Strike The Earth

Strike The Earth by Vitenka

108 cards in Multiverse

52 commons, 26 uncommons,
12 rares, 5 mythics, 10 basics, 3 tokens

19 white, 16 blue, 17 black, 16 red, 17 green,
1 multicolour, 2 hybrid, 10 artifact, 10 land

561 comments total

Dwarf Fortress. Full set!

Strike The Earth: Cardlist | Visual spoiler | Export | Booster | Comments | Search | Recent activity
Mechanics | Skeleton | White Decklist

Based upon upon land being a part of the battlefield.

The elves like to keep thins relatively static, working to a rhythm. Red likes to burn things for immediate advantage, and risks diving too deep. Black likes it when you dive too deep, and can really make life a misery when you do - but can only harass a little bit until then.

Blue tends to sneak in the back way when you're not looking. White is city-building dwarves.

The aim of the set is to promote a ground-stall somewhat; leading someone to do something drastic and kick off the horrible disaster. The first part of that works... the second bit? Not so much.

Cardset comments (26) | Add a comment on this cardset

The set creator would like to draw your attention to these comments:

On Dwarven Beast Tamer (reply):

If I do expand the set further, I should consider making a cycle of "Cards your opponent watches like a hawk, but out of the corner of their eye so as to not tip you off"

I wonder why official design never explored this as an answer to the whole "I forgot about that, ugh." problem?

On Strike The Earth (reply):

So ... all done barring the artwork.

Who wants to try and make a boat-murdered theme deck?

On Limestone Deposit (reply):

Hmmm, not sure I can fix an overly weak design by adding more weak cards.

And not sure I can trust myself to not accidentally make the lands too good.

Right - top down time.

Craft. Evoking the sense of building stuff into other stuff as a thing that dwarves DO. In DF crafting is based mostly around stuff you dig up whilst making rooms. (Some stuff from killing things) Some dwarves and it improves the quality of things you can make anyway and makes dwarves happier.

Mechanically - it needs to be a cycle of cheap support commons, and in keeping with the rest of the set wants to aim at about 4th pick in every other set desirability wise.

Crafting is SO flavourful it deserves a keyword - but at this point that keyword only lives on these 5 cards so it doesn't need to be a mechanical one.

It also needs to support the "Put your lands into the graveyard", or some other set of cards needs to do so, because right now the hate triggers don't happen enough.

Yeah, ok, writing it all out like that it's pretty clear I'm trying to hang too much on a single mechanic - I need to split it up, and the 'lands into your graveyard' part isn't a bad plan.

On Strike The Earth (reply):

Since there'll certainly need to be tweaks made: Here's a note from QQs use of Stifle to kill fetchlands. Blue doesn't get to destroy your lands directly - but it does get to turn them into islands and trick you into killing them yourself.

Note: The skeleton view is the best view for the whole set. Unaddressed comments is the best view for what is being worked on.

On Cinnabar Strike (reply):

I choose this member of the cycle to highlight it exists.

On Demon of Armok (reply):

The only flying creature in the set. (Though blue gets a mass-jump)

On Scary Mask (reply):

I randomly pick this one to highlight the cycle. They interact with the minerals. Slightly fiddly way to do it, but should still be ok (though clunkily worded) outside of the set.

Recently active cards: (all recent activity)

 C 
Creature – Dwarf Warrior
{t}: Target creature with power 2 or less is unblockable this turn.
1/1
1 comment
2011-10-17 09:02:41 by Vitenka
 U 
Creature – Dwarf
{1}{g},{t}: Put a 1/1 green cat creature token into play under your control.
Whenever a cat dies, either tap target untapped creature or each opponent may tap a creature of their choosing.
1/1
7 comments
last 2023-12-06 13:19:28 by SecretInfiltrator
 U 
Aura – Enchant Creature
Enchant target creature.
Enchanted creature has Haste.
Sacrifice a land: Return Light a Fire Under It to its owner's hand.
 R 
Artifact
{u}{u}, or sacrfice an island, sacrifice Countershield: Counter Target Spell
Watch this, it's a classic...
8 comments
last 2012-05-28 05:59:19 by Vitenka
 M 
Creature – Dwarf Acolyte
Vigilance, First-Strike, Trample, Lifelink.
When Smo, Akroma's Acolyte enters the battlefield choose a colour; Smo has protection from that colour.
1/1
4 comments
last 2011-10-28 16:24:41 by Vitenka

Recent comments: (all recent activity)
On Strike The Earth:

yeahno; I'm not crediting the keyboard I use either.

On Strike The Earth:

Yeah, add the base model reference (usually stable diffusion checkpoint), for example "NeverEnding Dream (NED)". I find something like "ai-image" wayyy too generic considering there are hundreds upon hundreds of models out there. Leaving the artist credit blank implies you don't know where they are from or just forgot to put it there.

On Strike The Earth:

And it is? Comment upon adding the image is always "aimage".

On Strike The Earth:

In other communities, they'd credit the model to indicate it was AI-generated

On Strike The Earth:

What little art there is was generated by me, using a local stable diffusion install. Credit therefore is impossible to assign.

On Strike The Earth:

Where are the artist credits on the cards in this set? O_o

On Congress of Bonobos:

­Ragavan, Nimble Pilferer is quite famously a monkey

On Lavaball Evoker:

It was only a little bit of wrongly-templated wording :)

On Dwarven Beast Tamer:

> "I wonder why official design never explored this as an answer to the whole "I forgot about that, ugh." problem?"

Because (a) the wording on that card wouldn't do what you envision anyway; and (b) the effect of something that would work as you seem to envision would just lead to people actively wanting you to miss your triggers rather than help you remember your triggers to maintain a valid game state.

And in the end you already get punished for missing a beneficial trigger anyway (not getting the benefit) without a designer adding insult to injury.

Usually if you e. g. pass priority and go to the next step/phase missing a trigger that mistake can be resolved by going back and handling the trigger (both players looking out for that), but when you turn maintaining game state into a competition your opponent is encouraged to nit-pick rules and words (famous examples "go to combat" vs. "go to attack").

On Lavaball Evoker:

Is it intentional that removing the target makes the ability fizzle even if the controller wants the board wipe?

(All recent activity)
See other cardsets