Challenge Slots

{Spoiler}Big bigstick with added difficulty in getting chump blocked, certainly sounds in line with Timmy, though if the purpose is avoiding wasting an attack, can't hel wondering if it isn't a little redundant in that area to have trample and the limiting in block. Maybe I'm overthinking that. Balance-wise, stats and effects seem about in-line with other 6 mana green rares.

{Spoiler}Balance-wise I think the card is pushed but still within acceptable boundaries. Replacing the habitual 4 damage with 3 damage + extra flexibility + card draw doesn't quite feel like an even trade even if other players also get to draw. Still, the adding of the planeswalker still in-flavor and like something that could very much be printed That being said, for a card that, by the challenge, was specifically meant to be designed for Vorthos I feel the flavor is still a bit lacking on this card, specifically due to the universal draw feeling a bit out of place in what the card seems to want to convey. If everyone made a 1/1 cleric or something that would be more in flavor, just as an example, but as it stands I find it has decent flavor just not as much as I'd hope given the challenge.

{Spoiler}I'm giving this victory to Flo00 on a slight edge of challenge-meeting and balance grounds, but both entries were very good.

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Idea - Caster of Shadows: Cool mechanics, like the flavor, though I do find the flavortext too long, making the text in general too small. That’s really the only negative though. Also cool that you can’t stack the counters without something like proliferate, as the ability of course also targets.



eshix - Oiltime Harbinger: Big statlines, but no evasion. I would say the bestow should be higher than the creature’s cost. Big oil lover. The phyrexian mana is a bit more acceptable on something like this that’s already got a huge cost. Also, too much text, making it small. Skip either flavortext, reminder text, or both.



Flo00 - Siopis: A hardlock on something like a 6-mana creature is not that broken in most formats. And I can’t actually think of a hardlock off the top of my head. Also, it’s an etb, so it can still be reacted to with instant effects, possibly to kill this guy. Strong protection, and sometimes annoying stax piece. PS: this doesn't straight up counter, but it does something akin to it, so it's fine.


viriss - Invoke Iroas: That’s a swing for 12 at least, just off of this 5-cost card. That’s a lot. And then that’s without possibly having another creature on your field. A bit much.

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Giving the win to Idea with their giant illusionmancer.