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Post by Daij_Djan on Aug 26, 2024 22:09:42 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 five-hundred and twenty-seventh challenge!
The winner of the "Imperial Signature" poll was BunBunGun with... And the challenge issued by our winner was... Pick one of his sayings, use it as the flavour text of your card and design it around the meaning of the saying.
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 Daij_Djan on Aug 26, 2024 23:05:43 GMT
In case anyone needs some inspiration, this is the nice quote list google led me to.
After originally just wanting to give it a quick look before bed, I noticed this quote and knew instantly what I wanted to do - take a colorshifted Undying Malice:
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Post by viriss on Aug 27, 2024 0:00:21 GMT
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Post by hydraheadhunter on Aug 27, 2024 3:55:24 GMT
| Scurrytail Cutpurse
A generic and two blue
Creature – Rabbit Rogue
Offspring – A red, a white, and discard a card
Other Scurrytail Cutpurses you control have hexproof and skulk.
When Scurrytail Cutpurse deals combat damage to a player, create a treasure token, then if it has power 2 or greater, draw a card.
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If you chase two rabbits, you'll catch none.
2/2
The card art is Year of The Rabbit 2023 by Jarmo Hirvikoski.
It depicts A woman rabbitfolk with white fur and hair and long ears, dressed in chinese style rogue-ish clothes. She wears an eyepatch and blue-cloth hair ornaments. She is laughing and tossing a red bag of coins in the air playfully some of the coins spilling out of the bag
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Reminder texts for the obscure abilities: Offspring {Cost}: You may pay an additional red and white and discard a card as you cast this spell. If you do, when this creature enters, create a 1/1 token copy of it. Skulk: Creatures with skulk cannot be blocked by creatures with greater power. Commentary:
Is a rabbit that can make two rabbits and if there are two rabbits, it's harder to catch either of them, per le quote. For five mana and a discard, you get two creatures that if they can't be blocked get in for a total of of three damage, two treasure, and a card drawn each turn. It's a good deal, though blocking 1/1 and 2/2 with skulk in a format that has Offspring as a keyword isn't exactly a very tall order, so probably balances out in context.
On the offspring cost, it's in line mana-wise with most offspring effects, but the benefits of protection and evasion felt too strong at that so I gave it the additional non-mana cost with the expectation that the card you discard can hopefully get replaced overtime.
As for why red/white. White felt correct for rabbits given their place in the Bloomburrow color pie, and red better justifies the discard as a thing red readily does. On the flavor text quote: The quote I pulled was, "If you chase two rabbits, you catch none" which is fine, but I tweaked it cause "If you chase two rabbits, you'll catch none." feel more grammatical to my ear.
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Post by BinaryBolas on Aug 27, 2024 11:09:19 GMT
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Post by The Harlequin on Aug 27, 2024 11:57:43 GMT
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BunBunGun
1/1 Squirrel
I apologize profusely for any inconvenience my murderous rampage may have caused.
Posts: 68 
Favorite Card: Zodiac Rabbit
Color Alignment: White, Colorless
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Post by BunBunGun on Aug 27, 2024 18:41:29 GMT
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tempestgannon
0/0 Germ
Posts: 27
Favorite Card: Uncle Istvan
Favorite Set: Future Sight, Shadowmoor, or Dominaria
Color Alignment: Blue, Black, Green
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Post by tempestgannon on Aug 27, 2024 19:53:45 GMT
Its not as special as the others, but it still has its own intrinsic value. Its imperfections prevent it from producing colored mana like its fellow mox but that doesnt make it valueless. I think that fits the saying quite beautifully.  |
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Post by emberfire17 on Aug 27, 2024 20:38:29 GMT
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glewmie
0/0 Germ
Die monster! You don't belong in this world!
Posts: 10
Favorite Card: Isamaru, Hound of Konda
Color Alignment: White, Black, Red
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Post by glewmie on Aug 27, 2024 20:44:45 GMT
Let's goooo!
Taking big inspiration from Fierce Retribution, I felt that the original card's cleave cost was out of place in White, which normally gets unconditional exile instead of unconditional destruction. Giving the effect to Black, however, is no problem! |
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Post by sdfkjgh on Aug 28, 2024 8:55:23 GMT
*snip*This card image is under review for multiple rule violations, but one thing I will say for certain is that the photograph used to make the meme was not made by iFunny. Please find art you can properly credit that is unambiguously Safe For Work. - ZephyrPhantomAncient WisdomInstant   Scry 0, then surveil 0. If you’ve drawn ten or more cards this turn, instead scry X, then surveil X, where X is the number of cards you’ve drawn this turn. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- “不要僅僅因為有一張旁邊有引言的圖片就相信你在互聯網上讀到的所有內容。”
—孔子Artist credit#ShitpostingOnTheSevens
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Post by ZephyrPhantom on Aug 29, 2024 16:03:46 GMT
The Three Ways of Acting   Instant  Choose one — • On Meditation — Create a 1/6 blue Wall creature token with defender. • On Imitation — Create two 1/1 blue Bird creature tokens with flying. • On Experience — Create a 4/1 blue Wizard creature token with Ward  . "Man has three ways of acting wisely. First, on meditation; that is the noblest. Secondly, on imitation; that is the easiest. Thirdly, on experience; that is the bitterest." - Confucius Confucius has many quotes, as seen in this thread, so I decided to go with one that commented on that in a cheeky way. Since I wanted to make a I decided to riff on Primal Plasma to try and create a finisher a draft or Pauper deck might want that could be useful at varying stages of the game - you use Meditation to stop reckless thinking (attacks), Imitation to creatively get over enemy defenses (with flying), and Experience to ward off things the other two modes could not.
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glewmie
0/0 Germ
Die monster! You don't belong in this world!
Posts: 10
Favorite Card: Isamaru, Hound of Konda
Color Alignment: White, Black, Red
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Post by glewmie on Aug 29, 2024 22:38:07 GMT
The Three Ways of Acting Instant Choose one — • On Meditation — Create a 1/6 blue Wall creature token with defender. • On Imitation — Create two 1/1 blue Bird creature tokens with flying. • On Experience — Create a 4/1 blue Wizard creature token with Ward . "Man has three ways of acting wisely. First, on meditation; that is the noblest. Secondly, on imitation; that is the easiest. Thirdly, on experience; that is the bitterest." - Confucius Confucius has many quotes, as seen in this thread, so I decided to go with one that commented on that in a cheeky way. Since I wanted to make a I decided to riff on Primal Plasma to try and create a finisher a draft or Pauper deck might want that could be useful at varying stages of the game - you use Meditation to stop reckless thinking (attacks), Imitation to creatively get over enemy defenses (with flying), and Experience to ward off things the other two modes could not. Just wanted to riff on your card! Not to change my own entry!
• On Meditation — Scry 2, then draw two cards.
• On Imitation — Create a copy of target creature.
• On Experience — Choose target spell or permanent. Its owner puts it on the top or bottom of their library. |
The first two effects should speak for themselves, but the last one I was thinking about effects in blue? And so Aether Gust came to mind. The bitterness comes from knowing that whatever you stowed, you will experience again! With this many modes being as different as they are, it might bump up the rarity... |
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Post by ZephyrPhantom on Aug 30, 2024 3:38:58 GMT
Just wanted to riff on your card! Not to change my own entry! • On Meditation — Scry 2, then draw two cards.
• On Imitation — Create a copy of target creature.
• On Experience — Choose target spell or permanent. Its owner puts it on the top or bottom of their library. |
The first two effects should speak for themselves, but the last one I was thinking about effects in blue? And so Aether Gust came to mind. The bitterness comes from knowing that whatever you stowed, you will experience again! With this many modes being as different as they are, it might bump up the rarity... I had considered something similar (Imitation is nearly identical, I just limited it to "you control"), but decided against it because Clone effects are Uncommon at most like Mirror Image, and most of them are at Sorcery speed., and I wanted to make a Common. It is a neat idea though.  |
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Post by Daij_Djan on Sept 7, 2024 23:17:32 GMT
Hi everyone,
sorry for my absence. We've managed to catch a rather persistent summer flu - so first I've been out myself and then busy taking care of my wife and son. Sadly not the first time this summer (it's one of those years), but the harshest.. Still, everything will get back on track on Monday.
Also smallm shoutout for the Deckbuilder's Challenge - I had actually already thought of an entry and will hoprefully manage to throw the deck together in time, but I'd love some competition  |
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Post by Daij_Djan on Sept 9, 2024 22:43:02 GMT
This thread is now closed, the poll can be found here. And here's the next challenge! |
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