Cards (Gameplay Mechanic)

**Cards** are a major gameplay element in ***Souldeep***. Cards can be purchased after successfully completing a dungeon run and reaching the exit with an artifact, or Ephemeral cards can be purchased for sigils in the lobby. Ephemeral cards are destroyed when they're played, while other cards are returned to your deck when you finish.

## **Playing Cards:**

Cards are typically played throughout the dungeon run, up to 90% faster when Desperation is 9, but only the base rate after Desperation hits 10. However, **unique-type** Cards activate at the beginning of a run.

## **Card Creation:**

### **Demonslayer456 and Staff Members (Artists, Developers, Lore Keepers, and Wiki Editors.):**

A good majority of the cards in Souldeep are fully designed by Demonslayer456, the games' creator, but some cards receive assistance from staff in the form of card artwork for card sprites (**Artists**), card functionality (**Developers**), card implementation (**Developers**), card lore (**Lore Keepers**), and card documentation (**Wiki Editors**).

### **The Community / Player Base and Card Competitions:**

However, the Souldeep community / player base can also have an input to the game, which is facilitated through **Card Competitions**, where the Souldeep community design card ideas that adhere to a certain card criteria or type, (Normal, Ephemeral, or Unique-Type for example) before Demonslayer456 and the community vote for the cards they most want implemented through check mark reactions in the Souldeep discord server. Once the voting time expires, the final count of reactions will be counted for all the different card choices, and they will then be ranked in accordance to the amount of votes they received, with the higher place a card landing itself in generally meaning a higher chance of implementation and more gold sigils to the winning player, up to a guarantee of card implementation for first place and the ability to start with the card you designed in your deck/hand, and a possibility of card implementation for second and third place depending on how close the amount of votes was between the next highest rank comparatively, with it being decided on if the vote was within two votes of the next highest place / following the next highest place by fewer than 3 votes. Second and third place also receive gold sigils, with second place earning 5, and third place earning 3. Ties are rare but can occur in card competitions, and have occurred before as seen in during the first card competition to create a unique-type card that occurred between the 22nd of October to the 28th of October where Earthbrine and Dragunfire tied for a joint second place. Ties remove one gold sigil from the reward prize but can also ensure card implementation, for example if two people tied for second place they would both receive 4 gold sigils instead of the usual second place reward of 5 gold sigils and if two people tied for third place they would both receive 2 gold sigils instead of the usual third place reward of 3 gold sigils.

## **Finished Card Competitions and their Results:**

### **The First Card Competition (Unique-type Card) (October 22nd to October 29th 2:00 AM GMT):**

This was the first Card Competition in the history of Souldeep and had **4** competitors, these competitors were: **Etherweaver**, **Earthbrine**, **Dragunfire**, and **Demonslayer456**. The Competition was held to create a unique-type card and began on the 22nd of October with card submissions running until the 28th of October at 6:00 AM GMT, after this card submissions were closed, and card voting was opened until the 29th of October at 2:00 AM GMT, where all voting ended and the competition results were decided based on the final vote counts of each card competition competitor. After Demonslayer456 looked through the vote totals, the end result of this card competition was decided: Etherweaver won first place with his card, named **Interdimensional Mechanism** as it got 5 votes. Earthbrine's card, named **Geoplating** received 3 votes, and Dragunfire's card, named **Architect's Blueprints** also received 3 votes. This tied Earthbrine and Dragunfire for a joint second place, resulting in both of their cards being implemented and them both receiving 4 gold sigils, a middle ground between the second and third place gold sigil reward. Demonslayer456 also submitted a card of his own in this competition, named **Cloak and Dagger**, and it received 2 votes and due to it not being within 2 votes of the vote total of first place it received fourth place, in this competition the rewards were only for first, second, and third place, but this card could still eventually end up in the game.

## **Is there any Card Competitions currently active?:**

**Currently, no card submissions are being accepted**. Once this changes, this line here will be updated to reflect whatever current card submissions are being taken.