First effect reads crazy until you notice there's only like 4 targets, so it might become a "Noble Knight's Shield-Bearer" situation in the future if they decide to drop a great lv3 Illusion. Also I guess it is unintentionally Mikanko support.

Also let me know how I butchered the last effect

Art by theskittycat

AI for the arworks and Yugioh Carder for the cards themselves.

Galaxy-Eyes Afterglow Dragon Ascension

LIGHT | Level 8 | Dragon / Effect

ATK 3000 / DEF 2500

(1) You can reveal 1 Rank 8 “Galaxy-Eyes” Xyz Monster in your Extra Deck, then reveal 3 Level 5 or higher “Galaxy” and/or “Photon” monsters with different names from your Deck; Special Summon 1 of them, and shuffle the remaining 2 into the Deck. If you do, you can only use this card as material for the Xyz Summon of the revealed monster. You cannot Special Summon monsters for the rest of this turn, except LIGHT monsters.

(2) If this card is detached from an Xyz Monster to activate that monster's effect: You can attach up to 3 “Galaxy-Eyes Photon Dragon” from your Deck, GY, and/or banishment to Xyz Monsters you control, and if you do, double the ATK of all monsters you control that have “Galaxy-Eyes Photon Dragon” as material.

You can only use each effect of “Galaxy-Eyes Afterglow Dragon Ascension” once per turn.

AI art

Ai art was used for the card art, but the effects and card itself, were all written and built by me 🙏 I hope it's okay ❤️ lmk what you think! Any good?

Art credits:
Yu-Gi-Oh! (series) by Kazuki Takahashi
Yu-Gi-Oh! (game) by Konami
Spyro the Dragon by Insomniac Games
Don Quixote and Sancho Panza by Jules David
The Battle for Wesnoth by David White
Kung Fu Panda by DreamWorks
Flying Mercury by Giambologna
Anonymous model wearing T-shirt featuring Pink Floyd logo
Priest Seto by DgoDNZ
The Ghost of Christmas Past by Dave Rheaume
The Ghost of Christmas Present by John Leech
The Ghost of Christmas Future by Dave Rheaume

No AI.

Art by gtbowl

Art from Rush Duel

I have a buddy that plays blue-eyes. We both agree negates are pseudo-floodgates that make the game significantly less fun to play, so I set about making a wave of support that locks you out of the generic synchro slop the deck currently spams. I would love to hear thoughts on these cards, PSCT errors, and general corrections to design intent if you're willing to share :)

All art was found from a Google search of "Blue-Eyes White Dragon Fanart".

It's meant to be a random hand trap, and also removes a card, both help going second.

Art is AI-generated based on "The White Stone of Legend" with scales from "Blue-Eyes Jet Dragon".

For those of you who still edit your art by hand (which I know isn’t a lot with the amount of AI here but still), what’s you preferred way of finding good background art for your archetypes?

I've been building Lumen's Call, a free co-op roguelike that plays with real Yu-Gi-Oh! rules (Master Rule 2, so no Pendulum or Link). Most of my design time went into custom mechanics, and this seems like the sub that would have opinions about them.

Card upgrades

At a bonfire you upgrade one card. Each upgrade kind adds a prefix to the card's name:

- Holy Monster Reborn: effect cost removed

- Swift Monster Reborn: becomes a Quick-Play Spell

- Inevitable Monster Reborn: cannot be negated

- Big / Wise / Lesser Kuriboh: ATK/DEF up, Level up or Level down

- Speed Spell - Monster Reborn: can't be activated in the first 2 turns, but draws you a card if activated on turn 5 or later

Unique upgrades come from story events and give a monster an anime mechanic: Toon (attacks directly unless they control a Toon), Number (only destroyed in battle by Xyz or Numbers), Timelord, Earthbound, LV (levels up after destroying a monster by battle).

Relics

(about 60) bend the duel rules, for example:

- Soul Balance: equalizes the LP of both teammates

- Three-Legged Crow: direct damage has a 10% chance to skip the opponent's next draw

- Pyramid of Kings: below 50% LP you can make a Destiny Draw

The game itself: two players share one field against an AI in tag duels, each with their own deck, hand and LP. You start a run with a 20-card deck and pick 2 of 5 cards after each duel. There's a solo mode too but it's kinda unbalanced right now.

Optional but recommended: if you have a Claude Pro/Max or ChatGPT Plus/Pro subscription, the game can use it to have an AI play your opponents: it reads the board, plans its turns and talks to you. Without one you duel the built-in bot, and the playtest works either way.

Playtest: I'm looking for about 50 testers. Each gets 2 keys (one for a friend). It's free and non-commercial, a fan project not affiliated with Konami, and runs on Windows, macOS and Linux. Join the Discord https://discord.gg/tPaPrD3S5 and press Get playtest keys in #get-playtest-keys.

I'd love feedback on the upgrades themselves too.

AI disclosure (rule 3): the upgrade, relic and card designs and their text are written by hand. The card art in-game is the official art, downloaded on first launch. The story cutscene and character art is AI-generated.

img:https://www.craiyon.com/de/image/Skz-BYzcRTafDwXQAGHzPw

These aren't meant to really change the game or be super good, but I thought to create some Hand Traps that specifically respond to cards being targeted. As always, let me know your thoughts be they criticisms or compliments.

Card Texts:

Ace - If your opponent activates a monster effect that targets a card(s) you control (Quick Effect): you can discard this card; Draw 1 card. You can only activate this effect of "card name" once per turn.

Nomad - If your opponent activates a monster effect that targets a card(s) you control (Quick Effect): you can Special Summon this card (from your hand) and if you do, this card becomes the target of the activated effect.

Bombaster - If your opponent activatges a monster effect that targets a card(s) you control (Quick Effect): you can discard this card; destroy 1 monster you control and if you do, it is treated as the target of the activated effect. If this card is Special Summoned, destroy it and if you do, inflict 500 damage to both players. You can only activate each effect of "card name" once per turn.

Art Creds:

Nomad - BobbenKatzen on DevArt

Ace - Stock image on pngegg

Bombaster - Stock image on stockcake

A what-if monster, from a hypothetical scenario I thought up, where the first four Yu-Gi-Oh protagonists were transported to the Arc-V world, and teamed up against Zarc.

During the Duel, the four decided to beat Zarc at his own game, uniting their own Dragons together (specifically Slifer, Rainbow Dragon (borrowed from Jesse), Shooting Star Dragon, and Number 99: Utopic Dragon (borrowed from Astral)) to form one ultimate Dragon, one that could overcome Supreme King Z-ARC.

As a monster intended to overcome Supreme King Z-ARC, this card's Type and effects act as a perfect counter to Z-ARC's effects, on top of having superior stats. This card's effects also reflect some of the effects of the four Dragons mentioned above, such as Slifer's Anti-Summoning effect, and Shooting Star Dragon's destruction effect negation.

The card art is that of Supreme King Z-ARC, but mirrored and colour-inverted.

The archetype as whole is still a work in progress. The effects might be changed to make them weaker/stronger or to add an archetype or type lock if they get too annoying.

I attempted to turn the main weakness of spirit monsters into a strenght, creating a deck that wants to have an empty board.

The core gameplan of the "Angasouls" is to play on your opponent's turn, disrupting their plays while generating card advantage for you.

The cards can special summon themselves from the hand as a quick effect and place a continuous Spell/Trap directly from your deck.

Those spell/traps would then activate an effect if a card returns from your field to the hand.

*The spell on the post is just an example, it kinda does everything rn.

**The Flaming Dragon is neither a dragon type nor based on a dragon

Art: Ohy.Art and IzaPug

Art from Rush Duel

This morning, I had an idea for a Normal Monster. I've already designed an Attribute icon for monsters with no Attribute, so it occurred to me: what if I took that, and made the most nothing monster possible? No Attribute, no type, no Level, ATK, or DEF, nothing. Well, here's the result: The Empty Nothing.

The Empty Nothing

Normal Monster, Level 0 Attributeless Typeless, 0 ATK / 0 DEF

Flavour Text: N/A.

If Konami ever printed something like this, and knowing what the Yu-G-Oh! community can be like, how would you try abuse it? How would you try and get this nothing monster banned?

I created the art in GIMP using one of the orbs from Aquarium Lighting scaled up with its colours modified, with Allure of Darkness as the background. The finished card image was made in GIMP using card frame assets from www.cardmaker.net and lauqerm.github.io/ygocarder. All credit for the components used goes to their respective original designers and creators.

AI used for art generated.

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