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Elemental Forums
Just for fun. CCG haters and those without humour sense and rule monkeys abstain from commenting. 
I prefer L5R but I have no editor for that game so MtG instead.
Did I ever say how much I love the art style of this game?
I hate collectible card games, this is not funny, and they're completely broken.
I thought this thread was about meeting irl. But since its about Elmenental (Magic) The Gathering, oh okay.
I understood what it would contain considering previous dev journals
The Sov's + ability is useless (a plainswalker can be attacked or dealt damage even if it's tapped)
It should be: +1 - Tap target creature
http://www.findmagiccards.com/Cards/UH/Look_at_Me__I_m_R_D.html
Considering that I haven't played any kind of ccg (be it Magic The Gathering, Legend of the Five Rings, Vampire: The Eternal Struggle, Rage, 7th Sea, Age of Empires, Pokemon or The X-Files*) in more than five years... you should consider any actual text in the cards related to rules as Placeholders (they are Beta 1A ). I didn't know what the Abyss was a planeswalker and had to dig and improvise something.
* Not so long for card games like Anima: Shadow of Omega, Fairy Tale, Once Upon a Time, Mag Blast, Citadels or even Munchkin. Yet, too long for those too. T_T
Must have been too long. This is how I remember tap effects being written.
http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=159114
What's with those +1's and such to the left?
I didn't know how to add the T as Tap in the Planeswlaker (it's some kind of script that should automatically convert a T in the symbol but it didn't work there).
And Planeswalker work like: http://www.wizards.com/Magic/TCG/Article.aspx?x=magic/planeswalkers/week4
Once the game (Elemental) grows and has some meat on its skeleton, I'd not mind to create some kind of semiserious set. Damn, I already did a port of L5R into MtG. (I did lose it tough 
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Can you reup them a bit bigger? I'm having a hard time making out all the text.
The text is quite bad rules wise... I incresed it a bit for the second post but not sure if it's enough. In any case, they are resized by the HTML. You can take the original URL where they are and see a pic of it in real size:
Big enough?
Good lord. Reads like an April Fools article. I would like to introduce these guys to a 'Desert Twister'. It also begs the question why they aren't simple Enchantments, except that Wizards of the Coast wish that card type was dead, and never existed.
Careful, wizards might show up and throw a fit. They hold a patent on "turning a card 90 degrees" as a game mechanic, so I can only imagine what else they might try to claim. :P
The US patent office needs to quit issuing ridiculous patents like that....
On the topic of ridiculous patents, this is hilarious. They filed it as a joke, and lo and behold! The US patent office showed its quality
Please don't confuse Trademarks and Patents.
They hand out patents like candy, even invalid ones. The real question is, can the patent you get stand up to challenge or be be successfully enforced. Try to enforce your patent, then you'll find out if it passes muster. Otherwise, they're happy to take your money and rubber stamp your patent. (plus, patents can be challenged as well, so why not let challengers or the people someone is trying to enforce a patent against do all the work of identifying and weeding out invalid patents). If you ever try to get a patent, get a patent lawyer, dont' use those stupid 'give us 50 bucks and we'll help you file your patent' type businesses. Just because you succesfully file a patent, doesn't mean you have an enforceable patent, or the broadest possible patent you could get (w/out being too broad - a patent can be void for that alone).
Trademarks can be voided too, but its much easier to have a valid trademark, you can trademark practically anything, even a color. And trademarks are automatic (but its still good to register so you have proof of how long ago it was you started using it, and so you can get better damages should you need to enforce it some day). On the other hand, the rights you get in a trademark aren't nearly as exclusive, others can still use your same trademark if they are in a different enough of a business (if customer's won't be confused by their use of the same trademark - they can use it). You can lose a trademark in ways that are out of your hands as well - like if it becomes generic (think asprin - used to be a brand name, but people started calling any asprin like product 'asprin' - no matter what company made it - and the trademark was voided for becoming generic - at which point any company who wanted to could from then on use the word 'asprin' on their products to their hearts content - which they did. This, I suspect, is the reason the 'band-aid' jingle changed about a decade or 2 ago from 'I'm stuck on band-aid and band-aid's stuck on me' to 'I'm stuck on band-aid *brand* and band-aid's stuck on me' - they are trying to avoid sharing the same fate as asprin). This is why companies feel the need to actively defend their trademarks too, so you see things like lucasarts going overboard and threatening to sue 12 year old kids who make star wars mods for UT.
I haven't looked at IP law for about a decade though so my info could be outdated (from what I understand it has gone through a lot of changes lately).
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