Card of the Week Poll #354: Feats of the Future

{Comments} I turn 50 this year?! How is that even possible? (Just wait.)

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Ok, here goes: My ultimate goal is to work at WotC, R&D, designing Magic. To that end, any and every card I make, any and every card I post here, fits this Challenge. However, true to form, I'm gonna Calvin out* and present the ultimate in DFC Un- design. Something this unprecedented would obviously have to be , and it'll be my job to not only get it into the next scheduled Un- set after my hiring, but also to make it mechanically relevant! So, in the future, if you ever open a pack, and find this in the rare slot, know that I've made it:

No, you're not imagining things, this IS a DFC where the back of the card is both sides. Yes, I'm totally serious about this. When I make a joke, I'm like The Joker: deadly serious about my comedy.

*From Calvin and Hobbs, to Calvin out is to set yourself an impossible goal, thereby dooming yourself to almost certain failure.[/p

{Comments} My life changed quite a bit when my son was born almost 12 years ago now.. Helping their child grow and protecting it from harm is the life goal of all parents (or at least it should be), so my choice might not be the most creative, but it is what first came to mind for me, so I decided to go with it anyway

{Comments} I don't know, get married?

{Comments} One of the biggest things that frighten me about the future is not dying, but rather that I'll be forgotten after I've passed, or I won't have made a lasting impact on the world around me. So I've made it a part of my goal as an author to permanently get my name out there, so my contribution to human society is a little more permanent.

{Comments} Playing the drums is a big passion of mine, and I suppose it's a kind of life goal to see how far I can get, making music and playing live shows down the line (if those ever return ).

I made this drum-smacking wizard creature that can fizzle your own spells to pump himself, and then later you can get those fizzled spells back by saccing him.

{Comments} 2020 was a pretty bad year! Surviving another year seems like a reasonable goal.

I'm actually surprised "Live" isn't taken as a split card name. I went through a number of designs before I ultimately settled on something inspired by Unbreakable Formation and Shared Discovery. For the Aftermath half decided to increase the cost slightly while lowering the creature requirement as Battalion numbers (attack with 3) seems more intuitive and lets you do the play pattern of one drop -> two drop token maker -> this card, so in the worst case scenario it's a somewhat inefficient card draw. Ideally what makes decks (likely token or flyers decks) slot this card is the fact it's extremely flexible and does multiple things they'd want on one card.

{Comments} Much like inferno390 I'm quite scared of being forgotten after life, and so a life goal of mine is that my life is worthwile and remembered so that I have a "Legacy". This challenge reminded me a lot of the story of Vincent Van Gogh, someone who was laughed at in life, having to sell and paint over many of his paintings in his life just so that he could survive. He struggled with mental illness and addiction until eventually commiting suicide later at the age of 37. However, his story has an uplifting note - We all know him know as an amazing artist who is renowned worldwide. I wanted to create a card to encapsulate the feeling of a Legacy and the idea of an artist who eventually gives into their inner demons and eventually sacrifices themself. I also really like using the double faced cards to encapsulate the flavour of life and death and showing the true story of the Artist. I also didn't name the Legend, so that it could be evocative of the player and so that the player is constantly questioning who the Artist is.

{Comments} The card design is super simple and isn't breaking many molds, but the simplest things are my biggest goals; being able to know consistent, frequent, moments without anxiety for the future, especially this week living in Texas- Woo boy. There are a lot of similar effects in magic, but nothing exactly like this, just like there are many different ways for people to find their own peace.

{Comments} I love stories and writing, and Sagas and Adventures work great with tales - and I loved both of these mechanics since the time I first saw them.
Also, I am a physics student and contrary to my former expectations, I... do not really like it. That is reflected in the flavor text.
The adventure part also shows my pursuit of inner peace in this crazy pandemic world of hatred, greed and careerism...

{Comments} I've always wanted to own a house. Building one would be really cool, but that's not really feasible nowadays, but i think the flavor is here for this one: