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Post by Daij_Djan on Nov 9, 2020 23:40:03 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 fourty-first challenge!
The winner of the "I like Asian Food" poll was Orion Rings with... And the challenge issued by our winner was... Design a card with a converted mana cost of 0. (This includes lands and cards without mana costs.)
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 SilentKobold on Nov 10, 2020 0:31:10 GMT
 {Text} Land GrabConspiracy  (Start the game with this conspiracy face up in the command zone.)As the game begins, each player shuffles a basic plains, island, swamp, mountain, and forest card from outside the game into their library. (Do this before taking mulligans.) |
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emteedy
0/0 Germ
Local lands man
Posts: 21
Favorite Card: Mogis, God of Slaughter
Color Alignment: Black, Red, Green
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Post by emteedy on Nov 10, 2020 0:45:47 GMT
 Finding art for this was surprisingly tough, i also went through several iterations trying to think of an alternative casting cost, and ended up finishing with this. |
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Rat
0/0 Germ
we're rats, we're rats, we're the rats
Posts: 34
Formerly Known As: KingpinRat
Color Alignment: Red, Green
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Post by Rat on Nov 10, 2020 0:53:10 GMT
Yikes on bikes, anyone have some thoughts on how to clean up this text a little?  |
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spazlaz
6/6 Wurm
Posts: 333
Color Alignment: Blue, Black
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Post by spazlaz on Nov 10, 2020 0:54:49 GMT
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Post by ZephyrPhantom on Nov 10, 2020 1:21:22 GMT
Decided to have a little fun experimenting with this one. If negative converted mana cost doesn't work within the context of the rules I'm willing to silver border or replace this. Fast [-  ] Sorcery (When you cast this spell, add .)Exile each permanent you control. //// Furious Instant Aftermath (Cast this spell only from your graveyard. Then exile it.)~ deals 1 damage to any target. Possibly better than Gut Shot in the event you decide to cast both halves turn 1, but otherwise meant to be a very difficult free spell to work with. Intended to be a very janky ritual of sorts in the best use case. |
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Post by viriss on Nov 10, 2020 1:59:05 GMT
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aquonn
1/1 Squirrel
Fun is a zero-sum game
Posts: 59
Favorite Card: Electrodominance
Favorite Set: Guilds of Ravnica
Color Alignment: Blue, Red
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Post by aquonn on Nov 10, 2020 2:45:13 GMT
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Tygerius
0/0 Germ
Posts: 14
Favorite Card: Notion Thief
Favorite Set: Born of the Gods
Color Alignment: Blue, Black
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Post by Tygerius on Nov 10, 2020 4:53:29 GMT
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Orion Rings
1/1 Squirrel
Posts: 72
Favorite Card: Homicidal Seclusion
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Post by Orion Rings on Nov 10, 2020 6:09:58 GMT
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Post by gamma3 on Nov 10, 2020 15:15:46 GMT
My first thought on seeing the challenge was this cycle from Time Spiral, so here's another crazy card from early magic made more balanced by suspend:  |
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Post by sdfkjgh on Nov 10, 2020 17:46:22 GMT
viriss : You changed names in the middle ability.
How about a sparking land; we haven't seen that yet, have we?
Velis Vel, Omnigrotto Legendary Tribal Land--Shapeshifter  Changeling (This card is every creature type at all times.)
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Whenever a player casts an instant or sorcery spell with changeling or a permanent with changeling enters the battlefield, put a loyalty counter on Velis Vel, Omnigrotto.
, Remove a loyalty counter from Velis Vel, Omnigrotto: Add one mana of any color.
When the fourth loyalty counter is put on Velis Vel, Omnigrotto this turn, transform it. /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// Gach, Born of Mists  Legendary Tribal Planeswalker--Velis Vel
Changeling (This card is every creature type at all times.)
Whenever a player casts an instant or sorcery spell with changeling or a permanent with changeling enters the battlefield, put a loyalty counter on Gach, Born of Mists.
 : Each player gets an emblem with “Instant and sorcery spells you cast are Tribal Shapeshifter spells with changeling in addition to their other types and abilities” and “Each permanent you control is a Tribal Shapeshifter with changeling in addition to its other types and abilities.”
 : You gain X life and draw up to X cards, where X is the number of Tribal permanents you control. |
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Post by sade612 on Nov 10, 2020 22:51:25 GMT
 {Text}Nowhere Zone  Enchantment Enhance enchantment  (As you cast an enchantment spell, you may reveal this card from your hand and pay its enhance cost. If you do, put this card under it as it resolves. Add this card’s text to that spell.) When this enchantment enters the battlefield, exile target creature until this enchantment leaves the battlefield. It's kind of like Chained to the Rocks, but you splice it onto another enchantment spell instead of tacking it on as an Aura. Unlike splice, you only get to do it once, but like splice you get to keep the card in your hand if the spell doesn't resolve. This also makes it slightly more resilient to bounce spells than an aura since per rule 721.3 it will be put back into your hand, giving you a chance to recast it. You can also cascade into it. |
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Post by Aarhg on Nov 10, 2020 23:07:47 GMT
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Post by userlost on Nov 14, 2020 5:53:34 GMT
New entry  |
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Fermat
8/8 Octopus
Posts: 430
Favorite Card: Force of Will
Favorite Set: Guildpact (set when I started playing)
Color Alignment: White, Blue, Black
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Post by Fermat on Nov 14, 2020 11:14:51 GMT
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Post by ameisenmeister on Nov 14, 2020 17:37:00 GMT
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Post by FLAREdirector on Nov 15, 2020 1:01:49 GMT
Look, I mean, it's not like people were complaining that Mox Amber should only make red mana. |
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Post by sdfkjgh on Nov 15, 2020 2:01:39 GMT
You might wanna redo this with better templating and not stupidly overpowered. Just going with that first ability, it's far to open to interpretation as to what exactly it means. Some examples of possibilities (with proper templating):
1) At the beginning of each player's upkeep, that player loses 7 life. 2) At the beginning of each player's end step, that player loses 7 life. 3) At the beginning of each player's upkeep, each player loses 7 life. 4) At the beginning of each player's end step, each player loses 7 life.
Do you see the confusion? Furthermore, we'll leave aside how unbalanced the second ability is for now, and concentrate on how to template it properly:
: Tap all creatures. They can't be untapped until your next turn. For each creature tapped this way, add one mana of any color.
There's no way that this ability would see print, especially after the removal of mana burn, as there's no disincentive to constantly keep all creatures tapped out forever. At the very least, this ability needs a massive mana cost to activate, but even then, it's still too powerful to actually do.
I suggest you study proper templating, then try again.
The name, otoh, is metal af. You really should hold onto that one.
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Nonagon Infinity
2/2 Zombie
Posts: 122
Favorite Card: Barren Glory
Favorite Set: Future Sight
Color Alignment: Blue, Black, Red
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Post by Nonagon Infinity on Nov 15, 2020 3:57:47 GMT
One of the Spellbind lands I did a while ago.  |
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Post by kilenc on Nov 15, 2020 4:15:40 GMT
Haven't posted a card in a while, but decided to give this challenge a crack since this is an idea I've had in my head for a bit.  Is this card probably too strong? Yep. Does this card allow some crazy broken combos? Probably yep. Is it really evocative and memorable? Hopefully, that's what I was going for. |
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Post by quazerflame on Nov 15, 2020 18:21:56 GMT
 How's this for a land type? Inspired by both Vehicles and Gods. |
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Post by Boogymanjunior on Nov 16, 2020 2:44:49 GMT
Had to do the if-clauses because it seemed to be the best way to prevent the incentive that you could choose to not cast a card from your hand even if you secretely have one to get to the tutor part, while still staying on flavor (e.g. not having to include may clauses). But still not completely safe from cheating because you could still use it to discard a card from your hand and then say that you only have lands, not spells, on hand- you just would not get to the tutor part. But somehow I think that someone who is in such a situation where they want to cheat and pay six mana to discard a card, cheating is the least of their problems in this match.   |
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Post by gamma3 on Nov 16, 2020 3:28:12 GMT
Boogymanjunior why not just make the cast a may? That way, they aren't cheating, it's just pointless to do so
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Post by userlost on Nov 16, 2020 3:34:41 GMT
You might wanna redo this with better templating and not stupidly overpowered. Just going with that first ability, it's far to open to interpretation as to what exactly it means. Some examples of possibilities (with proper templating):
1) At the beginning of each player's upkeep, that player loses 7 life. 2) At the beginning of each player's end step, that player loses 7 life. 3) At the beginning of each player's upkeep, each player loses 7 life. 4) At the beginning of each player's end step, each player loses 7 life.
Do you see the confusion? Furthermore, we'll leave aside how unbalanced the second ability is for now, and concentrate on how to template it properly:
: Tap all creatures. They can't be untapped until your next turn. For each creature tapped this way, add one mana of any color.
There's no way that this ability would see print, especially after the removal of mana burn, as there's no disincentive to constantly keep all creatures tapped out forever. At the very least, this ability needs a massive mana cost to activate, but even then, it's still too powerful to actually do.
I suggest you study proper templating, then try again.
The name, otoh, is metal af. You really should hold onto that one.
thanks for the advice i gonna try to fix it, i am not very experienced in magic text template and balancing so i expected that something would be broken. |
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Post by Boogymanjunior on Nov 16, 2020 18:17:32 GMT
Boogymanjunior why not just make the cast a may? That way, they aren't cheating, it's just pointless to do so I thought about that too, but it looked kinda off to have a may in the middle and also the flavor would not stay intact. But yes, I think I will change it accordingly in the end to avoid any cheating if I remember it and still have time. Thanks for input! |
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Rat
0/0 Germ
we're rats, we're rats, we're the rats
Posts: 34
Formerly Known As: KingpinRat
Color Alignment: Red, Green
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Post by Rat on Nov 16, 2020 18:28:35 GMT
Had to do the if-clauses because it seemed to be the best way to prevent the incentive that you could choose to not cast a card from your hand even if you secretely have one to get to the tutor part, while still staying on flavor (e.g. not having to include may clauses). But still not completely safe from cheating because you could still use it to discard a card from your hand and then say that you only have lands, not spells, on hand- you just would not get to the tutor part. But somehow I think that someone who is in such a situation where they want to cheat and pay six mana to discard a card, cheating is the least of their problems in this match. I'm not sure if this does what you want it to. Right now the card reads as 'If you discarded a card, you get to cast a card for free. If you cast a card for free, you get to search." Did you mean for this to be either/or, or did you intend for it to be discard a card and get both? |
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Post by Boogymanjunior on Nov 16, 2020 18:55:39 GMT
Had to do the if-clauses because it seemed to be the best way to prevent the incentive that you could choose to not cast a card from your hand even if you secretely have one to get to the tutor part, while still staying on flavor (e.g. not having to include may clauses). But still not completely safe from cheating because you could still use it to discard a card from your hand and then say that you only have lands, not spells, on hand- you just would not get to the tutor part. But somehow I think that someone who is in such a situation where they want to cheat and pay six mana to discard a card, cheating is the least of their problems in this match. I'm not sure if this does what you want it to. Right now the card reads as 'If you discarded a card, you get to cast a card for free. If you cast a card for free, you get to search." Did you mean for this to be either/or, or did you intend for it to be discard a card and get both? Yup, intended as the card reads to you: discard a card + cast a card for free + tutor (if you are able to do all three in that order)  . I think this is reasonable considering you can only cast it out of the graveyard and need to have a card to discard plus after that something big enough to cast to make an impact at the time you have six mana together- otherwise you would have not much more than a Demonic Tutor with hoops. |
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Post by Daij_Djan on Nov 16, 2020 22:20:48 GMT
Almost forgot to add my own entry 
This thread is now closed, the poll can be found here. And here's the next challenge! |
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"When in doubt, do a common." 
(You may cast this card for its Miracle cost when you draw it if it's the first card you drew this turn.)
. I think this is reasonable considering you can only cast it out of the graveyard and need to have a card to discard plus after that something big enough to cast to make an impact at the time you have six mana together- otherwise you would have not much more than a Demonic Tutor with hoops.
