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Post by hydraheadhunter on Jan 31, 2023 7:45:25 GMT
Critique's Critique Dwarf 1: Makes the visitors stop. Love the flavor. Dwarf 2: I'd be running back home from battle too if I knew a good authentic curry was waiting for me back home. And I'd also bruise up someone if they took it away! The basis for these two cards is a running head-canon that because spice is basically just poison humans have a taste for, dwarves with their +2 to poison will have ungodly spicy food with lead and arsenic as additives, and because that'll literally kill less stout folk, dwarves have to cook a different curry for visitors, and because they can't be bothered to memorize what kills who, they just leave it unspiced. Leading to the undeserved reputation of drawvish food as overly-bland. Merfolk: Feels a bit overcosted on the casting cost. A single  might be enough. Yeah, I originally had it doing other stuff, but then simplified it; I think it was a fair cost for what it originally did, but then I didn't adjust it. God: I'd make it a "you may" in case you have lesser devotion. Great static. Might be OK at  . Probably. Definitely. I actually thought I did put it at four. Elf: 1st ability would need to be "other Elf." Don't think you need the separation on 2nd and 3rd abilities. Yeah, I played a bit fast with the rules. The second and third ability do need to be seporated if I don't want the third ability to be a mana ability. Giant: Nice idea on making it a wall! Agree on keeping it Tribal as well. Thank you Snake: I think this would make all snakes you control have both deathtouch and lifelink. Also, without fight, this just means "kill a dude if you have a snake." Feels too strong, but good flavor. The intent is it gives lifelink to snakes with deathtouch and then it gives deathtouch to snakes without deathtouch, and the lifelink doesn't get a second check. I think there's a precident somewhere in the canon for this, but I'm not sure where. Orc: This is strong, but does cost 5-mana... Probably OK in terms of power. Berserker food! Six mana, but I agree its strong. Vampire: Lol, definitely better! This could have been black border! I like it. It's only silver because I couldn't think of a less sliver name for it than "Strictly Better Blood" Goblin: I like the conspire on this! And the tribal conspire variant is a great idea! Thank you I'm glad you liked the idea. It always felt weird to me that conspire cared about color in a block built around creature types. Thank you for the win. I've been waiting for a win in this game since I made it to make a prompt based on another one of spice8racks videos.
Here and Queer
There is some queer representation in magic the gathering, but there isn't not nearly enough. So. Let's add some more. Your cards use existing queer MTG characters, queer existing non-queer MTG characters, introduce or showcase your own original queer characters, or be broadly inspired by the idea of queerness while not being about a specific character. The queerness may be flavor only or may inform the mechanics of the card.
I'm not about to make you write a whole-ass essay for each character, but a short one-two sentence blurb about their queer identity would be appreciated. |
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pernicious
6/6 Wurm
Posts: 307
Favorite Card: Mistmeadow Skulk
Favorite Set: Lorwyn and Shadowmoor blocks
Color Alignment: Red, Green
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Post by pernicious on Jan 31, 2023 15:40:44 GMT
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Post by vizionarius on Jan 31, 2023 21:35:03 GMT
Egyesítő, Ally of Many    Legendary Planeswalker - Egyesítő  Whenever one or more creatures attack a planeswalker you control, Egyesítő deals 3 damage to one of those creatures.  : Until your next turn, the next time damage is dealt to Egyesítő, scry X where X is the damage dealt to them.  : Put a ward counter on target nonland permanent you or a teammate controls.  : You get an emblem with "You may distribute the loyalty cost of the first loyalty ability you activate each turn among any number of planeswalkers you control."  Note: If the loyalty ability is a +, you put loyalty divided as you chose, and if it's a -, then remove loyalty divided as you choose. Note 2: Egyesítő (pronounced kind of like "edjeshitoe") means "unifier" in Hungarian (my native tongue). Hungarian has a neat feature that it's an ungendered language, even to the point of not having any gendered pronouns. We just use ő for the third-person singular pronoun. My parents were in their 40s when we moved to the USA, and they didn't learn English till just a few months before we moved, so even to this day they use "he" and "she" interchangeably (unintentionally) because the genderless nature of pronouns is so ingrained in how they speak.
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emberfire17
2/2 Zombie
Posts: 146
Formerly Known As: a goblin
Favorite Card: Gishath, Sun's Avatar
Favorite Set: Ixalan
Color Alignment: Red, Green
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Post by emberfire17 on Feb 1, 2023 21:39:30 GMT
 If Theros is based on Greek mythology, surely there's a Theros version of Sappho, right? Also yes this means that the term for women loving women is "Athalic" on this plane. |
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Post by ZephyrPhantom on Feb 9, 2023 13:45:08 GMT
Rebellious Delver Creature - Human Warrior  Whenever Rebellious Delver and at least two other creatures attack, create a Treasure. At the beginning of your upkeep, if you control three or more Treasures, transform ~. 1/1 He tired of living in a golden cage, and sought glory in dungeons and bars.////// Guild's Patroness Creature - Human Noble Whenever you sacrifice an artifact for mana, add . 3/3 "I find that the path of adventure is where many discover their true selves. Now, a toast to your first journey!"
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Post by hydraheadhunter on Feb 28, 2023 23:12:51 GMT
Thank you again to vizionarius for pinging me a reminder; I have the object permanence of a rabid goldfish and immediately forget something exists the moment it leaves my line of sight (slight exaggeration). {judging} | pernicious |  | Vampire Exterminator
Two generic and a red
Creature — Human Assassin
Whenever Vampire Exterminator deals combat damage to a Vampire, exile that creature.
Pay a generic and a white: Vampire Exterminator gains first strike until end of turn.
FT: One night, he returned home only to find his husband pale and dead, with two crimson dots on the neck. In that moment, he swore to put an end to every single vampire in Innistrad.
3/2
| A classic for a reason, the "I swore to vengefully genocide the sapient monsters who killed my spouse," trope is as good a starting point as any other for a story, and making the protagonist of that story gay, gives us the problematic characters that the cishet hegemonites get all the time and which we deserve too.
Killing all the vamps in Innistrad is gonna be a tall order for this one guy to do alone though.
Mechanically, the first strike seems a bit too cheaply costed in context of the other ability which removes vampires from the game, but I don't see a way to make it more expensive while still being viable to use.
| | vizionarius | No render provided.
| Egyesítő, Ally of Many
Two Generic, a blue, a red, and a white
Legendary Planeswalker - Egyesítő
Whenever one or more creatures attack a planeswalker you control, Egyesítő deals 3 damage to one of those creatures.
+2: Until your next turn, the next time damage is dealt to Egyesítő, scry X where X is the damage dealt to them.
-1: Put a ward two generic counter on target nonland permanent you or a teammate controls.
-11: You get an emblem with "You may distribute the loyalty cost of the first loyalty ability you activate each turn among any number of planeswalkers you control."
Starting Loyalty 5
| I love your exploration of queerness from the linguistic prospective of Hungarian. The lack of gendered pronouns in a language does lend toward that language's speakers having a different prospective on and relationship to gender.
I'm confused by the card's mechanical identity however. I'm not sure what this fella is wont to do and what archetype and play pattern it fits into beside a generic superfriends build maybe?
| | emberfire17 | | Athalio, Loving Poet
Two generic, a green, and a white
Legendary Enchantment Creature — Human Bard
Other Humans you control get +1/+1.
Constellation — Whenever Athalia or another enchantment enters the battlefield under your control, create a 1/1 white Human creature token.
FT: No woman could resist her charm.
| I respectfully love me a lesbian polycule centered around a semi-tragic and/or romantic poet.
I also enjoy small linguistic bunny the Theros word for lesbian love would be based on their famous lesbian poet instead of our famous lesbian poet. I would gon for "Athalian" instead of "Athalic" as the exact adjective form but it's a fun little bunny of a thought.
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| Rebellious Delver
A red
Creature - Human Warrior
Whenever Rebellious Delver and at least two other creatures attack, create a Treasure.
At the beginning of your upkeep, if you control three or more Treasures, transform Rebellious Delver.
FT: He tired of living in a golden cage, and sought glory in dungeons and bars.
1/1
Guild's Patroness
(No cost)
Creature - Human Noble
Whenever you sacrifice an artifact for mana, add a red.
FT: "I find that the path of adventure is where many discover their true selves. Now, a toast to your first journey!"
3/3
| What a lovely ludonarative presenting the exploration and discovery of gender through both the mechanics of the card and the card's flavored conceit of dungeon delving.
I don't know if there would have been space to figure out how to incorporate the venture into the dungeon mechanic into the card to strengthen the connection the card is making between the dungeon adventure and the discovery of queerness, but it'da been nice.
I especially love the flavor text of the second half which in my opinion reads like the Patroness is saying, "Now go in the dungeon to hatch you egg (affectionate)."
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{judgement}This is a hard decision,but I think I'm ultimately *flips a coin* gonna give it to emberfire17 's Athalia with ZephyrPhantom as runner up. |
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emberfire17
2/2 Zombie
Posts: 146
Formerly Known As: a goblin
Favorite Card: Gishath, Sun's Avatar
Favorite Set: Ixalan
Color Alignment: Red, Green
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Post by emberfire17 on Mar 2, 2023 21:19:31 GMT
Thanks for the win, I really enjoyed coming up with that card!
For the next challenge: With March of the Machines coming out next month, chances are high that some popular characters are going to be phyrexianized. Make a card of a phyrexianized version of a legendary creature. It could be anyone across any plane, as long as they have an original, non-phyrexianized card printed.
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Post by vizionarius on Mar 2, 2023 23:01:15 GMT
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Post by Idea on Mar 3, 2023 1:05:44 GMT
Ok, so phyrexianized gods are one of the coolest concepts in this new set in my opinion and I really couldn't help fear and imagine what would happen if my boy Kruphix were to be taken. So here it is:  The way I picture it, Kruphix's power to know all that has ever been known in Theros is something phyrexians simply can't ignore, and Kruphix seemingly had little power to intervene to begin with. Despite steeling their defenses, Kruphix's worshippers are helpless unless the power of phyrexian oil, and ultimately fall. Their twisted worship turns Kruphix into a minion of phyrexia, his vast knowledge and wisdom projected onto the phyrexian "hivemind" and connecting their thoughts even further. Ancient secrets, powerful spells, more beings to bind to phyrexia and countless horrors that could be projected with this kind of knowledge, not to mention the gift of prophecy. Torturing or even compleating enemies for information is no longer needed, since if they can be carried to Theros their knowledge can be stolen simply by existing... and if they can't be, perhaps Kruphix has some means to bless them with such ability. There is no longer anything holding him back from sharing all the darkest and deepest secrets of the plane now that he serves the Great Work. |
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Post by vizionarius on Mar 24, 2023 19:47:19 GMT
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emberfire17
2/2 Zombie
Posts: 146
Formerly Known As: a goblin
Favorite Card: Gishath, Sun's Avatar
Favorite Set: Ixalan
Color Alignment: Red, Green
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Post by emberfire17 on Mar 24, 2023 21:32:14 GMT
I'd love to see more entries, I'll give it a few more days before I judge.
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Post by melono on Mar 24, 2023 21:42:47 GMT
Isamaru, Hound of Norn  Legendary Creature - Phyrexian Dog Toxic 1 ( Players dealt combat damage by this creature also get a poison counter.) Ever faithful, only its master served a new master as well.2/2
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moweda
1/1 Squirrel
Posts: 76
Favorite Card: Psychic Vortex
Color Alignment: Blue, Black, Red
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Post by moweda on Mar 24, 2023 22:36:36 GMT
I hit Random Card until the first legend showed up: AtogatogPhyrexatog     Legendary Creature - Phyrexian Atog Sacrifice a creature, you get a poison counter: ~ gets +X/+X until end of turn, where X is the sacrificed creature’s power. It'll eat anything but its table manners are atrocious.
5/5 I feel like Phyrexia would happily trade that parasitic Atog tribal for a mere poison counter. |
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