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Post by Daij_Djan on Aug 6, 2018 11:48:37 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 two-hundred and twenty-eighth challenge!
The winner of the "Battalion? In my blue?" poll was Zuty with... And the new challenge is... Design a legendary uncommon permanent depicting or associated with a normal citizen having a normal profession. Your card does not represent a big hero, but it may showcase your characters ascend to one. Note: As this challenge is quite similar to CotW#167, please don't reuse an entry from this contest. ~Daij_DjanNote 2: This challenge has been changed as by its original author's request. ~Daij_Djan
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 shiftyhomunculus on Aug 6, 2018 14:16:38 GMT
I was so close to making another Vectron here. Like, really close. Imagine me holding my thumb and forefinger very close together, like, almost touching. That's how close it was. Legendary uncommons continue to be a fundamentally flawed concept in almost all cases and I maintain that their inclusion in Dominaria was a huge mistake, but here we go anyway. EDIT 6/8/18: Shortened and clarified toil counter reminder text. EDIT 6/8/18 (2): Tweaked toil counters to no longer work with lands. EDIT 8/8/18: Another balance patch - you can now only spend one toil counter per permanent per turn. |
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Post by Fleur on Aug 6, 2018 14:18:00 GMT
I dislike legendaries and I also dislike being shoehorned into specific settings. Having said that, I made this - hope y'all like it!  |
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Post by Tesagk on Aug 6, 2018 15:02:19 GMT
The challenge is a bit convoluted and confusing, but... here's my attempt at it?
Fwraz, Master Farmer   Legendary Creature - Human Druid Landfall - Whenever a land enters the battlefield under your control, if it’s the first land you’ve put onto the battlefield this turn, you may search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle your library. 1/4
{Render}  |
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Post by fluffydeathbringer on Aug 6, 2018 16:00:42 GMT
would something like this be acceptable, zuty
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Post by grishnax on Aug 6, 2018 17:20:09 GMT
 House Von Rect, Crucible of HeroesLegendary Land  House Von Rect, Crucible of Heroes enters the battlefield tapped.  : Add  .  , : Create a 2/2 white legendary Human creature token named Village Champion. Activate this ability only any time you could cast a sorcery. |
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Post by sdfkjgh on Aug 6, 2018 17:33:27 GMT
Zuty : "...why there would be nothing about in this set." Was that "about" supposed to be "above"?
Plowman's Passion  Legendary Artifact Pay 3 life, Untap three tapped and unenchanted basic lands you control, : Look at the top six cards of your library. You may reveal a land card from among them and put it into your hand. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order. Activate this ability only as a sorcery.
, Pay 3 life,  : Put a land card from your hand onto the battlefield tapped. 
I need some help getting the flavor text onto the render.
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Post by Aarhg on Aug 6, 2018 18:07:44 GMT
I was so close to making another Vectron here. Like, really close. Imagine me holding my thumb and forefinger very close together, like, almost touching. That's how close it was. Legendary uncommons continue to be a fundamentally flawed concept in almost all cases and I maintain that their inclusion in Dominaria was a huge mistake, but here we go anyway. I have to agree, I've never really cared for uncommon legends. Praise be to Vectron!  |
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Post by viriss on Aug 6, 2018 18:58:35 GMT
Candlestick Maker  Legendary Creature - Human Artificer , : Create a colorless Artifact token named Candle that has “ , Sacrifice this artifact: Until end of turn, spells you cast cost less to cast.” 1/1 Edit: Different approach.
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Post by Tesagk on Aug 6, 2018 19:39:05 GMT
I need some help getting the flavor text onto the render. {Render}  |
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Post by ZephyrPhantom on Aug 6, 2018 20:18:27 GMT
Zuty I don't want to come off as rude, but were we as designers intended to read all 38 pages of the PQ manual? Just from what I've seen on the Discord most people only skimmed it at best. Somewhat unrelated, but it seems that Uncommon Legendaries continues to remain a bit of a bitter pill with the COTW crowd, as observed by the return of the worshipers of our lord and savior Vectron, God of Stuff. ------------------------------------- It wouldn't be a good Legendary-based challenge without our old friend Grandeur:  Ol' Faithful Legendary Artifact Ol' Faithful enters the battlefield with two flint counters on it. , , Remove a flint counter from Ol' Faithful: Ol' Faithful deals 2 damage to any target. Grandeur — Discard another card named Ol' Faithful: Untap Ol' Faithful and put two flint counters on it. Older versions: Ol' Faithful Legendary Artifact Ol' Faithful enters the battlefield with two flint counters on it. At the beginning of your upkeep, you may remove a flint counter from Ol' Faithful. If you do, Ol' Faithful deals 1 damage to any target. Grandeur — Discard another card named Ol' Faithful: Put a flint counter on Ol' Faithful.
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kazerima
0/0 Germ
Posts: 36 
Favorite Set: Future Sight
Color Alignment: Blue, Black, Red
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Post by kazerima on Aug 6, 2018 20:49:57 GMT
I first started playing Magic back around the time of 5th edition, all the cards I owned for years were from a single 75 card random draft pack. I still remember all of them fondly, and one of the commons I had was Repentant Blacksmith. This is my take on a legendary version.  |
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Post by mrlozano on Aug 6, 2018 20:52:21 GMT
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kinotherapy
6/6 Wurm
stupid kor i just fell out of the floor
Posts: 322
Favorite Card: Ruthless Raider
Favorite Set: Rising Tides
Color Alignment: Blue, Black, Red
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Post by kinotherapy on Aug 6, 2018 21:04:51 GMT
What a ledge  Placard of the Infamous  Legendary Artifact As Placard of the Infamous enters the battlefield, choose a nonland permanent card name. All cards not on the battlefield, spells, and permanents with the chosen name are legendary. The one and only. |
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Post by shiftyhomunculus on Aug 6, 2018 21:06:29 GMT
kinotherapy : Really sad that this can't name tokens! Though I don't know how you could patch it to make that work. I feel like this could be cheaper, though. It's probably about on par with Pithing Needle in power, so three feels a bit steep. Two would be safe, one might be okay.
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Post by sdfkjgh on Aug 6, 2018 21:10:18 GMT
Tesagk: Thanks! 100 coolpoints to you. If you are able to tell me what the English translation is, that's 400 more.
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Post by Daij_Djan on Aug 6, 2018 21:16:13 GMT
While I'm not allowed to reuse my old entry from last time (obviously), I can at least follow its basic formula - which is to me one of the very few acceptable ways to design common or uncommon legends in general - by designing a DFC:
Also I think doing this fits the topic of "start as peasant, then become a hero" quite well.
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kinotherapy
6/6 Wurm
stupid kor i just fell out of the floor
Posts: 322
Favorite Card: Ruthless Raider
Favorite Set: Rising Tides
Color Alignment: Blue, Black, Red
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Post by kinotherapy on Aug 6, 2018 21:37:04 GMT
{Spoiler}can't believe saying the word "ledge" summoned huw into the thread instantly shiftyhomunculus : Oops I costed it believing you could name tokens. I've put it at 2 while I try think of a way to let it name tokens elegantly ZephyrPhantom : I like this one a lot but the Grandeur ability seems kinda weak considering existing Grandeur abilities. If 2 delays pings is worth 3 mana, wouldnt you prefer to just wait until the first has run out and then play the second? Tesagk : Fetched lands aren't played, so this lets you grab every basic in your deck when you play a land. @all the conditional uncommon legendary creatures: Nice sdfkjgh : What |
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Post by Tesagk on Aug 6, 2018 21:59:06 GMT
Fetched lands aren't played, so this lets you grab every basic in your deck when you play a land. Nice catch! I wondered, but couldn't remember the rule, fixed. |
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Post by Aarhg on Aug 6, 2018 22:16:57 GMT
One of the issues with common and uncommon legends is that multiples aren't great to get in draft. You don't want to be stuck with a card you can't play because you've already cast your first copy of it. I tried dealing with this issue by giving my card the ability to sac itself.
The Mirror Maze Legendary Artifact When The Mirror Maze enters the battlefield, exile target nontoken creature you control until The Mirror Maze leaves the battlefield.  , Sacrifice The Mirror Maze: Create a token that’s a copy of the exiled card, except the token isn’t legendary if the exiled card is legendary. X is the converted mana cost of that card. It’s the place people go to find themselves.
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spazlaz
6/6 Wurm
Posts: 335
Color Alignment: Blue, Black
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Post by spazlaz on Aug 6, 2018 22:50:55 GMT
I saw that you can be a shovel knight, which is a subclass of cook, so here you go:  |
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jynx316
2/2 Zombie
Luck? It's just a roll of the dice...
Posts: 107
Favorite Set: Urza's Saga or the entirety of Invasion Block
Color Alignment: White, Green
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Post by jynx316 on Aug 7, 2018 0:11:24 GMT
How's this for an Uncommon Legend? |
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Post by gateways7 on Aug 7, 2018 1:06:41 GMT
kinotherapy: Wouldn't the Placard make sorceries named with it legendary, making them only castable if you controlled a legendary creature/planeswalker? Also, what would happen if you had a Legendary Instant? (This isn't a complaint, just something I thought was really cool.)
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Post by ZephyrPhantom on Aug 7, 2018 1:57:23 GMT
kinotherapy - I ended up asking the Discord for feedback over your point and they made me realize I'd basically designed a much worse Twin Bolt / Vial of Dragonfire, so I reworked the card to have better incentive to both use it regularly and Grandeur it:
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Post by gateways7 on Aug 7, 2018 3:56:02 GMT
Who better to be representative of the working class than... all of them? (If necessary.)  I decided to make her white-blue and not just blue because her flavor worked better with white in it and the first part of her ability is something white and blue share. |
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Post by Neottolemo on Aug 7, 2018 7:34:08 GMT
ZephyrPhantom - There's a Discord for this forum? I'd really like to join if it's not closed off. And skimming the material is fine; it's included just so that you all understand what I am looking for flavor wise. You could create an amazing card that is a 10 out of 10, but if you miss the point of the world that this all takes place in, it was all for nothing. I personally have an hard time not seeing "skimming is fine" and "if you make a card that doesn't fit the world that's worth no points" as contradictory... By the way, I skimmed, and, did I accidentally make a card that doesn't fit at all and should I make it check for enchantments or something instead?
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Pixi-Rex
1/1 Squirrel
Why am I a 0/0 Germ
Posts: 62
Color Alignment: White, Green
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Post by Pixi-Rex on Aug 7, 2018 10:22:33 GMT
I'm literally going for what challenge text says. "A person of the land; you tend to fields, build and maintain structures, and do jobs that no one else would willingly do."I imagine one there are a worker a bit outside the city, working hard. By working for others, they get publicity and become known for their work, and now people value them hige. {Old Entry}  {New Entry}  |
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kinotherapy
6/6 Wurm
stupid kor i just fell out of the floor
Posts: 322
Favorite Card: Ruthless Raider
Favorite Set: Rising Tides
Color Alignment: Blue, Black, Red
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Post by kinotherapy on Aug 7, 2018 10:33:29 GMT
gateways7 : Wah shit you're right. I don't want to encourage that so I changed it to permanent card. Thanks Dominaria. (I assume legendary instants would just be like legendary sorceries but.. instants. Apparently they're all sorceries in dominaria just because they were big splashy spells and they didn't want just one card to break the cycle) EDIT: ah here ZephyrPhantom : 👌👌👌
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Post by Tesagk on Aug 7, 2018 15:14:04 GMT
ZephyrPhantom - There's a Discord for this forum? I'd really like to join if it's not closed off. And skimming the material is fine; it's included just so that you all understand what I am looking for flavor wise. You could create an amazing card that is a 10 out of 10, but if you miss the point of the world that this all takes place in, it was all for nothing. I personally have an hard time not seeing "skimming is fine" and "if you make a card that doesn't fit the world that's worth no points" as contradictory... By the way, I skimmed, and, did I accidentally make a card that doesn't fit at all and should I make it check for enchantments or something instead?
This. If the contest is going to have some sort of world-building component, it probably shouldn't be a CotW contest. Even if one does make it to CotW, there need to be very clear rules on what works and what won't work. With how it is right now, I feel like I'm just hoping I interpreted the challenge correctly. |
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Post by CanterburyEgg on Aug 7, 2018 17:59:47 GMT
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"When in doubt, do a common." 
