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#funaday2026 Day 5: Chainsaw Man. (Reposted to unbreak the chain).

Kinda went crazy on this one, pulled colors from the first volume's cover and just went wild. It's chaotic, but so is the series.

I wish some of the mechanics laid out by the new "official" shepherds of OP would be more widely accepted by the Underground community, because I struggled with Denji's grid a bit. I think his Energy and Strength stats are a little higher than they should be, but for what I plan on giving him in his kit, he shouldn't be too easy to slot in.

As referenced, LRG did a good thing by replacing the old TDB method (add all characters' grids together and go no higher than 76) with the Threat Level totals (even if there's no damn reason to have stuck with 76!) While often but not always equaling the grid total, the Threat Level now more appropriately takes into consideration the character's specials and inherent ability. I think many customs players would flip if I considered using some of their infrastructure, but I'm nothing if not an ICONOCLAST, so we'll see what bits and bops I start pulling together moving forward.

Anyways, the vision: I want Chainsaw Man to be violent and KO-avoidant. This Character is Step One.

Til tomorrow

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Chainsaw Man custom character card, for the dead CCG OverPower.

A shirtless man with chainsaws for a head and arms hovers in the center of the card. His black and white rendering is in stark contrast to the chaotic flashes of orange, yellow, and green surrounding him. Comic panels sink into the colors, demonstrating Chainsaw Man's bloody and violent combat prowess.

"Chainsaw Man" is written in a mix of old English and typewriter font in the top right corner, and the Character's Power Grid rests below that. From top to bottom, it equals: Energy - 5, Fighting - 8, Strength - 7, Intellect - 2.

On the bottom left, his grid total, 22, rests in a silver diamond, and his Inherent Ability reads: When KO'd, Chainsaw Man may continue to fight and is not discarded until end of battle.

Artist credits: Tatsuki Fujimoto

#funaday2026 Day 4: neck deep through a rewatch of Veronia Mars, and I knew she had to be next to get the OP treatment.

She was surprisingly hard to find art for. Despite being a cult favorite in a similar milieu as Buffy, most fan made visuals seem to be constrained to screen caps and gifs.

Shout out to Pinterest user "mothballarchive," whose collage served as the basis for this card.

Making a max 6 character is always a bit of a challenge, as you'll have to justify why you'd run one over a more powerful max 7 or 8. With a measly 15 TDB total, the diminutive Mars can slot into a lot of front lines, and I'm hoping to build her specials to ping off her Inherent Ability, leaning into the teen detective's uncanny knack for cracking the case.

I think she'll fit nicely into the more noir themed set we're working on, "Cops, Crooks, Dogs, and the Man From Hell," which will feature characters from Twin Peaks, Columbo, and more!

#veronicamars #overpower #OverPowerCCG #deadccgs #deadtcgs #thereddiamondunderground #tcgs #CustomTCG #OverPowerCustoms #FunADay

#funaday2026 Day 3! (I think it might be easier for me to just post about the day prior, but who knows, maybe I'll find my flow!)

There's this lingering Chrono Trigger set I've been "actively" "working" "on" for a few years now, which I conceived a new keyword for: TECH, based on that game's magic/skill system. It enables powerful secondary effects on Specials, unlocked by discarding a Special belonging to the Teammate named immediately after the keyword.

Another community member kinda grumbled that it felt too specific (and that the keyword evoked "technology," which is fair enough but it is literally short for "technique"), so I made it my goal to create a couple specials for established characters and hopefully get folks to fuck with the vision, and landed on a pair with roots in the very first set: the X-Men's Colossus and Wolverine.

I'm pretty proud of the layouts on these, aesthetically speaking, though I might go back and center the effect text a bit.

Mechanically, I tried my best to adapt the duo's classic team-up attack, the " Fastball Special," into two distinct but useful abilities. Colossus on his own can deal some heavy damage, but paired with the Canucklehead, he can hit anyone on the field. Fatally, one hopes. And on Wolvie's side, he can get to the enemy even if they're trying to skedaddle.

#overpower #OverPowerCustoms #OverPowerCCG #wolverine #colossus #xmen #deadccgs #deadtcgs

Custom Special (Colossus - Russian Muscles) for the Dead CCG, OverPower.

There's a tall and imposing, but heroic man approaching the viewer through the flames behind him, the metallic mutant Colossus.

There's a yellow and green border, and the card's effect text reads: "Acts as a level 6 Any-Power attack. TECH Wolverine: Acts as a level 6 MultiPower attack while in Hits to Current Battle. May be used against Reserve."

Art by Alex Horley.

Custom Special (Wolverine - Canadian Fury) for the Dead CCG, OverPower.

There's a short and muscular man looking down from a cliff at the viewer. Clad in a brown and yellow costume, with a winged mask, the intense but honorable mutant hero Wolverine surveys his surroundings.

There's a yellow and green border, and the card's effect text reads: "Acts as a level 4 Energy or Fighting attack. TECH Colossus: May be used after Opponent has Conceded the Battle."

Art by Esad Ribic.

*The maximum Tournament Deck Building Total for OP is generally 76, and is calculated by adding up all the Power Grid Values across all Character cards.

For example, the "Buffy: Scoobies" and "Pyramid Head, Guilt Incarnate" Characters pictured below have TDB totals of 17 and 19, respectively, giving you 40 more points to play with. It's pretty uncommon to fully use all 76 points on characters alone, which often leaves players with spare points and nothing to spend 'em on ('til now!)

Even though 4 numbers would be easier to add than 16, it hasn't been a standard practice by creators, including me!, to include the TDB total on the card for yuz, but the almighty Cisco did develop the icon used on Multi edits for just this purpose. I'm grateful to him for always sharing his assets, and I'll be utilizing it on my Characters going forward.

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I only ever made three high level multi-cards: two featuring Pokemon art I found and appreciated, and a third featuring Dream of the Endless (before his contemptible creator's true character was revealed). I never really shared them because I felt as though they shouldn't exist, but needed them in the competitive scene. So my first two days are a bit of a cheat, as these are edits of preexisting cards that have languished in the depths of folder-dom.

That said, this feels like an elegant solution. Each card has been given a TDB value equaling the card's value minus 5, the logic being the card "costs" 1 pt against your deck for each rank above the games' original maximum rank Multi, the 5.

OP has no resource system like Magic, so there's really only a few things you can use as "payment" for a card: the Tournament Deck Building total, the Missions, and Character Placement slots (and, I suppose, card advantage in general). I've used Placement slots as a resource when developing my Scheme card types and I just recently saw Brazilian creator BIOS utilize Missions in an ingenious, and enviable, capacity. The LRG continuation of the game has used discarding cards to empower a special in a really great way, and I'm hoping this new trend I'm kicking off of locking powerful effects behind a Deck Building value helps balance some of the power creep that's, uh, crept into the Underground!

Til later! 2/2

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Level 7 MultiPower card, usable in the OverPower customs play space.

The art fts. many powerful and creepy Pokémon such as Gengar, Haunter, Hypno, Tangela, and Mewtwo, atop a prismatic, shattered glass pattern.

As well as the traditional "multi-power" icon (a yellow starburst, a red-orange fist, a green weight, and a blue head shape laid across each other) and card value "7" in the upper left corner, the bottom right now features a silver diamond and a value of 2, which denotes the cards Deck Building Cost, which must be considered alongside the cost of the Characters included on the team.

Level 8 MultiPower card, usable in the custom OverPower play space.

The art is a high stylized rendition of Dream of the Endless, from DC/Vertigo's Sandman comic.

As well as the traditional "multi-power" icon (a yellow starburst, a red-orange fist, a green weight, and a blue head shape laid across each other) and card value "8" in the upper left corner, the bottom right now features a silver diamond and a value of 3, which denotes the cards Deck Building Cost, which must be considered alongside the cost of the Characters included on the team.

Technically, this is the post for Day 1 and 2, but I was so zorched from my ongoing physical therapy that I just couldn't get this up last night. Expect an additional post later today for Day 3 proper.

Anyways, a while back, a prolific creator named Fenn Shysa made a Level 8 Multi Power card as an unusable "promo." He never intended for it to be used as an actual card, but joke or not, the floodgates were open. The Atlanta Federation began producing usable, high value multi-power cards, though a portion of the competitive players found them to be a little oppressive.

The M6-8 power cards never existed in the original game, as their function, allowing a higher value card usable across split power grids, was already fulfilled by Any Power cards. The downside to APs is that they don't contribute to Spectrum KO, but that's the price you pay for having that sort of team-wide offensive and defensive capability. I'm not sure there's any downside whatsoever to running the M6-8s, as in most cases, you can't afford to let them hit given the danger they present re: Cumulative AND Spectrum KO. They also are part of a fleet of cards that exist in the custom realm that start to make decks feel real samey, auto-includes that turn the (already small) "meta" into a greyish mush.

That said, I like to look at alternatives to a card ban, and this felt like a creative solution: using the game's established Deck Building Total* mechanic. 1/

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Multi-Power Power Card usable in the OverPower CCG customs underground.

It features the character Red from Pokemon and his final lineup of monsters: Pikachu, Espeon, Blastoise, Charizard, Venusaur, and Snorlax; as well as his trademark quote "......"

As well as the traditional "multi-power" icon (a yellow starburst, a red-orange fist, a green weight, and a blue head shape laid across each other) and card value "6" in the upper left corner, the bottom right now features a silver diamond and a value of 1, which denotes the cards Deck Building Cost, which must be considered alongside the cost of the Characters included on the team.

Hey y'all, I know we've been a little quiet, but we're BACK (on a hopefully more consistent basis), and bringing #FunADay with us!

While last year I spent the month cooking up cards based on whatever was right in front of my face, my hope this go round is to explore and extrapolate concepts and mechanics that I've been ruminatin' on, better fleshing them out and flexing my game design muscles.

Keep an eye on this thread for all of our activities, and if anything piques your interest, ask to dig a little deeper into the Red Diamond Underground!

#funaday #thereddiamondunderground #overpower #OverPowerCCG #OverPowerCustoms

Promo "card" announcing the Red Diamond Underground's participation in the Mastodon "Fun-A-Day" initiative.

From top to bottom, the text reads:

"CALLING ALL HEINOIDS!

fUn-A-Day is BACK!

one (or so) new custom OP card(s) a day for all of february '26!

(GOOBLE GOBBLE) join us!"

A scratchy, comic book style speech bubble contains the words "fUn-A-Day is BACK!" and is being spoken by a young boy. The picture appears photocopied, and the boy bears the mark of the Underground, a bold Red Diamond.

The background is an abstract black and blue texture.

A QR code sits in the bottom right corner, which will take you to this mastodon account upon scanning.

I kinda skipped #funaday2026 Day 1, opting to continue a rewatch (very against the spirit of the task at hand) of Veronica Mars, though it's a first for Jeeny, so I succeed by proxy. I also spent some time with family, printed up more copies of Counterforce and my #overpowerccg newsletter, and tried to figure out what the hell is wrong with my Silhouette cutter (I'm giving up and buying a die and a press, eff it). I feel like I could make the argument for some of that, but whatever.

On this day, 2/2/26, however, I've worked through the following:

Ultimate Black Panther #18-19
Ultimate Spider-Man #19-20
Ultimate X-Men #17-18

(Good start to the festivities, six issues ignored on the tablet for some time now. Soulseek has everything you could ever want BTW).

#FunADay

First issue of the Red Diamond Dispatch is available!

6pgs of opinions, decklists, resources, and more!

DM me if yer interested.

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Yikes!

#silenthill2 #SilentHill2Remake #pyramidhead #OverPowerCCG #OverPowerCustoms #DeadTCGs #deadccgs #CustomTCG #tcgs

A custom OverPower CCG Special card for Pyramid Head. It has a yellow border featuring its name, "Deprivation," and the card's effect: "KO Pyramid Head. All Hits on Pyramid Head's Hits from Current Battle are discarded and do not get added to Venture Total for this Battle."

On the bottom right of the card, Pyramid Head stares menacingly at the viewer, his imposing figure reflected in the sickeningly flooded floor beneath his feet.

A custom OverPower CCG Special card for Pyramid Head. It has a yellow border featuring its name, "Great Knife," and the card's effect: "Acts as a level 8 Any Power attack. CHARGE (1): May combine with top card of Power Pack for a single attack. May not be defensively negated." There is a white circle to the left of the effect text, containing a bold black 8 at its center, signifying how much damage it does when successful.

On the bottom right of the card, Pyramid Head wields his signature weapon, a large rust and blood covered knife, as well as a dismembered head.

A custom OverPower CCG Special card for Pyramid Head. It has a yellow border featuring its name, "Infernal Pursuer," and the card's effect: "Acts as a level 0 Energy or Intellect attack. If unsuccessful, Pyramid Head is +2 to all Power Card attacks against Target Character next Battle." To the left of the effect text sits the Energy and Intellect icons (a yellow burst and the blue silhouette of a human head) with a bold black 0 at the center of the Energy icon, signifying the amount and type of damage it can cause.

On the bottom right of the card, Pyramid Head point his hand at the viewer threateningly. The arms of former victims sway in his back and foreground, as if to serve as a cautionary tale for his next target.

A custom OverPower CCG Special card for Pyramid Head. It has a yellow border featuring its name, "Terror in The Depths of the Fog," and the card's effect: "Acts as a level 5 Strength attack against Target Character. Character's Teammates may each discard 1 Placed card. Opponent is -1 to Venture Total for each Teammate that does not." To the left of the effect text sit a classic trapezoid shaped weight, rendered in green (the game's Strength icon), with a bold black 5 at it's center.

On the bottom right of the card, Pyramid Head glares at the viewer from one of the games rundown locales. He wields his large knife in one hand, and drags the body of a victim with his other by their legs.

These are mostly the brainchild of my partner in life and crime, who's mostly let me take the wheel in terms of which franchises we've explored during our tenure riding the RDU.

This Halloween, I pushed her to make one based upon her all time favorite video game, Silent Hill 2, and hot dang, did she do a good job!

Our friends at the custom card foundry known as the Atlanta Federation had already cooked up a version of the putrid Pyramid Head for one of their Horror Sets and while normally we aim to make our stuff compatible with existing renditions, this character was ultimately too close to her heart to not be its own unique take.

We pulled at the lore a bit of course, divorcing him from his primary role as the terrifying manifestation of James Sunderland's guilt, while shooting for a Special kit that would make it feel as though he lurked deep in the pit of any Character's conscience.

Hope you dig! More cards in the next toot!

#silenthill2 #silenthill2remake #pyramidhead #redpyramidthing #jamessunderland #overpower #overpowerccg #OverPowerCustoms #CustomTCG #tcg #tcgs

Custom Character card for the OverPower card game, featuring Pyramid Head from Silent Hill 2. The creature is wielding a spear and the bodies of its victims are hanging in cages in the background.

The right side of the card lists his stats from top to bottom, energy - 6, fighting - 4, strength - 7, intellect - 2.

The bottom text (the Character's Inherent Ability) says "At beginning of each Battle, Pyramid Head chooses on of Opponent's Front line Teammates. Pyramid Head's successful attacks against chosen Teammate are +1 to Venture."

A custom OverPower CCG Special card for Pyramid Head. It has a yellow border featuring its name, "Bound To The Sirens," and the card's effect: "Only Pyramid Head and Target Character may attack, be attacked, or defend this Battle."

On the bottom right of the card, Pyramid Head approaches the viewer through the rain in an imposing manner.

Been a while since I've posted anything, but I've gotten some recent bursts of inspirstion.

While my second custom set dedicated to Hades 1 hasn't dropped yet, I got a little ahead of myself and plopped out a Zag Character that works with all of the Equipment cards he'll end up with.

The piece itself is by #choodraws, so def seek them and their incredible art if ya can!

My hope is that this will appear in the OP Customs Cube I'm currently working towards completing!

#overpower #overpowertcg #deadtcgs #zagreus #hades #supergiantgames #OverPowerCustoms #OverPowerCCG

Zagreus (the protagonist of Supergiant Games' Hades 1) sits up, bathed in the blood that pools up in his father's kingdom in Tartarus. He's surrounded by identical bodies belonging to him, markers of his past failures.

I also whipped up her first special from this set: Ambush Tactics.

The HF meta code is reserved for an attack that hits for two Power Types and is usually not limited, but given that this attack can be launched after an enemy plays any Special that isn't an attack, I figured it should be reined in a bit!

I'm really proud of the layout and color scheme for the Buffy set specials. I tore up some paper and scanned it in for a separate project to get that border effect and I will most likely abuse it and run it into the ground before I move onto something else lol.

As always, if anyone recognizes the artist, please let me know so I can give them proper credit.

#buffy #buffythevampireslayer #overpower #overpowercustoms #OverPowerCCG #overpowertcg #fairuse #undergroundccgs #deadccgs #deadtcgs

And finally, a sneak peak at our first #buffythevampireslayer set!

I absolutely hate when card games use live action screenshots, but sometimes that's all ya have access to (especially for 90s live action horror/SciFi/fantasy stuff)! I tried to push what that could look like here and I think I did a pretty good job! Expect more of these shenanigans across the entire set.

#buffy #horror #fantasy #vampires #overpowertcg #overpower #overpowerccg #OverPowerCustoms #gaming #customgaming #thereddiamondunderground

A stylish young blonde woman kneels in a black dress and heels. She holds a wooden stake, her primary weapon against the forces of evil.

And here's the DC equivalents!

I like unintended parallels. Both Aspect lines have an "Energy" focused Corps, the "Fighting" aspects had a crossover in the 80s (and here they are all grown up), there's a bunch of weirdos, and a singular threat so powerful they can do all on their own what normally requires a whole team.

#dccomics #greenlantern #greenlanterncorps #titans #teentitans #doompatrol #batman #overpower #overpowertcg #OverPowerCCG #deadtcgs #deadccgs #OverPowerCustoms #gaming #thereddiamondunderground

Six individuals clad in green and black superhero outfits, wielding glowing green rings.

Seven colorfully clad superheroes, spring hopefully towards the viewer.

The strangest heroes on earth face the viewer, ready to confront danger. A diverse crew of characters: men, women, werecats, a dog, and an alien.

A man, sat atop a chimney, stares menacingly at the viewer. He's clad in a blue and grey costume, with yellow embellishments, with a cape and bat eared cowl. He holds a Joker playing card, the symbol of his greatest enemy.

After a bit of a reset, I've started feeling up for designing cards again. Our Monthly Venture Club Tournaments have been a little less bumping lately, but I put together prize packs for the 1st place winners from earlier this year. One was Marvel only and the other was DC, hence the lineups!

I've definitely posted early mockups of the Marvel ones, but something never quite worked for me. I'm a lot happier with renditions and think the Gold/Black strip will really pop in foil.

#marvel #hulk #xmen #captainbritain #fantasticfour #overpower #overpowercustoms #overpowertcg #overpowerccg #deadccgs #deadtcgs #gaming #thereddiamondunderground

TCG playing card proxy for OverPower card game. Multiple variants of the Betsy Braddock iteration of Captain Britain appear, pastel pink hair flowing as the heroes propel towards the viewer, adorned in a costume evoking the Union Jack flag. Betsy herself raises her sword high.

Six Characters face the viewer. Wolverine brandishes his claws, the ethereal Storm floats above her teammates, Cyclops readies his red optic blast. The ninja like Psylocke is armed with her psychic knives, Iceman and the massively metallic Colossus stand alert in the background. A monstrous, purple and pink robot head looms in the background.

A monstrous and intimidating rendition of the Hulk glares at the viewer. His massive hands ready to cause violence, his veins throb and pulsate in his massive limbs.

Marvel's first family, the Fantastic Four, rappel away from the viewer. The flaming Human Torch leads the way for his compatriots, through a technicolor world. The tone is hopeful.

The gaming world is entirely oversaturated with Marvel and DC content and I actually think they could carve out a nice niche for themselves if they focus their ambitions, and creative talents, elsewhere.

Lest I yet again be accused of thinking I could do a better job than them, I'll leave it there. Wherever you're playing OP, I hope you're having fun, you're with people who care about you, and that you stay unjaded and excited for one of the greatest TCGs ever conceived.

Until next time!

7/7

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Alright, little break, little torn ACL, made some cards, had a freakout, things feels heavy, things get better.

Where were we? We were talking history, of #OverPowerCCG specifically, and some things that filled the down time between the official end of the game and the now. There's a whole lot more I didn't get into, the connective tissue between past and present: the Atlanta Federation, the Horror Invitational, and a whole new era of card creation; the NAOPA, the schisms; the Palatinus Forum, Fenn Shysa and Justa; a lot of interesting stuff that I promise will be addressed (hopefully accompanied by views and perspectives from some of these named parties themselves), but right now is a very interesting time for the game, regardless of which side of which beef you find yourself on: the game now has an "official" continuation.

Over the past few weeks, the corporate entity known as Lazarus Rising Games has started trickling out packages to those who funded their kickstarter, with arrivals somewhat controversially favoring those attending a rather big tournament. I'll be honest with you, I cannot tell you where it was because I have largely severed all connection with that contingent of players, but, like it or not, there are 400 some odd new cards floating around out there with OverPower (legally) stamped onto the backside.

Before we get into what they're laying down, I guess it's worth careening a little closer to something I've repeatedly hinted at: schism. 1/

Little DIY project I've been working on for the next tournament: C2 fleet ft. some of my faves.

Captain Britain Corps by Marcus To
X-men by Bengus
Immortal Hulk by Mike Deodato
Fantastic Four by Alex Ross

And that Dracula Special is a proxy of a card developed by the Atlanta Federation (more lore deep dives imminent), with art by the GOAT, Frank Frazetta.

That was actually the first full art card I ever put together, and was stoked to learn a few things, such as how to get the Dracula text look like it was sunken into the card itself.

If anyone wants to learn how to play, I'll send you a full set of these!

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