Luispipe8 said:Damn you, first grade math!!! D: In my notepad I deducted 2 points, I guess I must have transcribed it wrong.And oh, derp, I overlooked your score when writing the standings in a paper. u.u Sorry, rev, adding you right away!
rev3rsor said:Luispipe8 said:Damn you, first grade math!!! D: In my notepad I deducted 2 points, I guess I must have transcribed it wrong.
No problem, thanks! Interesting to see so many 48s as well as a tie for 1st
Can't wait for next month!! 
GadgetJax said:
Scorched Feathers said:
Scorched Feathers said:
GadgetJax said:
Hopefully I'll have more time to make a better entry next month, and make my entry look a little more presentable as well.
Machamp The Champion said:Woot! Second place with a last minute entry! I definitely wasn't expecting to get perfect scores on Believability and Wording. I somewhat disagree with my card being overly good (how could you get a DCE and a Milotic consistently to use the attack with 4 Swalot in play? And the attack is unreliable, because your opponent can easily play around it with low Energy attackers or Pokemon that discard their own Energy. And getting 4 Swalot is nearly impossible, what with their somewhat low HP and having so much Energy on them), considering some of the entries that got a perfect Believability score, but I'll try not to be anymore salty than I already am.
Congrats to PMJ, Athena, Squirtle Squad, Alex, and everyone else for their awesome entries!
). I think it was at 86% perhaps? Guess 88% is the correct width - duly noted!
For the "Evolves from..." text, I think it's one of those things that matters less and less the smaller the blank, but I made my own font guide based on larger blanks...Huderon of Canossa said:Excellent, was waiting the results to come out!
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I try to cover up my grammatical blunders with weird effects and mechanics, though that usually means that I have an even harder time of getting the wording right.
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I used this for the font and placement reference, so I used Futura LT Medium for the 'Evolves from...' text (many thanks to aschefield for providing this and the Dark blank, btw). I actually do not have any font from the Frutiger family!
Yes the HP is too thin, I noticed only after I submitted my entry though (as well as other errors
For the stats bar text I did not have Gill Sans, so I tried to match the font with Gill Sans Std by varying the width and spacing. I couldn't quite nail that spacing unfortunately. Well, more tinkering with that for next month (unless of course, I find Gill Sans instead).
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As expected, so many silly mistakes (170.06 lbs whoops!). That said, the retreat cost capitalisation and contracted english are things I really ought to remember, I've gotten rusty.
You worded that Ability better than I ever could!
The attack power was originally 10+70, but I up-scaled it a bit upon seeing the power level of the current Megas and EXs. I really considered bumping up its RC by 1 so that the energy discard has more of an impact (though that would deviate from the old cacturne cards, from what I recall they all have 1 RC cost).
Perhaps I should have opted for 20+70? Or 30+60? Oh well
I estimated I would get 40/41 points, so I pretty much agree with the score haha
'twas a blast getting back into faking again, and actually using official set blanks instead of my weird customs. First time adding fonts to the card in Illustrator though, a little finicky for someone used to Photoshop like me
Congrats on those that placed, and everyone else too - strong entries all around. Clearly I have to bring it up a notch for next month. I promise the next illustration will be better, too!
Luispipe8 said:Machamp The Champion said:Woot! Second place with a last minute entry! I definitely wasn't expecting to get perfect scores on Believability and Wording. I somewhat disagree with my card being overly good (how could you get a DCE and a Milotic consistently to use the attack with 4 Swalot in play? And the attack is unreliable, because your opponent can easily play around it with low Energy attackers or Pokemon that discard their own Energy. And getting 4 Swalot is nearly impossible, what with their somewhat low HP and having so much Energy on them), considering some of the entries that got a perfect Believability score, but I'll try not to be anymore salty than I already am.
Congrats to PMJ, Athena, Squirtle Squad, Alex, and everyone else for their awesome entries!
A Milotic is only necessary for the first Swalot, because with one's attack you can power up the next one. And Level Ball, Ultra Ball, Evosoda and Fan Club can all make the 4 Swalot happen. It's not obnoxiously OP, though, which is why I only took 2 points.
Scorched Feathers said:
Machamp The Champion said:
And I actually agree with all of that, which is why I took only 2 points. It can be abused up to some point, but it's not broken. If you noticed, I've docked more points in Balance this month, so it's not like your card is as broken as a M-Yveltal with "Maleficent Ball" would be (lol), I like the card, actually.