Commander Game

{Judging} gluestick248: I don’t really understand how Adam, the First Man relates to the actual Adam, but that’s probably because I, as a not-Christian, am not versed in Biblical lore. In terms of being a Magic card, it feels like a slightly worse Trostani Discordant, but with an interesting element of human tribal.

Tesagk: I like the idea of The Golem. Some of the wording is a little off, you could just have it read “When ~ enters the battlefield, sacrifice an artifact.” rather than anything else. I like how it represents whatever artifact you sacrifice turning into the Golem (at least that’s what I think it means.) The only big problem I see is that it’s really, really good with cheap artifacts or Ichor / Mycosynth Wellspring or something like that.

Jartis: I don’t see the reason why Tawir, the Scorned Brother is blue, but I think the idea of a God card that’s only willing to fight other god cards seems really fun. It is probably incredibly powerful, because its a 4 mana 5/5 indestructible haste almost-unblockable that must attack.

melono: Witte Wieven seems pretty underpowered for costing five black, but once you get her out, it seems like you can really quickly win the game with enough of the activations. I do like the theme of Swamps, which really fits the description you gave.

Fleur: Swilu, Royal Pathologist is a fuckin hilarious way to interpret the challenge, and it fits it really well. I actually really like the idea that without extra mana, you just make a bunch of useless creatures, but the abilties affect all of your creatures. It also opens two different pathways with the card as a commander, because you can do token-spam or a LTB deck, and that seems really fun! (The first ability doesn’t technically work, because I think you need to say “Until the end of turn, creatures you control enter the battlefield with a +1/+1 counter on them”, but I think that it’s pretty understood what you were trying to do.)

augur: I like Raven, Who Stole the Sun! It’s interesting to have a way to be able to draw cards but only be able to cast them once you deal damage. I also think it’s nice that it has flying for that extra ability to be able to be combat-damaging. I think the card should say cards you’ve exiled with Raven, but other than that, I think it’s a solid card.

xylophone: Odin, Lord of Asgard is interesting, but I’m not quite sure where the real-world mythology of him matches up with his color identity. I do like the last ability, but I think it’s in white’s color pie, not Sultai’s.

kinotherapy: I think Seth the Contemptuous presents some really interesting choices for an opponent, and that makes it a really interesting design! It also acts as a repeatable Wasteland-type effect, but because of the punisher ability still remains balanced. I like it a lot!

lizstar: Long of the Shining Dragons is a cool card, and I like how it rewards you for playing a strategy in Commander that’s traditionally not very good, being burn. The fact that you can also use pingers to get Fireworks is nice as well.

mrlozano: Prometheus, Who Stole the Fire is an interesting card, but the ability is traditionally a blue-black one and I’m not sure it really fits in red. I think it would be really fun to play in an aggressive deck, because it generates card advantage while giving you lots of options that you can’t control.

Xenozfan2: Eloah, God of All is a pretty straightforward way to go about making an all-powerful being as a card, but I think it works well. I do like the repetition of the number 7. Two things - you need to shuffle your library after you search it, and cards shouldn’t get things from exile if they didn’t put them there.

Daij_Djan: Baba Yaga is a pretty cool mechanical way to go about this idea, and I like it a lot. One note - if two players play a Baba Yaga and have three, the legend rule will not work and all six will die. Also, what happens if two die at the same time? Even if there is a reasonable answer, if it’s not obvious to most players what happens, then there should be an alteration or reminder text of some kind.

Lady Mapi: La Llorona is a pretty interesting card in the vein of a lot of Sirens, but it does it better. I like how it debuffs the creature, because it’s a more effective way of making sure you get a kill. The problem with the untapping part of the ability means that once your opponent gets priority, they can just use a tap ability and not have to attack.

{Winners} Overall, there were a lot of good entries this time around, but I’m going to have to give the win to Fleur for both playing with the rules in a funny way and making a really interesting card. Runner-ups go to kinotherapy and Daij_Djan.