The Golden Game

God-Pharaoh's Seer

Creature – Bird Cleric

Flying

When God-Pharaoh‘s Seer enters the battlefield, scry X, where X is equal to God-Pharaoh’s Seer’s power.

Eternalize

2/2

Well, shiftyhomunculus came up with the term arcun quite a while ago over at the old forum - and many users adopted it - but it's indeed weird for WotC not to have an official name for them as well. Anyway, my own entry is from Karsus - which I finally need to port over soon^TM to finish spoilers..

Stalking Spearman 
Creature - Human Warrior
First strike
Ambush (You may have this creature enter the battlefield tapped. If you do, it deals damage equal to its power to target creature an opponent controls.)
3/1

Judging is up!


oddnanref  
I really like the space that sever plays in, but I think this card just does too many disparate things. It's a value engine (sort of), can push through a blocker (only a few times), and is also devoid? The archetype this centers seems to be some sort of sneaky low-to-the-ground deck, which is definitely a cool strategy, but this will throw people for a loop in draft trying to figure out how this works.


kinotherapy  
Solid body, clear lifegain archetype, powerful payoff if you play into it. Blue doesn't usually play with lifegain, but if there's a couple lifelink fliers to support it I can see this being the boring-but-practical workhorse of a variant fliers deck.


@phoenix13
I looked through Hour of Devastation and was pretty surprised to see that there wasn't anything like this already! Another solid flying beater, especially after stacking your draws. Definitely a win-con in fliers.


@daij_Djan
While I like the new mana type, this boy seems like it'd cause some memory issues. Definitely asks a lot of you, and reminds me a lot of Hearthstone's overload mechanic (which I personally find a little annoying because even though it's digitally tracked I still forget I don't have as much mana the next turn). Cool design space, not sure if it's fun to play with.


Neottolemo  
Maybe I'm just a sucker for that card frame, but I really like this one. It makes me wonder exactly what the rest of the set is doing with the first ability, and is just a really good beater that feels like it fits in those colors. Izzet keeps getting pidgeonholed into "spells matter" by Wizards (Dominaria excepted), so it's a breath of fresh air to see it in some new mechanical space.


shrimper  
Entering the battlefield tapped isn't that much of a drawback when your creature doesn't have haste, and giving up the ability to block doesn't mean much when you're killing pretty much anything your opponent can have on turn 2. I think ambush is a little half-baked, and while it's an interesting idea, it needs a little more thought to play well.


Flo00
Grenzo, Dungeon Warden is the only card I know of that does anything even close to this, so I love seeing more effects that talk about the bottom of the library (outside of scry). That also makes this really hard for me to evaluate. It feels like a more finnicky version of red's pseudo-draw effect that exiles and lets you play for the turn, that you can manipulate better and also use to fill your yard, but ultimately I don't think this does enough to cement its archetype.


And our winner is...

Thanks for the win! Now, for the next challenge, I think I'd like to see some two coloured legends with at least MMNN in their mana costs, where M and N are two different kinds of coloured mana. For example, cards that costed , , or even would all qualify!

Legends, oddnanref , legends.

Koschei the Deathless :
Legendary Creature - Zombie Wizard
Trample
As long as there is at least one creature card in your graveyard, Koschei the Deathless is indestructible.
Whenever a creature an opponent controls deals damage to you, exile that much cards from your graveyard.
6/4

The contest should be worded:
Imagine that you design Legends. Now make a Legend.

@cass: Thanks for the feedback 👌

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Lilium, Grand Tamer
Legendary Creature - Dryad Druid
Other creatures you control get +2/+2 and gain defender.
Whenever a creature you control blocks, that creature loses defender and gains vigilance until the beginning of your next end step.
2/6

Again? Man this is hard. Maybe increasing the activation cost might do it, or changing this to a return at end of turn. If I do that not sure I would keep the cost though.

Ecrixus, Spawn of Rakdos
Legendary Creature - Devil
Trample
When ~ deals combat damage to a player, destroy target land that player controls.
"Born from the ruins of Rix Maadi, Ecrixus, like all of Rakdos' cultists, craved for destruction and slaughter."
-Fall of Ravnica, vol. III
3/3

Dragonlord Buurama
Legendary Creature - Elder Dragon
Flying, trample
At the beginning of combat on your turn, another target creature you control becomes a 4/4 flying dragon in addition to its other types and abilities. (This last indefinitely.)
6/6
Sarkhan was ready to change Tarkir's past, but ill prepared traveling to its future.

Athrew of the Slizt Clan  
Legendary Creature - Viashino  
Trample
Whenever CARDNAME or another creature enters the battlefield, you may have it get +2/+2 and gain haste until end of turn. If you do, return it to your hand at the end of turn. 
Whenever CARDNAME deals combat damage to a player, you may discard up to two cards. For each card discarded this way, draw a card. 
3/2 

Based on the Sizt of the Gruul Clans.