My Attempt on 26 Custom Cards! *UNOFFICIAL SET*
Feb 25, 2016 12:43:18 GMT -6
wardemonx327, Memnarch, and 2 more like this
Post by NoSorumbo on Feb 25, 2016 12:43:18 GMT -6
Let me preface this by saying that not all of these units, specifically Garruk, Sarkhan, Sorin, Venser and a few others were designed completely on my own (Credit to techtoaster). Rather, I took the ideas that were thought up by a few other active users and I changed them a bit to fit how I saw the unit playing. Nonetheless, thank you wardemonx327, pierce and techtoaster for your custom cards and templates for inspiration. techtoaster , Your Garruk was amazing by design!!!! I loved it so much so much but I changed one small part for my own purposes.
Background:
Now, a bit of background on this UNOFFICIAL SET made just for fun: I am an old school magic fan who has a addiction to Dominaria, the Fall of the Thran and their clockwork artifacts, Yawgmoth and the Phyrexians. As such, I wanted to try to focus on older cards (and a few new ones...) I might have changed the names of the cards on the Area cards, but each Arena card is related to some sort of a historic Magic Card. The relationship table is below for cards who's names don't match the source cards:
Arena Card Name - Source Card
:
Thran Beast of Burden - Beast of Burden
Thran Emblazoned Golum - Emblazoned Golem
Thran Guardian - Thran Golem
Thran Henge Guardian - Henge Guardian
Thran Opal Angel - Opal Creatures in General from Urza Sagas
:
Shatterskull Minotaur - Minotaur of Shatterskull Pass
Balancing:
As for balancing these cards, I used the attached spreadsheet in order to give them all a equal point value based system of attributing cost to the unit, this way I wasn't tied to a 21 point planeswalker system. Keep in mind that my spreadsheet does require some level of subjectivity in order to make it fair, but I focused my subjective point system to favor healing, defense and general persistance on the battlefield as a highly valuable ability, and everything else was subsequently less important
Regardless, let me know what you think! I spent a long time doing this and they are ready to print, but I would love input before I go through the process of printing and laminating these customs!
Thanks!Card Converter - Template Edited 02.04.2016.xlsx (640.58 KB)
Background:
Now, a bit of background on this UNOFFICIAL SET made just for fun: I am an old school magic fan who has a addiction to Dominaria, the Fall of the Thran and their clockwork artifacts, Yawgmoth and the Phyrexians. As such, I wanted to try to focus on older cards (and a few new ones...) I might have changed the names of the cards on the Area cards, but each Arena card is related to some sort of a historic Magic Card. The relationship table is below for cards who's names don't match the source cards:
Arena Card Name - Source Card
:
Thran Beast of Burden - Beast of Burden
Thran Emblazoned Golum - Emblazoned Golem
Thran Guardian - Thran Golem
Thran Henge Guardian - Henge Guardian
Thran Opal Angel - Opal Creatures in General from Urza Sagas
:
Shatterskull Minotaur - Minotaur of Shatterskull Pass
Balancing:
As for balancing these cards, I used the attached spreadsheet in order to give them all a equal point value based system of attributing cost to the unit, this way I wasn't tied to a 21 point planeswalker system. Keep in mind that my spreadsheet does require some level of subjectivity in order to make it fair, but I focused my subjective point system to favor healing, defense and general persistance on the battlefield as a highly valuable ability, and everything else was subsequently less important
Regardless, let me know what you think! I spent a long time doing this and they are ready to print, but I would love input before I go through the process of printing and laminating these customs!
Thanks!Card Converter - Template Edited 02.04.2016.xlsx (640.58 KB)