Land Designs

Thanks for the win! It often costs you more than a mana to get +1/+1 counters onto something, so I thought it'd probably not be too broken and have sorta negative returns. Might still have some broken combo's, but none that I can 123 think of.

Anyhow, the next challenge: Create a land that likes it when you control one or more basic lands.
Easiest example would be something like Sunken Hollow or sortakinda Drowned Catacomb, but you can go anywhere you want with it.

Garden of Origin
Legendary Land 
Garden of Origin enters the battlefield tapped.
: Until end of turn, whenever you tap a basic land for mana, add one mana of any color that land could produce.
Free of complexities, nature is allowed to thrive.

Haunted Manor
Land
Haunted Manor enters the battlefield tapped.
Domain -- , Sacrifice Haunted Manor: Search your library for a number of basic lands equal to the number of basic land types you control and put them onto the battlefield tapped.

The fools never understood, even as the manor lay sacked and dormant, that the real power was underneath it.

Prepare to be judged



Now, for the weiner:

Those are understandable reasons for changing its rarity.

And that was an error in my judgement, viriss' card is quite a bit stronger than I first thought then. Oh well.

Despite the examples, the first thing I thought of was actually Warden of the Wall

An artifact that becomes a land, you say.... Okay, how's this?

Sure is. Can't remember off the top of my head which package it was in, though.

The "M15 DFC Maps" template does just the fliplands, but the "Mainframe DFC" template is more flexible, and can do a lot of different card types on either side.

kefke I like this one. It could be a great staple in the right set.

Jartis Pocket castle!! "have hexproof and indestructible".

FLAREdirector The land side "choose two" seems a little powerful for 3, but the cost to get there is good. Though that transform trigger is easy, I'm glad you added the "and tap it."

Flo00 Land destruction is tricky, and this is repeatable. Strangely, I feel like the Juggernaut "attacks each combat if able" would help. And I like that it just turns into a nice place to live. "Here's one mana."

melono I like the build up/drain down, except the last time you use the land side you don't get any mana and *then* it flips back over.

And here I thought I'd get disqualified for not using the actual transform mechanic like everyone else. Haha. Alright then, my choice of challenge:

"Normal" Magic gets too much love. Now it's time to get weird. Create a land designed for Commander, Conspiracy, Two-Headed Giant, or Planechase.

Common Grounds
Land 
: Add .
: A player of your choice adds one mana of any color they choose. Activate this ability only during your turn and no more than three times each turn. Tap Common Grounds.

Spacial Fold
Land 
Spacial Fold enters the battlefield tapped.
: Add . If a player planeswalked this turn, add one mana of any color instead.
, : Roll the planar die.

It allows a reroll planar die at a cheaper mana cost if you've already paid six mana this turn, but more importantly it gives you instant-speed access to the planar die, although at a pretty steep cost.

I should technically wait another day, but there hasn't been any activity since the 13th, so how about I don't keep everyone waiting any longer?

Daij_Djan - This is a pretty simple and elegant design. It has the potential to give mana fixing for free or at-cost, but statistically will be unreliable, which probably makes it coming in untapped reasonable. Though it's hard to say in any given game whether the secondary effect will end up being more or less severe than, say Grand Coliseum, I'd say that on average it probably would be more. It's a worthwhile gamble, though, and there's not many good ways to lessen it.

FLAREdirector - While not tied to any specific format, this would be phenomenal in Two-Headed Giant. Possibly too good, since it let's you loan your partner three free any-colour mana each turn. I notice, though, that it says "A player of your choice" and not "Another player", which means you can use it on yourself. That pushes the power level up a good bit in my estimation.

viriss - Another card not explicitly tied to a format. I'd assume this one is meant for Commander, where you'd have the most reliable source of legendary creatures to charge it, and not care so much about being limited to one in play. Definitely has the potential to net you an extra commander play in the late game, without slowing tempo up to that point, but I'm not sure about long-term viability with this trick. Also, did you mean Heros as a name, or was it a typo on "heroes"?

Jartis - This does a lot of what the first entry was doing at common, but with enough extra going on to justify the upgraded rarity. Loss of tempo is a good tradeoff for a mana fixing condition that can be hit on other turns, and a decently strong secondary effect.

Flo00 - Cavern of Souls was a favourite for one of my old decks. This is an interesting take on it. Less versatile, but it has the potential to enable some really nasty plays. Though, on the other hand, draft is fickle, and it has just as much potential to fizzle and do nothing. Also, as much as I think draft-focused cards are cool, they have "the draft problem", where unless everyone agrees to return their cards to the pool to be drafted again, they can only be used for one play session in a physical format - but I don't count that against individual cards.

Some really close competition this time around, and I went back and forth over which card to pick for a while, but in the end, the winner is Jartis!

That's pretty understandable, really. When you're making the card, you know what you mean, so it's easier to miss faults in the wording. There's a famous example of Time Walk making it to playtesting with the wording "Target player loses next turn."