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Sorry people! I was not able to be at any computer in the last two days. Although I find it a little bit odd, because as I looked it up, 10 days seems to be an ordinary period of time. But if that changes now, also cool 

ameisenmeister A very nice card, balanced and fun. I dig the heavy red feel combined with the spirit theme. That splice onto arcane on cards exiled with this becomes dead potential interferes a little bit with perfection, but overall a really good design. Oh, and every rare creature in Champions of Kamigawa is legendary (or flips to being legendary).

Tesagk On it's own a very solid design.
1) Historic wasn't a keyword back then, and including artifacts doesn't tie to the theme of the set. Also, Sagas didn't exist back then.
2) In Kamigawa, each spirit card with soulshift had soulshift X-1, where X is the card's converted mana cost. While I like changing this fomular for future sets, the old/curent Kamigawa adhered strictly to that, and therefore so do I.
3) I find that this common, repeatable Phyrexian Arena trigger belongs to rare cards. A quick research also showed me that up to now, only (mythic) rares had this repeatable trigger.


Flo00 A good card, nothing special, butI like it, specially the flavour text. Besides it's ordinariness, the only criticism would be that with Cloudhoof Kirin and if stretched, Dampen Thought, mill (which isn't a theme in Kamigawa) already got it's cards.

Jartis Ah yes, everyone's favorite Myojins. I like that you try to spice uncommon things up, but I would say that with having only five different targets in the game, all legendary at that, this card is way too narrow, and by extension, weak. This is actually further emphasized by the Splice onto Arcane because, how often would you be able to even use it twice? I mean, I get it that it is a build-around-me card, but the extreme narrowness of a Myojin-deck isn't very appealing to me.
Also, such an effect with this flavour behind it doesn't feel instant-speedy to me.

mosgon like Flo00's design, nothing special, but solid. And also here does Baku Altar and if stretched, Oyobi and Spiritual Visit kinda fill this theme, but spirits are a common theme in Kamigawa, so this isn't really a big issue.

FLAREdirector Oh, a (not so) little spirit lord! I cannot say much about this, a little bit standard, but overall nothing very problematic. The only other tiny criticism would be that at seven mana, the token generation does not have that much impact anymore I would like it to have. I know that creating 2/2s and such can't be on a card with low CMC, but I would have preferred a smaller body for six mana, but as I type this, this feels more and more nitpicky, so there's that.

kefke This card circumvents the extreme narrowness by Jartis' design by adding a stand-alone effect. I can't say that I love the last ability because again, of it's narrowness, but I understand the drive to do this. So all in all, a fine card.

gateways7 Similar to ameisenmeister's approach, an excellent idea, although here too does splice onto arcane effects lose their value. A criticism would be that you narrowed it down to only splice onto arcane spells, which is unnecessary and only emphazises this loss.
It's also a little bit too risky for me because all the spell food you gave the Kami gets wasted when it's small body get's killed. But overall, a yummy design.
And also here, non-flip rare creatures in Champions of Kamigawa are all legendary.

somerandomtom Wow, I just wanted to create my post, and there you slid in! Powerful, but not unbalanced, interesting and fitting. My only real criticism would be that in a spirit vs. Spirit deck match, the impact fades away heavily.




And again my apologies for being too late!

If you wanna get technical, it also works with Kindred Boon and That Which Was Taken both of which technically do their thing at instant speed once they're on the board, meaning my card could target anything in the game and make them indestructible if these cards were out. I don't understand the issue with Splice onto Arcane, though. Other than the White and Red Myojins, the others have very repeatable effects, so of course you would want to use it more than once?

You're right, my apologies for not having them on my mind. However, your card can only target legendary creatures, and seven cards are still not really many. Regarding instant speed I meant it more from a flavour view, namely that I imagine such a Divination to be an epic spell where suddenness seems a bit out of place. Kindred Boon for me has another, "rushin into battle and gaining a magical buff" kinda feel, and That Which was Taken is also not perfect flavourwise for me, but I can see there more why adding a sorcery speed clause just for flavour reasons would be a bit much. But it was really just a tiny nitpick and probably had the least impact of all criticisms in my judging.

Regarding Splice onto Arcane, I meant it more that an ability that repeats an effect on a card that only has so few incidents where it can be aplied to in the first place kind of accentuates the narrowness itself, like for example a creature you have to sacrifice unless an opponent died, and this creature has an ability to copy itself. 

Sorry for writing imprecise, I will try better next time. But thank you for your input! 

Yeah, I wasn't really sure of how powerful it was, but I think that in the Spirit vs Spirit matchup it actually does good, because they might end up having to discard spirits, and then you would be draining them for them discarding spirits. My thoughts anyway. Thanks for the 2nd Place!

Shouldn't that be "disciple", though?

Here is something a bit like [[Detetion Sphere]] or [[Deputy of Detention]], but with a Mirage twist (phasing).

Just as an aside, am I the only person who misses "bury" as a keyword action?

People always think "Phasing" when they think of Mirage, but it was also the set that introduced flanking, a much better mechanic. All but two creatures with flanking have been centaurs or mounted cavalry. However, in the process of looking for art for the creature I had in mind, I stumbled across pictures of scorpion-taurs, which drastically changed the direction of my design. When I found the art used here the whole design just crystallized.

I tried really hard to find other art for this card, as the source image is a bit NSFW, but nothing else was as perfect...so I did my best to sanitize it in GIMP. Hope it's SFW enough now that I don't get in trouble.



...and I thought that the idea of including Oracle text was such a good idea that I'm going to rip it off wholesale adopt it myself.

Thanks much for the win, ameisenmeister! I originally started using the purple border as an extra layer of insurance for "reprints" in my custom sets. Black border for regular cards, silver for joke and promotional, purple for unofficial fan card. Sorry if it hurts your eyes. I tried to keep the shade subdued while still recognizable, but maybe I need to tone it down still further (I suspect it actually is inconsistent across cards as well).

The one thing I do want to address is to jump in to Jartis' defence on one thing, because I did it too. Their entry actually wasn't a common, as denoted in the clarifying Oracle text below. Mirage was released in 1996, and colour-coded rarity symbols didn't appear for about another two years, until Exodus in '98. So, for the sake of authenticity, both Jartis and I opted to show a black rarity symbol on the card, and denote the "real" rarity below. Sorry for the confusion that caused.


As for the choice of the next set...

Conspiracy: Take the Crown
Your condition is to make a card that works outside of draft - that is to say, your card must be usable in a constructed format.

So, I spent awhile trying to find African-themed art to use for this and struck out. Hence the generic-doesn't-fit art. It's very rare when I strike out on finding something useful artwise, this was one of those times.

What world does this take place on? It sort of looks like an ad-hoc setting for a Draft-specific set?

He's a dues collector for a guild?