This was the top comment and I read it before the video started playing. Without context I feel like I’ve stumbled upon some forbidden lore about the politics of portal travel
Everything you create inspires new ideas and design space to explore. For example, with lizard generals being tied to your lands, you could add a card that has no lizard general but provides more elite warriors to your deck as a longer term investment gameplan which weakens your early game, or a card that immediately puts 1-3 lizards into your discard so you can get the lizard swarm going sooner at the cost of one of your limited cards you get to play over the game.
These videos are genuinely the highlight of my week, and the card art challenge has got me motivated to do art for the first time in ages. BIG HOLES 🔛🔝
Unfortunately they're all equal, I'd love to say that Yellow is mill, Green is wildcards, Red is draw-two/fours and Blue is reverses/skips, but their decklists just aren't built in any way at all unfortunately.
6:02 Pigs can digs. Digging up covered underground lizards that haven't made their holes yet makes them vulnerable to attack. 9:03 milling with benefits
If you are planning on making more than four elements you should make a ghost faction It’s gimmick could be having ghost cards that are in play, but must possess a vessel in order to be used/use some of their abilities. The vessels could either be buildings, or just creatures that can’t don anything without being possessed (basically statues) I know this isn’t really a good base but I think it could be a cool idea. The game is looking great so far!
What if the ghost and statues were not completely useless without the possession? The ghost creatures could still do everything, but would be unable to do damage, and would have high damage stats, requiring possession. Meanwhile, the statues could have things like do not move and can't do actions, but still be used in many other ways. Also, besides statues, dolls and zombies/skeletons could be other two things that can be possessed, with different pros and cons. Statues are more defensive, and can't move while not possessed, dolls and puppets can also not move, but instead have damage boosting abilities like damage twice, and zombies are very weak and easy to be distracted. Ghost could also have different pros and cons, and the gimmick becomes "finding the best two cards to combo", instead of "fusing to cards into one"
@@hugodiniz1433 ghosts could have abilities that they are able to activate without possessing other cards, and statues could be weaker to damage when not possessed, allowing them to be destroyed before you are able to possess them. Another gimmick of the element could be placing a gravestone over an enemy creature whenever it is destroyed, which could be a structure that allows you to bring them back as a zombie if it is destroyed. The zombified version could have halved stats and no abilities, but be under your control. This might not work though because he said he doesn’t want another element to place pieces on the board like the doors.
@@CarmineClouds yes, that is a good idea. Activated abilities that can be used even when not possessed. The tombstone/zombie idea is also good, but maybe for another element. If implemented directly in this one, maybe it would become overdesigned, you know? To many things in one place.
@@hugodiniz1433 The tombstone could be an ability itself to keep it less complicated. Some creatures could have the gravedigger trait, which would allow them to bury creatures they kill or dig up tombstones to summon the zombies. Your right though, it could work better as it’s own element.
the possession idea reminds me of the pilot and vehicle cards in Magic though vehicles needing a pilot card/token to function as a creature makes them the inverse of that
i did not want to repeat my idea and be anoying, but i still think a fire, ice and shelter element would be super cool. Like, cards that either generate negative effects(that even themselves are not intrincisely protected against), or give protection against these elements with coats, warm chocolate, cold lemonade, this type of stuff. Things like a ice snake that makes the enviroment difficult terrain to move, and cant exit its own lane without the help of a scarf vendor, or a fire pit with a snow tower, that causes so much damage over time that only a unit that already has shelter can exist on, like a lumberjack in shorts with a coat and axe
Frozen Lakes is one that he has to put in due to it existing in the show, so a lot of that could work around that element? That one thematically feels like it should be very land focused, and there’s something about having a ton of fire-creatures in a “Frozen” element, that’s kinda goofy in a way that matches the show.
@tokatstorm9270 Yes, it is somewhat goofy, but it also shows accuracy and a new idea. My main inspiration was that one episode with the fire wolves and ice man, I love that episode. Than, I had this idea while seeing the Votann scouts about explorers in ambient of extreme temperature, and blam. Another thing that would make this interesting would be the gameplay. After all, the negative effects would be powerful, but only with the support of a building or unit would it reach a truly good point, and just imagine what a card outside the element could do? Like, a fire/ice build with some corn, that has a debuffer, a shelter character, and a super powerful husk unit. Also, there is a potential for both cool and funny cards. Imagine this super twin headed dragon, that can't go anywhere without their support lemonade guy, like a cheetah and their emotional support dog. Or this mega shelter, fallout style, that is weaker than some coat racks
I really have to thank you. Knowing that having some show connection makes it easier to be put in is the hope I needed. Maybe some day, this will be in the game...
Seeing your idea for a powerful effect like at 5:48 made me wonder if having some land cards have a "quest" might be a good idea. Like imagine in exchange for not doing anything from the start if you could fufill an objective for a payoff more powerful than what regular land cards might provide. This would allow for a lot of space to add lands that, because of a quest, allow for a payoff for playing a particular deck.
You could give to the shatter ability multi optional effects, that way it balances the fact that it needs to be destroyed to be activated by giving you way more freedom of strategy
A way you could make you idea work 6:10 is by implementing graves to a different elemental deck allowing a certain speel or card to raise the cards from the dead all at once
I have an idea, if you want. A new element, undead. the special mechanic would be that the draw pile and the discard pile are the same. Whenever you put a card in the draw/discard pile, you shuffle it, (so you won't know where it is). You would need to make up a way for you to draw them from the pile, but that part is your job.
I hope you get hired by WB for their games. We gotta have more games with lore accuracy! People like you show what can be! And that is, lore accuracy and dumb fun with strategy!
6:10 mystery holes, they can have health and then setroy them everytime a card attacks or dies and then the hole will destroy itself and reaveal the card😊
Abother possible element for a crystal deck would be units that become "Cracked" when receiving damage but surviving and having specific effects in that case. It could make for an interesting control deck where you often damage your own creatures to get an advantage.
I wonder how feasible it'd be if you could have a Lizard Holes land or building which is like "At the start of your turn, draw until you get 3 chump lizards. Put those lizards in your discard and shuffle the rest back into your deck" and maybe it stacks, even exponentially, where the more you invest in churning your deck, the more return you get. If you really churn your deck, you could then have better access to these strong generals, which reinforces the idea.
for the mass discard pile to your area concept, what about undead? Gravestones pop up on the field or something for the other player to destroy. Granted it would be a slower play style because you'd have to wait a turn for the stones to do anything, but it seems like a pretty fun playstyle. Like flip summoning in ygo
One thing I'd like to see in Lizard holes is a creature that can move from the land 1 to land 4 and vise versa if there's no enemy in the land they started in, which gives some mobility to the strategy without copying the Doors outright.
Maybe should take from Root! Borrow should send creatures from the field to a little Borrow on the side of the board. Then creatures that place holes can have creatures in the Borrow come out!
I think a fun element would be Racing. Cars, racers, and pit stops whose gimmicks are being very fast but low health. Maybe when one reaches the opposite side of the board they win a race and damage all enemies. Or something like that idk.
You could give the crystal creaters an ability similar to death touch, where whenever a creature destroys them, the creature that destroys them is also destroyed
Bro I wish I had used the name shatter for my glass gannon card. Although its super ironic that its function just so happens to fit in perfectly with the theme for crystals.
The lizards kind of feel like necromancers mechanically, but the general and burrows, along with them being lizards also do give a goblinish vibe. Pretty interesting. I'm curious if you are planning an implementing any elements that feel like more generic fantasy. If you do I think it could be cool, but you would probably want to ad some extra weirdness factor ontop of it. There is a generic schooler in Fin's deck in the show though, so obviously not everything can be super weird.
It feels like you are missing a ramp element based on getting out powerful monsters to stop your opponent within the end-game with a weak economy-centric early game as a cost. The eco parts were weird for this game but so was agro for simular reasons so I believe it's solvable.
random idea for generals: they have a proper name AND a title, and for unique purposes you can't summon more geenrals sharing a proper name. Like "Eyeface" could be "Eyeface the bigbrain" which does something OR "Eyeface, brutally cunning" which does something that's different but in theme with the other Eyefaces' playstyles?
I had an idea for an archetype the lich archetype the idea was heavily inspired by cthun the shattered from hearthstone. The idea is that you could add a land that puts four “Lich” card in your deck and if you play all four you summon the lich who has a game ending effect like a board wipe.
What if: Lizard Hole is a separate board piece. Certain Lizard cards (tag: lizard hole) go there instead of to the Discard pile when destroyed. Whenever you draw a new card from your deck with the tag: lizard hole, you can _also_ choose to take a card from the Lizard Hole. Alt., whenever you draw from your deck, you can choose to send it to Discard to instead take a lizard from your Lizard Hole board piece-this lets you sift through your deck faster to find the best cards sooner.
We tried something fairly similar to this, but what ended up happening is it became too easy to get your strongest creatures out very quickly. This also limited multi classing into other elements, as Marking things with unique keys like "Lizard Holes" doesn't allow it to mix in with the other elements to create other combos.
Concerned about the balancing of the swarm mechanic for cross-element decks since all of the elements are entirely non-swarm. For example, I imagine corn-lizard could be very powerful because you can get tons of non-unique non-swarm units from corn cards to play the "General" role, making the generals less of a pillar of the gameplay and too easily replaceable. To fix this, I would change the way the keywording works - the swarm units should only follow units with some other characteristic (maybe "units with above X base health" or "units with a combined base health and attack of X"), something that all of the generals possess but will exclude all but the strongest cards of the other elements. Another interesting idea this could open up could be the need to make Generals stronger before they can lead. Maybe there is a general that gains health as they eat swarm units until they are big enough to lead, maybe there is a general that loses base health for every unit they lead (capping their swarm count), maybe there is a general who can only lead on home/enemy territory since they receive a buff on one side of the center line.
I've loved seeing everything come along so well, and these four elements are really unique and mechanically fascinating. Having each element focus on a different parts of the game state is super cool. I'm curious how you plan on playtest multi-element decks though. It might be interesting to have some cards overlap in areas to provide unique synergies. Both Corn and Lizard holes incorporate discards what with husks acting as 'free' card. What if there was a burrow effect that provides a buff or reward for unearthing discarded husks?
I'm sure with the few thousand people playtesting this game, they will find a lot of very broken multi-element combos, and we'll have to figure out how to balance those. As for cards and abilities that work together, i.e. lizards and corn, we'd have to think on that one pretty hard to make sure they have a place here. We'd love to expand on that idea in the future
Lizard Holes legit sounds like a really cool mechanic/theme. Tiny guys that swarm but are useless being summoned on mass by big dumb characters with silly names, rocks.
rq so im like 3 minutes in and that first idea for the burrow and resurfacing mechanic reminds me alot of wild horde in cards and tankards (my favorite faction) that burrow 2-8 is really close to wild hordes gimmick
how about a side deck you make then draw from to build the deck for the game. that way you can get the random feel you want from the game while also having a way to customize your deck.
I had an idea for a cycle of cards the “gods” there is one for each core element. They would be absurdly strong but you could only play them if your devotion was high enough. (Devotion is highly inspired from mtg ) your devotion is equal to the number of your creatures on board
For the lizard god I had the idea for slithers god of the depths a 5/5 with devotion ten . The effect is that all lizard get +2/+2 and when a lizard dies mill 1 card
I seriously love the direction this game is going so far I’m so excited! Idea I’m sure you’ve already thought about but just in case have you considered the quest mechanic from hearthstone? In some sort of card wars form?
I wonder how a fusion focused deck could go. My first thought is a bunch of cards that each act as two halves of a full card. So one half could say, "target enemy creature", and the other could say, "add 3 health", which makes a single card horrible, but you can put two cards together and combine the first card's, "target enemy creature", with the second card's, "destroy that target", or the second card's, "target allied creature", with the first card's, "add 3 health", basically letting you put together a bunch of good to outright broken effects, so long as you combine the right cards together. Obviously, this is a really basic example, but I'm curious what you all could put together if you decided to use this idea.
What if with the crystal element there could be some way to crystallise the buildings? Either making them more beneficial on the board, or (after you crystallise the buildings) giving you the ability to shatter them, just an idea.
suggestion for crystal and shatter keyword, when a creature with shatter dies any creature or builing with the keyword "resonance" triggers they ability. it would help make it obvious what ability will trigger.
I love this project and respect both your work and design, but the card draw (or lack of) is a big issue and oversight. No one likes not having any cards to play or constantly running on empty, it's very restrictive and anti-fun. Yes, being able to drop your entire hand every turn is dumb, too. It should be like in, for example, Monopoly Deal: you draw 3 per turn (5 if you have 0), can play 3 per turn (not counting special moves) and can't have more than 7 at the end of the turn. Simply adding a limit to how many you can play per turn solves the "vomit entire hand" issue while allowing for regular drawing.
@@flaredesel3425 Let's be real, at this point he's just making a game loosely inspired by Card Wars. There's only so much to draw from and he's already taken huge artistic liberties.
@@drago939393 But the draw mechanic is one of the few things Jake directly explains in the show. Big Holes is making a lot of artistic changes for things not directly shown/explained in the show. Sadly, the card draw was one of the things directly explained.
You'll see it's pretty clear in gameplay that the point of the limited cards draw, while show accurate also forces us to build elements in much more unique ways. Each element has entirely different ways of pulling cards, gaining card advantage, and casting abilities rather than just playing from your hand. We want to involve as few restrictions as possible from cards played from hand to add creative freedom and skill expression into your gameplay. Hopefully seeing more or playing the playtest coming out soon, we can change your mind.
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It was worth being part of the movement to make lizard holes less teleport and more trench warfare
Thank you for your service. - OneVulture
OneVulture does not speak on behalf of the rest of BigHoles - The Other Guy
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This was the top comment and I read it before the video started playing. Without context I feel like I’ve stumbled upon some forbidden lore about the politics of portal travel
Lizard Wave tactics
You’ve gotta have all the lizard generals be named something cool and unique, except for one, who’s named Fred Johnson.
Need two. John Jameson and James Johnson and they're opposite colours but identical in every other manner.
notable lizard John Cardwars
Maybe not that exact name, though, since Fred Johnson is the leader of the OPA in The Expanse
The Butcher of Anderson Hive
And *ALL* the johnsons come from _a c a v e_
Everything you create inspires new ideas and design space to explore. For example, with lizard generals being tied to your lands, you could add a card that has no lizard general but provides more elite warriors to your deck as a longer term investment gameplan which weakens your early game, or a card that immediately puts 1-3 lizards into your discard so you can get the lizard swarm going sooner at the cost of one of your limited cards you get to play over the game.
These videos are genuinely the highlight of my week, and the card art challenge has got me motivated to do art for the first time in ages. BIG HOLES 🔛🔝
0:32 I appreciate the implication that UNO colors are different playstyles. What do y'all think each one is?
Unfortunately they're all equal, I'd love to say that Yellow is mill, Green is wildcards, Red is draw-two/fours and Blue is reverses/skips, but their decklists just aren't built in any way at all unfortunately.
2:48 ZAC OYAMA ???
6:02 Pigs can digs.
Digging up covered underground lizards that haven't made their holes yet makes them vulnerable to attack.
9:03 milling with benefits
If you are planning on making more than four elements you should make a ghost faction
It’s gimmick could be having ghost cards that are in play, but must possess a vessel in order to be used/use some of their abilities. The vessels could either be buildings, or just creatures that can’t don anything without being possessed (basically statues)
I know this isn’t really a good base but I think it could be a cool idea. The game is looking great so far!
What if the ghost and statues were not completely useless without the possession? The ghost creatures could still do everything, but would be unable to do damage, and would have high damage stats, requiring possession. Meanwhile, the statues could have things like do not move and can't do actions, but still be used in many other ways.
Also, besides statues, dolls and zombies/skeletons could be other two things that can be possessed, with different pros and cons. Statues are more defensive, and can't move while not possessed, dolls and puppets can also not move, but instead have damage boosting abilities like damage twice, and zombies are very weak and easy to be distracted. Ghost could also have different pros and cons, and the gimmick becomes "finding the best two cards to combo", instead of "fusing to cards into one"
@@hugodiniz1433 ghosts could have abilities that they are able to activate without possessing other cards, and statues could be weaker to damage when not possessed, allowing them to be destroyed before you are able to possess them.
Another gimmick of the element could be placing a gravestone over an enemy creature whenever it is destroyed, which could be a structure that allows you to bring them back as a zombie if it is destroyed. The zombified version could have halved stats and no abilities, but be under your control. This might not work though because he said he doesn’t want another element to place pieces on the board like the doors.
@@CarmineClouds yes, that is a good idea. Activated abilities that can be used even when not possessed.
The tombstone/zombie idea is also good, but maybe for another element. If implemented directly in this one, maybe it would become overdesigned, you know? To many things in one place.
@@hugodiniz1433 The tombstone could be an ability itself to keep it less complicated. Some creatures could have the gravedigger trait, which would allow them to bury creatures they kill or dig up tombstones to summon the zombies. Your right though, it could work better as it’s own element.
the possession idea reminds me of the pilot and vehicle cards in Magic
though vehicles needing a pilot card/token to function as a creature makes them the inverse of that
I'm pretty sure a "lizard hole" is called a "cloaca"
The one with less teeth, anyhoo.
i did not want to repeat my idea and be anoying, but i still think a fire, ice and shelter element would be super cool. Like, cards that either generate negative effects(that even themselves are not intrincisely protected against), or give protection against these elements with coats, warm chocolate, cold lemonade, this type of stuff. Things like a ice snake that makes the enviroment difficult terrain to move, and cant exit its own lane without the help of a scarf vendor, or a fire pit with a snow tower, that causes so much damage over time that only a unit that already has shelter can exist on, like a lumberjack in shorts with a coat and axe
Frozen Lakes is one that he has to put in due to it existing in the show, so a lot of that could work around that element?
That one thematically feels like it should be very land focused, and there’s something about having a ton of fire-creatures in a “Frozen” element, that’s kinda goofy in a way that matches the show.
@tokatstorm9270 Yes, it is somewhat goofy, but it also shows accuracy and a new idea. My main inspiration was that one episode with the fire wolves and ice man, I love that episode. Than, I had this idea while seeing the Votann scouts about explorers in ambient of extreme temperature, and blam.
Another thing that would make this interesting would be the gameplay. After all, the negative effects would be powerful, but only with the support of a building or unit would it reach a truly good point, and just imagine what a card outside the element could do? Like, a fire/ice build with some corn, that has a debuffer, a shelter character, and a super powerful husk unit.
Also, there is a potential for both cool and funny cards. Imagine this super twin headed dragon, that can't go anywhere without their support lemonade guy, like a cheetah and their emotional support dog. Or this mega shelter, fallout style, that is weaker than some coat racks
I really have to thank you. Knowing that having some show connection makes it easier to be put in is the hope I needed. Maybe some day, this will be in the game...
Let’s go! Time for some goofy guys!
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Seeing your idea for a powerful effect like at 5:48 made me wonder if having some land cards have a "quest" might be a good idea. Like imagine in exchange for not doing anything from the start if you could fufill an objective for a payoff more powerful than what regular land cards might provide. This would allow for a lot of space to add lands that, because of a quest, allow for a payoff for playing a particular deck.
You could give to the shatter ability multi optional effects, that way it balances the fact that it needs to be destroyed to be activated by giving you way more freedom of strategy
You-... this is just dragons and their swarms of kobolds... I LOVE IT *0*
the TH-cam mech section having a giant button with "go to Big Holes" written on it made me laugh out loud lmfao
Didn’t expect Tyranids in this episode, but I can’t complain
A way you could make you idea work 6:10 is by implementing graves to a different elemental deck allowing a certain speel or card to raise the cards from the dead all at once
first game to make a card warillion dollars
I have an idea, if you want. A new element, undead. the special mechanic would be that the draw pile and the discard pile are the same. Whenever you put a card in the draw/discard pile, you shuffle it, (so you won't know where it is). You would need to make up a way for you to draw them from the pile, but that part is your job.
You might also want to make it sillier, like undead office workers or something. Though, I'd rather it be kept at just undead
Element: Bones
I hope you get hired by WB for their games. We gotta have more games with lore accuracy! People like you show what can be! And that is, lore accuracy and dumb fun with strategy!
Reminds me a bit of root’s underground duchy. Lots of troops on the board but limited by high cost of failure and reliance on generals/ministers
6:10 mystery holes, they can have health and then setroy them everytime a card attacks or dies and then the hole will destroy itself and reaveal the card😊
Abother possible element for a crystal deck would be units that become "Cracked" when receiving damage but surviving and having specific effects in that case.
It could make for an interesting control deck where you often damage your own creatures to get an advantage.
I wonder how feasible it'd be if you could have a Lizard Holes land or building which is like "At the start of your turn, draw until you get 3 chump lizards. Put those lizards in your discard and shuffle the rest back into your deck" and maybe it stacks, even exponentially, where the more you invest in churning your deck, the more return you get. If you really churn your deck, you could then have better access to these strong generals, which reinforces the idea.
I really enjoy the generals mechanic
for the mass discard pile to your area concept, what about undead? Gravestones pop up on the field or something for the other player to destroy. Granted it would be a slower play style because you'd have to wait a turn for the stones to do anything, but it seems like a pretty fun playstyle. Like flip summoning in ygo
One thing I'd like to see in Lizard holes is a creature that can move from the land 1 to land 4 and vise versa
if there's no enemy in the land they started in, which gives some mobility to the strategy without copying the Doors outright.
I'm so glad this project is coming together so perfectly!
It seems exciting to combine burrow with corn and try to maximize husk generation by burrowing!
I might be overvaluing card advantage though 🤔🤔🤔
Not that I'm following this closely, but corn and lizard seem pretty similar as aggressive tribes.
Maybe should take from Root! Borrow should send creatures from the field to a little Borrow on the side of the board. Then creatures that place holes can have creatures in the Borrow come out!
Lizard holes could also be a spawn point to summon cheap weak lizards, like the “token” creatures in magic the gathering
the Burrow mechanic sounds really good if there are any "glass cannon" creatures in the Crystals deck
Love the necrodancer background music
Theres a similar archetype in cardfight vanguard called granblue. Pirate zonbie/ghost/skeleton/vampires that come back from the dead
I think a fun element would be Racing. Cars, racers, and pit stops whose gimmicks are being very fast but low health. Maybe when one reaches the opposite side of the board they win a race and damage all enemies. Or something like that idk.
This guy is getting sponsorships now! I'm amazed of how far you've come, congrats!
NEW DECK NEW DECK NEW DECK
Dude TH-cam showed me an ad for Wyoming county fair, I live in Brazil wtf
It’s a sign, come to Wyoming
@@philltheotherguy1868 COME TO BRAZIL
@@philltheotherguy1868 you are going to Brazil. Whether you like it or not.
I would have made lizard holes have the big lizards instead of buildings
Yayyyyy new video
You could give the crystal creaters an ability similar to death touch, where whenever a creature destroys them, the creature that destroys them is also destroyed
Root might be a good reference point as you continue to develop
Im really hoping for a card named the lizard wizard
Corn + lizard hole = cornhole and I think it would be funny to have little vermin guys who are extremely expendable
Bro I wish I had used the name shatter for my glass gannon card. Although its super ironic that its function just so happens to fit in perfectly with the theme for crystals.
The lizards kind of feel like necromancers mechanically, but the general and burrows, along with them being lizards also do give a goblinish vibe. Pretty interesting. I'm curious if you are planning an implementing any elements that feel like more generic fantasy. If you do I think it could be cool, but you would probably want to ad some extra weirdness factor ontop of it. There is a generic schooler in Fin's deck in the show though, so obviously not everything can be super weird.
It feels like you are missing a ramp element based on getting out powerful monsters to stop your opponent within the end-game with a weak economy-centric early game as a cost. The eco parts were weird for this game but so was agro for simular reasons so I believe it's solvable.
In the first distant lands episode, there is a short cardwars scene. Nothing that tells us more about the game, but still interesting
random idea for generals: they have a proper name AND a title, and for unique purposes you can't summon more geenrals sharing a proper name. Like "Eyeface" could be "Eyeface the bigbrain" which does something OR "Eyeface, brutally cunning" which does something that's different but in theme with the other Eyefaces' playstyles?
Legendary creatures are convergent evolution
I love the big hole lizard swap mechenique kinda sad it left
that could be a different element-god knows he needs ideas
I had an idea for an archetype the lich archetype the idea was heavily inspired by cthun the shattered from hearthstone. The idea is that you could add a land that puts four “Lich” card in your deck and if you play all four you summon the lich who has a game ending effect like a board wipe.
So like exodia from yu gi oh
@@RandomGuy-nt1no yeah basically
Add a robotic element that focus on the defensive and buffing creatures.
Oh my god? Ohmygodohmygod?? Oh my god?????? This is my main deck. I love this concept.
Love from a Cimooo and Vaush fan!
THIS IS MY DECK
What if:
Lizard Hole is a separate board piece. Certain Lizard cards (tag: lizard hole) go there instead of to the Discard pile when destroyed. Whenever you draw a new card from your deck with the tag: lizard hole, you can _also_ choose to take a card from the Lizard Hole.
Alt., whenever you draw from your deck, you can choose to send it to Discard to instead take a lizard from your Lizard Hole board piece-this lets you sift through your deck faster to find the best cards sooner.
We tried something fairly similar to this, but what ended up happening is it became too easy to get your strongest creatures out very quickly. This also limited multi classing into other elements, as Marking things with unique keys like "Lizard Holes" doesn't allow it to mix in with the other elements to create other combos.
Lizard Holes has a Similar feel to the Wild Horde from Cards and Tankards.
YESSS SOMEONE ELSE WHO THOUGHT THAT. THATS WHAT I SAID IN MY COMMENT!!!!
Concerned about the balancing of the swarm mechanic for cross-element decks since all of the elements are entirely non-swarm. For example, I imagine corn-lizard could be very powerful because you can get tons of non-unique non-swarm units from corn cards to play the "General" role, making the generals less of a pillar of the gameplay and too easily replaceable. To fix this, I would change the way the keywording works - the swarm units should only follow units with some other characteristic (maybe "units with above X base health" or "units with a combined base health and attack of X"), something that all of the generals possess but will exclude all but the strongest cards of the other elements.
Another interesting idea this could open up could be the need to make Generals stronger before they can lead. Maybe there is a general that gains health as they eat swarm units until they are big enough to lead, maybe there is a general that loses base health for every unit they lead (capping their swarm count), maybe there is a general who can only lead on home/enemy territory since they receive a buff on one side of the center line.
I've loved seeing everything come along so well, and these four elements are really unique and mechanically fascinating. Having each element focus on a different parts of the game state is super cool.
I'm curious how you plan on playtest multi-element decks though. It might be interesting to have some cards overlap in areas to provide unique synergies. Both Corn and Lizard holes incorporate discards what with husks acting as 'free' card. What if there was a burrow effect that provides a buff or reward for unearthing discarded husks?
I'm sure with the few thousand people playtesting this game, they will find a lot of very broken multi-element combos, and we'll have to figure out how to balance those. As for cards and abilities that work together, i.e. lizards and corn, we'd have to think on that one pretty hard to make sure they have a place here. We'd love to expand on that idea in the future
good to see you geting sopnsors ı cant wait for full relese
for crystals there should be a card that can reflect attacks as a floop
Crystals + Lizard holes will be a nasty combo
Lizard Holes legit sounds like a really cool mechanic/theme. Tiny guys that swarm but are useless being summoned on mass by big dumb characters with silly names, rocks.
LIZARDS! LIZARDS! LIZAAAARDS! I LOVE LIZARDS! RAINWORLD!
You could summon from deck instead if discard, similar to cascade from mtg
rq so im like 3 minutes in and that first idea for the burrow and resurfacing mechanic reminds me alot of wild horde in cards and tankards (my favorite faction)
that burrow 2-8 is really close to wild hordes gimmick
Of course Lizard Holes is designed to be the element of choice for BigHoles
how about a side deck you make then draw from to build the deck for the game. that way you can get the random feel you want from the game while also having a way to customize your deck.
dude Crystals... Crystal Gems... steven universe gaming
I had an idea for a cycle of cards the “gods” there is one for each core element. They would be absurdly strong but you could only play them if your devotion was high enough. (Devotion is highly inspired from mtg ) your devotion is equal to the number of your creatures on board
For the lizard god I had the idea for slithers god of the depths a 5/5 with devotion ten . The effect is that all lizard get +2/+2 and when a lizard dies mill 1 card
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I think there are too many “horde” or “swarm” decks 😅
i rlly hope theres gonna be some kinda rule book or strat guide for this game 💀
God I love horde decks. Inject this directly into my veins. I am so going to be a Lizard main.
Villainous is a card game that has a board!
I seriously love the direction this game is going so far I’m so excited!
Idea I’m sure you’ve already thought about but just in case have you considered the quest mechanic from hearthstone? In some sort of card wars form?
I am now Lizard Hole Main
You might not want "lizard holes" plastered on the face of anything sfw lol
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I wonder how a fusion focused deck could go. My first thought is a bunch of cards that each act as two halves of a full card. So one half could say, "target enemy creature", and the other could say, "add 3 health", which makes a single card horrible, but you can put two cards together and combine the first card's, "target enemy creature", with the second card's, "destroy that target", or the second card's, "target allied creature", with the first card's, "add 3 health", basically letting you put together a bunch of good to outright broken effects, so long as you combine the right cards together. Obviously, this is a really basic example, but I'm curious what you all could put together if you decided to use this idea.
What if with the crystal element there could be some way to crystallise the buildings? Either making them more beneficial on the board, or (after you crystallise the buildings) giving you the ability to shatter them, just an idea.
the unique tagline is featured in the WoW TCG, it worked great there and seems like it will work great here!
I hope Globulin is doing well, even though we didn't see him in this video :( All the best to you big guy!
You should look into mechanics in MTG like delve for this element
card war
YEAH MORE CARD WARS
I look away from Kaileebs channel for like a few months are he's now got over 100k wth
suggestion for crystal and shatter keyword, when a creature with shatter dies any creature or builing with the keyword "resonance" triggers they ability. it would help make it obvious what ability will trigger.
i cannot wait for crystal im so excited for my main, idk how they play im maining them
1:05 that's so weird why was it so extreme?
I love this project and respect both your work and design, but the card draw (or lack of) is a big issue and oversight. No one likes not having any cards to play or constantly running on empty, it's very restrictive and anti-fun. Yes, being able to drop your entire hand every turn is dumb, too.
It should be like in, for example, Monopoly Deal: you draw 3 per turn (5 if you have 0), can play 3 per turn (not counting special moves) and can't have more than 7 at the end of the turn.
Simply adding a limit to how many you can play per turn solves the "vomit entire hand" issue while allowing for regular drawing.
Sadly that isn’t card wars accurate, he may have done something like this otherwise.
@@flaredesel3425 Let's be real, at this point he's just making a game loosely inspired by Card Wars. There's only so much to draw from and he's already taken huge artistic liberties.
@@drago939393 But the draw mechanic is one of the few things Jake directly explains in the show. Big Holes is making a lot of artistic changes for things not directly shown/explained in the show. Sadly, the card draw was one of the things directly explained.
You'll see it's pretty clear in gameplay that the point of the limited cards draw, while show accurate also forces us to build elements in much more unique ways. Each element has entirely different ways of pulling cards, gaining card advantage, and casting abilities rather than just playing from your hand. We want to involve as few restrictions as possible from cards played from hand to add creative freedom and skill expression into your gameplay. Hopefully seeing more or playing the playtest coming out soon, we can change your mind.
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3:25 whats the song that plays here?
I hope that if one element gets named units the rest will get the same simply because I am a fan of having cool unique characters in my deck
I am never going to have enough brainpowrr to play this game
i still yhing corn should be more dependant of building and field cards