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Post your custom cards here or PM them to me to submit them for approval in the Custom Variant.  If I post them in the Approved Cards thread here, http://www.cactusgamedesign.com/message_boards/new-card-ideas/custom-variant-approved-cards/msg464906/#msg464906, you can print them out and use them at the Custom side-event in upcoming tournaments.

I'm going to start putting down deck building rules for the Custom Variant.  Simply put, it's type one, but you cannot use anything from the Priests expansion or newer expansions.  If you don't like it, post why and we'll discuss.  To allow for orange or teal cards, here's the rule:  orange enhancements gain the identifier "may be played on any demon" and teal enhancements gain the identifier "may be played on any priest."

A quick note, since not all custom card will have a Bible reference, the O/N.T reference, that particular identifier is instead determined chronologically.

I see nothing wrong with having non-biblically based cards in a for fun, never going to be an official event, probably one time thing, category.

Well, that's what this thread is for.  First, the idea of the Custom Variant is to allow for more creativity than the core them of Redemption does now.  The only reason the first approved cards were Halo based was because, being the pioneer of the idea, I had those cards to put in.  No, the category is not official, per say.  John has, however stated that he will allow me to run it as a side event at his tournaments in the future.  The point of this thread is for discussion, as the title says.  As for the criteria, I came up with this as a way for people to try different ideas, and I want to leave it open to allow for that.  At this point, I will accept or reject cards on the sole basis of whether they seem too powerful or not (see my removal of the Halo dominant from the approved thread).  Submit, discuss, and have fun with it.  (Also, please remove your comments from the Approved Cards thread.  That's not what it's there for.)

Does this mean I can dust off the byzantine cards?

Ouch 

Not bad, I like it.  Do you have a set of those?

Oh, well.  Keep ideas rolling, at least.

You could always find a different picture for Paintings.  Pretty neat idea for it, though.

Witch has an interesting idea, gonna make a House at Endor fortress?  And why does she have the territory icon?

Magic Trick is also interesting, though you don't need to make the exception for Simon, since he was a magician anyway.

Greed seems designed to kill speed decks... consider a name that doesn't sound like it should be an enhancement.


And to everyone, something else that needs to be nailed down, the deck building rules for the Custom Variant.  Right now I'm thinking normal Type 1 rules, but you can't use Priests cards or newer, since from what I've seen a lot of the more powerful "immediate" strategies come from there, and this is supposed to be for creativity, not instant wins.  Feedback?

And while I'm here, I'll put up another idea;

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Yeah, I've heard about that idea... but seeing how many characters are really powerful with their abilities happening in-battle, I don't think we really need that.  And what do you think of my Dragon card?

IMO, it's OP. Way too Splash-able.

ok  but I don't know what IMO means and I just haven't asked... so what does it mean?

In my opinion.

I would say CBI it least

Well, just change it to one of those and I'll probably approve it.