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Variants and Fan Cards / Fan Card Mechanics Week 61: Copycat Cephalopods
« on: March 25, 2023, 12:05:32 am »
Hello, and welcome to the new season. To start this season off, we'll have a challenge inspired by my favorite animal: The octopus.
Among octopuses' many bizarre sci-fi-esque abilities is the ability to dynamically change their form mimic their surroundings, or even other creatures. This ability is the basis for this week's challenge.
The fan mechanic of the week is mimic tokens. Mimic tokens are tokens that go on supply piles to facilitate an ability along the lines of "Play a card in the Supply that has your Mimic token on it, leaving it there." Inheritance would be the closest official equivalent, but I think we can do something a bit more flexible.
In short, there are two rules for this week's designs:
I will prefer designs that allow flexibility, but aren't as open-ended as, say, Band of Misfits. More generally, I like cards with good flavor and interesting choices.
Speaking of flexibility, here are some things that aren't restrictions on this week's designs:
As usual, the contest will run for one week (ending at midnight EDT or 4:00 a.m. GMT), and I'll post a 24-hour warning.
Thanks, and have fun! I look forward to seeing your entries.
Among octopuses' many bizarre sci-fi-esque abilities is the ability to dynamically change their form mimic their surroundings, or even other creatures. This ability is the basis for this week's challenge.
The fan mechanic of the week is mimic tokens. Mimic tokens are tokens that go on supply piles to facilitate an ability along the lines of "Play a card in the Supply that has your Mimic token on it, leaving it there." Inheritance would be the closest official equivalent, but I think we can do something a bit more flexible.
In short, there are two rules for this week's designs:
- You must have a type of token that goes on a Supply pile (or a non-Supply pile, if that's what you want).
- You must have some ability that lets you play the top card of the Supply pile with the token on it.
I will prefer designs that allow flexibility, but aren't as open-ended as, say, Band of Misfits. More generally, I like cards with good flavor and interesting choices.
Speaking of flexibility, here are some things that aren't restrictions on this week's designs:
- You don't need to call your tokens "Mimic tokens"---name them whatever fits your flavor.
- You don't need to limit yourself to one Mimic token per player---you can use as many as you want.
- You don't even need to make the Mimic tokens player-specific---if you want the players to move around a shared Mimic token, that's perfectly fine.
- You can use any sort of card-shaped objects, even ones from different expansions---if you want an Artifact that moves a Mimic token between Spirit piles, go ahead.
- And to be clear, while octopuses inspired this fan mechanic, your entries don't need to be octopus-related in any way.
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Way of the Octopus
Way
Choose a card in the Supply costing less than this that has one of your Octopus tokens on it. Play that card, leaving it there.
Setup: Place your Octopus tokens on two Action supply piles.
As usual, the contest will run for one week (ending at midnight EDT or 4:00 a.m. GMT), and I'll post a 24-hour warning.
Thanks, and have fun! I look forward to seeing your entries.