Keyword Challenge

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+1 Bag of Anti-Spelling: The mechanic here has a major flaw of requiring the other game's tools. I tried to look around online, but I couldn't find a generator or the like for this, so having this card requires you to buy that scrabble bag. Unlike dice which a more general tool and you have online replacements for if need be, by contrast. (also it's a bit of a stretch to call it a mechanic to begin with when it's just one card's effect).

I do like that it has the clause of needing at least 3 of them, blocking out of a lot of words like "of" or "in" which would be too broad... The card is also kind of luck dependent, but seeing as you made it silver border I think it fits in well, and the component of strategy and knowledge of cards for what words you could spell that would give you the best effect. Just a shame you can't really rely on this card too much because of that random element.

All in all it's a very well designed silver border card with a couple fundamental flaws regarding A) the viability of cards that require additional tools and B) the nature of the challenge.

{Spoiler}I think (I may be wrong) what you were trying to capture was this way of "directing creatures into attacking certain creatures" but taunt in hearthstone is a defensive mechanic and doesn't force a creature into attacking. While your changes are a flavor win, I think they are a little too intrusive on the role of the mechanic for an adaptation.


Goblin Provocateur: There's no good reason for this to cost 2 mana I feel. It's a little stronger than a Raging Goblin, but enough so that I think it would push it over the edge into an extra mana.

Foriysian Eyesore: Simple, makes sense, has good synergy. I would probably raise the cost by " style="max-width:100%;"] though.

Incite War: I think this card could use some work in the flavor department, either with flavor text, image or a name change, to make it seem more like it's a trap or a scheme rather than just trying to start a war, as I think it fits better with what this card seems to want to do, which is cause your opponent to attack while you have everything with first strike. That minor concern aside, it's a pretty neat card.

Deadly Mosquito: It combines well with the mechanic, taking advantage of it forcing an opponent to attack to get a kill. The thing is though, while I understand that the wording and type of effect is likely meant to interact with "can block more than one creature" type effects, I think this is both complicating the card unnecessarily and making it less flavorful. In my opinion, it should just be a 1/1 flying, deathtouch, taunt.

Decoy Banner: Nice, simple equipment, not much to comment on, but I do think it's a nice way to get a recurring taunt that's still reasonably removable.

Inconvenient Barricade: I like that this card gets shredded each combat, permanently losing health. It goes especially well seeing as you're trying to adapt a hearthstone mechanic, and this is another thing hearthstone has different from MTG, permanent damage. I also like that it has to block. The toughness makes sense being so high considering the effects of the card, though I think it might need playtesting to assess what number would be fair.

Curse of Annoyance: Seems like an interesting card for multiplayer formats, and perhaps a little too strong in single player formats, as it is format-warping, basically shutting down any kind of defense-oriented strategy by preventing blockers unless the deck either has reliable enchantment removal or cards picked to be able to handle this, like vigilance or defender.

{Spoiler}It definitely sounds like a powerful mechanic, not on face value, but to my understanding this kind of mana storage can be really strong. It helps that it's a generic mana rather than a mana of any color though. I think it's a pretty good adaptation into MTG rules. Sidenote though, as you said there were some wording errors, but the big one is that cards don't refer to themselves as "me" in MTG.

Shiny Trinket: To be honest I might have put this at " style="max-width:100%;"] or even mana cost. Not only does it take time to actually activate, you need to pay mana to start storing future uses. Compare this to the commander staple Sol Ring, which is indeed a very very strong card, but if you get half the effect of that card that's already stronger than this card, for half the price, as presumably this card at best gives 1 generic mana every other turn, and needs you spend mana to do that on other turns.

Bejeweled Watchdog: Again, probably a little overcosted as lifegain isn't all that strong and this form of gaining mana comes with a number of drawbacks. That aside though, I like the card, it's simple but can still work with synergy and has some interesting choices, namely attacking first and then tapping for mana, risking the loss of your creature before you get the mana, or tapping first and thus being unable to attack.

Hordeless Dragonling/Gemseeker Hellkite: There's definitely precedent for this kind of "pay 1 at the end of the turn to put a +1/+1 counter on this creature" effect (Go Shintai Of Boundless Vigor), though this one has a lot more versatility. Not only can you just spend the mana if need be, but it turns into a flying creature. Also, not legendary. Flying is often much better than trample, being that evasion gets the whole damage through and can improve blocking possibilities as well, so while you do need a 2 turn buffer for this to increase, most of the time a Shock or Lightning Bolt will kill either. So I think this could use costing more. Other than that, the card is very well designed, and very fun from a flavor perspective. I can already see an adorable hatchling growing up to have its very own banked horde.

Manavault Nexus: Hard to judge a card like this, but assuming it's not a broken effect to suddenly get 10 generic mana, I think the card would see little use. It's counter-synergistic with the other effects that rely on having bank counters or removing them, neither of which could happen if you add the counter to the nexus instead. It also puts your eggs into one basket that makes it hard to even trigger the mana spending, simultaneously removing your access your stored mana AND making a big red target on one card to get rid of it all at once. So either this card is broken or an active detriment to your strategy. Assuming, again, that it's not the former case, then this card needs some kind of benefit to having those counters, or at the very least some protections.

{Spoiler}This honestly seems really fun. I am reminder of another card game I never really played but only saw a show of for a brief period, duel monsters I think? (not the yugioh one). There were facedown "shield" cards I think you drew when you got damaged. But I digress.

Power-wise, the mechanic "Prize Card Winner" seems to essentially let you draw a card since there is no way to manipulate (initially) what cards you put into the pile outside of deciding your deck and mulliganing your opening hand. That being said, I think in competitive environments people really jump at anything that could reduce deck size to make it more consistent, and I feel therefore there's some power there beyond a normal card draw. Not that much, but still a slight advantage. Just kind of clarifying what kind of mindset I have in approaching this.

I will say, I like that the mechanic incorporates "killing" a creature. Fits in well with the original mechanic.


Crane Game Clawer: kills a creature, draws a card, don't think this would be printed because often these colorless creatures tend to be on the overcosted side, but I think it looks pretty balanced.

Presenter of Pain: Honestly I don't see this as worth running in a deck. You draw a card if you meet this condition you're less likely to meet as the game goes on, and a pretty bad stat line to go with that? No sir.

Carneval Cheat: By contrast, this is really strong. Pretty aggressively costed for something that can consistently kill things at the same cost without dying, or deal 3 damage per turn. Sure it's vulnerable, but it's to ability/sorcery/instant damage. On top of that, it can swap a card you don't want in your hand for a "random" card in your prize cards, and now you know one of them to draw later when you can more use of it. Great consistency win, in fact you could even consider this direct card advantage if it removes a brick from your hand for later.

Tarot Reader: A great tech card whose existence kind of illustrates the point with the Carneval Cheat a bit, since it also reveals the prize cards. It being its only ability and I still thinking this is a pretty worthwhile card for any deck that makes use of this mechanic, as it allows you to pick the prize cards you really want much more consistently, it showcases as well how strong that last ability in the Cheat was.

Prize Hauler: I like the flavor I'm picturing here of everyone coming to try to get the prizes this creature is hauling away. Meanwhile it is huge and tramples over them, and you might even get some loot out of it. I also like the synergies at play here.

Surprise Winners: Neat, simple card, though undercosted for sure. It's a buff on all creatures you control, even if a very small one, with the potential to draw 6 cards out of it. Outside of that issue though, it's neat. I like the name too. Surprise.

The Great Distributor: Not sure why you made this mythic rare, but ok. I do very much feel this is an important card for a deck that makes heavy use of this mechanic though. 6 cards can go by in a flash sometimes, especially with a surprise winners or prize hauler, so you really want to be able to put more in the prize pool or a lot of your stuff might turn into vanilla creatures.

The Grand Prize: Feels again very undercosted. Even with a difficult condition to meet I don't think 1 mana should ever give this much of a bonus.

{Spoiler}Right off the batt, the mechanics here are very complex, took me several times reading it before I realized "clanking" made it so more of your colored cubes would be put into the bag, and that they weren't normally all in the bag. It's a lot to take in and not just in the nuances. That being said, it's definitely an original mechanic, refreshing in a sense, but I do think it could be simplified a bit. In addition, while this would need playtesting to make sure, I think 1 damage may not be significant enough for the conditional approach you're taking here.


Intruder Alert: Decent, very white feeling, and very orderly. Easy to trigger the clank, but it's not that much damage anyway.

Braintwister Mage: Feels right at home in innistrad, though this flavor is more forgotten realms. Not a big deal though, it's a very interesting card.

Murmuring Ghast: This card feels like it should at least have some means to making an opponent discard a card. Other than that, fair game.

Screaming Dragoncaller: Flavor-wise, I'm not sure why he gives you clank, or why it's so hard for someone to wake up the dragon who is actively trying to do it. Other than flavor though, it's a decent card for this mechanic, though too fragile to be exciting in my opinion, especially at such a high cost. There are haste 3/3s that cost " style="max-width:100%;"]" style="max-width:100%;"], and I just don't think this mechanic is powerful enough to cost that much on a 3/1 body, let alone more.

Rutting Dragon: Definitely would need some rules text explaining what "-3" clank entails. You don't normally see negative numbers in mechanics like this, after all. Other than that, feels like a very good and natural inclusion for this mechanic.

Mr.Whiskers: Fair if niche card, I feel like there is a reference I'm missing here though.

{Spoiler}A deck-fixing mechanic huh... It's a weird thing to judge. On one hand, changing the contents of your library isn't that big of a deal a lot of the time if it's putting things in a random order. On the other hand, it could help you adapt against highly specific match-ups or put cards in your deck you'd like to search for with some other means.

Another general complaint though, a lot of these cards have 1-word names. This is generally considered bad practice as 1-word name cards are often meant to be reprintable in a lot of sets, so they need more generalized and iconic effects. A niche mechanic like this shouldn't be present in cards with a 1-word name.


Upgrade: A very baseline cantrip effect for this type of mechanic. Maybe the wording should be "up to 1 more" though otherwise this card may require a lot of building around it.

Goons: Relatively simple, though the discard effect feels a little patched-on. Nothing major to complain or praise though.

Market: Bundle of flavor effects. I guess like the previous it fits the cost, and this one does offer some extra variety, but it's not a card that's doing anything other than supporting some other plan.

Workshop: Repeating purchase this easily feels very dangerous, especially in more casual formats where cards "outside the game" may actually just mean anything in your collection or if you have any kind of self-exiling card, as those often self-exile for a reason.

Garden: Simple card, like the design, not even sure if it should come tapped though, lifegain isn't that strong, especially if it's only 1 for an effect that given the sample is not often repeatable.

Chancellor: I like that it helps fix one of the major issues with this mechanic being properly functional, though it does put it dangerously close to the territory of broken, even without taking into account self-milling benefits.

{Spoiler}I will give this win to Flo00 ! Despite my complaints about the complexity, I feel it would really add a refreshing new angle to the game, and the conditional cards are not only original and very interesting in their design, but they also add to that freshness with choices that could change the approach to the gameplay in some strategies. The mechanic was also quite well translated into MTG.

In second place came melono as I also feel these cards explored the possibilities with a mechanic that adds a fresh angle to the game and was well-translated from the original. However, as far as balance goes those cards I felt had a lot more to improve on.