Did you guys have kinkos print on cardstock or normal paper? What other options? I'm confused and want to know as much as I can.
Normal paper. The paper was a little nicer than your average paper, but we didn't have to specifically ask for any paper (I don't think -- I didn't do the Kinko's thing for this round of BOO, but I did for the last one which was a few months ago, so my memory is a little fuzzy -- but I do remember it being a really painless process).
Magic Set Editor exports to PDFs, so if you bring in a CD and say, "I want this printed in high quality" then they do it, bring you the sheets, and voila. The best way is to take cards and put them in the sleeves as your normally would (in other words, don't have the card backs facing you), then cut and cut and cut and cut and cut and cut and cut and cut and cut...
...and cut and cut and cut and cut and cut and put the paper slips in the sleeves over the sleeved cards. Then they look like black-bordered Magic cards and it's awesome.
This time we shuffled all the cards together and did some big pile shuffles and then split the packs evenly. One thing to keep in mind is that not everyone had exactly the same number of cards for each color (I don't think), so color-balancing would have been a little bit off. Though I think everyone was mindful of color balance so they tried to keep it close, but I don't think it was perfect.
This Article and the concept was one of my favorite. It got my creative juices flowing and as such I have already begun to come up with new cards and mechanics.
I was wondering though are there any older Boo posts? Is there an all BOO website I can see this at? I had more fun seeing what cards you guys created than anything else. Lastly I think this would be amazing if MTGO would allow you to play with cards like this. not only would people be able to make their own cards and play with them. Wizards could make it so that part of the deal would be any card mechanics or cards they like would be made into real cards.
Also, that squid story may now be my favourite Magic story ever. I have to ask: did you consider going for the kill anyway and hoping he didn't spot the play? I think I might have done just because it would have been so funny if he'd missed it!
I did highly consider that route, but I also knew that with pressure on him from my creatures already he would easily be willing to trade, what was from his perspective, a vanilla 3/3 for my attacker. I didn't feel any need to take that risk. (Wanting to see him activate the abilities is another matter entirely... especially considering I don't think their apartment has a television to turn on!)
@Arcengal: That savage merfolk is part of a cycle, and I totally agree with you. Dan made a contious decision to make it so you can't get both effects, but I think they should have. You should be rewarded for making XXYY! Some would have been too powerful with both abilities, but I think he could have come up with different abilities or tweaked the P/T. Either way, they looked good and played great.
Just a quick note: There are split and flip card templates for MSE (nice to see it mentioned by name, by the way, thanks :P), so there shouldn't need to be any 'special handling' for them; I noticed the flip one was poorly spliced together from two regular cards, and you mentioned that the split one had to be printed separately.
It's not that they had to be printed separately because we didn't have a template but because Ricky had some kind of printing bug with split cards where they actually weren't printing out when printed with the rest of the set. If you look at my set, it has both MSE generated split and flip cards. (I think Dan did his split/flip cards manually.
Yea, I figured the full time of design and creation would be a bear... so how long do you normally play with the cards? 5 drafts or so? Is this better than cube drafting (I'm not talking about draft format, but creation time)... how long, once you have all the cards together, does it take to set up the packs and draft them? Does the player who makes 45 cards get three packs from those 45 cards, or do all the cards get shuffled up together, and then dealt out? Do you use a systematic method to create the packs (ensure a mix of colors)?
You can draft as many times as you want. Like Magic, they have limitless replay value. We were even talking about making a BOO cube from the past six BOO drafts. As far as drafting, you shuffle them up (very well) and people get 45 random cards from all of the cards submitted.
This Article and the concept was one of my favorite. It got my creative juices flowing and as such I have already begun to come up with new cards and mechanics.
I was wondering though are there any older Boo posts? Is there an all BOO website I can see this at? I had more fun seeing what cards you guys created than anything else. Lastly I think this would be amazing if MTGO would allow you to play with cards like this. not only would people be able to make their own cards and play with them. Wizards could make it so that part of the deal would be any card mechanics or cards they like would be made into real cards.
As a matter of fact, yes! While the fifth BOO draft is not available for viewing, you can see the cards in the first four BOO drafts on this page.
As far as a BOO 8-way, I think that rarity shouldn't matter and that we should get a 2 or 3 person group to review the cards and tweak as necessary. Everybody can submit 5 cards, including art, of some combination of up to one of each color, up to one artifact, up to one land, and up to one multicolored card. Conveniently, if we have 8 people in each seat, that's exactly the right number of cards for a draft. (360)
How exactly do you do this? I don't see this in the export options (or anywhere else).
I used Cutepdf to turn them into PDF's. You just need to install the free program, and then when you try and print the set just select it to print to Cutepdf instead and it'll export it as a PDF. Its easy to use and works marvelously.
I used Cutepdf to turn them into PDF's. You just need to install the free program, and then when you try and print the set just select it to print to Cutepdf instead and it'll export it as a PDF. Its easy to use and works marvelously.
I recall more errata, including toning down Experimental Cage so the creature could still block (seriously, kill your best guy and all my guys become your best guy is ridiculous).
Also, don't make cool for constructed cards with a bit of flavor that cost GGG, they won't be playable.
I'm worried that the next BOO set will end up with multiple copies of Waldo and the TV...
I also tried to make fun of Wizards naming conventions as much as possible. Just take two words, mash them together, add a race or tribe name and done! As expected, it made naming cards really easy.
Also, Salvetrip Merfolk makes no sense. If you pay WWUU for it, you should be able to use both effects a la Shadowmoor/Eventide cards.
When you say it makes no sense do you mean mechanically or how you want it to work? Mechanically it's correct because I used the "Choose one" template. I wanted each effect to be reasonably powerful so I didn't want you to be able to get both (otherwise they probably wouldn't be good enough when you're not paying XXYY). They started out gold but then I felt they were too good so I added the if you pay XX text as I didn't want to tone down the effects. From that point I added the Hybrid symbol because I thought it looked good and it was neat that a Gold/Hybrid card could exist and make some amount of sense (really it's because the Hybrid frame looks better than the gold frame IMO and they were too good as just Hybrid cards).
...there shouldn't need to be any 'special handling' for them; I noticed the flip one was poorly spliced together from two regular cards...
There isn't a land/spell flip frame, I had to make that myself and I only have paint, so no nice fading :p. They're really split cards, but having permanents on split cards doesn't really work (which way is tapped?) so I used the flip frame and made sure one side is a permanent and the other is a spell so you know what it is when it's in play.
I also made a template that had black text for some of the full art cards. I found art then picked a frame that the art looked good in for all cards except Pacify, which I thought felt like a card that could have been made in Alpha or something.
Normal paper. The paper was a little nicer than your average paper, but we didn't have to specifically ask for any paper (I don't think -- I didn't do the Kinko's thing for this round of BOO, but I did for the last one which was a few months ago, so my memory is a little fuzzy -- but I do remember it being a really painless process).
Magic Set Editor exports to PDFs, so if you bring in a CD and say, "I want this printed in high quality" then they do it, bring you the sheets, and voila. The best way is to take cards and put them in the sleeves as your normally would (in other words, don't have the card backs facing you), then cut and cut and cut and cut and cut and cut and cut and cut and cut...
...and cut and cut and cut and cut and cut and put the paper slips in the sleeves over the sleeved cards. Then they look like black-bordered Magic cards and it's awesome.
This time we shuffled all the cards together and did some big pile shuffles and then split the packs evenly. One thing to keep in mind is that not everyone had exactly the same number of cards for each color (I don't think), so color-balancing would have been a little bit off. Though I think everyone was mindful of color balance so they tried to keep it close, but I don't think it was perfect.
I think it was two sheets per person.
I was wondering though are there any older Boo posts? Is there an all BOO website I can see this at? I had more fun seeing what cards you guys created than anything else. Lastly I think this would be amazing if MTGO would allow you to play with cards like this. not only would people be able to make their own cards and play with them. Wizards could make it so that part of the deal would be any card mechanics or cards they like would be made into real cards.
Nineish... But I would have stayed longer if I could have. It was so much fun!
I did highly consider that route, but I also knew that with pressure on him from my creatures already he would easily be willing to trade, what was from his perspective, a vanilla 3/3 for my attacker. I didn't feel any need to take that risk. (Wanting to see him activate the abilities is another matter entirely... especially considering I don't think their apartment has a television to turn on!)
You get all 4 modes. Muhahahaha!
Agreed!
It's not that they had to be printed separately because we didn't have a template but because Ricky had some kind of printing bug with split cards where they actually weren't printing out when printed with the rest of the set. If you look at my set, it has both MSE generated split and flip cards. (I think Dan did his split/flip cards manually.
You can draft as many times as you want. Like Magic, they have limitless replay value. We were even talking about making a BOO cube from the past six BOO drafts. As far as drafting, you shuffle them up (very well) and people get 45 random cards from all of the cards submitted.
As a matter of fact, yes! While the fifth BOO draft is not available for viewing, you can see the cards in the first four BOO drafts on this page.
As far as a BOO 8-way, I think that rarity shouldn't matter and that we should get a 2 or 3 person group to review the cards and tweak as necessary. Everybody can submit 5 cards, including art, of some combination of up to one of each color, up to one artifact, up to one land, and up to one multicolored card. Conveniently, if we have 8 people in each seat, that's exactly the right number of cards for a draft. (360)
How exactly do you do this? I don't see this in the export options (or anywhere else).
I used Cutepdf to turn them into PDF's. You just need to install the free program, and then when you try and print the set just select it to print to Cutepdf instead and it'll export it as a PDF. Its easy to use and works marvelously.
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Thanks!
Also, don't make cool for constructed cards with a bit of flavor that cost GGG, they won't be playable.
I'm worried that the next BOO set will end up with multiple copies of Waldo and the TV...
I also tried to make fun of Wizards naming conventions as much as possible. Just take two words, mash them together, add a race or tribe name and done! As expected, it made naming cards really easy.
Curses! We'll finish this before the end of the year, you'll see.
When you say it makes no sense do you mean mechanically or how you want it to work? Mechanically it's correct because I used the "Choose one" template. I wanted each effect to be reasonably powerful so I didn't want you to be able to get both (otherwise they probably wouldn't be good enough when you're not paying XXYY). They started out gold but then I felt they were too good so I added the if you pay XX text as I didn't want to tone down the effects. From that point I added the Hybrid symbol because I thought it looked good and it was neat that a Gold/Hybrid card could exist and make some amount of sense (really it's because the Hybrid frame looks better than the gold frame IMO and they were too good as just Hybrid cards).
There isn't a land/spell flip frame, I had to make that myself and I only have paint, so no nice fading :p. They're really split cards, but having permanents on split cards doesn't really work (which way is tapped?) so I used the flip frame and made sure one side is a permanent and the other is a spell so you know what it is when it's in play.
I also made a template that had black text for some of the full art cards. I found art then picked a frame that the art looked good in for all cards except Pacify, which I thought felt like a card that could have been made in Alpha or something.
anyone notice all the cards and ideas that wizards "stole" from these create-a-cards. The obvious one is landfall, but there are also many more.