What is Double Jeopardy?

Most people will remember Alex on Jeopardy, the game show where you have to guess the question to the answers in a diverse number of categories. Double Jeopardy is one of their special squares and that is now also the name for my next custom promo expansion.

A bit of history - Malovis has been asking for an Arderial/Orothe magi for a while now and I did promise him one if I did find the art. I was going through more of Whyrl's artwork when I came across a number of images with two magi. Some of them I've split off - Ardit and Darunia, for example. Those were hard to do. It's easier to actually keep the images as one, which was the idea for the birth of Double Jeopardy.

Why is it called Double Jeopardy? Firstly, they are all dual-magi cards, as explained above. Secondly, as I was working through the images, the one point that stuck out was that each of them featured magi from two regions, thus they were going to be dual-region as well. Dual-region dual-magi? Sounds bad, in fact it migh jeopardize the whole game if I added them as custom cards, but it's worth a shot, if only to showcase the artwork. I have no idea if these cards will actually be banned on gEngine after they are made, banned from tournament play that is, but that's one bridge I'll cross when I get there.

It's also a promo expansion - a small expansion of less than 20 cards, although how many cards will finally make it into this expansion, I have no idea at this point in time.

Here's probably my favourite card so far from the set, artwise:





Dark Twins, move over, the Stuff Twins are here. I hope that this will end up to be a good magi (together with Gorb or Stuffy Gorb) to harness the diverse powers of the Stuff cards (Green, Black, Orange, Brown, Right, Hot, Cool, Amulet and Herd). The text though, will be decided as a competition by the MND public as part of the Double Jeopardy contest, running over the next few months, starting in July at Novelty's Custom Cards.


People are still a bit confused about the custom cards vs the RP cards, so let me clarify a bit here.

The RP cards were made for a different game, Insiider Role-Playing, which has a different set of rules from the card game. There are currently 3 expansions for those - eXodus, Dreamstorm and Chimefall. I've been templating the eXodus RP cards and showing them here and I expect to start on Dreamstorm soon. Note that those cards are not design for the card game and as such will not be used with the current text in the CCG.

However, some of the cards, particularly those with better artwork, will be included in the custom CCG expansion Exodus Flight. Which of the cards haven't been worked out yet. All the cards will get new text that is balanced and is suitable for the CCG. Further infomation can be viewed at the Custom Cards main site.