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"Epic" Cards; Another "dumbarse idea of the day"
Topic Started: Jun 28 2013, 03:21 PM (1,162 Views)
DarkGricer
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No this thread is not here to talk about "Epic" attributed cards. It's just that I can't find a better name for it yet. Anyway, the idea is, some cards are awesome. Examples would be Amphicoelias, Tyrannosaurus and V.a. But sometimes, I feel like looking at the card itself doesn't give you enough of an idea of how awesome it is. So, I came up with an idea.

Epic cards.

I'll explain what I mean by that in just a second, but for now, look at this card:


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Pretty powerful, yes. But it doesn't really look impressive. Now, to my idea.

Epic cards wouldn't look the same way a normal card looks. They would have a different, more epic looking picture (Duh) and the picture would cover the entire card.

Some of you may be like "Well, that's basically the exact same idea as the "Rare Pokemon EX" cards." Well, I'm not done yet.

The epic cards would be slightly more powerful versions of their normal counterpart. They'd have more HP (Maybe 20% extra HP, rounded to the nearest tenth?), their abilities would be slightly more powerful (If the ability works with numbers, that is.) and they'd deal more damage (Again, 20% rounded to the nearest tenth is what I suppose.). Here's an example, again, using the Pliosaurus card.


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Oh, and if won in battle, whoever won it would receive a normal copy of the card instead of the Epic card, which brings me to my next point.

How do you aquire Epic cards? Of course, the person who made them has a whole bunch of them (Infinite, to be more specific.), so they won't have a problem getting them, but what about everyone else? Well, I imagine they'd be for sale in the shop of the person who made them, though they would be expensive, of course.



So, let me know what you think of this idea.
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While I like the idea, if the entire card is the picture... you can't really see the creature's typing. With Pkmn cards it's acceptable since they have the symbol by the HP, but this doesn't, and it kinda bothers me. Perhaps you could make the text blue... or something?
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Frivolous & unnecessary. I suggested something similar almost at the beginning of the site with Promos & it has never been implemented, for good reason. Why? Why would we take the time to pimp out some cards that are already known for, & explicitely chosen to be pimped out because of, their awesomeness? Even more, why would we do that when instead we could be, oh I don't know, MAKING NEW CARDS?

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@Blitz: Well, the card's type is in the description of the topic it's posted in, so it's probably not a big problem.
@ Clocky: Which is why the description of the topic says "Another "dumbarse idea of the day"".
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Even so, that means you'd have to go to the topic every time you need to use the card, or whatever. It's kinda inconvenient. IMO, it's a necessity to have some kind of markings to verify what type the card is... while some may be obvious of their typing, others... not so much. Take Jakelopterus for example. It's Fire typed. I'm not even going to begin on how much sense that makes.
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BlizHabu,Jun 29 2013
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Take Jakelopterus for example. It's Fire typed. I'm not even going to begin on how much sense that makes.

Bad example. While water may seem like a more obvious choice for it, it does fit the criteria for being a fire attribute, due to being a large predator, but I see what you mean.

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Yeah, I know. But it lives in the sea, and it's weak to Water. It doesn't seem like it'd last very long before going extinct. I would've made it Fire/Water, personally.

But, yeah, it may be a bad example. But I still think it'd be best to label these cards' typing... somehow. Assuming we were to make them.
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Well, firstly, I don't quite think that symbols are a necessity on this site as all the extant cards are color coded by their element:

Fire-Red
Nature-Green
Water-Light Blue
Wind-Blue
Lightning-Yellow
Earth-Brown
Poison-Lime Green
Light-Pale Yellow
Dark-Black
Apocalypse-White
Death-Gray

Also, (though I too would have made it water/fire), you must keep in mind that the only creature from it's time period capable of defeating it is still Dunkelosteus, as (factoring only creatures of it's own time period, the Devonian) its ability defeats all potential threats and otherwise it is capable of surviving any attack directed at it and defeating the aggressor anyway. (And then the Devonian ended and it went extinct)
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Yeah, I think the color coding thing is fine; we don't need symbols. I'm just saying on these "Epic" Cards, specifically, we could use some kind of color coding/symbols, since you can't see their typing, since the pic takes up the whole card.

Also, on an entirely unrelated note, why aren't there any Prehistoric Cards that are Dark, Light, Death or Apocalypse? Have those types not evolved yet? :P
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True. If there were ever to be cards similar to the cards on here then yes, I suppose an element symbol should be made.

.....Good question. Well, there are two Death attribute prehistoric cards (one of which I own and the other I intend to attempt to slay sometime soon) and there are two Apocalypse attribute prehistoric cards, both of which are probably in the top 10 most dangerous prehistoric cards. As for Light and Dark I don't know.
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BlizHabu,Jun 30 2013
06:31 PM
Also, on an entirely unrelated note, why aren't there any Prehistoric Cards that are Dark, Light, Death or Apocalypse? Have those types not evolved yet? :P

There are prehistoric Apocalypse and Death cards, but there are only a handful.

Though if I get accepted as a card maker, the population of prehistoric Death cards will certainly increase, believe me. *Insert evil grin here*

As for Dark and Light, probably because of the fact that they are supposed to be attributes for the more godlike cards.
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@Alt: *Fire-Orange

Keep in mind that all of the elements have a specific range of creatures specified for them, which means that those two don't fit particularly well with Prehistoric cards.
Fire- Large predators, or fire powers
Water- (Semi-)Aquatic
Earth- From deserts, or rely on defense
Wind- Flying, alpine, or some lither predators
Lightning- Electric powers, or rely on speed
Nature- From forests, rely on abilities for either support or protection
Poison- Venomous
Death- Dead, undead, or with powers over death
Dark- Supernatural powers over shadow, malicious
Light- Supernatural powers over light, benevolent
Apocalypse- World-destroying might

Dark & Light are both basically unable to be in the Prehistoric section as a result, as they must either have magical powers, which actual animals didn't, or be explicitely good/evil, which actual animals weren't. Apocalypse is limited to events rather than animals in the Prehistoric section for similar reasons, & the only Death elemental Prehistoric cards, Aachenosaurus & Succinodon, are both special cases because they're life-sized wooden dinosaur marionettes possessed by dark spirits from who knows where.

@DG: No they would not increase. No extinct animal had powers over death or was a zombie.
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Clockwork,Jun 30 2013
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@DG: No they would not increase. No extinct animal had powers over death or was a zombie.

Well, sometimes their names might have some loose connections to Death or something related to it.

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Right, just like Styxosaurus... Wait, it's not Death elemental, is it?
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