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Yes, the last one with the name appeared way back in March 2015, but you may assume that the CC Monthly tournaments after that more/less replaced this. Officially, this is #12, but number 23 if the CC tournaments are treated as such. (Yes, I counted)

 

If you want to consider this as the Feb CC monthly (and really, the first one of the year thereof), go ahead

 

February marks 8 years I've been here on YCM (well, since registering; it actually came last Sunday but was busy), it felt appropriate to make something to go along with it.

 

(Title isn't the best in the world, but supposed to be a reference to how 8 is a lucky number in east Asia. That, and a reference to my anniversary.)

 

Requirement

Make a Level/Rank 8 monster.

 

(Other than your card having to be a Level/Rank 8 monster, the rest of the design is up to you; either a generic or Archetype/series support)
 
Deadline
 
February 24th, 2017 @ 11 pm Hawaiʻi Standard Time (GMT -10:00)
 
If you need help determining what time it'll be in your area when deadline hits, use this converter.
(Select USA - Hawaii - Honolulu in the "convert to" area)

 

You should submit your entries when the deadline comes in your particular timezone to avoid confusion (or if you know that it comes at a time when you will not be online). Most of you live in higher timezones, so this shouldn't be too much of an issue. 

 

Rules
 
1. Standard YCM and Custom Cards rules apply in this section. Please remember to abide by / follow them in this contest. 
 
2. Written Cards are accepted, however if you opt to do this; do not use the cardmaker or TCGEditor to generate a pictureless image. Just type it out in text format. Also remember to post your card's effect underneath so it can be easily read if you post a regular card.
 
3. You are allowed to make minor edits to your card until the deadline (such as effect correction, OCG/spelling fixes, etc).

 

Changing your entry completely is prohibited, so please make sure that you want to go through with a certain design before submission.
 
4. You may not design a card using Fake Types/Attributes nor use Divine-Beast/Creator God and the DIVINE Attribute. All cards must abide by the maximum 5000 ATK/DEF rule for original stats.
 
5. Ritual Monsters and their corresponding Ritual Spell will be treated as a single card, but their individual scores will be averaged.
 
6. Any card that is known to us before the deadline is fair game, including leaks from YGOrganization. 
 
7. You do not need to provide a submission immediately when you enter, but it needs to be here by the deadline if you want to be scored. No submissions mean a zero score.

 
Entry Fee
 
Free.
 
Participants
 
Bold means that I got your entries.

  1. Belle
  2. TheKing070701
  3. CybZero
  4. RayeEX
  5. CatmanDaGamer
  6. Reptilous

SCORING

 

[spoiler=Score Card]

This is the same score card I have used for the December 2016 CC monthly (in terms of point values).

 

SAKURA (100)

BALANCE/USABILITY (60)

  • If this were ever released in real life, would it break the game in half or would it be fine as-is? Conversely, is this card underpowered and needs a push in power to be up to standard?
  • Do we have a reason to run this over another card that does something similar? Does the card actually work the way it's intended to.

CREATIVITY/FLAVOR (25)

  • Have I already seen this type of effect before on similar cards or this is something different?
  • How well does your card tie into flavor (if you go for Archetypal support, this will be factored heavily)

OCG (15)
 
These components comprise your grade for this section.

  • Are you following guidelines for standard English grammar and writing? Did you spellcheck your work?
    • I won't deduct points for differences in American/British spelling (but I think English language cards go to American spelling nowadays)
  • Can I understand your card without having to PM evilfusion a ruling query?
  • Usage of terminology that actually exists on TCG/OCG cards.

It is recommended that you write your card in PSCT, however late 5Ds is fine. You may use the hybrid PSCT style if desired (as in the OCG numbering combined with PSCT; the style you see Organization translated stuff as [or the version I use most of the time]).

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Please note that all parts are interconnected; if I cannot understand your card's wording or if it's difficult to read due to mistakes, it will affect other areas.

 

It is your responsibility to make sure your card's intent is clear.

 


 
PRIZING
 
1st - 5000 points + 4 reps + Champion logo + 1 month custom group (extension or equivalent thereof if you already got one; VIP doesn't count.)
2nd - 3000 points + 3 reps + runner-up logo
3rd - 2000 points + 2 reps + 3rd place prize
4th - 1000 points + 1 rep
 
Please note that I reserve the right to modify the above based on quality of entries and how many are received thereof. 
 
[spoiler=Examples]

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Yeah, these were from the Rio 2016 CC monthly.

Design will differ a bit, but a general idea of what to expect.

 


 

[spoiler=NOTE]

I did approve of a member hosting the February CC monthly when PM'd, but as the timeline for it to be hosted is getting shorter given the constraints, this is going up.

 

Officially, this is NOT the CC monthly, but it will be run as such, scoring/prize-wise. After February 14th, this WILL become the CC Monthly. 

 

 

 

If you have questions about stuff, let me know.

 

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Good luck to all of you.

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First card!

 

[spoiler=Entry]Number 108: Gimmick Puppet of Reaping Knives
DARK / Rank 8
[ Machine / Xyz / Effect ]
3450 / 2200

3 Level 8 monsters
You can also Xyz Summon this card by using 1 "Gimmick Puppet" Xyz Monster you control as Xyz Material (Xyz Materials attatched to that monster also become Xyz Materials on this card). When this card is Xyz Summoned: You can draw 1 card, but you cannot activate that card's effect until the end of the turn. Once per turn: You can detach 1 Xyz Material from this card; Activate one of the following effects.
• Discard up to 5 cards from your hand, then destroy cards on the field equal to the amount cards discarded by this monster's effect.
• Excavate up to 5 cards from the top of your deck, then destroy cards on the field equal to the amount of "Gimmick Puppet" monsters send to the Graveyard by this card's effect.
When this card is destroyed by battle or card effect: You can Special Summon 1 "Gimmick Puppet" Xyz Monster from your Graveyard and attach this card to that monster as Xyz Material. You can only activate this effect of "Number 108: Gimmick Puppet of Reaping Knives" once per turn.

 

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[spoiler=Entry]

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During either player's turn, if your opponent successfully conducts their third (or more) Special Summon of a monster(s) this turn: You can Special Summon this card from your hand or Graveyard. It is unaffected by other card effects during this turn, but banish it when it leaves the field. If this card attacks or is attacked, your opponent cannot activate monster effects until the end of the Damage Step. You can only control 1 "Heaven Knight".

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Alright, I'll note that I got an entry.

 

Also, let's keep all entries in the ARC-V generation or earlier (so no Link Monsters). Yeah, I did say that all cards that are known before next week are eligible for design decisions and all, but given Link Monsters were just recently released (as in half a day ago), it's still too new. In a future contest, they will be permitted (once everything is solidified).

 

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So yeah, still going to grade these under the ARC-V mechanics (which is a hell of a lot less confusing than the new ones). 

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[spoiler=Entry]

 

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This card cannot be Normal Summoned or Set. This card must first be Special Summoned by destroying 2 "Fire King" monsters you control. When this card is Special Summoned this way: Destroy all other face-up monsters on your side of the field, then destroy cards on the field equal to the number of monsters destroyed by this effect, except this card. During your next Battle Phase after this card was destroyed and sent to the Graveyard: You can Special Summon this card from the Graveyard. When you do: Add 1 "Fire King" monster from your Graveyard to your hand. You can only control 1 "Fire King Divine Avatar Garunix".

 

 

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[spoiler=My Entry] createcard.jpg

 

Effect: You can only control 1 "Gamma-Ray Dragon". You can Special Summon this card (from your hand) by Tributing 2 monsters in the same column.  Monsters in this card's column cannot be targeted for attacks, and can only attack monsters in the same column. This card gains 100 ATK/DEF for each card in this card's column. Once per turn, during either players turn, you can activate each of the following effect.

●Move this card to an unoccupied Monster Zone.
●Pay 800LP, and target 1 face-up card in this card's column; While this face-up card is in the same column as the target(s): Negate that card's effects.
If this card was sent from the field to the Graveyard: You can banish this card from your Graveyard, then target 1 column; Destroy all cards in that column, then, if all zones in that column were occupied, you can target another column: Destroy all cards in that column.

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Just a reminder that deadline is tomorrow night at 11 pm my time (it is currently 2:32 pm Thursday), so if you haven't entered a submission yet, you need to do so within the next 32-33 hours. 

 

As it stands, RayeEX hasn't logged on since entering, and TheKing is currently absent, but everyone else is clear. If that's all the entries, I might start grading early. 

 

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Like I mentioned earlier, I will be grading this under the ARC-V field mechanics and not the new one with Link Monsters / segregated monster zones (calling it this because Main/Extra are split now). 

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The deadline elapsed half a day ago, but yeah, submissions are closed and I need to grade these. So...RayeEX and TheKing both get automatic zeroes because no submission (I'll assume the latter had homework or other issues thereof, and idk about RayeEx).

 

Probably should've expected a smaller turnout (not taking into account the other contest in this section), and might need to given the new mechanics being a deterrent for some.

 

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Should have the grades up within the next couple of days.

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  • 2 weeks later...

No, I didn't forget about this for the past two weeks, but university and other things took out more time than I would've liked.

 

[spoiler=Grades]

SCORE CARD
B: 60
C/F: 25
O: 15
Total: 100

[spoiler=Catman]
B: 38
C/F: 12
O: 10
Total: 60

3 Level 8 monsters
You can also Xyz Summon this card by using 1 "Gimmick Puppet" Xyz Monster you control as Xyz Material (Xyz Materials attatched to that monster also become Xyz Materials on this card). When this card is Xyz Summoned: You can draw 1 card, but you cannot activate that card until the end of the turn. Once per turn: You can detach 1 Xyz Material from this card, then activate 1 of these effects.
• Discard up to 5 cards from your hand, then destroy an equal number of cards on the field.
• Send up to 5 cards from the top of your Deck, then destroy a number of cards on the field, up to the number of "Gimmick Puppet" monsters excavated by this effect.
If this card is destroyed by battle or card effect: You can Special Summon 1 "Gimmick Puppet" Xyz Monster from your Graveyard, then attach this card to that monster as Xyz Material. You can only activate this effect of "Number 108: Gimmick Puppet of Reaping Knives" once per turn.

First and foremost, "excavate" does NOT send cards to the Graveyard (recall that it translates to "look at the top [x] cards"; what you'd want for the second effect is to SEND, trigger on how many GPs you revealed.

But anyway, I am a bit skeptical of this outclassing Number 88 as far as members go (well, it's basically a Xyz Change off of 15/40/88/itself and all Chaos forms, and with a higher statline). I suppose it does address the issue of getting brick hands, and letting you blow stuff up while triggering stuff (idk, get fodder in Graveyard for Ritual to revive and Rank 8 or something). Then again, I'm not seeing why this is a Number (taking into consideration 107 was the upper limit, even for Barians; and no, we will assume Don Thousand and Numeronius don't exist). I admit that they do need more speed though, but at the same time, there's a lot of things that I don't think work for this card (also note that it can revive copies of itself).

 

[spoiler=.Belle]
B: 56
C/F: 23
O: 13.5
Total: 92.5

During either player's turn, if your opponent conducts their third (or more) Special Summon this turn: You can Special Summon this card from your hand or Graveyard. If this card was Special Summoned by this effect, it is unaffected by other card effects during this turn, but banish it when it leaves the field. If this card attacks or is [targeted for an attack], your opponent cannot activate monster effects until the end of the Damage Step. You can only control 1 "Heaven Knight".

(Basically cleaning; "successfully" is no longer used as it's implied that stuff goes through, "targeted for an attack" and clarifying that if it's SS'd by this effect, it gets effect immunity and is force banished [i'll assume this is the case])

Ohai anti-Zoodiac counter. No seriously, this thing will probably be triggering a lot against them, considering how prevalent they are lately. One of my concerns is the lack of OPT on its summon effect, considering it's a 26/30 mon with effect immunity out of nowhere, but as it does require the opponent to have SS'd at least thrice that turn and it banishes itself (unless someone played Iron Wall), card should be fine.

 

[spoiler=Reptilous]
B: 55
C/F: 23
O: 14
Total: 92

(Other than some unnecessary / outdated text ["this card" is omitted and "your side of the field" became "you control", everything else is fine)

Well, at least it pluses off the other Fire Kings when they get blown up (so you can trigger their effects first, then destroy the rest), but in a way, its destructive capacities are limited to how much you can set up your board to blow stuff up (well, whatever you had up - 2), though even if that happens, you can probably still summon other ones from your hand. Graveyard recovery is fine. Other than that, card fits into the Fire King deck well enough as an "upgrade" to High Avatar Garunix.

 

[spoiler=CyZero]
B: 40
C/F: 19
O: 12
Total: 71

(If I didn't make this clear, entries are being graded on ARC-V standards and not Links stuff; as you did post this a while after SD2017 stuff was revealed)

But yeah, under the ARC-V mechanics, only way you're doing this is hoping your opponent has a monster sharing a column as yours, and even then, most it does is make the opponent have to ram into this card to do anything. I mean, suppose you can use it to save smaller monsters but yeah. Field/Graveyard effect is the most potent though (and effectively Blasting Fuse x2 if you can pull it off). Again though, unless you're lucky enough to get everything lined up for 2 column blasts, not seeing this work out too much. Still can't argue with blowing up some stuff when it dies.

(CDIP got crap for being unorthodox with card positioning; suppose they're having a laugh at the mechanics now that it's slightly more important.)

 

 

 

TheKing and RayeEX have 0 because no submission; I told you guys that no entry = zero score (though if you were busy and needed to withdraw, you could've just told me, because yeah, I understand we all have lives outside this board).

 

 

 

Will leave this open for a couple days for comments/concerns about your grades before I award prizes.

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I guess everyone's fine with what they got in terms of grades, right?

 

So yeah, whatever the scores are in my last post, those are final. So for .Belle, seeing as you won by half a point, just PM me for what you'd like your custom group to be. Prizes will be awarded when I get home (typing this at college before class).

 

I hoped for a larger turnout, but suppose given CC's inactivity lately overall, it can't be helped. But anyway, thanks to those of you who participated. 

 

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It's too late for a tournament now, but April will probably have one. 

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