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Post by Flo00 on Aug 6, 2023 0:06:38 GMT
{Idea} Better safe than sorry. You write a detailed description about the distribution of your few worldly possesions among the people who deserve it. Just as you finish, you hear your new "friend" enter the room. You fold the paper and hope there is still enough time left you to come up with a way to get this to the right people. The Elf approaches you: "I was looking for you. What did you write there?"Useful card in the right environnment. I wanted to compare it to The Ozolith and Resourceful Defense, then I realized that it can also enchant creatures you don't control. Kind of fiendish to Make a Will for an opponent's creature. I like how you add flexibility by distributing the counters rather than just putting them on a single one. {pernicious} Jump. Scream. Stab. Stab. STAB. Dead. Almost too easy. On second thought, maybe you could have had an interesting conversation about it. It seemed you both shared a lot of interests.A good modernization of Nekrataal. {vizionarius} The next time your elven "Friend" is busy fishing on the lake, you decide to set a fire in the basement. This unholy site must be cleansed of its taint. You flee though the forest trying not to leave a trail. Once you feel you put enough distance between you and that gruesome place, you turn around to see a column of smoke emerge from where you think the house stood.Very useful and diverse card. I'd definitely play this in some decks. I was amazed to find out that there are very few spells granting menace. I really like all three cards and your way of dealing with the situation. |
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pernicious
8/8 Octopus
Posts: 431
Favorite Card: Mistmeadow Skulk
Favorite Set: Shadowmoor block
Color Alignment: Red
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Post by pernicious on Aug 9, 2023 12:34:33 GMT
Thank you for the win, Flo00. The next prompt is... "After you have dealt with the would-be murderer, you shove his corpse in a barrel in the cellar. You were about to leave the house when you notice that the wind is picking up and that ominous black clouds crackling with lightning are quickly covering the sky. In a matter of minutes, a powerful storm begins in the area. You wait for a few hours for the storm to subside, but unfortunately it doesn't show any signs of stopping. Three days pass and you are still waiting inside the house. The ground floor has flooded from all the rainfall and several windows have been shattered by the strong winds. You are now resting with a slight fever in the guests' bedroom on the second floor, thank goodness you decided to move on this floor the provisions from the cellar before it got flooded. You peek from the boarded window of your room and a cold shiver runs down your spine as you see a group of torch-bearing masked figures approaching the house. They're somehow unhampered by the winds and the flood. What do you do?" |
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Post by Idea on Aug 10, 2023 22:00:30 GMT
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Post by Flo00 on Aug 14, 2023 2:13:49 GMT
Can I reuse my last entry?  Just kidding, here I go:  Grasp of the Ocean   Instant  Choose a creature you control or reveal a creature card from your hand. Return each creature with power less than that creature’s or card’s power to its owner’s hand. Also... Healing Herbs   Instant  Remove any number of counters from target creature you control, then destroy any number of Auras attached to it. You can ignore the second one if it is against the rules. |
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pernicious
8/8 Octopus
Posts: 431
Favorite Card: Mistmeadow Skulk
Favorite Set: Shadowmoor block
Color Alignment: Red
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Post by pernicious on Aug 19, 2023 12:03:20 GMT
Idea - You don't have much time. You exit the bedroom in a rush and you ready yourself as you hide behind a barrel near the staircase. The only way you see out of this predicament is to strike first. You silently wait in ambush, as you begin to hear footsteps coming from below... - Very nice. I'd only make it cost instead, given how creature-focused it is.
Flo00 - (I'll pick the first one) - You speak the true name of the ocean itself and after you beg it to grant you its aid, you see outside the flood rising even more as large tentacles, seeming like those of an enormous octopus, emerge from the waters and attack the masked figures. They try to hold back using what seems to be black magic, but eventually they are overwhelmed and pulled underwater by the ocean's avatar. Great, your spell managed to get rid of those guys...however it also made the flood's level rise almost to your floor's windows! With this much water, the entire house might get swept away! - That's an interesting mass return spell. I'd only make it a sorcery instead. I would have liked if it had some flavor text.
The winner is Idea!
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Post by Idea on Aug 31, 2023 10:36:21 GMT
Thank you for the win, pernicious ! You count the masked figures as they make their way inside the house. One, two, three, four... With the group split nearly half but still leaving the majority outside you jump out of the barrel and slam the door shut. The falling of the barrel and the door hitting the frame startles the mask figures, though it appears there is a miniscule delay between one of them and the rest. You push the barrel against the door with a foot and strike at one of the masked figures, only to find the tip of your blade deflected by some invisible force. Fortunately your 'friend' back in the other barrel had some useful tools. You pull out a dagger seemingly imbued with a number of green gemstones and cut through the enchantment, slicing off finger with a small ring from one of the masked figure. It falls with a heavy thud unlike that of flesh. You look to see some manner of brown object for a blink, and in the next blink you could only see a normal chopped finger dripping blood onto the floor and wearing a small ring with some web-like pattern around it.
Outside the remaining masked figures are trying to force their way in, hitting on a door with a stable repetitive rhythm. For now the door and the barrel in front of it are hanging out, but the sound from the hinges and the small gaps as the door moves ever so slightly forward like a subtle crescendo tell you you may not have long.
The masked figures around you strike, all except one that stays at the back. The one who's finger you sliced appears to have lost that protection that likely kept the wind and rain from them. You block their attacks with a sword, kick them, and while evading the other two (suffering only minor cuts) you aim straight for those ring fingers. The masked attacker whom you kicked stumbles back flailing, nearly falling down only to straighten as though the wind had pushed them to their feet. Only, the windows are closed, and so is the door.
Behind you, a window shatters. All you can afford is a glance to see one of the figures outside thrusted their arm right through the glass, seeming to entirely disregard the cuts, blood and glass shards carving into their limb. In fact, they kept pushing the arm against the broken window glass to widen the gap or perhaps try to reach something to open the window.
Taking advantage of your distraction, the two who's ring fingers you cut grab hold of you, while the remaining lifts their sword to cut you down. Meanwhile, the one that had stayed at the back runs further inside the house. As they do, the illusion is dispelled from the ones whose rings you removed, revealing that they were in fact not actual people but live-sized wooden dolls with nothing but crude drawings for a face. Their movements were almost alive, but the sensation and width of their human forms was gone, the illusion seemingly having been responsible for not simply a visual or auditory deception, but one capable of deceiving every sense and even responding quite realistically. For a moment you considered if these were the only dolls thus disguised... or how many there could be out there.
Still, the immediate situation was dire. You were being held by two, about to be struck by one, the ones outside were trying to slam down the door or break apart a window. The only one you weren't fairly certain was one of the dolls had run inside for an unknown purpose...
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Post by Flo00 on Sept 4, 2023 6:53:10 GMT
Burst into Flame  Sorcery Target creature you control deals damage to each creature and each planeswalker equal to its power. This might also help a bit with the cold.Note that the creature damages itself as well. |
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Post by vizionarius on Sept 11, 2023 23:31:27 GMT
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Post by Idea on Sept 14, 2023 12:38:59 GMT
I intend to judge this one tomorrow. Any more entries are free to come until then!
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Post by Idea on Sept 15, 2023 12:38:06 GMT
Flo00{Spoiler} There's little choice left. Even though you struggle, you don't seem to be able to free yourself from the grasp of the dolls, and if you were overwhelmed with these numbers, what will you do when there's more of them? Plus you have no idea what that person ran in there for, but considering the previous owner of this mansion, it can't be anything good.
That's it. You're done for. There's no way you're making it out of this in one piece.
Might as well stop whatever evil deeds they are trying to do as you exit stage, and smell good while at it.
With a hidden contraption, a last resort enchanted pouch gets pressed. There is a brief clicking noise, and the world seem to draw breath before you feel the heat, the ringing of your ears, the pain on your skin, and figures being blasted away along with the whole mansion.
Far away from there, some time later, another traveler that had joined the quest for the Fountain of Youth was sitting in waiting at a tavern. They watched from a distance waiting for the time to depart, while the king received the news of the charred corpse of one of the other companions having been discovered in a mansion somewhere in the woods.Yeah, considering corpse explosion and other cards with this form of AOE effect, I think the price is fair, especially since a lot of the time it'll be equivalent to "as an additional cost, sacrifice a creature". {Spoiler} You a feat of willpower you manage to push the two dolls holding in front, letting them get cut by the one that was about ready to decapitate you and giving you a momentary chance to slip out of their grasp. Grasping at whatever straws you could, you grab onto one of the rings and slip it into your finger, causing the illusion to form around you. The illusion of this other person's form follows your movement, although janky since it was a spell designed for those wooden dolls and not a flesh and blood person. The dolls appear confused with your apparent transformation, having been giving orders to attack someone that was seemingly no longer there and the person who was now there had been one of their own. Still, even if they were slower to ""think"", there was no guarantee they wouldn't put two and two together in a matter of moments, and the problem of them, the ones breaking into the window, and whoever ran inside was still unresolved.
At least you earned yourself a moment to breathe.Coming off the heels of the previous contest I reviewed just now, this card seems pretty in line with mana value X control pricing for blue. The little bonus when used on equipment is small enough that it can practically be disregarded, making this essentially an Entrancing Melody. Winner {Spoiler}Both were excellent and extremely close entries, to the point where I considered a coin toss. In the end though, I think vizionarius 's entry has just that little dge in creativity that I do think puts it slightly ahead, so vizionarius is the winner.
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Post by vizionarius on Sept 15, 2023 17:51:43 GMT
Thanks for the win Idea!
You're not one to squander an opportunity, and make the best of the moment you've been given."Ah, fellas, what are you staring at? Boss said the guy went that way!"You point towards the direction of the cellar...They run off that way and you dash out the front door, storm and rain and floods be damned! You just escaped death, and you know death is not one to give up so easily!You're rushing through a forest path, getting covered in scrapes and mud, your heart pounding and lungs starting to give as you add distance to the cursed cottage by the lake. You suddenly get blinded by a giant flash of lightning, so bright you've never seen anything like it. Immediately, you are also deafened by the clap of thunder. Your strength has been sapped and you collapse into the mud. Your senses are shot, your energy is gone. Unexpectedly, the intense panic you've been feeling up till now starts to subside. You feel heavy rain drops beating down on you, yet find comfort in their constancy. You start to feel a strange calm come over you...What happens next? |
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Post by Idea on Sept 18, 2023 10:48:04 GMT
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pernicious
8/8 Octopus
Posts: 431
Favorite Card: Mistmeadow Skulk
Favorite Set: Shadowmoor block
Color Alignment: Red
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Post by pernicious on Sept 18, 2023 11:14:12 GMT
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Post by Flo00 on Sept 19, 2023 7:21:55 GMT
Final Nap  Sorcery Destroy target tapped creature. Its controller reveals their hand and you choose a card from it. They discard that card. “You’ve had enough troubles in this world. Just let it all go.” |
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