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Author: | M:EM Archivist [ Sun Nov 08, 2015 7:58 pm ] |
Post subject: | Taramir: The Dark Tide [Card Set][Public] |
Title: Jakkard: Wild Cards Designer: chinkeeyong Status: Public Intro from the creator: As part of my exploration of Magic design that isn't related to card sets, I decided to try my hand at making a challenge deck in the vein of Face the Hydra. Over the course of one day, I hammered it out. Welcome to Taramir: The Dark Tide. The Dark Tide is a special challenge deck for a team of one to four players, inspired by Tevish Szat's Taramir. The plane is in the throes of the Waning, beset by evil on all sides, and you've been tasked to defend the Grand Fortress that holds the last bastion of civilization. Your doom is coming. How long can you survive against the dark tide? Rules In the Dark Tide special event, your team of survivors starts with a shared life total of 30 (the integrity of the Grand Fortress). You take your turns at the same time. Before the Dark Tide hits, you get a few precious turns to prepare and set up your defenses. How many you get is determined by the difficulty level you choose:
After the last turn of preparation, the Dark Tide arrives. On the Dark Tide turn, it plays the top card of the Dark Tide deck. (Dark Tide spells can't be countered.) After that card has resolved, each Dark Tide creature attacks the Grand Fortress if able. Then the turn passes back to the survivors. The Dark Tide isn't a player, but it counts as one for the purposes of cards like Propaganda and Cruel Edict. It can pay an infinite amount of life and/or mana of any color. The survivors make all choices for the Dark Tide. The Dark Tide doesn't have a hand, library, or graveyard. If one or more Dark Tide cards would be put into a zone other than the stack or battlefield, they're put on the bottom of the Dark Tide deck in a random order instead. If you feel courageous (or sadistic), you can send your creatures beyond the Fortress's walls, to fight the Dark Tide directly or to search for lost knowledge. If you attack the Dark Tide with your creatures, you choose how the Dark Tide blocks. For each unblocked creature, you may draw a card. But none are spared from the toll of night: at end of combat, sacrifice all the creatures you attacked with. There is no victory condition. The Grand Fortress is doomed to fall. But you have the luxury of going back in time to try again, to see how long you can hold out before the inevitable arrives. Survive long enough, and you might even find your place in Lorekeeper Morgan's Hall of Fame:
The Dark Tide Deck (30 cards) 4 x A Myriad Nightstalkers Hunger 1 x Arixomor, Discord's Whisper 2 x Dread Maw of the Abyss 3 x Drown the World in Rot 1 x Echoes of Darkest Corruption 3 x Ebon Wings Blot Out the Stars 1 x Forsaken by Death's Embrace 1 x Glimmer of Fragile Hope 1 x Glimpse Terrible Oblivion 1 x Khavus, the Darkness Unending 1 x Krexidar, Who Paints the Sun Red 1 x Lay Bare Damnation's Wake 1 x Merciless Ravages of Time 1 x Nocterath, Who Kills Unseen 1 x Orvoxis, Who Breathes Untruth 4 x Spawn Countless Worms 3 x The Peaks Weep Tears of Fire
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Alternate Mode: Survive to a New Dawn In an alternate timeline of the Multiverse, Taramir's fall to the Eternal Night is not inevitable. It seems impossible, but a new dawn awaits at the end of the impenetrable darkness for the Grand Fortress - if its heroes can defend it long enough. These alternate rules add a victory condition for Taramir: The Dark Tide. If one or more Dark Tide cards would be put into a hand or library, they're put on the bottom of the Dark Tide deck in a random order instead. If one or more Dark Tide cards would be put into a graveyard from anywhere, exile them instead. When there are no cards left in the Dark Tide deck, you win the game. |
Author: | DalekJast [ Sun Dec 20, 2015 12:30 pm ] |
Post subject: | Re: Taramir: The Dark Tide [Card Set][Public] |
It's easy enough to design a deck specifically to beat the dark tide (Orim's Chant + Isochron Scepter, assuming dark tide cards have CMC 0 Void Winnower would also work well), but if you don't it looks like it would be a lot of fun, especially against commander decks. |
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