Keyword Challenge

Last Promise

Enchantment - Aura

Flash

Enchanted creature gets +1/+1 and Relied (Whenever this creature blocks or becomes blocked if it would be destroyed this turn remove it from combat instead, tap it and it doesn't untap during your next turn. You gain life equal to the damage this creature would receive from the attacking or blocked creature.)

Thanks for the win.

Design a keyword similar to investigate; that is, it is a keyword action that creates a specific token when the action is performed (it can do other things as well, it just gotta make a token). 

Maybe we will revisit Kaladesh in a time after the revolt. And then we might see something like this.

Weaponcraft Scholar
Creature - Aetherborn Artificere
When Weaponcraft Scholar enters the battlefield, it mechanizes twice. (Put a +1/+1 counter on this or create a 1/1 colorless Servo artifact creature. Then repeat this process.)
“Life is to short to fill out forms to get proper permits.”
0/1

Aeronaut Amateur
Creature - Human Artificer
Whenever Aeronaut Amateur attacks, it mechanizes, then you may tap two untapped artifacts you control. If you to, Aeronaut Amateur gains flying untl end of turn. (For this to mechanize, put a +1/+1 counter on it or create a 1/1 colorless Servo artifact creature.)
1/2

Ravenous Trainee
Creature - Gremlin Artificer
At the beginning of each end step, if an artifact was put into your graveyard this turn, Ravenous Trainee mechanizes. (Put a +1/+1 counter on this or create a 1/1 colorless Servo artifact creature. Dying tokens enter your graveyard before they cease to exist.)
Sacrifice an artifact: Ravenous Trainee gets +2/+2 until end of turn.
1/2

Production Chamber
Artifact
, : Production Chamber mechanizes. (Put a +1/+1 counter on this or create a 1/1 colorless Servo artifact creature.)
: Move a +1/+1 counter from Production Chamber onto target creature.

Masterpiece of Recreation
Creature - Servo Assembly-Worker
Whenever Masterpiece of Recreation or another Servo you control becomes untapped, it mechanizes. (Put a +1/+1 counter on it or create a 1/1 colorless Servo artifact creature.)
“You could say I inspire my designes to inspire themselves.”
—Renu, aspiring inventor
1/1

Rishkar, Consulate Counsel
Legendary CReature - Elf Advisor
Whenever each creature you control mechanizes for the first time each turn, it mechanizes again.
, , Remove a counter from a creature you control: That creature mechanizes. (Put a +1/+1 counter on it or create a 1/1 colorless Servo artifact creature.)
2/2

Since all the commons with fabricate have fabricate 1, it's kind of hard to design commons with mechanize.

Well...a creature token is still a token, and I thought it was unfair that Black gets all the armies.

That said, not super sure on the wording of this card. Creating 0/0 tokens, then giving them counters after they exist feels like they should just die. That's how Amass does it though, so I guess it's correct to how WotC rules things?

Judging's done and virdicts delivered: great designs y'all. I'll admit this one challenge was a bit off prompt for the thread, but I hope everyone's equally as happy with the results as I am. 

This one actually feels a little too open-ended.

Interesting challenge. Here's my interpretation:

Nobility (Whenever this creature is targeted by a spell or ability, you may put a princess counter on it if it has less than three princess counters on it. Otherwise, draw a card.)

Stories, news, jewelries, etc.... often revolve around Princesses as the central person/character to the narrative. So I felt it would be wisest to make Princess a keyword that encourages targeting them. Initially to avoid it being too parasitic, I tried added a rider that references how princesses in Disney films get "happily ever after" after all their trials have been completed - on 10 princess counters, you'd win the game, but I found this probably would clog the board too much, so I changed it to represent a broader accumulation of 'wealth' via drawing cards similar to cards like Greed - princesses are generally well-off individuals as far as I know. I initially considered removing princess counters to draw cards to keep the board clean, but that didn't make much sense flavor-wise, so I instead settled on a modal effect that has you add a counter if there's less than three, and draw a card afterwards - I figure the effect is generally slow enough that it can go in all five colors.

Note that nobility will trigger on any instance of a spell or ability, not just yours, which opens up room for spell redirecting shenanigans.

I believe this is less parasitic than infect and doesn't cause the linear concerns of dungeons because:

1) Creature removal is prevalent across all colors, and even in a color like Blue you can simply bounce the creatures to set an opposing player back.
2) The keyword generally encourages you to target one 'princess' at a time, so even a single princess card will function properly in a vacuum for other strategies like Prowess (Returning Heir), Ramp (Vizier of the Pit), or Prison (Tian, the Rising Consort). Princess "tribal" on the other hand focuses specifically on bringing out the card-draw aspects of the tribe and using it to drown the opponent in card advantage (Kashmi, Dashing Revolutionary). On rare occasions, a card might be flexible enough to do both (Tian, the Rising Consort is an equally valid choice for a princess-matters deck or a control prison deck).

While I could've used the Noble type I decided not to because I didn't want to cram the typeline or the keyword more than necessary. I decided the typeline was better suited to representing what the princess was before they were 'crowned' as one (if they weren't one already.)

Flavorwise I decided to go with a bit of grit and political struggle to make the cards feel more Magic-y (think similar to how games like Dragon Age handle the struggles of royalty) as opposed to feeling like they're blatant Disney shoutouts. All of the cards take inspiration from or reference real life historical figures that influenced or struggles through major/minor events (though one doubles as a shout out to a fictional character), and I tried to capture the feel of the idea that princesses could be varying levels of political figures from different walks of life depending on the culture they're in. I'll highlight the more important reference as needed and leave the rest to be guessed just for fun.


Returning Heir
Creature - Elf Soldier
Nobility (Whenever this creature is targeted by a spell or ability, you may put a princess counter on it if it has less than three princess counters on it. Otherwise, draw a card.)
Whenever you put a counter on ~, it gets +1/+1 until end of turn.
1/1
"If not by birthright, the Ein household is mine by my feats."

Here's the first demonstration of how Nobility can be a non parasitic mechanic. Prowess 1-drops have always had Red in the mana cost (Monastery Swiftspear, Blistercoil Weird, Soul-Scar Mage) until Clever Lumimancer, and even then, Red is the only color that gets access to these kinds of effects at common. While Returning Heir doesn't have haste, it does offer the Red player the ability to not run out of gas if it can be kept alive for a few turns to accumulate three princess counters.


Crowning Parade
Enchantment - Aura
Flash
Enchant creature
If enchanted creature doesn't have nobility, it gains nobility. (Whenever this creature is targeted by a spell or ability, you may put a princess counter on it if it has less than three princess counters on it. Otherwise, draw a card.)
Enchanted creature has flying.
"The gates have opened! Let us celebrate the Princess of the Grain Kingdom's glorious rise with a sky-carriage tour."

Enchantment that's meant to help more easily enable nobility. You can use it to cantrip in response to an opponent trying to target your stuff or just get an extra counter placed on a princess. The three noncreature commons here showcase how to design small beneficial nobility effects and nobility-relevant removal while referencing the general history of Marie Antoinette.

Public's Judgement
Enchantment - Aura
Enchant creature
When ~ enters the battlefield, remove all counters from enchanted creature.
Enchanted creature loses all abilities and can't have counters placed on it.

Example removal that is more relevant in a format with nobility without being completely useless in another format. Based on the fact Solemnity is allowed in White.

Heartless Act
Instant
Choose one —
• Destroy target creature with no counters on it.
• Remove up to three counters from target creature.
"In the end, she was too young to be responsible for bread or cake." - Executioner's obituary

Yes, this is indeed a reprint! It turns out the effects line up perfectly with Nobility's design and the flavor works fairly well with the historical context it references.


Gluttonous Ascendant
Creature - Ooze Wizard
Flash
Nobility (Whenever this creature is targeted by a spell or ability, you may put a princess counter on it if it has less than three princess counters on it. Otherwise, draw a card.)
When Gluttunous Ascendant enters the battlefield, you may change a target of target spell to Gluttunous Ascendant.
0/3
The citizens of Namalis struggle to maintain their economic wellbeing due to distance and poor trade routes. A rotund figure often marks a noble that no longer has to scavenge for risky spellscraps.

Watered down Mizzium Meddler with Goblin Flectomancer as additional reference for balance and rarity placement. Meant to help deal with Shocks and other small removal effects or combat tricks, or just act as a counter to killspells or more recent Lightning Bolt variants like Frostbite. As the flavor text implies, you either get starved out from eating bad stuff or survive long enough to become royalty.

Vizier of the Pit
Creature - Snake Noble
Nobility (Whenever this creature is targeted by a spell or ability, you may put a princess counter on it if it has less than three princess counters on it. Otherwise, draw a card.)
Add .
If ~ is a princess, add .
0/1
"A dashing smile and a little support to the right disgrunted warlord, and the Era of the Snake shall be ushered in by my hand."

Green Elfhame Druid type design card that plays with the idea that becoming a princess can grant you additional rights/powers/what have you. In this case Vizier becomes a better and more sinister mana ramper as she takes over the kingdom's economics.

Kashmi, Dashing Revolutionary
Creature - Viashino Knight
Nobility (Whenever this creature is targeted by a spell or ability, you may put a princess counter on it if it has less than three princess counters on it. Otherwise, draw a card.)
Whenever a creature you control attacks, you may untap target tapped creature you control. If you do, draw a card.
Whenever you draw a card, you lose 1 life.
2/2
"Will you be my shining partner for the day?"

I figured it'd be kind of interesting to be a bit cheeky about the implications of Princess tribal. This design actually draws traits from both the heroic and villainous characters of Revolutionary Girl Utena - the 'princess' is fairly confident in their identity like Utena and relatively protective by letting attackers double as blockers, but they're also a selfish short-sighted person like the villain(s) of the cast that have you gain lots and lots of cards from constant manipulative interactions that'll inevitably implode on them in the long run.

Archetype-wise Kashmi can be run with cards like Returning Heir to activate their Princess status much faster than intended and draw lots of cards, at the risk of a backfire where you can't interact with Princesses at all unless you want to risk losing too much life.

Tian, the Rising Consort
Creature - Spider Noble Advisor
Nobility (Whenever this creature is targeted by a spell or ability, you may put a princess counter on it if it has less than three princess counters on it. Otherwise, draw a card.)
When ~ enters the battlefield, you may tap any number of target creatures.
Creatures don’t untap during their controllers’ untap steps.
At the beginning of each player’s upkeep, that player may untap target tapped creature.
2/2
"I have only one dream - to see the world move in order through my regnant claws."

A powerful hybrid Sleep/boardwipe prison card that can immediately jam up the field unlike cards like Stoic Angel that have to wait a turn or leave a bigger window to be played around. Most cards like these don't target (even ones that you think might like Magnetic Mountain), but Tian is specifically worded to target in order to enable Princess tribal (or just herself) into a card-drawing engine - plus, this actually gives you a reason to use Shroud-granting cards over Hexproof to lock the opponent out of using a creature at all.

After spending a few days spinning its wheel, the best my cerebrohamster could come up with are putting Princess Peach's crown on this and calling it Pretty Pretty Princess.  It'd be an instant that did...something...but Fuzzball I the Useless is just shrugging its little brainhamster shoulders at me.

I think your reminder text for Precious X is flobbed up.

Thanks! It was a keywords I really enjoyed making.


Kamigawa: Neon Dynasty is clearly going to have cyberpunk vibes, which has also recently brought up the point that cyberpunk is defined as much by (if not more so) its mentalities as it is by the tech. Inspired by that, your next keyword is Corporate/Corporation/any variants thereof.


Good luck!

Thanks for the likes @ sdfkjgh and Nonagon Infinity! Now the silver-fans show their colors I guess

I hope the next un-set will come with commander decks.

viriss - Thanks, I hate it!