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Post by kefke on Jul 3, 2023 4:58:36 GMT
Well, since the last one was sci-fi...
Be sure to include a brief explanation of the inspiring character for people who may not be familiar!
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Post by Flo00 on Jul 4, 2023 20:11:44 GMT
I feel like I only know the cliché ones in that list. And not even all of them. Alice, Mirror-Dreamer    Legendary Planeswalker - Alice   : Eat me — Until end of turn, target creature gains reach and trample and has base power and toughness 5/5.  : Drink me — Until end of turn, target creature loses all abilities and has base power and toughness 1/1.  : Wake up — Each opponent shuffles all nonland permanents they own into their library.  |
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Post by emberfire17 on Jul 6, 2023 0:38:06 GMT
 The Phantom Tollbooth is one of my favorite kids' books, so it makes me very happy to see it in the top 100. Rhyme and Reason are two princess sisters who were banished by their brothers, the ruler of Dictionopolis and the ruler of Digitopolis for saying that numbers and letters are equally important. Therefore, it only makes sense that their card would revolve around numbers and letters. |
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Reality Glitch
2/2 Zombie
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Color Alignment: White, Blue, Red, Green, Colorless
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Post by Reality Glitch on Jul 8, 2023 0:06:00 GMT
The image is broken on my end, so it may be good to add a text description as well. |
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Post by Flo00 on Jul 8, 2023 18:41:25 GMT
The image is broken on my end, so it may be good to add a text description as well. Funny, I can see it. |
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Reality Glitch
2/2 Zombie
Posts: 131
Color Alignment: White, Blue, Red, Green, Colorless
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Post by Reality Glitch on Jul 8, 2023 19:13:32 GMT
Headmaster Dumbledore    Legendary Tribal Planeswalker — Wizard Albis  : Choose a color. Create a 0/0 Wizard creature token of that color. Put two +1/+1 counters on it.  : Until end of turn, target Wizard has “Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, put a counter on this permanent of a kind already there.”  : Wizards you control gain indestructible until end of turn and each that’s a creature or planeswalker fights a different target creature or planeswalker an opponent controls. Each Wizard creature that didn’t fight this way deals damage equal to its power to a different target opponent. (Noncreature planeswalkers fight using their loyalty.)Headmaster Dumbledore may be your Commander. A bit loose with the interpretation, since that Ultimate is more what happens after Ablis Dumbledore’s presumed death, but it’d be a bit awkward to make into an emblem. Trying to fit the four houses to the five colors would also be too fiddly, so I just settled on something more abstract. |
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Post by Daij_Djan on Jul 8, 2023 23:49:20 GMT
Looking through the list, I noticed Good Omens. To not give away to much about the story, I'll just quote the short summary Time Magazine provides:
Other than that, just one more note since it's the basis for the design: After having spent centuries on earth, Aziraphale and Crowley in a meeting realize how both of them always cancel each other out in the end - which is why I wanted both abilities to be symetrical. Also it's an uncommon since with a third symmetrical ability the card would have gotten to wordy for my tastes, and I think the card works just fine as it is 
Seriously, if you haven't read the book - read it! Or watch the TV series, which is really well done.
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Post by Jartis on Jul 9, 2023 5:10:34 GMT
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Post by lordpat on Jul 11, 2023 4:38:14 GMT
 Jardis, aka the white witch, was a powerful sorcerer that at a brink of defeat of a war with her own sister, performed a spell so powerful that she destroyed all life in her entire world. Eventually, she would end up in Narnia, and after being banished by the lion ruler Aslan; swore to rise an army to take revange and take over it. She would change the weather of this world, making it so that it would always be winter. She could also turn others into stone, manipulate ice among many other things. |
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Post by kefke on Jul 28, 2023 22:41:29 GMT
Sorry, everyone. I forgot to submit my judgement on this one.
I don't remember the reasons for it (sorry again), but the winner was Flo00. |
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Post by Flo00 on Jul 29, 2023 19:05:23 GMT
Thanks for the win kefke! Next challenge: We got DFC planeswalkers with creatures on the other face, with planeswalkers on both faces and Teferi who sits on the back face of a battle. Make a planeswalker with another card type on the other face!It can be modal or transforming and the walker can be on either side, as long as the other is not a creature, planeswalker or battle. |
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Post by Idea on Jul 29, 2023 19:45:14 GMT
As a complete sidenote, I find it funny Teferi comes into play after the battle is ended. Master of Time magic showing up late to the fight.
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Post by fluffydeathbringer on Jul 30, 2023 16:08:12 GMT
oh cool, an opportunity to share something about the Kaleidoscope remake set I'm working on I'll start working on again at some point without falling into the trap of procrastinating it forever due to having built up expectation for it
I feel like (hope) this one's the least context-sensitive and can stand on its own without requiring esoteric knowledge about the tattered, moth-eaten scraps of Fluffy Lore that remain around here or taking a wiki dive into the incomplete restoration efforts I've got going on right now. credit to Dravos Argentium for indirectly giving me the idea to do this for my set on the MSEM Discord |
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Post by Idea on Jul 30, 2023 16:10:57 GMT
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Post by Daij_Djan on Aug 2, 2023 20:24:44 GMT
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Post by Idea on Aug 2, 2023 20:41:25 GMT
What a bleak setting these planeswalkers would make, each one either the result of or causing some curse
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Post by Flo00 on Aug 8, 2023 17:25:34 GMT
I won't find time to judge this for another week. You can wait, or if anyone wants me to just quickly announce a winner, I'll to that.
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Post by Idea on Aug 8, 2023 19:01:24 GMT
I can't speak for anyone else, but I am fine waiting for feedback.
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Post by fluffydeathbringer on Aug 9, 2023 1:35:07 GMT
I won't find time to judge this for another week. You can wait, or if anyone wants me to just quickly announce a winner, I'll to that. I'd prefer the quick announcement so we can get things moving |
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Post by Flo00 on Aug 14, 2023 0:00:17 GMT
Sorry for the delay. {fluffydeathbringer}Solid planeswalker on the back of a really powerful spell. It ranges from boardwipe to selected killing of small creatures to finishing off when life total get small. And at instant speed too.
I like the story this card tells.
{Idea}I like how you put the counters on the creature so you have the challenge of getting one though the whole process. I also like how Gassnim keeps the abilities from the other side and saves you the mana for them. On the other hand, it seems a bit boring for the effort you need to get it. Small word about transforming: You actually need to exile and return the card or the planeswalker woN't have any loyalty. {Daij_Djan}I like the curse theme and what the front side does. I don't like the back side. Before I watch a player control me for three rounds, I'll just concede. I know most ultimates have a "you win the game" vibe, but this seems just unfun to me.
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Post by Idea on Aug 16, 2023 0:35:53 GMT
Thank you for the win!
For the next challenge, make a de-sparking planeswalker. This is a planeswalker that transforms into a legendary creature, the reverse of a sparker.
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Post by serraphim on Aug 16, 2023 20:34:31 GMT
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Sanfonier of the Night
7/7 Elemental
Posts: 399
Favorite Card: The Prismatic Bridge
Favorite Set: War of the Spark
Color Alignment: White, Blue, Black, Red, Green, Colorless
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Post by Sanfonier of the Night on Aug 16, 2023 23:35:29 GMT
Where did you get that frame? |
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Post by ZephyrPhantom on Aug 17, 2023 1:34:10 GMT
 Animara, Relentless Drifter  Legendary Planeswalker - Animara At the beginning of your upkeep, you may remove a counter from target permanent or exiled card. If you do, put a loyalty counter on ~. : Put a -1/-1 counter on target creature. : Destroy target creature or artifact with a counter on it.  : You get an emblem with "Spells you control have Suspend X - Pay X life, where X is that spell's converted mana cost." Transform ~.  "When flesh and steel can no longer hide our frailness, what follows?"The Time Wraith Legendary Creature - Wraith At the beginning of your upkeep, choose any number of exiled cards, permanents, and/or players, then remove each another counter of each kind already there. You gain 2 life for each counter removed this way. 3/3 Now, she drifts untouched through all of history. |
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Post by Flo00 on Aug 17, 2023 14:05:00 GMT
Let's retell an old story... Xenagos, Center of the Party  Legendary Planeswalker - Xenagos  : Put a +1/+1 counter on each creature. : Untap target creature, gain control of it until end of turn and goad it. It gains haste until end of turn. : Exile Xenagos, then return it to the battlefield tansformed.  ----------- Xenagod, Neverending Revels  Legendary Creature - God Indestructible As long as your devotion to red and green is less than seven, Xenagod isn’t a creature. Whenever a creature you control deals 5 or more damage to a player, untap all creatures you control and after this phase there is an additional combat phase. This triggers only once each turn. 6/5 Yes, the first ability says each creature. Not just the ones you control. Everyone gets to party with Xenagos. |
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Post by serraphim on Aug 17, 2023 19:42:39 GMT
Where did you get that frame? They're the M15 Godzilla and GZ Walker frames in MSE with "No Alias" and "Show Border" selected under frame optioins. |
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Post by Idea on Aug 26, 2023 10:41:06 GMT
I'm back from my vacation, so I'll give it just a couple more days before I judge this one.
Any new entries welcome!
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Post by Idea on Aug 29, 2023 0:12:51 GMT
serraphim{Spoiler}An interesting way to transform. It's also interesting because the damage is technically still on it when it transforms, which likely means it's killing the creature version. Not sure if this is intentional, but I will assume it's that way for flavor reasons, like it can be killed, but if it loses all loyalty due to expending its power, then it becomes a creature. I like how his downgraded version lacks the ultimate entirely and splits his first loyalty ability. The cost ends up being steep though, a whole for scry 2, draw a card. Perhaps the draw could be cheaper, but require you to have scried that turn? Food for thought. The ultimate feels quite weak as well for one that requires a whole three up ticks on a planeswalker with no innate defenses. It's a neat ultimate in a vacuum, but could probaly just be at 6 loyalty, or even 5 loyalty and reducing his starting to 3, which would also match his creature toughness. {Spoiler}There's a lot going on here and I feel the flavor isn't super clear on what's going on in the normal to desparked version. That's not a dealbreaker, but there's just a lack of cohesion to how the card comes together, and I feel that's in part flavor, in part colors and in part that first loyalty ability. The card seems to overall want to care about suspend or similar mechanics, but the first and second loyalty abilities care about counters on the board. I guess the more I think about it, the more there's this transition happening between caring about what's on the board and what's in exile, which is pretty neat, but because what's happening flavor-wise is unclear and the card is mechanically split like that it still ends up feeling detached - and that's without accounting for the fact that suspend manipulation is simply something that fits more blue, though I suppose white isn't too detached from it.
The cost is definitely too high, I think, for a mythic planeswalker like this. Two starting loyalty, her plus only puts a -1/-1 counter so it has very little impact and barely provides defense, she can't use her second right away and her ultimate isn't a game-finisher kind of effect. I think this card could easily cost 3 mana and be fine.
As a final nitpit, as per planeswalker standards, the first loyalty ability should probably be "on up to one target creature", so as to be able to plus your planeswalker even if there are no creatures in play. Flo00{Spoiler}Aaah, right, Xenagos! Yeah a double-faced for him really makes a lot of sense for his lore, love that little reference there. I love the flavorfulness of the abilities here as well. The first ability, while I like that flavor of everyone partying with Xenagos, is very broken. Putting a +1/+1 counter on creatures you control is closer to a minus ability from a planeswalker at at least four mana (usually Ajani). This isn't putting them on just creatures you control, but you're probably getting the most if not all of this anyway, and rather than a minus this is putting a whole 2 loyalty counter on Xenagos. Either Xenagos would need to cost more, or this would need some nerfing. The rest of the abilities are pretty nice though. I love the use of the goad with red's Act of Treason is great for Xenago's reckless reveling, what with the creature being forced to attack. The godly side is also nice, both featuring standard Theros god tech as well as a nice repeating combat ability. Not sure if 5 damage would be the right amount for the ability to be good but fair, but that's something one could probably only assess with playtesting. Winner {Spoiler}Of the entries, in terms of the flavor reasons to transition from planeswalker to creature, and of the execution of the abilities, I believe Flo00 is the winner this round.
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Post by ZephyrPhantom on Aug 29, 2023 4:09:43 GMT
Yeah, fair enough. I think I'd say I tried to capture a story that was too big for a card and paid for it. Always have that problem with the +1 too.
I feel like this isn't the first time I've made a Planeswalker that has been thought of as overcosted recently - guess I'm falling behind the times lol. I'll figure it out at some point.
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Post by Flo00 on Aug 31, 2023 18:50:37 GMT
Thanks for the win Idea!
Next challenge: Let's go retro: Make a planeswalker that mentions at least one keyword printed before 8th edition!
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"When in doubt, do a common." 
