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Post by Daij_Djan on Jan 14, 2020 0:08:06 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 three-hundredth challenge!
The winner of the "Be R&D" poll was sade612 with... And the challenge issued by our winner was... In honor of the new Escape mechanic, design a card that uses the word "Return" in its rules text. You can bring cards back to your hand, from the graveyard, exile some tokens, return them from exile. You name it!
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 Flo00 on Jan 14, 2020 1:50:47 GMT
Scrying Games  Instant  An opponent of your choicee chooses a card type. Reveal cards from the top of your library until you reveal a card of the chosen type. Put the last reveald card into your hand and return the rest to the top of your library in the same order. Should probably be silver border. Also uses return in a way real Magic probably wouldn't. |
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spazlaz
6/6 Wurm
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Color Alignment: Blue, Black
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Post by spazlaz on Jan 14, 2020 2:13:15 GMT
Changed my entry because it pretty much was already a card:
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Post by viriss on Jan 14, 2020 2:57:58 GMT
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Post by sdfkjgh on Jan 14, 2020 17:52:19 GMT
spazlaz: Warped Devotion is already a thing, you just expanded it out a little. Your card should prolly cost   .
Here's something inspired by Chronosavant:
Chronobones Creature--Skeleton  If Chronobones is in your opening hand, you may begin the game with it in your graveyard. If you do, scry 1 then draw a card.
 : Return Chronobones from your graveyard to the battlefield tapped. Activate this ability only as a sorcery. 3/2 |
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thaneofglamis
8/8 Octopus
Thane's activated abilities can't be activated
Posts: 444
Favorite Card: Slimefoot, the Stowaway; Phyrexian Rager; Swarm Shambler
Favorite Set: Midnight Hunt
Color Alignment: Green
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Post by thaneofglamis on Jan 14, 2020 20:28:04 GMT
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Post by ZephyrPhantom on Jan 14, 2020 20:50:08 GMT
Grifter's Wits Enchantment Whenever you cast a spell, you may pay  . If you do, return target card that shares a type with that spell from your graveyard to your hand. "It's not a true buyback, but the customers don't need to know that."
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Post by sade612 on Jan 14, 2020 22:41:04 GMT
In retrospect, I think I should mention explicitly that you may also use keywords with "return" in their reminder text in your designs. For instance, you can use Champion an X, or Dash. Give Amulet.deck and Tron a little boost. I think it's only slightly more pushed than the Ravnica bouncelands.  |
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Post by Aarhg on Jan 14, 2020 23:47:52 GMT
Yea, I just watched Dr. Strange, what of it?
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Post by Daij_Djan on Jan 15, 2020 0:59:33 GMT
No idea where Sweep sits on the storm scale - probably not at a very great place, though  Still, somehow I just couldn't resist giving it a try:
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wapulatus
0/0 Germ
Aggressively Tired
Posts: 35
Favorite Card: Vampire Nocturnus
Favorite Set: Throne of Eldraine
Color Alignment: White, Black, Red
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Post by wapulatus on Jan 15, 2020 1:48:17 GMT
Haven't posted here in quite a while.
Annals of Meletis Legendary Artifact When Annals of Meletis enters the battlefield, look at the top five cards of your library. You may reveal a Saga card from among them and put it into your hand. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order. If a Saga you control would be sacrificed, return it to your hand instead.
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Post by gateways7 on Jan 15, 2020 4:42:05 GMT
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Post by gluestick248 on Jan 15, 2020 8:31:32 GMT
Return to Sender   Sorcery For each card type, choose one: * Return up to one target permanent of that type to its owner’s hand. * Return up to one target card of that type from a graveyard to its owner’s hand. Exile Return to Sender. Changed to make it more clear Edit #2: thanks sdfkjgh |
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Post by sdfkjgh on Jan 15, 2020 18:12:20 GMT
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Post by quazerflame on Jan 16, 2020 0:24:10 GMT
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Post by gluestick248 on Jan 16, 2020 10:59:19 GMT
For a card I’ve never heard of, I was spot on with the effect |
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Post by sdfkjgh on Jan 16, 2020 16:43:17 GMT
For a card I’ve never heard of, I was spot on with the effect You still need to fix the name in the rules text. |
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Post by sdfkjgh on Jan 16, 2020 16:46:04 GMT
spazlaz: Dice-rolling is strictly an Un- mechanic. You should still be good, since the contest doesn't disallow silver borders.
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Post by Aarhg on Jan 16, 2020 20:07:24 GMT
spazlaz : Dice-rolling is strictly an Un- mechanic. You should still be good, since the contest doesn't disallow silver borders. I don't think that should necessarily stop someone from putting it on a black-bordered card. Anything can happen, and WotC change their mind on these things pretty often. |
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wapulatus
0/0 Germ
Aggressively Tired
Posts: 35
Favorite Card: Vampire Nocturnus
Favorite Set: Throne of Eldraine
Color Alignment: White, Black, Red
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Post by wapulatus on Jan 16, 2020 20:26:02 GMT
I don't think that should necessarily stop someone from putting it on a black-bordered card. Anything can happen, and WotC change their mind on these things pretty often. Planechase also has dice-rolling as a core part of the playstyle and is generally a black-bordered format. |
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Post by Aarhg on Jan 16, 2020 20:51:13 GMT
I don't think that should necessarily stop someone from putting it on a black-bordered card. Anything can happen, and WotC change their mind on these things pretty often. Planechase also has dice-rolling as a core part of the playstyle and is generally a black-bordered format. Yea, that's true. I actually played a couple of Planechase games just a few days ago, and it's still good fun. Isn't Fractured Powerstone the only card from the Planechase expansions to mention die rolling though? Other than that, only the plane cards refer to it. |
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Post by Daij_Djan on Jan 16, 2020 22:39:54 GMT
The planar die is treated a bit differently than normal dice in Magic - but then again, I think it was MaRo who once said WotC considered a hedron themed mechanic using dice for their return to Zendikar..
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Post by Jartis on Jan 17, 2020 1:00:28 GMT
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Post by melono on Jan 17, 2020 12:35:07 GMT
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Post by sdfkjgh on Jan 17, 2020 23:12:10 GMT
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Post by Boogymanjunior on Jan 18, 2020 22:23:57 GMT
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Fermat
8/8 Octopus
Posts: 429
Favorite Card: Force of Will
Favorite Set: Guildpact (set when I started playing)
Color Alignment: White, Blue, Black
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Post by Fermat on Jan 19, 2020 10:54:24 GMT
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Post by quazerflame on Jan 19, 2020 12:22:08 GMT
Fermat: Wow, that can end up being a lot of shuffling with one spell.
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Fermat
8/8 Octopus
Posts: 429
Favorite Card: Force of Will
Favorite Set: Guildpact (set when I started playing)
Color Alignment: White, Blue, Black
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Post by Fermat on Jan 19, 2020 16:36:20 GMT
quazerflame: Hm, yeah, that could cause an Eggs-esque scenario in that your turn could take forever. Changed it to put a card from your hand on the bottom of your library.
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Post by Lady Mapi on Jan 19, 2020 18:55:10 GMT
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"When in doubt, do a common." 
Still, somehow I just couldn't resist giving it a try:
Legendary Planeswalker - Egos
:Exile up to three target creature cards from graveyards and put that many +1/+1 counters on Egos the Mouth. You may return one of those exiled cards to the battlefield under your control. It has base power and toughness 1/1 and gains haste.
:Until end of turn, Egos becomes a 3/3 Orc Demon creature with first strike and deathtouch. (He’s not a planeswalker while he’s a creature.)
