Booster Pack

Some more cards for the game from two days ago. I promise I'll stop spamming your feed with these soon, it's just what's occupying my brain at the moment.

Also, a note, the effects of cards and their relevant strengths or weaknesses are not indicative of my own opinions on those authors or stories. Just want to put that out there as a disclaimer.

Rules addendums:

- An Author cannot post a story on the same turn it entered a Writer slot, whether it was played there or rotated in from an Editor slot, unless it has the Speedwriter ability.

- Stories a player controls generate energy at the beginning of that player's turn. Stories a player controls reduce their heat by 1 immediately afterwards.

/////// Authors ////////

AuroraDawn
Author
Editor — +1 Heat to the Writer's stories.
Writer — Retire this author and sacrifice a card in your editor slots: You may post a story by AuroraDawn.
Haha rainbow machine go brrr

Eakin
Author
Editor — +1 Heat to the Writer's stories.
Writer — Retire this author: You may post a story by Eakin.

GaPJaxie
Author
Speedwriter (This author may post stories on the same turn it entered a Writer slot.)
Editor — +1 Heat to the Writer's stories.
Writer — Retire this author: You may post a story by GaPJaxie.
It's fanfiction all the way down.

Dromicosuchus
Author
Editor —
Writer — Retire this author: You may post a story by Dromicosuchus.

ROBCakeran53
Author
Editor — +1 Heat to the Writer's stories.
Writer — Retire this author: You may post a story by ROBCakeran53.
Look! It's the author of My Little Dashie!

Shakespearicles™
Author
Jolly — Pay 1: search your retirement pile for a card named Jinglemas and add it to your hand.
Editor — +1 Heat to the Writer's stories.
Writer — Retire this author: You may post a story by Shakespearicles™.
The Man. The Legend. The World's Strongest Writer™

Pen Stroke
Author
Old Guard — If this card is in your opening hand, you may play it for free. It does not count towards your 1 free author card this turn.
Editor — +1 Heat to the Writer's stories.
Writer — Retire this author: You may post a story by Pen Stroke.

/////// Stories ////////

3: Rainbow Factory
Story — Dark
by AuroraDawn
Heat: 2
Pegasus Device — When this card enters the Feature Box, each opponent must retire 1 card from their Editor slots. If an opponent cannot do so, you gain 2 Energy.

6: Hard Reset
Story — Dark Adventure
by Eakin
Heat: 4
Well That Didn't Work — When this card enters the feature box, take another turn after this one.
Here’s the thing about pain. Pain hurts. Pain hurts a lot.

1: Dressing Room
Story — Slice of Life
by GaPJaxie
Heat: 2
Typecast — When this story enters the Feature Box, choose a genre. While this story is in the Feature Box, stories of that genre enter the Feature Box with +1 Heat.
Star Power isn't Twilight Sparkle — but she does play her on TV.

2: Mendacity
Story — Romance Adventure
by Dromicosuchus
Heat: 2
Changeling — Before this card enters the Feature Box, you may pay 3. If you do, this card enters the Feature Box as a copy of a story already in the Feature Box. It still enters with 2 Heat.

1: My Little Dashie
Story — Sad
by ROBCakeran53
Heat: 2
Cardboard Box — When this story enters the Feature Box, draw a card. When it leaves the Feature Box, discard a card.
"Give to good home."

7: Cat's Cradle
Story — Romance
by Shakespearicles™
Heat: 6
Shakespeariclean Endeavor — When this card enters the Feature Box, authors you control cannot post stories until after your next turn.
Bonsai — Instead of granting 1 energy each turn it is in the Feature Box, this card generates 6 minus its current Heat.
It takes longer than the lifespan of a pony for a date tree to reach fruit-bearing maturity. And yet, date tree orchards exist.

4: Past Sins
Story — Slice of Life
by Pen Stroke
Heat: 4
Disguised Alicorn — If the Feature Box is empty, this story costs 1 energy to play.
Twilight had come to call the filly Nyx.

Comments

[A.P.O.N.I.]

For the record, I don't consider these posts spam. Indeed, they give me warm feelings and nostalgia. I really hope that we get enough cards for a deck, and that decks get printed.

[Malandy]

Cool! So glad I went to check out the comments on the previous card drop!

Maybe link to this in the previous's text?

IIRC, this seems playable and stuff because it's Slow Burn, making it easy to balance as long as individual cards don't have easily OP effects. It's not like MtG or Yugioh, where Turn 1 Wins are possible. The game's gotta go for at least ~6 turns, from guess-math, because you want 20 Energy and you can only get a max of 7-ish / turn, unless you're using Cat's Cradle and Please Downvote, etc. And both those cards still take time to use, even at max setup with RB spam, and there's the high risk of the people wielding Removal, which is a good practice for everyone.

[A.P.O.N.I.]

Can I suggest authors?

Ghost of Heracletus
Bad Horse
Harry Lefferts
Bucking Nonsense

and a contentious pick

RHJunior

I feel I'm dating myself with these suggestions.

[RB_]

5698987
If you had to recommend one story by Bad Horse, what would it be? I'm not familiar enough with their work to know what I should feature.

[A.P.O.N.I.]

5699314
I would say either Bad Horse's Bedtime Stories for Impressionable Young Colts and Fillies or The Gathering.

Maybe Editor, Writer, and
Unindicted Co-Conspirator: +3 heat to any stories whose author is an Old Guard.

[A.P.O.N.I.]

5699314
The Bad Horse Blog Index might also be relevant.