Imagine yourself, eating the leaves of the world Tree instead of...lettuce. Tasty! Nom, nom, NOM!
shrewd creek
Day 99: Ocean Mammals
Over many years, transitional fossils like Tiktaalik have worked towards the goal of emerging from the water onto land. Many years later, several of their descendants yearn to return to the seas, but only a select few have succeeded.
Mammals generate their own body heat, so to venture in the generally cold ocean, they need insulation. Marine mammals that still like to go on land sometimes typically have dense hair (a mammal-specific feature, by the way) that provides insulation by trapping a layer of air from the surface. Those that don't do that, are insulated by another specialization otherwise found only in penguins, a thick veiny layer of fat called blubber.
The card should:
- mention a card in Life on Land that is a mammal
- have 45 or more base power and 10 or more base power per base energy
- mention the words "wherever they are"
Example card: True's Beaked Whale
(Duck Billed Platypus is the mammal)
late anvil
never knew platypus is the mammal
shrewd creek
dall's porpoise mention
late anvil
and left on read
fluid juniper
and left on read
dim crescent
Omura's Whale is a species of whale that is very poorly studied, even regarded as a dwarf form of Bryde's Whale. It was considered a valid species due to its unique morphology and mitochondrial dna, and it was classified as diverging from the rorqual lineage way before Bryde's and Sei Whales, being more closely related to the giant Blue Whale. The species is to this day though still under debates on if it should be a valid species or a synonym of Bryde's Whale.
shrewd creek
Day 100: Ocean Reptiles
We didn't talk about land reptiles yet. This is a kind of animal that is ectothermic (i.e. it's ok with its body temperature being whatever the outside environment is) and generally comes with scales or scutes for protection.
The group of marine reptiles is even less speciose than marine mammals. Unlike some of their Monsters of the Deep ancestors, most marine reptiles do like to return to land from time to time.
Reptiles require air to breathe, which is why crocodiles and iguanas don't tend to dive very far. Sea turtles dive the furthest out of the extant reptiles; they are also the non-human animals where decompression sickness has been the most studied, a condition where if you resurface from water too quickly, dissolved gases bubble up in your joints and cause pain. Though that might have more to do with sea turtles having a tendency to get caught in nets and dragged up by humans...
The card should:
- must have an ability that disincentivizes or prevents playing the card the turn itâs drawn
- have a beneficial effect that requires or iterates by your opponent or their cards having more power
- mention a card in Life on Land that is a reptile
Example card: Cassius
mentions Cuvier's Dwarf Caiman: #đĄâcard-ideas message
dawn elk
Day 98: EikĂŸyrnir
dawn elk
Day 99: Spectacled Porpoise
oak hare
oak hare
Mohs of 2
Specific Gravity of 1.05-1.10
oak hare
oak hare
The Abrahamic Religions in: #đĄâcard-ideas message
oak hare
late anvil
dim crescent
The Cuban Crocodile is a medium species of crocodile endemic to Cuba. The Cuban crocodile is of interest to biologists for its unique physical and behavioral traits, with captive animals having displayed cooperative hunting behavior, and can be taught tricks, suggesting intelligence.
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dawn elk
Day 100: Orinoco Crocodile
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Day 101: Oceans & Seas Special Fusions
Normally the first of these collections would be Mythics but I guess it called in sick because Special Fusions is up next. There aren't many cards here, but all of them are either very big or composed of many parts (or both), which I guess fits the theme of being a fusion...
The card should:
- list 3-4 cards as fusion ingredients and their quantities
- iterate by any property shared by at least 2 of its fusion ingredients
Example card: Salp
25 * Lotus Eaters
18 * Elysia Marginata
10 * Zero
2 * Carbon Neutrality
dawn elk
Day 101: British Royal Navy
Ingredients:
2 HMS Beagle
10 HMT Empire Windrush
10 British Shorthair
10 Pilot Whale
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1 * Sea Sheep
1 * Syracosphaera Azuureaplaneta
1 * Twilight Zone
1 * Marrus Orthicanna
managanse nodule
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||I had a little speech in Life on Land Fusions but i forgot to do so i'll just adapt to Oceans||
When it comes to making Fusions for Life on Land and Oceans, it's pretty hard to find animals suitable for it.
It's a Vertebrate? It will fall in one of the Vertebrate collection, Mammals/O Mammals, Reptiles/O Reptiles, Birds, Amphibians or Fab/Feisty Fish
So we dive into Non-Vertebrates
Porifera? Around the Reef
Ctenophora? Already a card in Deep Ocean
Cnidarians? There is Crazy Cnidarians, but in game they are all Deep Ocean
Tunicates? Deep Ocean
Ambulacraria? Scattered between Deep Ocean and Around the Reef
Nematodes? Under the Microscope
Arthropods? Bugs or Crustaceans
Velvet Worms? Great option, but i did that for last event
Tardigrades? Already a card
There are other small animals that fit but they are all aquatic
I looked up on nearly every possible taxonomic group, and Scutigerella was the only thing i could find that it was able to not fit in any lol collection...even them avid would make them bugs for some reason...
But as i said before, Oceans gives some more options, even though all could fit in Under the Microscope
But not today, because Echinoderes are here! They are members of the Kinorhyncha phylum, which are known as Mud Dragons, and inhabit "Most marine benthic substrates, on latitudes ranging from the Arctic to the tropics, and from the intertidal zone down to the deep sea" Basically everywhere...wait, does that means they should be in Deep Ocean?
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shrewd creek
Day 102: Oceans & Seas Specials
Well. Holidays. The ocean. What to say?
Going to the ocean is a decent way to spend your holidays if you live in a landlocked area. Basking in the sand and watching the waves proceed and recede can be a bit boring but at least it is peaceful.
The card should:
- be posted between 7 and 60 days after your challenge-credit Oceans & Seas Special Fusions card
- have a draw effect, and a return effect that has the opposite value for each value in the draw effect
Example card: High Seas Treaty
#1421882914404040936 message
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eager bloom
<:I_Ocean:835161668068966402> **Day 102: Oceans & Seas Specials**
*Well. Holiday...
wheres the card
wait
OHHH i see
shrewd creek
Day 103: Oceans and Seas Mythic Cards
Humans cannot go very far underwater without a vehicle, and even then not for very long. Also, most of it is very dark. This means that the vast majority of the ocean has never been seen by human or camera. Even getting a good sense of how deep the ocean is is hard because the ocean covers such a vast area: currently, only about 30% of the ocean area has depth measured to a 100 m by 100 m resolution.
So we really don't know the ocean well. To be sure there is probably nothing noteworthy in the unexplored areas. But there could be an eldritch horror lurking in there that will awaken as the climate warms and annihilate humankind. Maybe that would be more interesting.
The card should:
- have a lock ability
- have less than 85 base power
- have base stats that donât exist in game, but there exist higher and lower base energy cards with that base power and vice versa, and the base power hasnât been used for a challenge-credit O&S mythic in thread yet
Example card: Ys
All cards in game with 17 Base Power have 2, 3, 5 or 7 Base Energy, which has values higher and lower than 4. Note that 6/17 would also work, if not for the fact that I made a 17 Base Power card already.
There are many 4 Base Energy cards with less Base Power like Cone Snail, and many with more such as Candy Crab.
Base Powers that have been taken: 3, 10, 17, 51
hot matrix
dawn elk
Day 103: Fiddler's Green
oak hare
oak hare
dim crescent
Phantom Islands are islands that appeared on maps just to never be seen again. This is not the concept i wanted but permanently lock it is probably more balanced then the original idea.
shrewd creek
Day 104: Omnivores
It is quite hard to determine a creature's diet from its body plan. We can't even agree on if modern-day humans are "supposed to" be omnivores or not. So it is quite rare to definitively know whether a prehistoric creature was really an omnivore if its teeth could work for both meat and plant matter. That's probably why this collection has been languishing since its introduction. In particular, this collection has the smallest proportion of limited cards of any in game.
The card should:
- be limited
- mention the collections Carnivores and Herbivores, but never in the same trigger
- in every situation, at least one of the triggers mentioning Carnivores or Herbivores must activate
silent quartz
No example card, this collection suggs
shrewd creek
Example card: Thecocoelurus
clear fable
-# card? what card?
dim crescent
You probably know Gallimimus, the chicken mimic, or Ornithomimus, the bird mimic, or even Struthiomimus, the ostrich mimic. But the reality is that most Ornithomimosauria are actually all bird mimics: Pelecanimimus, the pelican mimic, Harpymimus, the Harpy mimic , Garudimimus, the Garuda (winged creatures from mongol mythology) mimic, Anserimimus, the duck mimic, Suchomimus, not an ornithomimosauria, Dromiceiomimus, the emu mimic, and so on.
But when i thought there was no hope, i find this cool dino with a cool name, Tototlmimus! What could this name even be...bird in nahuatl...ok nevermind
dawn elk
Day 104: Garudimimus
dawn elk
âlateâ
shrewd creek
Day 105: On Track!
Just like we're "on track!" to finish this event haha am I right?
A train is a linked series of cars that travels along a railroad track, generally at speeds comparable to a personal automobile, or even much faster. Due to the vast capacity of such an arrangement, trains are prized for their ability to reliably and efficiently move people or cargo (in rare cases, both). Partly due to these attractive characteristics, trains make a good topic for "certain people" to dive deep into.
The card should:
- have a beneficial effect that requires something of two other cards played in the same turn
Example card: Auto Train
dawn elk
Day 105: Qinghai-Tibet Railway
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choo choo
oak hare
1 Bodie, California
1 Monuments, Fine Arts, and Archives Program
1 Shugborough Inscription
1 Arsenic #1421882914404040936 message
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Saturnalia Tupiniquim
clear fable
mini catsup
shrewd creek
Day 106: Once Upon A Time
This is a collection about fairy tales, a loosely defined term. Fairy tales need not feature fairies in particular, but should at least have some fantastical elements to them; they should also be short. Short enough to tell to a child in the time between them climbing into bed and falling asleep.
Being aimed at children, creatures who generally like structure, they usually come with a stock opening ("Once upon a time...") and a stock ending ("...happily ever after"). Most languages have the same kind of stock opening, but endings vary, with the most common variant ending being something like "and if they haven't died, they're still alive".
The card should:
- have exactly one ability that can activates, but only at most once per game
- have exactly one other ability
- mention a Mythical Creatures or Fiction and Fantasy card
Example card: Khastakhumar and Bibinegar
also oops
late anvil
Cat and Mouse in Partnership
5 energy
46 power
The Same Old
Your** Mouse King** and Big Bad Wolf card, wherever they are, gain** +30** power until played. Your opponent's cards, wherever they are, gain +10 power until played
If you played 28 cards in this game, your opponent loses** -90** permanently.
dawn elk
Day 106: Jack and Jill
silent quartz
2EB106: The Moth And The Lamp
dim crescent
The SVL is...something...what were the soviets cooking man...
dim crescent
Also rambling about Tototlmimus made me confused
Rambling about Tototlmimus made me really confused, so i messed up The Lion and the Mouse card
dim crescent
Tototlmimus, more like Tototlfusion, am i right fellas?
dim crescent
You know what's funnier than 24? Not this guy, for sure
Also totally related, i have exactly $717,504 coins on Poképath TD
shrewd creek
Day 107: Paleontology Mythic Cards
What's the difference between a Paleontology Mythic and a Life on Land Mythic card? Wait, I actually know this one.
Even extinct animals can figure into the public consciousness via myth. Perhaps it is a recently extinct animal iconic enough to be enshrined in some indigenous group's myth. Maybe some bones of uncertain origin were discovered, and people came up with some crazy magical animal to explain it before the advent of modern evolutionary taxonomy. Or perchance, Scottish people really like plesiosaurs. If you can link a myth to an extinct creature somehow, it belongs here.
The card should:
- have 40 or more base power
- be possible to play at 0 power if none of the other cards in either playerâs deck have activated an effect
Example card: Quugaarpak
late anvil
Mahamba
Paleontology - Paleontology Mythic
6 energy
60 power
Dino croc
play: For every Monsters of the Deep card in your deck, your Monsters of the Deep cards, wherever they are, gain** +2** power permanently and this card loses** -6** power this turn
dawn elk
Day 107: Mapinguari
silent quartz
2EB107: Nephilim
silent quartz
2EB105: Trans-Europ Express
dim crescent
Emela-Ntouka is an african cryptid that is thought to be some sort of Rhinoceros but it also has claims of being a Ceratopsid. That's pretty prehistoric to me, paleontological even
shrewd creek
Day 108: Paleontology Special Fusions
Sometimes, professional paleontologists will mix bones from multiple different animals into a single skeleton, called a "chimera". This is kind of like what fusing multiple different cards into one feels like to me. Unfortunately, this is considered a faux pas in the paleontology community.
The card should:
- list 3-4 cards as fusion ingredients and their quantities
- have base stats equal to the average base stats of the ingredients weighted by quantity (round to either integer)
- all ingredients must be in one of the groups mentioned by this card, and at least 2 of the mentioned groups must contain an ingredient
Example card: Reid's Paradox
3 * Chaos Theory
10 * Wilson's Storm Petrel
37 * Icicle Plant
The average Base Energy of these cards is 2.2, the average Base Power is 43.72.
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4 * Chaos Theory
15 * Conway's Game of Life
15 * Rep-tle
4 * Impossible trident
dawn elk
Day 102: Tainui Atea
oak hare
oak hare
the streak of me trying to use free to use images is likely over with this
dawn elk
Day 108: Signor-Lipps Effect
Ingredients:
4 Dinosaur Eggs
10 Lace Monitor
20 Megalonyx
oak hare
oak hare
shrewd creek
Day 109: Paleontology Specials
Ok, Paleontology had a good run, but now it is the end of Paleo in OCFESCITG2. Everyone say goodbye to Paleo. We'll use this last day to remember all the Paleo cards that were made in this event. (No hate to paleo but I didn't really know what to say about some of the collections so, I'm kind of relieved.)
The card should either:
- mention someone elseâs Paleontology card posted in the thread that satisfies that dayâs challenge; include a link
- or, make another Paleontology card satisfying its collectionâs challenge (canât reuse your submission from that day) and mention it in this card, submit both
Example card: Cupidoblatta
Caupedactylus: #1421882914404040936 message
clear fable
Day 97 card
shrewd creek
Day 110: Philosophy
Philosophy is all about solving big problems (in scope, not necessarily in complexity or difficulty). There are many kinds of philosophy, which we can go into (incomplete) detail about here:
- "What are we?" is broadly the topic of the philosophy of mind. All study of this topic is hindered by the subjective nature of human experience.
- "Where are we?" is studied by metaphysics, the branch that tries the hardest to take a general scope, and is responsible for the most memes dunking on philosophy
- "Why?" is studied by ethics. This is the one that arguably has the most application to daily life.
- "How do we know?" is studied by epistemology and logic. Epistemology is a softer subjective one about the differing kinds of knowledge, whereas logic is all about applying hard rules to prove the truth of statements (which is foundational to math, which...)
There are 2 other questions but none of the philosophies really go into them so you'll have to look elsewhere for the answers to those.
The card should:
- not mention any tags, collections with 15 or fewer cards, or non-Philosophy cards
Example card: Harriet Taylor Mill
hot matrix
Ikigai
shrewd creek
silent quartz
2EB110: Hedonism
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dim crescent
Bathynomus vaderi is the new species of galaxy ruler found in Earth's oceans. He plans to assign a legion of Isopods to create some sort of Death Bubble to destroy Earth, or something like that.
dawn elk
Day 109: Sid and Nancy, and Khaan
dim crescent
The Ordovician Period was a period where life on Earth had a great chain of new taxa, like the pictured Orthocones
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Mexidracon is a new species of dinosaur in Mexico, being the second Ornithomimosaur found in the country. The first was Totolmimus, which i already made, so have a Garudimimus instead.
dawn elk
Day 110: Vladmir Solovyov
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Anaximander was a pre-socratic philosopher, who was an early proponent of science and tried to observe and explain different aspects of the universe, with a particular interest in its origins, claiming that nature is ruled by laws, just like human societies, and anything that disturbs the balance of nature does not last long.
shrewd creek
Day 111: Pioneers of Science
Science is a very broad field, and very incremental; almost every scientist's work cites the work of previous scientists. Technically every single collection in game can be considered a science. So it took a lot of notable people (and an even greater amount of less notable people) to advance scientific knowledge to the heights we know today.
The card should satisfy at least one of these:
- require or iterate by 1 or more Pioneers cards born before this card died (in real life) and no other Pioneers cards
- interact with 1 or more Pioneers cards that died after this card was born and no other Pioneers
Example card: Friedrich Albert Fallou
oak hare
erm actually its neils bohr đ€
clear fable
gonna reference my futurology card today too
shrewd creek
Day 112: Planetside
Natural monuments are awe-inspiring when we approach them on Earth, but our planet is not the only one to have impressive landforms. In fact, our planet doesn't even have the most impressive known landforms. There is no shortage of interesting mountains, craters, caves etc. within our solar system, and humanity has no shortage of interesting names to give them.
The card should:
- mention a card, collection, album or tag
- each trigger should have an effect found on a Majestic Mountains, Volcanoes, Natural Monuments or Raging Rivers card in game, but swap out every mentioned card, collection, album, rarity or tag for another object of a different kind (or insert such a mention where there was none); may freely swap triggers and durations. if location not mentioned, assume âin handâ.
Example card: Rima Ariadaeus
is from Eyjafjallajökull, but Volcanoes (collection) is swapped for Male Unruly Rulers (tag), non-Space is inserted, and the second mention of "this turn" is swapped for "until played".
is from Mount Tenpo but "this turn" is swapped for "until played".
clear fable
Spaced out
Card that I definitely just made and was most certainly specifically for this challenge
clear fable
Warrego Valles:
from Kenai River, swapped Turquoise for Martion Canals
from Amazon River, swapped LoL for Rivers
dim crescent
Revised version with correct base power; ingredients stay the same
shrewd creek
Day 113: Plant Life
Plants live very different lives from humans, on account of not having eyes or moving (among other differences). Nevertheless, they have some capability to react to their environments just by growing in different directions, a phenomenon called tropism, based on factors like light (phototropism), gravity (gravitropism), and moisture (hydrotropism).
Specifically, plants circulate a hormone called auxin that stimulates cell growth in moderate amounts and inhibits it in large amounts. To make the plant structure turn, cells on the side away from the turning direction should grow faster; for instance, to turn toward a light source, the cells on the dark side grow faster.
The card should:
- have a play or return effect whose effect makes its own condition or iteration easier in the future
Example: Smilax Glabra
dawn elk
Day 113: Agave Deserti
late anvil
dim crescent
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin was a French Jesuit, Catholic priest, scientist, paleontologist, philosopher, mystic, and teacher and probably some other things too. His main achievements are taking part on the discovery of Peking Man and the development of the noosphere. Also he has the highest honor in the French army, i guess
Caleuche Chasma is a chasma on Charon, the deepest in the satellite and one of the deepest in the solar system. It got its official name in 2018, when the director of the the International Astronomical Union quoted "I'm quite fond of Caleuche, is a great heavy hitter on my Riding the Waves deck". I just don't see why they would use it alongside Wadi Bani Khalid and Ha Long Bay...
late anvil
Sago palm
play, for every round you win, your life on land cards in hand gain 20 power permanently and this card costs -2 energy permanently.
dim crescent
Torch Ginger is a plant that has three different modes, depending on wher...are we referencing pvz again?... and repeating the joke again? Uhh...
shrewd creek
Day 114: Playtime
This collection is for both toys and games, but since I personally don't play with toys, the challenge is game-flavored. They're a bit underrepresented in the collection because of copyright I guess but that's okay.
It is hard to say what makes a good game generally because a lot of factors are subjective. One divide that persists throughout almost all genres and time periods is that between luck and "skill" (whatever that means). Losing a game to an unlikely roll of the dice certainly feels worse than winning due to it, so competitively-inclined gamers tend to like games with few perceivable elements left to chance.
The card should:
- have a play effect
- have two sentences that canât both activate within one cycle of the card, one of which is a random effect with lower expected value but higher maximum than the other effect, which is not random
Example card: Rithmomachia
26* [# of math cards] < 28* [# of math cards] < 36* [# of math cards], assuming that the effects can activate (which implies at least 1 math card). Note that the duration does not matter.
They can't activate simultaneously because no 4 or 6 Base Energy card in game has 9 Base Power.
hot matrix
dawn elk
Day 114: War (Card Game)
hot matrix
clear fable
Late plant cards
clear fable
Chopsticks is a game where two players each try to "kill" both of their opponent's hands by raising the number of uncurled fingers on each hand to 5, starting from 0. Attacking a hand raises the number of uncurled fingers on the target by the number of uncurled fingers on the attacking hand.
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shrewd creek
Day 115: Plundering Pirates
The Greek word "peirates" means someone who tries something. Interestingly, the thing being tried is usually small-scale naval raids with the intention of stripping targeted ships of their valuables. Usually this is for personal profit, but sometimes they are commissioned by a government (perhaps to fight uncommissioned pirates), and then conventionally called privateers; of course, the work is the same, so privateers often become pirates and vice versa.
The card should:
- mention Oceans or a card or collection from it
- for every or gain or cost change effect, must have another effect with the same duration and condition (if any) and the same total value but negative. must have at least one such effect
Example card: Klaus Störtebeker
late anvil
fluid juniper
I'm sorry for being late.
dim crescent
This grid of Football Tic-Tac-Toe is ELITE FOOTBALL KNOWLEDGE. If you can complete the middle slot and win, you have ELITE FOOTBALL KNOWLEDGE
Sits for 40 Minutes
Guys, i think it's impossible
(There is one in the active squad right now)
*(Now imagine this in a French-African Accent or something)
The Flying Gang was a group of pirates who established themselves in Nassau and governed their own republic, independent from any colonial power. They even had their own pirate code, where the crew voted to decided who should be their capitan. A Yargh for democracy! YARGH!
shrewd creek
Day 116: Primates
Primates are a subset of mammals that don't really have one trait exclusive to them that all primates share. Their most unique feature is the hand, which is kind of like a paw or hoof except the digits are well-separated and flexible (though a few other vertebrates like the koala have it too). This appendage is quite good at grabbing things, and many monkeys have used it to great effect to brachiate, i.e. swing between tree branches to move around.
Confusingly, "primate" also refers to a specific type of primate that is human and possesses a high rank in Christian institutions.
The card should:
- have 2 or more triggers
- have a losing/trailing effect, and a winning/leading effect with a later trigger
Example card: Senegal Bushbaby
silent quartz
2EB116: Bubbles (Chimpmanzee)
hot matrix
dim crescent
The Superagui Lion Tamarin is a species of tamarin found in ParanĂĄ and SĂŁo Paulo (W). It's not as black as the black lion tamarin but still has a black mane, a pretty one regardless.
Fixed wording for this (I don't know why it doesn't count)
fluid juniper
dim crescent
Now it should do
late anvil
shrewd creek
Day 117: Programming Languages
A programming language is a set of instructions for a computer to execute, which are combined by humans to accomplish things faster or otherwise more efficiently than would be possible manually. The most commonly used of these are "third generation" programming languages, which despite all their differing features, have in common that they standardize operations so that a program will produce the same results on different hardware, which does necessitate a translator to turn it into machine code which means they are slower. Many tradeoffs between programming languages are like this, where they trade speed for convenient features.
Technically, code comments are one such tradeoff, which is text ignored by the translator. This takes maybe a few microseconds from the computer and a few minutes from the programmer, but can be used to explain code and choices within it in greater detail than the code itself, which could save the next person who reads the code (possibly your future self) hours. So most people agree that writing comments is worth the while.
The card should:
- follow the picture theme in game, which is:
- make a program that has a comment saying âThis is a CUE card!â and outputs âCards, the Universe and Everythingâ to the console (with or without quotes) and no other visible characters, on a black background (but your text can be any color/font)
Example card: Julia
silent quartz
2EB117: Pascal (Programming Language)
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hot matrix
Scratch's (actually younger) brother
dawn elk
Day 117: Visual Basic (.NET)
dim crescent
BEGIN
This is ALGOL 60
I don't know what i'm doing
END
shrewd creek
Day 118: Prominent Painters
Painting is the art of applying colors to a canvas. What makes a painting look good is highly subjective, and many schools of art have been founded under different approaches to that principle, but many paintings (particularly in modern/contemporary art) seek only to be thought-provoking in some way.
The card should:
- have a draw effect
- mention a Colors card made by someone else (possibly AvidGames) and an associated album or a card or collection from that album; colors cannot be mentioned without an associated topic and vice versa. Colors cards mentioning exactly 1 album or any number of non-Colors cards/collections from the same album are associated with that collectionâs album, otherwise:
- Arts: lemon chiffon, rosso corsa
- Oceans: alice blue, tropical indigo
- Space: chiaroscuro, color spectrum
- Life: scheeleâs green, electric violet
- History: egypt blue, naples yellow
- Paleo: pantone 448 c, dutch orange
- Science: yinmn blue, vantablack
shrewd creek
Example card: David Milne
Anti-Flash White #1421882914404040936 message is associated with Science.
dawn elk
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hot matrix
Cochineal Red: #1421882914404040936 message
Bee Violet: #1421882914404040936 message
shrewd creek
Day 119: Radical Rockets
Rockets expel stuff (often, the byproduct of burning fuel) to move at high speed, through the atmosphere and beyond. They are very good at this; the heaviest rockets may carry up to 140 tons of extra weight ("payload"), which may include scientific instruments, astronauts, or explosives. Crucial to a rocket's success is the fact that it gets lighter as it gets higher, not only due to burning fuel but also having entire sections of the rocket fall off as their fuel is spent.
The card should:
- have a âscored x points or moreâ condition
- have multiple effects with the same keyword and specific targets but different duration
Example card: Kuaizhou-1A
The consists of two effects satisfying the second point.
late anvil
dawn elk
Day 119: Minotaur V
clear fable
RGB: https://discordapp.com/channels/646709318904840197/1284643293229093018/1292394270375805040 is **not **associated with Art
shrewd creek
Day 120: Raging Rivers
As rain falls, the paths of different droplets converge into each other, growing wider until the mass of running water is large enough to be called a river. So yes, river is an honorary title, and rivers demand respect. It doesn't take a particularly deep river to knock an unsuspecting person off their feet due to the high speed and flow volume.
The card should:
- have more than half of the keywords be or (which still count as 1 keyword each despite using 2 icons)
Example card: North Saskatchewan River
dawn elk
Day 120: St. Lawrence River
late anvil
dim crescent
This is ALGOL 60
Should be working
dim crescent
This is Yves Klein. Made new blue color. Minimalist man. Why many colors when few colors do trick?
clear fable
He's BLUE for an Amazing reason
dim crescent
The Atlas H was a H rocket that was tasked as an Expendable H System. It also departed in 5 Missions and H of them were successes. Aweshme!
The Bermejo River is a river in Argentina/Bolivia that turns yellow because of the sediment. Why it relates to Latin American Folklore specifically? Because i wanted to do History stuff but someone took Yellow River from me, so have that
hot matrix
silent quartz
Late
shrewd creek
Day 121: Reptiles
Compared to other land creatures of equivalent size, reptiles take extra care to conserve food energy. This is helped by a few factors. They don't constantly burn calories trying to stay within a narrow range of body temperature as endothermic animals do. Their brains are quite small for their size (thinking is very calorie intensive). And the trait they get their name from, they tend to move slowly and wait for their prey to approach (except for short bursts of speed); "reptile" is Latin for "creeping".
The card should:
- âpower creepâ a card in game with less than 12 base power per energy released within the past 2 years, i.e.:
- having equal or lower rarity and base energy, and the same number of effects
- each beneficial effect should have more value/duration/targets and more permissive or equal condition, or the opposite for harmful, and the opposite if it targets your opponent. if an effect targets both players/their cards or has both beneficial and harmful components, split them up and powercreep separately
- can exchange any objects of same type (album for album etc.), except that your effects have to activate with the same triggers as the powercrept card
shrewd creek
Example card: Underwood's Spectacled Tegu
powercreeping Audre Lorde
note that the base power is lower than Audre Lorde's
silent quartz
DIVORCE Your WIFE ABANDON Your KIDS THEN LEARN ARABIC!
oak hare
oak hare
dim crescent
Rolls 5...Ladder
The Ladder Snake is a non-venomous snake native to Portugal, Spain, France and Italy, which carries an amusing name related to a board game, but the snake probably predates the board game in naming rights
Rolls 3...Ladder
With it's unusual coloration and patters and striking personality, we all know it's a much cooler species than other randoms like Wahoo
Rolls 6...Snake
go back to...SQUARE 3? Oh damn
shrewd creek
Day 122: Riding the Waves!
Watercraft range in size from paper-sized up to 360 meters. That includes the largest vehicles in the world, kind of like how ocean mammals are the largest animals in the world because buoyancy makes it easier for large animals to get around. They're a very good way to move large quantities of material across the ocean, and are frequently known to transport other vehicles. Even average sized boats can have a capacity of several hundred tons.
The card should:
- contain one of the words âmoreâ/âlessâ/âfewerâ
- have all numbers except base energy be non-zero multiples of 5
Example card: Cutter
fluid juniper
late anvil
clear fable
Italian Wall Lizard powercreeps George Boole, which was released on 4th March 2024
Surprisingly, RMS Carpathia isn't a card in Cue yet. It's the ship that saved 712 passengers of the Titanic
New River nerf
dim crescent
The Silura Lenta Corsa was a Boat (?) Topedo (?) Weird (â) Thing (â) used by the Italian royal army. If war wasn't innovative, we wouldn't have Innovations of War, but some are definetly more iconic and important than others...
dawn elk
Day 122: USS Enterprise
silent quartz
Late
shrewd creek
Day 123: Rites and Rituals
Ritual is the adjective form of the word rite, not sure why they're listed separately since they're also synonymous. They both refer to structured actions which are to be repeated many times, and may carry some symbolic meaning, or represent a physical stand-in for an intangible event. For instance, OCFESC2 may be considered a ritual, as the cards represent the culmination of the research done by the users creating the cards.
The card should:
- have a trigger whose entire text consists of ârepeat aboveâ, optionally preceded by a condition and/or succeeded by a number of times
- mention 2 collections from different albums
Example card: Graduation Ceremony
silent quartz
I hate Valentines Day
late anvil
dawn elk
Day 123: Temazcal
dim crescent
Famadihana is a ritual something something memory something something they dance, you know what, i'm kinda lazy today so you'll better accept this lazy description
silent quartz
2EB123: Gut (Ritual)
2EB121: Oriental Rat Snake
NOTE: Powercreeps Oni, a Limited Legendary 4/40 Japanese Folklore card.
fluid juniper
Do fan-made albums count?
shrewd creek
Day 124: Science Mythic Cards
Mythic cards are about concepts that are not known to physically exist. Science is a framework about gaining new physical knowledge. Evidence-based sciences like physics are progressing rapidly and seem like they could theoretically discover all the physics there is to discover. Luckily for the sustainability of the science mythic card industry, there are some things that axiomatic sciences (math) will never know, as proven by Kurt Gödel in the 1931 smash hit "Ăber formal unentscheidbare SĂ€tze der Principia Mathematica und verwandter Systeme I". Since math underpins all the other sciences, it seems also unlikely science will ever reach complete knowledge.
The card should:
- mention 3 or more cards in game (except possibly this card) such that for every pair of mentioned cards, it is possible to activate effects of both cards in the same game, but it is not possible to activate the effect of every mentioned card in the same game
Example card: Magnetic Monopole
Trying to activate Monopole, Gauss, Maxwell and Everything in the same deck requires 4 Pioneers, 4 Discoveries, 4 Math/WtS, 2 Science Mythics, 1 other Science/Space and 4 cards from other albums, for a total of 19 > 18 cards. Of course, failing to activate any one of these effects reduces the required number of cards to 18 or less.
late anvil
silent quartz
2EB124: Tachyon
dawn elk
Day 124: One Electron Theory
dim crescent
The Island of Stability is a predicted set of isotopes of superheavy elements that may have considerably longer half-lives than known isotopes of these elements. It buffs Hydrogen and Nitrogen because those are smaller excellent elements, and The Stanley Hotel because it's a big excellen...it's an...unstable place for it's poltergeist activity...at this point i just needed something to fit with Nitrogen, Excellent Elements didn't had anything and i couldn't use Floaty's Oganesson so...Stanley Hotel is a big elements of Cinema's history
lone hill
The **Island of Stability** is a predicted set of isotopes of superheavy element...
Floaty's?
shrewd creek
hello my name is floaty
silent quartz
Late
dawn elk
Noob đ
shrewd creek
Day 125: Science Special Fusions
Just about everything in this game can be considered part of a science. And "special fusions" could be literally anything, including things that would fit more closely to another collection. So that makes this the most generic of generic collections.
The card should:
- be in the daily collection
- list 3-4 cards as fusion ingredients and their quantities
- mention a card in game from a "Special Fusions" collection
- mention something from each non-science album in game in the ingredients and/or effect text
Example card: Replication Crisis
1 * Liger
1 * Twilight Zone
1 * Shugborough Inscription
20 * Data Analyst
dim crescent
The Age of Enlightenment was the moment where the sciences we know today came to be how we know them today. Literally all Groundbreakers cards came after this moment, alongside most of Riding the Waves, Zoological Zealots and Pioneers of Science. The other collections are a bit older though, so have that.
dim crescent
Revised version
dim crescent
Great that you changed so the sheet is correct, now you can change it back
dawn elk
Day 118: Albert Bierstadt
dawn elk
Day 125: Lab Rat
Ingredients:
1 X-Ray Specs
5 Telescopium
5 Dinosaur Eggs
5 Canopic Jars
silent quartz
late
shrewd creek
Day 126: Science Specials
There are not many cards in the Science version of the holiday collections. Probably due to lack of suitable topics. To rectify this, maybe companies like Boston Dynamics should divert some robotics funding into making realistic robots to imitate beloved holiday figures such as the Easter Bunny and Santa Claus.
The card should:
- satisfy the challenge of another specials collection (but replace the album with science if applicable)
- have the same base stats, triggers and keywords as a Festive Traditions card in game of the same rarity
Example card: Holiday Heart Syndrome
This copies the framework of Dorset Ooser, and satisfies the Paleontology Specials challenge by mentioning Autophobia: #1421882914404040936 message
dim crescent
-# MicroRNA are small, single-stranded, non-coding RNA molecules containing 21â23 nucleotides. MiRNAs are involved in RNA silencing and post-transcriptional regulation of gene expression. This card fulfills Arts & Culture Specials, replicating Yule Cat.
shrewd creek
Day 127: Sea Birds
It is perhaps unsurprising that many birds love water, since it contains many tasty creatures that are defenseless against aerial attacks. Even many land birds like to get in on this action, so the seabirds are somewhat hard to categorize.
Swimming and flying are different types of movement, so birds like penguins and auks that are more specialized in swimming, tend to be worse at flying. High-flying seabirds tend to prefer "plunge diving" instead, using momentum from great heights to propel them through water when they need to feed.
The card should:
- require only sea-based groups (Oceans collections alphabetically before Ocean Reptiles inclusive, Sharks, MotD and âPenguinâ tag) and air-based groups (Butterflies, Birds, Bugs, Rockets, Fearsome Flyers, Awesome Aviation, Forces of Nature, âLiteral Batâ and âWinged Mythical Creaturesâ tags) or cards from those groups
- if requiring sea, must interact with air and vice versa. if requiring both, the ranges required canât overlap and the effect canât affect both with equal values
Example card: Galapagos Cormorant
This card only requires an air-based collection, so it interacts with the sea-based "Penguin" tag.
late anvil
clear fable
silent quartz
2EB127: Greylag Goose
dim crescent
The African Penguin is a species of penguin confined to South African waters, being the only penguin found in the Old World. As such, their connections with South African birds grants them a lot of knowledge to share in penguin parties, but their old style lacks behind on the new, swift trends of our penguin generation
dawn elk
Day 126: Calcite and Willemite
Copies Peace Apples
Satisfies Life on Land Specials https://discordapp.com/channels/646709318904840197/1421882914404040936/1456874796125257800
dawn elk
Day 127: Osprey
shrewd creek
Day 128: Secret Societies
Since I'm not a member of any secret societies, I really have no idea what to say about them.
The card should:
- all effects must not have a visible effect in the current turn (or next turn for return abilities), or only affect cards not in hand
Example card: Hongmen
This card could affect cards in hand, but regardless it has no visible effect in the current turn.
dim crescent
The Filiki Eteria was a secret revolutionary organization whose intent was to overthrow the Ottoman rule and establish a Greek government. Uhh yes it's this, i think so.
clear fable
Day 128 card
-# pardon the bad handwriting and drawing
arctic glacier
Day 128 card
-# pardon the bad handwriting and drawing
handwriting reveal 
shrewd creek
Day 129: Shake Up the System
The modern era is generally a better time than any previous era to be a member of a racial or sexual minority (or even a woman or poor person), thanks to the spirited efforts of activists. Activists try to enact social change (i.e. form public opinion) through demonstrative efforts like protests and strikes, as well as legislative change via representation in government.
By the way, not part of the challenge but there seems to be an unspoken rule that living people shouldn't go into the History album... which is harder for this collection than most...
The card should:
- be a standard rare/epic/legendary or a limited epic
- have a permanent effect
- have each trigger affect less than half the cards in the location when it activates, not counting itself
Example card: Lynn Conway
capitalizing "the"
hot matrix
somber storm
<:I_History:835161668073291788> 2EB129: EDSA People Power Revolution
WOOOOOOW
dim crescent
John Brown was a strong figure against slavery, and a head figure for the start of the American Civil War. Contrary to most in this collection, his strong visions lead him to a very aggressive posture, making him a somewhat controversial figure. But hey, at least he made racists rot in hell, so that's good.
fluid juniper
late anvil
dawn elk
Day 128: Grand Orange Lodge of Ireland
late anvil
shrewd creek
Day 130: Sharks!
Some sharks are called dogfishes, which is reflective of wider similarities between sharks and dogs, namely their hunting instincts and powerful senses. They are most well known for their sense of smell, used for detecting the blood of weakened prey, as well as sewage (which sharks love for some reason). Of course, most sharks also have keen senses of hearing and electroreception to help locate prey.
The card should:
- have a draw effect
- have a harmful effect targeting your opponent or their cards that requires or iterates by them or their cards having less power or more harms
Example card: Bluntnose Sixgill Shark
somber storm
<:I_Ocean:835161668068966402> **Day 130: Sharks!**
*Some sharks are called dogfi...
A lil broken lol
dim crescent
Hmph, i feel so drowsy...zZzz...
||The Pacific Sleeper Shark is a species of sleeper shark, a family known for the size of its species and the slow metabolism they have, including the most famous member of the group, the Greenland Shark, famously known for being the vertebrate with the longest longevity on Earth. This guy sleeps a lot, but never forgets what it learns through its long life. The play is also inspired by Deeeep.io sleeper shark, shout out to him. Finally, this was all a hoax (& cons), it's 12 am, i'm not sleepy and you just got fooled.||
late anvil
hot matrix
silent quartz
Does nothing but fulfill the condition
hot matrix
silent quartz
Late
shrewd creek
Day 131: Signs of the Zodiac
Oops, all out of classical zodiac signs. Unless you want to make Ophiuchus (again) you'll want to look to other zodiac systems. A zodiac is just any system that associates a person's birthday to little animals that symbolize various personality traits and prospects.
Each sign of the Western zodiac is also associated with an area of the night sky, which you can further associate pseudoscientific nonsense to; other zodiacs don't do this. Not to say that other cultures don't practice astrology, they simply keep that separate from their symbolic animals.
The card should:
- use 3 independent conditions in the same sentence
- i.e. meeting any condition should not make any other easier or harder in any way. you can add other conditions that are dependent, they just wouldn't contribute to the 3
- have a play trigger that aids two cards and nothing else
Example card: Wings Mansion
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silent quartz
I already did Wings Mansion, it had a reference to the greatest band Paul McCartney was in
dim crescent
The Astrological Age is the age reigned but the signs and bla bla bla, even astrology scholars know this is absolutely non sense
dawn elk
Day 129: SimĂłn BolĂvar
dawn elk
Day 130: Kitefin Shark
dawn elk
Day 131: Ardra Nakshatra
hot matrix
Andvari
shrewd creek
Day 132: Space Mythic Cards
Oh boy, the alphabetically last album, and certainly not least. Concepts about space tend to be vast in scale, especially the ones we don't know much about (don't @ me about the exceptions). Similar to Life on Land Mythics, there are lots of strange space/relativity concepts that didn't become mythics and I don't see any good reason for them not being mythics besides that Avid wanted to release them faster.
The card should satisfy at least one of these:
- in the effect/base stats, mention all digits and all letters in a language of your choice with an alphabet (specify language if not English; that language's alphabet must contain a letter not found in the English alphabet), or
- show up in more than half of each type of ability based filter (i.e. at least 4 different keywords, 3 triggers, 4 classes of targets, 4 classes of durations)
Example card: Naked Singularity
This satisfies the first challenge.
shrewd creek
silent quartz
Nekkid
dim crescent
The Google Sky Red Dragon is a giant creature found in Google Sky who is set to destroy Earth, and it was even censored from the Google Sky site by the government for revealing this world danger!...except it didn't destroyed Earth yet, because it's not real. This menacing beast is actually just a couple of visual bugs that made it look like it has two eyes and a (cute-ish?) mouth, while the censoring part just refers to the fact that its eyes are actually Saturn in two positions at the same time (due to more than one picture being overlayed to create this satellite image), and so NASA decided to censure it because we know Saturn changes its position constantly and that's easily observable from our perspective (and it's also duplicated and there are no two Saturns in sky).
Floaty did say that there are many concepts that could be mythics, and i chosen the most idiotic, Hoaxes & Conic-It's a Conspiracyc theme i could. Also this card is such a mouthful, i made it 16 energy and i still think the card is too strong.
hot matrix
Tried to fix Neocatastrophism to satisfy the 2nd point
shrewd creek
Day 133: Space Oddities
This is more of a giant music reference than a real collection. I'm not saying it's not scientific to call things weird; astronomers talk about peculiar galaxies, chemically peculiar stars and eccentric orbits all the time, and indeed this collection has some of those. But some things in this collection just aren't that weird, right? Or is my weirdness detector not calibrated properly?
The card should:
- not satisfy the challenge of any previous Space collection
- satisfy "the hard part" of an approved Space collection, as defined below:
- Constellations, but don't be limited
- Moon in Motion, but the two cards shouldn't be the same rarity
- Signs of the Zodiac, but the trigger aids more than 2 cards
- Space Mythic Cards (first point), but don't include some letters, which must be worth 3 points or less in your language's version of Scrabble (for English, that means it must still include FHJKQVWXYZ)
- Space Mythic Cards (second point), but have more than required in 3 categories, and less than required in the other
Example card: Gravity Darkening
It would satisfy the first point of Space Mythic Cards, but it's missing the letter "m".
dim crescent
Green Bean Galaxy scientifically proves that Space Legends 1 is the easiest challenge to do today and anything else is skill issue. Creating a balanced card tho is another point...
As per Floaty's entry, this also lacks the / \ / \ letter, and here is Elst-Pizarro in case of: #1312110062348533890 message
shrewd creek
Day 134: Space Special Fusions
Oh fusions? Like how in the Kraken merger two galaxies fuse together? Though the notion of a galactic collision is kind of a strange term, somewhat akin to saying two opposing aerosol clouds are colliding.
Anyway put whatever you want I guess. As an aside, apparently Avid thinks Space is pretty awesome on average because it has a way higher proportion of Ultra Fusions than every other album.
The card should:
- list 3-4 cards as fusion ingredients and their quantities
- mention 2 or more groups of cards (referring to shared intrinsic properties of the card)
- none of the mentioned groups can be a subset of another
- one of the ingredients should be in all of them
- another ingredient should be in some but not all
hot matrix
Note:
- Harp Sponge crafting ingredient:
5x Harp
3x Phyllodesmuium Poindimei
2x Daddy Longlegs
15x Spinosaurus - Wang's Garden Lizard is supposed to powercreep Daffodil, a 2025 card.
shrewd creek
<:I_Space:835161668333994064> **Day 134: Space Special Fusions**
*Oh fusions? Li...
Example card: ESCAPADE
"Encumbered cards" is not a group; Encumbered is the status of having higher current cost than Base Energy.
1 * Queen Anne's Revenge
1 * Osiris Blue
1 * 1849 Gold Rush
1 * Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter
late anvil
silent quartz
What even js thjd
dim crescent
Messier was a man, a man who loved comets. He loved them so much, he wanted to know them all. He started looking at the sky and naming them. But he also found a lot of other stuff, mainly Nebulae and Galaxies. These 110 space bodies are called Messier Objects, cataloged in a list of non-comet objects that were frustrating finds for Messier, the man that only loved comets. This list is so influential that most of those objects are still referred as their name in Messier Catalogue, many being popular targets for amateur astronomers. We still didn't see all of Messier though...
hot matrix
Tried fixing up some of the cards (I also forgot to submit the plant life card so)
hot matrix
Also: X-Seed 4000
hot matrix
Air Shower's Crafting Ingredient:
20x Shifting Solar Plasma
2x Dragon King
10x Thoremin
10x Diving Bell Spider
shrewd creek
Day 135: Space Specials
Holy days are intimately connected to our timekeeping systems, which are connected to space. Generally, holidays occur once a year at the same time within that year.
- In solar calendars (like the Gregorian), a holiday occurs once every orbit of the Earth around the Sun.
- In lunar calendars, a holiday occurs once every 12 orbits of the Moon around the Earth.
- In lunisolar calendars (like the traditional Chinese), a holiday occurs once every 12 or 13 Moon orbits, depending on if people decided an extra month should be added to synchronize the calendar with solar years.
The card should:
- have a period
- mention a card with a different period
The period of a card is the amount of time between 2 plays in which the card is played optimally (maximizing net total power gain, i.e. your power gain minus opponent power gain, or minimizing net total energy cost), ignoring the possibilities of Overlock and Sudden Death. If there are two coprime periods, the card does not have a period. (This generally applies to cards that don't care when they're played.)
Example card: Apollo 8
Terminator's period is a multiple of 3 because its cost reduction effect wants it to be played at the same time in the round.
Apollo 8's period is 7 because it wants to be played as fast as possible to gain more permanent power, which can only be done after 6 turns of Lock wear off.
hot matrix
Fixing up again, along with recipe changes:
Harp Sponge:
5x Harp
2x Phyllodesmium poindimiei
5x Rainbow Sawtail Fish
2x Marrus Orthocanna
Air Shower:
20x Shifting Solar Plasma
2x Dragon King
10x Thoremin
10x Spinosaurus
dawn elk
Day 134: The Cosmic Owl
Ingredients:
3 Powerful Owl
3 Black-Banded Owl
3 Owl Nebula
3 Southern Owl Nebula
silent quartz
2EB134: Across the Universe IRM
dim crescent
The 52246 Donaldjohanson is an asteroid in the asteroid belt, being photographed and studied by the Lucy Spacecraft last year (at the time i made this card it was still 2025), honouring Donald Johanson, who discovered the Lucy fossil, and named it after a Beatles song. Sometimes i feel everything will eventually connect to The Beatles somehow.
I will post Lucy Spacecraft tomorrow for Space Tech so you can count this as a 0, but Lucy Spacecraft has no restriction or bonus for when it's played (apart from being played in between two cards) so their period should be quick as possible/6, while this is multiples of 5, so i think it counts
silent quartz
The **52246 Donaldjohanson** is an asteroid in the asteroid belt, being photogra...
Of course this was posted right after Across the Universe
hot matrix
Space Snow
shrewd creek
Day 136: Space Technology
This collection is presumably for all manmade objects in space that are not rockets or alive (which would make them astronauts). Well I guess there are a few exceptions.
The difference between things in space and not in space is the KĂĄrmĂĄn line, which is defined somewhat arbitrarily at 100 kilometers above sea level. This is a huge distance above the ground; it's hard enough to control airplanes at about 10 kilometers above. Therefore, people usually send objects up and let their orbital trajectories go as they will, save for minor steering corrections. If they're in orbit with the Earth, atmospheric drag or other factors will cause it to slowly lose altitude and crash. Otherwise, the object will likely just keep drifting farther away from the Earth, much like Voyager 1, the farthest manmade object from Earth.
The card should:
- have 100 or more base power
- from its own base stats and effect only, have each play be never weaker and sometimes stronger (or vice versa) than the previous play, without assuming a time limit for the game
Example card: Deep Impact
Technically this could have the same power each play, but it can be stronger each play but never weaker.
late anvil
silent quartz
2EB136: MULA (Satellite)
clear fable
If your deck doesn't contain helium, the highest it gets with its own effects is 11 on all plays, never weaker. If it does, it either stays constant or gets higher.
dim crescent
Picture yourself in a boat on the space
With tangerine asteroids and marmalade stars
Somebody calls you, you answer quite slowly
A Satellite with kaleidoscope eyes
Human remains of yellow and green
Towering over your head
Look for the Satellite with the asteroid in her eyes
And she's gone
Lucy Spacecraft in the sky with asteroids
Lucy Spacecraft in the sky with asteroids
Lucy Spacecraft in the sky with asteroids
Ahh
(That's the reason why i don't write poems. Also this may be cringe but don't say that to me or i will fill your mouth with paleo cards).
dim crescent
my name is donald johansonald, i came here to present you, the rock of the animal ark
hot matrix
Zombie Taxon's ingredient:
8x Age Estimation 6/57
8x Mudslide 3/26
8x Spinosaurus 6/60
8x Majungasaurus 4/65
average base energy: 4.75
average base power: 52
Araucarioxylon Arizonicum: #1421882914404040936 message
shrewd creek
Day 137: Stage and Screen
Ah well that's the end of Space week. Now we can stop acting like we enjoy space. Hey speaking of acting...
Film and theatre are two arts that combine visual and audio components to simulate a story, and these works of art contain many characters, each of which has an identity that must be assumed by an actor. (Good) actors are generally able to play a wide range of different roles. They also are keen on technological solutions to improve the verisimilitude of their works, particularly when imitating the fantastical; for instance, they usually depict flight using the same technique, which is using a massive system of ropes and pulleys to lift actors off the ground. This reliance on technology is probably why this is a Science collection instead of Arts.
The card should:
- have the same effect as another card with the same base stats, except that you should add a condition and can change any non-value bolded text on the card. repeat for another mutually exclusive condition and another card
Example card: Match Cut
This card takes the first effect from Antivenom (modifying the bolded groups) and the second from Six of Swords.
(Note the cards don't have to have conditions already.)
late anvil
180 angle
dim crescent
Gertie the Dinosaur (1914) is the first movie focused on the story of a dinosaur, Gertie, a playful sauropod that likes to perform impossible moves for a 50-ton animal. In the plot of the movie, the presentation was made just because its creator made a bet that he could make a movie to impress his colleagues. This movie has around 20-ish minutes and it's found in full on wikipedia, it's a good and funny experience, even though the movie didn't age well on the length of takes, it's a very slow movie for today's standards. But that's what you expect for a 112 years movie.
Wait a minute, i think something is missing...oh yeah, i forgot to tell the part where Gertie rides a UH-60 Black Hawk and flies by the Space Needle (that actually happens go watch the movie)
hot matrix
Roar (1981)'s first effect is taken from Caleuche, while its second is taken from C
late anvil
shrewd creek
Day 138: Sue Black's In The Bones
Sue Black is a forensic anthropologist, which is the field of applying anatomical techniques that would be useful on ancient bodies, on not-so-ancient bodies that are nevertheless decayed or mutilated enough to impair other identification techniques. It's called "in the bones" because that's usually all you have left to work with. But that does make it a rather narrow field... maybe the collection could be expanded to just forensics in general, and renamed "In The Flesh and Bones"?
The card should:
- require or iterate by some non-album attribute (name, collection, base stats, etc.) of the opponentâs cards
- mention a History and/or Paleontology collection or card
Example card: Isotope Analysis
silent quartz
2EB138: Forensic Archaeology
dim crescent
Osteobiography is the process of describing the life of one by their remains.
Osteo is bone, bio is life, graphy is writing, the "Writing of Ones for the Bones", the sweet tale of who we are from what we left behind...wait i did not mention bonny bones here
shrewd creek
Day 139: Super Structures
Buildings are notoriously massive and hard to move. They usually provide shelter to people while they relax or do work, and reinforce a sense of routine. They also house valuable objects like jewelry or electronics, so most buildings have locks to ward off unauthorized entry.
The card should:
- have 70 or more base power
- have a lock effect or an effect that targets locked cards
- require or iterate by some attribute of your cards in deck or previously played
Example card: Australia 108
late anvil
dawn elk
Day 138: Forensic Taphonomy
dawn elk
Day 139: Oriental Pearl Tower
clear fable
really wanted to use the 2nd art, so I made it shiny
dim crescent
The Amazon Theatre is a theatre located in Manaus, Amazonas. Being more than 125 years old (older than you all fyi), it represents the greatest days of the city during the rubber boom, a major part of Brazil's economical history. It's also very beautiful.
hot matrix
silent quartz
Late
shrewd creek
Day 140: Tarot
A normal tarot deck used for trick-taking card games has 14 cards in each of 4 suits and 22 trump cards, for 78 total. Since we already have 64 Tarot cards in game, despite the collection having fewer possibilities and being newer than Constellations, it is running out of card design space much more rapidly.
Where tarot games are not often played (such as the United Kingdom, apparently), the cards are more associated with tarot card reading, wherein you pull some number of cards from the deck and interpret them symbolically to answer an open-ended question, typically about the future. Some readers assign the opposite meaning to cards that are drawn in reverse orientation.
The card should:
- have an effect with no visible effect in the current turn (or next turn for returns), or that affects only cards in deck
- have two sentences that canât activate simultaneously, one of which is purely beneficial and the other is purely harmful
late anvil
dawn elk
Day 140: Four of Cups
dim crescent
The Seven of Wands is a card that represents courage and perseverance, depicting a man defending his position in a cliff from 6 other wands, indicating that he maintains his firm position even when alone, being able to protect itself from threats without showing cowardice. The first part of the draw is just for the challenge though i can't reason that part
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Example card: Mounted Lady of Swords
from the Cary Yale Visconti Tarot deck, one of the few to have more than 78 cards
hot matrix
Eight of Pentacles
silent quartz
Late again
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Day 141: The American Revolution
The United States of America began as 13 British colonies. They separated from Britain after a minor dispute (with guns) over new taxes and not being represented in the British parliament. During this dispute, the colonies pledged to be friends forever and ever (the formal way to say it would be, they ratified the Articles of Confederation and Perpetual Union, y'know, same thing), and reaffirmed their union after the war by writing their Constitution ("We the People of the United States, in order to form a more perfect Union...")
The card should:
- be able to affect every card in your deck
- have a beneficial effect that doesnât activate if A Christmas Carol is in your deck, or one that doesnât activate if Harold II is in your deck
Example card: Nathanael Greene
late anvil
Lafayette
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The Thirteen Colonies were BFFS and something something we hate brits something something now we are america. Did you know that the USA is one of the few countries in the world with no name, since like, they are just United States in the American continent, they have no real name.
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Day 142: The Four Horsemen
The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse are not the main characters of the Christian Book of Revelation, but they certainly are the most famous. This 22 chapter book details the Christian vision of the end of the world in many fantastical events; first the destruction of the Earth, then a fight between God's kingdom and Satan, then various judgments upon the "wicked", including a "last judgment" after which everyone is sentenced by Jesus Christ himself to either eternal life or eternal damnation. So there's a lot of untapped material here...
The card should:
- always affect every card in both playerâs decks
- between all effects, there must always be a card that is in total aided and not harmed, and one that is in total harmed and not aided
Example card: Seven Churches of Asia
If you activate both effects in the same turn there are 7 cards that gain 5~15 power and the other 29 will lose 20~30 power.
silent quartz
Well played
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The Seven Seals are seals that, when opened, will release ravage through the Earth. Since the Four Horsemen are already here, i guess that leaves only 3 more to be opened.
hot matrix
I poisoned the water supply
now everyone dead
oops
đș
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Day 143: The Legend of Robin Hood
Robin Hood is a legendary outlaw known for robin the rich to give to the poor. Unlike a certain other British body of legend, the side characters don't really go out and do their own thing very much, so this one really does revolve around Robin Hood.
The card should:
- if the card is an enemy of Robin Hood in the story, have 80 or more base power and harm Merry Men or a card with that tag
- otherwise, have 20 or less base power and aid Merry Men or a card with that tag
Example card: Roger of Doncaster
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Note:
Aedi copies Egg Nog, and satisfies O&S Special challenge: #1421882914404040936 message
dawn elk
Day 141: Thomas Jefferson
hot matrix
Nancy Morgan Hart
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Day 144: The Occult
The word "occult" comes from Latin for "hidden", and so there were "occult sciences" dedicated to uncovering the hidden secrets of the world, much like regular science does. However, occultism insists upon the lack of rational explanation for the phenomena it studies ("paranormal"). So this collection encompasses all kinds of topics relating to alchemy, ghost hunting and magic, particularly divination and ritual magic.
The card should:
- mention 1 or more cards with a secret ability and none that donât have a secret ability
- have a sentence that doesnât appear on any Science card in game and does appear on a non-Science card, ignoring all bold text
Example card: Love Potion
The is adapted from Flute.
hot matrix
Dactylomancy
Effect taken from Tongue Eating Louse/Deadly Webcap
updated dactylomancy
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Richard at the Lee was a guy who gave Robin Hood and the Merry Men sanctuary from the Sheriff of Nottingham by hiding them in his castle. Cool Dude đ
dim crescent
Spagyria is a method developed by Paracelsus and his followers which was thought to improve the efficacy of existing medicines by separating them into their primordial elements (the tria prima: sulphur, mercury, and salt) and then again recombining them. What Paracelsus didn't knew at the time was that neither Sulphur, Mercury or Sodium had special abilities, something that was noted by Nicolas Flamel in his studies of the Philosophal Stone.
And on the topic of occult, TRANSFIGURATION!!!!!
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Day 145: The Original Odyssey
The scope of this collection is so narrow that you can find a summary of it on the back of Odysseus' CUE card. Basically it's like Game of Thrones with a Trojan War hero trying to return home? Homecoming (ÎœÏÏÏÎżÏ in Greek) is a prominent theme in a bunch of other Homeric works, but particularly in the Odyssey where it takes so long that it fills 24 "books".
The card should:
- have a return effect that is possible to activate, but always has a 10% chance or more of having no meaningful effect
Example card: Alcinous
This doesn't matter if the affected card is in the bottom 4 cards of the deck; 4/13 > 10%.
hot matrix
Ogygia
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Day 146: The Roman Empire
"The" Roman Empire lasted for 4 centuries before fracturing into a bunch of regional kingdoms. Since it happened so long ago, it's easy to forget what the Romans have done for us.
The Romans are thought to have more advanced technology and architecture than any European state in the Dark Ages. Almost a millennium after the fall of the Western Roman Empire, their architecture and culture would experience a revival (or a renaissance, as the French call it) at the hands of the cultures descended from the Romans. For one example, there is a literary genre called "romance" that used to mean "works composed in the language of the Romans", which became associated with a particular type of love.
The card should:
- powercreep a 2019 or 2020 Science card in game (as defined in the Reptiles challenge: #1421882914404040936 message)
- have the base stats of a History of Heartbreak card in game
Example card: Las MĂ©dulas
powercreeps Pacific Trash Vortex
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Day 143: Wat o' the Crabstaff
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The Olive Tree Bed is a legendary, immovable, and symbolic marital bed crafted by Odysseus himself. It was built directly into a massive olive tree rooted in the ground, with the bedroom chamber constructed around it.
Nerva was the Roman Emperor between 96 and 98. Being declared emperor by the roman senate after the assassination of Domitian, he vowed to restore many liberties lost in the autocratic government of the previous leader. But he had financial problems in his reign and his inability to maintain control over the roman army forced him to find a heir in the popular general Trajan. Lastly, he was the first of the "Five Good Emperors", in the succession of himself, Trajan, Hadrian, Antoninus Pius and Marcus Aurelius. And even after all this explanation, i still needed to assure i was powercreeping someone, so DNA had to go. (For additional info, see Heloise and Abelard)
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Day 147: The Solar System
Apparently interstellar travel is quite hard. The fastest speed ever achieved by humans is 0.0037% the speed of light, and the nearest star is 4.25 light-years away, so at that speed it would take us 114865 years to get there. So it will take many major technological leaps before humans see anywhere in the universe outside of the Sun's gravitational influence. The Solar System isn't such a bad place though, all my favorite people are here...
The card should:
- have the base stats and every word in its effect text (not effect name) be found in the same place in a Solar System card in game or a challenge credit Solar System card previously in thread, with at most 1 exception
- for the effect text, the 1 exception can be any number of consecutive words that would break this rule
Example card: Orcus, Dwarf Planet
The words "without activating any abilities" are not found on any The Solar System card in game. But now you can use them.
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**Nerva** was the Roman Emperor between 96 and 98. Being declared emperor by the...
got a novel there my guy
(the card text, to be clear)
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120347 Salacia is a possible dwarf planet found in The Solar Systemâą. It would be the tenth largest in the system ordered by mass, after the 9 mentioned in it. I mention "Orcus" because it refers to my Orcus, not floaty's, which would be posted today if it wasn't for his. I mean, i still will post today, just not here.
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Horreum
Powercreeps Nikola Tesla, a 2020 card
dawn elk
Day 146: Scipio Africanus
dawn elk
Day 147: 174567 Varda
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Day 148: The Write Stuff
There sure are a lot of different ways of writing stuff. Most genres of fiction (or non-fiction) are fairly entrenched, but some works can be so successful that they spawn many imitators, which collectively form a new genre.
The card should:
- have at least one trigger with 3 or more full lines
- mention 1 of the 7 albums in game (incl cards and collections from that album) and no other albums, and declare which of 3 mini-challenges from that album you are doing
- canât choose a mini-challenge that has already been done for challenge credit, unless all of them have been done for challenge credit
Example card coming at 8 pm my time; I'll let you guys choose your mini-challenges first.
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What do I know about love?
How can I recreate what I never had?
All I know is that I must keep you thriving.
If nutrients are what you lack,
I will water you with every drop of blood, I have.
(Ryunosuke Akutagawa's mini-challenge is Crime, a history mini-challenge)
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Joaquim Machado de Assis was a Brazilian, recognized as the greatest in the history of Brazilian literature, being known for his activity in poetry, chronicles, romance, journalism and even minister of agriculture (for some reason). He's also a notable commentator on important events of Brazil at the time, such as the emancipation and republic proclamation. He is aswell considered the first and major figure of the Realism movement in Brazil The professor Harold Bloom regards Machado as the greatest black writer of history, even though most of the images you can find of him are in "black and white", or other types of tones that make him feel as a white man. This guy is basically the proof that white-washing is real.
fluid juniper
fluid juniper
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Example card: René Goscinny
with the Superhero mini-challenge
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Day 149: Tremendous Trees
A tree is (in the broadest sense) any plant that lives for more than 2 years, and has a tall stem that supports its leaves. They also usually branch out at the top and bottom to monopolize air and ground space for themselves. This shape is so iconic that any diagram with no loops is also called a tree.
The card should:
- affect or mention at least two cards in game that mention another card
- no card can be mentioned by more than one relation
- cards affected or mentioned by this card are ârelationsâ of this card, as are cards mentioned by one of this cardâs relations, and also the card itself
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Example card: 100 gecs tree
This card's relations that give it other relations are:
Camphor Tree (Kodama, Shimenawa)
Cashew Nut Tree (Capuchin, Stone Tools)
Chene Chapelle (Thunderstorms)
Tree of Heaven (Devil's Tree)
All of the bracketed cards are either dead ends or Devil's Tree which only links back to Tree of Heaven.
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| |Hyperion (Tree) is a giant sequoia, being the tallest tree in the world,
| | standing at 115 meters tall. It's also estimated to have around 600 and 800
| | years of age. Its location is a somewhat secret though, due to the damage
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Spam
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Day 150: Turbulent Tudors
In the aftermath of the War of the Roses between team Red (Lancaster) and team White (York), Henry VII claimed victory for team Red. Only long after his reign would the name "Tudor" be commonly attached to him and his children.
Henry VII had a rather stable reign, and Henry VIII's also started out that way, but both of them were distressed by not having enough (male) children. After Henry VIII broke with the Catholic Church, Catholicism vs Protestantism became a political issue in England that would plague the rest of the Tudor dynasty and beyond. This English flavor of Christianity takes aspects from both Protestantism (e.g. not always agreeing with the Pope) and Catholicism (e.g. its governing structure), so it is often called a "middle way" between the two.
The card should:
- whichever one of these two points the previous challenge-credit Turbulent Tudors card in this thread satisfies, do the other one and don't do the same one:
- for each effect, there must be a legendary/mythic card in game whose effect has the same specific targets and value
- for each effect, there must be two cards of the same rarity as this card in game whose effects have the same specific targets, one has a smaller value and the other has more
Example card: Margaret Tudor
This satisfies the first subchallenge by copying James VI & I. This doesn't satisfy the second subchallenge because there are no Epics in game specifically targeting History and Life on Land.
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Day 142: Agnus Dei
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Day 150: Mary I
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Oh you sick-
I can't even say late anymore, woe is me
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Day 151: Under the Microscope
A microscope is a device to examine small objects (often living ones) or fine textures. The simplest commonly used microscopes are compound microscopes which consists of multiple lenses stacked together. Electron microscopes can surpass the resolution limits of common compound microscopes, but can only produce greyscale images.
The card should:
- have 1 or less base energy and/or 9 or less base power
- stack two or more iterative clauses (so that they multiply together)
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Example card: Spider Mite
late anvil
clear fable
mini catsup, doesn't meet any of the challenges
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Day 152: Unruly Rulers
Monarchs (at least, those interesting enough to make it into this collection) concentrate a lot of the decision-making power of a country onto one person, which can also allow for the concentration of a lot of material wealth. It can be a pretty sweet gig. Most monarchs are pretty concerned with making sure that power and wealth gets inherited by their next of kin when they're no longer monarchs. In most monarchies, this is pretty easy to ensure, as long as you have a male child who survives to inherit the crown (not always trivial, as Henry VIII can attest).
The card should:
- mention a card of yours in this thread in a collection alphabetically after Unruly Rulers that satisfies that collectionâs challenge
- that card must be the same rarity as this card and have 50 or more base power
Example card: Labotsibeni Mdluli
#1421882914404040936 message
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Chui A-Poo, 15 Eunomia, and Gordonia
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Edward VI was the heir of Henry VIII. He died, took the L, become a bozo, and let his sisters take the throne, first Mary I and then Elizabeth I.
If you had a look through a microscope, you probably saw a Paramecium (or not, they are not THAT easy to find) as they are common protista to study in laboratories. Do i like them? meh, they are cute, but they are found on microscopes and i don't like microscopes, they are hard to use and i got a bad grade on that subject (well not yet but i don't really feel much confidence)
fluid juniper
Maybe you don't know about Floaty, but I reworked Transpadano to make this card...checkmate with tomato
dim crescent
Vratislaus I was the Duke of Bohemia between 915 and 921. He is credited with the establishment of St. George's Basilica at Prague Castle and also known for being the father of Wenceslaus I.
Oh boy, i sure hope Wonders of Construction day doesn't require cards with less than 50 power or non-rares :)
dawn elk
Day 150: Mary I
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Day 151: Vampirovibrio chlorellavorus
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Day 152: Eumenes II
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Day 153: Venomous Creatures
Despite the name, not all creatures in this collection are venomous, but all are toxic. A creature is called venomous if it injects its toxin, toxungenous if it actively applies the toxin but not by injecting (e.g. by spraying), and/or poisonous if the toxin can take effect without the creature doing anything (e.g. by being eaten).
Whichever way they're applied, biotoxins can cause damage to specific kinds of cells such as neurons, muscle cells or blood cells, or simply target cells in general. They are potent enough defenses that many toxic creatures can afford to forgo stealth and rely on the reputation of their toxins by adopting a unique ("aposematic") coloration.
The card should:
- modify the colors of the template while keeping the texture of the correct album (which is Life on Land if you are staying within this collection)
- be a different pattern from all previous challenge-credit Venomous Creatures in thread
- have a harmful effect
- each harmed target should be harmed by at least 2 different keywords
Example card: Common Krait
The template was darkened slightly, with the exception of the hollow triangles which had their saturation increased.
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Xibalbanus Tulumensis
dawn elk
Day 153: Indonesian Pit Viper
late anvil
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2EB153: Dalek Nationi
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The Striped Eel Catfish is a catfish species native to the Indo-Pacific. As with other members of the genus, they possesses highly venomous spines that can cause mild to severe symptoms in humans.
(Does this counts as changing the texture of the album? i hope not.)
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Day 154: Vicious Vikings
Vikings are a kind of Norse pirate active in the Middle Ages who were known for their combat prowess on land (particularly in the British Isles). They are just as capable of sailing, fighting, and being romanticized in the modern day as any other pirates. Speaking of romance, historians believe that finding women to forcibly romance may have been a top factor in motivating Viking raids, alongside the usual culprits of fortune/glory/politics.
The card should:
- mention at least one thing from each of the following categories:
- a Female tag or any card depicting any female human(oid)
- Battle!, Machines of War, Weapons of Choice, or a card from one of those collections
- Raging Rivers, Riding the Waves!, Exciting Exploration, Plundering Pirates, or a card from one of those collections
Example card: Jomsvikings
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Sweyn Forkbeard had a fork in his beard...no wait, that can't be true...
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Day 155: Volcanoes
Volcanoes are holes from which lava and gases (generally very hot) can escape. Generally, the less often that happens, the more explosive it is when it does. This will usually devastate the local area, and the biggest eruptions leave enough sulfuric acid to create a sort of reverse greenhouse effect that can have global consequences.
The card should:
- have an effect that can activate at least 2 times, but not in 2 consecutive turns even with Sudden Death; it should not have an explicitly time-based condition/iteration
Example card: Bowie Seamount
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ParanĂĄ and Etendeka Traps are a set of traps found in Brazil and West Africa. There is a known eruption around 132 MAA that could be the largest of all time, depending if the deposits of ash are ever found.
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Day 156: Walking the World
When I noticed this collection's name no longer references Angela Maxwell, I wondered if it was shedding its association so that it could spread its design space beyond that within Maxwell's reach. I wonder how Maxwell is doing. No Facebook/Instagram updates in a year? Maybe she did actually delete all her social media as promised on the website...
Since nothing else about the cards changed, it seems that they were just trying to save space on the cards, which are designed very repetitively: they all require some form of losing, aid Walking the World cards, and their triggers correspond to their rarities. To expand the design space, we will only use some of those things.
Anyway, we've been on a bit of a "walk" of our own, haven't we? And it's about to come to an end too!
The card should:
- have between 5 and 10 base power per base energy (inclusive)
- aid Walking the World
Example card: Swimming the Caspian Sea
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Yes i'm Walking Brazil (not rn)
Yes this is a repost
No i'm not taking another picture
fluid juniper
silent quartz
2EB156: Walking Georgia
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Day 157: Watching the Skies
Humanity has a long history of seeking to understand space. Many strange ancient objects and structures are thought to be attempts to observe, record and align with celestial objects. With the power of modern technology (not to be confused with Space Technology), we can see and interpret all kinds of light and not just visible light, allowing us to detect astronomical objects our ancestors couldn't have dreamed of.
The card should:
- have one visible trigger, and one or more secret effects
- the secret effects should be presented in text as a spoiler, rather than on the card
- no two effects can share a trigger, ability (keyword), target (unspecific) or duration (unspecific)
Example card: Aryabhata
|| If it's Turn 3 or later and you played a Mega Math card in the left slot every turn this game, all non-Mega Math cards, wherever they are, lose -10 for 5 turns.||
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2EB157: Sundial
|| If you have played Mechanical Clock and/or Tower of the Winds this game, give this card +100 this turn.||
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Helioscope
|| For every Exploring The Star cards in your hand, you gain +5 this round.||
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|| If your deck contains 4 or more **Documented **cards, you gain +4 the next turn.||
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|| 
If your deck has Personal Computer, gain +1 permanently for every Torquetum or Personal Computer in your deck.||
dawn elk
Day 155: HualÄlai
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Day 157: Mount Graham International Observatory
|| If played next to** USS Arizona**, gain +20 for 2 turns.||
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revision
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Day 158: Weapons of Choice
Tool use is often considered a key indicator of intelligence, since tools enable humans to perform tasks beyond what is possible with just the body. Harming other people more efficiently is one such thing, enabled by tools called weapons. This is one of the greatest drivers of innovation and the economy, as the demand for bloodshed never really goes away. These days, violence is accomplished more often through vehicles, but the need for the adaptability of infantry (armed with traditional weaponry) still exists.
The card should:
- donât mention the most recent challenge-credit card in thread posted by someone else
- have an inherent advantage if your opponent activated any or all of the effects of that card. click spoiler for more details about how that is defined: ||for each effect it has, your card has an effect that either:||
- ||if their effect has a condition/iteration, your beneficial effect with more total power also has a condition that will always activate if theirs does, or your harmful effect has a condition that will never activate if theirs does||
- ||has more targets or total value if theirs has more. invert this if the two effects target different players and/or if one is beneficial and the other is harmful||
- ||if their effect increases their cardâs power, can reduce their cardâs power by more than its base power (in a way that it couldn't apply to every card of that base power); by the same token, if it increases your cardâs energy, can reduce its own cost by more than its base energy||
Example card: Nguni Shield
Graham has more targets if the opponent's hand has more Watching the Skies card (or a boat), which all contribute to Nguni's iteration.
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<:I_History:835161668073291788> **Day 158: Weapons of Choice**
*Tool use is ofte...
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dawn elk
Day 156: Walking the Bering Strait
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The Winchester 22 was a gun created around the 60's. It also appears in the song mentioned in the ability name which is popular for being incredibly long and well-written. They even made a movie based just on that song!
dawn elk
Day 158: M1 Garand
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Day 159: Weird World
This collection is too weird for me to explain in detail. Broadly it seems to consist of:
- phenomena that aren't conclusively explained
- places with superstition behind them or are otherwise notable for reasons other than being impressively built
- historical instances of people going crazy
The card should:
- have an effect that requires something from 10 or more cards in a deck, such that those 10+ slots can all be filled by cards in game with secret abilities. no slot should be able to be filled by 10 or more cards with secret abilities
late anvil
no example card?
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Example card: Hollinwell Incident
Recently a feature was added where you can check whether a card has a secret ability in game, so you can verify e.g. there are exactly 9 non-Mythic secret ability cards with 25 or less Base Power.
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|| If your deck has at least 6 Rare and 4 Epic History cards with secret abilities, give your Excellent Elements cards in hand +32 this turn.||
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Day 160: West African Folklore
Apparently West African cultures are similar enough to be grouped into one category. But I don't really know anything about West Africa besides that it has an outsize influence on modern American culture due to the effects of the transatlantic slave trade.
Like in Native American folklore, the local trickster god seems to feature prominently in many folktales. So I guess let's make some tricksy abilities?
The card should:
- have an effect that depends on the position of other cards in play
Example card: Obatala
late anvil
technically central africa
dawn elk
Day 159: LaLaurie Mansion
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Woodlark Cuscus, Globster, Grape-Kun, and Crocodile Shark
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Day 160: Akampeshimpeshi
Normally I don't do explanations of my cards, but these guys are so funny I have to share it. Akampeshimpeshi are goats with the lower half of a crocodile lowered down from the sky by cobwebs, which are lightning according to the stories of the Lamba people. Akampeshimpeshi and therefore lightning only falls when a hole is poked in the weir of a giant lake of water in the sky by an irresponsible guard (usually children who are playing around).
||If played next to a Literal Spider card, this card gains +30 permanently.||
late anvil
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2EB159: Schuylkill Notes
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now this is easier to powercreep (i hope)
Zangbetos are traditional guardians who act like an unofficial police force, protecting the community from thieves and witches. I remember seeing people saying that they were actual spirits with no human person inside the clothing and a guy demystifying that, but it's probably more about the folklore than the actual embodiment of a spirit under the vestment.
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Puckle Gun
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Opening Ceremony
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Day 161: Wonders of Construction
What separates one of these from a Super Structure? By and large they are older than Super Structures, but the Super Structure Statue of Liberty is older than the Wonder of Construction Christ the Redeemer (also a statue). So perhaps "vibes" play into the classification as well.
However exactly you define it, these buildings tend to be impressive for their time, and many of them have religious significance.
The card should:
- not mention numbers smaller than 10 except possibly base energy and card names
- mention a number above 9 that isnât a power value
- only affect history cards
- interact with exactly one regional collection (American Folklore, Ancient Egypt, Ancient Greece, Chinese Folklore, Feudal Japan, Japanese Folklore, Legends of the Old West, The Roman Empire, Turbulent Tudors, Vicious Vikings, West African Folklore)
Example card: Ulm Minster
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<:I_History:835161668073291788> **Day 161: Wonders of Construction**
*What separ...
Christ the Redeemer eh?
2EB161: Nanchan Temple
late anvil
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The Prague Castle is a castle built in the 9th century, having long served as the seat of power for kings of Bohemia, Holy Roman emperors, and presidents of Czechoslovakia. According to the Guinness Book of Records, Prague Castle is the largest ancient castle in the world.
dim crescent
Ok this has to make the cut now
hot matrix
Snake Temple and Zin Kibaru (I forgot to send the latter yesterday)
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Fallen Astronaut Ingredient:
43x Memory
43x Lunar Module Eagle
2x Graveyard Orbit
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Day 162: World of Words
This is the vaguest collection in the game. Statistical surveys show that over 99% of CUE card topics are composed at least partly of words. Conversely, all words can be assigned meaning by anyone; those popular enough to transcend the friend group of the person who coined the word are termed "neologisms". Actually why don't we all coin some words right now?
The card should:
- coin a new word (or new meaning of an existing word) and use it in your effect
- define it in text and come up with a reasonable etymology
Example card: Ablaut Reduplication
licklock: If two ordered lists share an element, that element is in licklock if it is in the same place in the order of both lists. Formed by ablaut reduplication of lock (possibly influenced by "lockstep").
|| Your cards in hand whose names use ablaut reduplication (e.g. Flip-Flops, King Kong, Wig-Wag) gain +40 this turn.||
dawn elk
Day 162: Eggcorn
"Cow pie" in this case being a mishearing of the word "copy" that holds the same meaning
fluid juniper
Simpcards and Flancards are playing cards from the longest-running American TV show.
(They're actually Cue cards, but with a different name.)
late anvil
Day 162: Eggcorn
"Cow pie" in this case being a mishearing of the word "copy" th...
boneapple tea
hot matrix
Algospeak
Lonewolf = Only, as in "I am the Lonewolf alpha male in the world."
Whevedex = Wherever they are, as in "Whevedex, I hope they're okay.
Rizzmogs = Gains, as in "I am Rizzmoggin right now!"
Eternagma = Permanently, as in "This is stuck there for Eternagma."
Also tried fixing snake temple
silent quartz
2EB162 - Metal Umlaut
RÀdicÀl - Legendary
ĂWĂSĂMĂ - Metal (in this case referring to a tag for a specific collection, Alluring Albums)
late anvil
literscriptions are letters from another script that are used in another language (usually different script) without its original meaning or use
late anvil
this took a while
dim crescent
Schadenfreude is a German word that defines the feeling of joy in seeing the disgrace of other people.
Abombalhado would be a portmanteau of the portuguese words "Abobalhado" (someone who is a fool, silly or confused) and "Bomba" (a Bomb). It would basically refer to someone who is screwed. Or in CUE terms, "scored less than".
silent quartz
**Schadenfreude** is a German word that defines the feeling of joy in seeing the...
@clear fable
clear fable
You surprise your opponent by going from trailing by 100 or more to winning by 100 or more after a single turn.
|| Your IO card in hand gains +30 this turn||
late anvil
not overdoing it
silent quartz
I'm closing this thread
dawn elk
I'm closing this thread <:t_doge:835141266392088658>
But then how could you necroply here in a year?
shrewd creek
Day 163
The end of OCFESC2 is here! Thanks to everyone who participated, even if only briefly; I for one enjoyed reading everyone's card ideas, and seeing how everyone interacted with the various restrictions. Especially @dawn elk and @dim crescent who completed all 162 challenges! And if you're reading this and didn't participate... I hope you'll consider joining the next event of this nature?
There is no raffle at the end (as promised in the beginning) because popular opinion seems to be that participants were not in it for prizes but rather for the love of card-making.
If you didn't finish all the challenges but still want to continue, I guess the thread will still be here (unless someone actually closes it lol). Maybe enlist a friend to help with the Fancy Fashions challenge if you missed it.
dawn elk
<:I_Art:835161668664426567> <:I_Ocean:835161668068966402> <:I_Space:835161668333...
Thank YOU for putting so much time and effort into this and being incredibly consistent and helpful 
silent quartz
** Day 163: Picturesque Photography**
The card should:
- Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat. Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur. Excepteur sint occaecat cupidatat non proident, sunt in culpa qui officia deserunt mollit anim id est laborum.
fluid juniper
<:I_Art:835161668664426567> <:I_Ocean:835161668068966402> <:I_Space:835161668333...
Thanks floaty
brisk nacelle
<:I_Art:835161668664426567> <:I_Ocean:835161668068966402> <:I_Space:835161668333...
Me no like i fix
Every single person who participated can grab 1 copy of each gs card an enchantment and a nain rouge from me for free.
Ign:. thesweepers
Please ping me when you send a trade/fr or im liable to not see itđ«Ą
late anvil
Me no like i fix
Every single person who participated can grab 1 copy of each gs...
he has a google sheet, idk where he linked it though but it has the participants
brisk nacelle
he has a google sheet, idk where he linked it though but it has the participants
Day 6 was the most recent i could find had 23 people but stopped around life on land so idk of theres newer folks who arent on it
arctic glacier
he has a google sheet, idk where he linked it though but it has the participants
go to links of this thread, press the first one
brisk nacelle
@dawn elk thats not free nor is that all 8 cards
arctic glacier
oh it stopped at lol specials
brisk nacelle
go to links of this thread, press the first one
Nope you got me an updated one 25 participants and it goes to walking the world
late anvil
oh it stopped at lol specials
brisk nacelle
Me no like i fix
Every single person who participated can grab 1 copy of each gs...
If you are one of the 25 participants on the spreadsheet found here you can send for your prizes
dawn elk
<@1140387894859673735> thats not free nor is that all 8 cards<:boop:105480778995...
Are you sure you need to give me those cards tho
Why not just do a fair trade 
brisk nacelle
Are you sure you need to give me those cards tho
Why not just do a fair trade <...
Because then it wouldnt be a giveaway silly
itâs a giveaway for one of my favorite events in the cue community that honestly doesnt get enough love
dawn elk
Because then it wouldnt be a giveaway silly<:kekw:936323229985931346> itâs a giv...
But why should I underpay one of my favorite people in the cue community
And ruin those nice numbers
brisk nacelle
But why should I underpay one of my favorite people in the cue community
And ru...
Because that is how gib away work
dawn elk
Fine 
brisk nacelle
Fine <:sadge:938792921958846465>
Yay ty capybara
dim crescent
Nah i ain't getting it, here i only work for passion
shrewd creek
Me no like i fix
Every single person who participated can grab 1 copy of each gs...
ah nice thanks
silent quartz
Late for 2 hours @shrewd creek
late anvil
<@1140387894859673735> thats not free nor is that all 8 cards<:boop:105480778995...
so do i send the trade?
brisk nacelle
so do i send the trade?
Yep should all be unprotected
brisk nacelle
Nah i ain't getting it, here i only work for passion
Just because you have a different name doesnt mean i dont know you i will send the cards myself if i have to
late anvil
Yep should all be unprotected <:CUEChanHeart:852870330804600893>
thanks man
brisk nacelle
thanks man
Thats not free or all 8 cards i know floaty said that octrta was for the fun and not the cards at the end but surely giving out free stuff aint this hard
late anvil
Thats not free or all 8 cards i know floaty said that octrta was for the fun and...
huh?
silent quartz
Late for 2 hours <@363101978395541514>
brisk nacelle
huh?
Each gs card ench and nain its right here i just wanna support octrta man its probably the coolest cue event and is super under appreciated and under represented
late anvil
Each gs card ench and nain its right here<:sadge:938792921958846465> i just wann...
ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh i thought you meant 1 enhancement and nain rouge
so i accept?
brisk nacelle
so i accept?
Yep
hot matrix
gs?
silent quartz
@shrewd creek late
dim crescent
leite
dim crescent
DIVORCE Your WIFE ABANDON Your KIDS THEN LEARN ARABIC!
Can't believe i actually found this in the wild
Also ghost ping ooo
