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Post by Daij_Djan on Oct 12, 2020 13:56:31 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 thirty-seventh challenge!
The winner of the "Flood Insurance" poll was Aarhg (top left), Daij_Djan (top right) and spazlaz (bottom) with... And the challenge issued by one of our winners was... It's time to dust off those nostalgia goggles, because the challenge for this week is to design a card you would have absolutely loved when you first got into Magic.
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 viriss on Oct 12, 2020 15:24:46 GMT
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Post by Flo00 on Oct 12, 2020 17:32:56 GMT
The first Magic product I ever bought was the Expulsion deck from Eighth Edition. Ravenous Rat made me fall in love with both rats and discarding. I was so hyped when soon after we got Kamigawa with the Nezumi and I'm still planning on getting me some pet rats one day. My excitement of discards has manifested since in a Nekusar and a Locust God commander deck both running rediculous ammonts of wheels. Enough chit-chat, here is my entry:  Nightmare Tracker   Creature - Rat Shaman  Whenever an opponent discards a card, you gain 2 life. “No drip of cold sweat drops without the rats having a snicker about it.” —Seluran saying2/2 Kind of halfway between Confessor and Sangromancer. |
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Post by sdfkjgh on Oct 12, 2020 18:01:26 GMT
Oh gosh, there's soooooo much to choose from. I could post the first card I ever designed, but it'd be too much of a hassle digging it out of my archives. So instead, I'll just post this:
Gambling Hydra   Creature--Hydra Rogue  Trample
Gambling Hydra enters the battlefield with X +1/+1 counters on it.
  : Flip a coin. If you win the flip, put two +1/+1 counters on Gambling Hydra. Otherwise, put a +1/+1 counter on Gambling Hydra.
, Remove a +1/+1 counter from Gambling Hydra: Flip a coin. If you win the flip, Gambling Hydra deals 2 damage to any target. Otherwise, Gambling Hydra deals 1 damage to that target instead. 0/0
This design was inspired by MaRo's thoughts on gambling mechanics in Magic, and how they should be implemented. |
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melono
8/8 Octopus
Posts: 408
Favorite Card: Kor Skyfisher, Knowledge Pool
Color Alignment: White, Green, Colorless
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Post by melono on Oct 12, 2020 18:09:01 GMT
 I started with the blue free deck sample from 2010. It contained Sage Owl and Thieving Magpie. Then later I also added Preordains and Augury Owls to the mix and I just really wanted an owl that did Preordain. That would have made me a happy boy. And now I don't really care that much for blue anymore, but back then I thought it was the greatest color. |
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inverness
1/1 Squirrel
Posts: 63
Favorite Card: Mystic Snake
Favorite Set: Kamigawa
Color Alignment: White, Green
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Post by inverness on Oct 12, 2020 20:23:54 GMT
I like alternate win conditions, I like green cards, and I like getting a lot of mana.
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Rat
0/0 Germ
we're rats, we're rats, we're the rats
Posts: 16
Formerly Known As: KingpinRat
Color Alignment: Red, Green
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Post by Rat on Oct 12, 2020 20:34:59 GMT
oh how young ratto loved Woodland Behemoth, I always wanted something even bigger  |
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sade612
2/2 Zombie
Posts: 120 
Favorite Card: Steward of Valeron
Favorite Set: Shadows over Innistrad
Color Alignment: White, Black
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Post by sade612 on Oct 12, 2020 20:56:35 GMT
I started playing around Prophecy with my older brother's cards from Revised. I probably would have played a card like this one in my Angels and Demons deck.  |
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Post by sdfkjgh on Oct 13, 2020 0:26:23 GMT
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Post by Jartis on Oct 13, 2020 3:43:46 GMT
Gonna post my submission first, and then put the explanation underneath, because it got longer than I expected.  Most of what was available around my area when I started was Worldwake through New Phyrexia, and Innistrad was just coming out, so oddly enough, a lot of my early impressions of Magic were of various types of horror, most of which had oppressive mechanics to go with the themes. It That Betrays is one of my favorite cards to this day. As much as I like all the stuff they were doing at the time, I understand why they've since strayed away from mechanics like Phyrexian mana, Annihilator, and artifact lands. That said, K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth proves that they're not totally done with that era of mechanics. Either way, I tried to make a design that could have easily fit within that era, but isn't so bad that they might not at least try it today. |
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SilentKobold
2/2 Zombie
Art by Jeff A. Menges
Posts: 126
Favorite Set: Khans of Tarkir
Color Alignment: Blue, Black, Green
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Post by SilentKobold on Oct 13, 2020 9:27:46 GMT
It may not seem much, but here's a little backstory on why I would've loved a card like this starting out. I got into magic as a broke high-schooler just after the release of RTR. The first deck I can recall building was a BGx Axebane Guardian defender ramp deck powering out my only mythic at the time: Nicol Bolas, Planeswalker. As awesome as it was, I always wished I could draw and play him more often. So here's my Ravnica-themed, and most importantly affordable, solution.  {Text} Diligent Courier Creature - Human Scout  When ~ enters the battlefield, reveal the top four cards of your library. You may put a multicolored or land card from among them into your hand and the rest into your graveyard. We pay no heed towards the guilds’ endless petty squabbles. They all pay handsomely to send their communications post-haste.1/1 : Thanks for the catch, submitted this late at night so I noticed several other wording problems too. |
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Post by sdfkjgh on Oct 13, 2020 16:06:41 GMT
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Post by ZephyrPhantom on Oct 16, 2020 6:40:30 GMT
 Based on a combination of WoTC Purple Lore and the Inquest Finori Cards. I started mainly with Time Spiral/Ravnica cards and the idea of unusual mechanics has always appealed to me, especially after I read Paul Sottosani's article on the effort he made to make Purple work as a color. As a younger player I'd have just been happy to see some kind of canonical nod to Purple in a Time Spiral-esque set, so I decided to represent it with a card that constraints that kind of enthusiasm into a more reasonable not-game-disrupting implementation that I prefer in the present day. |
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spazlaz
3/3 Beast
Posts: 164
Color Alignment: Blue, Black
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Post by spazlaz on Oct 16, 2020 21:52:59 GMT
I can't remember what kinds of cards i liked when i started playing since it was so long ago, i did one i wish existed now.
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Post by Daij_Djan on Oct 19, 2020 20:15:16 GMT
Almost forgot posting my own entry:  The first cards I ever bought were the Starter 2000 set. Back then I really liked the concept of simply smashing in with something use having some sort of evasion Rhox was awesome  ) - but not having my attacker available for blocking afterwards was always scary. So for my entry, I wanted it to:
- Be a big beater.
- Be multicolored (because I didn't knew those existet back then).
- Have a new form of green evasion (that didn't exist back then).
- Have vigilance.
And yes, in case you're wondering, my entry has no set symbol - as had none of the Starter 2000 cards except for the fold Rhox). Which is great because it means I don't have to decide whether to use the rarity it would have been at back then (insanely powerful rare) or the rarity it would have nowadays (weak uncommon) 
This thread is now closed, the poll can be found here. And here's the next challenge! |
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) - but not having my attacker available for blocking afterwards was always scary. So for my entry, I wanted it to: