bury the year Posted December 29, 2014 Report Share Posted December 29, 2014 The YCM Magic: the Gathering Collaborative Set Project, Take II(OR TYCMMTGCSPTII FOR SHORT)My first attempt at making a collaborative set on YCM was a failure, but since I last posted that there’s been more interest/activity surrounding Magic, let’s try this again. Our goal here is to make a set of ~150 cards (about the size of a standard small set) that can potentially be the first set in a two-set block.Battle Plani. Get people to help out. 3-4 people’d be fine to start.ii. Choose the overarching theme/aesthetic of the plane. (See spoiler at bottom.)iii. Flesh out details regarding places, races and central characters. An idea for the central conflict would help.iv. Determine the “matters” theme. What’s important to focus on? Casting? Hybrid? Graveyard? How can that be incorporated into the setting?v. Work on mechanics. Make a few new ones and determine which previously-exclusive ones we want to see return.vi. Draft up a skeleton for the set, including number of cards and color/CMC distribution. Formation of cycle ideas and any possible reprinted cards should start here so we know how to incorporate them.vii. Start making cards. Yaaaay!Methods of Curation• Post a design for a single card that shows off the flavor of our hypothetical plane and/or set, either through flavor or mechanics. Nothing generic: I want to see something that opens a window into this world and gives the reader a glimpse of what’s to come.• Once accepted, post your card ideas here. We'll collaboratively tweak and test them.• Finalized cards will be posted on MagicMultiverse.Known Info[spoiler="Things I know our plane will be having."]Absolutely nothing! 8D[/spoiler]Victims ParticipantsPocGadjiltronDaeCirrus.Rai Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Poc Posted December 29, 2014 Report Share Posted December 29, 2014 Again, I'm up for the project. Hopefully people show interest in this for more than a few days this time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trebuchet MS Posted December 29, 2014 Report Share Posted December 29, 2014 Don't mind if I join in. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bury the year Posted December 29, 2014 Author Report Share Posted December 29, 2014 Again, I'm up for the project. Hopefully people show interest in this for more than a few days this time.Don't mind if I join in.Awesome! Any initial thoughts before I start blabbing about stuff? (: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Simping For Hina Posted December 29, 2014 Report Share Posted December 29, 2014 Sure. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bury the year Posted December 29, 2014 Author Report Share Posted December 29, 2014 Sure.Great. Added to the "Participants" list. Check out the "Known Info" spoiler and tell me what you think. (: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cirrus Posted December 29, 2014 Report Share Posted December 29, 2014 I'm also up. Not American and not necessarily able to become a dominant force but I am at least able to offer some peripheral assistance. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Poc Posted December 29, 2014 Report Share Posted December 29, 2014 1920esque plane, I like it. An artifact theme would be ideal with the Industrial Revolution. I'm gonna guess you want to keep guns out of this? MTG has never really used them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cirrus Posted December 29, 2014 Report Share Posted December 29, 2014 1920esque plane, I like it. An artifact theme would be ideal with the Industrial Revolution. I'm gonna guess you want to keep guns out of this? MTG has never really used them. I can recall exactly 1 instance of a gun. Of course there might be more examples. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bury the year Posted December 29, 2014 Author Report Share Posted December 29, 2014 1920esque plane, I like it. An artifact theme would be ideal with the Industrial Revolution. I'm gonna guess you want to keep guns out of this? MTG has never really used them.I can recall exactly 1 instance of a gun. Of course there might be more examples.Portal Second Age was a weird place, and MaRo's said that was a big mistake to include guns. No guns.Re: the artifact idea, I'd like to keep that to a subtheme, similar to how Shadowmoor implemented their scarecrows. Mainly because I feel like it's the "easy way out" for this setting. If there's enough support for it, I'm sure we can do it, but for reight now I'd like to explore alternate avenues. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Poc Posted December 29, 2014 Report Share Posted December 29, 2014 Multi colored or mono colored focus? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bury the year Posted December 29, 2014 Author Report Share Posted December 29, 2014 Multi colored or mono colored focus?Monocoloured, similar to Innistrad in set breakdown (so with a few multicoloured cards scattered in). I feel as if we do multicolour it'll be too similar to Ravnica. This set should focus on ally-coloured cards, so the second hypothetical set would focus on enemy-coloured ones. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bury the year Posted December 29, 2014 Author Report Share Posted December 29, 2014 Random question, but do people have Skype? Being able to chat there may make the design process more natural. Mine is degausser18 - feel free to add me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
.Rai Posted December 30, 2014 Report Share Posted December 30, 2014 Sure, add me! In retrospect, there's a lot that could have been improved with the first attempt. I vow to see a completed collab set at least once! 1920s feels a tad narrow compared to Innistrad. Innistrad certainly had influences from England and most Germanic countries, but importantly had the advantage of never-ending horror tropes to build its flavour. Still, love the theme and there's definitely a way to pull it off. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bury the year Posted December 30, 2014 Author Report Share Posted December 30, 2014 Sure, add me! In retrospect, there's a lot that could have been improved with the first attempt. I vow to see a completed collab set at least once!1920s feels a tad narrow compared to Innistrad. Innistrad certainly had influences from England and most Germanic countries, but importantly had the advantage of never-ending horror tropes to build its flavour. Still, love the theme and there's definitely a way to pull it off.Added! Do I have you on Skype? We've been brainstorming a bit. The main problem right now is figuring out the X in "X matters." Thoughts? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tesability Black Posted December 30, 2014 Report Share Posted December 30, 2014 'raises paw' I would like to jump in. I may have schemes that I've come up with for the GCRP Chaos set that could also work for this one as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bury the year Posted December 30, 2014 Author Report Share Posted December 30, 2014 'raises paw' I would like to jump in. I may have schemes that I've come up with for the GCRP Chaos set that could also work for this one as well.Added. If you have Skype, add me and mention your YCM name. Anyways, what's your idea? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gokai-Red Posted December 30, 2014 Report Share Posted December 30, 2014 Politics Matters? Money? Classes? Oh and Hi Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bury the year Posted December 30, 2014 Author Report Share Posted December 30, 2014 Politics Matters? Money? Classes? Oh and Hi'ello, you've been added. Add me on Skype if you have it.Also, I was thinking more in terms of mechanics. Like "graveyard matters," "attacking matters," "color matters," etc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bury the year Posted December 31, 2014 Author Report Share Posted December 31, 2014 Uhhhh, since we're not getting the activity I thought we would be, I'll start with some discussion points. What kind of flavor tidbits would you like to see in this world? I think worldbuilding would be a good jumping-off place. We can even pull from videogames and other media with similar aesthetic if that helps. (: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gokai-Red Posted December 31, 2014 Report Share Posted December 31, 2014 Some Historical References would help out us non US people to know the context we are working on? Skype: Venserdeurborg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
.Rai Posted December 31, 2014 Report Share Posted December 31, 2014 I mean, my go-to references regarding 1920s are Art Deco, The Great Gatsby, and more recently Transistor (art style was cyberpunk injected with heavy, heavy doses of Art Deco).I mean, I'll have to brainstorm a bit to see what mechanical theme this leads itself to. I'm kinda stumped, the flavour doesn't lend itself to anything specific. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bury the year Posted December 31, 2014 Author Report Share Posted December 31, 2014 I mean, my go-to references regarding 1920s are Art Deco, The Great Gatsby, and more recently Transistor (art style was cyberpunk injected with heavy, heavy doses of Art Deco).I mean, I'll have to brainstorm a bit to see what mechanical theme this leads itself to. I'm kinda stumped, the flavour doesn't lend itself to anything specific.Two themes popped up in chat:1) Industrialization. No plane so far (except for Ravnica a bit) has confronted those issues, particularly in having a plane in transition.2) Commerce and trade. I know gold counters were a thing from one of the designer searches, and maybe that could be reimplemented to some degree? Could keyword gold tokens (like those on Gild or King Macar) to that degree. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Poc Posted December 31, 2014 Report Share Posted December 31, 2014 We need to establish some kind of story first. I'll be able to devote more time to this after the new year, This part of the year is always super busy for me. You can add me on skype - Chairbearstare Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gokai-Red Posted December 31, 2014 Report Share Posted December 31, 2014 We got to the conclusion that: Industralization -> Assembling Contraptions... ????? Thoughts Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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