Multiverse Design Challenge: Cardlist | Visual spoiler | Export | Booster | Comments | Search | Recent activity
All challenges | Upcoming Challenges | Make a new design challenge! | All challenges (text)

CardName: Challenge # 106b // Challenge # 106b Cost: Type: Challenge // Challenge Pow/Tgh: / // / Rules Text: Create a hybrid/hybrid split card such that the frame colours meet in the middle. // So a left side of {W/U} or {G/U} goes with a right side of {U/B} or {U/R}, etc. Flavour Text: Set/Rarity: Multiverse Design Challenge None

Challenge # 106b
 
Challenge
Create a hybrid/hybrid split card such that the frame colours meet in the middle.
Challenge # 106b
 
Challenge
So a left side of {w/u} or {g/u} goes with a right side of {u/b} or {u/r}, etc.
Created on 11 Jul 2014 by Alex

History: [-]

2014-07-11 10:05:41: Alex created and commented on the card Challenge # 106b // Challenge # 106b

A variation on Challenge # 106.

Some of the split entries to that also fit the terms of this challenge, such as Fair // Square and Heel // Tow. But the entries to this challenge certainly don't have to be modal ("Choose one"). Just finding a pair of hybrid effects that are a good fit to the words in an "X and Y" idiom is challenging enough!

Jack said over on Fair // Square that "there actually isn't enough design space there, I think we've mined a lot of it out already... :)" I challenge you to prove him wrong :)

I finally finished my cycle of allied-hybrid-pair split cards, and I thought before I posted them other people might like to have a go.

Be warned: creating a whole cycle of hybrid split cards is really, really hard. It's a project I've been off-and-on working on for months and only just finished (prompted by Challenge # 106). But making one or two ought to be a challenging-but-doable design challenge.

If you like, to save you the effort of looking for lists of "X and Y" names, you can take a look here: http://toothycat.net/wiki/wiki.pl?MagicTheGathering/SplitCardNames
It's up to you whether you let the ones that clash with existing cards put you off using those or not. And of course that list is of course very far from exhaustive, so certainly do feel free to come up with your own.

As another example, I created Will // Grace.

Oh, cool, a list of example split card names is really useful, I wondered about automating finding them before but never tried it.

So these cards can be hybrid split cards, but DON'T need to have two modes and DON'T need to have fuse? :) That's slightly less contorted than what we were trying before :)

Indeed, yes. This adds some restrictions to Challenge # 106 but removes others. A hybrid split card where the middle colours line up and that doesn't have any "choose one" is an entry for this. A hybrid card with 3+ modes total (with or without fuse) is an entry for Challenge # 106. A hybrid split card where the middle colours line up and where it does have "choose one" or fuse is an entry for both :)

Wow, it is really hard getting the colour combinations right.

So, the allied cycle is WU UB BR RG GW, with each card consisting of two consecutive hybrid combinations, IN THAT ORDER.

And likewise, the enemy cycle is WB BG GU UR RW.

So for this challenge you could technically mix and match allied and enemy, like "WU // UR", but I don't know if you could get a whole cycle like that? And if you don't, the colour pairs are fixed, you need exactly a name for a card with WU on the left and UB on the right, colour-gradated so U in the middle, and the same for the other nine?

Awesome! Very nice work!

And as I suspected/hoped, not a single card name overlap with my yet-to-be-posted cycle. Yay :) (No mechanical overlap either, though that's not so surprising; there is a fair number of hybrid effects after all.)

Thank you! I'm very excited to see your cycle, though it makes sense to give people a chance to experiment first.

I'm pleased there's no overlap! I expected MOST to be quite different, but I thought there was a good chance of overlap somewhere, either by picking an especially nice name, or in one of the colour pairs where there's an especially useful mechanical overlap and not much else. I'm pleasantly surprised it worked out.

And the enemy-coloured cycle: Sickness // Health Bait // Switch Protect // Serve Draw // Quarter Command // Conquer

Do we have any duplicates this time around? :) Maybe even the same name for a different colour-pair, given how some of the names don't have an obvious connection to the colour other than by that particular card.

Yep, this time you had a name overlap with one of mine: though amusingly your Bait // Switch was enemy-coloured while mine was ally-coloured :)
Here's my cycle that inspired the challenge: Bait // Switch Up // Coming Rinse // Repeat Roast // Ground Hunger // Poverty

I tried with Feast // Famine.

Ugh, I rad a rough time with this challenge. Here's my attempt though Shame // Ridicule

Ooh! A random English Language StackExchange post leads me to a really useful Wikipedia resource for split card designers: a big ol' list of "Binomials" / "Freezes" / "Siamese twins" (what we would know as "potential split card names" :D)

Add your comments:


(formatting help)
Enter mana symbols like this: {2}{U}{U/R}{PR}, {T} becomes {2}{u}{u/r}{pr}, {t}
You can use Markdown such as _italic_, **bold**, ## headings ##
Link to [[[Official Magic card]]] or (((Card in Multiverse)))
Include [[image of official card]] or ((image or mockup of card in Multiverse))
Make hyperlinks like this: [text to show](destination url)
What is this card's power? Merfolk of the Pearl Trident
(Signed-in users don't get captchas and can edit their comments)