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Post by Daij_Djan on Jan 6, 2020 15:43:15 GMT
Welcome to the Card of the Week Contest! To participate in this Contest you'll have to design a card along the contest guidelines and throw it into the arena with other competitors' entries! At the end of each week, a winner will be determined by forum poll. The winner's card will be rendered and featured on the Welcome page, and the winner decides the challenge for the next week's Contest! Here we go, competitors: our two-hundred and ninety-ninth challenge!
The winner of the "Overly Attached Cardfriend" poll was Aarhg with... And the challenge issued by our winner was... Wow, the year 2020. We made it, guys; we're officially in the future. In celebration of the new decade, this week's design challenge is to make a card dripping with futuristic/sci-fi flavor. Have fun!
Additionally, please try to keep your entry edits all in one post - if you need to change it you can put your old entry in a spoiler marked "Old entry" and leave the newest rendition to be seen. Just use the edit button in the top/right of your original post.And now, time to begin the challenge! Best of luck, competitors!
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Post by Tesagk on Jan 6, 2020 17:48:32 GMT
Steampunk?
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Post by Aarhg on Jan 6, 2020 18:28:28 GMT
Tesagk I was hoping we could keep it more cyberpunk than steampunk for this one, but it's not really possible to set strict guidelines for something like this since styles and genres blend, so do whatever you could arguably call futuristic and/or sci-fi.
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Post by sdfkjgh on Jan 6, 2020 20:00:05 GMT
I'ma be the realist wet blanket here:
Assembly Line  Artifact  Artifact spells you cast cost  less to cast and have improvise. (Your artifacts can help cast those spells. Each artifact you tap after you’re done activating mana abilities pays for .) |
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saranwrapanimism
0/0 Germ
Posts: 2
Favorite Card: Eon Hub
Favorite Set: Khans of Tarkir
Color Alignment: Blue, Black
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Post by saranwrapanimism on Jan 6, 2020 21:01:05 GMT
Attachment Deleted{Assimilating Nanites} Assimilating Nanites  Artifact Creature - Nanite  ~ gets +1/+1 for each other artifact you control. Permanents with reconstruction counters on them are artifacts in addition to their other types. 4UUU: Gain control of target permanent and put a reconstruction counter on it. 1/1 I'll grant, not my best art cropping, but I think it's super flavorful, if I do say so myself.  |
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Post by kefke on Jan 6, 2020 22:27:51 GMT
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Post by sade612 on Jan 6, 2020 22:47:40 GMT
 I don't think it's dripping with flavor, but I just so happened to make a Sci-Fi card yesterday because it was hard to find fantasy artwork of public speaking. |
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Post by hergusbergus on Jan 6, 2020 23:44:08 GMT
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spazlaz
6/6 Wurm
Posts: 335
Color Alignment: Blue, Black
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Post by spazlaz on Jan 7, 2020 2:00:12 GMT
This is the classic AI-robot turns on its creator idea. Notice how the enchantment is sacrificed when you no longer control it. The artifact remains a creature because of the ETB ability
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Post by Tesagk on Jan 7, 2020 2:04:53 GMT
Grafted Gun  Artifact - Equipment  When you equip a creature with ~, put two -1/-1 counters on it. Equipped creature gets +4/+4 and has reach. Equip  |
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MaiApologies (She/Her)
1/1 Squirrel
Posts: 61
Favorite Card: Ambiguity
Favorite Set: Ikoria: Lair of Behemoths
Color Alignment: Blue, Red
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Post by MaiApologies (She/Her) on Jan 7, 2020 2:42:28 GMT
 I'm actually working on a sci-fi flavored set (hence the weird border), so this is perfect for me! |
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Post by Aarhg on Jan 7, 2020 3:57:06 GMT
Boy, I really had some trouble with this design. Still not sure it's exactly where I want it, but it's close and I'm not sure what to change anyway.
EDIT: Completely revamped my card, and I'm much more satisfied with it now. Even renamed it (previous name was Extortionware) so that it could theoretically be possible to reprint it in a set that has nothing to do with sci-fi flavor.
EDIT AGAIN: Edited the edit that I had just edited a few times already.
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inferno390
3/3 Beast
Posts: 197
Favorite Card: Kwende, Pride of Femeref
Favorite Set: Dominaria
Color Alignment: White, Red
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Post by inferno390 on Jan 7, 2020 22:56:36 GMT
@aargh, I just want to point out that you don’t need the sacrifice clause on malicious extortion because it targets specifically a permanent you don’t control, and once yo control it, the permanent falls off.
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Post by Aarhg on Jan 7, 2020 23:06:06 GMT
Aarhg , I just want to point out that you don’t need the sacrifice clause on malicious extortion because it targets specifically a permanent you don’t control, and once yo control it, the permanent falls off. I'm glad you mentioned this. I know it's not necessary for the card to work, but for the sake of gameplay, I think it's a good clause to have on the card. State-based actions like the one that would have Malicious Extortion fall off the creature are often missed in my experience. The sac is mainly for clarity. |
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Post by kilenc on Jan 7, 2020 23:28:42 GMT
Aarhg: I have a different critique/question, sorry as I know you've made like 5 changes on the card already lol. But why have it "enchant creature you don't control" instead of just "enchant creature"? Usually Aura-based removal is just enchant creature for simplicity, even if you are almost always gonna use it on an opponent's creature (look at Enslave or Frogify for example).
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Post by Aarhg on Jan 7, 2020 23:56:57 GMT
Aarhg : I have a different critique/question, sorry as I know you've made like 5 changes on the card already lol. But why have it "enchant creature you don't control" instead of just "enchant creature"? Usually Aura-based removal is just enchant creature for simplicity, even if you are almost always gonna use it on an opponent's creature (look at Enslave or Frogify for example). Oh yea, that should probably just be "enchant creature" now. It was left over from one of the previous iterations where it mattered a bit more. Good catch, I'll change it right away. Incidentally, that will also make the sacrifice of the aura necessary. Thanks.
Goddamn, this card has been a pain in the ass to get right.
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Post by gateways7 on Jan 8, 2020 2:55:46 GMT
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Post by viriss on Jan 8, 2020 2:55:56 GMT
 Edit: Updated rarity, cost, and added flavor Edit2: Updated again to appease the "masses" |
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Post by Jartis on Jan 8, 2020 10:22:38 GMT
I will take any opportunity to put aliens in Magic. Wizards, make it a thing.  Edit: Changed wording to keep it from wiping token armies, while still allowing both parts of the ability to target animated lands and such. Thanks Theovaf ! |
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Post by sdfkjgh on Jan 8, 2020 17:25:05 GMT
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Theovaf
0/0 Germ
Posts: 8 
Favorite Card: Marath, Will of the Wild
Favorite Set: Theros
Color Alignment: Black, Red, Green
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Post by Theovaf on Jan 8, 2020 18:58:03 GMT
Jartis : Love the alien theme. I do think adding the X can't be zero clause to your ability would be wise decision (or adding some other way to keep it from wiping out a token army for free). UPDATE : My submission. 
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Post by voltaic-qui on Jan 9, 2020 4:25:09 GMT
[gray goo card] Edit: Updated rarity, cost, and added flavor Okay, I don't think this card was specifically designed to give me an aneurysm 1, but woooooooof. Do you think it's cool that this card can produce literally thousands of tokens? If you drop this in a four-player game of EDH and then pass the turn, there will be 64 1/1s on the board by the time you can cast another sorcery. And then you just cast Blazing Volley and untap next round with 256 1/1s on what is effectively turn three. Yay? 1 This is a reference to my well-established hatred of cards which create too many tokens or counters and is not intended as a personal attack. To be clear I like the idea of a grey goo boardwipe, this is just the worst possible execution imo. |
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Post by kefke on Jan 9, 2020 16:02:37 GMT
I will take any opportunity to put aliens in Magic. Wizards, make it a thing. |
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Post by Jartis on Jan 10, 2020 1:15:22 GMT
I will take any opportunity to put aliens in Magic. Wizards, make it a thing. I'm on board! Also, I guess technically the Eldrazi are aliens, too, but they're just not the same |
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Post by ZephyrPhantom on Jan 11, 2020 3:26:42 GMT
 Platinum Walker  Creature - Alien Horror Menace Whenever an opponent would win the game, they instead lose the game. 4/4 |
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Post by voltaic-qui on Jan 11, 2020 5:18:32 GMT
Triassic Trip Sorcery Target player takes an extra turn after this one. Each of that player's opponents creates two 3/3 green Dinosaur creature tokens. Exile Triassic Trip.
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Post by kilenc on Jan 12, 2020 18:14:52 GMT
 A little bit tongue-in-cheek this week. Notice to Disney: I don't claim the ownership or rights to properties of the Lucasfilms LLC. |
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Post by Boogymanjunior on Jan 13, 2020 19:01:53 GMT
 I always found it interesting for my imagination that although planeswalkers can walk between planes, planes are not only planets but really whole universes in which they would have to break through the atmosphere and possibly some kind of space like any other being would have to. Although it seems iike planes are strongly associated with the main planet the plane is named after, all the other stars and planets within the plane/universe might hide other, (minor) planets. I don't think WotC will explore this direction much (relatively logically, as with the Multiversum, there are already infinite possibilities to explore) but I can use it for some shenanigans (coming with a literal spaceship would not be my first choice, but okay^^). |
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Post by Daij_Djan on Jan 13, 2020 23:24:01 GMT
This thread is now closed, the poll can be found here. And here's the next challenge! |
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isn't a color combination that can deal with all permanent types so permanently. However, if you were to include 
, that would work, both color pie-wise and flavorwise, as anyone who consciously and willingly unleashes the 
