Xenozfan2
3/3 Beast
Posts: 161
Favorite Card: Phage the Untouchable
Favorite Set: Innistrad
Color Alignment: White, Blue, Red
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Post by Xenozfan2 on Feb 29, 2020 1:03:05 GMT
Lady Mapi : You'd want wording like Panglacial Wurm. "While you're searching your library, you may pay   and reveal a Dryad, Plant, or Treefolk card. If you do, it becomes a basic Forest land card until end of turn." The way it's originally worded, as a triggered ability, it would resolve after the search and you wouldn't be able to reveal anything. As it is, it might have memory issues as it deals with changing an attribute of a card in a hidden zone. Embodiment of Ideals     Legendary Creature - Avatar Incarnation  Whenever an Incarnation you control dies, reveal the top card of your library until you reveal an Avatar creature card. Put that card onto the battlefield and the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order. Whenever an Avatar you control dies, draw cards equal to its power, then discard cards equal to its toughness. 7/7 Both Incarnations and Avatars are representations of something: Incarnations of ideas, and Avatars of more physical concepts (usually) such as the land or war. It makes sense, therefore, to combine them into one glorious card.
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Sanfonier of the Night
7/7 Elemental
Posts: 399
Favorite Card: The Prismatic Bridge
Favorite Set: War of the Spark
Color Alignment: White, Blue, Black, Red, Green, Colorless
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Post by Sanfonier of the Night on Mar 6, 2020 16:04:46 GMT
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Post by sdfkjgh on Mar 6, 2020 17:55:03 GMT
@omnividrus: That's a very nice card, there's just one slight problem with the templating: targeting is never part of a cost. You could just omit "target" completely, and save space.
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Sanfonier of the Night
7/7 Elemental
Posts: 399
Favorite Card: The Prismatic Bridge
Favorite Set: War of the Spark
Color Alignment: White, Blue, Black, Red, Green, Colorless
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Post by Sanfonier of the Night on Mar 6, 2020 18:01:10 GMT
sdfkjgh Thank you, I never had realised that your statement was true. Sorry for the broken English.
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Post by burntsquirrelman on Mar 10, 2020 14:17:44 GMT
Sorry for late judging, and even further sorry for not having the time to go in depth into why I chose who I choose. Winner is thaneofglamis |
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Post by burntsquirrelman on Mar 20, 2020 1:52:24 GMT
Uhhhh...since Thane isn't here, runner up is Lady Mapi |
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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 Mar 20, 2020 1:57:24 GMT
Oh sorry, I forgot to come up with a challenge
I still can, but if Lady Mapi wants to they can
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Post by burntsquirrelman on Mar 20, 2020 2:05:51 GMT
By all means, post your challenge
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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 Mar 20, 2020 2:22:09 GMT
Ok, here's a simple one: design a mono-colored commander with a colored activated ability.
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Post by Lady Mapi on Mar 20, 2020 3:44:59 GMT
Darn, if only I'd been a bit faster, I would've scooped the challenge! Stupid grad school, getting in the way.  I was going to go with this, but it doesn't really matter: {The challenge, which does not matter}
Boros Commanders traditionally encourage you to go straight for combat. Other color combos are similarly pigeonholed. Make a Commander that focuses on a non-traditional win condition for its colors! |
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Post by sdfkjgh on Mar 20, 2020 6:19:14 GMT
Ok, here's a simple one: design a mono-colored commander with a colored activated ability.Do you mean same color, or different color? Or multicolor? Or are all of them fair game? |
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Post by kefke on Mar 20, 2020 7:43:50 GMT
These are the important questions.
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Post by burntsquirrelman on Mar 20, 2020 15:36:05 GMT
I'm going to guess that the commander's color identity needs to be one color, and it needs an activated ability that requires colored mana, but I could be mistaken
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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 Mar 20, 2020 18:27:08 GMT
Ok, here's a simple one: design a mono-colored commander with a colored activated ability.Do you mean same color, or different color? Or multicolor? Or are all of them fair game? I meant different color, sorry! It has to have a mono color casting cost and an activated ability that requires a different color of mana. |
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Post by sdfkjgh on Mar 21, 2020 17:07:43 GMT
Do you mean same color, or different color? Or multicolor? Or are all of them fair game? I meant different color, sorry! It has to have a mono color casting cost and an activated ability that requires a different color of mana. Can the activation cost be multicolor? |
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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 Mar 21, 2020 17:16:55 GMT
Sure
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Post by sdfkjgh on Mar 21, 2020 19:09:15 GMT
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Post by gamma3 on Mar 22, 2020 5:44:39 GMT
Let's add to the list of monocolor legends with a wubrg activation! Alanis, the Deathweaver  Creature - Human Warlock When CARDNAME enters the battlefield, each opponent sacrifices a creature. CARDNAME gets +1/+1 for each creature card in a graveyard. : For each opponent, that player loses life equal to the number of creature cards in their graveyard. You gain life equal to the number of creature cards in your graveyard. 1/1 |
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Post by sdfkjgh on Mar 22, 2020 17:53:19 GMT
gamma3: There's nothing particularly or about that ability.
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Post by gamma3 on Mar 23, 2020 4:21:29 GMT
sdfkjgh that's true, but there's nothing particularly blue about Najeela's activated ability, white about Golos's, or blue or red about Horde of Notions' either
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Post by Jartis on Mar 23, 2020 20:57:19 GMT
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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 Mar 27, 2020 1:28:37 GMT
Extending the judging date
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Xenozfan2
3/3 Beast
Posts: 161
Favorite Card: Phage the Untouchable
Favorite Set: Innistrad
Color Alignment: White, Blue, Red
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Post by Xenozfan2 on Mar 27, 2020 11:23:13 GMT
Ah, reusing an old favorite of mine from last June. Avatar of Rage  Legendary Creature - Avatar Haste, trample At the beginning of your end step, sacrifice Avatar of Rage.  : Return Avatar of Rage from your graveyard to the battlefield. 5/5 |
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Post by Flo00 on Mar 27, 2020 19:25:07 GMT
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Post by FLAREdirector on Mar 27, 2020 20:21:31 GMT
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Post by gluestick248 on Mar 27, 2020 21:44:34 GMT
Molana, Maro-Sorcerer Creature — Elemental Molana, Maro-Sorcerer’s power and toughness are each equal to the number of cards in your hand. : Draw a card. */* |
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Post by Lady Mapi on Mar 27, 2020 23:08:02 GMT
Sky-Eyed Ashatei - Legendary Creature - Bird Shaman  Flying Enchantments you control have lifelink. :: Each Aura attached to a creature or player deals 1 damage to the creature or player it's attached to. "May you burn within the false feathers you've wrapped yourself with."2/3 A Boros Curse commander. Because why not?
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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 Mar 28, 2020 1:54:39 GMT
Judging now! sdfkjgh - Thorakis, Champion of IroasA very interesting color combination for an Aura-focused commander. Very nice Theros flavor, and it has a lot of options - it seems balanced, but I bet there's a bunch of ways to break it I don't want to go into. It reminds me of Feather, the Redeemed, but I think the black identity and the Auras make it unique. One question: Why is it both a Soldier and a Warrior?
gamma3 - Alanis, the DeathweaverA graveyard-focused 5 color commander is certainly unique, especially since it cares about your opponents' graveyards. Cards that care about opponents' resources usually aren't very fun, especially since once it ETBs it doesn't have any way to put more creatures in opponent's graveyards alone. 5-color mill could be interesting? I do agree with you that the 5-color cost is ok despite not really being a 5-color effect - if there's a flavorful reason behind it. Golos visited so many Lands it has access to all five colors of mana. Najeela inspires creatures of all colors to band together. I'd like to see the flavor reason for a primary black necromancer using magic of other colors.
Jartis - Chytiri, Landbind RitualistI enjoy commanders that fuse together two existing themes - in this case, lifegain and lands. I can see a lot of exciting plays involving huge lifegain combined with landfall, but the fact you can only get basics limits it somewhat. If it could get nonbasic lands that would probably be too strong, though. Altogether, a very interesting commander with a lot of options.
Xenozfan2 - Avatar of RageSo... after the turn you play it, it's a 5/5 hasty trampler, but you need to pay every turn to keep it? Not to mention the amount of graveyard hate in commander that could send this guy back to the command zone at any time. It seems pretty weak, and it doesn't even lend itself to voltron since any auras or equipment fall off it every turn. Maybe you could flicker it to avoid the trigger, but Jund isn't exactly the best flicker combination. Forgive me if I misunderstood it, but it doesn't seem like a strong card or a fun commander.
Flo00 - Edolin the RiftcallerThis card is awesome. I think the passive might need to say "exiled cards with time counters on them" instead of "suspended cards," but the flavor is cool and the abilities are fun! There are a bunch of deck options too, from "suspend tribal" to self-mill to take advantage of the first ability, or just a bunch of cards with good activated abilities. My only criticism is that it's much harder to get abilities on it than say, Experiment Kraj or Rayami, but I think the cheaper mana cost and access to white make up for that somewhat.
FLAREdirector - Aclazotz, Blight of IxalanHey, this is my second time judging Aclazotz! Again, a fantastic choice of character and the flavor reasons for being black/blue are great. The indestructibility and huge power boost make it seem much more threatening, and the "god clause" of creatures having to die for it to attack is nice. I also love that the activated ability has two chances to let Aclazotz attack - you could mill your own creature, or you could kill one with the -X/-X. It's a very clean and fun card - I just wish it had white in its identity, if it did it would be the perfect commander for Ixalan vampire tribal! You get the award for Most Improved.
gluestick248 - Molana, Maro-SorcererWell, first of all, it's not Legendary, so you might want to fix that. Second, it's really boring. It's just a strictly better Maro. It's a commander that wants you to draw cards, and then... kill with commander damage? You'd need a lot of cards and a Reliquary Tower or Thought Vessel for that. There are just so many more Simic commander options, including card draw commanders, that are way more interesting.
Lady Mapi - Sky-Eyed AshateiThis is definitely one of my favorite commanders I've seen in this thread. Giving enchantments lifelink is genius, and I love seeing non-combat Boros commanders. You say it's a Boros curse commander, but I immediately thought of group slug, since the lifelink would offset the damage from Manabarbs and the like. Am I just evil? That's not even getting to the activated ability - white and red have plenty of auras to put on your opponents' creatures, which then convert into damage AND lifegain! It might not be the same type of value as card draw and mana, but I adore manipulating life totals like this. The winner is: {Spoiler}
Lady Mapi!
With Flo00 and FLAREdirector as runner ups! This was a hard one to judge, lots of great commanders! |
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Post by Lady Mapi on Mar 28, 2020 3:33:06 GMT
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Post by gamma3 on Mar 28, 2020 4:42:01 GMT
Mikael, Vengeful Paladin Legendary Creature - Human Knight Double Strike Whenever CARDNAME enters the battlefield or attacks, it deals 2 damage to each other creature without first strike or double strike. : Target creature gains first strike until end of turn. Target creature with first strike gains double strike until end of turn. 2/4 Named for the DEX-based dual-wielding paladin in one of my dnd games. The first ability was inspired by Path of Mettle.
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