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Post by Flo00 on Nov 7, 2021 15:13:04 GMT
Oh goody, time to pull a OG theros and write a gods' damned novel in the flavor text of a vanilla creature... Scholar of Numenaen Era A blue, a black, and a red Creature - Human wizard FT: The dragons who had conquered Dominaria so completely did not rule kindly: eventually, five wizards rose up, stole the dragons' power, and harnessed it to detrone the tyrants. Knowledge of how they accomplished such a feat was lost in later conflicts. -- An abridged history of dominaria Vol I.Missing p/t ? |
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Post by ameisenmeister on Nov 26, 2021 13:01:43 GMT
MonkeyChewToyA grixis Bubbling Muk is a cool idea and I like the duality of the two efffects. Cards that double your mana tend to either be useless or busted, your card costing 3 mana puts it more into the first camp but being able to color screw an opponent for a turn might add enough variety to make it good. I imagine that in turn three, four and five, you'd probably not want to cast this mainly to boost your mana but use it in an opponents turn to cripple them. And if you draw it later in the game you can get a ton of mana out of it when casting it during your turn. Fine card, although I'm personally not a fan of these one-shot mana ramps. virissCan't really think of a reason for why Bolas should join the Gatewatch, especially considering that he easily wiped the floor with all of them. The card itself is very cool and works well with itself and all around Bolas's shtick of killing stuff. The only issue I have is that all the oaths have one ability that positively interacts with planeswalkers and yours doesn't. An easy fix would be to allow his second ability to also revive planeswalker cards from opponents' graveyards. noahleadersupremeWell, I asked the gatherer and there is exactly one card in all of Magic that lets you cast spells from outside the game: Wish. Unless you wanted this card to be super specific or have a mechanic that lets you cast spells from outside the game on a regular basis, I don't really see a use for this card. Flavor text is cool, though. hydraheadhunterI don't mind vanillas but this seems a bit forced. Call me an Old Fogey but I still think that multicolored cards should at least try to convey something of their respective colors. A human wizard is about as generic as the come and the card could very well be just   . {And the winner is...}
viriss! Elegant design with good flavor and just a minor mistake. Congratulations!
Thanks everyone for partcipating!
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foureyesisafish
7/7 Elemental
Posts: 388
Favorite Set: Ikoria: Lair of the Behemoths
Color Alignment: Blue, Red, Green
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Post by foureyesisafish on Nov 30, 2021 16:56:38 GMT
MonkeyChewToy A grixis Bubbling Muk is a cool idea and I like the duality of the two efffects. Cards that double your mana tend to either be useless or busted, your card costing 3 mana puts it more into the first camp but being able to color screw an opponent for a turn might add enough variety to make it good. I imagine that in turn three, four and five, you'd probably not want to cast this mainly to boost your mana but use it in an opponents turn to cripple them. And if you draw it later in the game you can get a ton of mana out of it when casting it during your turn. Fine card, although I'm personally not a fan of these one-shot mana ramps. viriss Can't really think of a reason for why Bolas should join the Gatewatch, especially considering that he easily wiped the floor with all of them. The card itself is very cool and works well with itself and all around Bolas's shtick of killing stuff. The only issue I have is that all the oaths have one ability that positively interacts with planeswalkers and yours doesn't. An easy fix would be to allow his second ability to also revive planeswalker cards from opponents' graveyards. noahleadersupreme Well, I asked the gatherer and there is exactly one card in all of Magic that lets you cast spells from outside the game: Wish. Unless you wanted this card to be super specific or have a mechanic that lets you cast spells from outside the game on a regular basis, I don't really see a use for this card. Flavor text is cool, though. hydraheadhunter I don't mind vanillas but this seems a bit forced. Call me an Old Fogey but I still think that multicolored cards should at least try to convey something of their respective colors. A human wizard is about as generic as the come and the card could very well be just . {And the winner is...}
viriss! Elegant design with good flavor and just a minor mistake. Congratulations!
Thanks everyone for partcipating!
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Post by viriss on Nov 30, 2021 18:12:03 GMT
Limit #87 - Go out in style! Your card contains the text "You win the game." (Thanks Casstastrophe!)
Limit #14 - Go, gadget, go: Your card is an artifact.
Limit #176 - Be my guest: Your card is or cares about the creature type Guest. (Thanks Viriss!)
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Post by ZephyrPhantom on Nov 30, 2021 20:43:46 GMT
Limits updated to latest ones.
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Post by gamma3 on Dec 1, 2021 14:59:01 GMT
Pan-Dimensional Death Hotel   Legendary Artifact  Whenever a creature enters the battlefield, you may pay . If you do, put a Guest counter on it. It becomes a Guest in addition to its other types as long as it has a Guest counter on it. Whenever a Guest dies, put a charge counter on Pan-Dimensional Death Hotel. This ability triggers only once each turn. At the beginning of your upkeep, if there are 10 or more charge counters on Pan-Dimensional Death Hotel, you win the game.
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Post by ameisenmeister on Dec 12, 2021 21:10:41 GMT
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Post by Flo00 on Dec 12, 2021 23:04:00 GMT
Visitor from Planet X   Artifact Creature - Alien Guest    ,  : Change the text of target spell or permanent by replacing all instances of “You win the game.” by “You lose the game.” and vice versa. Activate this ability only if Visitor from Planet X’s toughness is 8 or more. 4/0 |
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Post by gluestick248 on Dec 14, 2021 3:18:43 GMT
Innfinity Artifact ~ enters the battlefield with {Aleph Null} room counters. (Aleph null is the cardinality of the set of all natural numbers.) Whenever a non-Guest creature enters the battlefield, its controller creates a 1/1 white Guest creature token and you put a room counter on ~. Then, if ~ has more than {Aleph Null} room counters on it, you win the game. ** Acorn ** |
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Post by clhis on Dec 14, 2021 4:09:27 GMT
  Black Friday Sale :4: Legendary Artifact :mythic: At the beginning of each player’s upkeep, that player creates number of 1/1 red Guest creature tokens with trample and haste equal to the greatest number of Treasure tokens another controls plus one. Guests your opponents control attack each combat if able. Whenever a creature an opponent controls deals combat damage to you, create a Treasure token and that player gains control of ~. At the beginning of your upkeep, if you control ten or more Guests and ten or more Treasures, you win the game. |
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Post by Jartis on Dec 15, 2021 5:32:08 GMT
I took a different approach that I think works how I want it to and looks a bit cleaner, imo  {Old Entry}  |
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Post by hydraheadhunter on Dec 15, 2021 7:12:46 GMT
I think this currently lets you win by controlling a plains, an island, a swamp, and a mountain, and a forest with a tour counter on it. I think you need to include an "each" to get the tour counters on all the lands. EG: "If you control a plains, an island, a swamp, a mountain, and a forest, each with a tour counter on it, you win the game." That's just my solution tho. |
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sorsal
2/2 Zombie
Posts: 102
Color Alignment: White, Blue, Red, Colorless
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Post by sorsal on Dec 23, 2021 19:56:01 GMT
If this is still open, I'd like to place this here.
Ticket Authentication Booth  Artifact Whenever a Guest enters the battlefield, exile it and deal 3 damage to its controller. At the beginning of your upkeep, if Ticket Authentication Booth has exiled ten or more creatures with different names, you win the game. |
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Post by viriss on Dec 28, 2021 21:39:08 GMT
gamma3 Dark. Cute. Flavors a little off that you're paying for guests to arrive, but since you're hoping to kill them it seems fair. ameisenmeister I kind of wish this was legendary, but it's at least rare. Seems breakable. Or just use changlings. Three guests wins you the game definietly needs the larger story context to help sell this. But keeping the guests entertained or they leave is great. Flo00 This alien is freaky! a third color shows up in the activation cost!? Toughness of 0? Swapping conditions! Lol, I actually like all of that. Getting the toughness to eight is probably the hardest part of this combo idea. gluestick248 Great name pun! Plus points. Making me look up "the smallest infinite number"? Minus points. =) Wait... does this card actually do anything? clhis A lot of gynmatics going on with this card, but I see where you're heading. Jartis I like the updated version... even has room for flavor text... nice combination of guest/land/win. sorsal It's like a Futurama Suicide Booth. Heck at 3 damage per, who needs an alt win condition?!
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Post by gluestick248 on Dec 29, 2021 4:12:33 GMT
gluestick248 Great name pun! Plus points. Making me look up "the smallest infinite number"? Minus points. =) Wait... does this card actually do anything? My card does make every non-Guest come with a free Guest. That alt-win really only comes up if someone makes an uncountably infinite amount of tokens. Note that in black border every “infinite” combo actually ends up with a finite, but large, number. Silver border gets a bit wackier, and I don’t actually know what would happen if an Infinity Elemental damaged a Broodhatch Nantuko , since ∞ somehow counts as a number |
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Post by Flo00 on Dec 29, 2021 5:56:55 GMT
viriss nice to hear that you liked it. I really pushed this to be as whacky as possible. I made the condtion hard enough that you really have to put some efford into insta-winning with Lich and friends. gluestick248 had a great laugh over you card. I love it for the pun. Aside from that its actually just a Genesis Chamber for .
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Post by ameisenmeister on Dec 29, 2021 20:19:45 GMT
Thanks for the win! Here are your next limits: LIMIT 169: One plus one sometimes just makes a bigger one! Your card (or cards in this case) are a meld pair! (Thanks, quazerflame!)
LIMIT 131: I don't ike this. Your card is better against specific cards, decks or archetypes. (Thanks Flo00!)
LIMIT 177: Heavy metal! ... and some oil. Your card is set on the plane of Mirrodin/New Phyrexia. (Thanks Ameisenmeister!)
Have fun!
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sorsal
2/2 Zombie
Posts: 102
Color Alignment: White, Blue, Red, Colorless
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Post by sorsal on Jan 14, 2022 12:47:40 GMT
Sparksurge Elemental Creature - Elemental  Trample, haste At the beginning of your upkeep, if you both own and control ~ and an artifact named Blind Remnant, exile them, then meld them into Aetherbleed Egressor. 4/2 Blind Remnant  Artifact , : Scry 1, then exile the top card of your library face-down. Activate only as a sorcery. , : Add  for each card exiled by ~. (Melds with Sparksurge Elemental.)Aetherbleed EgressorCreature - Eldrazi Elemental Trample, haste Whenever ~ attacks, exile target creature. : Add for each card exiled by ~. 8/3
Meant to go against go-tall strategies but can enable big X-costs as well. And yes, Aetherbleed is meant to target itself if no other creatures are on the battlefield. I thought of it as a living portal to the Blind Eternities that snuffs itself out. Edit: Added Melds with reminder text.
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Post by Flo00 on Jan 14, 2022 17:48:51 GMT
Shrieking Bomb Artifact When Shrieking Bomb enters the battlefield or is exiled, destroy up to one target permanent with a counter on it. (Melds with Stuttering Nim.)Stuttering Nim  Creature - Zombie  , Exile Stuttering Nim from your graveyard: If you both own and control a permanent named Shrieking Bomb, exile it, then meld it and Stuttering Nim into Stuttershriek. 2/1 Stuttershriek  Artifact Creature - Horror Trample, haste Whenever Stuttershriek deals combat damage to a player, put a -1/-1 counter on each creature that player controls. , Discard a card: Exile Stuttershriek, then return its parts to the battlefield unmelded. 6/4 |
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Nonagon Infinity
2/2 Zombie
Posts: 124
Favorite Card: Barren Glory
Favorite Set: Future Sight
Color Alignment: Blue, Black, Red
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Post by Nonagon Infinity on Jan 14, 2022 18:22:12 GMT
Shrieking Bomb Artifact When Shrieking Bomb enters the battlefield or is exiled, destroy up to one target permanent with a counter on it. (Melds with Stuttering Fiend.)Stuttering Nim Creature - Zombie , Exile Stuttering Nim from your graveyard: If you both own and control a permanent named Shrieking Bomb, exile it, then meld it and Stuttering Nim into Stuttershriek. 2/1 Stuttershriek Artifact Creature - Horror Trample, haste Whenever Stuttershriek deals combat damage to a player, put a -1/-1 counter on each creature that player controls. , Discard a card: Exile Stuttershriek, then return it to the battlefield unmelded. 6/4 How can Stuttering Nim meld with Shrieking Bomb if Shrieking Bomb melds with Stuttering Fiend? /s |
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Post by Flo00 on Jan 15, 2022 7:01:18 GMT
Thanks Nonagon Infinity for the catch, changed names somewhere and forgot to correct the reminder. On the other hand, it would be interesting to have one meld bottom to be able to meld with two different tops. (Or the other way around.) |
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Post by Daij_Djan on Jan 16, 2022 10:58:23 GMT
Thanks Nonagon Infinity for the catch, changed names somewhere and forgot to correct the reminder. On the other hand, it would be interesting to have one meld bottom to be able to meld with two different tops. (Or the other way around.) If you don't mind, I might totally steal this concept for an entry 
Adaptive Vessel
Artifact Creature - Phyrexian Shapeshifter
(Melds with Xw, Agile Hoverguard, Xb, Xr, or Xg.)
2/2 | Twisted Host | Agile Hoverguard
Creature - Drone
Flying
At the beginning of combat on your turn, if you both own and control Agile Hoverguard and a creature named Adaptive Vessel, exile them, then meld them into Twisted Host.
1/1 |  Artifact Creature - Phyrexian Horror
Flying, protection from blue
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Meant to be part of a five card cycle. All five uncommons (I'm honest - I'm too lazy to name Xw, Xb, Xr, and Xg though ) are french vanillas, and on their back they have the bottom of the melded creature following the same concept: They get Protection from their color and a +2/+2 boost to their original stats. Since this means there are five different versions of Twisted Host, this means these cards would need to be silver bordered (or have the acorn symbol nowadays) - WotC might not care about this, though.. |
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Post by Flo00 on Jan 16, 2022 15:43:46 GMT
If you don't mind, I might totally steal this concept for an entry Sure thing. Good execution. |
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Post by Daij_Djan on Jan 28, 2022 14:37:21 GMT
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Post by ameisenmeister on Jan 29, 2022 12:46:26 GMT
Judging time.
Sparksurge Elemental is a playable card on its own, Blind Remnant not so much. However, the melded Aetherbleed Egressor (?) is a powerful removal tool with an impressive power of 8. I doubt that it will be used for the ability very often. Good cards.
First off, I like that this meld pair consists of a common and an uncommon. I imagine that this is the way to design meld pairs for limited that aren't too easy to get but at the same time not impossible the get either. The backward transformation is also very cool and the card(s) comboes with itself. The usefulness of Shrieking Bomb strongly depends on the prevalence of counters in the limited environment but I guess that Mirrodin/New Phyrexia has a well established -1/-1 counter theme already.
On the one hand, I'm intrigued, but on the other, I have my doubts about how realistic it is on paper. As far as I can tell, the backside of Adaptive Vessel (which is the top half of every Twisted Host) would have to have a frame in a certain color to match the frame of the bottom half. But as the bottom half always has a different color depending on the drone you melded it with... It is, however, a great idea (that you stole  ) and, imo, not necessarily silver border material.
{And the winner is...}
Flo00! Playing it safe but innovative enough to bring something new to the table of meld pairs nets you the win.
Thanks everyone for participating!
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Post by Flo00 on Jan 29, 2022 20:02:54 GMT
Thanks for the win ameisenmeister. I was a bit afraid Stuttering Nim would be too similar to Graf Rats. Didn't really think about accesability in limited, just put the rarity on that felt right for each card on its own. Glad it worked out so good. Next up: LIMIT #78: Back in black (and/or white, blue, red, or green)!! Your card has an element of graveyard recursion. (Thanks, jacqui-pup!) LIMIT #45: I hope you remember how to use call numbers, because... your card lets you search your library! (Thanks, Sewn-Eye!) LIMIT #178: Pimp my whatever! Your card refers to modified or modifications. (Thanks Flo00!)I thought I take one of the the low hanging fruits and just take something new from the current spoilers.  |
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Post by ameisenmeister on Jan 30, 2022 20:36:04 GMT
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Post by gamma3 on Feb 3, 2022 16:23:47 GMT
{Old, invalid entry} Brother in Arms Creature - Human Samurai When CARDNAME attacks, if it is modified, you may return a creature card with mana value 3 or less from your graveyard to the battlefield. (Equipment, Auras you control, and counters are modifications.)3/2 |
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sorsal
2/2 Zombie
Posts: 102
Color Alignment: White, Blue, Red, Colorless
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Post by sorsal on Feb 3, 2022 18:00:18 GMT
{Quote from Gamma3} Brother in Arms Creature - Human Samurai When CARDNAME attacks, if it is modified, you may return a creature card with mana value 3 or less from your graveyard to the battlefield. (Equipment, Auras you control, and counters are modifications.)
3/2 I think you forgot about L45 there, this currently doesn't search your library. |
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Post by gamma3 on Feb 3, 2022 19:02:34 GMT
So I did, whoops. Thanks for the catch, sorsal |
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