pistonsmcgraw
2/2 Zombie
Posts: 103
Favorite Card: Davriel, Soul Broker
Favorite Set: Unstable
Color Alignment: Blue, Black, Red
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Post by pistonsmcgraw on Dec 23, 2022 6:11:20 GMT
  Katya is a young girl who loves her stuffed fox, Aleandra, dearly. So it makes sense that her spark related to her love of foxes. Seriously? What are the chances of two people having stuffed foxes in their room when they read that? |
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pistonsmcgraw
2/2 Zombie
Posts: 103
Favorite Card: Davriel, Soul Broker
Favorite Set: Unstable
Color Alignment: Blue, Black, Red
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Post by pistonsmcgraw on Dec 23, 2022 7:49:08 GMT
 My object is a book. |
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Post by Flo00 on Dec 28, 2022 13:47:48 GMT
Judging sometime on Friday or Saturday.
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Post by Daij_Djan on Dec 29, 2022 18:55:15 GMT
Time for a last minute entry then!
Laja is a character I once came up with for a Pen & Paper game after stumbling across this artwork by pure accident. Born as a faerie without wings she got abandoned by her tribe at a young age, she then met the beast wolf Faex and forged a bond with him. In the game, Laja is a combination of a beastmaster, wolf druid & a rider - allowing her to buff and/or heal her companion at will, intimidating her opponents while she rides into battle on his back, coordinating his attacks with the rest of the team if necessary.
Reminder: Ruthless is my own deciduous mechanic taken from (fittingly enough  ) Lone Wolf. |
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Phyrexian Ymonrah
6/6 Wurm
Posts: 344
Favorite Card: Omnath, Locus of All
Favorite Set: War of the Spark
Color Alignment: White, Blue, Black, Red, Green, Colorless
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Post by Phyrexian Ymonrah on Dec 30, 2022 13:06:07 GMT
Ho ho ho, Merry Xmas! I only had a Santa Claus near and his reindeers. 
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Post by Flo00 on Jan 1, 2023 4:10:38 GMT
Happy new year everyone! Judging has arrived: {Idea}What I really like about Nabose is how they interact with suspend and still works if you don't have any suspend cards. What I don't like is that the  doesn't do anything on its own. If I use it and then Nabose gets killed, I just exiled a card from my deck. I really like the idea of the calendar's scry ability, that your fate is fixed. It sounds like an effect that needs to be keyworded to cover up a range of corner cases. There are things that allow you to cast from the top of you library or scry, which lets you put cards on the bottom. Does the effect then apply to the new top card? And I'm pretty sure there are some other strange effects to take in account. The second ability of the calendar works great with Nabose and sounds nice. It also sounds easy to abuse. Restock and Revival Experiment are the first things that come to my mind and I'm sure there are more broken things to do with it. {emberfire17}A fox tribal 'walker sounds interesting. Compared with various Gideons I think she could be bigger than just a 2/2. Also with the rebalancing I think the second ability could maybe cost less loyalty.
{pistonsmcgraw}As with Idea's entry, I don't like that the  doesn't do anything on its own. It feels like about every second turn Mahogany won't do anything except prepare for the other ability. Just adding a scry 1 (or maybe even surveil 1 for synergy) to the ability would make it feel much better. {Daij_Djan}First off, I'm amazed that you had a living wolf around when you read this challenge.
Ok, joke aside. I like how Laja can work with any creature but works really well with her bestie. I also like how the cost reflect that her effects are way more green than black.
{Ymonrah}So you life on the north pole? I think the idea of the Gift token is funny. I just don't think anyone should ever activate this; especially with lifesurge around. I think there should ba a way to activate this yourself. Maybe something like Saint Nikolavs's controller and target opponent of them creates a Gift token. And just a small thing on wording, I think what you are looking for is an "interveining if clause" (603.4 here). So you want the "if you control seven or less Elk creatures" before the "create". I like all the entries. There can only be one {winner}This one goes to Daij_Djan, since aside from being an interesting card it did the best job of conveying the flavor of that one "thing" she allways wants and has with her. 2nd place goes to emberfire17 |
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pistonsmcgraw
2/2 Zombie
Posts: 103
Favorite Card: Davriel, Soul Broker
Favorite Set: Unstable
Color Alignment: Blue, Black, Red
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Post by pistonsmcgraw on Jan 1, 2023 4:56:01 GMT
You don't remove the spell from exile you copy it, so you can cast it using the - on future turns.
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Post by Idea on Jan 1, 2023 11:09:48 GMT
Happy new year everyone! Judging has arrived: {Spoiler}{Idea}What I really like about Nabose is how they interact with suspend and still works if you don't have any suspend cards. What I don't like is that the doesn't do anything on its own. If I use it and then Nabose gets killed, I just exiled a card from my deck. I really like the idea of the calendar's scry ability, that your fate is fixed. It sounds like an effect that needs to be keyworded to cover up a range of corner cases. There are things that allow you to cast from the top of you library or scry, which lets you put cards on the bottom. Does the effect then apply to the new top card? And I'm pretty sure there are some other strange effects to take in account. The second ability of the calendar works great with Nabose and sounds nice. It also sounds easy to abuse. Restock and Revival Experiment are the first things that come to my mind and I'm sure there are more broken things to do with it. I guess the compass's ability could have been worded more clearly. My intention was for things like scry not to work (in my head putting a card on the bottom is changing the order since it's only changing the card's position within the deck) but casting from the top to work. |
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Post by Flo00 on Jan 2, 2023 6:31:47 GMT
You don't remove the spell from exile you copy it, so you can cast it using the - on future turns. I know. You need to twice to get enough counters to  once. So you can go +--+-dead or +--++-++-... And that is assuming she doesn't get attacked. |
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pistonsmcgraw
2/2 Zombie
Posts: 103
Favorite Card: Davriel, Soul Broker
Favorite Set: Unstable
Color Alignment: Blue, Black, Red
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Post by pistonsmcgraw on Jan 2, 2023 20:23:01 GMT
Fair. Maybe it should be a 0 instead of a minus.
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Post by Daij_Djan on Jan 3, 2023 16:25:52 GMT
First off, I'm amazed that you had a living wolf around when you read this challenge.
Wait.. You don't? I've been told the wolf beast sitting to my right at my computer would be a bit weird and intimidating to others - but never believed them.. 
No seriously, I completely forgot that part of the challenge Let's say, my character folder to my right was totally and most definitely open so that I at least had the picture to look at, shall we? 
Big thanks for the win! Glad you liked the mana cost in particular, since I originally planned on costing her at    but then realized there really wasn't much black about her^^
For your next challenge, talking about being just barely in a color: Take a look at the 2021 Color Pie article. Design a monocolored planeswalker featuring at least one ability merely tertiary in its slice of the color pie! |
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Post by Flo00 on Jan 3, 2023 17:52:47 GMT
I did the lazy thing and just went with the first three things in white's list: animating lands, basic land counting and card draw. Seana, Meadowherder   Legendary Planeswalker - Seana  Support abilities your team controls can target noncreature permanents. : Parley — Each player reveals the top card of their library. Support X, where X is the number of nonland cards revealed this way. Then each player draws a card. : Until end of turn, target Plains becomes a 0/0 Elemental creature with haste, vigilance and “This creature gets +1/+1 for each Plains your Team controls.”  |
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Post by Idea on Jan 3, 2023 18:06:23 GMT
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Reality Glitch
0/0 Germ
Posts: 39
Color Alignment: White, Blue, Red, Green, Colorless
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Post by Reality Glitch on Jan 5, 2023 2:55:36 GMT
Gaif, Master Alienist Legendary Planeswalker — Gaif   Whenever a creature deals damage to ~, destroy it. : For each creature that died under your opponents' control since your previous turn, create a 1/1 black Horror creature token. , Sacrifice X Horrors: Gain control of target creature with mana value X for as long as you control ~.  , Sacrifice a non-Horror creature: search your library for a Horror permanent card with mana value equal to the sacrificed creature's mana value plus 1 and put it onto the battlefield with a haste counter on it. Then shuffle. |
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Post by Jartis on Jan 5, 2023 3:32:30 GMT
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Post by Daij_Djan on Mar 12, 2023 1:02:53 GMT
Wow, completely forgot about this one when it fell from the first page.. Thanks @ Flo00 for the subtle reminder 
Judging will be done either on Sunday or Tuesday - so get your last minute entries in, everyone |
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Post by Daij_Djan on Mar 19, 2023 19:47:44 GMT
Should have expected to not meet the deadline, but oh well Finally, let's go! { Flo00}Interesting static ability. Of course at first glimpse you want to target your lands in preparation for the animating them – but that aside bein able to buff uncrewed Vehicles definitely has its uses as well. If only the Support ability itself wasn't as low powered for the most part.. Not much else to say – it's a clever design and cudos for doing a team-based walker. { Idea}That Protection line is so hilariously flavorful – love it despite my gameplay concerns with it That aside, interesting that nicely feeds into the ultimate. Other than that, I don't have much to add besides a minor wording nitpick. { Reality Glitch}I'm a bit torn on Gaif. On the one hand, I love how each ability nicely fits into the next one, but on the other hand exactly worries me considering Horrors really aren't that deep of a tribe. You really want to use the tokens to sacrifice for the , but how many of those will you get when the static ability pretty much discourages opponents from attacking unless they can remove Gaif in a single swing for sure? And how many Horrors even are there (especially keeping in mind the mana value requirement)) worth tutoring for for the ultimate after you went through all the trouble? All in all, I feel like Gaif reads awesome, but probably plays worse. { Jartis}I love that , that's a very cool ability. The other two abiliies feel rather unbalanced though. I might be missing something, but the ultimate feels really weak – especially considering Hyza doesn't even help you milling yourself in the first place. Sure, if you pair this with selfmill, you can craft a perfect library (but that feels way too much additional effort for an ultimate), or you have a long-game protection against milling yourself out – but often does that ever come up? On the other hand, a planeswalker which cannot be dealt damage by creatures feels insanely powerful.. {And the winner is..} Flo00! |
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Post by Flo00 on Mar 23, 2023 21:46:32 GMT
Thanks for the win Daij_Djan!
Next: Make a planeswalker that feels at home on two different planes!
Show something of both worlds in their abilities.
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emberfire17
2/2 Zombie
Posts: 146
Formerly Known As: a goblin
Favorite Card: Gishath, Sun's Avatar
Favorite Set: Ixalan
Color Alignment: Red, Green
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Post by emberfire17 on Mar 24, 2023 0:10:42 GMT
 Tollo is a human monster hunter from Innistrad, and Selia is an elven fireweaver from Zendikar. |
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Post by Idea on Mar 24, 2023 17:17:35 GMT
An avian from Tarkhir heard there were dragons in Kamigawa. Little did he know his home was about to go through a bit of a shift...  {Not part of the contest, but for extra context}  |
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emberfire17
2/2 Zombie
Posts: 146
Formerly Known As: a goblin
Favorite Card: Gishath, Sun's Avatar
Favorite Set: Ixalan
Color Alignment: Red, Green
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Post by emberfire17 on Mar 24, 2023 21:34:01 GMT
Thanks for the win Daij_Djan! Next: Make a planeswalker that feels at home on two different planes! Show something of both worlds in their abilities. Is having two different planeswalkers on the same card allowed? I'll change my entry if not. |
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Post by Flo00 on Mar 25, 2023 0:42:24 GMT
Thanks for the win Daij_Djan! Next: Make a planeswalker that feels at home on two different planes! Show something of both worlds in their abilities. Is having two different planeswalkers on the same card allowed? I'll change my entry if not. This works. I'm always open for interpreting a challenge as broad as you like. |
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"When in doubt, do a common." 
