The Crossover Game

{MaiApologies (She/Her)}MaiApologies (She/Her) A very flavourful and fun card, well done on those parts. I think that without basic land naming, this is too fragile. And with it (which would probably be the common method), it doesn't fit so much anymore with the flavor it set up and it would be only useful in the early game where the chance for good creatures to remove is lower.
But all in all, a cool card that manages to convey the flavour well.

{Daij_Djan}Daij_Djan A clean card, using flavour for a small, interesting extra. It helps that it is a really small effect since it can be added without changing anything more on this Frogify version, providing an extra spice without having the need to ubnsettle it's power balance.

{ameisenmeister}ameisenmeister An interesting card, combining two somewhat similar effects from different (color) origins flavourfully with the mind and body consuming ablilities of my probably favourite character of the movie. The "discard" would tend to be not that useful considering it costs 5 mana where there would be not much to choose from anymore, but combined with the banishing effect, that's very minor.

{Tesagk}Tesagk A very flavourful card. It seems to put flavour above the other design parts. Bilbo is not bad, but not exciting either, also because you have to play three different colors to get him. His sacrifice effect is again flavourful but not important anyway because by then it is turn 9 anyway. The One Ring is more interesting, offering power laced with equal drawback while filling it's role well. The fact that those connected cards use different kinds of counters, especially growing in numbers at different rates, feels pretty odd.
But all in all, there is nothing too wrong with it and it has it's strenght.

{Schwa77}Schwa77 No need to apologize, I will anyway refresh the page every time before I send out my judging to make sure to judge everyone.

Smaug being the archetypical big bad greedy dragon is being very well reflected by this card which doesn't try to do fancy things, just impactful goodness. The only big thing would be that it is way too strong imo, being able of dealing obscene amounts of damage directly after entering the battlefield and without mana costs.

{And the winner is...}ameisenmeister! While MaiApologies (She/Her)' card had the best "directly-from-movie-to-card flavour" and yours has a minor flaw Daij_Djan's didn't have, yours very nicely captures the flavourful essence of the character with an interesting combination of distant-cousins effects.

{Schwa77} And we start things off with a pretty cool design indeed. Like how he brings his own barrel both afterwards can throw averything else at his enemies as well. Costs and stats all seem to be just fine as well – my only nitpick would be a personoal preference: I dislike hybrid costed cards with only a single of its colors appearing in the cost(s) of its ability(-ies), which is why I'd personally prefer him in mono-green with a clean offcolor ability. But again, that's purely a matter of my own tastes rather than a real critism.

{MaiApologies (She/Her)} Never played any of the Galaxy games, so I actually had to look up what Mattermouth does first^^ After doing so it's quite obvious ETB land destruction is a nice fit, even though this card feels kind of weak somehow – probably because of the power based on the number of lands exiled. Would caring about the number of land cards in graveyards really break the design (while changing the ETB from exiling to destoying as well, obviously)?

{ameisenmeister} And here we have our only Horizons: Zero Dawn based entry – and it's a really well done one as well! Cost and stats, land tutoring abiliy and even flavor text are all perfectly fitting, even though a five mana Rampant Growth on legs probably won't play as good as the card otherwise looks.

{ZephyrPhantom} A simple, well costed and flavorful common? I like it! (who would've guessed^^)

{Flo00} I'm not 100% sure, what exactly this card is really supposed to do. Considering all of the Monarch cards refer to a player „becoming“ or „being“ the Monarch, isn't this basically a permanent Mindslaver-effect? Or do you want to gain control purely of the Monarch token – which would be really flavorful and cool yet (I'm afraid) needs to use the normal „you become the Monarch“ wording to work within the rules..

{Boogymanjunior} This is a very clever design, but it might actually be a bit too clever for its own good. The abilities all make perfectly sence after your explanation and you definitely did well in translating the Super Mario flavor completely into MtG – yet somewhere in that translation somehow the original mushroom flavor sadly got lost. This might totally be me, but without having read your explanation I for a moment even though this card was supposed to be posted for a different challenge. All in all a very nice and I'd say balanced card, but for this specific challenge I personally think you went a bit too far with your transformation.

{And the winner is..} This was a close one – like seriously. I pretty much knew which two entries stood at the top for me, but they switched places multiple times while writing this judging. In the end, I decided to gie the win back to ameisenmeister with Schwa77 as insanely close runner-up.