Keyword Challenge

Or it can be like stickers. Which only remain while they are in a non-hidden zone.

Judging tomorrow.

emberfire17 : I like your confess ability. Feels like the Adventure cards in that you get an initial effect, followed by being able to cast the card. I like your card mechanics as well, except lifelink doesn't really feel too , even on a healer/druid. Nice design!

Idea : Subconscious is a really interesting mechanic! I like that you made it a static effect, so it won't use the stack. Your specific designs highlight well the different use cases it can have. While it doesn't do much on it's own, it improves on a resource that existing cards already utilize, and opens up design space, which I'm always a fan of. Also, it does both parts of the "or" in my prompt by allowing caring about cards in hand as well as being useable while in hand. Well done!

ameisenmeister : The first ability that is used by permanents rather than card in hand in the submissions! I like idealize, but would limit it to once per turn, or to non-already-revealed cards; never mind; it cares about the creature's power, not it's mana cost! OK this is great! It puts a cap on itself since the creature keeps getting bigger, and you'll be forced to reveal new cards to pay the cost. Neat! I really like it when abilities self-regulate like that without having to use the "once a turn" phrase explicitly to keep its power in check. I like your cards and they feel interesting to play with. They give me a bit of Apocalypse set vibes for some reason. (My first precon I purchased was the Whirlpool deck.)

jungledark : Welcome to the forums! You can embed art by uploading to something like imgur and using the link from there, that way your cards will be larger without having to click on them. (The artist line on the bottom of the card is meant for the name of the artist, not the card that the art is from.) Your intends mechanic is awesome! I like the imprint vibes and the way you have the number with the cost reminds me of casualty. Of the cards you designed for the mechanic, I mostly like Will Far Gone; that's a really clean and interesting design. Mindsetter wants an intends 4 or 5, or have it not be a defensive card (flipping it's power and toughness and making it would do it for me more). Dreadwarden's sacrifice a creature part feels like too much; it already only intends 1, but the ability costs ; that would be enough. Keep in mind that setting the maximum mana value of the card already limits the ability's power, and then the creature has to leave the battlefield for anything to happen. There doesn't seem to be a need to reveal the card you are intending because it gets attached face-up already. Also, currently any card that gets attached to a permanent that is not an Equipment, Fortification, or Aura with enchant <permanent type> doesn't remain attached. I understand your intent with the mechanic, and I like how it's meant to work, but there would need to be some changes to the current rules to make it work. Seems like you want it to be actually in play as a permanent since your Dreadwarden can sacrifice intended cards. Maybe you can instead exile cards and "associate" it with the intending creature. It would be a new concept, but that's OK, and it would work well. I know it's a lot of feedback, but I quite liked your mechanic, just would need some tweaking to make work in the rules.

Sanfonier of the Night : I like boundless! It's an interesting way to give a card new features with a one-time initial payment. With commander, it also allows additional color identities to be added on, which is a neat side-effect. [sarcasm] I'd have it be worded as "Pay <cost> and reveal ~ from your hand. Put a Boundless name sticker on it." Then later, use "If ~ has Boundless in it's name, <effect>." [/sarcasm] Actually, I hate that stickers exist, and your wording is just right! I'd make most boundless costs higher, to make it more of a decision whether to wait or play the card early. If the cost is too low, it becomes just a cheap kicker cost, or just an auto-include in the card. Your Triton is basically a 2-mana 2/3 unblockable enchantment Merfolk, except you can pay then the next turn. Feels very strong. The boundless cost on Ve-Ve is a lot more balanced. You might want to cast it early for some quick beats, then later on can make it boundless for some bigger damage. It's almost like a way to unlock the greater power of the card. Good one!

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Winner: I really liked all of the abilities here, but the cleanest design, and the winner, is ameisenmeister , with Sanfonier of the Night as runnerup.

Thanks for the win!

Your next challenge will be a mechanic that cares about permanents being or getting attached to permanents.

Have fun!

The mechanic I wish to bring today is Smelt.

Idea The problem with Radiant Steel is that if the (thoughness) buff goes away after combat, it might cause creatures to die from combat damage they received.

Maybe start with "This turn, [...]" to avoid the repitition? The sad thing is that this way the spell can't be used as combat trick during your turn anymore since you have to play it before the attack. I don't know how to fix that though.

What if there was equipment for lands? I present, Structures and Affixing.

Well, shit. If allowed, I guess I'll keep it since the canon one is so obscure.

Does the Aura do anything besides just being on the token and reverting back to a land when the token leaves the battlefield?  I feel like the Aura should at least grant the token the ability to tap for .

Other than that, it's rather like a mirror image of Old-Growth Troll.

Re-using my design from the land design challenge.

Log: Updated to allow tap only if land.

Judging time!

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Coin flip abilities are fun – when done sparsely. A whole mechanic with coin flipping isn't really something that I think many people would enjoy because it's usually hard to build/play with a mechanic like that. For example, you spend 2 mana and tap your Kor Armsbearer in the hopes of getting the +1/+1 counter (at instant speed!) but happen to „win“ the flip and search your library and yard for a card that isn't even there. There's a high chance of that happening, especially in draft, which usually is the place to shine for random mechanics.

Idea

Cool concept and good execution. Some of your cards seem a bit too eager to be special but that doesn't hurt the mechanic. I'd have liked to see some more designs that show how the granted effects work differently (or better) on artifacts they're smelted upon, but as I type this I already start getting some ideas of my own. I like how the mechanic incentivizes you to play diffferent card types in a clever way.

Flo00

Now this is a go tall mechanic if I've ever seen one! The name isn't great and reads like a placeholder but effect itself is nice. Especially sweet is Mystical Upwind, which lets you buff creatures without attached permanents for a reduced price if you happen to target another creature with multiple permanents attached. (The card is still rather weak, though.)

I'm not sure how relevant would be such a small cost reduction in an average game of magic – and a deck that's not specifically crafted to use it for maximal effect – but that's an issue that can only be solved by playtesting. The idea is solid.

emberfire17

It's fortify! I don't blame you for not knowing every Future Sight mechanic but there are also reasons why some never became “real”. Fortify – or in your case Affix – has a very small design space, especially when we're trying to keep it fun. The cool thing about equipment in contrast to auras is that the equipment stays when the equipped creature leaves the battlefield or that you can give the equipment to a new and better creature. With lands, those issues rarely come up. They don't usually leave the battlefield and they aren't vastly different from another. Sure, some lands have special abilities but in 90% of the time, they simply produce mana or have an etb trigger, that's irrelevant when equipped. Your card Mana Extractor for example could simply be an Aura and in 95% of the time it wouldn't make any difference. Earthen Engine is different, though, and that's because it basically turns Affix into Equip.

So, it's a noble idea but, in my opinion, also a superfluous one.

viriss

I assume you didn't intend the card to be able to spawn a new 4/4 for every turn? I don't even mind the enchantment that taps part but I feel like the mechanic is a brainchild of this challenge's demand. A simpler version would be an activation cost like Leybind - : This land becomes a 4/4 creature. If it would leave the battlefield return it to your hand (or battlefield?). Activate only as a sorcery and only if it isn't already Leybound. or something.

vizionarius

An innovation on fortify. I talked about that Future Sight mechanic in the feedback for emberfire17 but you brought in something new. However, I'm not convinced that your improvement isn't actually a trap – especially for new and inexperienced players who will be keen on having access to the fortify effect but will set themselves back while doing so (by two lands even, in the case of your card).

I like that the card is already a mana producing land on its own and has thereby a very low opportunity cost but I feel that the potential gain is too negligible (and too min-max-ish) to be worth a mechanic.


Thanks everyone for taking part!

Edit: Does this fit the requirements?

Command Undead 
Signature Sorcery--Liliana
(For as long as you control a Liliana planeswalker, you can that planeswalker to search your library for a signature Liliana card, reveal it, put that card into your hand, then shuffle. Normal planeswalker rules apply.)
Gain control of target undead permanent. (An undead permanent is one with one or more of the following subtypes--Graveborn, Shade, Skeleton, Spirit, Vampire, Werewolf, or Zombie.)