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Post by Daij_Djan on May 11, 2020 14:05:41 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 sixteenth challenge!
The winner of the "No, not you!" poll was Aarhg with... And the challenge issued by our winner was... Design a card that mentions at least three of the seven (black-bordered) zones in Magic. They are: library, hand, battlefield, graveyard, stack, exile, and command zone. 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 Daij_Djan on May 11, 2020 16:48:34 GMT
Interestingly enough, there are no offcolor Madness cards out there..
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Post by sdfkjgh on May 11, 2020 17:25:00 GMT
Manipulate Mind  Signature Instant--Jace  Target player reveals the top five cards of their library. You put one of those cards into their hand, one on top of their library, one on the bottom of their library, one into exile, and one into their graveyard.
Just a reminder on signature cards: as long as you control a planeswalker that shares a planeswalker type with a signature card in your library, you may  that planeswalker any time you could activate any of its other loyalty abilities to search your library for a signature card that shares a planeswalker type with that planeswalker, reveal that card, put it into your hand, then shuffle your library.
Tl;dr: If you control a Jace, you can it to search your library for Manipulate Mind. |
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spazlaz
6/6 Wurm
Posts: 333
Color Alignment: Blue, Black
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Post by spazlaz on May 11, 2020 18:00:13 GMT
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Post by Flo00 on May 11, 2020 21:55:21 GMT
 {fullart}  Lessons of Leadership Sorcery  Look at the top X cards of your library, where X is 1 plus the number of times you’ve cast your commander from the command zone this game. Put one of them into your hand and the rest into your graveyard. Might make more sense as an instant? |
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Post by Flo00 on May 11, 2020 22:02:37 GMT
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Post by ZephyrPhantom on May 11, 2020 22:15:04 GMT
Niolw, the Many-Eyed Librarian   Creature - Homunculus Wizard  Companion — Your maximum hand size is one. (If this card is your chosen companion, you may cast it once from outside the game.)At the beginning of your upkeep, look at the top card of your library. If it's an instant or sorcery card, you may put that card into your graveyard. Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, you may return target instant or sorcery card from your graveyard to your hand. 2/2 Zones: Hand, library, graveyard (with sideboard/outside the game as a bonus). Compare Kess, Dissident Mage which is more resilient and doesn't demand a drawback - Niolw is more consistent but harder to plan around.
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Post by SilentKobold on May 11, 2020 22:33:32 GMT
On mobile, so I'll fix the symbols later. Anyways, I always thought this mechanic could be reused on wizards....  |
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Post by sade612 on May 11, 2020 22:57:14 GMT
 Suspenseful Reveal   Sorcery Search your library for a card and exile it face down, then shuffle your library. Target opponent guesses its name. Turn that card face up. If your opponent guessed wrong, put it into your hand. Flashback I was tempted to put "Otherwise, draw a card" on it as a throwback to Covenant of Minds, or Distant Memories, but I decided on Flashback to get back some extra card advantage instead since it works well with Surveil. Maybe I should have gone with Jump-Start instead, but I thought Flashback fit the Noire theme better. |
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Post by Flo00 on May 12, 2020 13:49:42 GMT
ZephyrPhantom: Maybe add to the reminder if the restriction affects your starting hand size? sade612: Maybe make it "an opponent" instead of "target opponent"? I know Intuition and Gifts Ungiven also use target. I still think it's a bit strange when you are not able to search your library because your opponent(s) has hexproof.
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Post by gamma3 on May 12, 2020 17:38:59 GMT
 Mentions library, battlefield, and hand. Boros card advantage? Yes please. |
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Post by Xenagos on May 12, 2020 19:24:39 GMT
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Post by SilentKobold on May 12, 2020 19:37:45 GMT
Just a friendly reminder to whom it concerns, your entries only mention two zones. I feel both of you have forgotten the battlefield isn't actually mentioned on either entry. spazlaz: Graveyard, Hand Xenagos: Hand, Graveyard |
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digiman619
1/1 Squirrel
Posts: 87 
Favorite Card: Extinction
Favorite Set: Dominaria
Color Alignment: Blue, Red
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Post by digiman619 on May 12, 2020 19:54:56 GMT
 Undead Librarian Creature- Skeleton Druid Flash Cards in your hand have "Cycling- , Exile two cards from your graveyard." Whenever you cycle a card, exile it rather than put it in your graveyard. 1/3 |
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Post by gamma3 on May 12, 2020 19:56:42 GMT
SilentKobold correct, they don't mention the battlefield, but exile is a zone
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Post by Daij_Djan on May 12, 2020 20:39:07 GMT
Well, the big question is if exile counts if used as a verb rather than as a noun. I actually dropped my first design because of this, but in the end its Aarhg to decide.. |
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Post by Aarhg on May 12, 2020 21:41:22 GMT
Well, the big question is if exile counts if used as a verb rather than as a noun. I actually dropped my first design because of this, but in the end its Aarhg to decide.. Whoops, that was a bit of an oversight on my part, should have been more specific. However, now that there have already been made entries that use ‘exile’ as a verb, let’s just say it’s alright. But this will be the only exception, so something like naming your card “Ancient Library” will not count as mentioning the library as a zone, even if the card mentions its own name in its text box. |
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Evil Coco
2/2 Zombie
Posts: 110
Favorite Set: Shadowmoor
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Post by Evil Coco on May 13, 2020 1:23:17 GMT
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spazlaz
6/6 Wurm
Posts: 333
Color Alignment: Blue, Black
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Post by spazlaz on May 13, 2020 2:29:50 GMT
Just a friendly reminder to whom it concerns, your entries only mention two zones. I feel both of you have forgotten the battlefield isn't actually mentioned on either entry. spazlaz : Graveyard, Hand Xenagos : Hand, Graveyard Mine mentions exile.
I assume xenagos does as well
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Post by SilentKobold on May 13, 2020 3:46:37 GMT
Yeah, we ironed out whether verbs count a few posts later  |
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Post by viriss on May 13, 2020 4:14:20 GMT
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Post by 2wb on May 13, 2020 6:06:12 GMT
 Doubly Taught :: Sorcery Exile the top three cards of your library, then put one into your hand. You may play cards exiled this way until your next draw step. I am dumb |
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Post by gateways7 on May 13, 2020 20:52:25 GMT
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Post by Jartis on May 14, 2020 0:50:53 GMT
This one is a bit of a mess, but I wanted to get it in in case I never fixed it in time.  |
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Post by sdfkjgh on May 14, 2020 17:15:11 GMT
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Post by Aarhg on May 14, 2020 22:55:35 GMT
I had a hard time with this challenge, but after trying to make a bunch of bad ideas work, I ended up doing something a little simpler than what I had originally planned.
Here's a white zombie. Mentions graveyard, battlefield, and exile (as a verb  ).
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Post by aiamethyst on May 16, 2020 19:54:35 GMT
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Post by Boogymanjunior on May 17, 2020 19:47:55 GMT
Added the "you looked at" clause (luckily having a precedent in Lim-Dûl's Vault) to avoid the idea that you could also shuffle all other cards from your graveyard under your library if you choose to return a card from the graveyard.  |
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Post by Daij_Djan on May 18, 2020 13:18:34 GMT
This thread is now closed, the poll can be found here. And here's the next challenge! |
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