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SIGNS OF THE END

I'm extremely excited to share this project with you all which has been several months in the making. A ton of work went into making it happen and I'm very thankful to all who helped. Check out the set below!

Thanks to browarod for providing the majority of the cards in this set.

Thanks to Gabe for proofing the set.

Thanks to Red, Lampy 2.0, asrgimli, Westok Kiok, Master Q, Thomas Hunter, pilgrim14, and Masteri KChief for contributing cards to this set.

Thanks to all the artists whose incredible works contributed to this set.

Perhaps an explanation of the rarity system is in order?

These look fantastic. Well done.

Just taking a guess,


White is uncommon
blue is common
silver is rare
gold is ultra-rare

White-Common
Blue-Uncommonn
Silver-Rare
Gold-Ultra Rare

The lost soul could fix so many defenses i like
 

X is undefined on Servant Angel.

Love the visual design of these cards!  Some really neat abilities, too.

and Red Dragon is ugly.

Sadly it's better than 90% of the artwork already in this game.

I think there would need to be some gender identifiers on several of the angels.  The artwork clearly depicts females, but typically angels are assumed to be male (since Kira and Arianna are the only current female angels).

Overall, I am impressed both by the fact that you took this project to completion, and also at the high level of quality which it ended up being.  Great job!

Props on actually getting this done. Most of them look really good.

However, some are also incredibly broken, and Red Dragon is ugly. This is all my opinion. Except the broken part. There are some way abuseable cards in there.

For instance after a quick read there's this combo.  Play a NT offense deck with TGT with a demon defense.  Play Letter to Smynra (can search for it with consider the lilies), throw up A New Covenant in your artifact pile.  When they make a rescue attempt at you, block with a revelation demon, play Wrath of Satan (which is now CBN), set your offense aside, search for Smynra Overcomes,  immediately discard your offense and rescue Smynra Overcomes (which I actually don't think works because of the rule that you can only rescue humans).  Heal your offense with ANC.

You just stopped their rescue, CBN, and rescued a soul and all it requires to do is Letter to Symnra, ANC, Wrath and a Revelation demon.  You can even recur Letter with Consider the Lillies and Wrath with Demon behind the idol at this point.

EDIT:  I forgot to say that this combo would be ridiculous in type II.

Out side of some of the abusable cards mentioned earlier... what the heck does Wizard actually do? Because in his current state he really does nothing except protect certain cards from Aarons Rod type stuff. I also found it a bit odd whith with some of the "reprints" and how the stats were changed but I digress....

Cards look great but to my eyes its kind of distracting with some of the "dual border" cards because the two colors sometimes dont split evenly down the card.... other then that everything looks great!

Vulnerable - Cards that are vulnerable to <X> cannot be protected from, immune to, or ignore whatever <X> is. Vulnerable is not a negate nor a protect, it functions similarly to "cannot be ignored" and "regardless" in that it just gets around those abilities.

For instance after a quick read there's this combo.  Play a NT offense deck with TGT with a demon defense.  Play Letter to Smynra (can search for it with consider the lilies), throw up A New Covenant in your artifact pile.  When they make a rescue attempt at you, block with a revelation demon, play Wrath of Satan (which is now CBN), set your offense aside, search for Smynra Overcomes,  immediately discard your offense and rescue Smynra Overcomes (which I actually don't think works because of the rule that you can only rescue humans).  Heal your offense with ANC.

You just stopped their rescue, CBN, and rescued a soul and all it requires to do is Letter to Symnra, ANC, Wrath and a Revelation demon.  You can even recur Letter with Consider the Lillies and Wrath with Demon behind the idol at this point.

EDIT:  I forgot to say that this combo would be ridiculous in type II.

If by ridiculous you mean usable twice rather than once, then yes. Smyrna Overcomes is a bi-brigade card so even in T2 it's limited to 2 in a deck.

Also, good luck playing Smyrna Overcomes if your offense is set aside.

As far as comments regarding power, we didn't really have a chance to playtest any of them (nor a good way to do so even if we had the time) so there's bound to be combos that didn't immediately come to mind when creating them.

Vulnerable - Cards that are vulnerable to <X> cannot be protected from, immune to, or ignore whatever <X> is. Vulnerable is not a negate nor a protect, it functions similarly to "cannot be ignored" and "regardless" in that it just gets around those abilities.

Quote from: Drrek on April 20, 2013, 11:51:37 AM

For instance after a quick read there's this combo.  Play a NT offense deck with TGT with a demon defense.  Play Letter to Smynra (can search for it with consider the lilies), throw up A New Covenant in your artifact pile.  When they make a rescue attempt at you, block with a revelation demon, play Wrath of Satan (which is now CBN), set your offense aside, search for Smynra Overcomes,  immediately discard your offense and rescue Smynra Overcomes (which I actually don't think works because of the rule that you can only rescue humans).  Heal your offense with ANC.

You just stopped their rescue, CBN, and rescued a soul and all it requires to do is Letter to Symnra, ANC, Wrath and a Revelation demon.  You can even recur Letter with Consider the Lillies and Wrath with Demon behind the idol at this point.

EDIT:  I forgot to say that this combo would be ridiculous in type II.

If by ridiculous you mean usable twice rather than once, then yes. Smyrna Overcomes is a bi-brigade card so even in T2 it's limited to 2 in a deck.

Also, good luck playing Smyrna Overcomes if your offense is set aside.

As far as comments regarding power, we didn't really have a chance to playtest any of them (nor a good way to do so even if we had the time) so there's bound to be combos that didn't immediately come to mind when creating them.

Even if you could use it only twice, its still 2 rescued souls that you got by winning a defensive battle.  And did you not see the part of the combo, where you kill your offense (which sets it aside), rescue the card, then heal your offense and its all suddenly back.  Your offense isn't set aside ever during your turns.

Quote from: Alex_Olijar on April 20, 2013, 11:57:46 PM

I can use it 6 times in T2 without even trying hard, so GG.

You can only have 2 of the cards in deck so once you redeem both how exactly would you do it 4 more times?

You could always use Book of Jashar