Planning Thread for Card Ideas

TF2_The_Scout · October 20, 2015

http://forum.yugiohcardmaker.net/topic/342428-forgotten-light-dragon/

I'm wanting to create an archetype based around this card. I'm going to make it a synchro deck based around using tokens are synchro material. The problem is that I can't come up with a playstyle that doesn't rip off Mecha Phantom Beasts. I'm wanting to hopefully do something more aggressive with the tokens.

jackelgull · October 20, 2015

This might be overpowered, but you could have the monsters of your archetype summon tokens when they are normal summoned onto the field. If the monster is not a tuner then its token is a tuner, if the monster is a tuner its token isn't. And when these monsters are sent to the graveyard for a synchro summon, they can confer various effects upon the monster they've synchro summoned.

eagerDigger · October 21, 2015

I'm wondering if this seems too...meta, but I based the Caper Town idea on over-the-top crime and action themes, stuff that wouldn't be out of place in Vice City or Black Lagoon.

Does this seem a bit...over the top? It's meant to be mainly about everyone in the City of Caper Town pretty much having to pay the piper. Many other cards have similar effects, incurring LP costs to pretty much everything. I'm mainly wondering if the whole "LP or else" gimmick is not feasible..If anything, I'm thinking that splitting it's effects amongst different spells might work.

Atypical-Abbie · November 11, 2015

New Archetype I am working on, Equip Card based Inzektor and Dragunity style: http://pastebin.com/mxfmCZ6T

They don't have a specific theme other than Equip Cards, unlike some of my other Archetypes, however they each have the same type of equipping method, the Tuners all grant effects while equipped, the Main Deck monsters typically send or use Equip Cards for various purposes and the Synchro Monsters all have one effect that doesn't require an Equip Card, one that does and have the same last effect that protects them by destroying an Equip Card.

EDIT:

Well, I mean a generalized effect such as Burning Abyss all having the "If this card is sent to the Graveyard" thing. Then again, the equip kind of is. Forget what I said, I suppose they do after all.

TF2_The_Scout · November 14, 2015

So, I've been considering making a Houdini XYZ Spellcaster deck. The mechanic of it is using monsters in your opponent's graveyard as material while cheating material requirements. For example, if an XYZ monster would require 2 level 4s, Houdinis will summon that monster using only 1 material, and that material is a level 4 monster in your opponent's graveyard. What would be the best means of getting this mechanic to work? Also, I'm stumped as to what the XYZs themselves do.

Horu · November 18, 2015

I'm thinking of making Xyz cards but their level would be equal to the total level of the monsters that were used as Xyz material. For example, a Rank 1 Xyz would max out at about Level 5. So Xyz monsters would typically max out at Level 60. After that, I'll create a new system that could possibly increase the potential.

ANNE54s · January 8, 2016

It's sounds pretty cool !

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Horu · January 9, 2016

I saw potential in the Xyz cards so I wanted to do something special with them

Atypical-Abbie · January 20, 2016

I just thought of concept that I don't think has ever been explored before, that being the order of which the player performs actions. For example, "Must be activated as your first action during your Main Phase, otherwise it cannot be activated this Main Phase." What this would mean would be that if you chose to Normal Summon a monster first, you couldn't activate that card. This could be useful to prevent cards from being too powerful in combos, or maybe as a floodgate effect, for example "Your opponent cannot activate Spell/Trap Cards as their first and second action during their Main Phase." It may be a bit weird, but it could be pretty interesting to try out.

Tinkerer · January 20, 2016

I just thought of concept that I don't think has ever been explored before, that being the order of which the player performs actions. For example, "Must be activated as your first action during your Main Phase, otherwise it cannot be activated this Main Phase." What this would mean would be that if you chose to Normal Summon a monster first, you couldn't activate that card. This could be useful to prevent cards from being too powerful in combos, or maybe as a floodgate effect, for example "Your opponent cannot activate Spell/Trap Cards as their first and second action during their Main Phase." It may be a bit weird, but it could be pretty interesting to try out.

Kinda like Heat Wave/Cold Wave? It isn't a mechanic that's really explored that often, but if you wanted to try it, you could look at those for card grammar.

Atypical-Abbie · January 20, 2016

Kinda like Heat Wave/Cold Wave? It isn't a mechanic that's really explored that often, but if you wanted to try it, you could look at those for card grammar.

A bit, I got the idea from cards like that, but I want to explore it a bit more thoroughly than that.

Tinkerer · January 21, 2016

A bit, I got the idea from cards like that, but I want to explore it a bit more thoroughly than that.

I see...

Well, good luck with it! Mind letting me know when you finish so I can see 'em?

Atypical-Abbie · January 21, 2016

I see...

Well, good luck with it! Mind letting me know when you finish so I can see 'em?

I'll try to remember it.

☪©h@ÐØÖk.exe☪ · March 20, 2016

Evil Vine Ignition

Spell

Activate only if you control no

Synchro monster, while

controlling 2 face-up "Evil Vine"

monsters with different

names:Target 1 Xyz monster on

the field;that target gains Levels

Equal to its Rank, also, make it a

Tuner Monster.

karoljartur · May 13, 2016

I have an Idea for a "Level 1" deck
+ Fusion
+ Synchro
+ (maybe) XYZ
Monsters involving the deck.
The deck will have card/effects that work only if the monsters in the graveyard(/field) are lvl 1 monsters.
And Synchro monsters which are treated as a "lvl 1" monster while in the graveyard. (+ (maybe) once per turn make them be treated as a lvl 1 monster)

cman961 · May 18, 2016

I am going through a custom-archetype crisis, from playing with my custom archetypes on Duel Portal, and from recent looks, and from recent criticism, I'm realising I'm horrible at making one with these qualities;

-Balanced Mechanics. Costs/Conditions, and overall fun for both players

-High Creativity

-Great and Absolutely perfect card Grammar

Usually either my Archetypes are over-powered and overwhelm myself with all the power. I find my self making a lot of cards/combos where no cost is listed, or the cost is benefited from for the Archetype.

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With that out of the way I'd like to redeem my self. The new Archetype I want to come up with involves essentially using the opponent's card against them, via trading cards or stealing cards. From my grasp of basic Yugioh knowledge, that's really hard to do with the fact that: A)I most likely can't use the obtained cards & B)Inconveniences both me and the opponent, possibly giving me more plus that cost.

Please some one help me, If I can base a whole Archetype around this idea, with balance & creativity, I'd be so happy.

If you want examples of some of my work, you can check Duel Portal, if it's not too much of an inconvenience for you (I'm also lazy and don't want to come back 'n' forth posting cards.)

Archetypes I've made that I believe can be seen;

-Divinity

-Daemonic World

-Deck Invaders

-Dryken Dominion (Not Complete.)

-The Many(Some where on YCM, I swear.)

-Dream World(Also on YCM some where.)

I would very much appreciate help.

Tinkerer · May 27, 2016

Phazer

An archetype of LIGHT Zombie Spirit monsters that all have this effect (alongside their Spirit conditions): "When this card battles and would inflict damage to your opponent, you can make that battle damage 100; discard 1 random card from your opponent's hand". They also act as Spirit support as their other effect costs/utilize Spirits.

An idea that I cannot elaborate on right now but may come back to later.

TF2_The_Scout · June 13, 2016

So, I'm working on an archetype like Kozmo, in that it fuses two franchises. The ones I'm going with are Sonic the Hedgehog and MLP. For the playstyle, I decided to go with a Rank 1-8 engine that cannot make LIGHT and DARK Xyzs. However, I'm more or less stuck on card names and an archetype name.

[spoiler=cards in the archetype]

X Soaring Blur(Sonic/Rainbow Dash)

Level 1

WIND

Beast/Effect

ATK: 1000 DEF: 0

Once per turn: You can declare a number 1 to 8; This card's level becomes that number, also you lose LP equal to that number x100. Cannot be used as Xyz Material in the Xyz Summon of a LIGHT or DARK monster. You can pay 1000 LP; Add 1 "X" card from your Deck to Hand. You can only use this effect of "X Soaring Blur" once per turn.

X Shy Engineer(Tails/Fluttershy)

Level 1

WIND

Beast/Effect

ATK: 1000 DEF: 0