Card of the Week Contest #515: Grist Needs Company

Pretty sure we haven't seen a Viashino yet...

  

Varazzo, Lounge's Victor
Legendary Planeswalker - Varazzo
~ and lizards you control have wither.
+1: Exile to the top card of your library, you may cast it this turn if it's a creature card.
-2: ~ and each creature you control deals 1 damage to target creature you don't control.
-7: Search your graveyard and/or library for up to three lizard creature cards and put them onto the battlefield under your control. They gain haste until end of turn.
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Varazzo's Verdict
Sorcery
Target creature you control gains wither until end of turn, then deals damage equal to its power to target creature an opponent controls.
"Those who are weak deserve to wither away!"
--Varazzo, Lounge's Victor


Varazzo's Loungemate
Creature - Lizard Warrior
Haste, persist
: ~ gets +1/+0 until end of turn. If this is the third time this ability resolved this turn, ~ gains wither until end of turn.
"We will serve Varazzo, with or without tail and limb!"
2/2


Note: Lounge is a group of lizards.

Once the sirens, harpies and naga of Losreech were thieves. They weren't mighty enough to so much as qualify as bandits or raiders, unable to fight even most common elven citizens, instead relying on suddenly swooping in, taking what they could, and getting away as quickly as possible. With dreams of greater life, they mimicked the civilization they stole from, a respectful parody of it. They knew little of the role that civilization, and the behemoths they protected, played in safeguarding Losreech from greater dangers, until the three formed an unsteady alliance to drive out the elves. With the loss of the elves, the behemoths found themselves faced with a lack of food and territorial conflicts, eventually being driven to extinction. In their absence, the Losreech monstrosities once kept in check spread like a plague, only prevented from growing in even further number by the voracity of the others. Lacking the might of the behemoths and with a poor understanding of elven practices or magic, the alliance was forced to turn to darker magics based on sacrifice, to keep the beasts at bay, while inhabiting the ruins now renamed Uuvisht. Each race brings their own means of sacrifices, from kidnaping, to luring unsuspecting travelers with hypnotic songs, to raising creatures as fodder to sacrifice.

Thopos was the chief of the sirens who awakened his spark during a particularly daring raid on elven treasure. The power from his spark and the knowledge he gained from seeing a couple other planes before making his return gave him the tools he needed to drive out the elves. He searched high and low for a means to save his people, eventually coming across a hidden place containing a miracle: An ancient egg, still in gestation, the last behemoth. Thopos plans to use the magic of the people of Uuvisht to awaken the egg so he may closely study it and find other creatures like it in planes out there.

Includes references to:
Nest of the Forgotten
Raiser of Offerings

"then, if you cast (...)".

I'd say you have a point if I just added a dot as was the original wording "draw that many cards. If you cast (...)", but then puts it in sequence to the rest of the triggered effect.

The point is to add during the combat phase though, it’s meant to spent on tricks and the like.

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In her travels across the multiverse, Thandria saw the terrible unlife the undead was treated to. They were slaves, test subjects, cannon fodder; at best they got to wander the wild until a hunter put an end to their existence. There was no dignity in the second life they were blessed with. It horrified her, and she swore give them the gift of freedom, and the gift of the mind, while their masters, mixters and mistresses would fall by her scythe.

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Another opportunity to expand on Thandria's story. Yay! I never expected to have a zombie planeswalker OC, but now I do, and I love her.

 
 

Also, my submission: the Rabbit Lago

  

Ah, neat, now it even has synergy with previous Sands!

One other note, on Rise of Shurima. On non-static abilities that reference attacking creatures, only the creatures that are attacking at the time of effect resolution are considered. Since Rise of Shurima is a sorcery, I think it would need to be made into a trigger on when a creature attacks this turn (except they'd need to have vigilance beforehand so they don't tap to attack...):

"If you have the city's blessing, creatures you control have vigilance until end of turn, and whenever a creature you control attacks this turn, it gains lifelink until end of turn."

or you can just give it to all your creatures, not just attacking ones:

"If you have the city's blessing, creatures you control have vigilance and lifelink until end of turn."