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Barinellos

Post subject: Re: [GAME] Guessing characters (non-MTG) by cards !

Posted: Thu Dec 15, 2022 1:15 am

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Cato wrote:

Barinellos wrote:

An interesting guess, but no.

I thought the 10 might be symbolic

That's fair and reasonable. But it was really just a mechanical bottleneck.

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Tevish Szat

Post subject: Re: [GAME] Guessing characters (non-MTG) by cards !

Posted: Thu Dec 15, 2022 4:51 am

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Should be easy

Movie Character
:1:

Legendary Creature - Human Rogue
First Strike
When Movie Character attacks and isn't blocked, gain control of up to one target artifact defending player controls. It becomes a treasure in addition to its other types
Treasures you control can't be sacrificed.
4/2

~

Medium difficulty because I went for a clean design

Video Game Protagonist
:g:

Legendary Creature - Human Peasant
Auras attached to Video Game Protagonist have Totem Armor
1/1

~

Probably hard because I have no idea if anyone will have the reference

Phone App Game Character
:2:

Legendary Artifact Creature - Human Construct
Flying
Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, if there are three or fewer charge counters on Phone App Game Character, put a charge counter on Phone App Game Character.
Remove all charge counters from Phone App Game Character: For each charge counter removed this way, Phone App Game Character deals 2 damage to any target.
:q:

: Phone App Game Character deals 8 damage to each creature and planeswalker you don't control. Activate this ability only if Phone App Game Character has dealt 10 or more damage this turn and only once each turn.
2/4

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Barinellos

Post subject: Re: [GAME] Guessing characters (non-MTG) by cards !

Posted: Thu Dec 15, 2022 5:15 am

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I mean, the first one is pretty easy. They're about to further ruin the franchise after all.
It's Nicholas Cage from National Treasure! I'm kidding, of course. Indiana Jones is my actual guess

The second one... I have a suspicion and a LOT of commentary on my speculation. But, my theory is Mario, with the totem armor being emblematic of power ups

That last one actually plays around in a lot of design space I've been toying with for 2 different characters. I've been trying to pare the rules text down for both and figure out which I wanted to use, but now I'm a little frustrated because I don't want to copy you.

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Tevish Szat

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Posted: Thu Dec 15, 2022 5:23 am

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Absolutely nailed both guesses! Cage's character wouldn't get First Strike

I'm amending the design for the third one slightly just because there was some serious mechanical jank in the "first draft" (that made it to post) (Changed the :t:

on an ability that is inclined towards "you attacked" to a :q:

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Barinellos

Post subject: Re: [GAME] Guessing characters (non-MTG) by cards !

Posted: Thu Dec 15, 2022 5:39 am

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Tevish Szat wrote:

Absolutely nailed both guesses! Cage's character wouldn't get First Strike

I'm amending the design for the third one slightly just because there was some serious mechanical jank in the "first draft" (that made it to post)

Wouldn't have been a Rogue either. Probably would have been an Advisor. Kind of a shame there isn't a more general scholar class, but hell, we just got peasant and Noble and we've needed those for a decade.

Okay, I'm going to throw one of the designs up that I feel is more elegant:

????, Lone Hunter

Legendary Creature - Human Mercenary

: Put a charge counter on ~.
If ~ would deal damage, you may remove up to 3 charge counters and ~ deals that much damage plus the number of counters removed.

: ~ gains hexproof as long as it remains tapped .
2/3

Admittedly, the wording on the second ability is... Probably not mechanically accurate, but the replacement effects were hard to find examples for.

I was struck by sudden inspiration. I'm rather fond of it, but it might not be very apparent in a vacuum, so I will say this is from literature.

????, The Wronged
Legendary Creature - Human Pirate

: Suspend 60
While ~ is suspended, you may mill X at your upkeep and remove 3 times X time counters from ~.
Deathtouch
When ~ enters the battlefield, create a number of Treasure tokens equal to the number of permanents in your graveyard.
4/4

Damn... I've actually had another bolt of inspiration.
?????, Master of Havoc

Legendary Creature - Skeleton Warlock
Instants and sorceries you control have Conspire.

If your opponent controls no creatures at the beginning of your end step, you gain control of target artifact.
3/3

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Cato

Post subject: Re: [GAME] Guessing characters (non-MTG) by cards !

Posted: Thu Dec 15, 2022 6:50 am

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Video Game Character :1:

Creature - Human
Whenever VGC blocks or becomes blocked, you may create a white aura enchantment token named Pacifism with Enchant Creature and "Enchanted creature can't attack or block" and attach it to a creature blocked by or blocking VGC. If you do, prevent all combat damage that would be dealt by VGC this turn.
At the beginning of your upkeep, if you control four or more auras named Pacifism, you win the game.
3/4

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Barinellos

Post subject: Re: [GAME] Guessing characters (non-MTG) by cards !

Posted: Thu Dec 15, 2022 7:05 am

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Knight Otu wrote:

Also, a number of characters. If you know what's up with them, you can solve the whole batch with less than five words and one numeral.

Spoiler

I've been combing through the thread, just to see how everything went before I started participating, and I know this is 5 years old and Knight Otu has been gone here about a month at least, but the answer is The cast of Breath of Fire 2
It just... Bothered me, not to answer that since nobody else did.

Cato wrote:

Video Game Character :1:

the main character in Undertale doing a pacifist run?

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Posted: Thu Dec 15, 2022 5:04 pm

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Barinellos got it.

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Barinellos

Post subject: Re: [GAME] Guessing characters (non-MTG) by cards !

Posted: Fri Dec 16, 2022 6:43 am

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????, The Demon King

Legendary Creature - Human Samurai
As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature.

When ~ dies, ~ deals 2 to each creature and you put a blaze counter on target land. For as long as that land has a blaze counter on it, it has “At the beginning of your upkeep, this land deals 1 damage to you.”

6/6

Truthfully, I have like 6 more designs just waiting, but I've already blitzed the thread like crazy. Not sure how much more anybody wants me to keep going at this rate.

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Tevish Szat

Post subject: Re: [GAME] Guessing characters (non-MTG) by cards !

Posted: Fri Dec 16, 2022 7:38 am

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@Barin Fate's take on Nobunaga?

Easy

Anime Character α
:1:

Legendary Creature - Human Pilot
Anime Character α may crew vehicles as though its power were 10.
:2:

: Anime Character α becomes a coward and can't attack, block, or crew vehicles until its controller's next end step. Any player may activate this ability.
1/2

Medium

Anime Character β
:1:

Legendary Creature - Human Wizard
:x:

, exert Anime Character β: if X is equal to or greater than the number of lands you control, Anime Character β deals X damage to each opponent, creature you don't control, and planeswalker you don't control.
1/1

Hard

Anime Character γ
:4:

Legendary Artifact Creature - Robot
At the beginning of each player's upkeep, put a network counter on up to one target artifact that player controls without a network counter on it.
Anime Character γ gets +1/+1 for each permanent with a network counter on it.
:1:

: Remove a network counter from target permanent. If you do, draw a card.
1/1

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Barinellos

Post subject: Re: [GAME] Guessing characters (non-MTG) by cards !

Posted: Fri Dec 16, 2022 8:07 am

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Tevish Szat wrote:

@Barin Fate's take on Nobunaga?

Strictly speaking, no.
But also yes.
it is Oda Nobunaga, though not necessarily fate's iteration. The sacrifice comes from the event of Nobukatsu's assassination and the blaze counter and pyroclasm are the fall of Owari. Fate is also not the first more the last to assign Nobunaga the title of Demon King.

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Anime Character α
:1:

Legendary Creature - Human Pilot
Anime Character α may crew vehicles as though its power were 10.
:2:

: Anime Character α becomes a coward and can't attack, block, or crew vehicles until its controller's next end step. Any player may activate this ability.
1/2

Okay, I can name about five characters off the top of my head that fit that general story beat... Not sure if that really counts as easy..
Because of the power 10, I'm going to say Simon of Gurren Lagann though the color makes me doubt that.

Quote:

Anime Character γ
:4:

: Remove a network counter from target permanent. If you do, draw a card.
1/1

The Puppetmaster?
Part of me is going I get that wrong.

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Tevish Szat

Post subject: Re: [GAME] Guessing characters (non-MTG) by cards !

Posted: Fri Dec 16, 2022 8:24 am

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Both incorrect, but to be fair the first one does have the problem you noted.

Difficulty was code for "likelihood somebody gets the reference" in this case, so one would probably be safe reaching for the most famous example. For which I'm kind of kicking myself in not seeing your guess as an obvious alternate.

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Cato

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Posted: Fri Dec 16, 2022 9:51 am

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Tev: For A, Shinji?

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Barinellos

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Posted: Sat Dec 17, 2022 6:30 am

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Tevish Szat wrote:

My personal thought is that Cato probably is right, but just to nail how broad the story beat is Renton Thurston or Amuro Rey?

Also going to take a stab at the last one, though I greatly doubt it, it.... Might be Lain Iwakura
I mean, the robot type doesn't really match up, but there's so damn much weirdness going on with that...

I'm probably going to put in a new few entries next time I post.

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Tevish Szat

Post subject: Re: [GAME] Guessing characters (non-MTG) by cards !

Posted: Sat Dec 17, 2022 3:39 pm

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Cato got α

For γ, good guess, but no. Per difficulty it's also a fairly obscure reference compared to the other two (for which I'm a little surprised nobody has taken a stab at β)

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Barinellos

Post subject: Re: [GAME] Guessing characters (non-MTG) by cards !

Posted: Sun Dec 18, 2022 2:38 am

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Tevish Szat wrote:

Cato got α

For γ, good guess, but no. Per difficulty it's also a fairly obscure reference compared to the other two (for which I'm a little surprised nobody has taken a stab at β)

I'm going to take a stab in the dark for B and say Natsu? I literally have no clue if that's right. I've never seen the series. Or actually met anybody that has, weirdly enough...

Okay, so, my newest trio:

Easy
????

Legendary Creature - Skeleton Wizard
When you cast ~, you become the Monarch.
As long as you are the Monarch ~ has indestructible.
Landfall - When a land enters the battlefield under your control, destroy target creature.
9/6

Medium
?????

Legendary Creature - Human Rogue
~ gets -1/-0 for each creature in your party.
If ~ is in your graveyard at the end of your turn, return it to the battlefield under your control.
You control coin flips.
2/2

Hard
?????

Legendary Creature - Human
When you cast ~, you become the Monarch.
Creatures you control get +1/+1 and cannot be sacrificed.
The Monarch controls ~.
Creatures your opponents control must attack you, if able.
0/2

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Posted: Sun Dec 18, 2022 11:51 pm

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@Tevish: Anime Character β is Megumin?

@BArinellos: Easy is Ains from Overlord?

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Barinellos

Post subject: Re: [GAME] Guessing characters (non-MTG) by cards !

Posted: Mon Dec 19, 2022 1:30 am

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TPmanW wrote:

@BArinellos: Easy is Ains from Overlord?

That is correct!

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@Tevish: Anime Character β is Megumin?

You know what's bad? I've been actively trying to figure out a Megumin, Darkness, and Aqua card, and the design I tried for that was very close to what Szat has there, and it NEVER occurred to me to consider that. Which says way more about me than elsewise.

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Tevish Szat

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Posted: Mon Dec 19, 2022 1:46 am

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TPman got β. With only the hard entry outstanding I'll see about another set

Easy

Video Game Character '

Legendary Creature - Beast Rogue
Haste, First Strike
Whenever Video Game Character ' deals combat damage to a player, destroy up to one target artifact that player controls.
2/1

Medium (I hope)

Video Game Character ''
:5:

Legendary Creature
When you cast Video Game Character '' and at the beginning of your upkeep, search your library for an incarnation creature card and exile it with a memory counter on it.
Video Game Character '' is an amalgam of all incarnation creature cards you own in exile with memory counters on them, except it's still Legendary. (Treat the incarnations as though they were mutated into a single creature. You choose the order and may change it whenever a card enters or leaves the set. Video Game character '' is a copy of the resulting creature, except it's still legendary.)
0/1

Hard

Video Game Character '''
:2:

Legendary Creature - Alien Assassin
Haste, First Strike, Deathtouch
:2:

: Choose one. This ability costs :2:

less to activate if Video Game Character ''' is attacking, blocking, or the target of a spell or ability -

Exile Video Game Character ''', then return it to the battlefield under its owner's control.
Video Game Character ''' phases out

4/1

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Post subject: Re: [GAME] Guessing characters (non-MTG) by cards !

Posted: Mon Dec 19, 2022 2:50 am

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I'll answer your easy one with one of my own! (That I'd actually been developing already before this, funny enough)

Video Game Antagonist

Legendary Creature - Human Artificer
If a creature an opponent controls dealt damage by an artifact would die, gain control of it instead. It becomes an artifact in addition to it's other types.
3/5

Eh? I think it's a good opposite for Sonic. Though I think you could make it a Rebel instead of a Rogue.

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