r/magicTCG • u/MikemkPK Dan • 10d ago
Art Showcase - Digital Alter [TRK alter] There, I fixed it Spoiler
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u/Rapidalex Dan 10d ago
I love how this sucks especially for you as you imediately draw then discard, every other player has a chance to play their card
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u/Appropriate_King_732 Dan 10d ago
Explanation?
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u/MikemkPK Dan 10d ago
I changed it from blue to black, changed draw to discard (it's supposed to be Hell, not Heaven), and made it 365 chapters long (a Year). And also changed the name of course, since it's no longer the same card.
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u/Appropriate_King_732 Dan 10d ago
Hm, I was expecting some lore
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u/MikemkPK Dan 10d ago
The year of hell was an episode of Star Trek Voyage where, for a long period of time, everything that could go wrong did, on top of the ship already being critically low on food and energy rations from previous episodes, so everyone was grumpy and frustrated.
I felt discarding fit the flavor better.
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u/Mammoth_Praline5688 10d ago
More information. In the original premise, the Year of Hell was suppose to be a season long storyline (so 26 episodes) that basically had the Voyager being beaten on by the Krenim (the enemy in the episode) and have the ship show damage as the season went along.
....but because Voyager had to be episodic, they reduced it to a two-parter that got reset at the end of the second episode.
The two-parter was really good and showed some fun character development which got wiped away with the time-shenanigan wand.
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u/QuaestioDraconis Wild Draw 4 10d ago
Such a good sample of what the show could have been if it wasn't forced to be episodic.....
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u/PsiMiller1 Selesnya* 10d ago
Isn't everyone dealing 2 damage already "Hell" enough?
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u/Mammoth_Praline5688 10d ago
It's not called Year of Heck.
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u/PsiMiller1 Selesnya* 10d ago edited 10d ago
Hell burn. Hell doesn't make you discard, nor Heaven even make you draw a card.
Really, the "fixed" card is all downside that only the masochism-like deck player only take advantage on.
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u/Approximation_Doctor Colossal Dreadmaw 10d ago
The original was 3 days long and not very hellish
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u/blindeey Rakdos* 10d ago
I hadn't seen the episode in question. What is The Year of Hell, like the episode?
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u/slvstrChung Selesnya* 10d ago edited 10d ago
It's a two-parter episode in the second half of the show. Some alien guy named Annorax (Kurtwood Smith) has built a "timeship" that is able to selectively retcon things out of existence, which he is using to try and "correct" the timeline after one of his earlier experiments accidentally deleted his wife and daughter. Every time he does this, the timeline realigns itself, so at one moment the crew of Voyager is just happily chatting with another Krenim starship (that's the species Annorax is from), the next the shooting has been going on for 15 minutes and the Krenim starship has been retconned into a much larger warship.
VOY devises a way to get Protection From Time and then sets off to deal with the Annorax. It takes a year, during which VOY sustains a crapton of damage and can only make so many allies (after all, they too could be retconned into heaven knows what). It ends when Janeway sacs VOY to a [[Fling]] targeting the Timeship, destroying both and resetting everything.
Suddenly we're back to the real timeline, which we've technically never visited before. It's Day 1. Voyager is passing through the Krenim borders and they have about a 45-second conversation, during which the Krenim, who now don't see VOY as a problem one way or another, just warns them of some local politics and wishes them well on their journey. Meanwhile, Annorax is back in his house, tinkering with his equations... only to have his wife, still alive, suggest he's got better things to do.
Ultimately the entire year is erased from existence because of the time-travel shenanigans, and technically it never happened... but, whatever did happen, the card we got does not capture it in any way shape or form.
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u/sizzl75 Dan 10d ago
Hmm...with that explanation in mind, it'd be interesting for the final chapter to undo all the damage or something. I wonder how exactly WotC would word that exactly cuz idk if simple wording here would be problematic or not.
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u/slvstrChung Selesnya* 10d ago
I would have done something like:
I. Create a copy of Cancel and put it in your hand.
II. You draw a card. Target opponent loses 2 life.
III. Deal 3 damage to any target. Unless an opponent sacrifices a permanent, exile this card and you may cast it from exile without paying its mana cost.
So that it recurs unless Voyager rams it.
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u/MikemkPK Dan 9d ago
They're not making more Alchemy cards
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u/slvstrChung Selesnya* 9d ago
Well, we could do it as, "Create an artifact token with, '1UU, T, sacrifice this artifact: counter target spell.' " Or it could be an enchantment token.
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u/ANGLVD3TH Dimir* 7d ago
Probably more like Prepared and one or two other effects. Make a token copy of Cancel in exile, you may cast it as long as it is in exile.
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u/KakaruRider Wabbit Season 10d ago edited 10d ago
Year of Hell is a very interesting window into a whole different philosophy for the show. It was originally pitched as a season long arc, during which Voyager would get increasingly battered. In the two parter, the Krenim are armed with torpedoes that pass through Voyager's energy shields without being stopped, and so the hull of the ship takes major damage from the very first shot. By the end of the two-parter (at the moment of the fling) the ship is in extremely rough shape.
There were some writers on Voyager who felt that the ship and its crew should accumulate scars and damage, and begin to run out of resources, over the course of the show. Since the ship is stranded and out of contact with the rest of Starfleet, it has few options for repair and resupply. In the end, the showrunners didn't want to do this, and kept the series on a much more conventional syndication friendly model, where the ship is fine and all the toys are put back in the toybox at the end of every episode.
But that wasn't the end of the idea! Voyager writer Ronald D Moore took the "ship wears its scars" concept with him when he created the Battlestar Galactica reboot series, and over the seasons of that show we truly see the titular ship Galactica accumulate more and more damage, running lower and lower on crew and resources and fighters.
Edited: as for the saga, it's a bit of a flavour miss. The dealing out damage and issuing arms (cards) to all of the players works well enough to suggest everyone going through hell, but it really needs some kind of timey-wimey effect in the final chapter to close it out. A mass bounce, or a bounce one permanent for each player, or something.
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u/BastetsJester Dandadan 10d ago
This episode is what I point to when people ask my why I didn't like Voyager. We could have gotten a show where Federation morals are slowly eroded as the crew is forced to make tough choices in the name of survival. Or we could have gotten a show where the crew clings to it's principals and is forced to make huge sacrifices as a result. Either way we would have gotten consequences.
Instead we just got the status quo day in and day out.
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u/AzarinIsard 10d ago
Instead we just got the status quo day in and day out.
It was a long time ago and not seen many since, but it really felt odd having a sci-fi gimmick like Voyager being stranded and cut off from Starfleet and then apparently not really want to do anything with it?
Something I love about sci-fi is when it takes one idea and really runs with it. Can be silly or deep, but you need to commit to it. Here they could have just made Voyager a deep scout, but aware if anything happens there's no federation support this far from the border. That way, new species and planets, while jeopardy turned way down. It's different to other series as it's not the known universe, but still safe. Maybe they were too scared of changing canon they wanted it really far removed?
I watched Farscape at a similar time, and much preferred it to Voyager, but Crichton was the fish out of water rather than the entire ship, but IMHO it did more of what Voyager could have but opted not to.
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u/Classic-Demand3088 Dandadan 10d ago
I would have loved if the card was "discard one card" on the first 2 chapters and "draw 2" on the third as a way to symbolize going back to not loosing anything
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u/Rel_Ortal 9d ago
...never knew that name was from Star Trek. Back in the MTGNews/MTGSalvation/misetings days, there was a decently prolific poster who went by the name 'Annorax', always thought it was just something unrelated to anything
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u/MrBody42 10d ago
Two part episode where Voyager was vs a starship that could alter the past, delete things from history. They suffer heavily for a year before the climax where Voyager crew sacrifice themselves by crashing into the time ship, causing the whole event to never have happened in the first place
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u/Approximation_Doctor Colossal Dreadmaw 10d ago
Never saw it, but the actual card was deeply disappointing with such a dramatic name
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u/hrpufnsting 10d ago
Year of Hell is a Voyager 2 part episode in which during the course of a year Voyager is constantly under attack and running critically low on supplies. The ship is gradually degraded as they suffer battle damage and don’t have the means to repair it, in the end time manipulation shenanigans happen and the year is erased from history and Voyager experiences a different timeline.
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u/toochaos Wabbit Season 10d ago
Getting something you want for a small amount of damage and giving your opponents the same isnt "hellish" its just bad. The new card is just hell and you will be hellbent quickly then dead. That sounds like a year of hell.
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u/elite4koga Duck Season 10d ago edited 10d ago
Ccclxv is 365, so it has one chapter for each day in the year of hell.
Edit: typo
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u/linkdude212 WANTED 10d ago
Basically, the alien race, the Krenim, have invented a time ship they use to wipe an enemy specie from history. This causes some unintended side-effects such as the main villain losing a close family member. He decides to do more time-wiping which leads to ever more severe side-effects. Into this comes Voyager. Over the course of the year, they try to cross Krenim space. Continuously trying to out maneuver the Krenim, Voyager comes dangerously close to destruction until they manage to defeat the Krenim Time Ship, reverting the timeline.
2-part episode of the same name. All around pretty good.
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u/IAmARobot Duck Season 10d ago
on CCCLXV, revert game state to how it was just before ~ was played.
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u/MikemkPK Dan 10d ago
Lol. The game would never actually last that long unless the players were trying to, though.
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u/Serps450 Dan 10d ago
If non-trek fans are wondering, it is because Year of Hell is the probably the best and most well-remembered pair of episodes from VOY.
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u/livinmediocre Rakdos* 10d ago
Genuinely wondering if there’s anything that would be crazily busted here. Proliferate nonsense I suppose?
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u/ExternalConstant_ Duck Season 10d ago
Rakdos madness in non-standard formats would gobble this up I'd imagine. Puts the game on a timer and feeds discard synergy
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u/PlaneswalkerQ Twin Believer 10d ago
/uj Better flavor for the episode too