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Post by Daij_Djan on May 3, 2021 21:59:55 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 sixty-fifth challenge!
The winners of the "Oddly specific" poll were Daij_Djan (left) and Giraculum (right) with... And the challenge issued by one of our winners was... This challenge is inspired by last week's "skyworld" challenge. One of the most common top-down world ideas asked about on Mark Rosewater's blog is a plane that's completely underwater. As he's remarked, it's easy to design blue cards that match the world... but the other colors not so much. That's your challenge: Design a non-Blue card for an entirely underwater plane. No blue mana symbols anywhere!I expect the color pie to do some heavy bending in terms of flavor. On any other set, your design might look like a blue card. But on an underwater world, there's a blue tint to everything; what matters for determining color is the relative flavor. Still, your card should try to adhere to the mechanical color pie as closely as usual
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 May 3, 2021 23:17:06 GMT
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Post by bazzboda on May 3, 2021 23:55:29 GMT
Giraculum , I would like some clarification on the "entirely underwater" part. Is this a plane that doesn't have air at all, or is it a plane that just doesn't have any land exposed to the air? If its the former we would also be operating under the no flying clause as well, so I will assume its the latter. Deadzone Jelly   Creature - Jellyfish  Deathtouch When this enters the battlefield, each opponent loses X life, X is the number of Jellyfish you control. You gain X life. 2/1 Intended to be part of an all colour common cycle of Jellyfish Tribal Jellyfish. Pauper needs some stuff to build around. Just for fun, Green is uncounterable and gains X life, Red has first strike and does X damage to a creatures/planeswalkers equal to the number, White lets you flicker another jelly and has flash, Blue costs 1 and mills.
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Post by hydraheadhunter on May 4, 2021 0:08:55 GMT
 | Pursue Predators
A black and a green
Tribal Sorcery - Merfolk
Destroy up to one target creature with power 4
or greater, then create a 1/1 green merfolk creature
token tapped.
Festival (As you cast this spell, you may tap two
untapped creatures that share a type with it and pay
two generic any number of times. For each time you
do, copy it. You may choose new targets for the copies.)
Art by Dirk Wachsmuth |
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Post by Aarhg on May 4, 2021 0:14:29 GMT
Creature - Fish    , Reveal Sunlure Angler from your hand: Tap target creature. When Sunlure Angler enters the battlefield, exile target tapped creature.
There’s a reason most inhabitants of the Bunol depths are content with never having witnessed daylight. 3/3
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Post by sdfkjgh on May 4, 2021 0:27:30 GMT
Is the word "blue" similarly verboten?
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Giraculum
0/0 Germ
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Color Alignment: Blue, Green
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Post by Giraculum on May 4, 2021 0:57:17 GMT
Giraculum , I would like some clarification on the "entirely underwater" part. Is this a plane that doesn't have air at all, or is it a plane that just doesn't have any land exposed to the air? If its the former we would also be operating under the no flying clause as well, so I will assume its the latter. The challenge is for a plane with no surface. Both have been discussed on Blogatog, but the one with a surface is usually called "Waterworld" after the movie of the same name. The point of this challenge, besides the contest, is to have us all collectively test how feasible these two plane ideas are. For Waterworld, it's definitely the underwater design that's holding it back; surface cards are comparatively easy, and not what need 'testing' here.
That said, if the surface of the water is visible from below in your card's art, I'll look the other way  Is the word "blue" similarly verboten? That should be fine, as long as it's not a weird workaround like "spend at least one blue mana to cast this spell". I'd personally consider it better if the usage is mostly unrelated to blue being special on this plane. Like, if it were part of a cycle, it'd be a 5-color cycle and not a blue tainted cycle. |
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spazlaz
6/6 Wurm
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Color Alignment: Blue, Black
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Post by spazlaz on May 4, 2021 1:10:03 GMT
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inverness
3/3 Beast
Posts: 184
Favorite Card: Mystic Snake
Favorite Set: Kamigawa
Color Alignment: White, Green
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Post by inverness on May 4, 2021 2:50:18 GMT
Is it cheating if I reference Islands on my card? 
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thaneofglamis
8/8 Octopus
Thane's activated abilities can't be activated
Posts: 444
Favorite Card: Slimefoot, the Stowaway; Phyrexian Rager; Swarm Shambler
Favorite Set: Midnight Hunt
Color Alignment: Green
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Post by thaneofglamis on May 4, 2021 2:54:38 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 May 4, 2021 3:24:33 GMT
Ok I admit I'm pushing the challenge quite hard here, but it is an ocean themed creature that isn't blue. If you want me to resubmit, just let me know, but I am happy with this design nonetheless. |
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Nonagon Infinity
2/2 Zombie
Posts: 124
Favorite Card: Barren Glory
Favorite Set: Future Sight
Color Alignment: Blue, Black, Red
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Post by Nonagon Infinity on May 4, 2021 3:59:53 GMT
Through the Pyrelight, we dance in a beautiful inferno that can never be quenched!
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Post by Deleted on May 4, 2021 4:32:02 GMT
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Post by The Harlequin on May 4, 2021 10:23:19 GMT
But: Should they two abilities be seperated or is it fine this way. And: How to the holy bone broth do i implement the dots for the "choose" keyword >.<
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Post by crashington on May 4, 2021 11:51:34 GMT
I wanted to do an underwater dragon for this one and decided to make it a hydra too, inspired by the art. This is designed to work well with buffed up Merfolk that can take some hits, so you can easily spread the damage around even on your side. And a corally Set symbol!
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Post by spruder on May 4, 2021 16:03:57 GMT
Edit: Made a bunch of changes and a render, thanks for the template help folks:  {Old Edit}Just a quick idea here, will refine and make a render later. The Introspection of Queen Koia  Enchantment - Saga (As this Saga enters and after your draw step, add a lore counter. Sacrifice after III.) I, II - Sacrifice an enchantment, then create X 1/1 white fish creature tokens with lifelink where X is the sacrificed enchantment's converted manacost. III - You gain an emblem with "At the end of each turn, gain life equal to the life you gained this turn" She gave up her illusions and found eternityCard art: ids.si.edu/ids/deliveryService?max_w=800&id=CHSDM-A816CE5199D82-000001Artist Elihu Vedder, American, 1836 – 1923 Source Smithsonian Open Access |
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Post by hydraheadhunter on May 4, 2021 19:44:00 GMT
And: How to the holy bone broth do i implement the dots for the "choose" keyword >.< Typically, I'd use alt+7 to get the [ • ] character and just have that at the start each choose, but that's one of the alt code MSE doesn't like, so I copy-paste the character in. If that character's not large enough for you, doing some font shenanagainery to have it render bigger is potentially an option, but I don't know how to do that. |
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Vunik
2/2 Zombie
Maybe trying to kill an immortal mage wasn't the best plan . . .
Posts: 110
Color Alignment: White, Blue, Black
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Post by Vunik on May 4, 2021 20:25:07 GMT
And: How to the holy bone broth do i implement the dots for the "choose" keyword >.<
Simple: Put "::" into your rules textbox, without the quotes.
Also, my own entry!
Instant  ~ costs less to cast if it targets a non-Merfolk, non-Kraken, non-Leviathan, non-Octopus, non-Serpent creature. Destroy target creature. "Pop their bubble, and they cease to be a threat." - Mael Duin, deepspeaker
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Post by sdfkjgh on May 4, 2021 22:42:28 GMT
inverness : Ya dang ninjaing bastard!
Kelp Bed Land--Forest ( : Add  .)
Kelp Bed enters the battlefield tapped.
Whenever you cast or copy a blue spell, activate or copy an ability with a blue source, or a blue permanent enters the battlefield under your control, put a growth counter on Kelp Bed.
, Remove X growth counters from Kelp Bed: Add half X rounded up and half X mana in any combination of other types rounded down.
Being of the sea, I figure blue creatures would abound. So, why not have a riff on the Time Spiral storage lands? |
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Post by ZephyrPhantom on May 4, 2021 23:12:57 GMT
"A world where there are no waves to paint? How stifling. I'll just have to make some of my own."Kawakami, Lava-tide Painter  Legendary Planeswalker - Kawakami  When ~ enters the battlefield, you may discard a land card. If you do, it deals 2 damage to any target.  :You may exile a land card from your graveyard. If you do, ~ deals 1 damage to each opponent.  :Destroy target land. If that land was a nonbasic land, ~ deals 2 damage to that land’s controller.  It seems like Red is generally the color that gets cheap Planeswalkers (Tibalt, Wrenn and Six), so I decided to play with that a bit here by making a one-drop that would take RDW in a different direction than the typical Burn/Prowess strategies. I ultimately decided to take hints from cards like Magmatic Insight and Countryside Crusher to go for something that might be able to make good use of those excess Mountains in your starting hand. For those of you who remember my Thirty One Paintings of Mikokoro entry from a previous CoTW that was a Kamigawan riff on a famous Japanese painting, this is meant to be a like-minded riff on its painter. Seeing as waves don't really exist as a concept if the entire plane is underwater, one must turn to more creative means to make them, such as the lava that flows from volcanic vents. If Kawakami's out of fissures to erupt....well, they'll just have to make some.  (A little trivia: Kawakami means "above the river". I picked the name to reflect the idea of an artist that likes water....just not in the same way the denizens of this plane might.)
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tempestgannon
0/0 Germ
Posts: 27
Favorite Card: Uncle Istvan
Favorite Set: Future Sight, Shadowmoor, or Dominaria
Color Alignment: Blue, Black, Green
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Post by tempestgannon on May 5, 2021 4:15:01 GMT
I admittedly took some inspiration from aquonn for my entry this week. I've always thought the idea of Marit Lage was really cool, and adding a cult of merfolk (I'm thinking Sultai merfolk in my head) to its lore is a really cool idea! I built both sides of this card to play into this idea of a cult summoning and enabling the legendary avatar — the land on the back can create more snow permanents to help Marit Lage's Slumber and the front can help Marit Lage get through the enemy lines after she's been awakened (while being flexible enough to help other creatures without being too overpowered - I think I got the balance right). Let me know what you guys think! I want to get better at making custom cards so any and all feedback is welcome! Edit: Incorperating a suggestion from sdfkjgh  {Text Version}
Herald of the Deep One BG
Snow Creature — Merfolk Zombie :uncommon:
Skulk (This creature can’t be blocked by creatures with greater power.)
T: Target creature gets your choice of menace or trample until end of turn.
1/3
---Other Side---
Shrine of the Depths
Snow Land — Shrine
T: Add B.
1B, T: Create a 1/1 black Merfolk Acolyte snow creature token.
We keep alive the memory of the Old Ways, until the Deep One returns. |
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Post by dangerousdice on May 5, 2021 4:36:13 GMT
I can't see the image, can you provide a text version? |
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Post by sdfkjgh on May 5, 2021 5:18:47 GMT
tempestgannon: It feels like you could knock  off the mana cost and be fine. Other than that, excellent playing around in the Lovecraft mythos tropespace. We do need more Deep Ones in Magic.
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Post by pacifistwestwoman on May 5, 2021 14:19:53 GMT
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Post by hydraheadhunter on May 5, 2021 20:25:36 GMT
| Drown
Two generic and two black
Instant
Drown costs less to cast a generic and
a black less to cast if it targets a
non-Merfolk, non-Kraken, non-Leviathan,
non-Octopus, non-Serpent creature.
Destroy target creature.
FT: "Pop their bubble, and they cease to be a threat."
- Mael Duin, deepspeaker |
If I could make a suggestion, and this is a thing wotc doesn't technically do (although they came real close with both the historic label and the party mechanics), I'd want to group all the creature types this spell cost less to target into a 'family type' like: "Non-aquatic," and hide exactly what types are aquatic creature in reminder text, so that it can take up less space on the card on more complicated cards and can be errata'd if types get added or (heaven forbid) removed. Something like: "Drown costs a generic and a black less to cast if it targets a non-aquatic creature (caramids, cephalids, crabs, fish, jellyfish, krackens, leeches, leviathans, merfolk, octopi, nautiluses, oysters, serpants, sharks, slugs, sponges, squid, and starfish are aquatic.)" [in bold are the types you included on this card and struck out are the rare types types that'd probably never actually come up and you could skip printing by coping out of a perfectly accurate reminder text to the effect of 'are most common aquatic creature types'.] Wish I'd thought of that when I first designed Filth, the Crawling Rot in a different challenge; at least now that I have though of it I can go patch it. I just like planning for clean 'patch notes.' |
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Post by sade612 on May 5, 2021 21:39:16 GMT
 {Text} Deeplight Merrow  Creature - Merfolk Wizard ~ enters the battlefield with a -1/-1 counter. ,  , Pay 1 life: Remove a counter from target permanent. 4/3 |
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Post by Flo00 on May 5, 2021 21:49:43 GMT
 Inkcloud Snatcher Creature - Octopus Deathtouch to tapped (Any amount of damage this deals to a tapped creature is enough to destroy it.)2/3 |
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tempestgannon
0/0 Germ
Posts: 27
Favorite Card: Uncle Istvan
Favorite Set: Future Sight, Shadowmoor, or Dominaria
Color Alignment: Blue, Black, Green
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Post by tempestgannon on May 5, 2021 23:28:46 GMT
tempestgannon : It feels like you could knock off the mana cost and be fine. Other than that, excellent playing around in the Lovecraft mythos tropespace. We do need more Deep Ones in Magic. Thank you for the suggestion! |
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Post by Daij_Djan on May 7, 2021 22:35:19 GMT
At first, I was tempted to use an old Anglerfish design of mine, then I noticed Aarhg already came up with a pretty cool new one - so I decided to take a completely different approach instead: |
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Post by spruder on May 9, 2021 15:08:35 GMT
Edit: Thanks for the help folks
Just realized that I don't have a template for "Enchantment - Saga" type cards. Does can anyone help me with that?
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