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Post by Daij_Djan on Jan 3, 2022 15:12:17 GMT
Welcome to the Card of the Week Contest! To participate in this Contest you'll have to design a card along the contest guidelines and throw it into the arena with other competitors' entries! At the end of each week, a winner will be determined by forum poll. The winner's card will be rendered and featured on the Welcome page, and the winner decides the challenge for the next week's Contest! Here we go, competitors: our three-hundred and ninety-eighth challenge!
The winner of the "Man's best friend" poll was BinaryBolas with... And the challenge issued by our winner was... Welcome to the new year of 2022, where everything will be better (hopefully). In the binary spirit of two-s, we should really start this potentially wonderful year with something fitting of this numerical property. Therefore, for this week, design a 2-mana card that fits one or more of the following requirements:- It's a 2/2 creature. (Forest Bear and strictly worse or better Forest Bears. Value judgements debatable. Here's all existing 2-mana 2/2s so far.)
- It's able to make 2/2 creatures. (Traditional creation of 2/2 creature tokens and alcemical conjuration are both acceptable. However try not to list 15+ cards for your spellbooks. Actually I recommend not to do Spellbook cards altogether.)
- It can become or transform into a 2/2 creature. (e.g. Guardian Idol, or morphs.)
- It can make something else a 2/2 creature. (e.g. Verdant Touch, or something like Ensoul Artifact but 2/2s, or cards that manifest.)
I do have to make a restriction that your entries should be strictly 2 mana, so no   s. (I didn't say you can't have alternative costs/activated abilities like kicker.)
Additionally, please try to keep your entry edits all in one post - if you need to change it you can put your old entry in a spoiler marked "Old entry" and leave the newest rendition to be seen. Just use the edit button in the top/right of your original post.And now, time to begin the challenge! Best of luck, competitors!
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Post by pacifistwestwoman on Jan 3, 2022 17:29:14 GMT
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Post by sdfkjgh on Jan 3, 2022 19:22:49 GMT
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Post by Daij_Djan on Jan 3, 2022 19:38:15 GMT
When in doubt..
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Post by t2stonerain on Jan 3, 2022 19:51:37 GMT
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Post by sdfkjgh on Jan 3, 2022 20:17:42 GMT
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Pixi-Rex
1/1 Squirrel
Why am I a 0/0 Germ
Posts: 62
Color Alignment: White, Green
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Post by Pixi-Rex on Jan 3, 2022 20:50:58 GMT
Happy New Year everyone!  Went for a simple design Entry.  |
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Post by Flo00 on Jan 3, 2022 22:28:43 GMT
All of the above.  Growling Ooze   Creature - Ooze Bear  Morph When CARDNAME is turned face up, choose up to X — • Create a token that’s copy of target 2/2 creature. • Manifest the top card of your library. • Target land you control becomes a 0/0 creature with haste. Put two +1/+1 counters on it. 2/2 |
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Post by zybourne on Jan 3, 2022 23:17:31 GMT
Lifelink and defender haven't been printed together yet. I had Curtain of Light in mind when I came up with this.
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Post by BinaryBolas on Jan 4, 2022 3:10:10 GMT
On a distant plane away from Ravnica, a sorcerer wielding the same mana as Squish is performing his ritual...  I can't believe this name hasn't been taken yet. Coincidentally, this is the 22nd card I have designed for CotW. |
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Post by vizionarius on Jan 4, 2022 6:33:22 GMT
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Orion Rings
1/1 Squirrel
Posts: 72
Favorite Card: Homicidal Seclusion
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Post by Orion Rings on Jan 4, 2022 9:31:43 GMT
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the5lacker
3/3 Beast
Posts: 198
Favorite Card: The Reality Chip
Favorite Set: Kaladesh
Color Alignment: White, Blue
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Post by the5lacker on Jan 4, 2022 17:42:16 GMT
 Cemetery Shambler Creature - Ooze (2/2)  Replicate - , Exile a creature card from your graveyard. (When you cast this spell, copy it for each time you paid its replicate cost. Copies of permanent spells become tokens.)
Ooze for Twos. |
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Post by The Harlequin on Jan 4, 2022 18:37:48 GMT
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the5lacker
3/3 Beast
Posts: 198
Favorite Card: The Reality Chip
Favorite Set: Kaladesh
Color Alignment: White, Blue
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Post by the5lacker on Jan 4, 2022 18:51:10 GMT
First Strike seems *aggressively* anti-synergistic with -N/+N effects. |
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Post by The Harlequin on Jan 4, 2022 19:32:01 GMT
the5lacker In my divine, unfailed wisdome i uploaded the wrong version without noticing. already fixed it thanks for pointing it out.
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Post by sdfkjgh on Jan 4, 2022 19:45:43 GMT
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Post by The Harlequin on Jan 4, 2022 20:03:09 GMT
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Post by ganzzert on Jan 4, 2022 20:30:18 GMT
I wanted to do as many as possible so here it is. (also, if you have any recommendations on syntax, please help. I just did the wording based off of various MTG cards) Edit: ganzzert how about Whenever a nontoken creature enters the battlefield under your control, its base power and toughness becomes 2/2, ... You should also probably put a reminder counter on it so that people don#t forget that it is 2/2. Reminder counters would be good, new draft time. Curse of the Ursine Forest Legendary Enchantment Whenever a non-token creature enters the battlefield, put a bear counter on it, create a green 2/2 Bear creature token, and if Curse of the Ursine Forest isn’t a creature, it becomes a 2/2 creature in addition to its other types until end of turn. Creatures with bear counters on them have base power and toughness 2/2. This is a very blunt card fulfilling all but one of the requirements. I figured with an ability like this, the Legendary status should be the downside, as having more than one of these effects on the field at a time would make it too overpowered.
{old drafts} Curse of the Ursine Forest Legendary Enchantment Whenever a non-token creature enters the battlefield under your control, it has base power and toughness 2/2, create a green 2/2 Bear creature token. If Curse of the Ursine Forest isn’t a creature, it becomes a 2/2 creature in addition to its other types until end of turn. |
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Post by Daij_Djan on Jan 4, 2022 20:56:56 GMT
@ ganzzert: Sword of the Meek makes the beginning smoother: "Whenever a nontoken 2/2 creature enters the battlefield under your control, ..." |
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spazlaz
6/6 Wurm
Posts: 335
Color Alignment: Blue, Black
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Post by spazlaz on Jan 4, 2022 22:33:17 GMT
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Post by gluestick248 on Jan 5, 2022 0:08:40 GMT
So no one’s done an actual Bear yet… Gluttonous Grizzly  Creature — Bear Zombie Devour 2 2/2 |
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Post by BinaryBolas on Jan 5, 2022 3:53:31 GMT
sdfkjghHave you ever been in a situation where you know you are referencing MP but can't pinpoint which one it comes from? That just happened.
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Post by ZephyrPhantom on Jan 5, 2022 6:51:52 GMT
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Post by sdfkjgh on Jan 5, 2022 17:49:41 GMT
sdfkjgh Have you ever been in a situation where you know you are referencing MP but can't pinpoint which one it comes from? That just happened. MP? |
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HvT
1/1 Squirrel
Fugitive Wizard - Jim Nelson
Posts: 98
Formerly Known As: Heads vs Tails
Favorite Card: Foil Island
Color Alignment: Blue, Red
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Post by HvT on Jan 6, 2022 1:52:48 GMT
Punctuated Professor  Creature - Human Cleric Flash If an opponent would draw a card except the first one they draw in each of their draw steps, if that player has three or more cards already in hand, that player skips that draw. 2/2 To learn anything you must first admit you don't know everything.So the Hullbreacher problem, it turns off any additional card draw, I tried to fix it. After one wheel everyone goes down to 1 card in hand, and a second wheel means no cards in hand. This design makes it so opponents can get back up to 3 cards no matter how many wheels. Players can still use cantrips and some card draw and I think 3 cards should be enough to keep people still playing. I thought about making it 2 cards in hand to be more in line with the challenge, but felt it was still too restrictive. Also, the flavor text is not original, I saw it on a t-shirt and it kind of fits. |
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the5lacker
3/3 Beast
Posts: 198
Favorite Card: The Reality Chip
Favorite Set: Kaladesh
Color Alignment: White, Blue
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Post by the5lacker on Jan 6, 2022 3:31:33 GMT
the5lacker In my divine, unfailed wisdome i uploaded the wrong version without noticing. already fixed it thanks for pointing it out. I still don't particularly care for the changing combat math with uneven stat changes, especially uncontrolled ones. Rather than dropping First Strike to keep the stat-changing, why not drop the Vigilance, keep the First Strike, and have something like "Whenever an opponent attacks you with a Cat, Weasel, etc., untap this."? |
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the5lacker
3/3 Beast
Posts: 198
Favorite Card: The Reality Chip
Favorite Set: Kaladesh
Color Alignment: White, Blue
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Post by the5lacker on Jan 6, 2022 3:39:03 GMT
Punctuated Professor Creature - Human Cleric Flash Whenever an opponent would draw a card, if that player has three or more cards already in hand, that player skips that draw. 2/2 To learn anything you must first admit you don't know everything.So the Hullbreacher problem, it turns off any additional card draw, I tried to fix it. After one wheel everyone goes down to 1 card in hand, and a second wheel means no cards in hand. This design makes it so opponents can get back up to 3 cards no matter how many wheels. Players can still use cantrips and some card draw and I think 3 cards should be enough to keep people still playing. I thought about making it 2 cards in hand to be more in line with the challenge, but felt it was still too restrictive. Also, the flavor text is not original, I saw it on a t-shirt and it kind of fits. Turning off all draws, EVEN FROM YOUR ONE PER TURN, is obscene. |
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Post by viriss on Jan 6, 2022 4:33:47 GMT
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Post by vizionarius on Jan 6, 2022 10:04:57 GMT
the5lacker In my divine, unfailed wisdome i uploaded the wrong version without noticing. already fixed it thanks for pointing it out. I still don't particularly care for the changing combat math with uneven stat changes, especially uncontrolled ones. Rather than dropping First Strike to keep the stat-changing, why not drop the Vigilance, keep the First Strike, and have something like "Whenever an opponent attacks you with a Cat, Weasel, etc., untap this."? Or you can have the text as a "becomes"... (becomes 1/4 until end of turn). |
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"When in doubt, do a common." 
: Create a token from ~'s spellbook. (Bear Bear Gun's spellbook consists of eight 
