Welcome all card makers to another instalment of the weekly CCC's. Thank you to everyone who participated in the previous CCC(s), some scores are still being tallied.

This Week's Prompt is: "Spooky Season!"

With Halloween just around the corner, it's time to embrace the strange, frightening, and downright horrifying!

For this week's competition, your card must be thematically inspired by Halloween or the horror genre. Your inspiration can come from classic Halloween imagery and traditions, such as ghosts, witches, pumpkins, costumes, or trick-or-treating, or delve into horror more broadly with monsters, supernatural phenomena, unsettling concepts, and other things that go bump in the night.

Whether your card is frightening, disturbing, mysterious, or even playfully spooky is entirely up to you. The important part is that its theme and design clearly evoke Halloween or horror in some form.

Competition Rules

• Follows the weekly prompt. In this instance, your card must be thematically inspired by Halloween or horror. How you interpret either theme is entirely up to you.
• 1 card per account. Your first submission will be considered your only submission. You may edit and update the card during the submission period by updating the card text provided within your submission post, but it will be considered locked once the competition deadline passes.
• Your card must be newly created for this competition. Reposting previously designed cards or older custom cards will not be considered.
• Your card may be an entirely text entry, or fully rendered with artwork. Both formats are acceptable. However, if artwork is used, a linked source must be provided.
  • Artwork may be taken from pre-existing cards, including official Yu-Gi-Oh cards or artwork from other TCGs. This is permitted purely for visual presentation and will not be judged as part of scoring
• Card text must follow TCG/OCG format (no Rush Duel cards). Whichever format you choose, ensure it is consistent throughout the card.
• PSCT (Problem Solving Card Text) will be judged as part of scoring. Proper PSCT is not strictly required, but unclear or incorrect card text will affect your score, even just minorly. If you need help with PSCT, there are several excellent resources and guides available on this subreddit.
  • There is resources available, such as the free PSCT SuperThread. If you don't wish too, Myself and plenty of users here are always willing to give helping hands.
• Absolutely NO Artificially Generated cards. Entries created using generative AI for text will not be considered.
• Cards will be judged relative to modern Yu-Gi-Oh gameplay and card design philosophy.

Submission Deadline

Submissions and entries will be accepted until one week from this competition's posting. The submission period will end on: Monday, 19 October, 11:30 AM (UTC).

After that point, submission will be locked and judging will begin.

How to Submit

Once you've created your card and are happy with its design you can create a post on r/customyugioh as an image or text-only, using the following title format: Weekly CCC (Spooky Season!) – <Card Name> – <Reddit Username>

Example: Weekly CCC (Spooky Season!) – Jack-o'-Lantern of the Haunted Night – u/ExampleUser

Your card's complete card text must be included within the body of your submission post, even if the card is also submitted as an image/render. This text will be considered the version of your card submitted for judging. Any changes you wish to make before the competition deadline must be reflected by editing this text within the original post.

Make sure to also apply the "Competition Submission" tag. This will be the main way I track and collect entries. You may optionally link your submission into the comments of this post, but is not necessary for judging, purely to reconnect submissions to this post for people in the future to see what you've submitted.

Judging Criteria

Entries will be judged on a 10 point scoring system based on the following categories.

The total is equal to: Prompt x (Form + Flavour + Function + PSCT).

Closing Regards

If you require clarification on the rules, feel free to ask. Looking forward to seeing everyone's creations!

Hey Duelists and Card Designers!

If you’re working on custom Yugioh cards and want to make sure your effects are written clearly, efficiently, and in proper PSCT (Problem-Solving Card Text), this is the thread for you.

What this thread is for:

This is an open SuperThread where I’ll personally help you write or revise your card effects using accurate PSCT - whether you’re

• Writing a new effect from scratch
• Unsure if your wording is correct
• Wanting to match official card templating
• Or just need a second pair of eyes on your design

All skill levels are welcome!

How to Ask for Help:

Simply comment below with the text of your card’s effect. Be sure to provide additional contextual clues like whether this is intended on a Monster, Spell, Trap, and the type of each (Quick-Play, Continuous, etc). Helping out with the design and writing process.

I (or others here in the community!) will help reword it into clean, official-style PSCT and double-checking yugioh player’s for any logical or gameplay issues.

Collaborative Help Encouraged!

While I’ll be monitoring and replying as much as I can, anyone familiar with PSCT or interested in improving it is also encouraged to jump in and offer suggestions. The goal is to support each other and improve custom card quality as a whole.

Let’s make your cards feel like they came straight out of the official database! Looking forward to helping out. Let’s get those effects cleaned up and ready!

From your Problem Solving Tuning Magician, Dogga.