ieatfood7's card design contest!

LONG DELAYED GRADING!  It occured to me that these cards don't go together, so I will sometimes list two grades, and the grade for the round is the average

Flavor:9/10 // 5/10 (average 7/10).  I absolutely love the flavor of this unstopable and slow plague.  I think using the last creature becoming infected as the trigger is nice, almost as if that creature is taking care of the rest, but when no one is healthy, they all die...this analogy breaks down when you control the last non-infected creature, but its ok.  I would like to show the randomness of the disease a little more, maybe distribute them randomly, maybe with every person putting a target during their upkeep.  I like it.  I don't like the UG as much though....
You were saved from a score of 4 or 5 simply by the name (which is awesome!)  It just seems very vanilla, and the flavor text doesn't match well....who isn't excited that your creatures all fly now!  Also, +1/+1 is usually a white ability, green usually gets +2/+2 or more.  (this is not always true, but its the general flavor that green does big growths and white does the smaller boosts.)


Creativity/Originality:9/10 // 3/10. =6  The spreading plaugue idea has been done before on a lot of cards, but not like this.  I love it.  The UG though is just a slight variant on {intangible virtue}.  It's simplicity is good, but doesn't have that wow factor (see below) to excuse it's simmilarities and simplicity.



Templateing/Wording:5/10 // 5/10. =5 You got this close, and it was complicated, but there are some needed changes.  the tokens are "1/1 [black] parasite [creature] tokens".  Also, the last clause is unclear to the point of not doing what you want.  "only parasite creatures" means no lands... like{the cheese stands alone}.  You mean "if there are no non-parasite creatures."  Also, there are ways to stop the tokens from entering play....the last line should proabbly just be replaced with sacrificing it when it triggers.  Last, a Changeling ruins this card...you can't put a counter ona changeing since it is a parasite, but it will never trigger since the changeling doesn't have a token.....also, if you cast a second one of these after the first triggers, it will do almost nothing untill all the tokens form the first one are destroyed.  You want it to trigger when all non-parasite creatures have a counter.
The UG enchantment should read "Creature tokens you control get +1/+1 and have flying.
"  Only a minor change, but when the card is simpler, more is expected of its precise language.
Alos, both should have the colorless mana before the colored mana...I didn't count off for that, but be mindful of it.


Balance/Printability:8/10 // 6/10 = 7  
The B enchantment is entirely printable, and could even cost one less I think, but its complexity counts against it....Complexity isn't bad, but having to track lots of things is complex enough that there has to be a big payoff...I think this meets the bar, but barely.  The UG enchantment is too strong.  Flying is just too good in the right deck...see the cost on {archetype of imagination}.  I know many tokens, especially lately, have flying, but that means this isn't for that deck....putting this in a WGU deck to make your worms and beasts and soldiers and saproling fly is sick.  I think one more mana may be all it needs, but I would be much more comfortable with two or three more mana and make it +2/+2 or +4/+4.


Overall/Subjective/WOW factor:9/10  5/10 = 7  This literally wowed me.  The only thing I don't like is how it works with changelings and with existing parasite tokens.  And, dispite all my critisism, I don't hate the UG card at all...it is fun, just not as fun or beneficial to the game as it needs to be.

Total : 32

Ok, final contast for 100 points. This is a little bit of Set design, in additiona to card design...I like this idea and may have it be the final round in any future contest.

I have an idea for a set, mechanical rather than flavorful. I want to push counterspells BUT give the other colors ways to fight back.

Make five mono color cards, one of each color. Take this LITERALLY wherever you want, but make sure each card is indicative of how you would build the set to have strong counterspells and answers/solutions to counterspells. I would want a standard where counterspell based permission deck(s) are top tier, but is not the only deck (or even the majority of teir one decks).

You have until the end of the weekend, or until you both post. Good luck!

That completely fine, but is not required.  It won't on its own get any bonus points, but if it explains the cards (like a card is called {abduction} and you can explain that its the abduction of the hero's childhood friend...) it could possibly help in the flavor or the WOW factor categories.  Heck, if you want the cards to be from different sets in the block you can, but again, that's not necessarily better and could make it worse.

Ahh, there we go. Well I might not need a story then! I'll probably still write it though out of interest.

I will have my cards up by tomorrow evening, hopefully mid day however. I will be show casing a mechanic that I designed long ago when I still played very casually, but has since evolved greatly into the basis of my current set I am working on. The cards are however completely new in design.

I decided against showcasing my aforementioned mechanic after being so happy with how these turned out. I am undecided on rarities for these as they could be a rare cycle just as well.

edit: I opened my computer and saw I didn't finalize the post before passing out last night, it was just sitting there waiting for me to click reply.

I am SO SORRY! A lot of stuff has come up recently, and my life has been a bit hectic. I'll try to post them by tonight (keep in mind it may take awhile to type the way I post my entrants). Thank you for being so pacient with me, and I am sorry for keeping you waiting for so long! Please forgive me.