PokéBeach Create-A-Card May 2013! Grats to PMJ, Lemonnade, Teal, & Zarco!
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RE: PokéBeach Create-A-Card May 2013!
I used Bellossom in Emerald and Cacturne is still better.
All right, that's signups closed. Surprisingly I didn't see a card from Delta Nite, unless I didn't dig far enough back in the topic. aschefield101 will be judging image-based and I will be judging text-based, as we did last month. I'll put the judging results up for both sometime this week.
SheNinja said:
I used Bellossom in Emerald and Cacturne is still better.
All right, that's signups closed. Surprisingly I didn't see a card from Delta Nite, unless I didn't dig far enough back in the topic. aschefield101 will be judging image-based and I will be judging text-based, as we did last month. I'll put the judging results up for both sometime this week.
RE: PokéBeach Create-A-Card May 2013!
I think I may have broken my face with the amount of force that I put into this facepalm.
SheNinja said:
I think I may have broken my face with the amount of force that I put into this facepalm.
RE: PokéBeach Create-A-Card May 2013!
It's not that it's bad, it's that it struggles with things like Keldeo and Darkrai, the match ups where it doesn't have anything good going for it. Yeah, it ditches all of Plasma Box's energies, it OHKO's Rayeels (if those still see play anymore), and doesn't mind Plasma Klinklang, but Darkrai and Keldeo can both potentially OHKO Garchomps, and if not, they can definitely take KO's on Altaria. If your meta is right for it, I suppose Garchomp could thrive.
I only vaguely remember that far back
It's not that it's bad, it's that it struggles with things like Keldeo and Darkrai, the match ups where it doesn't have anything good going for it. Yeah, it ditches all of Plasma Box's energies, it OHKO's Rayeels (if those still see play anymore), and doesn't mind Plasma Klinklang, but Darkrai and Keldeo can both potentially OHKO Garchomps, and if not, they can definitely take KO's on Altaria. If your meta is right for it, I suppose Garchomp could thrive.
DNA said:
I only vaguely remember that far back
RE: PokéBeach Create-A-Card May 2013!
FYI: Image based has been sorted. DNA will post them alongside his text-based when he can
FYI: Image based has been sorted. DNA will post them alongside his text-based when he can
RE: PokéBeach Create-A-Card May 2013!
Arctic White :
First things first, kudo's to using your own art, and a 3D-esque one at that! Sadly I don't feel this is Arctics best My main issues were with the following :
Creativity/Originality: 14/20
Wording: 9/15
Fonts and Placement: 3/10
Believability/Playability: 2/5
Total: 28/50
Blui :
Now for Mr Blui, my card nemesis! He's really gone to town on this one, thats for sure!
Theres not much I can critique regarding this card, in relation to things being right or wrong, other than :
Creativity/Originality: 19/20
Wording: 14/15
Fonts and Placement: 9/10
Believability/Playability: 5/5
Total: 47/50
Delta :
Avast! Delta enters the card arena! Everything, and I mean -everything- on this card seems to be placed in absolute perfection..... or is it?
There are only 3 things I can see, all of which are really minor. This card could basically be bunged in a set booster and you'd think its real. Great sign of a great faker imo!
Creativity/Originality: 18/20
Wording: 14/15
Fonts and Placement: 8/10
Believability/Playability: 4/5
Total: 44/50
Mora :
Another newcomer to the faking world, we welcome Mora unto the fray!
For a first of the batch of fakes done, Mora has done really well imo. Bellossom isn't used as much as I'd like, mainly due to lack of art, but its one of the cutest Pokemon you can find
The card itself is really nice and very well made for a first timer, there are however some inaccuracies that need addressing for the next time, hopefully this will help :
Creativity/Originality: 15/20
Wording: 9/15
Fonts and Placement: 5/10
Believability/Playability: 4/5
Total: 33/50
PMJ :
Now for the card behemoth that is, PMJ!
PMJ has seriously gone into perfection overdrive on this one. Everything, except for 2 things are perfectly placed. I had to check twice just to make sure I wasn't going mad lol
Creativity/Originality: 20/20
Wording: 15/15
Fonts and Placement: 9/10
Believability/Playability: 5/5
Total: 49/50
rally :
Yet another newcomer to the image faking arena, we have rally! Another one deciding to take on the classic era and quite rightly so, theres nothing better than the first few sets, imo!
Its a really nice attempt at a fake card I think. There are placement issues, fonts etc (see below) but I do love that image used. (I'm assuming GIMP was used.)
Creativity/Originality: 14/20
Wording: 12/15
Fonts and Placement: 3/10
Believability/Playability: 4/5
Total: 33/50
reggie mcgigas :
Regig's turn! I'd still call Regi new-ish, but he's slowly heading towards pro now. I just think there are still font issues (which he has spoke of a fair bit before) that let the card down really.
The card itself is very simple and lacks in the illus. dept I feel too. The background however, if used with a darker holosheet (with multiply on about 70%), then color dodge on top for about 80%-100%, would show off its shinyness more. Plus Volcarona could probably do with being slightly bigger
I think the same thing I spoke of before, with PMJ, regarding the attack energies/ability icon needing being more to the left applies here too, minor point there.
Overall its a nice and simple card, just lacks a bit image wise and could do with fonts being sorted, as best as they could. We need to figure out why you can't download + use them though Regi; a convo for another day though
Oh also almost forgot, the image used and/or background seems to be poking outside the edges of the card.
Creativity/Originality: 14/20
Wording: 13/15
Fonts and Placement: 2/10
Believability/Playability: 3/5
Total: 32/50
Text-Based:
AlexanderTheAwesome:
First off...I love the use of color for your energy symbols. I know a lot of entries this month have those, and it does add a very nice touch to the cards. Neat!
It seems you picked Ledian as your choice, which is good because we never have enough of those. Greenhouse Amplifier appears to be word-for-word Dark Shadow adapted to BW wording. As for Friendly Fire, wow, that is one cool attack. It can't be Catchered away either, which is awesome too - plus, the damage level is in fact appropriate - it only does 30 for 2 Energy. This month is already off to a great start; I hope most of the other entries are like this too.
Creativity/Originality: 18/20
Wording: 15/15
Believability/Playability: 15/15
Total: 48/50
Bo$$_89:
I wish I could give a 17/15 for Believability/Playability, because this card is so embarrassingly simple it'll fit in perfectly with all the lamesauce BW-era cards.
But that wouldn't be fair.
Creativity/Originality: 10/20
Wording: 15/15
Believability/Playability: 15/15
Total: 40/50
Flygon2071:
Lol Vileplume with Drought. Wait...Vileplume with Drought? Ooh! Taking creativity one step further with a weather mechanic! I like it, I like it!
Normally you'd think weather would be a stadium, but triggered by an ability works too. Vileplume makes it sunny when it enters play (I think 'sunlight' is one word), which chains into its Solarbeam attack, which makes it break through Eviolite, Bright Down, and other nasty stuff. It also OHKOs Keldeo lololololololol
Creativity/Originality: 19/20
Wording: 15/15
Believability/Playability: 14/15
Total: 48/50
Fraxureking:
Jumpluff! Back again in style swarming all the things. This little guy is no different - a big 1-Energy attack which is somewhat reminiscent of Mass Attack, although it does cap at 80 (unless you play in the mirror), but Plasma Ball can help. And when it's put in the discard, even with things like Ultra Ball, it's a one-time Plasma Search. Pretty cool if I do say so myself. Only real small mistakes are the lack of 'reveal it' on the Ability, and I'd put 20x on the attack. But otherwise, looks great!
Creativity/Originality: 19/20
Wording: 14/15
Believability/Playability: 14/15
Total: 47/50
Hegafire0:
"This Pokemon's attacks do 20 more damage to the Active Pokemon for each [G] Energy attached to this Pokemon (before applying Weakness and Resistance)."
The attack is fine, wording wise.
Venusaur! No surprises there, but it actually looks quite interesting, It can hit 50, 90, or 130 based on whether or not DCE is used...but if Energy Trans is an option (and it commonly is), Venusaur can work well. Effect Spore I can see having a clause that says you can't choose more than 1 of Asleep, Confused, or Paralyzed, though, because otherwise it gets confusing, no pun intended. But I have always been a fan of Special Condition spam and I think that's what Grass-types are really all about.
Creativity/Originality: 20/20
Wording: 14/15
Believability/Playability: 13/15
Total: 47/50
Keeper of Night:
Hmm, Leafeon. Interesting. I'm sure the most interesting bit about it is the Gardening Ability, since Leaf Blade is pretty unremarkable. Like you said, plants don't like fire or poison, so it makes sense you can't garden like that. I'm imagining a Leafeon now with a trowel and a straw hat and everything and it's making me smile. ...The reason your Wording score is that way is because there's a lot of capitalization mistakes. I'll let you look over and find them yourself.
Creativity/Originality: 19/20
Wording: 13/15
Believability/Playability: 14/15
Total: 46/50
Lemonnade:
LV.X, how I've missed you. How I have missed you. And your choice for a LV.X is Armaldo, interestingly enough! He isn't often seen, which is a shame because he's pretty cool. This guy is a lot like Arceus LV.X - simple, but broad. He has the classic Dual Armor Poke-Body that was present in past Armaldo (and a few other things), and he can use the attack of any fossil Pokemon in play. It makes Fossilbox a feasible reality; this is pretty cool. ...I think this might very well be my favorite card this month.
Creativity/Originality: 20/20
Wording: 15/15
Believability/Playability: 15/15
Total: 50/50
Lugia123:
Interesante. Meganium. Meganium has a reputation for having all kinds of fun tricks throughout the history of TCG, and I see this is no exception. Its ability gives Grass-types +30 to everything they do, twice if you have 2. It can search 2 Grass-types for free, and it can do its big boom attack if your field has all Grass-types. Pretty interesting.
I do like it and all, since it's a really good all-around card, but...for some reason, doesn't it just seem really really OP?
Creativity/Originality: 18/20
Wording: 13/15
Believability/Playability: 11/15
Total: 42/50
Machamp the Champion:
First thing that comes to mind when reading this card? "Running away rules!!" And that you don't have a good handle on affect vs effect. (Don't worry; I pointed out where it needs fixing.) And then the attack is just Shiftry locking attacks and being annoying. Seriously, Wicked Swap is awesome. I know this is probably on some Neo era card somewhere...
Creativity/Originality: 20/20
Wording: 14/15
Believability/Playability: 14/15
Total: 48/50
MountainDrew:
Another Meganium gimmick, yeah? It can counter attacks by maybe healing 30 damage from itself, and its ability locks Trainers for a flat 70.
...wait. It locks TRAINERS? Like, the whole Item/Support/Stadium gamut? Wow, normally you'd need a flip for that. This Meganium seems really over the top as well. Fun, but over-the-top.
Creativity/Originality: 17/20
Wording: 14/15
Believability/Playability: 10/15
Total: 41/50
SheNinja:
It's like reverse Exeggcute! And an inexpensive attack that might force a discard. I'm not sure why you'd want to discard Exeggutor, except for stuff like Flareon's Vengeance, but still...it seems a little much. This might be a bland card, but not bad by any means.
Creativity/Originality: 16/20
Wording: 15/15
Believability/Playability: 15/15
Total: 46/50
Teal:
EX-STINGTION AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA that's marvelous. I do look forward to your card spoilers since you utilize different font sizes and alignments; it's fun. Sniper Needle looks to be Rush In + Poison, Ex-stingtion (I'm still smiling) is death to EXs for 1 Energy, and Wound Driller increases poison damage by 1. (I think the 'now' is optional and can be removed, but I think your wording is fine, except Active should be capitalized.) I like this one. Then again...I have said that about most cards this month
Creativity/Originality: 20/20
Wording: 15/15
Believability/Playability: 15/15
Total: 50/50
The Fire Wyrm:
Scyther. Harvest. Sacrifice. Ahahaha I see what you did there. The Ability...I think I get it, but the wording is tricky. It lets you attach 1 extra Energy from your hand for each Prize card you have taken, right? Closest thing I can think to word it is "During your turn (before your attack), you may attach 1 Energy card from your hand to 1 of your Pokemon. You can use this Ability during your turn a number of times equal to the number of Prize cards you have taken." And the attack would have "each" instead of "the amount of". Seems a bit of an overkill attack, though - like it's hastening the end of the game. Gigantic drawback, though - if the 120 fails to Knock Out the target, Scyther is done for. But the energy accel helps, so...seems a mite over the top.
Creativity/Originality: 20/20
Wording: 13/15
Believability/Playability: 12/15
Total: 45/50
Zarco:
Okay, the last one and I'm done for the month. And wow this one is cool. Its power is identical to Uxie's Set Up, but can be used only once per turn. Its attack is a lot like Lost Burn, except they go back into the deck - explaining why it's only 30x instead of 50x, since you can get them back later. But then the drawback, which is understandable, since you CAN get them back. Only note I'd make is to say "each Energy card shuffled", since attacks like that generally count cards. Other than that...excellent!
Creativity/Originality: 20/20
Wording: 15/15
Believability/Playability: 15/15
Total: 50/50
Clearly, as far as grading goes, aschefield makes me look like a total softie. I'm not sure if I was in a good mood or if everyone's cards were just of exceptional quality this month. In any case, the winner of image-based appears to be PMJ with his Breloom, with Blui and his Celebi * not far behind.
Text-based I must have been really generous with the points, because there were three-way ties for first AND second. The winners of text based are Lemonnade with Armaldo LV.X, Teal with Beedrill, and Zarco with Venusaur; and the runners-up were AlexanderTheAwesome with Ledian, Flygon2071 with Vileplume, and Machamp the Champion with Shiftry.
I don't know about you guys, but I really had fun this month looking at all the blanks! I'll probably post the next month's contest on Friday afternoon, since I have Battle Roads to judge at on Saturday and probably won't hit the midnight deadline, so that gives you a bit of a head start. Hopefully this time you won't read my mind and guess the theme ahead of time like you did this month.
See you guys real soon!
aschefield101 said:
Arctic White :
First things first, kudo's to using your own art, and a 3D-esque one at that! Sadly I don't feel this is Arctics best
My main issues were with the following :- Blank used is extremely old now (talking 2-3 years+ IIRC) and very, very small.
- The HP scaling seems very off.
- The attack itself is too far down, I assume thats due to the art used, but the art should always aim to fit around the attacks/surroundings.
- The attack energies are too small (again this might be due to blanks used)
- The attack symbols (grass black symbols) are too big, by a fair few pixels.
- The '+' next to the attack damage is too large, as is the 50 itself.
- B&W symbols used for W/R/R.
- There is no manufacture style code @ the bottom left, Pokemon copyright, set info, etc (excl. PB icon)
Creativity/Originality: 14/20
Wording: 9/15
Fonts and Placement: 3/10
Believability/Playability: 2/5
Total: 28/50
Blui :
Now for Mr Blui, my card nemesis!
He's really gone to town on this one, thats for sure!Theres not much I can critique regarding this card, in relation to things being right or wrong, other than :
- Celebi illustration is way too far South and South West. I think it could do with being moved more to the east/north east. Leaving it less "in your face" as it were, and just showing its legs coming out a bit etc.
- I'm not entirely sure if Time Weaves title text is a tiny bit too low down, but thats a very minor thing I noticed.
- The set numbers still feel off to me, what font/strength are being used there?
Creativity/Originality: 19/20
Wording: 14/15
Fonts and Placement: 9/10
Believability/Playability: 5/5
Total: 47/50
Delta :
Avast! Delta enters the card arena! Everything, and I mean -everything- on this card seems to be placed in absolute perfection..... or is it?
There are only 3 things I can see, all of which are really minor. This card could basically be bunged in a set booster and you'd think its real. Great sign of a great faker imo!
- Poison Shuffle's attack Energies I think are ever so slightl too far left, we're talking 2 maybe 3 or so pixels, so incredibly minor there and lawd only knows mine aren't pixel perfect either
- The Retreat Cost symbols need to be a few pixels left.
- My main thing about the card, is the image itself. I think it could've done with the holofoil treatment tbh, or maybe a more adventurous image. It just feels slightly lacking there, not much, just slightly. I'm a huge advocate for having sexy stage 2 holo images... lol
Creativity/Originality: 18/20
Wording: 14/15
Fonts and Placement: 8/10
Believability/Playability: 4/5
Total: 44/50
Mora :
Another newcomer to the faking world, we welcome Mora unto the fray!
For a first of the batch of fakes done, Mora has done really well imo. Bellossom isn't used as much as I'd like, mainly due to lack of art, but its one of the cutest Pokemon you can find
The card itself is really nice and very well made for a first timer, there are however some inaccuracies that need addressing for the next time, hopefully this will help :
- If this is one of metagross's Neo blanks, I'm not sure if its been changed in size or if some parts are blurry. Mainly the grass type icon, top right, has it been replaced with a really loq quality one?
- The Pokemon Power text should be red, not orange
- The attack energies look like ShinyBill's custom ones he uses on various sets, not the Neo ones (CMP has made a Neo sheet, can find that on the deviantart page.)
- The W/R/R energies are also the wrong ones used and a bit small.
- The classic era including the Neo sets, used -30 for resistances, not -20.
- The Pokedex entry font seems a little off, not sure about that one
- Your missing illustration credit (bottom left) copyright (bottom middle) and rarity, should there need to be an icon thar.
Creativity/Originality: 15/20
Wording: 9/15
Fonts and Placement: 5/10
Believability/Playability: 4/5
Total: 33/50
PMJ :
Now for the card behemoth that is, PMJ!
PMJ has seriously gone into perfection overdrive on this one. Everything, except for 2 things are perfectly placed. I had to check twice just to make sure I wasn't going mad lol
- Ability icon should be a few pixels to the left, thus the attack titles too. The icon itself should stick out a bit, not inline with the attack text.
- Same as the above, but for attack energies.
Creativity/Originality: 20/20
Wording: 15/15
Fonts and Placement: 9/10
Believability/Playability: 5/5
Total: 49/50
rally :
Yet another newcomer to the image faking arena, we have rally! Another one deciding to take on the classic era and quite rightly so, theres nothing better than the first few sets, imo!
Its a really nice attempt at a fake card I think. There are placement issues, fonts etc (see below) but I do love that image used. (I'm assuming GIMP was used.)
- The HP text is a bit too large/thick.
- The Pokemon dimensions text (underneath the illus.) I think the wrong font is used there, which one was that?
- Font again for the attack, not sure which ones were used again for that area but they seem a bit off
- Same as above for Pokedex at the bottom.
Creativity/Originality: 14/20
Wording: 12/15
Fonts and Placement: 3/10
Believability/Playability: 4/5
Total: 33/50
reggie mcgigas :
Regig's turn! I'd still call Regi new-ish, but he's slowly heading towards pro now. I just think there are still font issues (which he has spoke of a fair bit before) that let the card down really.
The card itself is very simple and lacks in the illus. dept I feel too. The background however, if used with a darker holosheet (with multiply on about 70%), then color dodge on top for about 80%-100%, would show off its shinyness more. Plus Volcarona could probably do with being slightly bigger
I think the same thing I spoke of before, with PMJ, regarding the attack energies/ability icon needing being more to the left applies here too, minor point there.
Overall its a nice and simple card, just lacks a bit image wise and could do with fonts being sorted, as best as they could. We need to figure out why you can't download + use them though Regi; a convo for another day though
Oh also almost forgot, the image used and/or background seems to be poking outside the edges of the card.
Creativity/Originality: 14/20
Wording: 13/15
Fonts and Placement: 2/10
Believability/Playability: 3/5
Total: 32/50
DNA said:
Text-Based:
AlexanderTheAwesome:
First off...I love the use of color for your energy symbols. I know a lot of entries this month have those, and it does add a very nice touch to the cards. Neat!
It seems you picked Ledian as your choice, which is good because we never have enough of those. Greenhouse Amplifier appears to be word-for-word Dark Shadow adapted to BW wording. As for Friendly Fire, wow, that is one cool attack. It can't be Catchered away either, which is awesome too - plus, the damage level is in fact appropriate - it only does 30 for 2 Energy. This month is already off to a great start; I hope most of the other entries are like this too.
Creativity/Originality: 18/20
Wording: 15/15
Believability/Playability: 15/15
Total: 48/50
Bo$$_89:
I wish I could give a 17/15 for Believability/Playability, because this card is so embarrassingly simple it'll fit in perfectly with all the lamesauce BW-era cards.
But that wouldn't be fair.
Creativity/Originality: 10/20
Wording: 15/15
Believability/Playability: 15/15
Total: 40/50
Flygon2071:
Lol Vileplume with Drought. Wait...Vileplume with Drought? Ooh! Taking creativity one step further with a weather mechanic! I like it, I like it!
Normally you'd think weather would be a stadium, but triggered by an ability works too. Vileplume makes it sunny when it enters play (I think 'sunlight' is one word), which chains into its Solarbeam attack, which makes it break through Eviolite, Bright Down, and other nasty stuff. It also OHKOs Keldeo lololololololol
Creativity/Originality: 19/20
Wording: 15/15
Believability/Playability: 14/15
Total: 48/50
Fraxureking:
Jumpluff! Back again in style swarming all the things. This little guy is no different - a big 1-Energy attack which is somewhat reminiscent of Mass Attack, although it does cap at 80 (unless you play in the mirror), but Plasma Ball can help. And when it's put in the discard, even with things like Ultra Ball, it's a one-time Plasma Search. Pretty cool if I do say so myself. Only real small mistakes are the lack of 'reveal it' on the Ability, and I'd put 20x on the attack. But otherwise, looks great!
Creativity/Originality: 19/20
Wording: 14/15
Believability/Playability: 14/15
Total: 47/50
Hegafire0:
"This Pokemon's attacks do 20 more damage to the Active Pokemon for each [G] Energy attached to this Pokemon (before applying Weakness and Resistance)."
The attack is fine, wording wise.
Venusaur! No surprises there, but it actually looks quite interesting, It can hit 50, 90, or 130 based on whether or not DCE is used...but if Energy Trans is an option (and it commonly is), Venusaur can work well. Effect Spore I can see having a clause that says you can't choose more than 1 of Asleep, Confused, or Paralyzed, though, because otherwise it gets confusing, no pun intended. But I have always been a fan of Special Condition spam and I think that's what Grass-types are really all about.
Creativity/Originality: 20/20
Wording: 14/15
Believability/Playability: 13/15
Total: 47/50
Keeper of Night:
Hmm, Leafeon. Interesting. I'm sure the most interesting bit about it is the Gardening Ability, since Leaf Blade is pretty unremarkable. Like you said, plants don't like fire or poison, so it makes sense you can't garden like that. I'm imagining a Leafeon now with a trowel and a straw hat and everything and it's making me smile. ...The reason your Wording score is that way is because there's a lot of capitalization mistakes. I'll let you look over and find them yourself.
Creativity/Originality: 19/20
Wording: 13/15
Believability/Playability: 14/15
Total: 46/50
Lemonnade:
LV.X, how I've missed you. How I have missed you. And your choice for a LV.X is Armaldo, interestingly enough! He isn't often seen, which is a shame because he's pretty cool. This guy is a lot like Arceus LV.X - simple, but broad. He has the classic Dual Armor Poke-Body that was present in past Armaldo (and a few other things), and he can use the attack of any fossil Pokemon in play. It makes Fossilbox a feasible reality; this is pretty cool. ...I think this might very well be my favorite card this month.
Creativity/Originality: 20/20
Wording: 15/15
Believability/Playability: 15/15
Total: 50/50
Lugia123:
Interesante. Meganium. Meganium has a reputation for having all kinds of fun tricks throughout the history of TCG, and I see this is no exception. Its ability gives Grass-types +30 to everything they do, twice if you have 2. It can search 2 Grass-types for free, and it can do its big boom attack if your field has all Grass-types. Pretty interesting.
I do like it and all, since it's a really good all-around card, but...for some reason, doesn't it just seem really really OP?
Creativity/Originality: 18/20
Wording: 13/15
Believability/Playability: 11/15
Total: 42/50
Machamp the Champion:
First thing that comes to mind when reading this card? "Running away rules!!" And that you don't have a good handle on affect vs effect. (Don't worry; I pointed out where it needs fixing.) And then the attack is just Shiftry locking attacks and being annoying. Seriously, Wicked Swap is awesome. I know this is probably on some Neo era card somewhere...
Creativity/Originality: 20/20
Wording: 14/15
Believability/Playability: 14/15
Total: 48/50
MountainDrew:
Another Meganium gimmick, yeah? It can counter attacks by maybe healing 30 damage from itself, and its ability locks Trainers for a flat 70.
...wait. It locks TRAINERS? Like, the whole Item/Support/Stadium gamut? Wow, normally you'd need a flip for that. This Meganium seems really over the top as well. Fun, but over-the-top.
Creativity/Originality: 17/20
Wording: 14/15
Believability/Playability: 10/15
Total: 41/50
SheNinja:
It's like reverse Exeggcute! And an inexpensive attack that might force a discard. I'm not sure why you'd want to discard Exeggutor, except for stuff like Flareon's Vengeance, but still...it seems a little much. This might be a bland card, but not bad by any means.
Creativity/Originality: 16/20
Wording: 15/15
Believability/Playability: 15/15
Total: 46/50
Teal:
Stage 2 - Beedrill - HP120 - Grass
NO. 15 Poison Bee Pokémon HT: 3'03" WT: 65.0 Ibs.
Ability: Sniper Needle
Once during your turn (before your attack), if this Pokémon is on your Bench, you may switch this Pokémon with your Active Pokémon. Your opponent's Active Pokémon is now Poisoned.
[G] EX-stingtion 50
If the Defending Pokémon is a Pokémon-EX, this attack does 40 more damage.
[G][P] Wound Driller 60
If your opponent's active Pokémon is Poisoned, put now 1 more damage counter on the Poisoned Pokémon between turns.
Weakness: Fire (×2) Resistance: no
Retreat: 1It can take down any opponent with its powerful poison stingers. It sometimes attacks in swarms.
EX-STINGTION AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA that's marvelous. I do look forward to your card spoilers since you utilize different font sizes and alignments; it's fun. Sniper Needle looks to be Rush In + Poison, Ex-stingtion (I'm still smiling) is death to EXs for 1 Energy, and Wound Driller increases poison damage by 1. (I think the 'now' is optional and can be removed, but I think your wording is fine, except Active should be capitalized.) I like this one. Then again...I have said that about most cards this month
Creativity/Originality: 20/20
Wording: 15/15
Believability/Playability: 15/15
Total: 50/50
The Fire Wyrm:
Scyther. Harvest. Sacrifice. Ahahaha I see what you did there. The Ability...I think I get it, but the wording is tricky. It lets you attach 1 extra Energy from your hand for each Prize card you have taken, right? Closest thing I can think to word it is "During your turn (before your attack), you may attach 1 Energy card from your hand to 1 of your Pokemon. You can use this Ability during your turn a number of times equal to the number of Prize cards you have taken." And the attack would have "each" instead of "the amount of". Seems a bit of an overkill attack, though - like it's hastening the end of the game. Gigantic drawback, though - if the 120 fails to Knock Out the target, Scyther is done for. But the energy accel helps, so...seems a mite over the top.
Creativity/Originality: 20/20
Wording: 13/15
Believability/Playability: 12/15
Total: 45/50
Zarco:
Okay, the last one and I'm done for the month. And wow this one is cool. Its power is identical to Uxie's Set Up, but can be used only once per turn. Its attack is a lot like Lost Burn, except they go back into the deck - explaining why it's only 30x instead of 50x, since you can get them back later. But then the drawback, which is understandable, since you CAN get them back. Only note I'd make is to say "each Energy card shuffled", since attacks like that generally count cards. Other than that...excellent!
Creativity/Originality: 20/20
Wording: 15/15
Believability/Playability: 15/15
Total: 50/50
Clearly, as far as grading goes, aschefield makes me look like a total softie. I'm not sure if I was in a good mood or if everyone's cards were just of exceptional quality this month. In any case, the winner of image-based appears to be PMJ with his Breloom, with Blui and his Celebi * not far behind.
Text-based I must have been really generous with the points, because there were three-way ties for first AND second. The winners of text based are Lemonnade with Armaldo LV.X, Teal with Beedrill, and Zarco with Venusaur; and the runners-up were AlexanderTheAwesome with Ledian, Flygon2071 with Vileplume, and Machamp the Champion with Shiftry.
I don't know about you guys, but I really had fun this month looking at all the blanks! I'll probably post the next month's contest on Friday afternoon, since I have Battle Roads to judge at on Saturday and probably won't hit the midnight deadline, so that gives you a bit of a head start. Hopefully this time you won't read my mind and guess the theme ahead of time like you did this month.
See you guys real soon!
Yeahhh! Second to last place woot! Gratz to the winners.
I'm sure I will do text based from now on, I have no chance at all at image based thanks to my stupid computer.
I'm sure I will do text based from now on, I have no chance at all at image based thanks to my stupid computer.
Wait a second... reading minds is a psychic trait.
psychic cac?
psychic cac?
Congrats to everyone! Interesting month, really close! Every time the entries get better and better
Also I foresee Fire (because Summer but it can be left for July)
Also I foresee Fire (because Summer but it can be left for July)