Card of the Week Contest #415: Tales from Home

Based on the Little People of the Pryor Mountains, Crow folklore about small dudes wreaking havoc against outsiders and providing wisdom to the Crow chief

"The Little People of the Pryor Mountains (known as Nirumbee or Awwakkulé in the Crow language) are a race of ferocious dwarves in the folklore of the Crow Nation, a Native American tribe. The Little People were also seen as imparting spiritual wisdom, and played a major role in shaping the destiny of the Crow People through the dreams of the iconic Crow chief, Plenty Coups."


Sources:

Daniels and Stevens, Encyclopaedia of Superstitions, Folklore, and the Occult Sciences of the World, 1903, p. 1421.

Frey, The World of the Crow Indians: As Driftwood Lodges, 1993, p. 68.

Hauck, Haunted Places: The National Directory, 2002, p. 259.

Murray, p. 147.

McDannell, Religions of the United States in Practice, 2002, p. 184.

This was fun to research and design being from New Mexico, and having personally camped near the base of this spoopy place.



philmont.fandom.com/wiki/Urraca_Mesa

www.onlyinyourstate.com/new-mexico/sinister-nm/

Edit: Added ETB tapped and combined three activated abilities into single modal one
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A land that doesn't enter the battlefield tapped that taps for any of 3 colors is already stronger than any land printed to date (in terms of color fixing). Adding additional abilities really pushes the card even further in power. If it had some upkeep cost or cost to pay for it entering the battlefield, it could be more in line with the power level of existing cards. Just my thoughts, feel free to ignore.

Thanks for catching this. I think I meant to add a drawback, but got distracted by pulling out a bunch of maps. I will edit my entry when I get a chance.

Let's make it more regional with this folklore. I'm from "Graz", the main city of Styria, Austria -- And a regional legend regarding the creation of two "hills" (Schlossberg // Kalvarienberg) goes as follows:

A deal with the devil was made (Tribal-Devil-Tag): The devil wanted to increase the height of another mountain in the region (Schöckl) so that it may be taller than the mountains in switzerland. So a deal was made:
He gonna make that in the next 24 hours (Suspend-Tag), but the first person who reaches the top of the new formed mountain was his.
After that, he flew off to africa (still Suspend), cut off a large piece of the "mountains of the moon" (Sacrifice-interaction) and carried it back.
But he flew over easter festivities, and cause of that, he lost his powers. Angry about that, the threw the larg rock into Styria (enter tapped)-- where the rock split in two (cause two mountains) and created the two hills/rock formations mentioned earlier.

So This is a local Folktale/Urban Legend.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minnehaha,_Spokane
www.krem.com/article/news/local/293-486026585

Updated Spelling

Scrape the Trunk!
Artifact
, Pay 1 life: Create a Treasure token.
Whenever an opponent casts a spell, you may pay . If you do, Scrape the Trunk! deals 1 damage to that player.

I'm from Vienna, Austria. I couldn't find an english translation for this tale, so I'll give a short summary. Here is a link to the story in German.
There was a beggar who got a deal by the devil. He was given a special rasp. Whenever he would scrape his mouth and say "Scrape the Trunk!" a piece of gold would fall down. He could also say "Scrape the Trunk!" to make the rasp scrape someone else's mouth. The price for the rasp would be the man's soul after seven years had passed.
The man became quite rich, but also unpopular, since he'd always make the rasp scrape everyone's mouth as soon as they said something he didn't like. Also he always wore a scarf over his mouth since it had become quite ugly due to all the scraping of his own mouth. After the seven years had passed, the devil came to get the man's soul. Instead of coming with him, the man made the rasp go off on the devil until he promised to leave his soul alone.

The image is from the front of a house in vienna depicting the tale. Near the picture once stood a house named "To the Scrape the Trunk". It is said that the man with the rasp had it built and lived in it.

As always -- My oppinion and some wording suggestions/fixes.
Hit me if you don't like it. I can take it.

hergusbergus
The name itself seams kinda long for a non-legendary creature.
"Pryor Nirumbee" should also work -- And would help to clean up the formatation a bit.

BinaryBolas
"Ghostsnatcher of Hell"
"Hellish Ghostsnatcher"
For me, a legendary creature has a personal name. Due to the nature of the Legend "Ox-Head and Horse-Face" would fit imo
"Whenever another nontoken creature dies, return it onto the battlefield under your control if it is the only creature card in its owners graveyard // all graveyards. Otherwise, exile target creature card from a graveyard."

damagicgeek
"1RGW, T: Choose one --" space is missing
Over all -- Crowded. It just makes too much and has to many options. Therefore it needs the legendary tag imo

Daij_Djan
Remove the goaded reminder and add a nice ft. 
And "Partner" may be a nice touch -- If there will ever be a owl to acompany him ;-)

melono
I would use the wording of shaman-en-kor
"{0}: The next 1 damage that would be dealt to ~ this turn is dealt to target creature (you control) instead."

Vunik
"Whenever a creature dealt damage by ~ this turn dies, CARDNAME becomes a copy..."

vstrange
"~ enters the battlefield tapped"
"T: Add C."

Idea
"... up to three..."
"Haste, first strike"
"Other Peasent creatures you controll get +1/+0." -- It is a seperate ability.
"If a creature that was dealt damage by attacking Peasents this turn would die, exile it instead." -- it is a seperate ability.
"2, Put target card from exile into its owner's graveyard: ~ gets +2/+2 and gains trample and menace until end of turn." -- pull-from-eternity, gets for gain

Over all -- Wall of text. unpleasend to look at.

Flo00
fine as it is.

aquonn
"Create token. If ~ was kicked, this token fights target creature."

pernicious
All but one "any player may activate this ability" in existence have only generic mana costs -- and one in many may not be a good reference imo.

Alright, made some changes, thank you once again for the feedback The Harlequin

János Vitéz (John the Valiant) is originally an epic poem by famous Hungarian poet, Sándor Petőfi. It was written in 1844, and made into a cartoon in 1973. It was my favorite folk story growing up (born in Budapest, Hungary, now living in USA), and it captures a lot of the Hungarian spirit of perseverance through trials. Wikipedia has a nice summary of the story, so I won't retype it here. The cartoon is quite a trip.

Mine is a very local legend. The story goes that the humanoid figure didn't appear in the stonework until the man that built the house hung himself in it. Older photos of the house seem to support this, but it's hard to say if they're from the same side of the house/a trick of the light/what have you

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There's a plethora of weird cryptids in the New England region, but the Jersey Devil is one of the especially weird ones.

Thanks for catching that! I think the bigger issue is less about different games (between games, the instance of the object is different, so wouldn't really work), but the confusion that can come up is about when the damage had to have been dealt for it to count (this turn? this combat? this instance of damage? this game?). I can see how without the "this game" phrase, it would only count that exact instance of damage that caused the trigger, leading to it only work if the controller only had one opponent.