Challenge Slots

{viriss}Dig the reference. Haven't seen the movie yet but I get it. Seems reasonable for a white vehicle, especially since our only other direct comparison is Parhelion II. I would like to see more colored vehicles.

{Flo00}I really like all the moving parts here, with the high risk, high reward playstyle, especially since you have to attack to sac your own lands, and you're not that strong until you've done it a few times, unless you have a really malicious opponent or a lot of fetches. It is a bit of a full text box, though, using all 9 lines that I think are generally accepted as the limit.

{gamma3}A simple vehicle that feels very in-color and manages to tick all the challenge boxes in a single line. If nothing else, you get points for a really clean design.

{kefke}I'd be down for some new Urza lands. I like that it's not only useful in vehicle decks, because if nothing else it can fetch your "better" Urza lands, and that's the kinda niche support in Magic I can get behind.

{melono}Points for the only non-permanent entry. That said, even though you get an extra scry off it, the fact you have to reveal the card and it can only look for Islands and Vehicles means I would probably rather run Opt in place of this. It's not a bad design, by any means, I'm just not sure it's good.

{MacabreAurora}Appreciate the different approach. Also you made me look up crew timings and how it works on the stack. XD My only problem is that it relies heavily on what your opponent is doing. If they're running Vehicles, it's great. If they're not, it's basically a dead slot.

{jrey15}A cheap, situational 3/3 unblockable feels great in blue, and I think the need to pay the mana, tap a creature, and have at least five Islands are nice barriers that keep it from being overpowered. I probably wouldn't have put it at rare, but that's always going to be debatable, so it's not a big deal. Great design.

{ameisenmeister}I think it would have been fine with Boros color identity, but I can appreciate the decision to keep it colorless. It's well-costed and elegant, not much else to say.

{@winner}Some really good entries on this one. I had a really hard time even narrowing it down to three, let alone picking one. The winner is gonna be jrey15, with ameisenmeister and Flo00 as runners-up.

{thaneofglamis }I like the thought of black getting more stealing effects, and I think this is an good way to show it. I do think it's pretty over-costed though, as saccing my whole board to take a 5 drop isn't exactly profitable, especially since its a four drop that has to sac itself too. If it came with tokens or grabbed equal to power instead, I think that would make it more balanced. Instant speed mind control is a plus though.

{viriss }This little guy is a solid brick wall. Having Pro Creatures at all times without having to tap like a Mother of Runes means this guy can just block forever without impunity. I do like having a protection from creatures sac effect though. I do think having pro creatures be your "caring about card type" is a bit a stretch.

{ameisenmeister }This is a nice ramp payoff, although having it as an attack trigger seems much stronger than having it as a deals combat damage trigger, especially since both effects don't have any cost to pay. Do Part A until you want to initiate Part B. Pretty clean design overall. Checks all the boxes.

{gamma3 }I could see this as the 3rd Spellbomb cycle when we finally go back to Mirrodin. Pretty simple design, but clean as well. Cares about how many artifacts you have too, so works well with the prompt there.

{Flo00 }I'm all for justifying putting land subtypes on cards for flavor reasons, but It's a pretty big stretch to call land destruction "caring" about lands. I do like the flavor a lot though that if you poke the tower, if falls over and breaks the ground beneath it (i.e. one land for another). I'm just not sure it fits the prompt here as nice without needing some sort of number of lands clause.

{WINNER}I've got to give it to ameisenmeister . It's just a clean body that slices and dices and does exactly what the prompt wanted. Couple of knobs to change on it perhaps for power reasons, but overall great design. Runner-ups are gamma3 and thaneofglamis .