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Post by Daij_Djan on Nov 23, 2020 21:37:02 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 forty-third challenge!
The winners of the "Condition Zero" poll were Aarhg (top left), aquonn (top right) and Tygerius (bottom) with... And the challenge issued by one of our winners was... WotC doesn't like the old downside mechanics, but the design space still remains. Design a card with an old downside mechanic. Old Downside mechanics include: Cumulative Upkeep, Phasing, Echo, Fading, and Vanishing.
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 Nov 23, 2020 22:11:00 GMT
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Post by Aarhg on Nov 23, 2020 22:24:33 GMT
So we must use one of the five mentioned keywords? Nothing like Lord of the Pit's drawback? |
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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 24, 2020 0:27:45 GMT
 My submission for this week, i was considering adding an ETB effect to it, but judging that it can already trigger other creatures effects every turn, i decided against it. |
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atta_turk
0/0 Germ
Posts: 20
Formerly Known As: mapes
Favorite Card: Priest of Forgotten Gods
Favorite Set: Dominaria
Color Alignment: White, Blue, Red
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Post by atta_turk on Nov 24, 2020 0:33:18 GMT
So we must use one of the five mentioned keywords? Nothing like Lord of the Pit's drawback? I feel like using the listed mechanics was probably intended, only because it quickly becomes a grey area what rules text constitutes an old-style drawback. |
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Post by Aarhg on Nov 24, 2020 1:00:08 GMT
So we must use one of the five mentioned keywords? Nothing like Lord of the Pit's drawback? I feel like using the listed mechanics was probably intended, only because it quickly becomes a grey area what rules text constitutes an old-style drawback. I'm leaning that way as well, but it's not 100% clear from the way the challenge is worded. I'll just stick to one of the five mentioned ones.
Edit: Card added below!
This is a bit of a riff on Quicksilver Amulet. It has the potential to sometimes be more powerful, but you also run the risk of being completely blown out by something like Naturalize.
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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 24, 2020 5:08:36 GMT
While working on potential card designs, I found out that Fading and Vanishing are basically the same mechanic. Unrelated, here's a card with Vanishing:  |
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vstrange
1/1 Squirrel
Resurrecting the dead, D.N.D.
Posts: 52
Formerly Known As: Lich Puppy
Favorite Card: Ur-Dragon
Favorite Set: Ikoria
Color Alignment: Black, Green
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Post by vstrange on Nov 24, 2020 5:41:19 GMT
 Flo00"You missed of between number and bushido." Thank you grammar has been corrected "I find it very confusing to have the counters have the same name as the ability. Unless they work like flying counters, granting the ability as a rule." That was what I was going for. Just like Menace or Flying counters. but we know that a creature with two flying counters doesn't give the creature double flying. (which would be weird, how would that even work lol" but this way if Kitsune Deathblade has two bushido counters on it, Kitsune Deathblade would have Bushido 2, not two instances of Bushido 1. |
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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 24, 2020 17:29:38 GMT
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Post by sdfkjgh on Nov 24, 2020 20:14:30 GMT
emteedy: Nice. Reminds me of Chronozoa. Yours is slightly better than Chronozoa, because it costs less, and you get the copy almost immediately, but it's also slightly worse, because each new copy needs more mana to be paid, so I'd say they're about even.
Aarhg: Interesting, but I worry about potential memory issues. I'm sure the players can work something out, but I still worry.
My entry:
Veteran Haggler     Creature--Human  Cumulative upkeep  (At the beginning of your upkeep, put an age counter on this permanent, then sacrifice it unless you pay its upkeep cost for each age counter on it.)
Spells you cast cost less to cast for each age counter on Veteran Haggler.
Cumulative upkeep costs you pay cost less for each age counter on Veteran Haggler. ------------------------------------------- " for that? You must be mad!" 2/4
All my other cards with cumulative upkeep actually use it to benefit you, stretching the definition of "drawback" beyond all reason, so I thought I'd pick the only one that stuck at least partially to the spirit of the Challenge. |
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Post by ameisenmeister on Nov 24, 2020 23:07:56 GMT
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Post by melono on Nov 25, 2020 15:43:45 GMT
 EDIT2: Ox! OX Yes it should be ox, ok. Thnak/ {Spoiler}  EDIT: Age counters, dang it, thanks for bringing it to my attention sdfkjgh  Maybe I coulda put this in for the 0-cost week. I didn't have it thought up back then though. {Spoiler} |
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Post by sdfkjgh on Nov 25, 2020 19:25:31 GMT
melono: Cumulative upkeep uses age counters, not time counters. |
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Post by sdfkjgh on Nov 26, 2020 19:16:51 GMT
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Post by Daij_Djan on Nov 26, 2020 22:09:59 GMT
Here's my own take on the challenge:
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Post by Flo00 on Nov 27, 2020 1:16:13 GMT
 Tolaria Freshman  Creature - Human Wizard  Echo—Discard a card. (At the beginning of your upkeep, if this came under your control since the beginning of your last upkeep, sacrifice it unless you pay its echo cost.)When Tolaria Freshman enters the battlefield, draw two card. Expectations at the Tolarian acadamy are high, and a lot of freshmen drop out during their first year.3/2 |
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Post by Flo00 on Nov 27, 2020 1:26:21 GMT
vstrange: You missed of between number and bushido. I find it very confusing to have the counters have the same name as the ability. Unless they work like flying counters, granting the ability as a rule. Maybe use training counters instead? sdfkjgh: So because of the last ability I pay for the first counter and then  from then on? Seems kind of busted for making all your spells cheaper.
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spazlaz
6/6 Wurm
Posts: 333
Color Alignment: Blue, Black
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Post by spazlaz on Nov 27, 2020 2:54:14 GMT
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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 27, 2020 5:46:36 GMT
Demented Recollection Enchantment Cumulative upkeep—Mill a card. (At the beginning of your upkeep, put an age counter on this permanent, then sacrifice it unless you pay its upkeep cost for each age counter on it.) , Sacrifice ~: Return target permanent card from your graveyard to the battlefield. Activate this ability only any time you could cast a sorcery. "To think I had almost forgotten about you."
—Zur the Enchanter
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Post by quazerflame on Nov 27, 2020 10:32:13 GMT
@fermant - Is that a colorless enchantment? ----- I imagine my entry would be used in some kind of superfriends style deck. I hope it appeals to people.   Phasing is weird enough that even on a mythic it warrants reminder text. At least for the normal variant. Fullart planeswalkers get to trim away the messy italics and have larger ability text  |
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Post by Aarhg on Nov 27, 2020 16:23:56 GMT
spazlaz I think we're sticking to using one of the five drawback keywords mentioned in the challenge this week, but aquonn will have to chime in with the final word on whether more general drawbacks are fine to use as well.
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Post by sade612 on Nov 27, 2020 16:40:36 GMT
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Post by sdfkjgh on Nov 27, 2020 18:46:20 GMT
vstrange : You missed of between number and bushido. I find it very confusing to have the counters have the same name as the ability. Unless they work like flying counters, granting the ability as a rule. Maybe use training counters instead? sdfkjgh : So because of the last ability I pay for the first counter and then from then on? Seems kind of busted for making all your spells cheaper. It doesn't quite work like that. Since its cumulative upkeep cost is , you'd only end up paying /age counter because of its last ability. |
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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 28, 2020 7:18:30 GMT
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Saturno
0/0 Germ
Posts: 5
Formerly Known As: Rafael Fernando Montejo III
Favorite Card: Dark Confidant
Favorite Set: Mirrodin
Color Alignment: Blue, Black, Red
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Post by Saturno on Nov 28, 2020 19:26:31 GMT
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Post by Flo00 on Nov 29, 2020 9:01:45 GMT
sdfkjgh I expected it to reduce the cost that I have to pay per counter. Or in other words the cost that is printed on the card. I guess your version works as well.
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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 29, 2020 15:44:20 GMT
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Post by Daij_Djan on Nov 30, 2020 20:57:27 GMT
This thread is now closed, the poll can be found here. And here's the next challenge! |
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