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Post by Daij_Djan on Nov 6, 2023 20:26:43 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 eighty-eighth challenge!
The winner of the "Do Something Else" poll was Fermat with... And the challenge issued by our winner was... For this week's challenge, ponder on what an existing plane would look like 1,200+ years into its future and create a card that would fit in it. You can include a brief narrative on why you think that plane's future would be as you imagined.
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 viriss on Nov 6, 2023 22:55:18 GMT
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Post by Idea on Nov 7, 2023 0:38:09 GMT
 Theros is a pretty short-lived-memory sort of plane or so I hear. With the new worshipping of angels, there's bound to be some new angelic additions to the pantheon thanks to the properties of Nyx. That being said, with the mixture of these new beliefs and the legend of Elspeth herself, the idea of a goddess, an angel, born of nyx in her own image is far from out of the question. Perhaps even Heliod himself would start to mix into her with the concept of justice under both domains, and the light being so easily associated with the Sun. His actions as well, to go against all the other gods, and Elspeth's actual feat of taking one down herself. The emergence of something resembling a monotheistic trend, the new goddess of justice becoming ironically slightly power hungry, but moreso seeing it as her mission to punish gods who wronged the people - and very little needed to justify a "wronging" in her eyes, even one worthy of annihilation. There would be other gods, perhaps one bound to more technology and progress in blue, and maybe a new god of death with a more phyrexian sort of appearance due to the collective trauma of the invasion. |
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Post by sdfkjgh on Nov 7, 2023 1:18:27 GMT
How about a little Homelands love: Xenotherion    Creature--Beast Specter  Trample, protection from planeswalkers (This creature can’t be blocked, targeted or dealt damage by planeswalkers.)
If Xenotherion would deal damage to a planeswalker, it deals double that damage to that planeswalker instead. Whenever Xenotherion deals damage to a player, that player discards a card. Whenever Xenotherion deals damage to a planeswalker, that planeswalker’s controller discards two cards. 4/4 |
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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 Nov 7, 2023 2:09:57 GMT
Welp, I'm a moron. I was originally going to do a Theros thing where people forgot the gods were real and that the card in question was a demigod who doesn't know he's a demigod — sort of like Percy Jackson — but then I remembered what happens to gods on Theros when people stop believing in them: they stop existing. So a demigod would likely either cease to exist too or simply lose all his power. I guess I'll do Ikoria, then? In a very Pacific Rim-sounding scenario, humans eventually start building Kamigawa-esque mechs to better fight against the plane's monsters. Dragonslayer Mech
Artifact — Vehicle  | Whenever Dragonslayer Mech blocks, is blocked by, or fights a non-Human creature, it gets +3/+3 until end of turn.
Crew 2
To fight monsters, it is sometimes necessary to create a monster of one’s own. | | 4/4 |
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BinaryBolas
3/3 Beast
Posts: 186
Color Alignment: White, Blue, Black, Red
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Post by BinaryBolas on Nov 7, 2023 3:25:28 GMT
Thousands of years later, way after the Approach of the Second Sun *Incident*, all the remains and proofs of the worship of the God-Pharoah are vanished beneath the sand while the decendents of the survivors thrived and developed their past with their newfound faiths. Then, the re-discovering of the Dark Tombs happened. And the ancient evil never sleeps...  |
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Post by ZephyrPhantom on Nov 7, 2023 4:05:29 GMT
The year is 60XX and the cycle of war between the guilds has ground to a halt. A group of 10 individuals called the Conglomerate have turned the foundations of Ravnica into little more than a stageplay to ensure they always stay in power. Messages read by Dimir spies end with their identities being revealed in public scandals. Sects of the Selesnya are mysteriously guided to join unheard of guildless cults and never rejoin the fold. Inventions created by the Izzet are confiscated and seen as part of the drone hitmen blackailing them the next day. Among this dying system, there are whispers of those that remember the old ways and seek to dethrone these shadowy figures and restore the natural flow of the guilds. They go by a class of citizen banned in modern Conglomerate society for over a century... Mild Mannered Scribe  Creature - Human Wizard When ~ enters the battlefield, surveil 3. Whenever you put a Spider card from your library into your graveyard, you may transform ~. 1/1 //// "Sure thing, Ms. Raven, I'll get you those pictures of the spider."Daring Guildmage Creature - Human Spider Wizard   : Whenever target creature deals damage to a player this turn, you may draw a card. : Target creature gets menace until end of turn. 3/2 "Now, Ms. Raven, what have you been asked to erase today?" |
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Fermat
8/8 Octopus
Posts: 430
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 Nov 7, 2023 5:34:24 GMT
 Nahiri created a kor order that would hunt planeswalkers, staying true to her oath that she would never allow them on Zendikar again. |
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Post by Daij_Djan on Nov 7, 2023 15:36:40 GMT
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Post by vizionarius on Nov 7, 2023 18:35:51 GMT
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Post by sdfkjgh on Nov 7, 2023 19:16:48 GMT
The year is 60XX and the cycle of war between the guilds has ground to a halt. A group of 10 individuals called the Conglomerate have turned the foundations of Ravnica into little more than a stageplay to ensure they always stay in power. Messages read by Dimir spies end with their identities being revealed in public scandals. Sects of the Selesnya are mysteriously guided to join unheard of guildless cults and never rejoin the fold. Inventions created by the Izzet are confiscated and seen as part of the drone hitmen blackailing them the next day. Among this dying system, there are whispers of those that remember the old ways and seek to dethrone these shadowy figures and restore the natural flow of the guilds. They go by a class of citizen banned in modern Conglomerate society for over a century... Mild Mannered Scribe Creature - Human Wizard When ~ enters the battlefield, surveil 3. Whenever you put a Spider card from your library into your graveyard, you may transform ~. 1/1 //// "Sure thing, Ms. Raven, I'll get you those pictures of the spider."Daring Guildmage Creature - Human Spider Wizard : Whenever target creature deals damage to a player this turn, you may draw a card. : Target creature gets menace until end of turn. 3/2 "Now, Ms. Raven, what have you been asked to erase today?"This hits a little too close to our current predicament in the US & UK: shadowy cabals of hyperrich assholes controlling errthing. |
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Post by ZephyrPhantom on Nov 7, 2023 20:52:20 GMT
This hits a little too close to our current predicament in the US & UK: shadowy cabals of hyperrich assholes controlling errthing. sort of teased at it with Guildpact for Day but I think it's very intriguing that Ravnica's 'government' is really unstable and easily usurped, from what we've seen so far. Add that we already see potentially easily exploitable classism between the guildless and the guilded (something that has been conveniently ignored every Ravnica block, no less), and I think the groundwork's there for a having a dystopia with modern-day criticisms. Think Batman Beyond or Marvel 2099, but a bit more grounded, essentially. I feel like as cool as Kamigawa was it's a little harder to get invested in the corporate control elements of its cyberpunk flavor because the premise also has to juggle referencing Japanese culture, technology vs nature, and Phyrexia vs Planeswalkers all at once. Being able to focus all of Ravnica's elements towards a more conspiracy/political thriller feels like it could focus on what Kamigawa wasn't able to and I was interested in seeing if I could capture that feeling. I really enjoyed trying to tie this all into the 'modern' Guildmage imagery. It's a once iconic symbol of "past" Ravnica, being banned now for being too varied/diverse a set of careers and mindsets to safely control within one narrative, and I figured it'd be a great way to have them represent both setting-appropriate term for superheroes and a coded word for a resistance/union movement against oppression. |
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Post by sdfkjgh on Nov 8, 2023 2:24:37 GMT
This hits a little too close to our current predicament in the US & UK: shadowy cabals of hyperrich assholes controlling errthing. sort of teased at it with Guildpact for Day but I think it's very intriguing that Ravnica's 'government' is really unstable and easily usurped, from what we've seen so far. Add that we already see potentially easily exploitable classism between the guildless and the guilded (something that has been conveniently ignored every Ravnica block, no less), and I think the groundwork's there for a having a dystopia with modern-day criticisms. Think Batman Beyond or Marvel 2099, but a bit more grounded, essentially. I feel like as cool as Kamigawa was it's a little harder to get invested in the corporate control elements of its cyberpunk flavor because the premise also has to juggle referencing Japanese culture, technology vs nature, and Phyrexia vs Planeswalkers all at once. Being able to focus all of Ravnica's elements towards a more conspiracy/political thriller feels like it could focus on what Kamigawa wasn't able to and I was interested in seeing if I could capture that feeling. I really enjoyed trying to tie this all into the 'modern' Guildmage imagery. It's a once iconic symbol of "past" Ravnica, being banned now for being too varied/diverse a set of careers and mindsets to safely control within one narrative, and I figured it'd be a great way to have them represent both setting-appropriate term for superheroes and a coded word for a resistance/union movement against oppression. #GuildmagiUnite! |
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Post by melono on Nov 8, 2023 18:39:51 GMT
Ixalan, a good couple million years into the future, the world has been wiped by a vulcano inside of an asteroid, and this time, the non-human primates are taking over. Scientists are primitively puzzling together the fate of the old inhabitants.  Also, WotC would so Universes Beyond with Planet of the Apes in this set. |
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Post by sdfkjgh on Nov 8, 2023 21:06:38 GMT
Ixalan, a good couple million years into the future, the world has been wiped by a vulcano inside of an asteroid, and this time, the non-human primates are taking over. Scientists are primitively puzzling together the fate of the old inhabitants. Also, WotC would so Universes Beyond with Planet of the Apes in this set. That flavor text alone is worth an updoot. |
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Post by The Harlequin on Nov 10, 2023 10:56:39 GMT
 I gonna go with this one: Kaladesh: Some crazy inventors fiddled too much with the aether current and caused a disastrous event which basically twisted the plane into an destructive aether-storm, destroyed a bunch of everything and made all of their "old" machinery useless. Now the survivor's have to deal with this new "aetherless" envirement, the still existing remnants of this event and try to "fix" it as best as possible to not casue the whole planet to get devoured by the aether. |
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Post by sade612 on Nov 12, 2023 16:16:43 GMT
 {Text}Mercadian Merchant  Creature - Human Spellshaper  ,  , Discard a card: Create a Treasure token. 2/2 |
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Post by marshmellow on Nov 12, 2023 17:58:49 GMT
"Long may she reign!" So shouted the masses. Little did they know... {Card Text} Marchesa, Queen Eternal   Legendary Creature - Spirit Noble Vigilance Whenever Marchesa, Queen Eternal would be dealt damage, exile her instead. Return her to the battlefield at the beginning of the next end step. When Marchesa, Queen Eternal enters the battlefield, you may make a decree. Decrees you've made can't be repealed. 3/3 {Lore}Conspiracy 1200+
With the coronation of the new Queen, the plane of Fiora entered a new golden age. By her hand, the invaders from the multiverse were repelled, gaining her the loyalty of the populace. She would go on to amass more power for herself, ultimately abolishing the council altogether and claiming absolute uncontested rule over Paliano. Outdated and unjust laws alike were swept away like cobwebs, reinvigorating trade and commerce even as political enemies dropped like flies. It was a new age of invention and wonder even as Marchesa's grip tightened ever further.
More than a thousand years later, Paliano has stagnated. Long has the queen reigned, her grasp over the city never loosening for a moment. Even death itself proved to be little more than a minor hiccup. New technologies are often banned within Paliano's range of influence. Though the city and villages are as bustling as ever, it has become a place unmoored in time where little changes and nothing advances. this card was created in collaboration with 4d20 |
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Post by Idea on Nov 12, 2023 19:56:30 GMT
"Long may she reign!" So shouted the masses. Little did they know... {Card Text} Marchesa, Queen Eternal Legendary Creature - Spirit Noble Vigilance Whenever Marchesa, Queen Eternal would be dealt damage, exile her instead. Return her to the battlefield at the beginning of the next end step. When Marchesa, Queen Eternal enters the battlefield, you may make a decree. Decrees you've made can't be repealed. 3/3 {Lore}Conspiracy 1200+
With the coronation of the new Queen, the plane of Fiora entered a new golden age. By her hand, the invaders from the multiverse were repelled, gaining her the loyalty of the populace. She would go on to amass more power for herself, ultimately abolishing the council altogether and claiming absolute uncontested rule over Paliano. Outdated and unjust laws alike were swept away like cobwebs, reinvigorating trade and commerce even as political enemies dropped like flies. It was a new age of invention and wonder even as Marchesa's grip tightened ever further.
More than a thousand years later, Paliano has stagnated. Long has the queen reigned, her grasp over the city never loosening for a moment. Even death itself proved to be little more than a minor hiccup. New technologies are often banned within Paliano's range of influence. Though the city and villages are as bustling as ever, it has become a place unmoored in time where little changes and nothing advances. this card was created in collaboration with 4d20 Assuming this isn't a silver border card (in which case a decree could literally be a verbal decree with no mechanical implication) the card should probably explain what a decree is, as the term currently doesn't exist in magic (nor "repealing a decree" for that matter). I understand the matter of text box space, but both in terms of design (reading a card should explain a card, and mechanic cease to have explanations when there is enough history or surrounding context that players can be reasonably expected to understand it - which given no other real card with it exists this one doesn't) and for purposes of a context (can hardly evaluate a card for voting when one of the main parts of what it does is not explained) |
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Post by Daij_Djan on Nov 13, 2023 21:49:11 GMT
This thread is now closed, the poll can be found here. And here's the next challenge! |
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