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Welcome to the Community Sets subforum!
Why Are We Here?
Cards do not exist in a vacuum. When cards are made at Wizards of the Coast, they are printed in Sets of about 249 (large) or 145 (small) at a time. Three or four Sets are then put together to make a Block, consisting of anywhere from 500 to 600 cards, depending on how big or small the Sets are. Then, two Blocks are put together with a Core Set to produce a Standard Environment—an amount of cards equal to about 1443 cards, which was the number of cards in the official Standard Environment at the time of this post's writing. Another way cards can be organized together is in Cubes of anywhere from 360 to 720 or more cards, which have less unity between cards than Sets and Blocks do, but are still meant to be drafted together as a unit.
This is the subforum for projects that put multiple cards together to create something beyond the sum of their parts. While many of the cards you'll see in the main forum are simply ICDs, often with no rarity, the cards you post in here will be part of a greater whole. Whether the project in question is built by the community together or by you alone, this is the place for discussion of how that project is coming along.
The Directory
Communally Built Sets
Starstill (run by ParadOxymoron)
Description and Thread List
This is a project with a thread for each color. The winner of each round in each thread posts a criterion for the next round in that thread. Each winning card is added to the set.
Starstill is a Card Type Matters set. It's set in a plane that never moves, where one side is completely frozen, and the other side is a hellish wasteland where the sun never sets.
A contest where the community designs a set code-named Chocolate, with the premise being that the set had already been created, but then was accidentally deleted, and now has to be reconstructed from Multiverse comments. Usually the prompts include two comments for which the contestants have to make a card to fit the prompt, as well as a picture from the NGA YMtC Art Vault. Contestants design cards for any or all of the prompts, and the best fit for each prompt is added to the set.
Welcome to Solphos, a world of alchemy and occult discovery. Will you join the Philosopher's Cabal and their chymia magna in achieving great works at any cost... or be banished to the Dark Lands, the polluted wasteland beyond the city walls? Unlock the secret combinations hidden within the cards, and transcend the boundaries of science and magic!
Science has gone too far. The natural laws are breaking down. Philosopher's gold is spreading across Solphos, insidiously transmuting anything it touches... and the mutant hordes are attacking, led by the horrifying Natos Cruciatur! A new Dark Age encroaches: how much would you sacrifice to save the world?
A series of Cubes from a setting called Gandervell, The Oliviad tells the epic tale of Olivia Chase and her possession by Death—one card's flavor text at a time.
If you'd like to get a project started, post a thread for it in this subforum and send me a PM with a link to the thread, with details for the project if you wish, and I'll add it to the directory!
*"To YMTC it up" means to design cards that have value mostly from a design perspective. i.e. you would put them in a case under glass in your living room and visitors could remark upon the wonderful design principles, with nobody ever worring if the cards are annoying/pointless/confusing in actual play
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