Land Designs

I like how everyone's done a different color pair so far. Can we manage to get enough people to do a full 10 duals cycle?

Some great entries so far! I'll judge in the next couple of days.

Pretty sure this should be , right?

Ceta Fountain
Land 
: Add .
Whenever ~ becomes tapped, you may pay . If you do, add  if you control a red permanent and add  if you control a green permanent. (Add both if you control both colors).

If I don't judge now, I won't for a week, so here we go:

Since we recently got a card for Greensleeves, how about her home?

Whispering Woods
Land
Whispering Woods enters the battlefield tapped.
: Add .
You may choose not to untap Whispering Woods during your untap step. When you do, scry 1.

For the first post was done when almost a week past from it had started, it might be a bit difficult theme you need to take a long time to think unless it is not simply unpopular.
I want to wait more posts til Oct 18 21:44. 

Yeah I feel like this one is kind of tough because generally if you've heard of a place in Magic it's on a card already. Also searching for "locations" gets search engines confused with real life LGS locations. I'd recommend The Unknown Worlds section of Magic Multiverse for anyone else looking for locations to quickly draw from.


The Acendian Isles
Land
As ~ enters the battlefield, choose a player.
Add . Add instead if the chosen player was dealt damage by a legendary creature this turn.
The Acendians maintain a time honored tradition of honoring the families in their villages. In the era of the Steel Legion, this means many stray warriors seek to avenge entire villages lost.

See "Celtic Battle World" for the Steel Legion (Prava of the Steel Legion, Licia, Sanguine Tribune), and Saskia's backstory:




This is specifically in reference to Boudica of the Iceni, the character Saskia the Unyielding is based on. I deliberated this making but decided against it because making two mana on a land is very strong and I also wanted to give it the opportunity to be run in any commander deck similar to Temple of the False God. (Who knows if the other Acendian warlords are even the same colors as Saskia?)

Yes. WoTC in modern times generally seems to go for making "similar" versions of historical figures instead of the identical figure, like Kenrith, the Returned King is similar to Arthur or Heliod, God of the Sun is half Apollo and half Zeus but neither card is identical to their inspirations. (Compare Sima Yi, Wei Field Marshal from the old days). Since Saskia is not exactly Boudica it felt appropriate to make a similar adjustment.

So, since I'm feeling inspired by the setting:

Your next challenge is to make a Land that is based on the flavor of "the fall of the Roman Empire". You don't have to use the "Celtic Battle World" the Steel Legion (Prava of the Steel Legion, Licia, Sanguine Tribune) and Saskia live in, but you should make some kind of reference to the real life Roman Empire's decay somehow.

Plagued Barracks
Land
: Add .
, , Pay 1 life: Create a 1/1 white Soldier creature token with decayed. (It can’t block. When it attacks, sacrifice it at end of combat.)
Deaths ran in the thousands, but no battle was yet fought.

Judging.

vizionarius - Man, that brings back some memories. Creatively using game footage aside, I find this a nice simple evolution of Gates - you get the gate typing and more color fixing, but only for so long! Could easily see this being a full cycle.

melono - Some really powerful flavor here! Big fan of how I can imagine what's going on even without art. Your use of decayed is excellent here, keeping in line with the ability's flavor but using it in a really new and interesting way.

twintania - I guess the idea is that Nero locked listeners in the theater to force them to listen to his songs? Admittedly would've liked that to restrict Commanders to though I imagine a lot of people would be quite angry if it did, lol. At first I wasn't sure about the sacrifice part but I think it was a neat way to essentially put a very weak effect on a land without making it last the entire turn. I would like to see more powerful lands like Karakas get similar weakened counterparts, this is a very interesting concept. Not 100% sure if it should be White forcing cards to go into the graveyard given how it's a grave hate color and a color that loves exile, but White is enough of a control color that I think I can sort of see it.

Good ideas overall. I'd say melono wins this ones though with an incredibly creative reinterpretation of decayed that is used to keep a card advantage generating land's power under control.

Ruling: A sorcery land that is put onto the battlefield by means other than casting it will just enter the battlefield without its sorcery effects occurring. A card that is a sorcery land is only a sorcery as long as it's not on the battlefield.
Ruling 2: A land with a casting cost can't be played as you would normally; they must be cast.
Ruling 3: A sorcery land is both a sorcery and a land while on the stack. It can be copied and countered. Copies enter as tokens. If countered, you can't cast or play another land since the casting is what counts for playing a land for the turn; not the resolution.