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Post by Daij_Djan on May 24, 2022 11:24:20 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 sixteenth challenge!
The winner of the "Face Two Face" poll was pernicious with... And the challenge issued by our winner was... Design a transforming monocolored creature card whose transformed side is a monocolored creature of a color that is enemy of its non-transformed side's color. (A color is considered an enemy of another color if they're not adjacent in the color pie. Ex. Civilized Scholar, Loyal Cathar, Archangel Avacyn) Note: As this challenge has some obvious overlap with CotW#414, please don't reuse any of your old entries from it. ~Daij_Djan
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 hydraheadhunter on May 24, 2022 12:10:38 GMT
When we returned to innastrad we got the continuation of the delver's story, but not the scholar's story, and that's a shame because it is the Jekyll and Hdye card, so I posit, what if we did.
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Homicidal Scholar
Three generic and a red
Creature — Mutant Advisor
Homicidal Scholar must attack each combat if able.
Tap: Draw two cards then transform Homicidal Scholar. Activate this ability only after combat.
FT: Betwixt the brutal murders, he continues his research hoping for a cur to his condition.
5/3
(Nightside)
Liberated Intellect
(No cost)
Blue creature — Horror Advisor
Hexproof
When Liberated Intellect transforms, create Homicidal Flesh, a 5/5 red zombie Warrior
with haste and "This creature must attack each combat if able."
Tap: Draw a card.
FT: At long last, I've truly ascended above all the petty emotions of flesh."
0/1
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Upon reflection, I think Liberated intellect is too fragile, so I'll be giving it hexproof to stave off the murders and other targeted remove common to its plane. |
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Post by Daij_Djan on May 24, 2022 22:57:52 GMT
This is one of those "the ability is simple to understand but sadly rather wordy" moments..
EDIT: Small wording change. Went from "any number of" to "one or more", so now you need to sacrifice a Treasure if you want to get a mana value 0 equipment.
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Post by ZephyrPhantom on May 24, 2022 23:21:55 GMT
When in doubt... Shy Clerk   Creature - Kithin Advisor  When ~ enters the battlefield, draw a card, then discard a card. When a card that shares a creature type with ~ enters the battlefield, transform ~. 0/3 "Um...may I see your membership card?"////////////////////// Backroom Dealer Creature - Kithkin Rogue When this creature transforms into ~, draw two cards, then discard two cards. 3/3 "Tonight's high is right this way, gentlemen!" |
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BinaryBolas
2/2 Zombie
Posts: 141
Color Alignment: White, Blue, Black, Red
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Post by BinaryBolas on May 25, 2022 3:58:14 GMT
Imagine the flavor text is delivered by a poor soul from Thraben. Now tell me if this is not a Marvel spinoff from Innistrad. (Is this the cat that is harmlessly offered?)   |
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aquonn
1/1 Squirrel
Fun is a zero-sum game
Posts: 59
Favorite Card: Electrodominance
Favorite Set: Guilds of Ravnica
Color Alignment: Blue, Red
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Post by aquonn on May 25, 2022 12:31:17 GMT
I looked and looked and I could not for the life of me find the artist for the second image. If anyone knows it please let me know.Re-uploaded with appropriate artist credit and with some mechanical changes. |
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Post by hydraheadhunter on May 25, 2022 13:36:15 GMT
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pernicious
7/7 Elemental
Currently busy irl
Posts: 352
Favorite Card: Mistmeadow Skulk
Favorite Set: Lorwyn and Shadowmoor blocks
Color Alignment: Red
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Post by pernicious on May 25, 2022 18:39:52 GMT
hydraheadhunter , vizionarius Thank you for your inputs. For the wording I based myself on the rulings of the archetypes from Theros. The rulings of Poppet Stitcher ("As Poppet Factory transforms back into Poppet Stitcher, the effect making your creature tokens 3/3 and making them lose their abilities ends."..."They'll also have whatever abilities they had before they lost them.") seem to confirm that when it transforms, you will be able again to normally sacrifice Treasures for mana.
Fermat The transformed side should be a creature. |
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Post by ZephyrPhantom on May 26, 2022 4:28:34 GMT
Reworked the card to match the prompt. |
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Post by vizionarius on May 26, 2022 21:51:26 GMT
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Post by hydraheadhunter on May 27, 2022 7:25:42 GMT
aquonn you really need to update your card's render with the appropriate artist credit before one of the mods decide it's time to snip it.
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Post by Daij_Djan on May 27, 2022 15:58:17 GMT
Too late 
Reuploading with proper artist credit is completely fine either way, though  |
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spazlaz
6/6 Wurm
Posts: 308
Color Alignment: Blue, Black
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Post by spazlaz on May 27, 2022 16:48:03 GMT
A little good cop bad cop flavor here.
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Post by hydraheadhunter on May 27, 2022 16:57:34 GMT
'you cant use your treasures' is a good idea mechanically or thematically; I've used it myself on a card. but, "lose all abilities" turns them into baubles and they don't change back when you transform ya boy scrouge. Assuming you want people to be able to use the treasure Ironheart Merchant creates for the flip, you either need to give them their abilities back or have the clause instead read something like, "you can't sacrifice treasure as part of a cost," or "you can't activate the activated abilities of treasure," or something similar. |
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Post by vizionarius on May 27, 2022 17:34:04 GMT
'you cant use your treasures' is a good idea mechanically or thematically; I've used it myself on a card. but, "lose all abilities" turns them into baubles and they don't change back when you transform ya boy scrouge. Assuming you want people to be able to use the treasure Ironheart Merchant creates for the flip, you either need to give them their abilities back or have the clause instead read something like, "you can't sacrifice treasure as part of a cost," or "you can't activate the activated abilities of treasure," or something similar. Take a look at the last ruling note here: scryfall.com/card/mid/71/poppet-stitcher-poppet-factoryThe current wording should be fine. This works because it's a static ability on the creature, rather than a triggered ability or a spell. If it read something like "when ~ enters the battlefiled, treasures you control lose all abilities" then you're right that transforming the creature wouldn't grant the abilities back. |
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Post by hydraheadhunter on May 27, 2022 18:13:41 GMT
'you cant use your treasures' is a good idea mechanically or thematically; I've used it myself on a card. but, "lose all abilities" turns them into baubles and they don't change back when you transform ya boy scrouge. Assuming you want people to be able to use the treasure Ironheart Merchant creates for the flip, you either need to give them their abilities back or have the clause instead read something like, "you can't sacrifice treasure as part of a cost," or "you can't activate the activated abilities of treasure," or something similar. Take a look at the last ruling note here: scryfall.com/card/mid/71/poppet-stitcher-poppet-factoryThe current wording should be fine. This works because it's a static ability on the creature, rather than a triggered ability or a spell. If it read something like "when ~ enters the battlefiled, treasures you control lose all abilities" then you're right that transforming the creature wouldn't grant the abilities back. Well that's silly and counter-intuitive; I'm fine with "have base power and toughness 3/3," because that's actually worded statically, but "lose" is a verb damn it, and you need to unverb your verbs for it to grock it collectly. |
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Post by vizionarius on May 27, 2022 18:33:39 GMT
Take a look at the last ruling note here: scryfall.com/card/mid/71/poppet-stitcher-poppet-factoryThe current wording should be fine. This works because it's a static ability on the creature, rather than a triggered ability or a spell. If it read something like "when ~ enters the battlefiled, treasures you control lose all abilities" then you're right that transforming the creature wouldn't grant the abilities back. Well that's silly and counter-intuitive; I'm fine with "have base power and toughness 3/3," because that's actually worded statically, but "lose" is a verb damn it, and you need to unverb your verbs for it to grock it collectly. Agreed. I'd much rather have it be "treasures you control have no abilities," but that's not "Magic-ese."  |
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Post by collex on May 28, 2022 0:53:23 GMT
A lot of entries went white/black, because the dichotomy is so resonant, so I endeavored to find something equally resonant. You'll be the judge if I succeeded.  My original version had it cost 3G and be a rare, but it felt too simple for a rare, so I upped the cost by one and made it uncommon (it felt too powerful for an uncommon at 3G) |
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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 May 28, 2022 15:20:05 GMT
Didn't have the chance to find some art for this week's entry, so here's the card sans art.
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Post by hydraheadhunter on May 28, 2022 16:33:57 GMT
Didn't have the chance to find some art for this week's entry, so here's the card sans art.
You're missing some creature types friend. |
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bucketman
0/0 Germ
Posts: 22
Favorite Card: Horde of Notions
Favorite Set: Throne of Eldraine
Color Alignment: Black, Green
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Post by bucketman on May 29, 2022 15:53:23 GMT
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Fermat
7/7 Elemental
Posts: 380
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 May 30, 2022 12:26:23 GMT
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Post by hydraheadhunter on May 30, 2022 17:40:59 GMT
Design a transforming monocolored creature card whose transformed side is a monocolored creature of a color that is enemy of its non-transformed side's color.
Cool card, but you're missing the brief by just a bit.
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Post by Daij_Djan on May 30, 2022 21:05:33 GMT
This thread is now closed, the poll can be found here. And here's the next challenge! |
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