The Artificer's Game

{vizionarius}Strong card. I like the reference.

{Idea}I like how this gets you more effect for tapping multicolored creatures and also gives you more pissibilities to keep creatures untapped if you play creatures that don't share colors. It might be a bit much to keep in track of what is going to happen during which upcoming turn. The black and red part feel very similar.

{moweda}Seems pretty strong to grant keywords for just one mana. Might still be ok at . Nice fit for each color.

{melono}This is a strange manastone. It has an extra cost to produce the mana and gives you a more or less random color. As you said, it can even whiff by hitting a land (or other colorless card). The delayed milling makes it a tick more interesting, but not enough that I think this is really playable. I think this needs good deck control or an all-multicolor deck to make sense.

{emberfire17}Fun card for a multicolor deck. I think it's a bit strange that equipping gets cheaper as it gets better. Makes it even less useable if you play fewer colors.

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ZephyrPhantom - Fossil Digsite//Mound of Coal: Oooh, lovely flavor. Mechanically, I like the front especially. The backside is opposed to that, kind of lackluster. Coal being a sort of colorless providing treasure is very flavorful, but I don’t feel anyone would really want to cast it? Especially with such a great front side. Maybe I’m wrong in that, but back I find can be a tad bit stronger.



Idea - Myryard: The not being an artifact with too little artifacts in graveyard is cool flavor. Mechanically it might be relevant in case of artifact hate. Its imprint is also pretty cool, as it lowers the amount of artifacts in grave, but allows myrs (and mana stones) to get a second use from the grave. Would’ve preferred an actual land border instead of an artifact one for the render.



Flo00 - Kangee’s Staff//Cloud Sanctuary: You mistyped on Sanctuary! You failed! No, serious now, about the card: Really would expect the bird’s staff to give flying instead of vigilance, but I guess that also works, especially seeing that the trigger of the equipment is combat damage to creatures. The legendary equip is a good one and should be used more and is in line with what the land side does, but hoo boy that land… Do not agree with another Karakas, even if it costs more and is after a transformation. If it returned only your own legendary creatures, that would be much more agreeable for me. I guess it is kind of balanced being behind a transform+ wall, though it would still be super annoying. Mainly in commander.



moweda - Crumbling Necropolis: The effects are all right. Thing is, the sac effects behind the fortification ability feels like an unnecessary hoop to jump through, as the mana ability isn’t in any shape something someone would use: restricted in historic permanents only, and then only black mana. When would one use this? And why the fortification is a land, and not simply an artifact, I don’t see. This land doesn’t give mana by itself after all.



Daij_Djan - Floating City: A pretty cool take on a manland. The restricted crew and the lower power for power (5 crew for 4 power) makes this feel very balanced, yet fun. And that’s all one could really ask for from a boring old land.



vizionarius - Fusion Reactor: Storing mana as energy to eventually gain a burst of mana with all colors is a cool concept. The negatives are energy counters having been powerful and also being very restricted to its own set in utility. Obtaining and proliferating your energy counters to get a one-time mana-fusion could feel cool, though I am afraid of how broken this could possibly get. Maybe an exile instead of a sacrifice is a better idea. Though, I’m probably just seeing the worst outcome with no immediate image of how to break it.

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Daij_Djan with Floating City! Second is ZephyrPhantom with their coaly fossils.

{Idea}Nice flavor - also I've always been a fan of Royal Assassin (so you definitely have that advantage), I do think such an effect should not exist below rare though. Clever choice of upgrading the normal Clue ability with the Morbid requirement!

{pernicious}The flavor is hilarious and spot on, also looks nicely balanced. Not sure if the downside ability Fragile really should be keyworded though - also I do think since the Golem is made out of Gold itself, it also should have the associated sac-ability..

{Flo00}Very, very simple yet clever concept - so I'm obviously a big fan I'm just a bit unsure about the cost - I get the downside compared to the normal Mind Stone, but for just a single mana.. This might be one of those cases where the perfect cost would be ..

{melono}Bloodthirst is a clever and flavorful touch, cool concept. I just wish it had a toughness of 1 so that it could at least be used for its looting ability even when you cannot meet the Bloodthirst requirement..

{moweda}Nice, clean and simple - instantly reminded me of Ichor Wellspring (which I always liked) quite a bit. However having a sac-ability satcked onto the card does change a few things (some good, some bad), so I looked at other examples and found Metalspinner's Puzzleknot & Spare Supplies - and looking at those your simple concept might actually be a bit undercosted for WotC's standards..?

{And the winner is..}This was tough since I really liked all five entries, even if I had some minor nitpicks here and there.. In the end, I decided to give the win to Idea - rarity needs a bump, but otherwise the combination of flavor and mechanics is just perfect!