Possibilities of Creation 3:
Conditional Worlds

Possibilities of Creation is a weekly series that will be describing how to make cards in Timepath's card editor. The next card we will make is a world card, that whenever you draw a world card, it will add a copy of it into play.

Getting Started

Once again, we will enter a name and description for the card. Now we are going to change the Card Type from "Action" to "World". You can press on the type text on the bottom of the card to change the type. World cards stay in play. Now we Choose the "Any Card Drawn" trigger. This will trigger whenever we draw a card. But we want it to trigger only when a world card is drawn. In order to make that work, we need to use a Condition.

What is a condition?

Conditions are used in a lot of places, to make something only happen if the condition is met. For example, the "Can Build" condition will return true if you can build the next path piece. There are also Card Object Conditions, which use a Card Object in one of it's slots. These can be used in "Card Object Condtion" data types, and "Condtion" data types. Similar story with "Card Model Condtions". Conditions can also be assigned in effects, so an effect will only happen if a condition is met. You can access this by pressing on the trigger you are activating. Then change the "Condition". For this card, we will select "Matches Card Type". This condition will return true if the card in "Value" matches the card type in "Type". We will set "Type" to World. Now for "Value", we need to know what card was drawn. We can use the "Trigger Target" value. Certain triggers have targets that show what was targeted by the trigger. You can read the description of a trigger in the editor to learn more. For the "Any Card Drawn" trigger, "Trigger Target" will give the card that was drawn. So now this effect will only trigger if we draw a card, and the card drawn is a world card. Now to make the effect.

Making the effect

We want to create a new copy of the card we drew. Select the "Create Copy" block. This will make a new Card Object that is a copy of another Card Object. Set "Card" to "Trigger Target". Now under "Starting Location", change the location to "Worlds", that way it goes to the same location that worlds go to. Your card is complete. Here is the card being played. Out of the 3 cards drawn, only Data Center was a World.


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