Thursday, July 4, 2024

Notepad of Forgotten Ideas (New cards)

If you searched around my house, you would likely find a bunch of mini yellow notepads (from Staples, sold in, I think, packs of 10), stored away in odd places or just in piles one things waiting to be attended to.

I "found" one of these notepads. Found is a strong word for it was literally sitting in one of those aforementioned piles next to my nightstand in my bedroom. Most of the pages are gone and maybe half of those remaining are blank, including the top page, making this pad seem all the more innocuous.

When I flipped over that first blank sheet, there were motes for homebrew Guardians CCG cards that I may or may not have posted somewhere, anywhere, in the past, I don't know, ten years. I have no memory of writing these down, and dating from the 20-aughts is not out of the question. Possibly they were meant to be ".sigcards" on the mailing list or maybe an entry of their own. I've chosen to do the latter since it's a 30-year-old dead game without much of a following (but the following it has it definitely vocala and exuberant!).

So without further procrastination, and allowing me to tear off this page and toss it in the recycling, here are a bunch of ...

Random Homebrew Guardians CCG Cards

Note: It looks like I didn't add any Up numbers. But as there's no system to those, feel free to add any number you wish.

New World Order: Spell, You may replace an Event card in play with a different Event card from your hand. Changes take effect immediately. Costs 1 Stone to play.

Lingering Effects (or The More Things Change, The More They Stay the Same): Spell, Play during the T & S phase. Event card in play stays in play for another turn. However, opponent may replace it with a new Event card at the beginning of the next turn.

Phantasmal Terrain (or Tectonic Shift or something else): Play at any time. You may swap any two terrain cards you control that do NOT have Shields on them.

(no name given): Play at any time. Replace a face-down terrain card you control with a different face-down card from your hand.

Morb Rule: Event, Up 1. All creatures illustrated by Brom have +3 Vitality until end of turn.

Artist: Brom

Yhettanothi: External, Vitality 14. +8 in Mountains. Unclassed/Cyclops, Large, Gold, CMP 0 Red bar.
Note: I belive Cyclops is unclassed, so this might be "counts as a Cyclops" should that ever matter for a future card.

Flight of Angels: Event. All Angels are +2 vitality. All Demons and Devils are -2 Vitality (but never below 0).

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And that's it. What do you think?

If anyne knows good artwork for any of these, maybe we can construct actual cards like I used to do. Then again, this might be a good use for all those AI bots that software (Bing, Adobe) want me to use!