Card of the Week Contest #293: Employee of the Week

I figure this should work. It's Graf Mole in reverse, with an extra ability tacked on to make up for the lack of butt

Shoutout to college professors in the sciences (and probably other places) because you have to write and publish almost constantly to preserve your job.

This one goes out to trade instructors. When I was in trade school, I got to see how the different instructors each had their own way of teaching, but they all found a way to help their students get better in their own way. I have a lot of respect for that, so I decided to represent the way that an instructor passes their craft to a new generation with a card paying tribute to one of my favourite MTG stories.



(Technically, you could equip this to a Diviner's Wand, but that's the only non-creature Wizard permanent I could find, and it's a pretty old card. Also, it wouldn't benefit from being enchanted. So, I decided not to convolute the wording by covering the fringe case with "Enchant Wizard creature".)

WotC primarily* uses two border colours. Black for main line tournament-legal cards, and silver for promotional cards and Un-sets. The challenge saying to make a "back border" card simply means to make a card that could be printed outside of joke and promotional material, not the actual colour of the card border. On my cards, I use a purple border as a immediately recognizable visual indicator that the card is a homebrew. Real Magic™ cards don't have purple borders, so putting one on my cards serves as a "mark of inauthenticity" that can be spotted much more quickly than the "not an official product" text where the copyright information should be.

*Edit: There's also white border, which was used for the core, non-expansion set prior to tenth edition, and gold border, which is used exclusively for commemorative sets. There's also cards with non-standard borders, like the Amonkhet hieroglyphic cards, and cards that have no card border at all. However, people still generally just say "black border" as a catchall term for non-silver-bordered cards.

Everybody's making bakers, but who tastes the food after it's made?  Hopefully the reviews are good...
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kefke: Ok i'll close my eyes on your mauve border.

moonhollow124: You almost got a point here haha, but kefke definitely is a harsher critic than yours today.

First time entering a contest, and in fact first time posting on this board in general, so let's see how it goes...

Janitors always get the short end of the stick in media - usually they're the butt of the joke despite what an essential role they play in business. Imagine how miserable most public businesses would be without paying someone to clean! With that in mind, here's a card that tries to give a tip of the hat to janitors: maybe not the flashiest or most beefy, but it can certainly save you in a pinch just by cleaning up the board state a little.


Grim Sweeper 

Creature — Human

: Remove up to X counters of any kind, except loyalty counters, from target permanent.

Sweep away obstacles, and return to your true self.

0/3

Just to point out, the contest specifies black-border, and your flavour text referencing game mechanics falls solidly into silver-border territory. (Black border refers to design sensibilities, not card aesthetics.)

Music time!!!!