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Post by Daij_Djan on Apr 18, 2022 20:58:47 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 four-hundred and twelfth challenge!
The winner of the "Modern Sensibilities" poll were damagicgeek (left) and hydraheadhunter (right) with... And the challenge issued by one of our winners was... Pick an iconic creature type (White Angels, Blue Sphinxes, Black Demons, Red Dragons, and Green Hydras) then design a card of that creature type which is not its associated color. (For example, a non-black demon.) For reference, here are all such canon Angels(16), Sphinxes(2), Demons(6), Dragons(87), and Hydras(6).
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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BinaryBolas
3/3 Beast
Posts: 186
Color Alignment: White, Blue, Black, Red
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Post by BinaryBolas on Apr 19, 2022 2:39:07 GMT
We now live in a world where Jewel Thief is a common and Reservior Kraken is a blue rare. So keywords don't matter any more and can be grafted on any card.  {Previous Submission}{Spoiler}{Previous Submission}  |
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Post by hydraheadhunter on Apr 19, 2022 3:40:14 GMT
Whelp, as the issuer of the challenge, let me go ahead and get ahead of this week's weekly 'letter of the challenge v spirit of the challenge' discussion real quick: I'mma allow characteristic* races ( White Humans, Blue Merfolk, Black Vampires and/or Zombies, Red Goblins, and Green Elves) outside their associated color, eg, a black merfolk, except humans. NO HUMANS in any colors. We have enough non-white(mana) humans(1734), I'd argue we have enough humans in general but that's beside the point.
*If you feel you can make a reasonable agruement that X creature type should be considered characteristic or iconic despite not being listed, go ahead and make that argument; I'm not a tyrant. The poll at the end of the challenge with either vindicate you having met the prompt or say you didn't by giving no votes. I'd still like to see the iconic creatures more so than the characteristic creatures, but if you wanna make a characteristic creature, I'm just a guy with an opinion and you've got free will and whatnot.
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Post by hydraheadhunter on Apr 19, 2022 3:58:40 GMT
Anyway, here's my entry: 
| Prakadin, Riddle-Smasher
Two generic, two red, and two green
Legendary Creature — Sphinx Berserker
Prakadin, Riddle-Smasher can’t be countered.
Flying
Whenever an oppenent draws one or more cards,
looks at one or more cards in their library, or reveals
one or more cards from their library, if they have more
cards in hand than you, Prakadin deals 6 damage to them.
6/6
Art: A very large, very muscular, and very angry sphinx
claws at the wall and crushes the ground as a human
holding a lamp stands before them.
Art by: Israel Holtzhausen
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The cards very clearly inspired (mechanically) by Ruric Thar, so it might actually warrent legendary status... but then I'd need to name it. I made it legendary. |
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Post by Jartis on Apr 19, 2022 3:59:30 GMT
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Post by sade612 on Apr 19, 2022 13:06:19 GMT
 {Text} Vampire Skyhawk   Creature - Vampire Rogue  Vampire Skyhawk can’t be blocked except by creatures with flying or reach. Deathtouch Trample 2/3 |
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Post by Daij_Djan on Apr 19, 2022 13:48:39 GMT
I think black's new "play cards from the top of an opponent's library" is a nice opportunity to make a monoblack Sphinx that still feels like a Sphinx. The effect is rather wordy for my usual standards, but everything barely fits in eight lines total and I think the Fact or Fiction-like effect is clean and simple to understand nethertheless.
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Post by gluestick248 on Apr 19, 2022 13:56:55 GMT
This design was originally UB, but with some adjustments we get this: Corrupt Sphinx   Creature — Sphinx Flying , pay 2 life: Draw a card. Beware the sphinx that no longer speaks in riddles.2/6 |
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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 Apr 19, 2022 15:26:42 GMT
I loved the False Hydra concept and figured that would be the perfect card for this challenge!
Updated the card with a better wording for the ability, and replaced vigilance with Provoke! I think it is a more accurate representation and is more interesting mechanically, as well.
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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 Apr 19, 2022 19:22:40 GMT
Had an interesting idea for a mechanic from this challenge, and decided to make a card for it:  Wingseeker Acolyte  Creature - Human Dragon Warlock  Ascension 2 - (: If this creature is Human, put two +1/+1 counters on it and it is no longer Human.)Deathtouch If ~ has ascended, it has flying and lifelink. [3/2] (also, turns out finding art for this mechanic is really hard.) |
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suitjackal
0/0 Germ
Posts: 17
Favorite Card: Hinata, Dawn-Crowned
Favorite Set: D&D - Adventures in the Forgotten Realms
Color Alignment: Blue, Red, Green
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Post by suitjackal on Apr 19, 2022 20:21:35 GMT
Hydras are one of my all-time favorite creature types, so I had to jump on this challenge! Wanted to make one that steals power from spells to get bigger, giving you the option to shrink them back down in order to cast them. Here's the entry: Creature - Hydra Horror At the beginning of your end step, exile the top card of target player’s library. Until the end of your next turn, you may cast that card without paying its mana cost.
Runeglut Hydra gets +X/+X and has ward X, where X is the total mana value of cards exiled with it.
2/2
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Post by vizionarius on Apr 19, 2022 20:55:41 GMT
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Post by marshmellow on Apr 20, 2022 2:51:01 GMT
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Fermat
8/8 Octopus
Posts: 430
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 Apr 20, 2022 7:52:52 GMT
{Old Entry}  Edit: Whoops! It seems suitjackal and I used the exact same image and colors. Thank goodness the design themselves are quite different.   Decided to change my entry, as adding the Zombie subtype felt like cheating. |
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emteedy
0/0 Germ
Local lands man
Posts: 21
Favorite Card: Mogis, God of Slaughter
Color Alignment: Black, Red, Green
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Post by emteedy on Apr 20, 2022 13:29:53 GMT
 I would like to make the argument that plants don't exist outside of green (excluding tree of perdition cause its weird). So here's my non-green plant |
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Post by The Harlequin on Apr 20, 2022 20:44:30 GMT
 Just a "Sand Shark" -- nothing out of the ordinary :-) |
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suitjackal
0/0 Germ
Posts: 17
Favorite Card: Hinata, Dawn-Crowned
Favorite Set: D&D - Adventures in the Forgotten Realms
Color Alignment: Blue, Red, Green
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Post by suitjackal on Apr 20, 2022 21:10:41 GMT
Fermat that's pretty funny!  An odd coincidence, but it is very good art for a black hydra.
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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 Apr 22, 2022 0:11:28 GMT
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spazlaz
6/6 Wurm
Posts: 333
Color Alignment: Blue, Black
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Post by spazlaz on Apr 22, 2022 0:17:36 GMT
a black take on unicorns having lure effects
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Sanfonier of the Night
7/7 Elemental
Posts: 398
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 Apr 22, 2022 17:45:49 GMT
*Snap* All renders require proper artist credit in the appropriate space. ~Daij_Djan
The white side is the fair game, if you cheat it, you gona have a bad time. |
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pernicious
8/8 Octopus
Posts: 440
Favorite Card: Mistmeadow Skulk
Favorite Set: Shadowmoor block
Color Alignment: Red
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Post by pernicious on Apr 24, 2022 7:54:26 GMT
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Sanfonier of the Night
7/7 Elemental
Posts: 398
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 Apr 25, 2022 16:30:41 GMT
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Post by Daij_Djan on Apr 25, 2022 20:47:14 GMT
This thread is now closed, the poll can be found here. And here's the next challenge! |
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"When in doubt, do a common." 
An odd coincidence, but it is very good art for a black hydra.
