April Fools 2020

[AlphaKretin]

As per yearly tradition, let's get together and come up with some joke cards to upload for around a week at the start of April. I'll start off by posting some of my concepts, but feel free to discuss your own and edit them into this post for tracking. IDs will be assigned based on whatever the next free one is when the card is ready for scripting. Not all of these concepts will necessarily get refined into full cards and ultimately added to the game.

Pacifis, the Unfixable City

512000141
Concept: Pacifis, the Phantasm City was broken in various forms on Percy for a long time, most notably spawning multiple tokens at inappropriate times. This is a version of the card that constantly spews tokens everywhere. As a bonus, using its original name despite always having an alias can be construed as a reference to "Warrior of Atlantis", which lists "A Legendary Ocean".

(This card's name is always treated as "Umi".)
Once per turn, if you Normal or Special Summon exactly 1 Normal Monster (and no other cards): Add 1 "Phantasm Spiral" card from your Deck to your hand. You cannot Normal or Special Summon Effect Monsters the turn you activate this effect (even if this card leaves the field). Any number of times per Chain, if a player activates a card or effect (except during the Damage Step, and except "Pacifis, the Unfixable City"): Their opponent Special Summons 1 "Phantasm Spiral Token" (Wyrm-Type/WATER/Level 8/ATK 2000/DEF 2000).

• Card designed
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Admin Perfect RNG - Impeccable Luck

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Concept: An actual prank. The name and claimed effect reference complaints that admins can rig the shuffler in their favour, while the actual effect references the concept of drawing "Garnets"

Admin Perfect RNG - Impeccable Luck
Spell
SECRET ADMIN RNG MANIPULATION DO NOT LEAK
If you have this card in your deck, at the start of the Duel, you will draw a perfect hand and your opponent will brick.

The actual effect is to replace your hand with copies of famous "Garnets", including the literal Gem-Knight Garnet and Predaplant Darlingtonia Cobra.

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Final Order Of Legacy

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Concept: An actual prank, an effect that says it will win you the duel but the script simply has a taunting message appear.

During your next standby phase, you win the Duel.

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Mind Crush rulings

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Concept: A reference to the recently changed in TCG public knowledge rules, where you don't have to confirm your claim that you don't have a card in the hand that was declared for Mind Crush.

I Don't Have It
Trap
When your opponent activates a card or effect by declaring exactly 1 card name: Activate the appropriate effect.
● If you possess a card(s) with the declared name: Banish all cards with that name you possess face-down. Immediately after this Chain resolves, add them all to your hand.
● If you do not possess a card with the declared name: Immediately after this Chain resolves, add 1 card with the declared original name from outside the Duel to your hand.

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A the na

Concept: Like "Bi of alcon", a joke about unwanted Bastion results. Can be removed for redundancy/being boring/too many Bastion jokes, especially with the below concept having been presented later.

If this card is Summoned: Declare 1 card name; this card gains these effects.
● If another Fairy monster(s) is Summoned: Inflict 600 damage to your opponent.
● Once per turn: You can send 1 face-up Fairy monster you control to the GY, except "A the na", then target 1 Fairy monster in your GY, except "Athena"; Special Summon that target.

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Unibird, the Primal Being

Concept: Another Bastion joke, but this one isn't the same as the other two, I'm not quite sure how I want to represent this yet.

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Full Orcust Combo

Concept: A Link 2 with generic materials that immediately assembles a powerful end board, referencing Orcust combos with Knightmare Mermaid. The joke could be updated to be more general, also referencing Verte Anaconda into Dragun or similar.

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There Can Only Be One

Concept: A reference to people who get the name of "There Can Be Only One" wrong. Right now Bastion returns "Canyon" for that search, but it doesn't have to be another Bastion joke.

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Tribute for a Link Summon

Concept: A card that Link Summons by Tributing the materials, as a reference to a poorly written/subbed line in the VRAINS anime. Possibly too obscure, especially 2 seasons later, to be funny. Is there anything from the later seasons of VRAINS to reference? Roboppy is a fan favourite.

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Honey Trap

Concept: A reference to Queen's skill from her one duel at the start of VRAINS season 3. She had the ability to set any Trap that exists in the game, and chose Drowning Mirror Force, so the idea is something like the text implying you have a lot of options and then when you actually use it you only have one bad one.

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Sangan (Tewart)

Concept: A version of Sangan that activates when detached as Xyz Material, as a reference to a bad ruling perpetuated by Kevin Tewart. The final version should probably not namedrop him. Based on the pre-errata due to the time period of the ruling. An alternate idea is a card that makes all detaching count as coming from the field, but I'm not sure how to implement that.

If this card is sent from the field or detached from an Xyz Monster and sent to the GY: Add 1 monster with 1500 or less ATK from your Deck to your hand.

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Millenium Thousand-Eyes Virus

Concept: A reference to a card Kevin Tewart claimed he, and only he, owned, that was one of the strongest cards ever. Multiple proposed designs down below, won't check that box until one is agreed on though.

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Master Rule randomisation

Concept:
An effect that toggles between MR4 and MR2020 randomly in the middle of a duel, taking advantage of its current implementation in Percy being toggled by a single script flag. Could use the method for effects applying at random intervals from the "Pegasus Ultimate Challenge"?

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[pyrQ]

Not necessarily for "Shuffler complaints", but in the same vein, an effect that would turn cards in the opponent's hand to "Gem-Knight Garnet".

[AlphaKretin]

From CC:

Millenium Thousand-Eyes Virus
Trap
If you control “Thousand-Eyes Restrict”: Tribute 1 monster you control and choose a card stat (Atk, Def, Level monster Type, Attribute);
check your opponent's hand, all monsters they control, and all cards they draw until the end of your opponent's 3rd turn after this card's activation, and destroy all monsters with an stat that is the same as the tributed monster’s declared stat.

This is a reference to a brag Tewart has made. I've also created my own concept for this card name in the past which I can try to find.

[pyrQ]

concept by CC (reference to a card that Kevin Tewart claimed to have, and it being one of the strongest cards ever):

Millenium Thousand-Eyes Virus
Trap
If you control “Thousand-Eyes Restrict”: Tribute 1 monster you control and choose a card stat (Atk, Def, Level monster Type, Attribute);
check your opponent's hand, all monsters they control, and all cards they draw until the end of your opponent's 3rd turn after this card's activation, and destroy all monsters with an stat that is the same as the tributed monster’s declared stat.

(text/PSCT might need to be checked)

[AlphaKretin]

My own concept for the Virus, dug up from a while ago

Trap/Normal
Tribute 1 DARK monster with 0 ATK; look at your opponent's hand, all monsters they control, and all cards they draw until the end of their 3rd turn after this card's activation, and equip all those monsters to monsters you control with the following effect, otherwise banish them face-down.
• The equipped monster gains ATK and DEF equal to this card's original ATK and DEF.

[pyrQ]

Mind Crush "rulings" + Garnet concept (not sure if it's better to have them together like this or have them as separate cards):

idk name
Normal Trap
Declare 1 card name; ask your opponent if that card is in their hand, and if they say it is, all copies of it in their possession become "Gem-Knight Garnet", otherwise make your opponent show you their hand, then 1 random card in their hand becoms "Gem-Knight Garnet".

[AlphaKretin]

I definitely like the concept, but I'm also unsure (and I mean, legitimately undecided) if it really fits to have them combined like that.

[pyrQ]

Is there anything from the later seasons of VRAINS to reference?

Perhaps Queen's skill, quoting from the yugipedia summary of the episode:

Queen activates her Skill, "Honey Trap": when she takes battle damage from a direct attack, Queen regains LP equal to the damage inflicted and then sets a Trap Card that is not in her Deck to her field, which she can activate during the turn it was set. Queen sets "Drowning Mirror Force".

Out of all the Traps in the game she chose Drowning.. so it could be something silly like "choose one of the options" and there's literally only 1 option to choose from.

[pyrQ]

Not sure if this is possible, but it might be due to how the MR2020 rules are implemented in Percy, could there be an effect which randomly switches "aux.MR41" on/off, effectively changing from MR4 to MR2020 and vice versa in the middle of the duel.

[AlphaKretin]

If that's possible, I love it. Maybe @kevinlul or @edo9300 could comment on how it would work?

[kevinlul]

You can just toggle the field but keep in mind that we haven't bothered with most anime cards for that.

[AlphaKretin]

Concept combining shuffler complaints, garnet, and pranking the player:

Admin Perfect RNG - Impeccable Luck
Spell
SECRET ADMIN RNG MANIPULATION DO NOT LEAK
If you have this card in your deck, at the start of the Duel, you will draw a perfect hand and your opponent will brick.

Actual effect is to replace your starting hand with garnets. Name spells out APRIL to go with the FOOL card proposed by CC (edited into the main body)

[AlphaKretin]

I'm happy to script APRIL and FOOL unless CC wanted to script FOOL because he designed it. Also, because I'm a dork, I came up with a naming scheme to use for these two cards' Japanese comments. シャッフル・システム・ＡＰＲＩＬ (Shuffle System - A.P.R.I.L.) and ヴィクトリー・システム・ＦＯＯＬ (Victory System - F.O.O.L.)

[AlphaKretin]

possible idea for the mind crush thing?

I Don't Have It
Trap
When your opponent activates a card or effect by declaring exactly 1 card name: Activate the appropriate effect.
● If you possess a card(s) with the declared name: Banish all cards with that name you possess face-down. Immediately after this Chain resolves, add them all to your hand.
● If you do not possess a card with the declared name: Immediately after this Chain resolves, add 1 card with the declared original name from outside the Duel to your hand.

[AlphaKretin]

Note that as of F.O.O.L., we've used all 16 strings in the first placeholder token 1040. If it's not me, whoever adds the next card that needs a string will need to create 1041.

[AlphaKretin]

I suppose I may as well draft out the basic version of Full Orcust Combo

Full Orcust Combo
DARK Link-2
Machine/Link/Effect
? ATK/Top-Diagonal arrows
2 monsters with different names
If this card is Link Summoned: Banish this card face-down, also if you no longer control this card, Special Summon 1 "The Phantom Knights of Rusty Bardiche" from outside the Duel, then Special Summon 1 "Galatea, the Orcust Automaton" from outside the Duel, then Set 1 "Orcustrated Babel', 1 "Orcust Crescendo" and 2 "Phantom Knights' Fog Blade" from outside the Duel, then send 1 "Knightmare Phoenix", 1 "Knightmare Mermaid", 1 "Dingirsu, the Orcust of the Evening Star" and 1 "Orcust Cymbal Skeleton" from outside the Duel to the GY, then banish 1 "Orcust Knightmare", 1 "Orcust Harp Horror", 1 "The Phantom Knights of Ancient Cloak" and 1 "The Phantom Knights of Silent Boots" from outside the Duel.

I uh, think I have all of those details right. Technically I think you had to draw 1 of Babel/Cres but. lol. As with the rest, waiting for approval (i.e. 👍 react) from at least one other person before I go ahead.