Commonly Used OCG Phrases

[Zkaiser]

"This card inflicts Piercing Damage" is OCG.

[Bringerofcake]

Right. Added all phrases necessary and changed around a few categories. Subtype and damage effects can now be found in Effects, rather than Monsters.

[Jaime Duferier]

"Pay_life points. This card cannot be destroyed in battle."

 

"Pay_life points. This card cannot be destroyed by the effects of (monsters/spells/traps)

 

does this help?

[Turmoil]

How about rolling dice/tossing coins? I'm kinda dumbfounded on those effects

[TCG warrior]

the first part of the effects of spirit monsters is still needed: This card cannot be Special Summoned. This card returns to the owner's hand during the End Phase of the turn that this card is Normal Summoned or flipped face-up.

[Newfie Kuriboh Shark]

thnx.

[Bringerofcake]

How about rolling dice/tossing coins? I'm kinda dumbfounded on those effects

 

 

the first part of the effects of spirit monsters is still needed: This card cannot be Special Summoned. This card returns to the owner's hand during the End Phase of the turn that this card is Normal Summoned or flipped face-up.

 

 

Check the "Effects" section.

 

thnx.

 

Yr wlcm

[SzayelAporro]

Kuiaja The Brutal Abyss Dragon (Dragon/Synchro/Effect) level 8 atk:2600 def:2500

 

.When this card is on the field in defense position, activates this effect. If the opponent has one monster or more in defense position, you can attack him directly using in his graveyard the attacking power of all of monsters. If this card effect is not activated by an effect of a card on the field or graveyard, double your monsters attack and defense points.

 

OMG -1 rep for that

That has nothing to do with this thread.

 

 

This monster gains (Number) ATK every time it attacks a (Attribute/level or more) monster.

[Venom]

Very good guide! You really help me improve my OCG (which is a bit bad when I think of new effects). I think this guide should be pinned not only here, but on all sections that go with card-making. Really good compilation, besides, it helps me think new and creative effects!. Very well done =D 10/10 and +1 Rep

[Trebuchet MS]

"This card inflicts Piercing Damage" is OCG.

 

Well, it was attempted in Cyberdark Impact in English, but for reasons unknown it got scrapped. What a pity, since this is very helpful in reducing text chunks to avoid the card maker from shrinking the text too much. Should this be part of Official Card Grammar?

 

Meanwhile...

 

"...Increase your Life Points by (number) points."

 

"...Increase your Life Points by an amount equal to _ x (number) points."

 

"...Increase your Life Points by (number) points for each _."

 

"...Inflict damage to your opponent's Life Points equal to _ x (number) points."

 

"...Inflict (number) points of damage to your opponent's Life Points for each _."

[Zeppeli Gyro Supreme]

Well, it was attempted in Cyberdark Impact in English, but for reasons unknown it got scrapped. What a pity, since this is very helpful in reducing text chunks to avoid the card maker from shrinking the text too much. Should this be part of Official Card Grammar?

Seeing as it is on an official card and has not been removed by an eratta, I would say it is OCG. The reasoning behind it I guess was because they were experimenting with the effect, or trying to trim down the size of the card's effect, but due to confusion with players they stopped using it for other cards. They did this with "Polymerization", making a very simple card effect much more complex to be more defining. However, the difference would be that Polymerization originally had the simpler effect and was eratta'd.

[Trenox]

This Thread was extremely helpful thanks for posting it!

[Shizuku Oikawa]

"You can reveal _ (cards/monster(s)/Spell Card(s)/Trap Card(s)) in your hand to __."

 

"You can substitute this card for any 1 Fusion Material Monster. The other Fusion Material Monster(s) must be the correct one(s)."

[Bringerofcake]

Excellent. Added.

[Shizuku Oikawa]

"Add _ from your (Deck/Graveyard) to your hand."

 

I haven't seen this effect in the list yet, so I'm adding it because it's the most common error I've seen, and I dislike people putting "Search your Deck for a..".

[Bringerofcake]

Again, thank you. I thought I'd gotten that...

[-Griffin]

Can I request the following disclaimer added to the first post?

 

"If at any point attempting to use the 'correct' OCG makes your card ambiguous, have questionable rulings, be overly long, or just outright sounds odd, make something up or go with your intuition. Having an understandable card is more important than a technically correct one, although being correct is still nice."

[Bringerofcake]

Sure, why not.

[judedudemude]

what about tokens and counters

[Bringerofcake]

Added.

[Skythief]

Question on discarding cards:

"Each player sends X card(s) from their hand to the Graveyard"

VS

"Each player discards X card(s)"

[-Griffin]

Entirely different effects. One sent cards from the hand to the Graveyard, the other discards.

[Skythief]

Yes I can see that. But both are the act of laying a card from your hand in the graveyard. So where lies the difference? Is it a difference like in destroying and tributing? And if it is, then why do many cards that have discard have a cost phrase discard actually as discard?

[-Griffin]

The difference is that one is a discarding (a form of sending), and one is just sending. Cards that interact with discarding will only interact with things that discard. Things that send a card to the Graveyard as a cost are invalid when Banisher/Macro/ect is on the field.

[Skythief]

So if I understood this right, all discardings are sendings but not all sendings are discardings?