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Post by Flo00 on Jul 29, 2023 18:50:36 GMT
Thanks for the win melono!
Next challenge: Make a land that does something different depending on the colors or number of colors your deck plays!
What that exactly means is entirely up to you.
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boxlaunch
0/0 Germ
Posts: 28
Favorite Card: Uninvited Geist
Favorite Set: Shadows Over Innistrad
Color Alignment: Black, Green
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Post by boxlaunch on Jul 31, 2023 0:06:46 GMT
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Post by viriss on Jul 31, 2023 0:53:22 GMT
 The power ramp might be too steep but I'm not sure how else to balance it. |
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Post by vizionarius on Aug 1, 2023 5:40:03 GMT
Commanders' StatuaryLand  ~ enters the battlefield tapped.  : Add one mana of any color in your commander’s color identity. Lieutenant -- As long as you control your commander, ~ is an X/X Sculpture creature in addition to its other types, where X is the number of colors in your commanders' color identity.
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Post by Daij_Djan on Aug 1, 2023 20:05:03 GMT
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Post by Jartis on Aug 8, 2023 3:05:29 GMT
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Post by Flo00 on Aug 8, 2023 17:25:08 GMT
I won't find time to judge this for another week. You can wait that long, or if anyone wants me to just quickly announce a winner, I'll to that.
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Post by vizionarius on Aug 8, 2023 18:36:25 GMT
I won't find time to judge this for another week. You can wait that long, or if anyone wants me to just quickly announce a winner, I'll to that. I'm fine with waiting |
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Post by Flo00 on Aug 14, 2023 0:48:26 GMT
Thanks for your patience. {boxlaunch}I like how open this is. It has the considerable disatvantage of only tapping for mana if a land with a basic type entered this turn, so you only want to play it if you have a really good use. I can see a ton fun uses for this. Enabling landwalk, turning Flashfires/ Boiling Seas into Armageddon, .. .{viriss}I think the balancing is good in a Shrine of the Forsaken Gods style. The only strange thing is the different wording of the second ability. It sounds like a Triome would allow you to activate the second ability but not the first and also not count towards the last. {vizionarius}Good card. I really like lieutenant as condition to animate this.
{Daij_Djan}Good card. Funny how it actually doesn't offer anything to Draco itself. {Jartis}I like how this doesn't do anything on its own yet gets really powerful in a multicolored deck. Feels like it is somewhere between Reflecting Pool and Doubling Cube. Those are all good entries. I'm just a tiny bit disappointed that everyone went with "more colors is better". Since I made it interpret as you wish, that's totally fine though. {winner} boxlaunchrunner-up goes to @daij_Djan |
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boxlaunch
0/0 Germ
Posts: 28
Favorite Card: Uninvited Geist
Favorite Set: Shadows Over Innistrad
Color Alignment: Black, Green
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Post by boxlaunch on Aug 15, 2023 4:28:44 GMT
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Post by viriss on Aug 18, 2023 0:56:20 GMT
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Post by Flo00 on Aug 21, 2023 21:23:12 GMT
 Temur Battleground Land : Add  . Ferocious — : Add  or  . Activate only if you control a creature with power 4 or greater. This is actually part of a cycle. With the Sultai one probably being a bit too powerful and the Jeskai and Abzan ones being a bit weird: |
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Post by serraphim on Aug 24, 2023 21:38:28 GMT
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Post by vizionarius on Aug 29, 2023 20:40:19 GMT
Mardu HomelandsLegendary Land ~ enters the battlefield tapped. Add ,  , or  . Whenever a creature you control with haste attacks, it gets +1/+0 until end of turn. Note: This works nicely with Dash.
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boxlaunch
0/0 Germ
Posts: 28
Favorite Card: Uninvited Geist
Favorite Set: Shadows Over Innistrad
Color Alignment: Black, Green
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Post by boxlaunch on Sept 3, 2023 21:02:16 GMT
I have been Wedged between a rock and a hard place recently but I reemerge to judge this contest! {Spoiler} viriss - I appreciate this card having the lair the since the original cycle was for shards, why not wedges? I think "Tunnel" in the name is the real outlier, because I can imagine a big angry dragon flying out of their lair, but for some reason the name isn't fitting for me. Though I do like how this card is kind of like stapling the 3 Orb of Dragonkinds onto a land, and the draw back of being a lair feels appropriate for the power of it's ability. Flo00 - Really cool that you made a whole cycle with the orignal KTK mechanics. I agree with your assessment of the Sultai, Jeskai, and Abzan lands. The other two are fair but still would likely be auto includes in any 3-5 color deck they could go in. Am definently glad they don't have an land typings for easy tutorability though. Slight thing that irks me is the color that the lands natively tap for. The Tarkir clans designs are "centered" around the enemy color in the wedge, ( for Abzan, for Jeskai, etc.) so for me personally it would make most sense for this to be the leading color. I have been listening to MaRo's Drive to Work podcast a lot recently. Right now, he is walking through each 3 color pairing and how they design them which is probably why I noticed this. I would encourage anyone doesn't listen to it to do so. serraphim - I really like this design space! We have seen a couple of "Figure of Destiny" creatures recently but I like bringing that idea into lands. I also like how it requires the mana of the type before so it isn't really fixing, just a land that add types. Want to note that it is technically redundant to have " : Add ." since it has the Island typing (though some still have the line in reminder text.) See my comments on Flo00 's submission for how I would prefer Forest/G to be the starting type for this land (and to listen to DtW podcast) This land being fetchable is also not lost on me which I think raises it's power level a bit. vizionarius - Like Ragavan needed the help... (kidding). This land is quite scary in the right build but not in an oppressive way. Definently would make me think twice about attacks in limited in fear of a larger crack back. I also appreciate keeping the mechanically identity of mardu and tarkir in mind. {Winner} serraphim really like the leveling land design space. Big fan of all the entries though! |
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Post by Flo00 on Sept 3, 2023 22:49:20 GMT
Thanks for the feedback boxlaunchFlo00 [...] Slight thing that irks me is the color that the lands natively tap for. The Tarkir clans designs are "centered" around the enemy color in the wedge, ( for Abzan, for Jeskai, etc.) so for me personally it would make most sense for this to be the leading color. Usually the wedges should be. But the clans are not. That's because they shifted to friendly pairs in Dragons of Tarkir by dropping the enemy color. You can see this on some Fate Reforged cards like Runemarks and the khans. Strange enough they even did a mythic cycle that switched over to the other color. |
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boxlaunch
0/0 Germ
Posts: 28
Favorite Card: Uninvited Geist
Favorite Set: Shadows Over Innistrad
Color Alignment: Black, Green
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Post by boxlaunch on Sept 3, 2023 23:10:32 GMT
Usually the wedges should be. But the clans are not. That's because they shifted to friendly pairs in Dragons of Tarkir by dropping the enemy color. You can see this on some Fate Reforged cards like Runemarks and the khans. Strange enough they even did a mythic cycle that switched over to the other color. I noticed this as well when I looked into it more after I posted and stand corrected for your submission. I had justified it as, sultai for example, using Black and Blue means (Ruthlessness and Knowledge) for Greens goals (Growth), but I think I was just trying confirming my bias, especially since I started playing right after this and am not super familiar with the lore of this block. |
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Post by serraphim on Sept 5, 2023 17:05:09 GMT
Thank you, boxlaunch! For the next challenge, design a land card that cares about the creatures your opponents control. |
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Post by Daij_Djan on Sept 5, 2023 21:53:04 GMT
Obviously menat to be part of a cycle of Sieged lands:
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Post by vizionarius on Sept 11, 2023 19:01:26 GMT
Spynetwork HubLand : Add  .  , : For each color among creatures your opponents control, add one mana of that color.
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Sanfonier of the Night
7/7 Elemental
Posts: 399
Favorite Card: The Prismatic Bridge
Favorite Set: War of the Spark
Color Alignment: White, Blue, Black, Red, Green, Colorless
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Post by Sanfonier of the Night on Sept 11, 2023 23:18:08 GMT
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Post by serraphim on Sept 14, 2023 19:55:14 GMT
will judge tomorrow!
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Post by serraphim on Sept 17, 2023 0:10:13 GMT
Daij_Djan I like the theme of being under siege by an army. Mechanically, it's nice that it makes being on the draw more bearable against fast decks. vizionarius It's looks like a very high risk land that acts like a worse Bloom Tender every turn but in the right situation a high reward. It wants to reward you for playing as many colors as possible to maximize the effect, but there's a lot of luck involved in what your opponent plays for your colors to match up. I think most games there would be better options given that the ability is generally dead against 1 color decks and at best breaks even with two "useable" mana against 2 colors while still running the risk in 3+ colors to actually ramp ahead and have colored mana you can use. I don't play a lot of multiplayer, I can see it would increase the value having more than one opponent, though. Sanfonier of the Night I love the name. I like treasure tokens, but I don't think I'd play this if I had more than one opponent without some serious tricks in my sleeves. In a 1v1 I like it, but boy does it hurt that this kinda reads create X-1 treasure tokens since you lose a permanent mana generator to create them. Winner: I'm going to give it to Daij_Djan.
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Post by Daij_Djan on Sept 24, 2023 19:12:36 GMT
Big thanks for the win!
For your next challenge, design a land that be tapped for mana of one specific color - but has an activated ability requiring you to pay mana of (at least) one different color to activate!
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Post by viriss on Sept 25, 2023 3:51:45 GMT
 Trying something new with "colored mana" restriction. I can't find an example of it being done before but I'm not sure it balances out or is worth the extra complexity. |
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Post by vizionarius on Sept 28, 2023 18:19:36 GMT
Drownmoss GroveLand  ~ enters the battlefield tapped. : Add .  , , Sacrifice ~: Target creature gets -1/-1 until end of turn for each creature card in your graveyard. |
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Post by Flo00 on Sept 29, 2023 4:00:53 GMT
Hope it's ok if I post the whole "my house is in ruins" cycle?      I'm pretty sure I've posted at least a part of them somewhere, I just couldn't find them. Maybe it was in the old forums? I couldn't find them via google. Are they completely down? {text version}Ruinous Tower Land Ruinous Tower enters the battlefield tapped. : Add . , : Exile each card put into target player’s graveyard this turn. Calcified Bath Land Calcified Bath enters the battlefield tapped. : Add . , , Discard a card: Draw a card. Overgrown Basement Land Overgrown Basement enters the battlefield tapped. : Add . , : Put target land card from your graveyard on top of your library. Pillaged Larder Land Pillaged Larder enters the battlefield tapped. : Add . , : Prevent the next 3 damage target spell would deal this turn. Flooded Garden Land Flooded Garden enters the battlefield tapped. : Add . , : Choose a counter on target permanent or card in exile. Remove that counter from that permanent or card or put another one of those counters on it. |
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Post by Daij_Djan on Nov 5, 2023 20:58:52 GMT
Maybe it was in the old forums? I couldn't find them via google. Are they completely down? I'm afraird so. I've actually been checking over there from time to time just for the lol'z, but it seems to have gone down around a month after my last visit. Probably since there were no more posts made on it for many years. I'd assume the host gave the admin account a warning – but since we haven't had access to that one for many years (which is why me moved in the first place), no-one ever got that warning (if there really way one)..
OK, to get things going, I'll just announce the winner for tonight. Full judging to be added soon TM. For now, the win goes to.. Flo00! |
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Post by Flo00 on Nov 6, 2023 9:08:08 GMT
Thanks for the win Daij_Djan!
For the next challenge, I'd like to see some lands that relate to a real place you like or one near you.
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Post by viriss on Nov 6, 2023 23:10:38 GMT
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"When in doubt, do a common." 
