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Post by Daij_Djan on Jan 10, 2022 20:53:11 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-ninth challenge!
The winner of the "Masochist's Build Around" poll was maximus with... And the challenge issued by our winner was... To increase your chances of winning and to also make creating the poll easier on whomever is doing so, please try to use a render.
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 sdfkjgh on Jan 10, 2022 22:20:18 GMT
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Post by bastardneko on Jan 11, 2022 0:44:27 GMT
Okay, here's the concept. Land that acts as a land in the early game, but if you draw it late game or bounce it, can be used as a tutor for certain card types depending on the color of mana used to cycle it. Let me know if you think the cycling cost is too much/not enough. Edit: Nerfed mana ability to only tap for colorless. New Entry  {Old Entry}  |
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Post by ganzzert on Jan 11, 2022 1:19:04 GMT
Creature - Human Cleric  Affinity for enchantments (This spell costs  less to cast for each enchantment you control.) At the beginning of your upkeep, create a white aura enchantment token named Mask with enchant permanent and totem armor attached to another target permanent. 2/2
Super simple affinity for enchantments concept with a nod to a pretty cool planeswalker that we'll probably never see again in official mtg. Oh well, totem armor is still cool and should make a comeback.
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Post by pacifistwestwoman on Jan 11, 2022 2:13:06 GMT
You know, I keep making legendary stuff for these, coming up with lore tidbits for them. You'd think I'd have a good set by now.  |
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Post by vizionarius on Jan 11, 2022 3:15:41 GMT
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damagicgeek
1/1 Squirrel
Posts: 77
Favorite Card: Venser, the Sojourner
Favorite Set: Innistrad: Midnight Hunt
Color Alignment: White, Blue
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Post by damagicgeek on Jan 11, 2022 4:48:17 GMT
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Post by Flo00 on Jan 11, 2022 16:09:05 GMT
Teking this way too literally...  Literature Teacher    Creature - Elephant Advisor  Affinity for wordy (This spell costs 1 less to cast for each wordy permanent you control. Something is wordy if it has four or more lines of rules text.)Protection from wordy (This creature can’t be blocked, targeted, dealt damage, enchanted, or equipped by anything wordy.)Wordycycling (, Discard this card: Search your library for a wordy card, reveal it, and put it into your hand, then shuffle.)6/6 EDIT: Thanks for the very detailed look The Harlequin! |
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Post by Flo00 on Jan 11, 2022 16:19:26 GMT
bastardneko I think the cycling cost are ok. But entering untapped and tap for any mana is OP. Because of the increased flexibility, his should probably enter tapped AND hurt you when tapped. Or it should just tap for  . I perfer the second option. pacifistwestwoman I'd make the last ability two separate abilities since one affects the board and the other spells. damagicgeek I don't know if this is on purpose, but Excape- means that you can just play this from your graveyard for , no exiling needed. That's sounds really dangerous power-wise.
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inverness
3/3 Beast
Posts: 184
Favorite Card: Mystic Snake
Favorite Set: Kamigawa
Color Alignment: White, Green
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Post by inverness on Jan 11, 2022 16:24:35 GMT
Okay, here's the concept. Land that acts as a land in the early game, but if you draw it late game or bounce it, can be used as a tutor for certain card types depending on the color of mana used to cycle it. Let me know if you think the cycling cost is too much/not enough. Entry <button disabled="" class="c-attachment-insert--linked o-btn--sm">Attachment Deleted</button> As it is right now, this is a 5 color land that can be used the turn you play it, with upsides. It's definitely too strong. I like the concept, though! Just needs some tweaking in my opinion. |
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inverness
3/3 Beast
Posts: 184
Favorite Card: Mystic Snake
Favorite Set: Kamigawa
Color Alignment: White, Green
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Post by inverness on Jan 11, 2022 16:26:08 GMT
Teking this way too literally... Literature Teacher Creature - Elephant Advisor Affinity for wordy (This spell costs 1 less to cast for each wordy permanent you control. Somehting is wordy if it has four or more lines of rules text.)Protection from wordy (This creature can’t be blocked, targeted, dealt damage, enchanted, or equipped by anything wordy.)Wordycycling (, Discard this card: Search your library for a wordy card, reveal it, and put it into your hand, then shuffle.)6/6 I love this card, my only issue is that I feel like it would be better as Blue/White instead of White/Black. |
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inverness
3/3 Beast
Posts: 184
Favorite Card: Mystic Snake
Favorite Set: Kamigawa
Color Alignment: White, Green
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Post by inverness on Jan 11, 2022 17:00:24 GMT
A very weird jellyfish tribal / voltron / defensive commander. I considered putting protection from black on there, but I like how clean the card looks right now.
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Post by hydraheadhunter on Jan 11, 2022 17:05:40 GMT
Teking this way too literally... Literature Teacher Creature - Elephant Advisor Affinity for wordy (This spell costs 1 less to cast for each wordy permanent you control. Somehting is wordy if it has four or more lines of rules text.)Protection from wordy (This creature can’t be blocked, targeted, dealt damage, enchanted, or equipped by anything wordy.)Wordycycling (, Discard this card: Search your library for a wordy card, reveal it, and put it into your hand, then shuffle.)6/6 I love this card, my only issue is that I feel like it would be better as Blue/White instead of White/Black. White Black makes sense given the flavor; see Strixhaven. |
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damagicgeek
1/1 Squirrel
Posts: 77
Favorite Card: Venser, the Sojourner
Favorite Set: Innistrad: Midnight Hunt
Color Alignment: White, Blue
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Post by damagicgeek on Jan 11, 2022 23:58:06 GMT
bastardneko I think the cycling cost are ok. But entering untapped and tap for any mana is OP. Because of the increased flexibility, his should probably enter tapped AND hurt you when tapped. Or it should just tap for . I perfer the second option. pacifistwestwoman I'd make the last ability two separate abilities since one affects the board and the other spells. damagicgeek I don't know if this is on purpose, but Excape- means that you can just play this from your graveyard for , no exiling needed. That's sounds really dangerous power-wise. Thank you for pointing that out! I'm so used to Underworld Breach being the only escape card I ever see on a regular basis that I thought exiling three other cards was an inherent part of escape. I have added an exile component to the card in my entry post. |
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Post by BinaryBolas on Jan 12, 2022 2:51:30 GMT
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Post by t2stonerain on Jan 12, 2022 7:05:33 GMT
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Post by Jartis on Jan 12, 2022 9:37:18 GMT
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Post by Daij_Djan on Jan 12, 2022 15:36:14 GMT
I've already used typecycling a few times in the past, so this time I think I'll try a more broken mechanic 
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spazlaz
6/6 Wurm
Posts: 335
Color Alignment: Blue, Black
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Post by spazlaz on Jan 12, 2022 16:13:18 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 12, 2022 17:49:15 GMT
Something simple this time ;-)  Protection from Creatures is very much not green, as it reads, among other things, "Cannot be blocked." This card could not be printed as a mono-Green card and therefor cannot be printed as a White/Green hybrid card, as it could be cast in a mono-Green deck. |
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Post by sdfkjgh on Jan 12, 2022 18:09:16 GMT
Something simple this time ;-) Protection from Creatures is very much not green, as it reads, among other things, "Cannot be blocked." This card could not be printed as a mono-Green card and therefor cannot be printed as a White/Green hybrid card, as it could be cast in a mono-Green deck. |
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Post by Flo00 on Jan 12, 2022 19:18:21 GMT
Teking this way too literally... Literature Teacher Creature - Elephant Advisor Affinity for wordy (This spell costs 1 less to cast for each wordy permanent you control. Somehting is wordy if it has four or more lines of rules text.)Protection from wordy (This creature can’t be blocked, targeted, dealt damage, enchanted, or equipped by anything wordy.)Wordycycling (, Discard this card: Search your library for a wordy card, reveal it, and put it into your hand, then shuffle.)6/6 I love this card, my only issue is that I feel like it would be better as Blue/White instead of White/Black. I thought that as well at first. Then I realized that wordycycling is a tutor ability that can grab a wide array of cards, which makes it more in my exes. And as hydraheadhunter mentioned, this way it fits better into Strixhaven theme, which I was aiming at anyway. |
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Post by vizionarius on Jan 12, 2022 20:47:46 GMT
Something simple this time ;-) Protection from Creatures is very much not green, as it reads, among other things, "Cannot be blocked." This card could not be printed as a mono-Green card and therefor cannot be printed as a White/Green hybrid card, as it could be cast in a mono-Green deck. Green does get protection from specific colors and artifacts. If the monk read "Protection from blue, black, red, and artifact creatures" it would fit into both colors. (And make it a less common protection.) Edit: or simpler, "protection from nonwhite, nongreen creatures" |
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Post by vizionarius on Jan 13, 2022 0:20:50 GMT
Green does get protection from specific colors and artifacts. If the monk read "Protection from blue, black, red, and artifact creatures" it would fit into both colors. (And make it a less common protection.) Edit: or simpler, "protection from nonwhite, nongreen creatures Research went wrong i guess ;-) InstantLimited Creture Type
Special Creature Type #1
Specific Creature Type #2So I see no reason for not beeing green -- If the flavor fits there is no reason for not expending it. Yeah, I did see those too, but was looking at the most prevalent protections that green has, and that's with colors. I'm on your side (liked your original post soon after you posted it). Was just looking to find a middle-ground between you and the5lacker. Protection from a color also gives protection from creatures of that color, so green does in fact already have "protection from creatures," just not all creatures. That's all I meant to point out. |
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Fermat
8/8 Octopus
Posts: 436
Favorite Card: Force of Will
Favorite Set: Guildpact (set when I started playing)
Color Alignment: White, Blue, Black
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Post by Fermat on Jan 13, 2022 5:46:47 GMT
Orochi Purist  Creature — Snake Shaman  Protection from modified permanents (Permanents that are equipped, enchanted, or have counters are modified.)There are those who yet cling to the old ways.2/2
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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 13, 2022 18:16:40 GMT
vizionarius oh ähmmm -- i didn't ment to discourage you -- or better said -- i wanted to tag them all but apperently i failed at that ;-) next try will follow. the5lacker Aye -- it is mainly used on white creatures at the moment -- BUT not exclusivly -- Crysis for example And green also has protection from creatures -- specific (Zombie/Goblins) -- non-specific (non-spirit) -- Harbinger of spring i value soulshift as approx .5 mana per range -- 2 mana as soulsift 4 so without it is 2/1 cmc 3 protection from nearly every creature type -- as a common. So i don't see any problem with reducing this existing base in cmc and power -- making it a generic protection -- and therefore increasing its rarity. As sdfkjgh posted, beloved chaplain exists -- so therefore the powerlevel outside the cmc is totally fine -- and don't forget, generic protection also prevents the owner from using targeted creature-effects on it -- so the interaction on your own part is also limited. And because both colors have a nearly identical examples at the nearly same power level -- there should be absolutly no problem with making it hybrid in this specific color combination. One, if your card examples are old enough to drink in the US, probably not precedent for... anything. Magic is chock full of decades-old mistakes. Two, never once mentioned concerns about Mana Value. A 1/1 with Pro Creatures is definitely fine for MV2. That's not even remotely the problem. The problem is that "This creature can't be blocked by creatures" is very explicitly not something that mono-Green gets, at any cost, for any reason. Three, protection from a specific subset of things is not the same thing as protection from ALL OF SOMETHING. Protection from White is in-color for Black. Protection from All Colors IS NOT in-color for Black. |
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Post by Daij_Djan on Jan 13, 2022 22:14:25 GMT
The problem is that "This creature can't be blocked by creatures" is very explicitly not something that mono-Green gets, at any cost, for any reason. Except Hexdrinker  But I know what you mean. We just recently got a new color pie article, so: ProtectionPrimary: White Tertiary: Blue, black, red, and green
Protection has changed back from deciduous status back to evergreen status, but it doesn't show up in every set. It's mostly a white ability that can show up in other colors, usually with protection from something the color dislikes (an enemy color, artifacts for green, etc.). The last part is what the5lacker is correctly referring to. Technically there's the “usually” used in the article to allow WocT (and us? ) some wiggle room – but I wouldn't expect this to happen at uncommon, to be honest (as much as I love such simple designs – and Beloved Chaplain in particular since I used it in one of my very first fully constructed decks ) |
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Vunik
2/2 Zombie
Maybe trying to kill an immortal mage wasn't the best plan . . .
Posts: 110
Color Alignment: White, Blue, Black
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Post by Vunik on Jan 14, 2022 0:17:19 GMT
Hopefully granting the ability temporarily still counts.
Creature - Angel  Flying When ~ enters the battlefield, if it saved the day, creatures you control gain protection from everything until end of turn. (They can't be blocked, targeted, dealt damage, enchanted, or equipped by anything until end of turn.) [3/3]
"Save the day" is a mechanic that was put on the old forum, and I can't remember for the life of me who actually made it. I remember really liking it, though, and have kept it in the back of my mind ever since.
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Post by The Harlequin on Jan 14, 2022 0:22:53 GMT
If Daij_Djan says 'no', I accept that. So i discard (no pun intended) my simple contestend and replace it with another one -- which inherits the same flavour -- but in another way  |
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Post by maximus on Jan 15, 2022 1:03:49 GMT
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But I know what you mean.
