Multiple Card Challenge

I guess I should be judging this soon. I'll give this time until tomorrow.

Daij_Djan wins.

My theme is doggies!

Restraining Collar
Artifact - Equipment
Equip
Equipped creature gets +3/+0 and has defender.
Sometimes being held back makes one that much stronger. And angrier.

Dog's Death
Sorcery
Destroy target non-Hound creature. Its controller creates a 3/3 black Hound Horror creature token.
"No no no, the summoning circle goes inside of the subject." -Sebri, Wizanxian teacher.

Unleash the Hounds
Enchantment
Whenever a creature enters the battlefield under an opponent's control, create a 3/3 green Hound creature token.
"You should have never set foot on my property." -Nobleman Larx

Charm, Top Dog
Legendary Creature - Hound
Vigilance, haste.
When ~ enters the battlefield, create a 3/3 white Hound creature token with vigilance and a 3/3 red Hound creature token with haste.
"When you play fetch with her, don't be surprised when she brings back the whole tree." -Wilney, Head of Security
3/3

@melono: Charm is missing power/toughness

   

Yeah, one month is more than enough.. This challenge is now closed!

That's completely fine indeed – actually I'm quite happy about this as it worked as a reminder for me Totally forgot to take care of the judging – so to not stall this any further just a short oneliner for each entry and then I'll announce the winner. If you want a more detailed feedback, feel free to send me a PM

Gift of Murasa
Sorcery
You gain 5 life.
Awaken 6— (If you cast this spell for , also put three +1/+1 counters on target land you control and it becomes a 0/0 Elemental creature with haste. It’s still a land.)

Twisting of Makindi
Instant
You may choose new targets for target spell.
Awaken 3— (If you cast this spell for , also put three +1/+1 counters on target land you control and it becomes a 0/0 Elemental creature with haste. It’s still a land.)

Even tough this might rather be a effect, got it's share of Shunt effects and this is very close to it so still in 's color pie range.

Roilspawn Howler
Creature - Elemental
If you would put one or more counters on a land you control, put twice that many counters on that land instead.
3/2

More competition please? And/or judging?

melono please judge?

And if they don't react, Daij_Djan or ZephyrPhantom would a mod be so nice to jump in?

Flo00 Worth noting Bolt Bend was printed recently, so this is still considered a plausible effect. Fairly straightfoward takes on Awaken and explores space that wasn't done by it before while respecting previously existing costs - it feels like you studied Earthen Arms and Scatter to the Winds quite closely, but that's not a bad thing.

I think Roilspawn Howler's effect is a bit of a push even with an increased cost and conditional nature - Corpsejack Menace is only Uncommon in very specific sets that have draft/reprinting in mind, otherwise most Doubling Season knockoffs stay at rare. I think Howler would've been a better design fit if it followed Corpsejack Menance's design of a more pushed P/T line and at - this doesn't feel like an effect that should be easy to find multiples of in draft.

thaneofglamis I see what you were going for but ultimately Monitored Demense is land disadvantage in the "best" case and that is kind of feel-bad for a rare, especially when the Simic Growth Chamber cycle already exists. I don't dislike the implied cycle - more thought-out duals variations are always a good thing, but I do wonder if people would really want to run this card outside of needing more land bounce effects in EDH. Given it some further thought, I think the reason I feel awkward about it is because the dual land ultimately puts you down a land either way - you've either wasted a turn for a tapland or given up a chance to play a land to colorfix. There's nothing technically wrong with it but it does feel like a choice between two bad outcomes to make even with the set justification. I think a writeup explaining a bit more would've really helped this card's chances here, like something about how eternal formats or EDH could take advantage of this card, but from a new player perspective I suspect this will have the Time Spiral effect of getting veteran players very interested while making new players less enthusiastic.

EDIT: So I ended up running this by a few people because I still wasn't sure about how to make the card feel better, and I think something like giving the card basic land types really would've helped it here. I think the subtle problem with this card is that it ultimately feels like it's a carrot and stick with too little "carrot" - there needs to be a little more incentive to make the dilemma of choosing these two drawback outcomes reasonable. Making the land fetchable could possibly have that effect, and open you up to having Krosan Verge or Safewright Quest effects to make more a more interesting lands-matters set.

Outpost Confiscator is missing its P/T, but is otherwise not implausible. Repeatable destruction at common is a bit suspect especially in - Cavalier of Dawn and Bounty Agent imply such repeatable destruction should be at least , but I see the point. I feel like this would've been a safer design if it was lifegain, tapping, or cost taxing/cast restricting if you wanted to be risky.

Claim the Wilderness is a design I've seen before - I think I've even made it myself a few years ago. It's a cute design that pushes the pie without breaking it and probably has a place in a set, nothing wrong with that. It's not as closely related to the other cards but you can easily see how it came from the same set.


Overall this was mostly a choice between whether it's more interesting to revisit an old plane or design for a new one. I think the deciding factor was looking at the cards and thinking about how much attention the individual cards were given in design - I feel Flo00's were closer to being ready to be printed for a set.

Winner: Flo00

Ally color guild-themed cycle that lets you pay 5 mana (hybrid) for a big influential effect or 2 mana (multicolor) for a smaller more pragmatic effect. The idea is that the 5 mana effects either get you a noticeable card advantage effect or a potential finisher that you can use in a variety of draft decks, while running multicolor gives you the ability to use the card for a more immediate advantage earlier in the game.

Cease
Instant
Tap all creatures target player controls.
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Desist
Instant
Target creature gets +2/+2 and gains hexproof until end of turn.

You can cast Catch to completely freeze up the opposing player's board for a turn in any control deck as needed, but if you run both colors it gets the added bonus of being a combat trick.

Live
Sorcery
Create a 4/4 green and white Elemental token with reach.
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Breathe
Sorcery
You gain 7 life.

Heroes' Reunion is an instant and can target any player, so I think this is a fair tradeoff. Hybrid-wise, you can get a big stompy creature that can deal with flyers, but if you play multicolor you can get a giant life upswing that can give you an extra turn or two to win.

Ask
Instant
Target player may return a creature they control to their hand. If they do, they draw three cards.
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Answer
Instant
Return target spell to its owner's hand. Its controller loses 1 life.

Big draw spell that can double as a janky last-minute removal in hybrid (I admit I had to think really hard about emulating Black's sacrifice to draw aspect in a sensible way in hybrid). Answer is a sidegrade to Unsubstantiate with a bit of Vapor Snag tacked on, letting you use it as a situational tempo counter of sorts.

Wrack
Sorcery
Search your library for a card, put that card into your hand, discard a card at random, then shuffle your library.
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Ruin
Sorcery
Target opponent sacrifices a creature or planeswalker.

I'll have to admit I was really looking for a fitting effect for the hybrid one here that would make some amount of sense because I didn't want to do Lava Axe variant number 100. In the end I decided to push the pie a little bit with an expensive Gamble variant to excite the player, since there should be plenty of opportunities to run a reanimator or get back from graveyard effect with all the other potential colors/color combinations. Multicolor is effectively a less flexible Angrath's Rampage that you play to keep the board clear.

Willing
Sorcery
Put target land card from a graveyard onto the battlefield as a 4/4 green and black Elemental creature under your control. It’s still a land.
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Able
Sorcery
Target creature gets +4/+4 and gains menace until end of turn.

Speaking of reanimator, here's another intriguing push! Green turns lands into creatures all the time Awakener Druid so I decided to combo it with your typical once-a-set Unbreakable Bond effect at uncommon for a Restore. In multicolor you get a sorcery speed pump spell that helps push damage through.

Judging.
Only two entries? I guess my restrictions were a bit too narrow.

I'll give this one to ZephyrPhantom. I think those are a little more interesting than thaneofglamis's.

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Vision of the Warper
Sorcery
Reveal the top five cards of your library. You may put a colorless card from among them into your hand. Put the rest into your graveyard.

Kozilek’s Recall
Sorcery
Return up to two target colorless cards from your graveyard to your hand.

Call of the Titans
Sorcery
Put X target colorless cards you own from exile into your hand.

Kozilek, Warper of Realities
Legendary Creature - Eldrazi
When you cast this spell, choose up to seven colorless cards you own from outside the game, reveal them and put them into your hand.
You have no maximum hand size.
Kozilek, Warper of Realities can’t be blocked by creatures with power 4 or less.
12/12