Contest PokéBeach Create-A-Card: January 2018 - Grass Types ~ Update: Image-Based Finally Up!
- Thread starter bbninjas
- Start date
Is the judging done yet?
We're having difficulties with the image-based judging again this month, in that it's pretty much done but I don't actually have a copy of it, and R3 hasn't been around for me to get a copy off him. We're holding out just so we don't have to redo all the judging, but that might end up happening in the future. Otherwise, this is just a placeholder for the image-based, and text-based can be found in the post below this one~
Text-Based Results
Judge: @bbninjas
It was exciting to see such a diverse range of entries, this month! Even more exciting was to see many fresh and returning faces, all of which did remarkably well across the board. Looking forward to seeing what everyone cooks up for February. ^.^
Lord o da rings:
The Sword of Justice Ability is nice both flavorful and mechanically, with the fresh spin on effects that increase damage. It actually has some nice synergy with Whirlwind Blade, since you can switch out from being revenge KO’d, as to build up the precious [F] Energy attachments from the Bench. That does, however, make the combination rather powerful. You’ll easily be able to hit 120+ with the right support, but without Guzma/Lysandre, your opponent will never be able to take down your monster (and instead promote walls up-front). It’s a very difficult strategy to fight against; even Spinning Turn Donphan managed to terrorise a format, and it’s output maxed at 120.
Wording errors:
- Energy attached to a Pokemon is never considered an “Energy card”, but rather just an “Energy”. If you were intending to limit this damage increase to Basic [F] Energy only, then you should say as such instead. (-1pt)
- There should be a “to your opponent’s Active Pokemon” after “more damage”. (-2pts)
Creativity/Originality: 17/20
(Some creative spins and nice synergy.)
Wording: 12/15
(A few small errors.)
Believability/Playability: 13/15
(The attack/ability combination makes Virizion both potent and near-invulnerable.)
Total: 42/50
The Last Shaymin:
Some nice experimentation with flavour in Leech Seed, by having the effect happen at the end of your opponent’s next turn! Otherwise, there’s pretty standard stuff here. I am a bit hesitant about the giving an effect to the “Seed Bomb” attack, since it’s been established as an effect-less attack across multiple generations (include SM).
On another note, a Retreat Cost of 2 is strange; recent Sunkern have a RC of 1, and it’s not like Sunkern is particularly heavy or slow, which are factors in developing a RC. A HP of 30 is also a bit strange; especially with power creep and based on previous cards, I would expect a printed Sunkern to have 40 HP.
Wording errors:
None!
Creativity/Originality: 13/20
(Some experimentation.)
Wording: 15/15
(All good.)
Believability/Playability: 12/15
(A few strange design choices.)
Edit: -2pts
Total: 38/50
jessalakasam:
There seems to be a lot going on here! Effect Spore is a slight deviation from the standard “if this Pokemon is damaged” effect, which is nice. The flexibility is, however, much too powerful. The optimal choice will nearly always be to Paralyze your opponent, which prevent them from attacking and retreating, effectively securing a KO the next turn. Combined with Strength Sap, which allows you to heal off the damage that you would have received, makes this effect even more potent.
Strength Sap itself is probably trying to do too much. You’ve got your Circle Circuit effect mashed together with a pretty decent healing effect, and those effect don’t really seem to correlate with each other. Hypnosis is also doing a bit too much. I’ve noticed that GX attacks either dish out quite a bit of damage, or has a rather powerful effect. This attack is trying to do both.
On another note, the Retreat Cost is a bit low. Printed Shiinotic have a cost of 2, and if the RC was going to change because this is a Shiinotic-GX, then it would probably increase instead of decrease.
Wording errors:
- GX Pokemon don’t have an PokeDex entries or flavour text on their cards. (-1pt)
- There should be a bracket and a comma [i.e. ‘), ’ ] after “Knocked Out”. (-1pt)
- You’re missing the Pokemon-GX Rule. (-2pts)
Creativity/Originality: 14/20
(Nice flavour and interesting combinations of effects.)
Wording: 11/15
(A few minor errors.)
Believability/Playability: 10/15
(Lots going on with a few overpowered combinations, strange Retreat Cost.)
Total: 35/50
DoubleAACE:
Great to see your entry, Double! I can’t help but wonder if “Alone on the Wind” should be “Alone in the Wind”, but it doesn’t really matter either way.
Alone in the Wind is a nice flavourful gimmick that works great with the awkward cost of Cotton Guard. It’s not too powerful either, due to the natural risk of having no Benched ‘mons. It forces some nice circular synergy with the attack: attack to reduce damage to survive each turn, so you don’t have to Bench more Pokemon, so you can attack for free.
I also quite like the effect for Cotton Guard that you’ve got going here. It’s quite a fresh and unique spin on an effect that would otherwise be rather average. I am a little hesitant about naming this effect “Cotton Guard”, however, since that effect has been established in the official TCG, including in the SM-era. A four Energy cost attack on a Whimsicott is also a bit strange, since Whimsicott generally has cheap attacks.
Wording errors:
- “cost of” should be “cost of each of” (see Yanmega STS). (-1pt)
Creativity/Originality: 18/20
(Fresh twists and great synergy work.)
Wording: 14/15
(A minor slip.)
Believability/Playability: 14/15
(A 4-Energy cost attack on a Whimsicott is rather strange.)
Total: 46/50
GekkisaiDaiNi:
I’m quite liking the flavour that you’ve got going here, especially Helicopter Leaf! That’s particularly nice! Leaf Guard is a rather different way to reduce damage; otherwise, there’s some new effect combinations here, but nothing particularly that stands out. I think budding is trying to pull off a bit too much, as I’m not really seeing much correlation, and I honestly think the card could be better off without it.
On another note, Leaf Guard is actually really quite powerful. A few Battle Compressors and other discards, and you could easily have 12 + Energy in your discard by your first couple of turns, and be preventing 120+ damage with relative ease. Your Budew will be virtually immune. ;P
Wording errors:
- Energy in your discard pile should be referred to as “Energy cards”. (-1pt)
- Special Energy can’t be [G] type when not attached to a Pokemon, so the “Basic” in “Basic [G] Energy” is redundant and unnecessary. (-1pt) [for confirmation of the wording, see Volcanion-EX]
- “card and put it” should be “card, put it”; without the ‘and’. (-1pt)
- There should be a “(after applying Weakness and Resistance)” clause after “from attacks”. (-2pts)
Creativity/Originality: 15/20
(Unique combinations of effects, very fun flavour.)
Wording: 10/15
(A few minor and major errors.)
Believability/Playability: 13/15
(The Ability is much too powerful.)
Total: 38/50
Ilovepokemom:
There’s… really not much to say about this card. Attacks are pretty standard, and there’s nothing really new. Maybe try to experiment outside of the box, next time?
Wording errors:
- The attack names should be fully capitalised, as “Seed Bomb” and “Milk Drink” respectively. x2 (-1.5pt)
- “Chose” should be “Choose” and “dose” should be “does”. x2 (-1.5pt)
- “opponents” should be “opponent’s”. (-1pt)
- “Benched” and “Pokémon” should be capitalised as so. x5 (-3pts)
- ‘Pokemon’ should be accented as “Pokémon”. x4 (-2.5pts).
Creativity/Originality: 10/20
(Pretty standard card.)
Wording: 6.5/15
(Many minor errors that a simple proofreading would have caught.)
Believability/Playability: 15/15
(A standard filler card.)
Edit penalty: -2pts
Total: 29.5/50
Professor_jpalp:
Some nice flavour you’ve got here, Prof. Otherwise, there isn’t anything particularly new or unique; just a fairly standard group of effects. There’s some obvious synergy between Overgrow and the GX attack, which is nice.
Otherwise, Overgrow seems a tad overpowered, since the margin in which the effect can activate is actually quite large (120+ HP). Similarly, it’s a bit strange that Full Blown Impact has a cost of only three Energy - and none that are [G] - considering its damage output.
Wording errors:
- “it’s” should be “its”. (-1pt)
- There should be a period (.) after “...to itself”. (-1pt)
- I’m not really sure why you’re talking about damage counters in the Ability, to be honest. The official Overgrow Ability (e.g. Meganium BKP) talks about remaining HP, which also makes sense in light of canon. (-2pts)
- The Pokemon-GX rule is missing. (-2pts)
Creativity/Originality: 12/20
(Some flavour and synergy.)
Wording: 9/15
(A few minor and major errors.)
Believability/Playability: 13/15
(Power creep in the Ability and GX attack.)
Total: 34/50
The Psychic Sorcerer:
Welcome to the competition, Psychic!
There’s some nice flavour going on, but other than that, none of the effects are particularly unique. There is some slight synergy in that you’re spreading a lot of damage around, but that’s fairly minor. I would encourage you to really extend yourself and experiment outside the box in future!
Regarding your wording, I would recommend looking up references for your effects. For example, Anticipate’s effect can be referenced by Sharpedo SUM, Power Whip by Gligar GRI and Pin Missile by Raichu BKT.
Wording errors:
- “Pokemon” should have the accent in it, as “Pokémon”. x6 (-3.5pts)
- Both clauses in brackets should be italicised. x2 (-1.5pts)
- “opponents” should be “opponent’s”. (-1pt)
- “GX Pokemon” should be “Pokemon-GX”. (-1pt)
- “to all of” should be “to each of”. (-1pt)
- GX Pokemon don’t have an PokeDex entries or flavour text on their cards. (-1pt)
- There should be the “(You can’t use more than 1 GX attack in a game.)” clause at the end of the GX attack. (-2pts)
- The Pokemon-GX rule is also missing. (-2pts)
- “When any damage is done to this Pokemon” should be “If this Pokémon is your Active Pokémon and is damaged by an opponent’s attack (even if this Pokémon is Knocked Out)”. (-3pts)
- “inflict 20 damage to your opponent's active Pokemon.” should be “put 2 damage counters on the Attacking Pokémon.”. Note that you don’t ever dish out damage using Abilities; it is always damage counters. (-3pts)
Creativity/Originality: 11/20
(Fairly standard, some synergy.)
Wording: 0/15
(Wording can be hard on your first go, but just make sure to look at those references, and you’ll be right! ^.^)
Believability/Playability: 15/15
(Seems fine.)
Total: 26/50
DashKing:
You weren’t kidding when you said this card was complicated! In fact… it’s far too complicated. The best cards are often the simpler ones, alright?
Spring Wind has a rather strange Energy cost. Five [G] Energy is massive for an average effect like that, let alone one that dishes out 10 damage only, and let alone on a Sawsbuck, where you might see up to 3 Energy in a cost at most. The HP is also too high for a Sawsbuck.
Wording errors:
- “(before your attack)” should be in italics. x3 (-2pts)
- “Fire type” and “Water type” should just be “Fire” and “Water”. x6 (-3.5pts)
- “weakness” and “item” should be capitalised. x4 (-2.5pts)
- “Place 2 damage counter” should be “Place 2 damage counters”. (-2pts)
- “his or her” should be “their”. x2 (-1.5pts)
- “choose 1.” should be “choose 1:” x3 (-2pts)
- “ If you return the card to the top of your opponent’s deck, then look at the top card of your deck.”; this is rather strange, why do you get the option to check either deck and then get to check your deck anyway (if you choose to check your opponent’s)? Just seems pointless. (-2pts)
Creativity/Originality: 13/20
(There’s a lot of stuff going on, that’s for sure.)
Wording: 0/15
(Many errors.)
Believability/Playability: 7/15
(Far too complicated, strange HP and attack.)
Total: 20/50
Alex Sableye:
I quite like the idea you’re going for in Emergency Synthesis! The flavour is quite fitting, and it is a unique effect for closing the gap if you’re behind. It works nicely with Energy Cyclone as well, which is great. That said, the effect itself is actually pretty broken. Firstly, it stacks, meaning you could be attaching a massive 6+ Energy a turn with the right engine. Additionally, most Pokemon will be able to attack after one or two Energy attachments, even if the attack isn’t that useful, meaning you’re gaining an advantage virtually for free. Even then, being able to attach 3 Energy via an Ability whenever your opponent tries to KO you is still pretty big.
Hurricane Force is also pretty neat. It’s not useful against any non-GX deck, and although the decision can be difficult for your opponent to make, the attack can still be combated rather easily with any sort of Ability-based draw-power. Even then, there’s no guarantee that your opponent won’t draw into a draw-power card and cause your GX attack to be all for naught anyway, making it a rather balanced design.
Regarding your wording, I would recommend looking up references for your effects. It will save you missing those silly wording mistakes and boost your score up.
Wording errors:
- “(before your attack)” should be in italics and the “Before” should not be capitalised. (-2pts)
- The “(before your attack)” clause should be before the comma, not after it. (-1pt)
- “energy” should be capitalised as “Energy”. x3 (-2pts)
- “one” should be “1”. x2 (-1.5pts)
- When attached to a Pokemon, Energy cards are referred to as “Energy”. (-1pts)
- “Pokemon” should be accented as “Pokémon”. x7 (-4pts)
- There should be the “(You can’t use more than 1 GX attack in a game.)” clause at the end of the GX attack. (-2pts)
- The Pokemon-GX rule is also missing. (-2pts)
Creativity/Originality: 18/20
(Great exploration of design space, nice synergy.)
Wording: 0/15
(Quite a few errors; but referencing in future should sort that out for you!)
Believability/Playability: 12/15
(Broken Ability, especially so with the attack.)
Total: 30/50
NinJamezor:
Aha! I haven’t seen a non-SM-era card yet, so this is a nice change!
Armor-Plated doesn’t strike me as anything new, although the increase in HP is a nice twist. I do think the Ability creeps in power a tad, though. Looking at official Pokemon SP, even Pokemon like Garchomp or Regigagas have 80HP and 100HP respectively, whereas the Ability will push Chesnaught’s to 100. I would imagine that a Chesnaught Pokemon SP would have had about 80 or 90 HP at the most, even without the Ability.
Spiky Slam works nicely with the Ability. It’s particularly nice in the balancing department, as the cost is large (and suitable for a Chesnaught), and discarding those Tools will reduce that precious HP.
Wording errors:
- “amount of Tool cards” should be “amount of Pokemon Tool cards”. (-1pt)
- “ times the amount of” should be “for each”. (-1pt)
Creativity/Originality: 16/20
(Nice flavour, nice synergy, and just an elegant design.)
Wording: 13/15
(A few minor slips.)
Believability/Playability: 14/15
(Slightly high HP.)
Total: 43/50
Tails:
♩ ♪ ♩ I used to think may-be you love-d me! ♫ ♩ ♪
Ahem. Flavour is definitely great, and really brings out Sunflora at its best! There’s nothing particularly new going on here, however it is nice to see that there’s synergy across the three effects. Sunshine Special brings out some [G] Pokemon, which you can sustain with the Ability or use to power up your Flower Power attack. I do find it a bit strange that you’ve got a “This Ability can’t be used if Sunflora is affected by a Special Condition.”, since that’s never used on Abilities.
I’m not sure which era you’re actually going for here, since your references point to HGSS, but calling the Ability an “Ability” and giving Sunflora HP90 makes me think otherwise. Since you didn’t specify, I’ll be judging it as SM-era.
Wording errors:
- “before you attack” should be “before your attack”. (-1pt)
- “(before your attack)” should be in italics. (-1pt)
- “remove 2 damage counters” should be “heal 20 damage” from the BW-era onwards. (-1pt)
- “1 [G] Energy/Pokemon” should be “a [G] Energy/Pokemon”. x2 (-1.5pts)
Creativity/Originality: 15/20
(Bright and fresh flavour and synergy.)
Wording: 11/15
(A few minor errors.)
Believability/Playability: 14/15
(Strange clause in the Ability.)
Total: 40/50
VioletValkyrie:
Hooray, someone who actually includes the Pokemon-GX Rule on their Pokemon-GX!
The flavour is definitely on the mark here, which is great! Snow Spread is a nice nod to Abomasnow SF, and that Energy discard puts a nice twist on the effect. I’m also glad to see that you Abomasnow must be an Active Pokemon for this effect to activate, as it would be too powerful otherwise.
Hailstorm Snowdown has nice synergy with the Ability, and is unique enough for me not to have a reference off the top of my head, which is also nice.
Wording errors:
- The three clauses in brackets, excluding the GX attack clause, should be in italics. x3 (-2pts)
- The base damage for Avalanche Rush should be “40+”. (-1pt)
Creativity/Originality: 17/20
(Nostalgic spins on effects, nice flavour and synergy.)
Wording: 12/15
(Two minor slips.)
Believability/Playability: 15/15
(Looks perfect to me!)
Total: 44/50
rainyman123:
An Ability that lets you put damage counters on your own Pokemon? Well, that’s new! I just… don’t see the point of it. It has no synergy with your other attack, and it’s certainly unique if it’s meant to balance, but using an Ability to do that is a rather strange.
Insanity Hammer forcing you to repeatedly use the attack is also rather interesting. It reminds me of the canonical Giga Impact. I suppose that it’s intended to lock you into using Insanity Hammer with no way to break out of it (beyond switching), although I would have liked to see it played around with more. Honestly, both effects on different cards with a second effort more tailored to it would have given you some great points, but this combination just doesn’t make sense to me.
On a different note, I would say 200 HP is too high. Sure, Regigigas creeped 40 HP, but on the other hand, Wailord had not HP increase at all, flatlining at 200. I would say Chesnaught would hit somewhere between 170 or 190, but not the same as Wailord.
Wording errors:
- “(before their attack)” should be before the comma. (-1pt)
- “(before their attack)” should be in italics. (-1pt)
- “they” would be “your opponent”. (-1pt)
- “active” should be “Active”. (-1pt)
- “has enough Energy attached to it to use Insanity Hammer” should be “has the necessary Energy to use Insanity Hammer”. (-2pts) [Ref: Kecleon PLF].
- I’m not exactly sure how this would be worded, but I know that “and has not already used an attack during this turn” is not right. For one, it isn’t “this turn” at the “end of your next turn”. I’d imagine it’d be worded something like “and did not attack during that turn”. (-2pts)
Creativity/Originality: 17/20
(Creative, but the combination of effects doesn’t make sense.)
Wording: 7/15
(Some minor and tricky major errors.)
Believability/Playability: 14/15
(The HP wouldn’t be right.)
Total: 38/50
GM Draclord:
I like your solution to the Mega Pokemon mechanic, Drac!It’s what they should have done in the first place asdfghjkl
I am quite liking the flavour you’ve got going here, especially “Forest Glider”. The effect itself isn’t anything particularly new, although the discarding a card is a nice touch. Three other Lv.Xs have attacks quite similar to Power Sniper, although with more significant drawbacks. That said, Power Sniper requiring 1 more Energy and moving 2 Energy away balances it out nicely.
Wording errors:
- “(before your attack)” should be in italics. (-1pt)
- “our” should be “your”. (-1pt)
- “one” should be “1”. (-1pt)
- “energy” should be “Energy”. (-1pt)
- In the attack, “Sceptile” should be “Sceptile Lv.M”. (-1pt)
Creativity/Originality: 14/20
(Some nice flavour and new effect combinations.)
Wording: 10/15
(A few minor slips.)
Believability/Playability: 15/15
(Seems fine to me.)
Total: 39/50
TheFlyingPidove:
Nice to see you back, Pidove!
Flavour is nice as per normal! Blooming Garden isn’t anything particularly new, being done before for [Y]-types in a Florges, while Quiver Dance is your standard run-of-the-mill deck search. I do however think that searching your deck for 4 cards for a single [C] is a bit of a power creep; you could probably get away with 3 now-a-days, but not 4 (yet). I do like the choice to make Quiver Dance cost [C] instead of [G], to keep it in check alongside that Ability.
Wording errors:
- “attacks costs” should be “attacks cost”. (-1pt)
- There should be no commas in “...4 cards, and put them…”. (-1pt)
Creativity/Originality: 13/20
(Some nice flavour and combinations.)
Wording: 13/15
(A few minor misses.)
Believability/Playability: 14/15
(Slight power creep.)
Total: 40/50
Ninja Penguin:
Crazy Munching is a rather intriguing ability, although I’m struggling to find much use for it. It’s not that useful as an anti-Yveltal effect, since when deciding whether to reduce attached Energy (and thus damage done to you) or to attack, you’re going to choose attack 95% of the time. Any remaining usefulness would be as a tool remover, and a rather crude one at that, which then begs the question of why not returning the Tool to your hand (which would also discard Team Flare tool)? It just seems highly niche, more so than even other rather niche Abilities and effects that have been officially printed.I probably would have like to see the Ability interact with the attack somehow.
Reckless Taxi has great flavour, and I like how your opponent switches Gogoat out for you. I do, however, question whether giving your opponent the option to switch Gogoat after you switch their Active makes sense with the flavour. I just can’t see a reckless Gogoat staying in their starting position if it was to be taxing other Pokemon around.
Wording errors:
- None!
Creativity/Originality: 17/20
(Great exploration of design space.)
Wording: 15/15
(Looks fine!)
Believability/Playability: 13/15
(Strange ability, odd design choice in the attack.)
Total: 45/50
P3DS:
A Prism Star! This will be interesting to judge!
Forbidden Fruit is some interesting exploration of design space, somewhat reminiscent of Gladion and that card’s interaction with Prize cards, actually. That said, I think the exploration went a tad too far. This design breaks that unwritten yet very real rule: cards should never leave the Lost Zone in any way, period. Otherwise, what makes it any different to the discard pile?
Gusty Flap is fairly standard for an effect, although still rather elegant and flavourful. I am a little hesitant about the power levels, since three cards for [G] is quite a lot, and especially potent if you can keep your opponent at bay and pull multiple attacks off. The only reason that I’m letting this pass is because this of the Prism Star rule, which means one would have to play carefully, as one wrong move and you won’t be able to touch Tropius again. (It would, of course, be a different story if Pokemon could use attacks from Pokemon in the Lost Zone as in the HGSS-era, but I don’t see that happening in this era.)
Wording errors:
- It is “in the Lost Zone”, not “into the Lost Zone”. (-1pt)
- There should be a period after “deck”. (-1pt)
Creativity/Originality: 16/20
(Nice flavour and exploration of design space.)
Wording: 13/15
(A couple of misses.)
Believability/Playability: 13/15
(Once in the Lost Zone, cards should never leave it.)
Total: 42/50
3rd Place: VioletValkyrie’ nostalgic Abomasnow-GX, with 44/50 points.
2nd Place: NinjaPenguin’s insane Gogoat-EX, with 45/50 points.
1st Place: DoubleAACE’s carefree Whimsicott takes the win by a breath, with 46/50 points!
Judge: @bbninjas
It was exciting to see such a diverse range of entries, this month! Even more exciting was to see many fresh and returning faces, all of which did remarkably well across the board. Looking forward to seeing what everyone cooks up for February. ^.^
Lord o da rings:
Virizion HP: 110 - Grass
Basic Pokémon
NO. 640 Grassland Pokémon HT: 6'7 WT: 440.9 lbs.
Ability - Sword of Justice
This Pokémon's attacks do 20 more damage (after Weakness and Resistance) for each [F] Energy card attached to this Pokémon.
[G][C][C] Whirlwind Blade 80
Switch this Pokémon with 1 of your Benched Pokémon. Then, switch your opponent's Active Pokémon with 1 of your opponent's Benched Pokémon.
Weakness: [R] x 2
Resistance: None
Retreat: [C]
Pokédex: Its head sprouts horns as sharp as blades. Using whirlwind-like movements, it confounds and swiftly cuts opponents.
The Sword of Justice Ability is nice both flavorful and mechanically, with the fresh spin on effects that increase damage. It actually has some nice synergy with Whirlwind Blade, since you can switch out from being revenge KO’d, as to build up the precious [F] Energy attachments from the Bench. That does, however, make the combination rather powerful. You’ll easily be able to hit 120+ with the right support, but without Guzma/Lysandre, your opponent will never be able to take down your monster (and instead promote walls up-front). It’s a very difficult strategy to fight against; even Spinning Turn Donphan managed to terrorise a format, and it’s output maxed at 120.
Wording errors:
- Energy attached to a Pokemon is never considered an “Energy card”, but rather just an “Energy”. If you were intending to limit this damage increase to Basic [F] Energy only, then you should say as such instead. (-1pt)
- There should be a “to your opponent’s Active Pokemon” after “more damage”. (-2pts)
Creativity/Originality: 17/20
(Some creative spins and nice synergy.)
Wording: 12/15
(A few small errors.)
Believability/Playability: 13/15
(The attack/ability combination makes Virizion both potent and near-invulnerable.)
Total: 42/50
The Last Shaymin:
Some nice experimentation with flavour in Leech Seed, by having the effect happen at the end of your opponent’s next turn! Otherwise, there’s pretty standard stuff here. I am a bit hesitant about the giving an effect to the “Seed Bomb” attack, since it’s been established as an effect-less attack across multiple generations (include SM).
On another note, a Retreat Cost of 2 is strange; recent Sunkern have a RC of 1, and it’s not like Sunkern is particularly heavy or slow, which are factors in developing a RC. A HP of 30 is also a bit strange; especially with power creep and based on previous cards, I would expect a printed Sunkern to have 40 HP.
Wording errors:
None!
Creativity/Originality: 13/20
(Some experimentation.)
Wording: 15/15
(All good.)
Believability/Playability: 12/15
(A few strange design choices.)
Edit: -2pts
Total: 38/50
jessalakasam:
There seems to be a lot going on here! Effect Spore is a slight deviation from the standard “if this Pokemon is damaged” effect, which is nice. The flexibility is, however, much too powerful. The optimal choice will nearly always be to Paralyze your opponent, which prevent them from attacking and retreating, effectively securing a KO the next turn. Combined with Strength Sap, which allows you to heal off the damage that you would have received, makes this effect even more potent.
Strength Sap itself is probably trying to do too much. You’ve got your Circle Circuit effect mashed together with a pretty decent healing effect, and those effect don’t really seem to correlate with each other. Hypnosis is also doing a bit too much. I’ve noticed that GX attacks either dish out quite a bit of damage, or has a rather powerful effect. This attack is trying to do both.
On another note, the Retreat Cost is a bit low. Printed Shiinotic have a cost of 2, and if the RC was going to change because this is a Shiinotic-GX, then it would probably increase instead of decrease.
Wording errors:
- GX Pokemon don’t have an PokeDex entries or flavour text on their cards. (-1pt)
- There should be a bracket and a comma [i.e. ‘), ’ ] after “Knocked Out”. (-1pt)
- You’re missing the Pokemon-GX Rule. (-2pts)
Creativity/Originality: 14/20
(Nice flavour and interesting combinations of effects.)
Wording: 11/15
(A few minor errors.)
Believability/Playability: 10/15
(Lots going on with a few overpowered combinations, strange Retreat Cost.)
Total: 35/50
DoubleAACE:
Whimsicott - HP 90 - Grass
Stage 1 - Evolves from Cottonee
No. 547 / Windveiled Pokémon / Ht: 2'04 / WT: 14.6 lbs.
Ability: Alone on the Wind
If you have no Benched Pokémon, ignore all Energy in the attack cost of this Pokémon's attacks.
[G][G][C][C] Cotton Guard - 60
During your opponent's next turn, any damage done to this Pokémon by attacks is reduced by the same amount of damage you did to the Defending Pokémon (after applying Weakness and Resistance).
Weakness: [R] (x2)
Resistance: [W] (-20)
Retreat Cost: 0
Like the wind, it can slip through any gap, no matter how small. It leaves balls of white fluff behind.
Great to see your entry, Double! I can’t help but wonder if “Alone on the Wind” should be “Alone in the Wind”, but it doesn’t really matter either way.
Alone in the Wind is a nice flavourful gimmick that works great with the awkward cost of Cotton Guard. It’s not too powerful either, due to the natural risk of having no Benched ‘mons. It forces some nice circular synergy with the attack: attack to reduce damage to survive each turn, so you don’t have to Bench more Pokemon, so you can attack for free.
I also quite like the effect for Cotton Guard that you’ve got going here. It’s quite a fresh and unique spin on an effect that would otherwise be rather average. I am a little hesitant about naming this effect “Cotton Guard”, however, since that effect has been established in the official TCG, including in the SM-era. A four Energy cost attack on a Whimsicott is also a bit strange, since Whimsicott generally has cheap attacks.
Wording errors:
- “cost of” should be “cost of each of” (see Yanmega STS). (-1pt)
Creativity/Originality: 18/20
(Fresh twists and great synergy work.)
Wording: 14/15
(A minor slip.)
Believability/Playability: 14/15
(A 4-Energy cost attack on a Whimsicott is rather strange.)
Total: 46/50
GekkisaiDaiNi:
I’m quite liking the flavour that you’ve got going here, especially Helicopter Leaf! That’s particularly nice! Leaf Guard is a rather different way to reduce damage; otherwise, there’s some new effect combinations here, but nothing particularly that stands out. I think budding is trying to pull off a bit too much, as I’m not really seeing much correlation, and I honestly think the card could be better off without it.
On another note, Leaf Guard is actually really quite powerful. A few Battle Compressors and other discards, and you could easily have 12 + Energy in your discard by your first couple of turns, and be preventing 120+ damage with relative ease. Your Budew will be virtually immune. ;P
Wording errors:
- Energy in your discard pile should be referred to as “Energy cards”. (-1pt)
- Special Energy can’t be [G] type when not attached to a Pokemon, so the “Basic” in “Basic [G] Energy” is redundant and unnecessary. (-1pt) [for confirmation of the wording, see Volcanion-EX]
- “card and put it” should be “card, put it”; without the ‘and’. (-1pt)
- There should be a “(after applying Weakness and Resistance)” clause after “from attacks”. (-2pts)
Creativity/Originality: 15/20
(Unique combinations of effects, very fun flavour.)
Wording: 10/15
(A few minor and major errors.)
Believability/Playability: 13/15
(The Ability is much too powerful.)
Total: 38/50
Ilovepokemom:
There’s… really not much to say about this card. Attacks are pretty standard, and there’s nothing really new. Maybe try to experiment outside of the box, next time?
Wording errors:
- The attack names should be fully capitalised, as “Seed Bomb” and “Milk Drink” respectively. x2 (-1.5pt)
- “Chose” should be “Choose” and “dose” should be “does”. x2 (-1.5pt)
- “opponents” should be “opponent’s”. (-1pt)
- “Benched” and “Pokémon” should be capitalised as so. x5 (-3pts)
- ‘Pokemon’ should be accented as “Pokémon”. x4 (-2.5pts).
Creativity/Originality: 10/20
(Pretty standard card.)
Wording: 6.5/15
(Many minor errors that a simple proofreading would have caught.)
Believability/Playability: 15/15
(A standard filler card.)
Edit penalty: -2pts
Total: 29.5/50
Professor_jpalp:
Some nice flavour you’ve got here, Prof. Otherwise, there isn’t anything particularly new or unique; just a fairly standard group of effects. There’s some obvious synergy between Overgrow and the GX attack, which is nice.
Otherwise, Overgrow seems a tad overpowered, since the margin in which the effect can activate is actually quite large (120+ HP). Similarly, it’s a bit strange that Full Blown Impact has a cost of only three Energy - and none that are [G] - considering its damage output.
Wording errors:
- “it’s” should be “its”. (-1pt)
- There should be a period (.) after “...to itself”. (-1pt)
- I’m not really sure why you’re talking about damage counters in the Ability, to be honest. The official Overgrow Ability (e.g. Meganium BKP) talks about remaining HP, which also makes sense in light of canon. (-2pts)
- The Pokemon-GX rule is missing. (-2pts)
Creativity/Originality: 12/20
(Some flavour and synergy.)
Wording: 9/15
(A few minor and major errors.)
Believability/Playability: 13/15
(Power creep in the Ability and GX attack.)
Total: 34/50
The Psychic Sorcerer:
Welcome to the competition, Psychic!
There’s some nice flavour going on, but other than that, none of the effects are particularly unique. There is some slight synergy in that you’re spreading a lot of damage around, but that’s fairly minor. I would encourage you to really extend yourself and experiment outside the box in future!
Regarding your wording, I would recommend looking up references for your effects. For example, Anticipate’s effect can be referenced by Sharpedo SUM, Power Whip by Gligar GRI and Pin Missile by Raichu BKT.
Wording errors:
- “Pokemon” should have the accent in it, as “Pokémon”. x6 (-3.5pts)
- Both clauses in brackets should be italicised. x2 (-1.5pts)
- “opponents” should be “opponent’s”. (-1pt)
- “GX Pokemon” should be “Pokemon-GX”. (-1pt)
- “to all of” should be “to each of”. (-1pt)
- GX Pokemon don’t have an PokeDex entries or flavour text on their cards. (-1pt)
- There should be the “(You can’t use more than 1 GX attack in a game.)” clause at the end of the GX attack. (-2pts)
- The Pokemon-GX rule is also missing. (-2pts)
- “When any damage is done to this Pokemon” should be “If this Pokémon is your Active Pokémon and is damaged by an opponent’s attack (even if this Pokémon is Knocked Out)”. (-3pts)
- “inflict 20 damage to your opponent's active Pokemon.” should be “put 2 damage counters on the Attacking Pokémon.”. Note that you don’t ever dish out damage using Abilities; it is always damage counters. (-3pts)
Creativity/Originality: 11/20
(Fairly standard, some synergy.)
Wording: 0/15
(Wording can be hard on your first go, but just make sure to look at those references, and you’ll be right! ^.^)
Believability/Playability: 15/15
(Seems fine.)
Total: 26/50
DashKing:
You weren’t kidding when you said this card was complicated! In fact… it’s far too complicated. The best cards are often the simpler ones, alright?
Spring Wind has a rather strange Energy cost. Five [G] Energy is massive for an average effect like that, let alone one that dishes out 10 damage only, and let alone on a Sawsbuck, where you might see up to 3 Energy in a cost at most. The HP is also too high for a Sawsbuck.
Wording errors:
- “(before your attack)” should be in italics. x3 (-2pts)
- “Fire type” and “Water type” should just be “Fire” and “Water”. x6 (-3.5pts)
- “weakness” and “item” should be capitalised. x4 (-2.5pts)
- “Place 2 damage counter” should be “Place 2 damage counters”. (-2pts)
- “his or her” should be “their”. x2 (-1.5pts)
- “choose 1.” should be “choose 1:” x3 (-2pts)
- “ If you return the card to the top of your opponent’s deck, then look at the top card of your deck.”; this is rather strange, why do you get the option to check either deck and then get to check your deck anyway (if you choose to check your opponent’s)? Just seems pointless. (-2pts)
Creativity/Originality: 13/20
(There’s a lot of stuff going on, that’s for sure.)
Wording: 0/15
(Many errors.)
Believability/Playability: 7/15
(Far too complicated, strange HP and attack.)
Total: 20/50
Alex Sableye:
I quite like the idea you’re going for in Emergency Synthesis! The flavour is quite fitting, and it is a unique effect for closing the gap if you’re behind. It works nicely with Energy Cyclone as well, which is great. That said, the effect itself is actually pretty broken. Firstly, it stacks, meaning you could be attaching a massive 6+ Energy a turn with the right engine. Additionally, most Pokemon will be able to attack after one or two Energy attachments, even if the attack isn’t that useful, meaning you’re gaining an advantage virtually for free. Even then, being able to attach 3 Energy via an Ability whenever your opponent tries to KO you is still pretty big.
Hurricane Force is also pretty neat. It’s not useful against any non-GX deck, and although the decision can be difficult for your opponent to make, the attack can still be combated rather easily with any sort of Ability-based draw-power. Even then, there’s no guarantee that your opponent won’t draw into a draw-power card and cause your GX attack to be all for naught anyway, making it a rather balanced design.
Regarding your wording, I would recommend looking up references for your effects. It will save you missing those silly wording mistakes and boost your score up.
Wording errors:
- “(before your attack)” should be in italics and the “Before” should not be capitalised. (-2pts)
- The “(before your attack)” clause should be before the comma, not after it. (-1pt)
- “energy” should be capitalised as “Energy”. x3 (-2pts)
- “one” should be “1”. x2 (-1.5pts)
- When attached to a Pokemon, Energy cards are referred to as “Energy”. (-1pts)
- “Pokemon” should be accented as “Pokémon”. x7 (-4pts)
- There should be the “(You can’t use more than 1 GX attack in a game.)” clause at the end of the GX attack. (-2pts)
- The Pokemon-GX rule is also missing. (-2pts)
Creativity/Originality: 18/20
(Great exploration of design space, nice synergy.)
Wording: 0/15
(Quite a few errors; but referencing in future should sort that out for you!)
Believability/Playability: 12/15
(Broken Ability, especially so with the attack.)
Total: 30/50
NinJamezor:
Aha! I haven’t seen a non-SM-era card yet, so this is a nice change!
Armor-Plated doesn’t strike me as anything new, although the increase in HP is a nice twist. I do think the Ability creeps in power a tad, though. Looking at official Pokemon SP, even Pokemon like Garchomp or Regigagas have 80HP and 100HP respectively, whereas the Ability will push Chesnaught’s to 100. I would imagine that a Chesnaught Pokemon SP would have had about 80 or 90 HP at the most, even without the Ability.
Spiky Slam works nicely with the Ability. It’s particularly nice in the balancing department, as the cost is large (and suitable for a Chesnaught), and discarding those Tools will reduce that precious HP.
Wording errors:
- “amount of Tool cards” should be “amount of Pokemon Tool cards”. (-1pt)
- “ times the amount of” should be “for each”. (-1pt)
Creativity/Originality: 16/20
(Nice flavour, nice synergy, and just an elegant design.)
Wording: 13/15
(A few minor slips.)
Believability/Playability: 14/15
(Slightly high HP.)
Total: 43/50
Tails:
Sunflora [G] HP: 90
Stage 1- Evolves from Sunkern
#192 Sun Pokémon | 2'07 | 18.7lbs
Ability: Walking on Sunshine
Once during your turn (before you attack), you may remove 2 damage counters from each of your [G] Pokémon. You can't use more than 1 Walking on Sunshine Ability each turn. This Ability can't be used if Sunflora is affected by a Special Condition.
[G] [C] Sunshine Special
Search your deck for 1 [G] Pokémon and 1 [G] Energy and show them to your opponent. Shuffle your deck afterwards.
[G] [G] [C] Flower Power 30x
Flip a coin for each [G] Pokémon on your Bench. This attack does 30 damage times the number of heads.
Weakness - [R] x2
Resistance -
Retreat Cost - [C]
Sunflora converts solar energy into nutrition. It moves around actively in the daytime when it is warm. It stops moving as soon as the sun goes down for the night.
♩ ♪ ♩ I used to think may-be you love-d me! ♫ ♩ ♪
Ahem. Flavour is definitely great, and really brings out Sunflora at its best! There’s nothing particularly new going on here, however it is nice to see that there’s synergy across the three effects. Sunshine Special brings out some [G] Pokemon, which you can sustain with the Ability or use to power up your Flower Power attack. I do find it a bit strange that you’ve got a “This Ability can’t be used if Sunflora is affected by a Special Condition.”, since that’s never used on Abilities.
I’m not sure which era you’re actually going for here, since your references point to HGSS, but calling the Ability an “Ability” and giving Sunflora HP90 makes me think otherwise. Since you didn’t specify, I’ll be judging it as SM-era.
Wording errors:
- “before you attack” should be “before your attack”. (-1pt)
- “(before your attack)” should be in italics. (-1pt)
- “remove 2 damage counters” should be “heal 20 damage” from the BW-era onwards. (-1pt)
- “1 [G] Energy/Pokemon” should be “a [G] Energy/Pokemon”. x2 (-1.5pts)
Creativity/Originality: 15/20
(Bright and fresh flavour and synergy.)
Wording: 11/15
(A few minor errors.)
Believability/Playability: 14/15
(Strange clause in the Ability.)
Total: 40/50
VioletValkyrie:
Hooray, someone who actually includes the Pokemon-GX Rule on their Pokemon-GX!
The flavour is definitely on the mark here, which is great! Snow Spread is a nice nod to Abomasnow SF, and that Energy discard puts a nice twist on the effect. I’m also glad to see that you Abomasnow must be an Active Pokemon for this effect to activate, as it would be too powerful otherwise.
Hailstorm Snowdown has nice synergy with the Ability, and is unique enough for me not to have a reference off the top of my head, which is also nice.
Wording errors:
- The three clauses in brackets, excluding the GX attack clause, should be in italics. x3 (-2pts)
- The base damage for Avalanche Rush should be “40+”. (-1pt)
Creativity/Originality: 17/20
(Nostalgic spins on effects, nice flavour and synergy.)
Wording: 12/15
(Two minor slips.)
Believability/Playability: 15/15
(Looks perfect to me!)
Total: 44/50
rainyman123:
An Ability that lets you put damage counters on your own Pokemon? Well, that’s new! I just… don’t see the point of it. It has no synergy with your other attack, and it’s certainly unique if it’s meant to balance, but using an Ability to do that is a rather strange.
Insanity Hammer forcing you to repeatedly use the attack is also rather interesting. It reminds me of the canonical Giga Impact. I suppose that it’s intended to lock you into using Insanity Hammer with no way to break out of it (beyond switching), although I would have liked to see it played around with more. Honestly, both effects on different cards with a second effort more tailored to it would have given you some great points, but this combination just doesn’t make sense to me.
On a different note, I would say 200 HP is too high. Sure, Regigigas creeped 40 HP, but on the other hand, Wailord had not HP increase at all, flatlining at 200. I would say Chesnaught would hit somewhere between 170 or 190, but not the same as Wailord.
Wording errors:
- “(before their attack)” should be before the comma. (-1pt)
- “(before their attack)” should be in italics. (-1pt)
- “they” would be “your opponent”. (-1pt)
- “active” should be “Active”. (-1pt)
- “has enough Energy attached to it to use Insanity Hammer” should be “has the necessary Energy to use Insanity Hammer”. (-2pts) [Ref: Kecleon PLF].
- I’m not exactly sure how this would be worded, but I know that “and has not already used an attack during this turn” is not right. For one, it isn’t “this turn” at the “end of your next turn”. I’d imagine it’d be worded something like “and did not attack during that turn”. (-2pts)
Creativity/Originality: 17/20
(Creative, but the combination of effects doesn’t make sense.)
Wording: 7/15
(Some minor and tricky major errors.)
Believability/Playability: 14/15
(The HP wouldn’t be right.)
Total: 38/50
GM Draclord:
I like your solution to the Mega Pokemon mechanic, Drac!
I am quite liking the flavour you’ve got going here, especially “Forest Glider”. The effect itself isn’t anything particularly new, although the discarding a card is a nice touch. Three other Lv.Xs have attacks quite similar to Power Sniper, although with more significant drawbacks. That said, Power Sniper requiring 1 more Energy and moving 2 Energy away balances it out nicely.
Wording errors:
- “(before your attack)” should be in italics. (-1pt)
- “our” should be “your”. (-1pt)
- “one” should be “1”. (-1pt)
- “energy” should be “Energy”. (-1pt)
- In the attack, “Sceptile” should be “Sceptile Lv.M”. (-1pt)
Creativity/Originality: 14/20
(Some nice flavour and new effect combinations.)
Wording: 10/15
(A few minor slips.)
Believability/Playability: 15/15
(Seems fine to me.)
Total: 39/50
TheFlyingPidove:
Nice to see you back, Pidove!
Flavour is nice as per normal! Blooming Garden isn’t anything particularly new, being done before for [Y]-types in a Florges, while Quiver Dance is your standard run-of-the-mill deck search. I do however think that searching your deck for 4 cards for a single [C] is a bit of a power creep; you could probably get away with 3 now-a-days, but not 4 (yet). I do like the choice to make Quiver Dance cost [C] instead of [G], to keep it in check alongside that Ability.
Wording errors:
- “attacks costs” should be “attacks cost”. (-1pt)
- There should be no commas in “...4 cards, and put them…”. (-1pt)
Creativity/Originality: 13/20
(Some nice flavour and combinations.)
Wording: 13/15
(A few minor misses.)
Believability/Playability: 14/15
(Slight power creep.)
Total: 40/50
Ninja Penguin:
Basic\Gogoat EX\HP 170\Grass
Ability: Crazy Munching
As often as you like during your turn (before your attack), you may discard a card attached to this Pokémon.
[G][G][G] Reckless Taxi 100
You may switch 1 of your opponent’s Benched Pokémon with his or her Active Pokémon. If you do, your opponent may switch this Pokémon with 1 of your Benched Pokémon and put 4 damage counters on this Pokémon.
Weakness: [R] x2
Resistance:
Retreat Cost: [C][C][C]
Crazy Munching is a rather intriguing ability, although I’m struggling to find much use for it. It’s not that useful as an anti-Yveltal effect, since when deciding whether to reduce attached Energy (and thus damage done to you) or to attack, you’re going to choose attack 95% of the time. Any remaining usefulness would be as a tool remover, and a rather crude one at that, which then begs the question of why not returning the Tool to your hand (which would also discard Team Flare tool)? It just seems highly niche, more so than even other rather niche Abilities and effects that have been officially printed.I probably would have like to see the Ability interact with the attack somehow.
Reckless Taxi has great flavour, and I like how your opponent switches Gogoat out for you. I do, however, question whether giving your opponent the option to switch Gogoat after you switch their Active makes sense with the flavour. I just can’t see a reckless Gogoat staying in their starting position if it was to be taxing other Pokemon around.
Wording errors:
- None!
Creativity/Originality: 17/20
(Great exploration of design space.)
Wording: 15/15
(Looks fine!)
Believability/Playability: 13/15
(Strange ability, odd design choice in the attack.)
Total: 45/50
P3DS:
A Prism Star! This will be interesting to judge!
Forbidden Fruit is some interesting exploration of design space, somewhat reminiscent of Gladion and that card’s interaction with Prize cards, actually. That said, I think the exploration went a tad too far. This design breaks that unwritten yet very real rule: cards should never leave the Lost Zone in any way, period. Otherwise, what makes it any different to the discard pile?
Gusty Flap is fairly standard for an effect, although still rather elegant and flavourful. I am a little hesitant about the power levels, since three cards for [G] is quite a lot, and especially potent if you can keep your opponent at bay and pull multiple attacks off. The only reason that I’m letting this pass is because this of the Prism Star rule, which means one would have to play carefully, as one wrong move and you won’t be able to touch Tropius again. (It would, of course, be a different story if Pokemon could use attacks from Pokemon in the Lost Zone as in the HGSS-era, but I don’t see that happening in this era.)
Wording errors:
- It is “in the Lost Zone”, not “into the Lost Zone”. (-1pt)
- There should be a period after “deck”. (-1pt)
Creativity/Originality: 16/20
(Nice flavour and exploration of design space.)
Wording: 13/15
(A couple of misses.)
Believability/Playability: 13/15
(Once in the Lost Zone, cards should never leave it.)
Total: 42/50
3rd Place: VioletValkyrie’ nostalgic Abomasnow-GX, with 44/50 points.
2nd Place: NinjaPenguin’s insane Gogoat-EX, with 45/50 points.
1st Place: DoubleAACE’s carefree Whimsicott takes the win by a breath, with 46/50 points!
Image-Based Results
Judge: @TheR3DX
So... 7 and a bit months later, the long-lost judging for the image-based portion is now up! Record for the longest wait on the official judging results? Maybe?
Thanks to R3 for finishing it off. ^.^
The idea of a Kartana physically attaching itself to a living creature
is horrifying and I feel bad for what ever gets a paper cut from
Kartana.
Creativity/Originality: 13/15
The ability is pretty good (for you) turning a lot of 2hkos into
1hkos. The idea of a Pokemon turning itself into a tool to further
your game is pretty cool I wish we could see more cards like it with
the massive number of object based Pokemon.
Wording: 13/15
”if there are 8 or more total Prize cards remaining in play,”
should be “if total of both players’ remaining Prize cards is 8 or
more,” (Ultra Necrozma-GX FLI 140) -2 points
Fonts and Placement: 9/10
Flavor text isn’t normally italicized -1 point
Believability/Playability: 2/5
I feel like while the restriction of 8 or more prizes does help
balance it out +80 damage is pretty high especially when this attaches
to the opponent allowing you to still use a Choice Band. Seeing how
this card can be searched with level ball and could easily work itself
into any deck that has the extra space I could see it being one of the
highest used support cards for hyper offensive decks and make lower HP
starting cards a major liability to use.
Aesthetics: 3/5
I like your artwork for the card, you are missing the holosheet
that goes over the S/M Shining Pokemon
Total: 40/50
I keep forgetting Shiinotc is a Pokemon let alone such a creepily cool
one. I love the blacked out almost traditional alien looking eyes
Creativity/Originality: 9/15
The attacks work together perfectly and leaves a clear strategy for
this cards usage.
Wording: 13/15
- “If tails, this attack does nothing.” Is not needed. (Ekans SLG
36) -2 point(s)
Fonts and Placement: 10/10
Everything looks correct
Believability/Playability: 4/5
The Weakness and Resistance for Fairy type cards is normally weak
to Metal and resist Darkness, I understand where you’re coming from
using alternate VG Weaknesses and Resistances. Also, I feel the coin
flip isn’t needed as not only does Morelull UPR 92 auto sleep but you
have a 50% chance of putting them to sleep and a 25% chance of them
staying asleep by your next attack.
Aesthetics: 4/5
The cracked ice holo looks cool even if it’s not the normal reverse
foil pattern.
Total: 40/50
That is probably the best official Shaymin art so far, no surprise it
came out of the best generation
Creativity/Originality: 15/15
Simply put this is an amazing support card during the Neo era.
There’s such a large list of Pokemon that could use an extra
attachment or two.
Wording: 15/15
I see nothing wrong
Fonts and Placement: 10/10
Everything lines up with official E-reader, technically this is a
custom blank anyways
Believability/Playability: 5/5
This card would have its spot in the meta while not being overly
used or universally good but a versatile support card the combined
with other cards could easily use Shaymin to its fullest
Aesthetics: 5/5
This is what a FA should be instead of a seemingly stiff pokemon
over a bright background, looking to you FA GX. The art falls in line
more with the Gold FA EX cards (which were probably the best FA’s of
the XY era)
Total: 50/50
I find it weird how Roserade, a grass/poison type just like Venusaur,
seemingly never has a Water resistance. The card itself seems like a
massive pain to fight against especially during early set up
Creativity/Originality: 14/15
These are two extremely interesting attacks that both have their
own uses in the BW-XY meta. Tear out can be used with a few lock
decks, Chaos Root can massively mess with decks using DCE attackers by
putting DCE’s on your opponent’s Shaymin/Jirachi forcing their hand by
making them waste a turn attacking with Shaymin or keeping one of
their vital resources locked onto a 2-prize bench sitter
Wording: 15/15
I couldn’t find much about playing a returning card(s) from the
field but this looks like accurate BW-XY wording -0 points
Fonts and Placement: 10/10
Everything looks great!
Believability/Playability: 4/5
I feel like tear out could be abused with Vileplume especially if
this is pre-Forest ban in a strange lock deck that would aim to remove
as many of your opponent’s Pokemon
Aesthetics: 5/5
This is a perfectly executed FA the texturing looking amazing
Total: 48/50
It’s nice to see someone doing their own art work, it took me a while
to see the Darkrai in the background
Creativity/Originality: 11/15
The ability here makes this a good 1 of in high evolution-based
decks especially grass evolutions.
Wording: 15/15
Everything looks good
Fonts and Placement: 0/10
I highly recommend checking out the faking help thread along with
the faking discord if you’re able to use discord. Also finding a scan
of a card with a similar amount of text and making it semitransparent
and overlaying it on your card can help with fonts and placement.
Believability/Playability: 4/5
Something like this would be an automatic inclusion in every
evolution deck. While not making any specific deck BDIF it would give
evolution decks a boost against the big basics of the BW-XY meta
Aesthetics: 3/5
I like that you’ve done your own artwork for your card. I recommend
playing around with holosheets to make your art pop more
Total: 33/50
I love seeing alternate typed starters. We need to more uncommon typed
cards in the tcg. That being said I love the art that came from Pokken
and the HD textures
Creativity/Originality: 13/15
This funny enough has pretty good synergy with Decidueye SM12, the
GX attack works well with Feather Arrow allowing you to once per game
double the overall amount of damage your opponent’s Pokemon have taken
and lead to several knock outs from one attack.
Wording: 15/15
Everything looks solid
Fonts and Placement: 8/10
The card name should be layered above the art -1 point
The attack damage should be justified with the attack effects -1
point
Believability/Playability: 5/5
This card while having a rather powerful GX attack is balanced out
by a heavy attack cost and a weakness to one of the most dominate
attacking types in the TCG.
Aesthetics: 3/5
I love the art/models that came out of Pokken, you’re missing a
holosheet for GX cards
Total: 44/50
I love this look for the GX cards! The way the art kinda fades into
the type texture is amazing. It’s also funny to see you do the other
eeveelution.
Creativity/Originality: 12/15
The ability and GX attack work extremely well together allowing you
to get at least 3 extra G energy on the field.
Wording: 15/15
Everything looks good
Fonts and Placement: 10/10
It’s so weird looking at Blue effect text and not seeing the white
outline. It does make sense for the blank used.
Believability/Playability: 5/5
This card is pretty useful for supporting high energy attackers or
Pokemon that use an abundance of energy to do damage.
Aesthetics: 5/5
From to art to the custom blank this card is amazing, I might play
with this style of GX it looks amazing.
Total: 47/50
Probably my favorite Grass-typed starter
Creativity/Originality: 8/15
I feel like a GX Pokemon should have a little more to its attacks
to give it a bigger edge.
Wording: 8.5/15
”your grass type” should read “your G Pokémon” -1 point
Forgot the é in Pokémon x2 -1.5 point
after weakness and resistance should read “(after applying Weakness
and Resistance). -2 points (I would like to note that traditionally
attacks that boost damage apply the boosted damage before applying
weakness and resistance)
“If you or your opponent have a Pokemon with the Sunny Day ability in
play heal 120 damage instead” should read “If any Pokémon in play has
the Sunny Day Ability, heal 120 damage instead.” -2 points
Fonts and Placement: 0/10
I would highly recommend checking the faking resources thread to
get the necessary fonts and icons for S/M faking along with joining
the faking discord for getting help with fonts and placements
Believability/Playability: 3.5/5
While the attacks fall in line with attacks we’ve seen before. The
-40 resistance, 260hp, and inclusion of fairy energy on a grass/ground
Pokémon take away a little bit
Aesthetics: 2/5
I like your art and the detailing with the FA outline, I would
recommend using a background color that contrasts with torterra and
looking into holosheets
Total: 22/50
3rd Place: Nyan’s Leafeon-GX, with 47/50 points.
2nd Place: BBNinja’s Roserade-EX, with 48/50 points.
1st Place: Jabberwock’s Shaymin, with 50/50 points.
Judge: @TheR3DX
So... 7 and a bit months later, the long-lost judging for the image-based portion is now up! Record for the longest wait on the official judging results? Maybe?
Thanks to R3 for finishing it off. ^.^
The idea of a Kartana physically attaching itself to a living creature
is horrifying and I feel bad for what ever gets a paper cut from
Kartana.
Creativity/Originality: 13/15
The ability is pretty good (for you) turning a lot of 2hkos into
1hkos. The idea of a Pokemon turning itself into a tool to further
your game is pretty cool I wish we could see more cards like it with
the massive number of object based Pokemon.
Wording: 13/15
”if there are 8 or more total Prize cards remaining in play,”
should be “if total of both players’ remaining Prize cards is 8 or
more,” (Ultra Necrozma-GX FLI 140) -2 points
Fonts and Placement: 9/10
Flavor text isn’t normally italicized -1 point
Believability/Playability: 2/5
I feel like while the restriction of 8 or more prizes does help
balance it out +80 damage is pretty high especially when this attaches
to the opponent allowing you to still use a Choice Band. Seeing how
this card can be searched with level ball and could easily work itself
into any deck that has the extra space I could see it being one of the
highest used support cards for hyper offensive decks and make lower HP
starting cards a major liability to use.
Aesthetics: 3/5
I like your artwork for the card, you are missing the holosheet
that goes over the S/M Shining Pokemon
Total: 40/50
I keep forgetting Shiinotc is a Pokemon let alone such a creepily cool
one. I love the blacked out almost traditional alien looking eyes
Creativity/Originality: 9/15
The attacks work together perfectly and leaves a clear strategy for
this cards usage.
Wording: 13/15
- “If tails, this attack does nothing.” Is not needed. (Ekans SLG
36) -2 point(s)
Fonts and Placement: 10/10
Everything looks correct
Believability/Playability: 4/5
The Weakness and Resistance for Fairy type cards is normally weak
to Metal and resist Darkness, I understand where you’re coming from
using alternate VG Weaknesses and Resistances. Also, I feel the coin
flip isn’t needed as not only does Morelull UPR 92 auto sleep but you
have a 50% chance of putting them to sleep and a 25% chance of them
staying asleep by your next attack.
Aesthetics: 4/5
The cracked ice holo looks cool even if it’s not the normal reverse
foil pattern.
Total: 40/50
That is probably the best official Shaymin art so far, no surprise it
came out of the best generation
Creativity/Originality: 15/15
Simply put this is an amazing support card during the Neo era.
There’s such a large list of Pokemon that could use an extra
attachment or two.
Wording: 15/15
I see nothing wrong
Fonts and Placement: 10/10
Everything lines up with official E-reader, technically this is a
custom blank anyways
Believability/Playability: 5/5
This card would have its spot in the meta while not being overly
used or universally good but a versatile support card the combined
with other cards could easily use Shaymin to its fullest
Aesthetics: 5/5
This is what a FA should be instead of a seemingly stiff pokemon
over a bright background, looking to you FA GX. The art falls in line
more with the Gold FA EX cards (which were probably the best FA’s of
the XY era)
Total: 50/50
I find it weird how Roserade, a grass/poison type just like Venusaur,
seemingly never has a Water resistance. The card itself seems like a
massive pain to fight against especially during early set up
Creativity/Originality: 14/15
These are two extremely interesting attacks that both have their
own uses in the BW-XY meta. Tear out can be used with a few lock
decks, Chaos Root can massively mess with decks using DCE attackers by
putting DCE’s on your opponent’s Shaymin/Jirachi forcing their hand by
making them waste a turn attacking with Shaymin or keeping one of
their vital resources locked onto a 2-prize bench sitter
Wording: 15/15
I couldn’t find much about playing a returning card(s) from the
field but this looks like accurate BW-XY wording -0 points
Fonts and Placement: 10/10
Everything looks great!
Believability/Playability: 4/5
I feel like tear out could be abused with Vileplume especially if
this is pre-Forest ban in a strange lock deck that would aim to remove
as many of your opponent’s Pokemon
Aesthetics: 5/5
This is a perfectly executed FA the texturing looking amazing
Total: 48/50
It’s nice to see someone doing their own art work, it took me a while
to see the Darkrai in the background
Creativity/Originality: 11/15
The ability here makes this a good 1 of in high evolution-based
decks especially grass evolutions.
Wording: 15/15
Everything looks good
Fonts and Placement: 0/10
I highly recommend checking out the faking help thread along with
the faking discord if you’re able to use discord. Also finding a scan
of a card with a similar amount of text and making it semitransparent
and overlaying it on your card can help with fonts and placement.
Believability/Playability: 4/5
Something like this would be an automatic inclusion in every
evolution deck. While not making any specific deck BDIF it would give
evolution decks a boost against the big basics of the BW-XY meta
Aesthetics: 3/5
I like that you’ve done your own artwork for your card. I recommend
playing around with holosheets to make your art pop more
Total: 33/50
I love seeing alternate typed starters. We need to more uncommon typed
cards in the tcg. That being said I love the art that came from Pokken
and the HD textures
Creativity/Originality: 13/15
This funny enough has pretty good synergy with Decidueye SM12, the
GX attack works well with Feather Arrow allowing you to once per game
double the overall amount of damage your opponent’s Pokemon have taken
and lead to several knock outs from one attack.
Wording: 15/15
Everything looks solid
Fonts and Placement: 8/10
The card name should be layered above the art -1 point
The attack damage should be justified with the attack effects -1
point
Believability/Playability: 5/5
This card while having a rather powerful GX attack is balanced out
by a heavy attack cost and a weakness to one of the most dominate
attacking types in the TCG.
Aesthetics: 3/5
I love the art/models that came out of Pokken, you’re missing a
holosheet for GX cards
Total: 44/50
I love this look for the GX cards! The way the art kinda fades into
the type texture is amazing. It’s also funny to see you do the other
eeveelution.
Creativity/Originality: 12/15
The ability and GX attack work extremely well together allowing you
to get at least 3 extra G energy on the field.
Wording: 15/15
Everything looks good
Fonts and Placement: 10/10
It’s so weird looking at Blue effect text and not seeing the white
outline. It does make sense for the blank used.
Believability/Playability: 5/5
This card is pretty useful for supporting high energy attackers or
Pokemon that use an abundance of energy to do damage.
Aesthetics: 5/5
From to art to the custom blank this card is amazing, I might play
with this style of GX it looks amazing.
Total: 47/50
Probably my favorite Grass-typed starter
Creativity/Originality: 8/15
I feel like a GX Pokemon should have a little more to its attacks
to give it a bigger edge.
Wording: 8.5/15
”your grass type” should read “your G Pokémon” -1 point
Forgot the é in Pokémon x2 -1.5 point
after weakness and resistance should read “(after applying Weakness
and Resistance). -2 points (I would like to note that traditionally
attacks that boost damage apply the boosted damage before applying
weakness and resistance)
“If you or your opponent have a Pokemon with the Sunny Day ability in
play heal 120 damage instead” should read “If any Pokémon in play has
the Sunny Day Ability, heal 120 damage instead.” -2 points
Fonts and Placement: 0/10
I would highly recommend checking the faking resources thread to
get the necessary fonts and icons for S/M faking along with joining
the faking discord for getting help with fonts and placements
Believability/Playability: 3.5/5
While the attacks fall in line with attacks we’ve seen before. The
-40 resistance, 260hp, and inclusion of fairy energy on a grass/ground
Pokémon take away a little bit
Aesthetics: 2/5
I like your art and the detailing with the FA outline, I would
recommend using a background color that contrasts with torterra and
looking into holosheets
Total: 22/50
3rd Place: Nyan’s Leafeon-GX, with 47/50 points.
2nd Place: BBNinja’s Roserade-EX, with 48/50 points.
1st Place: Jabberwock’s Shaymin, with 50/50 points.
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Wow... that's some high numbers
Congrats to Jabber though with a perfect 50/50, well worth it too!~
Didn't expect to win. Part of me feels that if I'd hand drawn it I would've done better but I didn't know how to use my scanner at the time. Oh well, . Good job Jabber!
. Good job Jabber!