The Monthly Card Collection Competition (Win a Legendary!)

by **Praeceps** » Wed Feb 05, 2020 10:32 pm

Going forward entries will only be accepted in this thread. While entries were previously accepted off-site, this will ensure that all entries are easily visible to everyone.

Alia Atreides wrote:
Praeceps wrote:Thank you for all the submissions. In a close race, with the winning collection succeeding by one vote, Aerilia's collection of "They light up my world" has won Xoriet season 2!

Glad to see so many submissions for February so far. Although some of you have me worried about your love lives.

Worry not:
https://www.nationstates.net/page=deck/collection=19941

worrying intensifies

by **Praeceps** » Mon Feb 10, 2020 2:27 am

Hello all, me again. I have some good news and some bad news.

I'll start with the bad news—we are no longer giving away a prize of a legendary.

Now the good news, we will be giving away two prizes of one legendary each.

The two awards will be the Members' Choice and the Masters' Choice. The Members' Choice award is the same as the previous method of selecting winners (voting from Guild members). I will be permitting ranking the top three preferences in the future votes to limit bandwagoning. The Masters' Choice will be decided by the Guildmaster (myself) and the Deputy Guildmasters: r3n (who frequently posts under The Northern Light), Destructive Government Economic System (DGES), 9003, ROM, and Valentine Z. We will decide on this winner by coming to a consensus through a combination of discussion, debating and voting.

This should provide more flexibility to nations in interpreting our monthly themes. And it gives away more legendaries. And who doesn't like more legendaries?

by **Kyskalherria** » Fri Feb 14, 2020 6:39 am

Roses are Red is a collection of cards illustrating symbols of love, various kinds of love, and words of love in that some of the cards are related to the three poems below and should be interpreted through the links in the poems.

“Roses Are Red” traditional

Roses are red,
Violets are blue,
Sugar is sweet
And so are you.

“The Rubaiyat”, stanza 12, by Omar Khayyam
Translated into English in 1859 by Edward FitzGerald

A Book of Verses underneath the Bough,
A Jug of Wine, a Loaf of Bread, and Thou,
Beside me singing in the wilderness,
Oh, Wilderness were Paradise now!

“Defeated by Love” by Rumi

The sky was lit by the splendor of the moon,
So powerful I fell to the ground,
Your love has made me sure,
I am ready to forsake this worldly life,
and surrender to the magnificence of your Being.

by **Draconiaste** » Wed Feb 19, 2020 6:22 am

Wow - looking at the other collections submitted so far, I feel way outclassed. I've been working on it all month, though, so might as well upload. Some are represented elsewhere. Of those that are not yet, I think my love obsession is pretty obvious:
https://www.nationstates.net/page=deck/collection=20250

by **Praeceps** » Mon Mar 02, 2020 9:26 pm

Thank you for all the entries!

I will be off getting the two groups to determine their respective winners for the Masters' Choice and Members' Choice.

While we wait, the theme for March 2020 is...

"Let's Do The Math!"

Both Pi Day and the International Day of Math are in March. Also, we're nerds.

by **Racoda** » Mon Mar 02, 2020 10:46 pm

A collection representing one the building blocks of mathematics: https://www.nationstates.net/page=deck/collection=20981
Additionally, the collection ID is a prime number.

by **9003** » Mon Mar 02, 2020 10:50 pm

Racoda wrote:A collection representing one the building blocks of mathematics: https://www.nationstates.net/page=deck/collection=20981
Additionally, the collection ID is a prime number.

I love it. The creative unique ones are always my favorite.

by **Kyskalherria** » Tue Mar 03, 2020 1:22 am

Racoda wrote:A collection representing one the building blocks of mathematics: https://www.nationstates.net/page=deck/collection=20981
Additionally, the collection ID is a prime number.

I think you've just won the Win a Legendary olympics. :lol2:

by **Johnike** » Tue Mar 03, 2020 2:46 am

Subset

by **Haruhi Japan** » Thu Mar 05, 2020 11:39 pm

If you guys ever have anime as a theme then I might enter. Then again, it's probably nothing compared to some other anime collections I've seen but hey it's worth a try!

by **9003** » Fri Mar 06, 2020 11:05 am

Well I thought long and hard about what I like about mathematics the most and came up with the stunning patterns that can occur as such I give you

My “Mathematical Beauties (Pi and Euler's Number)” https://www.nationstates.net/page=deck/collection=21012

Of note the collection ID is a palindrome read the same forwards as backwards! While the cards inside seem random and unrelated to math it really is math's most wonderful number Pi! When read form lowest ID to highest ID it is the first 15 digits of PI

by **Ransium** » Sat Mar 07, 2020 10:08 am

I present "A Prime Collection": https://www.nationstates.net/page=deck/collection=21067 (please note the collection number before walking through the door).

This collection was conceived as having all nations with a prime number who's numbers are under 1000. Since lots of primes don't have a card, this is 64 'carded' nations. Since 64 is sadly non-prime I added 3 S1/S2 copies to bring the total number of cards up to 67.

This collection is only possible by the generosity of numerous others. Several nations were willing to loan the Ransiumian museum important art works: 9003 is loaning Knootoss (#73), ROM is loaning Scoohi2 (#37), and TalAkMaChen is loaning Chrinthania (#601). While not specifically realizing they were contributing to the collection Leto II Atreides gifted me a Fris (#2), without which this collection would not be possible. Numerous other nations were willing to sell me their cards after I pestered them, none more so then r3n who sold me 5+ cards I needed.

Funny enough for collection that has little bearing on card rarity in its conception, it included 13 legends, 2 admin, 8 mods/former mods, 3 RP mentors, 1 GenSec, and 6 commended nations (obviously some nations fall into several of these categories).

by **Valentine Z** » Sat Mar 07, 2020 1:36 pm

Due to the lack of time, I present you guys with my collection - The Beauty of Mathematics!

You can guess your way around it, but here are the list of things I am referencing:

by **SecoNd beSt card colleCtor** » Sat Mar 07, 2020 6:49 pm

I decided the square root of two was the appropriate irrational number for my collection (considering Noah's Second Country is 2 themed when I'm not easter egg hunting), so here it is. 13 cards, and the first 49 digits of what is largely considered the first known irrational number. (pi is overrated smh)

Only completed thanks to Refuge Isle and DGES.

Square root of 2: 1.414 2135 62 37 309504 88016 88 72420 969807 8 5696 71875 376

by **Praeceps** » Sat Mar 07, 2020 11:30 pm

Nerds. Going to give me a headache with all these numbers.

The results are in...

The winner of The Members' Choice is The Lovebird's collections and they have won Tzo. The card has yet to be gifted as they have a full deck so I am sending a telegram to them to request they make space.

The winner of The Masters' Choice is Kyskalherria's collection and they have won Mousebumples!

Congratulations to the winners! Looking forward to seeing the other collections this month.

(Special shoutout to Alia Atreides's collection, I loved it even though it didn't win

)

by **Kyskalherria** » Sun Mar 08, 2020 1:22 am

Praeceps wrote:Nerds. Going to give me a headache with all these numbers.

The results are in...
The winner of The Members' Choice is The Lovebird's collections and they have won Tzo. The card has yet to be gifted as they have a full deck so I am sending a telegram to them to request they make space.
The winner of The Masters' Choice is Kyskalherria's collection and they have won Mousebumples!
Congratulations to the winners! Looking forward to seeing the other collections this month.

(Special shoutout to Alia Atreides's collection, I loved it even though it didn't win )

Thank you to the Masters. I feel very honored since all the entries were good. And the legendary card award -- so germane to the monthly theme. Truly, The North Pacific Cards Guild has outdone itself. :bow:

by **Rice Insun** » Tue Mar 10, 2020 4:09 pm

Mathematics (the collection)

Mathematics (commonly referred to as Math in the United States) is something we're all made familiar with from an early age. Starting from one, we soon learn that numbers extend to infinity. Oddly, although the concept of zero had existed in the east for centuries, it wasn't used in the west until advocated by Fibonacci (c. 1170 – c. 1240–50), who is also famous for a sequence of numbers known as the Fibonacci sequence.
Arithmetic is based on numbers. The numbers are combined in some way, and we see what the answer is equal to. One of the most basic operators is the "plus" operator. We use the "times" operator as a shorthand for using the plus operator multiple times. To reverse a "times" operation, we use division. This leads to the concept of finding factors of numbers. It also leads to defining fractions, of which there are an endless infinity in the space between zero and one. Having divided something, we can express it as "parts per hundred", more commonly known as percent. Multiplying a number by itself is known as "squaring", or "raising to a power of 2". The opposite of this is to find the square root. For example, the square root of 2 is 1.414…
Sometimes we need to take numbers to a greater power, for example, the power of 5. Using different powers like this leads to the concept of exponents. Mathematical operations often have a method to invert them. In this instance, the solution is to use the log. The effect of operators on different numbers can be viewed using a chart. (Quick joke - mathematicians work out hard logs with a pencil).
In algebra, we use the arithmetic operators on variables such as delta or omega in order to equalize both sides of an equation (ie removing any surplus value). Occasionally we look at inequalities, for example, setting one side to be less than three.
Another branch of mathematics considers geometric shapes and angles, such as can be found in pentagrams. Triangles, squares, pentagrams, and hexagons are simple, familiar shapes. Less familiar shapes include the hectakaipentacontagon and the parallelepiped (a 3d shape, made from parallelograms). Considering these shapes led to the concept of parallel lines.
Mathematics has been studied for millennia. Possibly the most famous mathematician is Pythagoras. His school researched triangles. Their work with right angled triangles is taught in every high school. The trigonometric functions have hyperbolic equivalents, such as the hyperbolic cosine.
Plato (424/423 – 348/347 BC, whom the Platonic Solids are named after) was influenced by Pythagorean thought, and taught those principles to Aristotle (384 – 322 BC), who is credited with the earliest studies of formal logic.
Archimedes ( 287 - 212 BC) achieved many things, including deriving an accurate approximation of pi, the ratio of a circle's circumference to it's diameter. Pi is often approximated as 3.14, but the decimal expansion is infinite: 3.141592653589793238…
Euclid was another significant ancient mathematician. He was active in Alexandria during the reign of Ptolemy I (127 - 145 AD, who studied the angles of the planets and stars).
Napier (1550 - 1617) is best known for discovering logarithms. Pascal (1623 - 1662) investigated gambling probabilities with his friend Fermat, and created some of the building blocks of statistics. This is where Pascal's triangle comes from. Their work fed in to Leibniz and Newton's (1642 - 1726/27) development of calculus. Calculus uses algorithms to find the derivative, or to integrate. Newton is of course famous for his laws of motion. (Centuries later Einstein proposed the first major changes to the Newtonian understanding of the universe with his revolutionary theory).
Gauss (1777 - 1855) has the "normal" curve named after him.
Mobius (1790 - 1868) made a number of contributions to methematics, with his most famous probably being the Mobius strip. That idea was extended into three dimensions (the Klein bottle) by Klein (1849 - 1925). Klein also worked on graph theory, as did Hamilton (1805 - 1865), who also developed complex numbers.
Boole (1815 - 1864) is well known to computer scientists, who utilise Boolean algerbra.
Venn (1834 - 1923) is famed for the Venn diagram.
Cantor (1845 - 1918) developed the idea that there could be different sizes of infinity. He showed that rational numbers were a 'countable' infinity, and the next infinity, made of irrational numbers, was 'uncountable'. He also did some of the pioneering work on fractals. His famous contribution to fractals is the concept of Cantor dust.
Hilbert (1862 - 1943) was a fan of Cantor's work. The Hilbert dimension is named after him.
Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970) will be known to anyone taking a Logic 101 class. His work included finding logical paradoxes in set theory.
Popper theory was developed by Popper (1902 - 1994), who was lauded by Russell.
I'm less familiar with mathematics developed in the past 100 years, but worthy of mention are:
Lorenz (1917 - 2008), the founder of chaos theory, the Yoneda lemma, Conway (who developed the cellular automata Game of Life), and Tao.

by **Zentata** » Thu Mar 12, 2020 2:51 pm

Officially amazed by that.

by **Common Territories** » Tue Mar 17, 2020 3:44 am

Ransium wrote:I present "A Prime Collection": https://www.nationstates.net/page=deck/collection=21067 (please note the collection number before walking through the door).

This collection was conceived as having all nations with a prime number who's numbers are under 1000. Since lots of primes don't have a card, this is 64 'carded' nations. Since 64 is sadly non-prime I added 3 S1/S2 copies to bring the total number of cards up to 67.

This collection is only possible by the generosity of numerous others. Several nations were willing to loan the Ransiumian museum important art works: 9003 is loaning Knootoss (#73), ROM is loaning Scoohi2 (#37), and TalAkMaChen is loaning Chrinthania (#601). While not specifically realizing they were contributing to the collection Leto II Atreides gifted me a Fris (#2), without which this collection would not be possible. Numerous other nations were willing to sell me their cards after I pestered them, none more so then r3n who sold me 5+ cards I needed.

Funny enough for collection that has little bearing on card rarity in its conception, it included 13 legends, 2 admin, 8 mods/former mods, 3 RP mentors, 1 GenSec, and 6 commended nations (obviously some nations fall into several of these categories).

2 (Frisbeeteria) 3 (Dread Lady Nathicana) 5 (NERVUN) 7 (The Archregimancy) 11 13 17 19 23 29 (Euroslavia) 31 37 (Scoohi2) 41 43 47 53 59 61 67 71 (SalusaSecondus) 73 (Knootoss) 79 83 (NewTexas) 89 97 101 103 (Amerikians) 107 (-Paffnia-) 109 (DC) 113 127 131 137 139 (Surpirse) 149 (atomose) 151 157 163 167 (Radiatia) 173 179 181 191 193 197 199 211 (Woonsocket) 223 227 229 233 239 241 251 257 263 269 (Iansisle) 271 (Arumdaum) 277 281 (FreeWeb) 283 293 307 (mousebumples) 311 (Grays Harbor) 313 317 (Xiscapia) 331 -Homodia- 337 (Astral Vestment) 347 (Eladvisio) 349 (3lit3) 353 (Transnapastain) 359 367 373 379 (Monfrox) 383 389 (Xenohumanity) 397 401 409 419 421 431 (Tuthina) 433 439 (Van Luxemburg) 443 (Tletl) 449 457 461 463 (Nullarni) 467 479 487 491 (The Macabees) 499 503 509 521 523 541 (Novare Res) 547 557 563 569 571 (Stevid) 577 (Ardchoille) 587 593 (Licana) 599 601 (Chrinthania) 607 613 617 (The State of Monavia) 619 631 (Elevation) 641 643 (The Common Territories) 647 653 659 (Treko) 661 673 (Eluvatar) 677 (Mystrian Altea) 683 (Of the Quendi) 691 (Steel Talons) 701 (Maltropia) 709 (San Pellegrino Romana) 719 727 (Immoren) 733 (Rethan) 739 (Imeriata) 743 (Bee Pee) 751 757 761 769 773 (Ebatica) 787 797 809 (Dharma negara) 811 (The Burj Earth) 821 (Bengal and Damodar Province) 823 827 829 839 853 857 (Arbites) 859 (Nickelburgh) 863 877 881 883 887 907 (Moronist Decisions) 911 919 929 (Poldania) 937 941 947 953 967 971 977 (Judea City States Ally) 983 Icamera 991 (PRFN) 997

I've been looking into the cards a little bit and noticed you added my puppet region's founder account to your list. Of course it's your choice, but if you were trying to get the actual commended account's card, this is my main nation which was commended. This is my card currently.

by **Ransium** » Tue Mar 17, 2020 6:12 am

Common Territories wrote:
Ransium wrote:I present "A Prime Collection": https://www.nationstates.net/page=deck/collection=21067 (please note the collection number before walking through the door).

This collection was conceived as having all nations with a prime number who's numbers are under 1000. Since lots of primes don't have a card, this is 64 'carded' nations. Since 64 is sadly non-prime I added 3 S1/S2 copies to bring the total number of cards up to 67.

This collection is only possible by the generosity of numerous others. Several nations were willing to loan the Ransiumian museum important art works: 9003 is loaning Knootoss (#73), ROM is loaning Scoohi2 (#37), and TalAkMaChen is loaning Chrinthania (#601). While not specifically realizing they were contributing to the collection Leto II Atreides gifted me a Fris (#2), without which this collection would not be possible. Numerous other nations were willing to sell me their cards after I pestered them, none more so then r3n who sold me 5+ cards I needed.

Funny enough for collection that has little bearing on card rarity in its conception, it included 13 legends, 2 admin, 8 mods/former mods, 3 RP mentors, 1 GenSec, and 6 commended nations (obviously some nations fall into several of these categories).

2 (Frisbeeteria) 3 (Dread Lady Nathicana) 5 (NERVUN) 7 (The Archregimancy) 11 13 17 19 23 29 (Euroslavia) 31 37 (Scoohi2) 41 43 47 53 59 61 67 71 (SalusaSecondus) 73 (Knootoss) 79 83 (NewTexas) 89 97 101 103 (Amerikians) 107 (-Paffnia-) 109 (DC) 113 127 131 137 139 (Surpirse) 149 (atomose) 151 157 163 167 (Radiatia) 173 179 181 191 193 197 199 211 (Woonsocket) 223 227 229 233 239 241 251 257 263 269 (Iansisle) 271 (Arumdaum) 277 281 (FreeWeb) 283 293 307 (mousebumples) 311 (Grays Harbor) 313 317 (Xiscapia) 331 -Homodia- 337 (Astral Vestment) 347 (Eladvisio) 349 (3lit3) 353 (Transnapastain) 359 367 373 379 (Monfrox) 383 389 (Xenohumanity) 397 401 409 419 421 431 (Tuthina) 433 439 (Van Luxemburg) 443 (Tletl) 449 457 461 463 (Nullarni) 467 479 487 491 (The Macabees) 499 503 509 521 523 541 (Novare Res) 547 557 563 569 571 (Stevid) 577 (Ardchoille) 587 593 (Licana) 599 601 (Chrinthania) 607 613 617 (The State of Monavia) 619 631 (Elevation) 641 643 (The Common Territories) 647 653 659 (Treko) 661 673 (Eluvatar) 677 (Mystrian Altea) 683 (Of the Quendi) 691 (Steel Talons) 701 (Maltropia) 709 (San Pellegrino Romana) 719 727 (Immoren) 733 (Rethan) 739 (Imeriata) 743 (Bee Pee) 751 757 761 769 773 (Ebatica) 787 797 809 (Dharma negara) 811 (The Burj Earth) 821 (Bengal and Damodar Province) 823 827 829 839 853 857 (Arbites) 859 (Nickelburgh) 863 877 881 883 887 907 (Moronist Decisions) 911 919 929 (Poldania) 937 941 947 953 967 971 977 (Judea City States Ally) 983 Icamera 991 (PRFN) 997

I've been looking into the cards a little bit and noticed you added my puppet region's founder account to your list. Of course it's your choice, but if you were trying to get the actual commended account's card, this is my main nation which was commended. This is my card currently.

I was only interested in whether the nations number was prime or not in constructing this list, not whether the nation was someone’s main or not.

by **Common Territories** » Tue Mar 17, 2020 6:36 am

Ransium wrote:
Common Territories wrote:I've been looking into the cards a little bit and noticed you added my puppet region's founder account to your list. Of course it's your choice, but if you were trying to get the actual commended account's card, this is my main nation which was commended. This is my card currently.

I was only interested in whether the nations number was prime or not in constructing this list, not whether the nation was someone’s main or not.

Ah my mistake then

by **Praeceps** » Thu Apr 02, 2020 11:51 pm

Sorry for the delay everyone. Been a bit busy the past couple days. Hope everyone is staying safe! While the Guild votes on the Members' Choice and the Masters' select the Masters' Choice, I have the next month's theme.

The theme for April 2020’s competition is…

Fools and Jesters

Please post your collection in this thread to enter.

by **All Wild Things** » Sat Apr 04, 2020 3:27 am

Praeceps wrote:The theme for April 2020’s competition is…

Fools and Jesters

Please post your collection in this thread to enter.

I had this great idea of collecting all the entrants for this year's April Fools election. Then I realised the price of some of those cards!

by **Sleazy Pigeon** » Sat Apr 04, 2020 10:15 am

Lardies and gentlepigeons, I proudly present “Loons, Buffoons, and the Looney Toons”

by **Noahs Second Country** » Mon Apr 06, 2020 5:53 pm

Praeceps wrote:The theme for April 2020’s competition is…

Fools and Jesters

Please post your collection in this thread to enter.

Simple little collection here... https://www.nationstates.net/page=deck/collection=22142

I may add to it later.

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