There are Two Types of Creature on this Card Game

emberfire17 : What luck!  I just did one yesterday:

Bone Breaker 
Creature--Orc Skeleton Assassin
Flash
Kicker and/or
If Bone Breaker was kicked with its kicker, when it enters the battlefield, it deals 1 damage to any target.
If Bone Breaker was kicked with its kicker, it enters the battlefield with a deathtouch counter and a deathtouch for planeswalkers counter on it.
When Bone Breaker enters the battlefield, destroy target permanent that was dealt damage this turn.
4/2



Judge changes:

Cryptella the Despoiler 
Legendary Creature--Slug Skeleton
Swampwalk
: Put a bone counter on target non-Swamp land. For as long as a land has a bone counter on it, that land is a basic Swamp instead of any other types, loses all other abilities, and can’t have or gain other abilities. This ability costs more to activate for each land with a bone counter on it controlled by the targeted land’s controller. Activate this ability only as a sorcery.
Whenever Cryptella the Despoiler deals combat damage to a player or planeswalker, return target creature or planeswalker with mana value X or less from that player’s or that planeswalker’s controller’s graveyard to to the battlefield under your control, where X is the number of Swamps controlled by that player or that planeswalker’s controller.
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“But Slugs don’t even have skeletons!”
“You try telling it that!”
7/7

Maybe there's some rule I don't know regarding this, but wouldn't this effect enter into an infinite loop where the as soon as this has no +1/+1 counters the triggered ability is constantly triggering ---> replace death with removal of counters ---> trigger again ?

I'll probably get to judging this one sometime this weekend, so get any last entries in!

Little later than intended, but judging time!


Flo00 - nice and simple, like the nine lives flavor.

Idea - not much to say about this, I like the concept though and could definitely see it as an actual card.

serraphim - love the art, and interesting use of undying. I'd put it at maybe an uncommon though, it's not super super powerful.

sdfkjgh - my first thought was "but slugs don't have skeletons" and then I read the flavor text lol. Love the ability, though if it's on a 7 cmc creature and increases in cost each time, I might even set its cost at 3 or 4.

pernicious - very amusing flavor. Nothing crazy, but solid flicker ability as a common.

melono - I'm always a fan of randomly chosen things, and it's a good ability.

thaneofglamis - protective combat creatures are always handy, good stuff.

vizionarius - interesting twist on the "prevent damage and remove counters" types, and a bit better than them if it only loses counters on lethal damage.

Jartis - we don't see gremlins enough, I like it! Definitely fits right in with Kaladesh themes.


winner - sdfkjgh with vizionarius as runner up

Sliver Bloodletter
Creature - Sliver Warlock
Slivers you control have "at the beginning of your end step, if this creature dealt combat damage to a player this turn, that player loses 1 life."
It brings the daggers.
3/3

Sliver Patriarch 
Creature - Sliver Cleric
Slivers you control have "at the beginning of your end step, if this creature didn't enter the battlefield this turn, you gain 2 life."
It sings the prayers.
4/4

Sliver Arsonist 
Creature - Sliver Shaman
Slivers you control have "at the beginning of your end step, if this creature attacked this turn, it deals 1 damage to any target."
It lights the flames.
3/2

Sliver Hermit 
Creature - Sliver Druid
Slivers you control have "at the beginning of your end step, if this creature didn't attack this turn, put a shield counter on it."
It carves the wards.
4/4

Sliver Archmage 
Creature - Sliver Wizard
Slivers you control have "at the beginning of your end step, if this creature entered the battlefield this turn, draw a card."
It teaches the hive.
2/3

Scholarly Sliver 
Creature - Sliver Wizard 
Slivers you control have "When this creature enters the battlefield, scry 1."
"You taught it to READ? WHY??" - Teferi to his student
2/2

Idea gets theirs in right under the wire!  Would've liked to've seen the first ability be granted to other Slivers, but other than that, it's a fairly decent Cleric.

emberfire17: Bonus points for the excellent humorous flavor text, but beyond that, it's not all that exciting.

thaneofglamis : Ok, yeah, always want mana smoothing, but Homing Sliver already exists, so...

vizionarius : You gave me everything I asked for, and so much more.  The only stumble (and it's slight, but quite the oversight) is the Patriarch.  With a board stall, you're gaining upwards of 6 life on each of your turns, and boardstalls with this level of lifegain will snowball, fast!  Eventually, you won't even need to block.  If the trigger worked off of entering the battlefield this turn, then that'd be alright.  Other than that, some very nice innovations on the tribe (or type now, I guess).

Winner: C'mon now, we all knew it was gonna be vizionarius and their full 5-card cycle, especially after everyone else only turned in 1 card.  Let this be a lesson to you all: unless the Challenge specifically forbids it, I always want more designs than just one, so I can get a better idea of what you're doing.

Truth be told, I did initially start making a cycle… until I realized my cycle cared about creature race rather than class and the effects it granted wouldn’t be much indication of sentience. That kind of killed motivation until I ended up thinking of the wordplay..


Edit: Jesus I keep posting stuff in the middle of others posting today

Flavor text reminds me of this guy.

So, I began by asking myself what exactly a robot is. Truth be told, there seems to be very few cases where a robot wouldn't just be an artifact creature, and even less when it wouldn't just be a construct. As far as I can tell from looking it up, it seems the first and prime distinction is that robots are not to be put on fantasy sets. In other words, robots are not magical, they do not operate on magic, they do not use magical components. A construct can be everything a robot is - a product of research and engineering with mechanical parts or even scifi elements - but they are still constructs from being fueled by something magic, by having some magical component, or by being animated by magic as a token of example. I figured then that using mana - the source of magic - might be something I would like to find alternatives to as a source to use a robot.

Second, high specialization. Constructs can have specialized jobs but as far as I can tell, construct are form over function or at least form equal to function. Robots on the other hand more or less slap together whatever works. They care about form, but only after function is settled. So it would be best to try something maybe humanoid-ish, but still definitely not human looking.

Third, robots are implied to not quite be mechas since those are vehicles but not quite constructs either, rather something in-between. There is precendent for this too, in the transformers Universes Beyond or Secret Lair (can't remember which it is). Rather than shifting form, I decided to make something that gets repurposed after it can no longer function autonomously.





sdfkjgh not entirely sure if that's accurate but it's edited now. Thanks for the feedback! Also took the opportunity to fix a couple of other templating mishaps I happened to spot.