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Post by Daij_Djan on Feb 3, 2020 23:00:58 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-hundred and third challenge!
The winner of the "I cast you off!" poll were Daij_Djan (left) and @fabuloussunbro (right) with... And the challenge issued by one of our winners was... Choose a card, a style of card, or a mechanic you personally think detracts from or imbalances the game. Design a card that demonstrates how you think WotC should handle that subject in future design.Note: Obviously please note your chosen „issue“, it'll be included in the poll. ~Daij_Djan
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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spazlaz
6/6 Wurm
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Post by spazlaz on Feb 4, 2020 3:40:45 GMT
Here is a way to balance miracle a little bit.
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Post by t2stonerain on Feb 4, 2020 4:39:16 GMT
The problem we have these days is planeswalker removal. Right now, good, permanent removal is only given to black (destroy) and red (burn spells), and green and white should have a cheap, somewhat inefficient, version too. Here's a take on a Rabid Bite for planewalkers.  |
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Post by sdfkjgh on Feb 4, 2020 20:14:01 GMT
Two entries:
Banding
Ante
There's no cards for either, because they shouldn't have made either mechanic.
Or is this being too much of a smartass?
Would posting Tef3ri &/or Nars3t without their static abilities be redoing the same joke?
Ok, here's a real entry, one that I designed back in 4/10/19:
Wade into Battle   Sorcery  You may cast this spell as though it had flash if you control a Gideon planeswalker.
Choose one—
• Target planeswalker you control fights another target planeswalker. (Each of those planeswalkers deals damage equal to the number of loyalty counters on it to the other.)
• Target planeswalker you control fights target creature. (That planeswalker deals damage equal to the number of loyalty counters on it to that creature and that creature deals damage equal to its power to that planeswalker.) |
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Post by Aarhg on Feb 4, 2020 21:07:30 GMT
Here's a take on the whole white card advantage thing.
Took some of the wording from Ixalan's explore mechanic. I'd imagine weenie decks would love something like this to avoid running out of gas so quickly. Might have made the card a tad powerful, not completely sure.
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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 Feb 5, 2020 3:37:25 GMT
With prowess getting phased out,  needs a combat-relevant mechanic. I thought of something like Kaladesh's fabricate (as that appeared in colorless and Abzan colors only), and came up with this. Still true to 's desire to draw cards, but gives you the option to pump a creature's P/T should you happen to already be drowning in cards. Understandably, would likely only go up to 3, and even then, cards with acumen 2 or 3 would likely have pseudo-drawbacks/additional costs. Speculating Sphinx  Creature — Sphinx  Flying Acumen 3 (When this creature enters the battlefield, put three +1/+1 counters on it or draw three cards.)When ~ enters the battlefield, each opponent draws a card. "It's not really mulling over something profound—only whether to punish your stupidity with another mind-numbing riddle or try a more... direct approach."5/5 |
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Post by ZephyrPhantom on Feb 5, 2020 6:10:52 GMT
Botched Manifestation  Enchantment  Flash Whenever a planeswalker would enter the battlefield, it enters the battlefield as a green Elk creature with base power and toughness 3/3 instead. A violent rift was torn into the plane, followed by unceremonius glunking.I feel Oko is the crowning example of WoTC increasingly pushing Planeswakers beyond an acceptable power level, with Narset and 3Feri being the leadups to such problems. New Ashiok and Elspeth seem like a careful attempt to dial this back but time will tell if they've learned their lesson. That said, Planeswalkers are played fairly often in every format up to Vintage, so I feel this would be considered as a sideboard card of sorts against them. If enough cheap Planeswalkers existed in Standard, I could see this working as a way to convert duplicate copies of walkers into some value as well.
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Post by arthurxiv on Feb 5, 2020 8:32:44 GMT
ZephyrPhantom: You made my day with this link. <3 (I'd be happy to play your card in standard also, since tef shuts down almost everything.)
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Post by kefke on Feb 5, 2020 9:25:47 GMT
Two entries:
Banding
Ante
There's no cards for either, because they shouldn't have made either mechanic. Them's fighting words, hombre. |
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Post by sdfkjgh on Feb 5, 2020 18:03:58 GMT
Two entries:
Banding
Ante
There's no cards for either, because they shouldn't have made either mechanic. Them's fighting words, hombre. Oh, come on. They were both mistakes, and you know it! |
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Post by kefke on Feb 5, 2020 19:26:34 GMT
Them's fighting words, hombre. Oh, come on. They were both mistakes, and you know it! Anyone that doesn't think that removing Banding was a great injustice aimed at filthy casuals can face me with pistols at dawn.  |
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Post by ZephyrPhantom on Feb 6, 2020 2:11:57 GMT
Oh, come on. They were both mistakes, and you know it! Anyone that doesn't think that removing Banding was a great injustice aimed at filthy casuals can face me with pistols at dawn. Just put them both on a pushed green creature and it'll sell like hotcakes, regardless of design quality! /s |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 6, 2020 17:39:20 GMT
This unbridled loathing for specific mechanics is exactly what I dreamed of for this contest. Edit: As for my entry, if Wizards thinks they can print big green creatures into Standard to provide legitimate answers to planeswalkers, then those cards should interact with planeswalkers instead of being equally pushed and driving up the power level of the format without providing safe, reactive checks to anything.  |
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Post by Daij_Djan on Feb 6, 2020 21:44:42 GMT
Currently there's a lot of talk about white being the weakest color - and a lack of card advantage or at least card selection is often quoted as a massive factor. My suggestion would be expanding green's take on card filtering into white - and as secondary ability as well (just like how they actually tried once with Militia Bugler in a restricted way). I pondered about showcasing a "new and clever" design for my entry, but then very much intentionally decided to just go with a colorshifted Lead the Stampede instead:
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Post by sade612 on Feb 7, 2020 7:56:22 GMT
I built my first decks back in 4th edition and didn't open a pack until prophecy was discounted at Powell's for reasons that are now obvious to me. Consequently, I feel nostalgia for Banding despite sdfkjgh's valid critique.  This mechanic is basically strictly worse than banding since you can't assign all of the combat damage your blockers take to a single chump, however it preserves the oppressive nature of banding on the offense if you have, say, a 4/1 with first strike waiting to get into a fight. Serves as pseudo-evasion since trading a 2/2 for a 1/1 with escort paired with a 1/2 with haste is generally a faux pas. Also deathtouch is a thing now. This would be good if you wanted to get in with a bunch of little creatures. |
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Post by kefke on Feb 7, 2020 12:50:09 GMT
I first made a new take on Banding, but I wasn't happy with it. The clear correct solution to the way that not having Banding has reduced the tactical side of combat is to reinstate Banding as a mechanic, but I know that just making a new creature with Banding won't win votes. Ultimately, I decided that I don't care about the votes, but there is something I care about more than Banding.  Issue: Removing interrupts from the game breaks/changes how those cards were intended to work. For example, the submitted card can't work as an instant, because the opponent can just activate the target permanent's abilities in response to it being cast. Solution: You might notice that my submitted card is an officially printed card. The only changes I've made are to add new reminder text, and update the rarity to better match modern standards. That's because my solution isn't to come up with something new. I assert that WotC made a mistake, and the correct way to fix it is to roll back the change, and reimplement the old rules in a way that works in the new system. Hence, the interrupt stack. Without accompanying rules amendments, it can't work perfectly, but it makes them function much closer to how they were originally designed and balanced. (Yes, I am going to lose submitting this. Sometimes it's about taking a stand.) |
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MaiApologies (She/Her)
1/1 Squirrel
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Favorite Set: Ikoria: Lair of Behemoths
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Post by MaiApologies (She/Her) on Feb 7, 2020 18:00:09 GMT
The name is, or course, a joke on the fact that Arcane is a parasitic mechanic. How do you fix a parasitic mechanic? Well, you don't, because Arcane sucks, but something that basically turns Splice onto Arcane into an inherent property of the creature that still incentivizes running the actual cards that use the mechanic (by letting you cast Instants with Arcane, or paying the actual Splice costs of cards instead of discarding a card) seems like a good place to start.
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Post by fluffydeathbringer on Feb 7, 2020 18:06:24 GMT
kefke have you considered taking your stand in a way that doesn't derail a contest for original custom cards, specifically
anyway, some of y'all might have noticed that sexy "abolish mythic" in my signature. this is partially because it's my (possibly incorrect) understanding that wotc initially wanted the mythic rarity to be about cards with a mythic, heavy, impressive feeling to them (story flagship legends, walkers, big spells, big effects, weird effects) rather than just pushed value cards (I will strangle lotus cobra to death with my bare hands). even though I think having a "rare, but rarer" draft rarity is stupid in general for various reasons, I think the way to fix mythic is to make it more about having a sense of grandeur to it and less about just being super gud, so here's a mythic that fits my vision
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Post by sdfkjgh on Feb 7, 2020 18:40:24 GMT
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Post by Daij_Djan on Feb 10, 2020 22:04:56 GMT
This thread is now closed, the poll can be found here. And here's the next challenge! |
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"When in doubt, do a common." 
