Cactus Game Design Message Boards

Title: The Addict
Type: EC/Hero
Brigade: Black EC/Purple Hero
Numbers: Black 3/3 Purple 5/5
SA: If block is successful, search deck for an evil sin enhancement and add it to hand.  If defeated in battle, this character repents and becomes a purple hero. Cannot be negated if a Temple is in play.
Identifier: Based on Sin and Temptation
Image: http://www.bing.com/images/search?q=bible+pictures+of+addiction&FORM=HDRSC2#view=detail&id=B18C6127BAA17210359A58A61BD01CBD5703B2DA&selectedIndex=166
Background: 3

Title: Addiction
Class: Territory
Type: Evil Enhancement
Brigade: Black/Crimson/Orange
Abilitly: Place this card in your territory.  During upkeep phase, place a counter on this card. Evil characters in your territory gain X/*.  If your evil character is discarded during battle, remove this card immediately.
Identifier: Limit one per territory, Sin, X= number of counters on this card
Image: http://pesn.com/2011/01/10/9501740_Power_Addiction_and_Co-Dependency/power_addiction_300.jpg
Background: 6

Title: Adultery
Type: Evil Enhancement
Brigade: Black/Brown
Numbers: X/X
SA: Interrupt Wall of Protection. If a male human evil character is in battle, band to a female.  If a female evil character is in battle, then band to a male.  Cannot be interrupted.
Identifier: Sin, X=number of Evil Characters in battle
Image: http://ajmacdonaldjr.files.wordpress.com/2012/04/a_woman_taken_in_adultery_a.jpg?w=640
Background: 12

Title: Strange Woman
Type: Evil Character
Brigade: Black/Crimson
Numbers: 3/5
SA: Negate and discard a covenant.  If there are none activated, holder may discard a random face down artifact from opponent.  May band to any human evil character.
Identifier: Temptress
Image: http://damforstmuseum.org/images/forged/van_meegeren_christ_adulteress.jpg
Background: 5

Title: Complacency
Type: Curse
Brigade: Black/Brown
SA: Opponent's heros, from the same testament as this curse, cannot make a rescue attempt or challenge.  Opponent must discard half of hand rounded down to negate this.  Otherwise, this ability cannot be interrupted.
Identifier: Sin
Image: http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20071017170254/lon/images/f/f0/Complacency.jpg
Background: 10

Title: Fearless Criminal
Type: Evil Character
Brigade: Black
Class: Warrior
Numbers: 8/8
SA: Holder may look at the top 5 cards of opponents' deck and topdeck them in any order, discard a Hero in an opponent's territory, look at opponent's hand and take a card and add it to hand, or reveal the bottom 3 cards of holder's deck to search opponent's discard pile and remove a good card in that pile from the game.  Cannot be interrupted.
Identifier: Based on Sin and Temptation
Image: http://blog.d20pro.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/img_2863_thief.jpg
Background: 5

Title: Faithful Follower
Type: Hero
Brigade: Purple/White
Numbers: 5/3
SA: Protected from capture and is immune to black brigade.
Image: http://www.historyswomen.com/images/Jesus.bmp
Identifier: Generic
Background: 12

Title: Aged Women
Type: Hero
Brigade: Purple/White
Numbers: 3/3
Identifier: Generic
SA: Discard a good card from hand to search deck or discard pile for a female hero and add it to hand or battle.  May band to a male hero.  Cannot be negated if The Church is in play.
Verse: The aged women likewise ... they may teach the young women to be sober, to love their husbands, to love their children, [To be] discreet, chaste, keepers at home, good, obedient to their own husbands, that the word of God be not blasphemed.  Titus 2:3-5
Image: http://schoolworkhelper.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/Role-of-Women-in-the-Church.jpg
Background: 11
Rarity: UC

Title: The Church
Type: Good Fortress
SA: Set this fortress aside.  Female heros are protected from discard abilities on opponents' cards. If this fortress is discarded by an opponent, holder may search deck or discard pile for a good dominant.
Identifier: Holds any number of purple brigade female heroes.
Verse: Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church: and he is the saviour of the body. Ephesians 5:22-23
Image: http://www.oceansbridge.com/paintings/museums/new-hermitage/Neeffs_Peeter_I_and_Francken_Hieronymus_II-ZZZ-Interior_of_a_Gothic_Church.jpg
Background: 3
Rarity: Rare

Title: Saints
Type: Hero
Brigade: White
Numbers: X/X
Identifier: Musician, Based on Psalms, X=number of holder's Redeemed Souls
SA: Capture an evil King. Holder may discard this card to search deck for a Musician. Cannot be interrupted if holder has X Musicians in play.
Verse: Let the saints be joyful in glory: let them sing aloud upon their beds...To bind their kings with chains, and their nobles with fetters of iron; To execute upon them the judgment written: this honour have all his saints. Praise ye the Lord. Psalms 149:5-9
Image: http://www.tldm.org/saints/Bonaventure.jpg
Border: 12

Title: Prayer of the Wicked
Type: Evil Enhancement
Bridage: Black/Gray
Numbers: X/X
SA: Interrupt the battle and add any number of evil characters to the battle.  Cannot be negated by a good card.
Identifiers: X=number of opponent's Redeemed Souls, Sin
Verse: They cried, but [there was] none to save [them: even] unto the Lord...  Psalms 18:41
Image: http://www.prayerthoughts.com/prayerthoughts/Spiritual_Warfare/images/pt191_devil-325.jpg
Background: 13
Rarity: UR

Title: Familiar Spirit
Type: Evil Character
Brigade: Orange/Black
Numbers: 2/2
Identifier: Demon, Based on Sin and Temptation
SA: Search deck for a card that is based on sin and temptation.  Holder may remove an evil enhancement from the game to band to any evil character.  Cannot be negated.
Verse: A man also or woman that hath a familiar spirit, or that is a wizard... Leviticus 20:27a
Image: http://www.screensavergift.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/EvilDemon6.jpg
Background: 13
Rarity: UC

Title: Split Marriage
Type: Evil Enhancement
Brigade: Gold/Black
Class: Territory
Identifier: Based on Sin and Temptation
SA: Place this card in your territory for 4 turns.  Prevent opponent's human heroes from banding. If an opponent rescues successfully before the end of four turns, remove this card from the game.  If block is successful before the end of 4 turns, you may remove an evil character in your territory from the game to underdeck this card. 
Verse: When a man hath taken a wife, and married her, and it come to pass that she find no favour in his eyes, because he hath found some uncleanness in her: then let him write her a bill of divorcement, and give [it] in her hand, and send her out of his house.  Deuteronomy 24:1
Image: http://www.womeninthebible.net/Hagar_sent_away.jpg
Background: 14

Title: Exorcise the Demons
Brigade: Purple/White
Identifier: Based on Sin and Temptation
SA: Interrupt the battle and remove a demon in play from the game. Cannot be negated if used by a Musician.
Verse: And it came to pass, when the [evil] spirit from God was upon Saul, that David took an harp, and played with his hand: so Saul was refreshed, and was well, and the evil spirit departed from him. 1 Samuel 16:23
Image: http://atheism.about.com/library/graphics/JesusExorcismLegion-s.jpg
Background: 8

Title: Hope
Type: Good Dominant
SA: Shuffle an opponent's evil card in play into owner's deck.  Search discard pile for a hero and topdeck it.
Image: http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-yB2OIV_X-wo/USj7jVdXQdI/AAAAAAAAEzU/JkerbGQCi4U/s1600/god-of-hope.jpg
Verse: The wicked is driven away in his wickedness: but the righteous hath hope in his death. Proverbs 14:32
Background: 5

Title: Greed
Type: Evil Dominant
SA: Each player must shuffle their hands into his own draw pile and draw three. Holder of this card may draw an additional X. 
Identifier: Based on Sin and Temptation, X=number of cards in opponent's hand before shuffle
Image: http://personalityspirituality.files.wordpress.com/2009/09/scrooge.jpg
Verse: But woe unto you that are rich! for ye have received your consolation. Luke 6:24
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4 Card Future and Prophecy Set:

Title: Gog and Magog
Type: Site
Brigade: White
SA: At the start of a rescue attempt at this site, holder may search deck or discard pile for a demon and add it to battle. If rescue is successful, remove this site and all evil cards in battle from the game.
Identifier: Based on Future and Prophecy
Verse: And shall go out to deceive the nations which are in the four quarters of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them together to battle: the number of whom [is] as the sand of the sea. And they went up on the breadth of the earth, and compassed the camp of the saints about, and the beloved city... Revelation 20:8-9
Image: http://home.earthlink.net/~ezeprof/FIRE-UPON-GOG-AND-MAGOG.jpg
Background: Demon (Daniel) 13 (Lambo)

Title: Gehenna
Type: Site
Brigade: Green
SA: Evil Priests cannot be ignored.  If a prophet rescues a Lost Soul from this site, holder may discard this site to draw X.
Identifier: Holder may activate on artifact depicting an Idol here for one turn, X=number of opponent's Redeemed Souls, Future and Prophecy
Verse: But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death. Revelation 21:8
Image: http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20121030174456/villains/images/4/41/Gehenna.jpg
Background: Demon (Daniel) 13 (Lambo)

Title: Life Everlasting
Type: Good Enhancement
Class: Territory
Brigade: Multi
SA: Place on a hero for three turns.  Hero is protected from discard and removal from the game.  After three turns, remove this card and hero from the game. Cannot be prevented.
Identifier: Based on Future and Prophecy
Verse: These things have I written unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God; that ye may know that ye have eternal life, and that ye may believe on the name of the Son of God. 1 John 5:13 
Image: http://thefinalmovement.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/600-Jesus-Invitation0460.jpg
Background: Angel (Daniel)  2 (Lambo)

Title: Whole Lotta' Shakin'
Type: Good Enhancement
Brigade: Multi
SA: If opponent has more Redeemed Souls than you, remove everything in play. If players still have cards in draw piles, continue current game.  If not, begin new game. Cannot be negated if Son of God has been played.
Identifier: Based on Future and Prophecy
Verse: Surely in that day there shall be a great shaking in the land of Israel; So that the fishes of the sea, and the fowls of the heaven, and the beasts of the field, and all creeping things that creep upon the earth, and all the men that [are] upon the face of the earth, shall shake at my presence, and the mountains shall be thrown down, and the steep places shall fall, and every wall shall fall to the ground. Ezekiel 38:19-20
Image: http://year2012.ca/wp-content/gallery/volcanoes/iceland-eyjafjallajokull-volcano-7.jpg
Background: Angel (Daniel)  14 (Lambo)

Title: Captain of the Host
Brigade: Silver
Ability: 10/10
Identifier: WC, Prophet
Special Ability: If blocked by a male human, draw 2. Negate all protect abilities. Cannot be Negated by an evil card.
Reference: Joshua 5:14 “Neither,” he replied, “but as commander of the army of the Lord I have now come.” Then Joshua fell facedown to the ground in reverence, and asked him, “What message does my Lord have for his servant?”
Art: http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-9tiKaQ9KYFI/UWgEMyQcVzI/AAAAAAAACAs/EhU51gPx62E/s1600/Arcangelo+Michele+579++che+espelle+1233.jpg
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Title: Cornelius
Type: Hero
Brigade: Red/White/Purple
Numbers: 8/11
Class: Warrior
Identifier: Roman
SA: Search deck for Peter or Caesarea Philipi. May band to a N.T. angel or Peter.  Cannot be negated.
Verse: He distinctly saw an angel of God...Now send men to Joppa to bring back a man named Simon who is called Peter. Acts 10:3,5
Image: http://www.visualbiblealive.com/image-bin/Public/110/04/110_04_0265_BiblePaintings_prev.jpg
Background: Red (Daniel) 9 (Lambo)

Title: Huldah
Type: Hero
Brigade: Green/Purple
Numbers: 4/4
Identifiers: Prophetess, Royal Official
SA: Repel evil Judean Kings.  May band to Shallum.
Verse: Hilkiah the priest, Ahikam, Akbor, Shaphan and Asaiah went to speak to the prophet Huldah, who was the wife of Shallum son of Tikvah, the son of Harhas, keeper of the wardrobe. She lived in Jerusalem, in the New Quarter. II Kings 22:14
Image: http://www.christcenteredmall.com/profiles/huldah.jpg
Background: 5 (Lambo) Green (Daniel)

Title: Gad
Type: Hero
Brigade: Green
Numbers: 6/3
Identifiers: Prophet, X=number of opponent's evil brigades in play
SA: Draw X or play a green brigade enhancement.  Cannot be negated if David is in play.
Verse: On that day Gad went to David and said to him, “Go up and build an altar to the Lord on the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite. 2 Samuel 24:18
Image: http://www.mikebennettgraphics.com/home/GRAPHIC_DESIGN/ILLUSTRATION/images/gad.jpg
Background: Blue (Daniel)  3 (Lambo)

Title: Malachi
Type: Hero
Brigade: Green
Numbers: 3/3
Identifier: Prophet
SA: Search deck for a covenant or a card with "offering" in the title.  Cannot be interrupted.
Verse: In every place incense and pure offerings will be brought to me, because my name will be great among the nations,” says the Lord Almighty... Malachi 1:11b
Image: http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_nkEEd1ZWXO4/S2pF2wczXgI/AAAAAAAAAJc/2WYgU3k8P_4/s400/malachi.bmp
Background:  Red (Daniel) 10 (Lambo)

Title: Barnabas
Type: Hero
Brigade: Purple
Numbers: 4/4
SA: Search deck for Saul/Paul and set him aside for 3 turns.  Upon Saul's return, he repents and becomes Paul.  May band to Paul.  Cannot be prevented.
Verse: Then Barnabas went to Tarsus to look for Saul, and when he found him, he brought him to Antioch. So for a whole year Barnabas and Saul met with the church and taught great numbers of people.  Acts 11:25-26
Image: http://bibleencyclopedia.com/picturesjpeg/Paul_and_Barnabas_sent_out_C-1037.jpg
Background: blue