Bouncearama
3/3 Beast
Posts: 174
Formerly Known As: pistonsmcgraw
Favorite Card: Davriel, Soul Broker
Favorite Set: Unstable
Color Alignment: Blue, Black, Red
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Post by Bouncearama on Apr 2, 2021 3:56:35 GMT
| | | | Bouncearama | - (I couldn't figure out how to include an attachment from another post.) | Drask, Endless Leader Two generic, A red, and a white Legendary Creature - Human Soldier
Soldiers you control get +1/+1 and have haste and "Tap: Put an inspire counter on Drask, Endless Leader." Grandeur -- Discard another card named Drask, Endless leader: create a 1/1 red and white soldier creature token for each inspire counter among creatures you control. A deck may have any number of cards named Drask, Endless Leader.
3/4 | Apologies if I overstepped to correct some simple templating errors as I stenographed your submission.
This is an interesting card. I'd probably never thought to put relentless on a legendary creature, but it's certainly interesting, especially incombination with your Grandeur. But the two issues I have are, why is this card legendary, and is this card good enough to take up 30% or more of a decks card slots.
That second one is a problem that any relentless card, (Canonically: Relentless Rats, Rat Colony, Shadowborn Apostle, Persistent petitioners, and most recently, Approach of the Dragon) has to contend with because relentless cards only work if they reach a critical mass. And, I'm not quite sure this cards there yet.
Take your time considering possible revisions, because I'd love to see a relentless commander, but this isn't there yet. |
The card is legendary so it can be a commander, and what do you mean by reach critical mass. Do you mean that their aren't enough soldier tribal cards? Because soldiers are a tribe on EDHREC, so they must have support.
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Post by hydraheadhunter on Apr 2, 2021 4:11:55 GMT
The card is legendary so it can be a commander, and what do you mean by reach critical mass. Do you mean that their aren't enough soldier tribal cards? I understand that it's legendary to be a commander so that it can be a valid entry for this game, but that's meta. I mean why is this card legendary from a design prospective: does this card earn its place as a legendary creature. By 'critical mass' I mean that whenever you put relentless on a card, you have to expect a deck builder to want to put at least 20 in a sixty card deck or 33~34 in a commander deck. There are plenty of soldier tribal cards, but that's not the issue. The issue is are 33 copies of Drask better than 33 second-best soldier tribal cards? Would you run another copy of Drask over Swords to Plowshares, Cathar's Crusade, or Hero of Bladehold, etc?
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Post by Flo00 on Apr 2, 2021 7:22:19 GMT
Thanks for the win hydraheadhunter!
For the next challenge make a commander based on a hobby of yours and/or a food you really like!
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Post by sdfkjgh on Apr 2, 2021 18:11:13 GMT
I love to cook, and I love to bribe people with food, so, por que no los dos?
Chef Bayard D. Legendary Creature--Human Artisan This spell costs less to cast for each Food you control. Whenever Chef Bayard D. or another creature enters the battlefield, each player creates a Food token. Communal Ability—Sacrifice twice X Foods: Gain control of target creature with mana value X or less. This ability costs Chef Bayard D.’s owner sacrifice X fewer Foods to activate. Activate this ability only as a sorcery. 4/5
A communal ability is one that any player can activate.
I was thinking of using playing Magic as my hobby, but the only design for that bit of metadesign I could think of was "Cumulative upkeep--Shahrazad", and nobody wants that.
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Post by hydraheadhunter on Apr 3, 2021 1:48:04 GMT
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Post by dangerousdice on Apr 3, 2021 5:10:55 GMT
legendary creature - human reflection wizard
ward - discard 3 cards
if you would begin a subgame, begin that subgame with kaliin, lord of insanities lost on the battlefield.
if a player would lose a subgame, if they have no cards in their library, they lose all other subgames and non-subgames.
Cumulative upkeep - Players must leave game in progress as it is and use the cards left in their libraries as decks with which to play a subgame of Magic. When subgame is over, players shuffle these cards, return them to libraries, and resume game in progress, with any loser of subgame halving his or her remaining life points, rounding down. Effects that prevent damage may not be used to counter this loss of life. The subgame has no ante; using less than forty cards may be necessary. 3/3
EDIT: in case it wasnt clear, my (only) hobby is mtg, so shahrazad it is!
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Post by ZephyrPhantom on Apr 5, 2021 0:30:58 GMT
Akordi, Pack Ripper Legendary Creature - Werewolf Rogue (Silver Border) Partner (You can have two commanders if both have partner.)When ~ enters the battlefield, open a sealed booster pack, reveal the cards, and exile them face-up. You may play cards exiled this way. 2/2 "Step right up, and let's get chasing a new rare."Booster Tutor and Stocking Tiger are both really hard to get doing anything effective in practice (the former often opens into irrelevant cards, the latter doesn't get hits in very easily), which pretty much leaves Summon the Pack to do the lion's share of pack-cracking antics that actually impact the board. I decided to make a Commander that lets you combine both the hobby of repeatedly cracking packs and playing MTG with friends. The omission of "Magic" from "Booster Pack" similar to Lore Seeker is deliberate - while the base rulings enforce Magic the Gathering packs, house ruling or clever use of R&D's Secret Lair will let you crack other packs from other games if you'd like. This is a card that emphasizes the pack cracking hobby first and the MTG part second. At first I was going to let Akordi let you spend any colors of mana to cast exiled cards to help with the color identity bit, but then I realized this might actually be a good case to try and make use of Partner, so the kinds of cards you seek out are meaningfully determined by your Commander choices. Appearance wise, he's a werewolf gambler.
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Post by hydraheadhunter on Apr 5, 2021 14:25:03 GMT
Sieglinde, Proxy King (Silver Border) A White, A Blue, and A Green Legendary Creature - Werewolf Noble Partner (You can have two commanders if both have partner.) When Sieglinde enters the battlefield put a proxy of a card you don't own from outside the game into your hand ( Counter this ability if you would own that card as it resolves). FT: " Why chase rares when you can print them?"2/2 As a response and potential partner to ZephyrPhantom 's Akori. I admit that this card only works if the table is following an honor system, and wishes are generally bad for gameplay diversity and especially bad in the command zone, but other than that: lulz why not.
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Bouncearama
3/3 Beast
Posts: 174
Formerly Known As: pistonsmcgraw
Favorite Card: Davriel, Soul Broker
Favorite Set: Unstable
Color Alignment: Blue, Black, Red
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Post by Bouncearama on Apr 11, 2021 16:21:36 GMT
My hobby is MSE
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Post by Daij_Djan on Apr 11, 2021 16:27:36 GMT
Note to myself to design an entry based on reading till tomorrow
Needs to have silver border since it only refers to parts of other cards' names - even if the card itself actually feels rather black bordered to me.
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Post by Flo00 on Apr 11, 2021 18:06:16 GMT
Good plan. I'll be judging shortly after you do.
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Post by Daij_Djan on Apr 11, 2021 21:31:53 GMT
Good plan. I'll be judging shortly after you do. Done
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Bouncearama
3/3 Beast
Posts: 174
Formerly Known As: pistonsmcgraw
Favorite Card: Davriel, Soul Broker
Favorite Set: Unstable
Color Alignment: Blue, Black, Red
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Post by Bouncearama on Apr 11, 2021 21:46:30 GMT
Are you allowed 2 entries? I spend a lot of time on discord so:
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Post by Flo00 on Apr 12, 2021 12:08:16 GMT
Are you allowed 2 entries? I spend a lot of time on discord so: Please choose one of the entries. Having two entries would kind of double your chances of winning, which would be an unfair advantage. Maybe you can combine the two into one entry?
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Bouncearama
3/3 Beast
Posts: 174
Formerly Known As: pistonsmcgraw
Favorite Card: Davriel, Soul Broker
Favorite Set: Unstable
Color Alignment: Blue, Black, Red
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Post by Bouncearama on Apr 12, 2021 15:28:37 GMT
I choose wumpus, discord mascot however if you don't use discord I can switch to avatar of MSE.
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Post by Flo00 on Apr 13, 2021 13:12:51 GMT
{sdfkjgh}I'm not a fan of five color commanders, unless there is a good reason for it. I know, good reason is very debateable. I just think Bayard could easily have been three or maybe even two colors as well. That looks pretty chaotic. In an interesting and political way. It's also interesting that you want to wait for the other players to sacrifice their Food first so you will keep what you bribe for. The second ability spits out a bit too much Food in all directions for my taste. It should probably say nontoken, otherwise a March of the Machines will end the game in a loop. I imagine with Bayard as commander you wnat to play mostly small cheap creatures with ETB effects to make the most out of the control effect and not give your opponents anything good to steal. {dangerousdice}You know, that's actually a bad way of representing Magic as a hobby on a card. Because it actually doesn't let you play Magic at all. Once in a subgame, Kaliin will start a new subgame as soon as it's your turn. (Unless you decide to sacrifice her - but why would you do that?) So it only boils down to if you have the most cards in your library. If your hobby is shuffling and drawing your start hand, that's represented in a good way. Also that's so much text, you'd proabably need two cards to fit. Yes, I'm judging this as if it were a serious entry. Which I'm pretty sure it's not. {ZephyrPhantom}Giving him partner makes this really interesting. Akordi just asks for blink or sac/reanimate shenanigans. The effect feels very much like impulse drawing, which is really good. It has a familiar feeling with a new spin on it.
{hydraheadhunter}Kind of funny to have a card that tells you to not own the cards you want. I can imagine the absurd situation of your opponents gifting you cards as a response to the trigger. Most likely with a Collector Protector. You should probably reveal the proxy before putting it into your hand. Sieglinde lends herself to blink shenanigans even more than Akori. ETB tutor without extra cost sounds easily abusable. And I guess she really loves the reserved list. {pistonsmcgraw}Yes, I'm using Discord. This looks pretty strong. The second ability can get easily out of hand. I have 16 Discord friends and I'm not perticularly interested in collecting them. I think an effect of that magnitude should either be an ETB, die or sac ability. I'd prefer the last one I think, since you can put a cost to it and it's least abusable. The last ability should also have a cost. At least a , . Since you can get any land, I also think the "challenge" should be a bit more interesting. Maybe let the player choose a sentence and the server you're sending it in. Else I just create my own server and send random words to myself. And it definitely should say target opponent. Otherwise you can just target yourself. {Daij_Djan}Tome tribal sounds like an interesting thing. I looked up all the cards in question. Of course it's mostly card draw. But I guess that's a good basis for a deck. brandon has a good flavor. And being able to ensoul an artifact is also a good ability. I'd really enjoy to have more "name tribal" cards in real/siverborder Magic. So much silver border. Not that I'm complaining. Just how did that happen? XD I guess it's hard to stay serious when talking about your hobbies.
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Post by hydraheadhunter on Apr 13, 2021 14:00:09 GMT
Kind of funny to have a card that tells you to not own the cards you want. I can imagine the absurd situation of your opponents gifting you cards as a response to the trigger. Most likely with a Collector Protector. My interpretation had gifting a card or conducting a trade in the same category as taking off your pants (sfw). You could just gift the card to their collection or broker a trade as a special action while the ability is on the stack without needing an ability like collector protector: of course, you could use collector protector's ability to force them to accept a trade, but it's not actually strictly necessary.
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Post by sdfkjgh on Apr 13, 2021 22:20:42 GMT
Flo00: No points for the punny name?
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Post by Flo00 on Apr 16, 2021 0:20:53 GMT
Uh, sorry. I didn't get that one?
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Post by sdfkjgh on Apr 16, 2021 1:32:57 GMT
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Post by Flo00 on Apr 16, 2021 4:26:30 GMT
Austria, central Europe. Never heard of it. Sorry not sorry?
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Post by Daij_Djan on Apr 19, 2021 22:30:28 GMT
Sorry for the delay, didn't feel well last week.
@ Flo00: Big thanks for the win, glad you liked Brandon
Concerning your new challenge.. Design a commander with mana value 1 or 10.
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Post by viriss on Apr 20, 2021 3:21:11 GMT
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Post by Flo00 on Apr 20, 2021 4:09:14 GMT
There are people who just like to mess with the time stream and unwind each tick of a clock into millenia. There are goblins who are just extremely clumsy and can't even walk three steps without stumbling over their own feet. And there is Blerg, who combines the two in the worst manner possible. Desaster inevitable. Blerg, Time Stumbler Legendary Creature - Goblin Shaman First strike, trample Blerg, Time Stumbler has devour X and vanishing X+1, where X is the numbet of times it was cast from the command zone. Commander Suspend X+1— . X is the number of times Blerg was cast from the command zone this game. (Rather than cast this card from your hand or the command zone, you may pay and exile it with X+1 time counters on it. At the beginning of your upkeep, remove a time counter. When the last is removed, cast it without paying its mana cost.)"One moment, let me just... wait, is it already yesterday?"1/1 Keep on trying Blerg. Some day you'll get it right! I hope the use of Xs and X+1s isn't too complicated. I just wanted to make sure that he has time counters even if he was never cast from the command zone. (Suspend for and he enters next turn with 1 time counter. You can sacrifice creatures, it will get him no +1/+1 counters.) Having potentially a bunch of time counters and +1/+1 counters at the same time might become a bit confusing I'm afraid. Then again, Blerg just likes it that way. The flavor would actually cram the card pretty much. Since this is no problem when wrinting the card in plain text, Blerg asked me to leave it like this in the forums.
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Post by melono on Apr 20, 2021 6:44:32 GMT
Ey, time to use this design for an actual challenge.
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Post by hydraheadhunter on Apr 20, 2021 10:48:32 GMT
Serasema, The Wanderlustful Aggregator Two white, Two blue, Two black, Two red, and Two green Legendary creature - Shapeshifter Nomad
For each color, if no other card in your deck’s color identity contains that color, Serasema identity loses that color (It is not that color. It's mana cost is reduced by that color.)
Serasema’s power and toughness are equal to the amount of mana spent to cast it.
If Serasema is white it has vigilence and hexproof. The same is true for blue, flying and flash; black, deathtouch and lifelink; red, haste and menance; and green, trample and reach.
If Serasema is five colors, it has indestructable.
If Serasema is colorless, it has annihilator X, where X is it's power divided by four rounded up. */* I thought it'd be interesting to make a commander whose identity changes to match the deck it's commanding. In a five color deck its a keyword soup beater, and as you pear down the colors you pick, it gets both weaker but cheaper, and it's identity becomes more focused. In a mono-red deck, it's an aggro beater, in a blue deck it's a trixy flayer, so on. Regardless of the identity you build for it, it'll probably want to be a vultron deck since it has nothing going for it but power and keywords, but the types of vultron decks you could build would have massive range. If I had to guess I'd assume the best build would either be jeskai artifacts, temur enchantments, or naya enchantments, although I wouldn't want to ignore potential dark horses like colorless goodstuff.
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Post by sdfkjgh on Apr 21, 2021 0:22:14 GMT
Ey, time to use this design for an actual challenge. That flavor text is cringe, and you should feel bad for not posting it tomorrow, when it would've almost certainly won the #ShitpostingOnTheSevens Trophy.
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Post by sdfkjgh on Apr 21, 2021 0:26:23 GMT
Por que no los dos?
Motkebas, Realm's Deceiver Legendary Creature--Vedalken Warlock Rogue Flash First strike, haste, trample Whenever Motkebas, Realm’s Deceiver deals combat damage, you gain that much life. Ward—Motkebas’ owner draws three cards and gains 5 life. : You may put Motkebas onto the battlefield from the command zone. If you do, you lose X-1 life, where X is Motkebas’ mana value plus its total commander tax. This ability can’t be activated before your fourth turn of the game. When Motkebas dies, it deals damage to any target equal to the total life lost by all players this turn plus the total life gained by all players this turn and you gain that much life. 7/4
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Post by Flo00 on Apr 21, 2021 5:08:41 GMT
Ey, time to use this design for an actual challenge. I don't know if this would make it any better; the first thing that came to my mind when reading this was Each instant and sorcery spell with mana value 1 you cast has replicate. The replicate cost is equal to its mana cost. (When you cast it, copy it for each time you paid its replicate cost. You may choose new targets for the copies.)You can't replicate spells more than twice.
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Post by ZephyrPhantom on Apr 21, 2021 5:36:20 GMT
melonoI don't know if this would make it any better; the first thing that came to my mind when reading this was Each instant and sorcery spell with mana value 1 you cast has replicate. The replicate cost is equal to its mana cost. (When you cast it, copy it for each time you paid its replicate cost. You may choose new targets for the copies.)You can't replicate spells more than twice. That unintentionally limits actual Replicate spells as well (even ones with CMC>1); I'd suggest not using this wording.
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