Look At Me, I'm R&D

Neat! Glad you liked it. There aren't any equipment that give both double strike and an increase to power, so balancing it all was sort of fiddly. 

The next challenge is:

X Marks the Spot!
Create a card with X either in its cost or text box.
4 R&D Cards.

Judging should happen on or immediately after July 10th. Good luck.

Hand: Cmc 6, Green and White, Snow, Absorb, Blue and Red, White and Blue, Bushido



[Green and White][Snow][Absorb][White and Blue]

Edit: Thank you for that help Flo00

Two members of one of the best tribes in Magic this week. Success.



Flo00: I really like the idea of a modular hydra and the way Seeker of Perfection evokes the monstrous mechanic. In Commander, it would play nicely with all your Life's Legacys and Momentous Falls, and the modular death trigger compliments the +1/+1 counter support you'd probably already be playing in a green artifact deck. Stopping opponents from transforming it X = 0 and immediately killing it is also smart. Talking people into giving you a big creature is a little harder than other collaborative cards, though, and people might know better. Overall pretty neat, balanced well, and a lot of ways to attack it while deckbuilding. 4.5/5.



Adelyn: What immediately sticks out to me about Frostbite Hydra is the fact that you're setting two disconnected variables when you cast it. The number of +1/+1 counters on it can change while it's already on the battlefield, but its absorb value doesn't, which is a memory issue waiting to happen. Also on the subject of absorb, damage prevention to a single creature is exclusively in white, and the ability to cast Frostbite Hydra without white mana feels strange. Green's ability to prevent combat damage entirely makes it feasible, but green usually protects creatures by granting hexproof or increasing toughness. It's also just...not especially exciting. It feels like a rare from an Intro Pack, where it might end a lower-powered game of Magic but it's not complex enough to build around. However, I'm willing to concede that your hand didn't do you any favors. 3/5.

Flo00 wins! Thank you both for entering.

Using Beast and Defender:

Stamping Plowbeast 

Creature ― Beast 
Defender
As long as you control another creature with power 5 or greater, Stamping Plowbeast has "Other attacking creatures you control have power and toughness 5/5."
3/5
"It beat out the rhythm of its newly unyoked herd on the jungle floors, and yearlings tromped over trees like their fully grown kin. Drumhunters flocked to it to mimic its song."

A static ability that grants another static ability, and a keyworded static ability on top of that. The ability to set other creatures' power and toughness so high is behind a pretty significant requirement to activate, but the payoff could be huge. You could ramp into Stamping Plowbeast with mana dorks or create tokens after it comes down to maximize the additional stats it's giving, but you've still got to do extra work in going tall that's counterintuitive to that plan. It feels very white, at least, converted another large creature or a pump spell into an overrun effect.

It's been ages since I participated here and I noticed I never drew new cards since my previous entry. Leaving my currend hand here for now so that I can actually start pondering about a potential entry

Using Black and Red, CMC 10, and Haste:





EDIT: Xenagos True. It also doesn't say "choose one". I was taking a lot of liberties for a card that I really didn't wanna balance anyway. I'll give it another shot with the same R&D cards.

Crossroads at the River of Fire
Instant
Choose one —
• Return target creature card with converted mana cost 3 or less from your graveyard to the battlefield.
• Create a token that's a copy of a creature that died this turn. It gains haste. Exile it at the beginning of your next end step.
• Exile creature cards from your graveyard with converted mana cost 10 or more. If you do, Crossroads at the River of Fire deals 4 damage to target player.

@fabuloussunbro Kicker does not add to the CMC of a card so yours has CMC 5, not 10.

Command of Fury
2RR
Instant
Choose one:

• Create three 1/1 red Goblin creature tokens with haste.
• Create a 3/3 colorless Golem artifact creature token with vigilance.
• Creatures you control get +1/+0 and gain menace until end of turn.

Damn, I knew I forgot to judge something.

somerandomtom wins!

If you want feedback or if there is some other contest I forget to judge (I somehow have the feeling this is the case...), just poke me!

Using CMC 3, Defender, Elemental:

Using Black, Banding, and CMC 2:

Ambitious Hoplite
Creature - Human Soldier
Lifelink
Banding
Creatures banded with ~ have lifelink.
2/2