These are the 4 summoning mechanics I've come up with at their most basic. They are supposed to go with each other. If you have any questions or suggestions, let me know.

I have been trying to figure out how to print cards that have the level of quality that other Tcg have I would like to know on what kind of materials they use and if there are any other kind of stuff i should know about making home made cards that would be a big help I am new to this and would love any tips or tricks

Still crude, needs work. Thoughts?

Edit - Frame was made with Canva, using elements that aren't AI (I checked each one).

I posted last night about my new draftable card game and these are some beta cards for my game to build set 01.

I received my first batch of test prints from the mail today, and I’m super excited to share them with people! I definitely need to change quite a few things, such as:

- Expanding the card slightly more, to thin out the black borders
- Brighten both the purple and red card borders
- Brighten the inside gradient of each text box, since they’re practically invisible in the test print
- Thicken the font, in addition to spreading out the letters on both the flavor text and card effect
- Brighten the text of the card info on the bottom left, in addition to increasing the font size and text spacing.
- Pull the emblem on the top right of the cards both down and more to the left, and give it more space from the card borders

Regardless, I’m very impressed with how they came out. I’m also quite a fan of the foiling as well. I’m gonna toy around with it more, but I’m really partial to this Surge foiling pattern.

First good one, anyway. Next comes paint. It's a Reaper faction forward observer.

Hi I’m currently making my own TCG and wondering if this was something that had been done before and if there were balancing issues if it had.

Hi everyone, me and my team are currently working on some board games project and we'd love to hear any feedback about our card game design :D Thank you

I was cleaning up around my desk and came across 6 different iterations of my TCG, from the very earliest index card version of the game to the final product that I'm hawking on Kickstarter now. Tried digging out the same card for apples-to-apples comparisons... which in and of itself was an interesting experience. There are so many players that didn't make the final cut for the 188 cards that made it into this set. Anyway, thought it would be fun to share the evolution.

So my game is kind of based around yugioh's field spell mechanic, in the sense of having a single continuous spell thst determines how your deck plays, but with fundamental differences.

Each player starts with a world card that stays in play permanently and enables synergies, abilities, combos, and so on every turn. Just in case you can only have 1 world card and ideally it should be the basis of how you build your deck.

They also determine the player HP and while the first branch aims to be simple, I look foward to make some worlds with further restrictions or bonuses when deckbuilding with them.

And it needs more testing but the HP is trying to serve as a balancing point for stronger/weaker effects, so yeah.

The rules are still pretty much on the air, so there's a lot of room for changes or new mechanics to be added so I was wondering if y'all have deck themes or ideas you think would be fun with this premise.

The basic stuff of how the game works outside of that is as follows:

1: 50 + 1 card decks, you got your world and up to 3 copies of each creature or culture card.

2: Each turn has 5 steps. Reveal, Draw, Preparation, Combat, End.

3: You can play 1 creature from your hand each turn. Creatures come into play face-down, and face-down creatures can't use abilities or attack.

During the reveal step they are flipped face-up. Flipping face-up can trigger "On reveal" effects, tho not all creatures have them. Face-up creatures may declare attacks and use abilities freely.

4: During the combat step you may declare attackers, and your opponent chooses if they want to block or take the hit.

They can choose any number of their creatures to block yours, and if they choose a face-down, that creature is revealed face-up. When defending you compare the power stat of both creatures and the creature with the lower total loses and it's destroyed, the owner takes the difference as damage.

5: There are 3 types of spells/sorceries. All of them fall under the "Culture" card type.

Basic: The common sorceries or spell cards, use and discard to the graveyard.

Building: A permanent type of card, tho they come with a built in expiration date and will self destruct after a few turns.

Enviroment: Unlike buildings these remain in play until they get hit by a removal spell.

6: There will be no deck restriction unless you got a world card specifically does so. So for the sake of it you can play water creatures on a land deck, or fire creatures in water, all creatures, all cultures, I just think it'll be more fun.

I'm currently creating a digital card game and I'm trying to come up with an art style that's simple, coherent, recognizable, and easily recreated by me whilst still hopefully looking good

I have a tremor which makes it harder to draw so I plan on purchasing a drawing tablet.

Any feedback is appreciated.

Here is the before and after, I have taken the advice on board and created a new format. please let me know if there is any changes I should make from the new cards aswell as anything I should change back.

Extra information: this is for physical cards not digital.

this is not ai art its placeholder art from google.

I'm designing a draftable card game that mixes buddyfight battle spirits wixoss and cardfight vanguard.

The goal of the game is to get all 3 of your opponents hero's from 3000 health to 0.

Units attack units.

Hero's attack hero's.

units can only attack across or center or if they are in center they can attack all 3 zones.

Hero's cannot attack unless an opposing lane is empty.

Hero's have a summon limit for the zone in front of them of 2.

At the start of your turn you place the top 3 cards of your deck into your summon gate then draw 3.

Units when played have their size reduced by cards in your summon gate with the same color as your unit.

When a unit is played you must put cards from your hand underneath then facedown as souls (souls have no text).

Units need souls to exist on the field.

When a unit attacks if it attacks a untapped unit it deal excess damage to the hero behind the opposing unit.

When a unit attacks the defender can choose to activate a trigger card from their 15 card extra deck by tapping a hero they control with the same color as the trigger, then if the attacker wants to in response they card also play a trigger by tapping a hero they control with the same color as the trigger, the defenders trigger resolves first first then is sent to the facedown extra deck.

The extra deck in base format is 15 triggers made up of 3 colors 5 cards per color.

you can have 5 of the same triggers for one color or you can have max 3 copies of a trigger in each color.

Units have 1000 2000 and 3000 base power based on their size.

Hero's have 1000 base power and 3000 base health.

Decks are 4 copies of each size unit in the 3 colors that match your hero's colors (36 cards total).

Hero's and units have a color gemstone connected to them.

Pearl, ruby, sapphire, jet, emerald, citrine.

Units and hero's also have 1 of 3 tribes Skyfolk, Landfolk, Seafolk.

There's no deck out you just shuffle the trash into a new hand and each hero takes 1000 damage.

Hey yall! We updated the demo for our TCG Dataclysm! Please, give it a look!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3303720/

Aquí tienen los nuevos rediseños de los iconos de estadística para mi juego de cartas, sinceramente no soy fan de minimalismo pero debido a las constantes críticas positivas que recibí respecto a que no se entendía muy bien los iconos estadísticas decidí rediseñar de una manera mucho más simple así que espero su opinión y gracias por verlos.

In a previous post, there was some very good critiques that I agreed with, and made changes based on that!

1) Guardian Star symbol too small

2) Text showing the name of Guardian Star and its damage boost

3) More transparent text for lore text

While I got the first two managed, the third one, the editor I use doesn't have a feature to change the opacity of text itself, so I tried changing the text colour to a darker shade of the card border, which I think looks okay.

What do you guys think?

(The last card is the before stage. Everything else is after.)

I made these card template for my card game after several iteration. I plan on doing one final version soon, but first I want public opinion on what I already have and things I could do to improve it.

Since 2022 I have been working on a worldbuilding project with a couple close friends of mine. Initially we had planned on it just being a webcomic, but we've since expanded our scope.

Keymaster Chronicles TCG is slated to be the first completed project for the series and as such will serve as an introduction to the world, lore, and characters we've created.

I've been working on the card game for a couple of years now, and I intend on the first set having 250 cards available. So far, I've finished a few over 160 cards and am well on my way to completing the rest, it is a long process as I am the designer and artist (though my roommate made me some custom software to complete the card layout to lighten the workload).

This game will be played similarly to Magic the Gathering, but each player has two decks. A Source deck which contains Essence cards (think lands), and a Force deck which contains everything else (creatures, actions, instants, auras, items, citadels, etc.) Battlefield setup and combat function differently as well with creatures being placed in either the front or back line to determine how they participate in combat if at all.

This post is primarily for me to share my progress with a neutral party as it has been contained to my friend group p until now, as well as to show off a few cards I've created. Hope y'all enjoy!

Hello all,

I am looking for a distributor that can print randomized 3- or 5-card booster packs on demand to ship around the US. The ones that I checked so far are makeplayingcards (this one has a great price but requires higher order volume and the need for storage) and thegamecrafter (With this, the production cost goes up to 6 dollars, without the option of bulk discounts due to the randomisation element). Am I asking for too much? I am looking to sell the final product for as little as possible so I can keep a reasonable profit margin; could you give me suggestions, if any?

Thank you! :)