#set cube

[theunwellkingdom]

Design Deep-Dive #1: The Blank Canvas

This project started as a simple idea:

"I want to create new Magic cards I can play with friends, based on the world and characters of our shared D&D campaign."

I knew this would be a massive undertaking, but at first, I didn't know HOW massive. A blank canvas can be a terrifying thing, so I set off researching and defining scope. This brought me to several realizations, which became my guiding pillars to start making cards...

1. This will need to be an entirely self-contained set.

I do not have professional design and balance teams at my disposal. Rather than attempt to slot my cards in with 30+ years of existing Magic, I knew my best chance of creating fun, playable cards was to keep them self-contained. However! This meant I also needed to commit to a full-sized set, to ensure there's a deep enough pool for a proper sealed/draft experience.

2. I don't want any reprints of existing Magic cards.

This one's selfish, but it wouldn't feel right to simply re-skin real cards. Of course there will be staple effects in each color (burn, counterspells, ramp, etc), but a huge incentive to start this mad journey was to give my design chops a good workout... I would quickly learn that this is easier said than done. Turns out it's very easy to think you have a clever idea, only to search online and find that clever idea on a decades-old piece of cardboard!

3. I want to design new mechanics.

This goes hand-in-hand with #2, but it wouldn't feel like a proper set without a few flagship mechanics to call its own! These came surprisingly quickly, and became invaluable tools to structure the entire set. Look forward to deep-dives on each of these in the future.

4. I want to celebrate art we've already made.

Our D&D group is comprised of a bunch of artsy folks, and we've got over 5 years of stories to draw from (literally). I've made sure to get everyone's blessing to use their art and characters, and I hope it makes the set feel more personal. We even put together a zine-style artbook for it during the pandemic, so there are already some great pieces ready to get slapped onto cardboard.

5. I'm going to need a LOT more art.

Even counting all our existing work, I knew I could only count on those to cover a fraction of the cards. The good news is, I love to draw. But the honest truth is that this will be the longest part of this endeavor. At the rate I've been drawing so far, I've probably got another two-ish years to go.

(NOTE: I will absolutely NOT be pilfering art from strangers online or using any sort of AI-generated content. This project is a labor of love, and I'm in it for the long haul -- not looking for unethical shortcuts.)

6. I want to leverage my custom token template.

I've printed off several batches of custom tokens recently, and that's helped me develop a Photoshop template for stylish custom cards! It would need lots of tweaks to accommodate all the card types in a full set, but at least in this aspect, I wouldn't be starting completely from scratch.

7. I don't actually know how to build a set cube!

Cards on the table, I only started playing MtG a couple years ago. I've got a decent grip on the fundamentals, but I've certainly never tried to build a cube before. This Lucky Paper article was a perfect primer for me to get ballpark numbers, and I cross-referenced it heavily against recent set cardlists to create my own.

....And with all that in mind, it was off to the races!

🔮NEXT TIME -- New Mechanics in the Unwell Kingdom

[heph]

Both of them should not be taking care of growing kids I think

[jiauro]

im tired

[tugstoffoles]

in my heart of hearts, I believe Foggy Nelson was rly into DnD when he was in middle and high school, he was also mainly a DM rather than an active player. when he meets Matt and just casually starts narrating things for him out of habit, Matt actually really enjoys it because Foggy is extremely descriptive and somehow always has the perfect adjectives.

[sachartworks]

CUBE - Jet Set Radio

[hibiscusonline]

Some JSR concept art that Sega shared recently !!

[lovesickeros]

now that natlan is out it's tsaritsa yearning hours again because i am one nation closer to either being horribly disappointed or foaming at the mouth!

creator!reader w a little side of conflicted tsaritsa is such good food I can't not yap about it. a woman who has dedicated so much of her life to severing herself from "love" of all kinds and succeeding and. just being so confident that when she meets you she's bitter and angry and mean. because she can't stand you. she isn't supposed to love yet you worm your way into her heart anyway and you don't even know it.

especially in smth like an imposter au. she tells herself your just a tool for her to use but your treated like the Divine you really are, pampered and spoiled every step. tells herself it means nothing when she indulges you – let's you hold her hand in private, eventually let's you move aside the veil, just a little.

and she hates it. hates how easy it is to let you break down the ice she's built up for years.

all you do is smile and she feels like she can't breathe. because despite how violently she rejects love in all aspects, it always bleeds through eventually. she despises it but the way you brush your thumbs over her cheeks makes her bitter and warm and it infuriates her to no end.

she hates you and she loves you and she can't stand you and if you were ever taken from her she'd destroy every inch of teyvat if she had to go get you back.

and ironically enough I think she'd also be the one to initiate any first kiss. maybe she's still trying to convince herself it's just a fluke and itll make her realize it meant nothing, it means nothing. desperate to fix whatever you've done to her and instead it just makes it worse.

a horrible mess of a woman who gave up on love just to be confronted with it when she finally accepted it's absence.

[zerotab]

another jsr megapost of various stuff ive done the past........uh While ig, idk time

[burningcheese-merchant]

YOOO HAVE YOU SEEN THE NEW AWAKENED PV TRAILER TODAY???? ALSO NOT SHADOW MILK ALREADY GETTING A LEGENDARY COSTUME-

THEY GOT THE DRIP!!!! THEY LOOKIN FLY!!!! THEY LOOKIN SICK AS-

[melonchews]

Finished JSR Cube 🖤

[kremechihihi]

here it is, my jsr redesigns! in my recent and cleaner style!

for now im calling this… the jet set rainbow designs!

[coneiuscorn]

So my friend alerted me that that one Lego portal gun set is under review and as my way of going completely INSANE I HAVE MADE A RITUAL PLEASE LEGO GODS PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE

[zowwyroo]

my jsrf headcanons :) might be subject to change in the future lalala

[dailyhtfboards]

Day 128

Today’s board is:

Does Mole do this dramatic lil pose in the final episode? If he doesn’t they he should’ve <333

(From TV episode 2C Don’t Yank my Chain)

[star-cosmos]

Could Eternal Sugar and Hollyberry get they're own Matching Legendary Outfits like Shadow Milk and Pure Vanilla did?

Eternal Sugar's so pretty so I wouldn't mind her getting a Legendary Costume so soon after her release, because it'll likely be even prettier (like Shadow Milk's Sage of Truth Costume. I LOVE the Sage of Truth Costume, it's so majestic).

Meanwhile Hollyberry has just one Epic costume. Same can also be said about Dark Cacao and Golden Cheese as they both also have just a single Epic Costume, but they both got they're costume in 2023 while Hollyberry got her's all the way back in 2021. Plus DC and GC both got they're awakened forms before HB, despite the fact she was released before them. She 1000% deserves a new costume.

And if they do get matching costumes, i wonder what it'd be. Could it be something similar for Truthless Recluse and the Sage of Truth? Where Hollyberry's the slothful one while Eternal Sugar's the passionate?

[jellyaibo]

no i dont know how she keeps getting these conveniently loser sized tiny drinks im not the one buying them i swear

ALSOOOO updated loser trinket chain and the other thingies i got w the alcohol keychains FUUUUCK i love gachapon trinkets so MUUUCH