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Post by Daij_Djan on Mar 2, 2020 10:06:39 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 seventh challenge!
The winner of the "Mox in a Box" poll was Daij_Djan with... And the challenge issued by our winner was... Inspired by my own entry which basically used Level up in a new way, your next challenge will be: Choose any existing mechanic in MtG and design a card using it in a new and interesting way. Have fun!
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 arthurxiv on Mar 2, 2020 11:38:28 GMT
The idea here is to make yet another card like these: PonderPreordainBrainstormPortentOptSerum VisionsSleight of HandSpy Network, but which uses the bottom of the library instead. (Brainstorm using the bottom of the library would probably be broken though.) Punder  Sorcery  Look at the bottom three cards of your library, then put them back in any order. You may shuffle your library. Draw the bottom card of your library. Tomorrow belongs to those who prepared for it years ago. Here i think it makes a weaker Ponder, as the shuffling doesn't help much anymore. Of course this mechanic becomes a little bit stronger if you have cards that say "Reveal the top card of your library until [...] and put the rest on the bottom of your library in any order." or specific picking stuff like Augur of Bolas, because it helps you draw anything that slipped through your hand. It also works with stuff like Murderous Rider or Cauldron of Eternity which are supposed to put your creatures at the bottom of your library as a drawback. |
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Post by Flo00 on Mar 2, 2020 12:45:54 GMT
 Dream Booster  Creature - Wizard  Heroic — Whenever you cast a spell that targets Dream Booster, that spell can’t be countered. You may search you library for a card with the same name as that spell, reveal it and put it into your hand. If you do, shuffle your library. 1/3 |
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Post by sdfkjgh on Mar 2, 2020 17:41:11 GMT
A bit of pandering to an audience of one. Tis a pity she's already blocked me on twitter.
Erin Campbell, Graveyard Mistress   Legendary Creature--Zombie Wizard  Delve
Dredge 0
Trample
Each player may sacrifice any number of creatures they control. (They may do this at any time.)
Whenever a player sacrifices a creature, each of that player’s opponents discards a card. If a player can’t, they loses 2 life. 7/5 |
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Post by ZephyrPhantom on Mar 2, 2020 18:03:54 GMT
Ravelkeep Crossbowman   Creature - Archer ~ enters the battlefield with a bolt counter on it.  , Remove a bolt counter from ~: ~ deals 2 damage to target creature or planeswalker.  : Proliferate. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there.)1/3 Using Proliferate to emulate "loading" on projectile weapons like crossbows, cannons, bows, etc...
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Post by FLAREdirector on Mar 2, 2020 23:49:50 GMT
Daij_Djan Query: Does the mechanic I use have to be an official, black-bordered mechanic? Can I use something like kinfall or spirited as well?
EDIT: Also does it have to be a named mechanic, because a lot of Phoenixes have that recursive, graveyard-to-hand or -to-battlefield aspect that's pretty iconic.
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Post by Evil Coco on Mar 3, 2020 0:29:55 GMT
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Post by burntsquirrelman on Mar 3, 2020 1:54:24 GMT
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Post by arthurxiv on Mar 3, 2020 8:38:31 GMT
sdfkjgh: I propose: Erin Campbell, Graveyard Mistress Legendary Creature--Zombie Wizard Dredge 0, Delve, Trample Sacrifice any number of creatures: Each opponents discards a card. If they can't, they lose 2 life. Any player may activate this ability. 7/5
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Post by Daij_Djan on Mar 3, 2020 11:01:41 GMT
FLAREdirector: Definitely no mechanics from custom sets - and after some pondering no playtest card mechanics either. I'd say "mechanical themes" (that's how we called them for the old Duel Deck contests  ) are fine, though.
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Post by arthurxiv on Mar 3, 2020 12:34:15 GMT
FLAREdirector: If you already had an idea that fits Kinfall you may still adapt it to Kinship though.
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Post by Daij_Djan on Mar 3, 2020 14:01:05 GMT
Oh yeah, that's true. While I won't want the playtest cards to be used as the "original reference" for your designs, it's very true many of them would fit this challenge themselves.
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Post by FLAREdirector on Mar 3, 2020 18:08:36 GMT
Thanks for the clarification! It ended up not really mattering, but I figure it might still help other people with their cards. I think this card is sufficiently weird to qualify, since it's a new take on typecycling by way of Visitor from Planet Q. Even if it doesn't win, I'm really happy with it.
She's a citizen of, um, uhh, Netropolis. Yeah. That makes sense. (Disclaimer: It may not make sense.) |
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Post by sdfkjgh on Mar 3, 2020 20:43:59 GMT
sdfkjgh : I propose: Erin Campbell, Graveyard Mistress Legendary Creature--Zombie Wizard Dredge 0, Delve, Trample Sacrifice any number of creatures: Each opponents discards a card. If they can't, they lose 2 life. Any player may activate this ability. 7/5 That way, there's no innovation of just being able to sac creatures whenever. It's like with Jwar Jwar Sphinx: the first time players saw that ability, they lost their minds a little. |
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Post by Daij_Djan on Mar 3, 2020 21:53:39 GMT
For my own entry.. How about a tank?
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Post by luckyluciano777 on Mar 4, 2020 0:41:24 GMT
  Edit: Sorry you're sick, Daij_Djan. Have a Get-Well-Soon Card  |
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Post by kefke on Mar 4, 2020 18:04:01 GMT
 Honestly, I feel like weird new takes on existing mechanics is most of what I do. |
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Post by arthurxiv on Mar 4, 2020 19:23:43 GMT
kefke: Every time i see you posting this image pops in my head and i feel like i'll lose the game soon. Attachment Deleted
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Post by spazlaz on Mar 4, 2020 20:26:28 GMT
A balanced version of untap. referencing an atomic bomb. Achieving critical mass is represented by tapping the artifact.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 4, 2020 22:41:05 GMT
 Everything in this contest is extremely neat. This is my favorite CotW in a while. |
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Post by gateways7 on Mar 5, 2020 16:03:49 GMT
Whispers of the Maelstrom  Sorcery (uncommon) You draw three cards and you lose 3 life. Cascadecycling (, Discard this card: Exile cards from the top of your library until you exile a nonland card whose converted mana cost is less than this card's converted mana cost. You may cast that card without paying its mana cost. Then put all cards exiled this way that weren't cast on the bottom of your library in a random order.)
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Post by sdfkjgh on Mar 5, 2020 19:58:30 GMT
Whispers of the Maelstrom Sorcery (uncommon) You draw three cards and you lose 3 life. Cascadecycling (, Discard this card: Exile cards from the top of your library until you exile a nonland card whose converted mana cost is less than this card's converted mana cost. You may cast that card without paying its mana cost. Then put all cards exiled this way that weren't cast on the bottom of your library in a random order.) This is so brilliant, it's kinda hurting my head. |
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Post by fluffydeathbringer on Mar 5, 2020 20:14:27 GMT
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Post by Flo00 on Mar 5, 2020 22:07:09 GMT
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Post by fluffydeathbringer on Mar 5, 2020 23:21:42 GMT
that wouldn't really constitute a different enough use for this contest I think |
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Post by kefke on Mar 6, 2020 9:23:27 GMT
that wouldn't really constitute a different enough use for this contest I think There's not a large difference between the wordings. I'd say that if the same effect in a clarified style isn't different enough, that may indicate you should give this one a little more time in the oven. |
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Post by fluffydeathbringer on Mar 6, 2020 14:08:40 GMT
that wouldn't really constitute a different enough use for this contest I think There's not a large difference between the wordings. I'd say that if the same effect in a clarified style isn't different enough, that may indicate you should give this one a little more time in the oven. commentary about other people's entries being too derivative rings more than a bit hollow when it comes from someone who had enough self-awareness to know that practically copypasting a canon card into a custom card contest wouldn't be approved of, but not enough self-awareness to not do it
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Post by arthurxiv on Mar 6, 2020 15:00:03 GMT
fluffydeathbringer: You shouldn't be angry for just this, especially here they're right (in my opinion) when they say that your card is not using Escape differently from how it's usually used. I don't know about this copypasting precedent you discuss but it's not relevant to bring it back here, everyone is trying to fix their previous mistakes.
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Post by fluffydeathbringer on Mar 6, 2020 15:48:11 GMT
arthurxiv now that I think about it, you're right about the entry
did a rules thing with it to mirror entering with +1/+1 counters and standardize alt-escapes a lil. also made it legendary because of accidental bustedness
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Post by augur on Mar 6, 2020 15:49:21 GMT
 Unbounded Experiment  Creature- Elemental Instantdelve, sorcerydelve (Each instant and/or sorcery card you exile from your graveyard while casting this pays for .)When ~ enters the battlefield, exile the top four cards of your library. Until the end of your next turn, you may cast instant and/or sorcery cards exiled this way. 4/4 |
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"When in doubt, do a common." 
) are fine, though.
