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Yeah that sounds nice, a recolored and maybe resized ice barrier might look completele different and possibly like an fitting Amii-Structure, that gives nearby units this extended strengthness. 

I do like this one. Think it would synergise well with the Amii faction... or at least that's how I imagine it, without knowing the full faction design idea. 
Had to create a mockup for it, as I kinda love doing that (go figure). Would expect it to be sort of frontline building, especially because Amii has yet to gain a structure. 

Wish I could keep it down to single per day 😅 But I promise,, this is the last one (for today). Have to take a break for the upcoming holidays 😄
Name: Twilight Tumor
Tier & Orbs: T4, Nature, Fire, Nature/Fire, Neutral
Type: Unit
Power: 250
Hit points and Size: 7520 and XL, flier
Attack value and Type: 3050
Passive Abilities: 
Toxic Pores - Every 4 seconds, 4 openings in the skin shoot independently. Every one deals 190 damage to enemies in a 7m radius, up to 300 in total. Affected units are also weakened by the toxic sludge and deal 30% less damage for 5 seconds.. 
Infection - Just touching the tumor can be dangerous. Any unit that attacks the Twilight Tumor will be infected for 4 seconds. If the enemy entity dies while under effect of this infection, a small Twilight Tumor will spawn from its corpse. Maximum of 4 smaller tumors can be spawned per single big one. 
Slow - Unit has slow movement.
Active Abilities: 
Transformation - as usual
Uses enlarged Magma Spore model. 
Explanation of idea behind the card:
New flier for the Twilight faction, Twilight Tumor serves as sort of 'mothership', infecting and weakening units around it, while being able to take big punishment. It's damage output is not great though for T4 and it's power cost, which means it needs to be supported in the late stages of the game. If used properly, nice number of smaller tumors can be ammased, which can serve as a meatshield/extra dps for the main units. 

Name: Catcher
Tier & Orbs: T2, Fire/Shadow (maybe 2 neutral Orbs?)
Type: Unit
Power: 90
Active Abilities: Net Harpoon >Immobilize a unit for 10 seconds (Ground&Air) or disable a Sturcture for 10 seconds. Long Range Weapon.
Switch Abilities: Full Sails! >Disable Weapons, increase flight speed
Passive Abilities: Life Stealer (Sorry, i forgot it first)
Idea: I love Airships. We have some good heavy big Ships but we have no small Airship with. With a low Price Version of a Ship with some interesting Abilities, we have more usable Airships. More Airships, mor fun. With this, you can scout, you can immobilise, you can flee or you can just cruise fast around.
(written with the help of google translator)

 
Name: Swarm Drake
Tier & Orbs: T2, Fire/Nature
Type: Unit
Power: 80
Passive Abilities: Fear the Swarm! >When this Unit is surrounded by two or more Swarm Dragons, doubled the Damage. When this Unit is surrounded by for or more Swarm Dragons, tripled the Damage.
Activatable Abilities: Transformation >normal Twillight Abilitie
Idea: A flying Unit with melee Attack. Lack of Health.. Alone useless but if it comes in a swarm, it hurts. A real Swarm!! With the Melee Attack it will getting not to strong, because they get fast down.
(written with the help of google translator)

Hi 🙂
I've already sent my take to Kapo on Discord but after people started sharing their ideas on here, I could'nt resist the urgue to post mine too! I honestly have no idea on how to balance a card, I just think the idea of this unit would be badass. It's kinda special from the looks, kinda like Bloodhorn, with nothing similar looking as a T4 unit to it (excapt Swiftclaws and the other medium Dinosaur units haha).
 
 
Name: Amii Revenger
Ingame model based on a resized Swiftclaw
Tier & Orbs: T4, Nature Nature Shadow Shadow
Type: Unit
Power: 260
Hit points and Size: 5820 XL
Attack value and Type: 6350, melee, XL
Passive Abilities: Elusive - 10% less effected with crowd control / Rage - longer fights, more damage
Active Abilities: Fearsome Roar - 100 Energy - Enemy Units deal 20% less damage 

Explanation of idea behind the card: I've always adored the small dinosaur units in Battleforge so I thought why not resize them for a badass Amii T4 unit? For me, Amii is the oldest fraction in Nyn, maybe they have these giant dinosaurs to protect their cities.
 
 

Sounds Fun - like a combination of Frost Crystal or lost converter (can freeze enemies as T2 building) and a mixture of Wardens Sigil+Kobold Laboratory (can heal/repair friendly buildings). BUT the near instand construction-time would certainly be op. Otherwise I like it and Stonekin T2 could really use some defensive tools to freeze enemies.
 
I like the other one as well, refunding void power for no-longer-used buildings! 
But 
 doesnt make any sense right? Because if it only affects the card of the excact building you played, there always would be a charge missing because you´d hae to play the building in the first place. But refreshing charges is nice. 
Tho I´m not sure if "Return to the earth" would be thematically fitting for stonekin.
 
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Hi, for me it makes total sense that Stonekin-Units only are Elementals. That´s what stonekin is about after all - stone coming to life by the magical power that makes them elementals. 
No offense, but I don´t like your card idea very much, and it seems pretty useless to me. Statwise but also ability-wise. And why is he called Giants Supporter if he himself gets a buff when sourrounded by a XL (not even a Giant? - Giants are only Jorne, Santa and Dreadnought). It would make more sense the other way around, that the xl-units benefits from him being around. And also an Attack that knocks back small units is useless (its literally what every L unit already does).

SpiritAlpha did a great job on both the card artwork and the model textures. 
Try using it with Promise of Life, it is a whole different card. Promise of Life is also useful in T4 to unbind your Forest Elder, greatly increasing your rate of building an army. 
We discovered this before releasing the last round of changes but did not have time to fix it. We are still investigating the issue. 
We do not think on-death abilities of this kind are fitting for Fire units. 
I think this is a great explanation of what makes the challenges different than our regularly occurring events. Several of the achievements are spins on previous events as well, but now there is no time or social pressure on the player. 

Balance changess yesss. 
Some cards I tested because they were already in decks I recently played: 
I like Strikers change to be able to gang up with orks, would be cool if there are more other orks than thugs tho. Maybe some ork-archers (crossbow).
Earthkeeper´s change is what I was waiting for! Thanks 😄 finally 🙂 BUT it seems to be buggy - his damage taken should be spread out to stonekin-units nearby, but some don´t work. At first I thought certain units don´t receive any of the spread damage, but Now it looks to me like the raduis is just bugged.
- > stonekin units SIDEWAYS to earthkeeper can stand 25m away and still receive parts of the damage, while units BEHIND Earhkeeper cant go farther away than 10m to still receive dmg. How can this not be a circle?
Also the text on the card is wrong (german) because it states that stonekins within 40m take damage, thats certainly not the case.
And 40m is the max range the tether works, but for activation the Earthkeeper has to move withing a range of like 25m. Then the connected unit can walk a bit further away, thats a bit cluncy to use.
AbyssalWarder´s ability finally doesn´t feel completele useless in PvE and you can see it deals real damage. Not too strong tho. What´s sad is that the XL unit dies sooo fast and being left with the smaller ones that can´t use the active is not that good in some situations. 
Artillery has something weird going on - I think I can´t tell the building to focus enemies that are further away than it´s original range, but it does attack enemies 60m away by itself (just not the ones I want it to hit). 
Firebomb is funny now, as it can be set up whilst in fights (PvE) 😄 the new "allow to hit air" change sounds nice, but the range of the explosion is actually quite small so some enemies dodge this by default
Infected Tower´s damage increase certainly feels good, this tower can now properly defence by itself and not only function as a creep spawner. 
Viridia´s splash-dmg change is nice.
(didnt test this card but) Nox Carrier feels weird now, because the unit is so slow and can´t defend itself or anything. Do the Rippers spawn whenever the carrier dies or only when the ability goes off? If only when ability this is still very weak and completely useless in PvE.
QueekQueek it´s nice to see that this one gets some attention, but a teleport-friendly-units-ability would still be nice (and fitting for the teleporting-pig as is in cpve)
Vulcan can still not hit air units and thus can´t really be used in PvE sadly, I don´t get it why Rageflame does get the change but Vulcan doesnt. The ability can imo still only hit ground but his normal attack should dmg flyers aswell. 
I would still love to see a change being made to Gravity Sourge tho - to affect all flying units (up to 5 f.e.) in an area instead of just one, so this 2 cards could be used together very well.
 

Here is one of my Entries: Fierce Builders!
Name: [Fierce Builders]
Tier & Orbs: [T2 Fire, one Red one neutral Orb] 
Type: [Unit] - Model of Northguards
Power: [65]
Hit points and Size: [700] plus [S]
Attack value and Type: [900] plus [melee and counter-type S]
Active Ability:
[Forceful Construction - Activate to create a Zone with a range of 20m around the unit. Every building that is placed within that zone will be constructed 30% faster but will take 70% increased damage after fully constructed for the next 30 seconds] The idea behind this unit is to enable a new strategy in fire-frost decks with which you can go for buildings. It would work similar to the mechanic of Phase-Tower, which can with the teleporting-Ability be used for attacking, but takes addition damage after being constructed (for comparison, Phase-Towers do take 100% increased dmg for 40sec which is worse than the suggested stats for my idea, but this would have to be tested and balanced accordingly).

And my second Entry to the Card Design Contest: Allyria (tho I changed the abilitys a little) -  An T2 Archer Hero, the beloved wife of Rogan Kayle (they would´ve just recently married, as it didn´t come up in the story yet ^^)
Name: [Allyria] 
Tier & Orbs: [T2, Neutral]
Type: [Unit] - based on the Model of a single White Ranger, but recolored to be gold and white to maybe look like a girl princess
Power: [80]
Hit points and Size: [790] [ S ] ( single S unit, able to mount Wall Segments) 
Attack value and Type: [960] [ranged and XL] 
 
Passive Abilities:
[Inspiring Archery]: Allyrias presence inspires other Archers in an area of 25m around her to deal 10% increased damage and gain an additional +10m range!  [Long shot]: Allyria herself has a long range of 30m Active Abilities:
[Coat of Swiftness]: Allyria and other S units next to her gain 40% incresed speed for 15 seconds and can't be knocked back during the duration]  
Reasoning: I love archers and love the idea of having a princess for Rogan in the game. Also I think Small Units are lacking support in the game and get left behind. This card would enable fun and maybe even viable S-Unit strategies (at least in T2). And with that XL-Counter she would maybe have some nice niche usecases.
 
Note: She should have a longer range than normal Archers, but not too long to still be in range for her passive. Her passive should be strong to justify her use because she is a legendary card that can only be in play once, but restricted to Archers (S-units) to not be op.
PS: Numbers might have to be changed to fit the game properly. Maybe her active ability could also make s-units ignore unit-collision. Or if the steadfast would turn out to strong, instead of the steadfast a damage-reduction could be added.
 
Story: Allyria was not a princess by birth, but a daughter of simple rangers. Her parents named her after the 'Lyr of Old' to remember all it's glory. She learned to use the bow already in her childhood from her uncle and she was a natural talent. However, as she was a girl, she wasn't really noticed by anyone to be of good use in a real battle and even her parents held her back (because they wanted to protect her). That's why she wasn't noticed at first after the humans of lyr came back to the surface after the Twilight infestation. She moved with the people who followed Rogan Kayle. One day the got attack by Twilight Insects. Sadly her dad was killed in the ambush, but he left her a magic bow with which she was able to shoot far away and still hit. With said bow she saved Rogan Kayle's life during the ambush. He thanked her and one thing led to the other and they fell in love.

This card bothered me basically since it existed, because I literally have not seen it being used. And why does a card exist if its not even played by anyone.
I like the fact that you already came up with solutions, which actually sound reasonable. Having access to this card at T2 could actually help Fire in PvP to prevent f.e. a lot of war eagles spawning, or a lot of burrowers. But you still can´t really ignore an enemie unit in PvP, can you? It will just destroy your wells. And if you still have to kill the unit, the effect is gone. 
Your ideas would have following upsides, that one Affinity would be better in PvP (purple) and prevent mass attacks of problematic units, while the other would be useable in PvE (green) and would be stroing vs big targets like harvester. But would that be enough to justify an incusion in your PvP deck? idk
 
I also have some ideas for the card: the way the effect looks, it suggests that if would affect not just one unit but all units in the area around the target. What if this card would introduce light CC for fire? Possible effects could be:
the target and all units around it get slowed a lot (weighted down by the burden of being the 'dying breed') the target and all units around it can´t attack for 5 seconds (their attacks get 'locked' as the image suggests - e.g. like the effect of Cyrian) all units around the target flee from the affected unit and have to move out of the circle - freeing the way to focus the target and adding a light CC because all other units run away instead of attacking your units (idea also came from the image, as it looks like there are no allies around the target anymore) - I like this option the most but it sounds the hardest to implement into the game  
Maybe one of these effects could be added alongside the standard-effect of the card that no units of the same card can be played for 30sec. And paired with the effect that the target takes a %dmg of his max health every 2 sec. 
 

Why are these 3 examples tho? We need these as cards, not as examples 😮 And because they have been given as examples nobody dared to bring up an idea for this card´s abilitys. 
Seriously, they look epic. Only Flock Leader should probably be L ^^

I guess we should send our card ideas via DMs, but hell, people are sharing their ideas and I wanna do that too 😄
Name: Cursed Tree
Tier & Orbs: T2, Fire and Nature
Type: Unit
Power: 110
Hit points and Size: 1000 & L
Attack value and Type: 1300 & ranged (L counter)
Passive Abilities: Miasma Balls - Every 3 seconds, unit hurls a ball of infected miasma, dealing 195 damage to enemies in a 8m radius around its target, up to 330 in total. Enemies hit by the miasma are cursed: for the next 5 seconds, they will take extra 30% damage from entities infected by the Twilight curse. 
Active Abilities: Transformation (standard)
Used Magma Hurler model as a base. The rocky parts are twilight greenish, the central 'fire' has the twilight yellow.
Explanation of idea behind the card:
Since the EA times, I always hated playing the Twilight. The faction seemed so good looking, so 'cool' if you will, but playing it was always a misery for me. The recent changes made by SR made it great again (pun not intended) and well, since now I play it plenty, I feel there is something missing for the early game of Twilight. Twilight faction lacks ranged options on second Era, only such unit currently being Deathglider (flier, papermush HP), if we don't count 'pure' cards. Cursed Tree is wannabe solution to that problem. It also serves as a 'middle point' power wise between the lower units and Vileblood.
It offers good damage and potent support/buff effect for other Twilight cards, alongside the upside of being a ranged attacker. Downside and a means to balance it are no knockback and high power cost. 
Its effect means that the card is still greatly useful even into later stages of the game, and once it loses its usefulness, Cursed Tree can be Transformed into a higher tier unit. The Miasma Balls effect only working for other Twilight units/buildings should also make the card not too strong in PVP, but since I am completely oblivious to this part of the game and its metas, I cannot be 100% sure. 
And, then there is the biggest upside of it all - another card using the ALMIGHTY MAGMA HURLER MODEL!
 

This is truly the biggest challenge in the contest 😅

Skyrake Alphas are L too, right?
Didnt think of that. Agreed, Kri'Rarr should be L. 👍

Mass Blink would be so cool for Hit-and-Run in Campaign Maps 😄

Only if the next Patch goes live on April 1st i guess xD
But it´s kinda weird that every member of the squad ends up on the exact same position, would be cool if possible that they stampede side by side^^
I like this thread already 😉
If you have the motivation, I think it would also be cool if you yourself could properly share the entries of Contest that you liked the most here as an additional reply - giving credit to the original Person who came up with the card idea of course.

XL units are very popular as they represent the peak of the power fantasy in Skylords. Seeing how the game is set up from the ground up to reuse assets I have been wondering how M units would fare if they were repurposed as XL units. There are many surprisingly good models! Especially with some great texture work there could be all sorts of new XL units. So I went through all M units and scaled them up to see how they hold up.
This is just a little personal project I did out of curiosity and I figured I might as well share. Enjoy the show and maybe some people get inspired to come up with fun concepts for these entities if they were actual L or XL units for specific factions and with different textures.
Amazon-Types
Amazon, Amii Phantom, Gladiatrix, Stormsinger, Nightguard
Overall decent models and variations. Could serve as ranged XL units, skewering things with spears the size of tree trunks. And would allow the exploration of the existence of giantess warriors. Or half giants in L format.
Big Gun-Types
Bandit Sniper, Nox Trooper, Firesworn
Rough to say the least. They start looking janky in L format already. Low poly count and odd proportions make these a hard sell as XL or even L units. They also highlight a problem with animations when scaling up. The giant-model of Dreadnought or the Warlord-type XL units sell the weight of their weapons and armor very well when walking. These guys swing their weapons around like they weight very little, so they aren't spectacular in that department either.
Dancer-Types
Bandit Sorceress, Firedancer, Frost Sorceress, Lost Dancer, Dryad, Winter Witch, Moon, Viridya
Another tough sell. Especially the dancers and dryads have problems when scaled up. If you look closely at them in-game you can see that the fluid motion of their hands is actually them wobbling their fingers up and down as if they were made of rubber. These sort of visual tricks work when they are small but fall apart when scaled up and it just looks weird. They don't have a lot going on either, the models are relatively plain.
Dino-Types
Bandit Stalker, Icefang Raptor, Firestalker, Razorshard, Swiftclaw, Scavenger
Now here is something! How about giant war dinosaurs? Swiftclaw is pretty ugly but the other guys have lots of details to work with on their models and could look even better with a detailed texture.
Flyer-Types
Crystal Fiend, Magma Spore, Mana Wing, Energy Parasite, Deathglider
Of the bunch I think Energy Parasite actually has the most promise. Very unique and detailed model that could serve as the template for lots of things when re-textured.
Insect-Types
Scythe Fiends, Witchclaws, Twilight Crawlers, Drones, Burrower, Nightcrawler, Shadow Insect
My favorite models. They look and move amazing when scaled up! Pretty much all of them are prime stuff to serve as crazy new XL and L units. Especially Witchclaws look rad. Re-textures could open up even more possibilities.
Ogre-Types
Eliminator, Enforcer, Slaver, Executor, Knight of Chaos, Lightblade, Mauler, Twilight Brute, Mountain Rowdy, Shaman, Warlock
A big but very weak group. Most ogres are just blobs. But Lightblade looks slick, like a living tank. And even Mauler isn't half bad. Textures would definitely have to carry here but there is some potential at least.
Popsicle-Types
Earthkeeper, Ice Guardian, Lost Wanderer, Wrecker, Giant Slayer, Rogan Kayle
These start falling apart in L size. Put something like the Earthkeeper next to Avatar of Frost and it's just unconscionable.
Rider-Types
Dreadcharger, Lyrish Knight, Nomad, Silverwind Lancers, Bandit Lancer
On top of pretty low-poly models and plain riders, this is another category that has issues with communicating the weight of that scale. And they would imply the existence of giant horses.
Torso-Types
Frost Mage, Grove Spirit, Shadow Mage, Twilight Hag
Pretty fun, I think. Although a bit fragile looking so definitely nothing you'd see on the frontline. The models are kind of plain but compensate with the fluid and mesmerizing animations.
Wormpeople-Types
Cultist Master, Lost Priest, Timeless One, Timeshifter Spirit
Those are so cool. Enough details to do some great magic with textures and just a very interesting design to look at in general. Also three very distinct looking models.
Which ones do you think could work well?
For which faction?
What abilities and playstyle could they have?
And how could their theme change entirely with clever texture work?
I think there is a lot of potential here, many of these could become some amazing additions to the L and XL roster, leading to even more variety.

Amazon and Dino HELL YESS! 😄 they look sooo sick!

love the XL Magma-Spore
Could be some kind of suizide unit, slow moving and not able to attack but exploding hard if killed^^

I like the mix/range of options/rewards achievements gives now. I replayed Siege of Hope way more times than I would had to get Shield Texture with "No Human Left Behind" because doing maps with extra conditions (beside time) is up my alley and achievement/events would be the motivation.

New player so this may have been suggested already or perhaps obvious, but I would like to see an Amii card that turns natures healing offensive,
Amii Martyr:
Passive: After being healed does 20% damage for 10s
Active ability: for 10s reflects 50% of healing received as damage to enemy units within 15m

Might as well include the first idea I had, which is revisited Twilight T2 archer from my own submission into the contest. 
I just want to see more reskined Magma Hurler units 🤗
 
Cursewood
Uses Magma Hurler as a base.
Abilities:
Miasma Balls - Every 3 seconds, unit hurls a ball of infected miasma, dealing 210 damage to enemies in a 8m radius around its target, up to 330 in total. Enemies hit by the miasma are cursed: for the next 3 seconds, they will take extra 25% damage from entities infected by the Twilight curse. 
Transformation - The unit is infected with the Twilight Curse and can be transformed into any other Twilight creature. Activate to start the mutant process and choose a Twilight unit from the current deck to be transformed into. The current deck must contain at least one other Twilight unit whose orb requirements are met!
Impiety - When this unit is spawned through Transformation from other Twilight unit, its power cost is reduced by extra 15% on top of the usual reduction. When Cursewood is spawned in such a way, it will deal 50% less damage for 10 seconds. 

Recently, an awesome event took place with the Official Card Design Contest. As with any game and ever more so with card games, people simply do enjoy coming up with their own card ideas. No wonder, that this contest was super popular and arguably one of the most partaken in. Even the forum thread itself got over 100 replies, which is super nice (I myself am guilty of around 16 posts there *cough cough*).
Since it seems people still want to share their ideas, instead of making up new thread every time, I decided that it might be worth while to make a megathread, where new card suggestions can be posted. 
I would also like to point to this awesome site - https://smj.cards/creator , where you can create extremely good mock-ups of new SR cards. Go wild people! 
 

Well i cant help it, I had so much fun creating my card for that contest so here I am!
I present my card a T4 pure shadow spell
Armageddon!

What this card does is pretty simple.
End of the world: 
Damages every single unit on the entire map including your own and allies. (not sure about numbers so I'm just throwing in 1500) every upgrade reduces the damage allied units take from it (U1-10%, U2-20%, U3-30%) Buildings are not effected. Cooldown 30seconds. 
Its not very complex and not very creative. I just played a lot of heroes of might and magic and i really loved to use armaggedon there.
 
Really like your idea of keeping this topic alive, maybe some more people will join us 🙂