Card of the Week Contest #428: Help, it's stuck!

Hopefully this meets the expectation for the challenge.

So upon considering the "open info" dilemma, I redesigned the "paper version" so that it works as a foretell & flashback card, although the text box can be a little crammed. I also made an "Arena version" of my original design, although that feels a little "mediocre" for me. (Feel free to change my mind any time)

How Silver-border (I guess now AcronAcorn) does perpetual effects:

Weaksauce 
Artifact
All cards perpetually get -1/-0. This includes non-Magic cards, works in all zones, across all formats, and even works outside of any game.
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“Due to the nature of how this card works, its very existence dictates an extremely limited print run. Seriously people, we don’t think you get the full ramifications here yet. Because of this card, we’ve had to errata ALL cards to take this card into account, and each subsequent one we print only makes the problem worse!”

—WotC R&D




Not sure what it means to give a business card -1/-0, or even what doing so would do to Pat's ego, but this card does it.

Suspend-wording from Epochrasite

The main issue with this challange is you basically can only allow it to work in spaces that are public knowledge. If the card itselfe ever leaves this space (hand/library/exiled face down aren't public) noone can verify which card is affected by this mechanic/interaction/etcpp.
I want everyone to keep that in mind

Some guidelines for the mechanic:

• I know Ascend already exists, but I couldn't come up with a better name (not being a native English speaker might be part of this ) – so I decided to use it anyway, at least for now.
• Just like you cannot force a DFC to transform, you cannot force an Ascend card.
• All Ascend cards are supposed to be non-legendaries ascending into legends, except maybe a one-off exception for Commander, obviously
• All ascended legends will have an option to be cast from the graveyard. At lower rarities, I after some pondering I definitely like the heavy double restricted discard to balance the power level – but since the recursion isn't tied to Ascend itself, there's some wiggle room for mythics.
• I don't think there should be common Ascend cards due to their complexity, Limited gameplay, and flavor.

I rarely make planeswalkers, so this card was a fun challenge make.

If i haven't mentioned someone -- it is because i have nothing constructive to say about the entry.

Fermat
as mentioned, if the effected creature ever leaves the public space it can't get verified any more.
also: is this abbility ment to alter the base-power or just as a permanent increase? cause there are effects that care about total value and some that care about base value. you may need to clarify that.

damagicgeek
you explicitly mention "sliver cards" -- but the effect only counts for creatures ;-)
Counters remain on this card as it moves between battlefield, graveyard and exile. -- i would use that one , it is shorter and does the same

BinaryBolas
it can't work that way cause of verification reasons. after revealing it, it isn't public knowledge any more and therefore can't be verified as you cast it for real.
the same is true for your "counter remain" effect -- they can ever only be verified in public known places -- and hand/library/face-down exile aren't public.

emberfire17
"moves between battlefield and commander zone"

boxlaunch
Eminence -- At the beginning of each upkeep, if ~ is in your command zone or on the battlefield, put a eminence counter on it.
...power and thougness are each equal to....

Lady
The main issue with planeswalker is that they have a starting value of loyalty counters.
The way your entry works atm is that no matter how much counter it has in every given zone, it if enters the battlefield from any of them, it's loyalty counter will always get reset to it's base value -- 4 in your case.

Oh, I like that one – especially since I've never heard of it in the past


Big thanks for the catch, no it was not! Very important „less than“ term missing

Entry will be updated soon!

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His card is actually worded and works just fine – perpetual changes are a digital exclusive Magic Arena mechanic. WotC is fine nowadays with having cards that cannot be played in paper Magic. Interesting question concerning the base stats – I have no idea. I dropped Arena literally the moment they introduced Hearthstone mechanics, only see the designs during spoiler season..


This card could likewise be changed to work in Arena. I think the proper wording would be:

Starting intensity 1
, Reveal ~ from your hand: Perpetually increase its intensity by 1. Activate only once each turn.
Draw cards equal to ~'s intensity. You have no maximum hand size for the rest of the game.

The Harlequin
The litch coming back from the grave, being just as strong as when you first faced her seems pretty fitting to me.
And if I were to try and change it, the card would almost be wordy enough for Clamilton to kill Emrakul; or the +/- costs would be bonkers numbers.

I tried to have the creature itself do some crazy powerful stuff, but there's just not a lot of room given the words required to get the base to work. So I guess this is like a hyper tribal commander? It can boost your numbers of certain creature types, Shrines, artifacts, snow, whatever you need. I think that's neat enough.

Jartis

Forgive me, but my translator brain kicked in and I had to point out that the way the last line of your card is written, it is ambiguous if "in all zones" apply to "Kanohi" or "creatures with mask counters on them". My suggestion would be to put a period after "them", then write "This remains true in all zone." This way,there can be no confusion.