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Post by Daij_Djan on May 14, 2018 10:20:44 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 two-hundred and sixteenth challenge!
The winner of the "The hero we deserve" poll was dietcolafangirla with... And the challenge issued by our winner was... I would like to see cards of any type themed around music, musicians and melody, whether inspired by a specific song, genre or anything you like. Bonus kudos if you can link an accompanying track to go with your entry! Note: There have been three (more or less) similar challenges in the past (CotW #63, CotW #95 & CotW #176). As always in such cases, please don't reuse one of your old entries from these contests. ~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 Neottolemo on May 14, 2018 13:29:22 GMT
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Post by Deleted on May 14, 2018 13:55:13 GMT
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Post by oddnanref on May 14, 2018 13:55:21 GMT
This seems interesting. I always like songs with stories. So why not have my entry be one of the oldest songs with stories: Vivaldi's Four seasons. The only reason why I have four entries is because at the moment I have no way of making sagas with four chapter. youtu.be/4TGbPklKQSEThis is from a cycle of four cards, but I guess I'll enter the less convoluted Spring card. Sonata of Spring    Enchantment - Saga  I: Create three 1/1 white Bird token with flying. II: Create two 0/1 green Sheep tokens and a 1/1 white hound creature token. III: Create a 1/1 white Human creature token and two 1/1 green Dryad creature tokens.  {Other Seasons} Sonata of Summer   Enchantment - Saga I: Deal 1 damage to all creatures. II: Deal 3 damage to all creatures. III: Creatures you control have +1/+1 and haste until end of turn.  Sonata of Fall  Enchantment - Saga I: Creatures you control gain "  : Gain 2 life." II: Creatures cannot attack you until your next turn. III: Create four 1/1 green Hound creatures. They deal damage to target creature equal to their power.  Sonata of Winter  Enchantment - Saga I: Tap all creatures. Creatures do not untap for as long as ~ is on the battlefield. II: Untap up to four target creatures. III: Detain all tapped creatures.  Might tweak some numbers for balance. |
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Post by Aarhg on May 14, 2018 15:21:04 GMT
Treetop TroubadourCreature - Squirrel , : Tap any number of untapped creatures you control. Create a 1/1 green Squirrel creature token for each creature tapped this way. Activate this ability only any time you could cast a sorcery. "Come one, come all! The boar, the harrier!"1/1 {Old} Treetop TroubadourCreature - Squirrel Frolic - , , Tap any number of untapped creatures you control: Create a 1/1 green Squirrel creature token for each creature that frolicked with Treetop Troubadour. Frolic only any time you could cast a sorcery and only once each turn. "Come one, come all! The boar, the harrier!"1/1 |
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Post by Neottolemo on May 14, 2018 16:31:52 GMT
Point taken, but there's also the question that no version of the art without the band logo exists and is public, and I'm not sure what the rules are on displaying logos on cards. @aargh: Awesome flavour text and interesting effect. I'm not sure pseudo keywords' names can be referred to like that, though, since they have no rules significance. Do some precendents for that wording exist? I can't think of any. |
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Post by Daij_Djan on May 14, 2018 17:08:10 GMT
@ oddnanref/@gorgonzola: I moved both if your posts here  |
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Post by Deleted on May 14, 2018 17:26:12 GMT
@daij_Djan: Thanks, you could've just delete mine though since it is out of context now.
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Post by voltaic-qui on May 14, 2018 20:31:00 GMT
Pecs Hex Enchantment - Aura Enchant creature Enchanted creature can't have more than one permanent attached to it. Enchanted creature has " , : Gain control of target creature with power less than this creature's power until this creature leaves the battlefield." Enthralling Victor is too sexy for his shirt
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Post by Daij_Djan on May 14, 2018 20:36:11 GMT
@@gorgonzola : True, sorry about that. Seems like you already took care of it
For my own entry I decided to get inspired by Jonathan Young. He's doing awesome metal/rock cover versions (sometimes together with Caleb Hyles) for songs with a wide range or origins: From normal pop songs, to anime intros or Disney songs, or completely different things. So what does a cover do? It takes something you already know and brings it back with a new unique twist. Enjoy:  |
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Post by sdfkjgh on May 14, 2018 21:07:25 GMT
Neottolemo : Awesome, I love Ghost! I just wonder what that mask is supposed to be. Is is some figure from Swedish politics? Guy's got some serious dance moves, though.
So, I knew I HAD to do a card based on something from Our Tom's oeuvre, but which song? On the Nickel? Kentucky Avenue? Burma Shave? Shiver Me Timbers? Excellent songs all, but all of them a little hard to translate to Magic. But then, unfortunately, this design came to me before any Waitsean ideas:
THIS IS NOT AN ENTRY!
Mass Migration  Enchantment Whenever a creature deals combat damage to a player, that player gains control of that creature.
And we dance to the music, and we dance... (In case you missed the earlier link to the song.) So, that seems like a pretty good entry, but I still wanted something from Tom Waits. Then I remembered that time he trolled the ever living hell outta Disney. Apparently, they tried to sue him for changing the lyrics.1 He did nothing of the sort. He just changed everything else about the song, turning it into a paean to slave labor.
This reminded me of the last lime I attempted to post a card designed around slave labor, which was, at best, only semi-successful as a troll, and nothing else. I won't provide any more details on THAT subject, as it's best to just let it die. For those of you who, like me, remember that design, ok, have a laugh at that situation, but let's move on to a better, less controversial design, my actual entry:
Curse of Hard Labor Enchantment--Aura Curse Flash
Enchant player
Whenever a creature enchanted player controls becomes untapped, put a -1/-1 counter on that creature. DIG, DIG, DIG!
1Any hardcore Waits fan will tell you: Do NOT go up against Our Tom in court. You WILL lose!
And now, to end with a joke:
What did the two French hens say when they bumped into each other? Œuf! |
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Post by sdfkjgh on May 14, 2018 21:20:55 GMT
Jesus. This is why I thank Daij_Djan in (nearly) every column I write. Without his help, all my attempts at BBCoding look like crap! I'm no good at it.
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Post by kinotherapy on May 14, 2018 22:54:55 GMT
 Serra's Swan Song Legendary Sorcery (You may cast a legendary sorcery only if you control a legendary creature or planeswalker.)Your life total becomes equal to your starting life total. “When you can no longer sing for yourself, sing for the world around you, so that it may bathe you in light forever after.”
—Song of All , canto 998Based off some uncastable miracle I made for some other contest, thankfully Wizards made situationally uncastable spells for reason so now it's a legendary sorcery. I hope this counts since it's just musically flavoured rather than based on a specific song. I designed this while listening to Corey Feldman — Go 4 it feat. Snoop Dogg from his album Angelic 2 the Core and reading Serra lore for the first time. |
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Post by Casstastrophe on May 14, 2018 23:10:29 GMT
 ...very very frightening me! Galileo! (Galileo) Galileo! (Galileo) Galileo figaro... |
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Post by spazlaz on May 15, 2018 8:23:46 GMT
I'm so sorry guys, but this had to be done. Can't Touch This EDIT: much needed flavor text |
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Post by oddnanref on May 15, 2018 12:08:37 GMT
So, the guy is running around using any artifact he can find as a shield? To prevent damage. While he shouts "can't touch this!" That image is hilarious.
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Post by Mahx Michael on May 15, 2018 22:12:43 GMT
@gorgonzola Do you recommend to stear clear of Vocaloid references for this contest, since noone will get the references anyways? Either way, my taste in music is a little different from the mainstream, so I'm not sure if I now any music references others will get, but as long as it has something to do with music, it will fit the contest requirements, right? Is it actually normal for people to get each other's music references at all, or do people have such different taste in music, that the only thing that matters in this contest is how the card is designed, regarless of whether anyone gets the reference or not? (I'm just saying that referencing music isn't new to me in this contest series, and I ususally don't get to great results due to noone getting the references.) CasstastropheThunderbolt already exists in magic, so making a duplicate with a totally different fuction might cause confusion. If you particularly want the "Thunderbolt and Lightning" title, what do you think about making the "Thunderbolt"-side look like Thunderbolt, and have the "Lightning"-side compliment it in some way? |
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Post by Aarhg on May 15, 2018 23:07:54 GMT
I'm thinking about changing some things on my design. I'd like to hear your input if you have any. Using the word frolic to mean several different things in the same ability is confusing. If I go back to basics and scrap the frolicking part altogether, I'd get this card. To make some kind of frolic mechanic possible with this new version, I tried making another card that would be great to tap with Treetop Troubadour's ability - a pacifist villager.  Neither of these are entries for now, just some ideas. |
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Post by Xenagos on May 16, 2018 2:17:22 GMT
I was inspired by this song - Arrival of the Birds It repeats the same theme a few times which is how I was inspired to put Rebound. |
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Post by Deleted on May 16, 2018 3:38:18 GMT
@mahx Michael: IDK, I think that if you explain what did try to refer to, it's perfectly fine. Of course, it may or may not affect your chance to win the contest if nobody gets it, but the card mayters the most I assume.
@cassatrophe: So you think you can stone me and spit in my eye?
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Post by Akai Ryu on May 16, 2018 14:24:19 GMT
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Post by Mahx Michael on May 16, 2018 14:41:46 GMT
Akai RyuIs the effect of your card supposed to last forever, or did you forget to write "until end of turn"?
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Post by Aarhg on May 16, 2018 14:49:43 GMT
Akai Ryu Is the effect of your card supposed to last forever, or did you forget to write "until end of turn"? Since it’s an enchantment, it should just say “have” instead of “gain”. Other than that, I think it’s correct. |
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Post by Mahx Michael on May 16, 2018 14:58:44 GMT
Akai Ryu Is the effect of your card supposed to last forever, or did you forget to write "until end of turn"? Since it’s an enchantment, it should just say “have” instead of “gain”. Other than that, I think it’s correct. Ehh... Sorry, forgot to check the card type... Of course it lasts until the enchantment is removed if it's an enchantment (for some reason I thought it was an instant...) |
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Post by Akai Ryu on May 16, 2018 15:13:21 GMT
Yea, it's a mistake. Better with "have". I'll fix it tonight. Thanks |
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Post by sdfkjgh on May 16, 2018 20:06:40 GMT
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Post by grishnax on May 17, 2018 3:31:25 GMT
 The Sound of Music  Sorcery  Quip (You may make a pun about this spell as you cast it. When you do, copy it and you may choose a new target for the copy.)Target land becomes a 3/3 green Elemental creature with haste in addition to its other types until end of turn. “Ach! Hans, run! The hills are alive!”
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Post by Pixi-Rex on May 17, 2018 16:51:46 GMT
In the spirit of Eurovision Song Contest last weekend. I will use the song my country participated with. Higher Ground
Its a viking song, and as you know vikings sailed out to look for new lands. So my card is baced on that. {Entry}  |
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Post by Deleted on May 17, 2018 18:04:58 GMT
Curse of Futility Enchantment - Aura Curse Enchant player Creatures enchanted player controls lose all abilities. "May you never get no satisfaction in your whole life!"
-Reggaja, Rollenstein witch
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Post by mrchristianpunk on May 18, 2018 17:05:39 GMT
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"When in doubt, do a common." 
