Multiple Card Challenge

Flo00 : Interesting how the common and uncommon parts of the cycle complement each other. I'm a little concerned that Vision of the Warper putting stuff into the graveyard might make it a little too advantage compared to Corpse Churn (especially since it can grab lands in addition to most artifacts/creatures the deck will run).

Not sure if I'm a fan of how situational Call of the Titans is - you'll probably only run it in / decks where pseudo-draw spells exile stuff off the top that you won't use. I guess it also combats Oblivion Ring? I like the simplicity but worry it's a bit too simple for its own good.

Kozilek - His ETB is a much much better than Kozilek, Butcher of Truth's for roughly the same cost. Not only is he drawing more cards, he is effectively the equivalent of playing Karn the Great Creator seven times over, i.e. you can tutor up all sorts of perfect sideboard hate like Tormod's Crypt
and Pithing Needle whenever you want, so long as you can pay him. I think you underestimated the power of this effect by a lot, it should be 2-3 cards at most. 2nd effect makes sense and compliments the other cards, the 3rd fits the idea of him being a trickster and prevents him from dying to deathtouchers so easily, both seems like good choices.

Overall good setup of designs in theory but it feels like you neglected balance a little bit. A little tweaking and review compared to existing cards would probably help.

viriss : I like the combination of simple effects - Flash to put them in as a chump blocker and devotion to gain even more life after that. Feels like the Scholar should be "colorless creatures" to keep the cycle on theme and encourage running all of them - without it I think the card is a bit too easily reflavored as a or design. Otherwise I think is a good natural progression of colorless-matters cards with a payoff that doesn't feel like it's taking too much from a particular color. Set-ready as long as you make that slight tweak to the scholar.

(Also, for what it's worth, I'm glad you didn't try and stretch this into a 4-card cycle. I feel like the scaling up of the lifegain is well placed between the three cards.)

Daij_Djan : Interesting how you pushed very hard into Black's segment of the pie. I'm not sure how I feel about Ghastly Guard being better than Festering Mummy in almost every way minus the non-Spirit part - Festering Goblin tends to be the baseline (Shambling Goblin, Grim Physician) so making a card like this at almost seems to be asking for a BFZ situation where the raw value of certain Colorless creatures was too pushed for the health of competitive formats. I would either drop Flying or make it just -1/-1 until EoT at least - probably the latter to keep the spirit (pun intended) of the cycle intact.

Ghastly Warrior I think is the best example of what you were going for in this cycle overall. It's a very effect but it's got enough conditional hoops attached to it that I feel like I'm looking at something closer to Universal Solvent than "Murder in ".

Ghastly Monarch feels like a good followup to the rest of this cycle that's difficult enough to trigger for the offensive effect while being a decent draft bomb on all of its own. A bit more flashier than Ghastly Warrior's simple design but I think it's still fairly good. Creative use of non-Spirit here.

Overall I think your common is a bit too pushed (feels like you overestimated just how much "non-Spirit" weakens this card outside of its hypothetical Standard) to be healthy but otherwise set-ready. The dies trigger + non-Spirit stipulation makes it feel restrictive enough in most cases to not just be a bunch of cards and convincingly be its own archetype. (Heartless Summoning could make for some interesting results, lol.)

mosgon : I feel like given the nature of the submissions in general there's a bit of a joke we can make about being able to do everything, lol.

I kind of wish Spiritual Guide returned colorless cards instead of creature cards even if I see the justification for it. Every color can usually dig for cards of a certain type from their graveyard, and "creature" makes this push a bit too much towards / in general for my liking.

I think you underestimate just how powerful Spiritual Companion is - with a little bit of clever footwork, I can reanimate: Dragonlord Ojutai, Aurelia, the Warleader, Platinum Angel, Thought-Knot Seer, Verdurous Gearhulk, Zur, the Enchanter.... the list goes on, and I think it's a bit too broad when Wizards is nowadays even hesitant to print Zombify. You could make arguments for it not surpassing Goryo's Vengeance but it definitely pushes the limit of what I think would be an acceptable reanimator spell in Modern. I think I would at least make it target colorless creature cards only and even then it would have to be in a directly-to-Modern set at minimum.

I'm pretty sure Charon doesn't work. "A creature or planeswalker “dies” if it is put into a graveyard from the battlefield. See rule 700.4.", so you can't regenerate it because it's already gone from the battlefield. You'd have to do something like the The Cauldron of Eternity and pay mana to put it back on the battlefield, which technically works but I feel is very klunky. Maybe creating Spirit creature tokens instead?


For what it's worth I feel like I would've been more okay with a slightly less powerful Spiritual Companion if you'd explained that you expected it to be a high power card and perhaps scaled the other cards accordingly. Otherwise it's arguably even more powerful than Charon and that doesn't feel right without more context.

1st: Daij_Djan
2nd: viriss