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Post by Daij_Djan on Jul 24, 2023 18:36:16 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 seventy-third challenge!
The winner of the "Culinary Card Contest" poll was t2stonerain with... And the challenge issued by our winner was... Design a card with a creature type that has been used in less than 10 cards (but at least once)!Note: This list might be useful. It's not up to date, but everything with ten cards or more by that point is already out anyway, so I think it should help nethertheless. ~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 The Harlequin on Jul 24, 2023 19:38:28 GMT
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The Offensive Lemon
0/0 Germ
I am cringe, but I am free
Posts: 48
Favorite Card: Personal Decoy
Color Alignment: Blue, Red, Green
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Post by The Offensive Lemon on Jul 24, 2023 21:24:54 GMT
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Post by Daij_Djan on Jul 24, 2023 23:44:25 GMT
There are five children in Magic, one of them blackbordered:
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Post by Idea on Jul 25, 2023 0:22:53 GMT
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Post by viriss on Jul 25, 2023 1:50:32 GMT
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Post by BinaryBolas on Jul 25, 2023 2:03:17 GMT
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bucketman
0/0 Germ
Posts: 27
Favorite Card: Horde of Notions
Favorite Set: Throne of Eldraine
Color Alignment: Black, Green
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Post by bucketman on Jul 25, 2023 16:06:49 GMT
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Post by sdfkjgh on Jul 25, 2023 20:59:13 GMT
 Nulltitude of the Gibborim       Legendary Creature--Nephilim  Flash Flying, trample Nulltitude of the Gibborim’s power and toughness are each equal to the number of tapped lands on the battlefield. When Nulltitude of the Gibborim enters the battlefield, choose target instant spell or target spell with flash and exile that spell with a touch counter on it. For as long as that card remains exiled, you may pay its mana cost. If you do, create a token that’s a copy of Nulltitude of the Gibborim, except it’s not legendary.*/* EDIT, thanks to vizionarius :  Nulltitude of the Gibborim Legendary Creature--Nephilim Flash Flying, trample Nulltitude of the Gibborim’s power and toughness are each equal to the number of tapped lands on the battlefield. When Nulltitude of the Gibborim enters the battlefield, exile target instant spell or target spell with flash. For as long as that card remains exiled, you may pay its mana cost. Whenever you do, create a token that’s a copy of Nulltitude of the Gibborim, except it’s not legendary. */* |
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Lady
1/1 Squirrel
Posts: 93 
Favorite Card: Secret Rendezvous
Favorite Set: Kaldheim
Color Alignment: Black, Green
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Post by Lady on Jul 25, 2023 22:55:20 GMT
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Post by sdfkjgh on Jul 26, 2023 4:00:56 GMT
 
Fishmonger 
Creature - Human Citizen Monger : Target player creates a Food token. Any player may activate this ability. "The best fish, fresh from the sea. But of course; you'll have to pay for it."
I chose Monger that only has five cards. |
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Post by sdfkjgh on Jul 26, 2023 4:34:40 GMT
Fishmonger
Creature - Human Citizen Monger: Target player creates a Food token. Any player may activate this ability. "The best fish, fresh from the sea. But of course; you'll have to pay for it."
I chose Monger that only has five cards. Also, fish (a reference I've been looking for for decades! I'd make another reference to 3PO translating R2's "I found her, she's here!", but I've already reference overdosed {TVTropes}). |
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Post by vizionarius on Jul 26, 2023 6:50:30 GMT
Shimmering Mimic  Creature - Reflection  Ward At the beginning of each combat, ~ becomes a copy of another target creature you control until end of turn, except it's 3/3 and has ward . It sees itself in every friendly face.3/3 |
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pernicious
8/8 Octopus
Posts: 440
Favorite Card: Mistmeadow Skulk
Favorite Set: Shadowmoor block
Color Alignment: Red
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Post by pernicious on Jul 26, 2023 9:39:10 GMT
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Post by The Harlequin on Jul 26, 2023 15:28:19 GMT
Another run of wording improvements: .) Daij_Djan Still the same but i gonna put it here still. The placement of "until end of turn" just feels wrong. So I went with this one -- Cause the "can’t be blocked unless" part already loses its meaning after "crewing" weares off. >>Whenever CARDNAME crews a Vehicle, that Vehicle becomes an Illusion in addition to its other types until end of turn and can’t be blocked unless defending player pays {1} for each creature they control that’s blocking it.<< .) Idea The shuffle part is still incorrect ;-) >>..., then shuffle.<< 622 cards as reference .) sdfkjgh Wall of text... oh well. >>CARDNAME's power and toughness are each equal to the number of tapped lands on the battlefield.<< The wording makes sense and works, but there is no reference that i could find that mentions anything near that. Most of the time they only get a number from your own possession, but it then would die in you own untap step. You may find a better solution. >>Inprint -- When CARDNAME enters the battlefield, exile an instant card or a card with flash from your [[hand/graveyard]].<< Over all, you haven't clerified from where you want to exile the mentioned card. So I went with a placeholder. >>You may pay the cost of the exiled card any time you could cast [[an instant/a sorcery]]. If you do, create a token that’s a copy of CARDNAME, except it’s not legendary.<< Should just be shorter in general. .) pernicious >>.. create a Ruby token.<< All the foods/bloods/etcpp are refered as tokens when created -- So why shouldn't Ruby be one to :-) For everyone else -- I haven't overlooked you, i just didn't find any way to improve the wordings :-) |
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Post by melono on Jul 26, 2023 15:39:45 GMT
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Post by t2stonerain on Jul 26, 2023 16:01:38 GMT
 Given Flagbearer is tied to a mechanic, it's understandable that there's only 2 of them. {Previous version}Changed 3rd ability from the oracle text of other Flagbearers to work on Triggered Abilities to make it closer to current day designs and be consistent with Ward.  |
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Post by sdfkjgh on Jul 26, 2023 16:08:44 GMT
The Harlequin: Read my card a bit more carefully. It exiles target instant spell or target spell with flash. I've gone over the templating for this very carefully, and this is as succint as it can be without using any templating WotC doesn't use itself. The only way to make it shorter is "If you do, create a nonlegendary token copy of ~."
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Post by The Harlequin on Jul 26, 2023 16:46:15 GMT
i know that you want to exile a spell from the stack. but this interaction doesn't exist as of now (as far as i could find it that is) -- and therefore i went with the next best interaction that exists and works. that's all
you don't have to implement anything that i throw in here -- i just do just that.
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Post by vizionarius on Jul 26, 2023 17:45:32 GMT
sdfkjgh , The Harlequin : Nulltitude of the Gibborim’s power and toughness are each equal to the number of tapped lands on the battlefield. When Nulltitude of the Gibborim enters the battlefield, exile target instant spell or target spell with flash. For as long as that card remains exiled, you may pay its mana cost. Whenever you do, create a token that’s a copy of Nulltitude of the Gibborim, except it’s not legendary. No exact match for targeting an instant spell or a spell with flash, so using the template used on card search (above link). Also, there is this, which shows how templating would work for a spell targeting one of multiple different types or objects (having the word "target" repeat). So I think sdfkjgh has that part right. It seems you never reference the touch counter, so no need to mention it. There are cards that exile spells on the stack (link above). I think a new "whenever you do" is better here because it uses the stack. Using "if you do" would create the token without using the stack, which doesn't seem to be an intuitive way this would work. I use "whenever" here (as opposed to "when") because you can do it multiple times.
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Post by Idea on Jul 26, 2023 21:08:19 GMT
Really seems like a nitpick, but fine. Thanks for the feedback, regardless. |
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Post by quazerflame on Jul 27, 2023 0:51:15 GMT
 Current Army only exists on tokens. Easy pick! |
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Post by ZephyrPhantom on Jul 27, 2023 20:31:01 GMT
Frostberg Insurgent  Snow Creature - Bird Paratrooper  Flash When ~ enters the battlefield, counter up to one target creature spell with flying unless its owner pays . 0/2 "Your feathered wings are useless if you cannot even leave your frozen nest."Penguin Paratroopers embroiled in some kind of flying vs non-flying class war of birds.
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spazlaz
6/6 Wurm
Posts: 335
Color Alignment: Blue, Black
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Post by spazlaz on Jul 28, 2023 16:03:22 GMT
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Post by Idea on Jul 28, 2023 16:24:07 GMT
Just a suggestion, feel free to take it or not, but maybe this should be an enchantment token? Or even just a static ability on the creature. Emblems are already something you only see planeswalkers giving, and even though I'm not categorically opposed to the idea of a non-planeswalker generating one, should a 1 mana creature (mythic or not) really be generating an element of the game that changes its rules this drastically and is impossible to interact with? |
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Post by sdfkjgh on Jul 28, 2023 16:32:11 GMT
Just a suggestion, feel free to take it or not, but maybe this should be an enchantment token? Or even just a static ability on the creature. Emblems are already something you only see planeswalkers giving, and even though I'm not categorically opposed to the idea of a non-planeswalker generating one, should a 1 mana creature (mythic or not) really be generating an element of the game that changes its rules this drastically and is impossible to interact with? Also, that name is already unfortunately taken. |
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Post by ZephyrPhantom on Jul 28, 2023 18:49:57 GMT
Just a suggestion, feel free to take it or not, but maybe this should be an enchantment token? Or even just a static ability on the creature. Emblems are already something you only see planeswalkers giving, and even though I'm not categorically opposed to the idea of a non-planeswalker generating one, should a 1 mana creature (mythic or not) really be generating an element of the game that changes its rules this drastically and is impossible to interact with? Also, that name is already unfortunately taken. Time for patient one minus one?  |
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Post by sdfkjgh on Jul 28, 2023 19:31:07 GMT
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Fermat
8/8 Octopus
Posts: 436
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 Jul 29, 2023 0:24:19 GMT
  for fighting, for the clone effect, and for the death trigger. |
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Post by Daij_Djan on Jul 30, 2023 18:05:13 GMT
Daij_Djan Still the same but i gonna put it here still. The placement of "until end of turn" just feels wrong. So I went with this one -- Cause the "can’t be blocked unless" part already loses its meaning after "crewing" weares off. >>Whenever CARDNAME crews a Vehicle, that Vehicle becomes an Illusion in addition to its other types until end of turn and can’t be blocked unless defending player pays {1} for each creature they control that’s blocking it.<<
Big thanks for the feedback 
Yeah, I definitely agree it feels quite clunky - I acually adjusted the wording two or three times till I ended up with that version.
The issue with not limiting the blocking restriction is that it would otherwise still apply if the Vehicle gets recrewed during a later turn (recrewing several times with the Aspiring Pilot would even stack) - or at the very least the wording would be unclear in that regard..
That's why I decided on my wording since while it's definitely clunky, it's at the very least 100% clear and valid. |
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