The Un-Game

Praying | Hoplite
Hast creature - Human Soldier
When this creature enters the battlefield, | exile cards from the top of your library until you reveal an Aura or Equipment card. Put that card on the battlefield attached to this creature and shuffle the rest into your library.
1/1

Blessed
Enchantment Creature -
Whenever another enchantment enters the battlefield under your control,
Augment (, Reveal this card from your hand: Combine it with target host. Augment only as a sorcery.)
+2/+2

They don't neccessaryly have to give an extra creature type, right? Also the "another" is actually not needed, since augument works like mutate and the card doesn't enter the battlefield. (At least I hope so for the sake of consistency.)

Heroic
Creature - Human
First strike
Heroic — Whenever you cast a spell that targets this creature,
Augment (, Reveal this card from your hand: Combine it with target host. Augment only as a sorcery.)
+0/+0

While the first will give you all Auras from your deck on one very blessed Hoplite (unless you are foolish ehough to play Equipments), the second will give you one extra for each time you show how heroic your hoplite is.

I had never seen these before either.  Pretty awesome concept!

Soul | Devourer
Host Creature - Horror
When this creature enters the battlefield, | target opponent loses life equal to this creature's power.
3/2

Shady

Flo00


moweda


vizionarius


pernicious


Winner

Wasn't there a tournament rule saying you can't rip cards because of that one time a guy ripped up a chaos orb for a win?

So, some rulings as to the phrase "separate battlefields are treated as battlefields from separate games"
-Lands in one battlefield cannot be used to cast together with lands in another battlefield, though a card is not on the battlefield when it's cast, so it can be cast using mana from either battlefield, just not both
-When a spell is cast it enters a battlefield of one's choice
-Creatures can only interact (block, use an ability on...) with creatures in the same battlefield
-Static effects affect the battlefield the card with the static effect is on


This would probably go on a reminder card that would be found frequently in a set, especially as the mechanic is designed as a new card subtype meaning there would be more.

Judging on Wednesday.

Feedback

Idea : Reminds me of Space Beleren! (Which does not have an acorn...). I quite like your iteration of it. I think it should be a mythic rare, though... It's very strong and complex in its interactions! There is a rules issue with this being an Enchant Battlefield when casting, because you need to define the target even before the "whenever you cast a field" is put on the stack, meaning that the new battlefield doesn't exist yet. If you used the template on the __forms, where it becomes an Aura after it ETB, it would work. But I won't nitpick this here, just wanted to point it out for future designs to look out for it. I think it's a neat design that is decidedly "un" in feel. Neat addition to have the creature venture into the dungeon too. As much as I like this one, I'm not sure I'd like to see many Fields. Maybe a color cycle at mythic, but that's pretty much it. It adds a LOT of complexity and tracking required. I think it's fine to have this be in the reminder text even if it's the only field (it is an un-card after all!).

moweda : I really like this! It think it could work readily within the rules as is... (assuming that enchanting zones is actually within the rules [it's not; 303.4: "An Aura enters the battlefield attached to an object or player" and 109.1: "An object is an ability on the stack, a card, a copy of a card, a token, a spell, a permanent, or an emblem"]). I like that you added the flavor subtype "Eulogy." I think the card is too weak (see Rest in Peace and Sanctifier en-Vec for similar effects). Yours is a 1-sided effect, but it doesn't exile the cards already there, and only works on a single color. I think if you added some additional effect, like gaining 1 life when a card of the chosen color gets exiled, I would like it a lot more.

Flo00 : This is really neat! I didn't expect to see a generic "enchant zone" but I like it. Leaving the zone leading to gaining life is really a neat concept. You can stick it on a zone where it will likely remain for a long time, like a library or the battlefield, or to a zone that might become empty so you eventually get the 2/2, like someone's hand. This is a huge flavor win in my mind. Versatile, quirky, breaks the fourth-wall with it's name in a very un-way. I think it could have been an uncommon since it is a little more complex, but the cost and everything about it feels great!

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Result

Winner is Flo00 with a great un-design that checks off many boxes of what I'd expect to see from an un-card. I also really liked the other designs, but Flo00's stood out to me the most.

So, dice are quite great for randomization for two reasons. One, they perform a task that is harder than it may appear of generating proper randomness. Most 'random' events can be skewed one way or another by some method, probabilities will hardly be even in a lot of cases. Second, most players can be expected to have some dice. Dice are an incredibly common thing in games and quite ancient yet lasting to this very day. Maybe you can't necessarily expect someone to have a d20 lying around at home, but a d6 is something they'll almost certainly have. I think any attempt at randomness, even in an unset, will have a hard time competing with those two qualities. Of course, other people's ideas may surprise me in how well they perform those functions, and that was kind of the challenge I decided to tackle in my own ideas.

I present to you the two ideas I could fit into a card and preferred: Random number (online) generation + Betting



Random number generation is kind of like the modern generation of dice. Since most people can probably be expected to have access to the internet and phones, it should be easy to access. It can also be quirky by going into way bigger numbers or strange ranges regular dice couldn't. Finally, I decided to pair it with a mechanic that tracks each roll and sums it, enabling new effects based on how full the Gauge is.

Betting solves the problem by kind of leaving it to the players to decide what they feel is fair. While at face value this may not seem like randomness, it would be difficult for two people to agree that something is a fair bet if they aren't at least both convinced that things could go either way or that they both could have the advantage. So people's preferences should create a randomness or similar unknown. You could also set different results for up to seven possibilities (with some overlap): "You win"; "The other player wins"; "You Lose"; "The other player loses"; "You tie"; "Everyone wins"; "Everyone loses"



Other ideas I ended up not going for:

Online number request - like on a forum or social media. Silver border already involves people from outside the game, and you could just take the result from the first person. Would involve making a lot of semi-redundant posts though, and requiring social media interaction.

Tons of dice - Dice may already be a part of the game, but in silver you could have a metric ton of them. People love the clickity clack. Probably would've included this one if I had more space, and wasn't picked on top because it's frankly just not as creative I feel.

Decks of Cards - As in traditional cards. Most people probably have a set as well. Issue is it would probably get too wordy to use this.

alman I’m afraid you replied to the wrong challenge. That one’s been over for a long time now.

I just made 5 new phyrexian praetors even though they're all dead, and all of them have mutate because it's my favorite keyword lol.