Since there was some popular demand for it at the end of contest 17, we're going to have a contest about trading cards.

I can think of two kinds of trading cards: the kind you play games with, and the kind that give you statistics on sports figures or the like. Your job is to fabricate trading cards of these types (or any other kind of trading card you can think of). I hope we'll see plenty of cards for Stripcreator regulars/characters/props/whatever, but I won't limit you -- make cards for anyone or anything else if you have a good idea. Remember that these cards usually have two sides, although you don't have to show both if you don't want.

Try magiclore.com or magicthegathering.com to steal some pictures of Magic: The Gathering cards. I'll try to research some more sites for source images and post them later tonight. If you know of any, please share. Of course, as long as you can draw a rectangle, you may not need them.

Enter early and often. If you don't have a place to post your images on the web, e-mail them to me or take Gabe up on his offer of free space. This contest will run for approximately three and a half days. Judging will take place Saturday night at about midnight, EST. Sometime after Cowboy Bebop and before Outlaw Star.

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Try magiclore.com or magicthegathering.com to steal some pictures of Magic: The Gathering cards. I'll try to research some more sites for source images and post them later tonight. If you know of any, please share. Of course, as long as you can draw a rectangle, you may not need them.

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Here are more helpful links for making personalized cards for a CCG that is a favorite of mine, Ani-Mayhem. It gives the low down on how to make the cards as well as giving you the templates.

Thanks, guys. I've got a couple more: Magi-Nation Duel has good-sized pictures of a lot of their cards online (use the links under "Card Lists"); you can probably extract a usable template with a little work. If you want to go the sports card route, you might be able to get something useful from Topps with a little digging. I think SkyBox also makes sports cards, but their site was having problems when I looked.

Boy, so far there's a lot of links but no work nice pictures :)

I'm too tired to do the back side...

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I'm too tired to do the back side...

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Since I think we all know by now that fuck=comedy...

This was taken from a Marvel trading card. Enjoy!

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I'm too tired to do the back side...

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Insert Anal Sex joke (here).

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Since I think we all know by now that fuck=comedy...

This was taken from a Marvel trading card. Enjoy!

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Cowboy Bebop and before Outlaw Star

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Cowboy Bebop and before Outlaw Star

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sorry, but I thought I was the only one who watched those. I guess I was wrong. Damn I always am.

Anyways. I'm gonna try and get an entry in this time.

If I can figure out how.

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GOD, what are you still DOING HERE?!

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JrnymnNate and Kitty_Kat sitting in a tree, K-I-S-S-I-N-G
First comes love, then comes marriage,
Then comes Bazilla in a baby carriage.

I'm drawn back to the memory of xpac's comic for me... no matter what I do, people will pick at me.

Yet I don't ask how to solve the problem... that'll make it worse.

What do I do?!

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What do I do?!

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I'm drawn back to the memory of xpac's comic for me... no matter what I do, people will pick at me.

Yet I don't ask how to solve the problem... that'll make it worse.

What do I do?!

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Since the only one of ElPaso's I could see was the Brad card, I hope I didn't just repeat one of his other entries with this one...

How do you like the "Ass" mana symbol?

About the animeyhem cards... I have a load of them. I never got to play the game very much, but it seemed extrordinarily cumbersome when I did try it. I never could convince enough people to get enough cards to get any kind of games started. Sad, really.

I'll have a few up in a little bit, assuming the contest is still on by then.

Ass mana. Gives a new meaning to the phrase "tap that ass".

I was about to judge, but I'll hold off for a couple of hours if you're still working, Drexle. I'm gonna be up for a while longer anyway.

Thanks, evil_d. I won't take much longer.

I'm officially done now... I wish I could have had more time for this contest. It's almost as inspiring as the video game one.

*looking over the "fuck" card*

Jeeez, maybe all the people who think I'm fuck were right... he made his first comics on my Birthday last year. -Shudder-

Okay, it's time to get my judge on.

Thanks to everyone who entered. I think this contest has rekindled my desire to start playing Ani-Mayhem.

There are a handful of entries here that are about equally good, in my opinion, so making a decision was difficult. But in the end, I've decided to go with...

TheElPaso for his "Bazilla" card. Mainly because, for reasons I don't quite understand, the fact that he has Trample makes me giggle.

Congratulations, Mr. Paso. Give us something good for the next one.

Congratulations, ElPaso. I'm curious, did you do a bunch of copy/pasting to get the proper font, or were you able to download it somewhere and type on your magic cards?

I know it's over, but I couldn't help myself... at least evil_d and neovid will get the jokes.

hey i know johnny

http://www.webfontlist.com/pages/station.asp?ID=9249 has a Magic font, but I downloaded it long ago, so forgive me if it doesn't work anymore.

Thank you muchly for the link.

Okay, I need to stop now...

No you don't.

There's a lot of potential just in Happy Noodle Boy cards.

"If the citizens of Mars do not surrender within two rounds, Happy Noodle Boy becomes giant Wilford Brimley."

"If Happy Noodle Boy's demands are not met by sometime, he will begin buttering your loved ones."

Flash effect-- Bad Date: A targeted party's males and females must split up for the rest of the game.

Caption: "Oh my god! SOMEBODY PUT SHIT IN MY PANTS!!!"

Flash Effect-- Give Happy Noodle Boy the time of day, or he will absolve thee with Tree Scratchies.

Flash Effect-- Happy Noodle Boy attempts to ressurect a killed Character. Flip a coin. Heads, the attempt fails. Tails, the attempt fails.

Caption: "I alone can hear his tortured screams!!! EeeK! Screamy noises! You have been fooled into an early burial!! You must help him!!"

Equipment-- Happy Noodle Armor -- Requires Insanity to equip.

Major Disaster-- Super Bastard Beam! "This disaster destroys its current location, killing all Characters and destroying all other disasters and items and all immediate surrounding locations in 2 turns unless defeated, or unless "Obsessor" is in play, in which case obsessor is destroyed."

Break Happy Noodle Boy's secret elbow, or he will release the boobie harnesses in one turn.

The Happy Noodle Boy INWO card:

Happy Noodle Boy; personality

Power 1/1
Resistance 2

Alignments: Weird, Fanatic, Violent, Criminal

As his action, Happy Noodle Boy can give +5 to any attack to destroy, or +8 against Straights.

Cthulhu or the UFOs can take control of Noodle Boy for free.

"Some people SAY there's something wrong with me, but etaoin shrdlu tobor ftaghn hello kitty!"

Magic abilities for happy noodleboy

(0)Tap happy noodleboy to have all other players' creatures deal their power in damage to him
(0)Regenerate happy noodleboy

Caption : "PFFFFFFT! My hands! I can't get them off my wrists!"

At lemur68's request...

Anything containing JTHM rocks by default.

I play Quake II using the JTHM model. Complete with fly buzzing around his shoulders.