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Post by Daij_Djan on Aug 29, 2018 11:42:06 GMT
Contest is closing in around 26 hours- any more entries? Sure thing!   Time to get rid of one of those color combinations: {Used Cards}    And this then leaves me once again with.. Well, I guess it has been a while since I had some CMC restrictions to work with  |
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Post by augur on Aug 31, 2018 1:43:58 GMT
forgot to close this, so- closed.
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Post by augur on Sept 7, 2018 1:34:44 GMT
thinking{Xenagos} {Old}Epic
CMC 16
Dredge
White
Black and Green
Black and Red
Colorless {Entry}Be wary... triumphant pride precipitates a dizzying fall. <iframe style="position: absolute; width: 8.5px; height: 11.46px; z-index: -9999; border-style: none; left: 5px; top: 195px;" id="MoatPxIOPT2_14683956" scrolling="no" width="8.5" height="11.460000000000036"></iframe> <iframe style="position: absolute; width: 8.5px; height: 11.46px; z-index: -9999; border-style: none; left: 370px; top: 195px;" id="MoatPxIOPT2_42536552" scrolling="no" width="8.5" height="11.460000000000036"></iframe> <iframe style="position: absolute; width: 8.5px; height: 11.46px; z-index: -9999; border-style: none; left: 5px; top: 706px;" id="MoatPxIOPT2_72415080" scrolling="no" width="8.5" height="11.460000000000036"></iframe> <iframe style="position: absolute; width: 8.5px; height: 11.46px; z-index: -9999; border-style: none; left: 370px; top: 706px;" id="MoatPxIOPT2_11218158" scrolling="no" width="8.5" height="11.460000000000036"></iframe>  {Used}CMC 16
Black and Red {New}Epic
Dredge
White
Black and Green
Colorless
CMC 10
Dragon Pride generates a good amount of value for the turns it’s out (it’s unlikely you’ll cast something the turn you drop it). It doesn’t provide consistent advantage for the rest of the game like Outpost Siege, making it more ideal for games with shorter clocks- clocks that the last ability helps speed up. Unfortunately, the chances for the last ability to trigger outside of a buildaround deck are slim- I took the average cmc of cards six cards from a few decks in different formats, and the numbers were pretty low (even EDH was only ~14). It gets you value and will sometimes randomly win the game, but either of those modes basically require you to ignore the other. I also feel like it could have been monored (although the high density is an ok balancing factor). {fluffydeathbringer} Old hand: {Spoiler}
CMC1, Deathtouch, Instant, CMC15, Menace, White and Black, Zombie Cards used: {Spoiler}
White and Black, Zombie New hand: {Spoiler}
CMC1, Deathtouch, Instant, CMC15, Menace, CMC13, Land Thanetheus' Journey  " style="max-width:100%;"]  " style="max-width:100%;"]  " style="max-width:100%;"] Enchantment - Saga  I, II: Exile target creature card from your graveyard.
III: Return each card exiled with Thanetheus' Journey to the battlefield under your control.
Journey looks to be costed right at 4. Reanimating two creatures is powerful, but it’s telegraphed and has long enough of a delay for your opponent to prepare/hold cards. The card immediately made me remember Rescue from the Underworld (THS wew) as it’s also a flavorful design, just in Saga form. {Flo00} {hand}Old: CMC 10, Sorcery, Regenerate, white
New: Dragon, blue, Shroud At first I wanted to make a CMC 10 Saga, that created Dragons, then I remembered the additional rule... Using blue and shroud: Building the Great Machine   Enchantment - Saga I Create a 1/1 blue Homunculus artifact creature token for each artifact you control. II Creatures you control get +0/+2 and gain shroud until end of turn. III Search your library for an artifact card, reveal it and put it into your hand. Artifact spells you cast this turn have improvise. {dont you dare open this}Rise of the Dragons   Enchantment - Saga I Create two 5/5 red dragon creature tokens with flying. II & III Put two +1/+1 counters on each Dragon creature you control. Both the first and last “steps” of Building are very good effects. The token making is solid even if you only get two or three Homunculi out of it (and lategame there’s a fair chance that number will be higher than three) thanks to the last abilty. Tutoring is very nice, and the cost reduction from the tokens is good synergy. The middle step is the awkward one, since granting them shroud and a toughness boost on a trigger means the trigger can be responded into in the upkeep. It doesn’t really make the tokens more likely to survive, which is a bit of a disconnect from the rest of the card. The potential power of the first/last ability make me cautious as well. I do like the “saga” of the Homunculi building. {Daij_Djan} Contest is closing in around 26 hours- any more entries? Sure thing! :) Time to get rid of one of those color combinations: {Used Cards} And this then leaves me once again with.. Well, I guess it has been a while since I had some CMC restrictions to work with ;) Snake Charming’s tale is simple but logical. I like the decisions this creates, since the tokens aren’t necessarily needed to kill the attacking creature. I think the mana cost is about right, especially since the forced attack comes two turns after you drop the Saga. The tokens having deathtouch makes this a bit difficult to fit into red vs. blue, but the card would work fine as either I believe. {Winner}
The winner is fluffydeathbringer!
Runnerup: Daij_Djan
Sorry for the delay. also maybe choosing a cmc restriction in a game that already restricted cmc to an extent was a bad idea lul
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Post by fluffydeathbringer on Sept 7, 2018 11:37:43 GMT
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Post by Flo00 on Sept 7, 2018 11:58:18 GMT
{hand}Old: CMC 10, Sorcery, Regenerate, white, Dragon
New: Banding, Emblem Using Regenerate and Dragon: Atarka’s Call  Instant  Create a 4/4 red Dragon creature token with flying. Then regenerate each token you control. Maybe this should be ? |
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Post by Xenagos on Sept 8, 2018 0:55:17 GMT
{Hand}Epic
Dredge
White
Black and Green
Colorless
CMC 10
Dragon {Entry}  {New}Dredge
White
Black and Green
Colorless
Dragon
Red
Buyback |
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Post by gamma3 on Sept 8, 2018 2:45:30 GMT
I'll try this game, why not? Barricade the City Sorcery  Create 2 0/2 colorless Wall artifact creature tokens with defender. Cards Used: Wall and Defender |
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arcaneArtist
0/0 Germ
Posts: 9
Formerly Known As: kixleart
Favorite Card: Kalonian Hydra
Color Alignment: White, Blue, Red
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Post by arcaneArtist on Sept 10, 2018 21:58:50 GMT
{Current Hand}First Strike
Indestructible
Haste
Soldier
Black
Flying
CMC 12
Using: Haste, Soldier Beckon the Guardians  Instant Create two 1/1 red and white Soldier creature tokens with haste. |
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Post by augur on Sept 11, 2018 21:33:13 GMT
*Snip* All renders require proper artist credit in the appropriate space. ~Daij_Djan whoops. For posterity, here's the render and link to the piece. Attachment DeletedGuum Wilds Expedition Enchantment Landfall — Whenever a land enters the battlefield under your control, you may put a quest counter on ~. Remove three quest counters from ~ and sacrifice it: Create a token that’s a copy of target creature, then destroy target nontoken creature. Using [Blue and Black] [Landfall] {Old}
CMC 9
Haste
Landfall
Blue and Black
Black
Flashback
Indestructible
{New}
CMC 9
Haste
Black
Flashback
Indestructible
CMC 8
Snow
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Post by Xenagos on Sept 15, 2018 21:50:26 GMT
Updated my entry
also, bump
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Post by fluffydeathbringer on Sept 15, 2018 22:46:58 GMT
judging in 24.
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Post by fluffydeathbringer on Sept 16, 2018 17:38:41 GMT
Flo00: Using the obsoleted Regenerate does this card no favours, but the single-token approach can be justified in terms of effect smoothness. And yes, in terms of both immediate versatility and lasting board advantage, this ought to be a rare card. 2/5.
Xenagos: The canon Epic cards justify their hefty drawback because most of them either require no resources to be able to perpetuate themselves or rely on something that isn't easily exhausted (number of certain cards in yours/opponents' decks). God-Pharoah's Reign (sic) relies on a resource that is much more easily denied you: Surgical Extraction-ish effects are less frequent than graveyard exile is. That said, this card is a flavour homerun: Bolas' dominion and ravaging of Amonkhet is certainly Epic-worthy, and the mechanics carry the flavour through quite well in giving your opponent a steadily rising march of ferocious foes to deal with or be vanquished by. 4/5.
gamma3: Underpowered. buys one far more than just 0/4's worth of defender power at common ( Fortified Rampart is white's latest common defender, for reference), and splitting the body into two chump blocks' worth doesn't mitigate the weak board presence, especially considering the tokens are far more vulnerable to removal such as damage and bounce than a single 0/4 would be. 1/5.
arcaneArtist: A simple and deceptively versatile common, fit for a booster pack in a multicolor set. The power level feels just right as well, despite lack of canon precedent. 4/5.
augur: An interesting effect, and one that sets the mind thinking about what it is exactly that the expedition found at Guum Shrine. The power level is suspicious here, however, given how you're mostly quaranteed to get off the very notable board advantage on turn 5 if you play the Expedition on turn 2. 3/5.
The winner is Xenagos, followed by arcaneArtist.
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Post by Xenagos on Sept 18, 2018 1:35:55 GMT
Thanks for the win! Next up we have:
For the Additional Rule™, I'm going to say make it care about the number of players.
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arcaneArtist
0/0 Germ
Posts: 9
Formerly Known As: kixleart
Favorite Card: Kalonian Hydra
Color Alignment: White, Blue, Red
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Post by arcaneArtist on Sept 18, 2018 21:58:10 GMT
{Hand}First Strike
Indestructible
Black
Flying
CMC 12
White
CMC 13 using: Indestructible, White, First Strike Harus, Living Bulwark  Legendary Creature - Minotaur Soldier  Indestructible, First Strike Creatures you control get +X/+X and can block X additional creatures, where X is the number of opponents. 4/4 |
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Post by viriss on Sept 19, 2018 0:44:31 GMT
 Updated {Old hand}
CMC 0
Kicker
Artifact
Beast
Shadow
Dredge
Sorcery {New Hand}
Beast
Shadow
Dredge
Sorcery
CMC 7
Cycling
Landwalk
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Post by Flo00 on Sept 20, 2018 16:49:08 GMT
{hand}Old: CMC 10, Sorcery, white, Banding, Emblem
New: Flanking, Transform {invalid entry}Using white, emblen & transform: Sneff, Burrow Protector Legendary Creature - Rabbit Guardian Defender Sneff, Burrow Protector can block an additional creature each combat. When Sneff blocks more than one creature, exile Sneff, then return him to the battlefield and exile the blocked creatures until Sneff leaves the battlefield. 1/1 ------------------ Sneff, World Protector  Legendary Planeswalker - Sneff  : Up to one target creature gets +3/+3 and gains vigilance until end of turn.  : Exile target creature with power 4 or more.  : Create an emblem with “Whenever one or more creatures attack, untap all permanents you control.”  A bit of backstory: Sneff just tried to protect his Burrow and his family from evil beasts, then one day during a battle his spark ignited. Being thrown into the blind eternities he finds out that the Eldrazi are slowly creeping up on his home plane. From now on he is working hard to protect his world from those greater evils. Using white, flanking and banding and doing a crossover with the Commander Game: Cestra, Divine Blessing Legendary Creature - Angel Flying, banding, flanking When Cestra, Divine Blessing enters the battlefield, choose a person outside the game. That person may put up to X enchantments with different names he or she owns from outside the game on the battlefield, where X is the number of players. Each enchantment enters the battlefield under a different player’s control chosen at random. 4/4 Now guess what color her border is. |
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Post by Xenagos on Sept 20, 2018 22:45:15 GMT
viriss I don't see how you used CMC 0 in your entry
Flo00 an additional requirement was to have it care about the number of players |
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Post by viriss on Sept 21, 2018 1:21:15 GMT
Xenagos Opps. One of my iteration was but it was broken. I'll update it. Thanks!
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Post by Xenagos on Sept 25, 2018 3:59:03 GMT
Judging in 24.
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Post by Xenagos on Sept 27, 2018 3:57:14 GMT
Good entries all around folks!
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arcaneArtist
0/0 Germ
Posts: 9
Formerly Known As: kixleart
Favorite Card: Kalonian Hydra
Color Alignment: White, Blue, Red
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Post by arcaneArtist on Oct 4, 2018 5:21:09 GMT
Thanks for the win, and i apologize for the wait. here's the new challenge:  the additional rule will be: your card must use at least 1 colored mana either in it's casting cost or for an activated ability. judging will be around the 11th. |
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Post by Flo00 on Oct 4, 2018 18:15:17 GMT
{hand}Old: CMC 10, Sorcery, Emblem, Transform
New: Epic, Soldier, Dragon Using Soldier and Sorcery: The Other Akroan Horse Artifact - Vehicle Crew 3 (Tap any number of creatures you control with total power 3 or more: This Vehicle becomes an artifact creature until end of turn.): Create a 1/1 white Soldier creature token. Activate this ability only any time you could cast a sorcery and only if The Other Akroan Horse attacked this turn and wasn’t blocked. 0/5 |
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Post by sibrand on Oct 5, 2018 13:00:08 GMT
{Hand:}
Old: Deathtouch, Zombie, Trample, Soldier, CMC10, White and Blue, Aura
New: Deathtouch, Soldier, CMC10, White and Blue, Aura, CMC 3, Legendary
Used: Zombie, Trample  |
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Post by Xenagos on Oct 5, 2018 16:25:28 GMT
Dredge
White
Black and Green
Colorless
Dragon
Red
Buyback Dragon Carapace  Artifact - Vehicle Flying : ~ gets +1/+0 until end of turn. Activate this ability only if ~ is a creature. Crew 6
Dragon Crew 3
6/6 Dredge
White
Black and Green
Colorless
Buyback
Deathtouch
CMC 1 |
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arcaneArtist
0/0 Germ
Posts: 9
Formerly Known As: kixleart
Favorite Card: Kalonian Hydra
Color Alignment: White, Blue, Red
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Post by arcaneArtist on Oct 13, 2018 0:38:29 GMT
(Late) Judging:
Flo000: I like the name, and it's interesting to see a 0/5 vehicle. doesn't capture the neat flavor the original Akroan Horse did however.
Sibrand: Tribal crew is a cool idea, might need to up crew by zombies or the mana cost some.
Xenagos: I don't think the last clause was necessary in the activated ability, since i don't think it has a power to modify when it's not a creature. you might also be able to nudge the mana cost down a little.
The Winner: Xenagos
Runner Up: sibrand
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Post by Xenagos on Oct 15, 2018 1:05:10 GMT
Thanks for the win!
Your next challenge is...
Best of luck!
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Post by Flo00 on Oct 15, 2018 15:28:03 GMT
{hand}Old: CMC 10, Sorcery, Emblem, Transform
New: Flanking, Lifelink, Protection Using flanking & lifelink: Daimyo’s Crusader Creature - Human Knight Samurai Lifelink, flanking, bushido 1 2/2 |
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Post by Xenagos on Oct 26, 2018 17:10:37 GMT
Any more entries, or is this a dead contest?
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Post by augur on Nov 11, 2018 8:00:17 GMT
may cut Jump-start since scry and flashback themselves would qualify scry is evergreen whoops Attachment DeletedGlimpse of Horrors Sorcery Target player discards a card. Flashback (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)Jump-start (You may cast this card from your graveyard by discarding a card in addition to paying its other costs. Then exile this card.)Using [Black] [Flashback] {Old}
CMC 9
Haste
Black
Flashback
Indestructible
CMC 8
Snow
{New}
CMC 9
Haste
Indestructible
CMC 8
Snow
Blue
Provoke
edit 12/15: cut scry |
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Post by Flo00 on Dec 25, 2018 12:09:21 GMT
I like this contest. I know this time is just two participants. It would still be nice if you judged this Xenagos |
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