Set Theme Game

The Boros Code  (1)(R)(R/W)(W)
Sorcery  (Uncommon)

Create a 1/1 white and red Soldier creature token for each other nontoken Soldier creature you control.

Creatures you control get +2/+0 and gain your choice of lifelink or first strike until end of turn.

I like this one: I'm gonna add to the cycle.

The Azorious Bylaws
A generic X, a blue, a blue or white, and a white
Instant

Remove X creatures from combat and tap them. They don't untap during their controller's next untap step.

Create a 0/2 blue and white Advisor creature token with defender for each tapped creature your opponents control.

The judging has begun. Sorry for the delay.

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kefke - Etonar

I like the idea of the card, but there are two not so major issues. The mana cost is a bit odd, like, if I had to do a card of that cost I'd say it's probably okay, but it just feels not color appropiate. Hybrid cards should fit well within any color, and this doesn't work very well as a, say, UR creature. In fact, I'd say it's more G than any other color.

My other problem is that it's too slow, it could probably have some combination of keywords and a better p/t. As it stands though, it is a 6 mana 3/3 that needs to attack to do anything, probably too frustrating. I'd maybe up the cost a bit but give it haste or make it also go when etb, I think that would make the card a bit less frustrating to play with (again, you probably need to up the cost though).

Other than that it's a pretty sweet design that gives you a lot of tools to work with, and the idea of the Nephlim coming back with a hybrid cost is a cool one that opens them up to be standard playable. I think the execusion is a bit off, but overall I really like the card.

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sdfkjgh - Honorable Flowering

There is already an enchantment that does something similar, a 2 (G/W)(G/W) that populates every turn. I like your card more because it gives a token as well and as such can decent in an empty board. I enjoy slower populate cards and this is one of them. A cool one.

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Tesagk - The Boros Code

Wait... Boros is in Gatecrash, not Return to Ravnica! I'm not gonna dq you for that... but it is a pretty big oversight xd
Either way... I think the card is okay, I feel focusing on soldiers is intresting... I mean, a lot of Boros cards are soliders, but afaik soldiers have never been a tribal theme for Boros. At an uncommon though, it's probably okay, and a decent build around reward. Other than that though, a 4 mana sorcery speed +2/+0 first strike or lifelink is okay, but since it doesn't give haste, the whole token thing seems a bit... tagged on? I think there are two designs here that are stapled together, and I'm not a huge fan of that here, as the two modes don't really synergize with each other other than "it's good to go wide". The ideas are good, but the design to me is a bit confusing.

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foureyesisafish

I feel I'm missing a joke here xd I mean, it's a 3 mana 2/4 that gains 2 life when etb. The flavor is okay, although the power is a bit low for a giant soldier.

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hydraheadhunter

I like completing the cycles of other players. There are however a couple of things with the card I'm not a huge fan of. Removing creatures for combat is a bit outdated, even for 2012, I'd say "prevent all damage up to X attacking creatures would deal this turn" which is mostly the same. The second ability is intresting, but this is where i feel my Azorious bois are being misrepresented. The problem with this card is that it just... stalls the game. What made detain intresting is that it's not a control mechanic, but rather a tempo one. This is kind of a sleep, but it gives you 0/2 which can't attack. I'd try going for something more proactive, maybe it could make 1/1's instead. That could be to good though, I think you could cap the number of tokens at X. I don't know how to change the design, but right now it looks like a card that just stops a game in its track. It's also probably too weak, but it's hard to evaluate.
I think in general there is a solid idea here (you want to stop the lawless attackers!) but not a huge fan of how it was done.

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sdfkjgh is the winner, with kefke as runner up.

lordpat hey buddy pal do you not recognize young Bulwark Giant from WAR?

Templating needs a bit of work, the canonicity is rather questionable, and that's about as close as I'm comfortably willing to get to pre-judging influencing of submissions.

Welp, looks like this goes to Tesagk by default. Shame, I would've really liked to've seen more entries. Tesagk, you took my critique very well, and had there been other entries, you prolly would've been a top contender on that alone.

Eeeeeeeeh, Clue (1985) reduced communism to a red herring and I just can't abide by that kind of behavior /j. The multiple endings gimmick was neat except it was an early symptom of the worst spoilerphobic behaviors we're seeing in movies now-a-days;which I hate, enpart because [explicit serious politics self-redacted] but also because it makes finding spoilers for a new film harder than it needs to be: Because, for most stories, spoilers improve the watch experience¹.

1. Leavitt, Jonathan D., and Nicholas J. S. Christenfeld. “Story Spoilers Don’t Spoil Stories.” Psychological Science, vol. 22, no. 9, Sage Publications, Inc., 2011, pp. 1152–54.

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And with that digression out of the way, here's my entry. It's flavor is a bit too overt in how it references the later events of Eldrich Moon to have been printed by wizards (who are famous for subtle story telling (so subtle people were debating whether Tibalt was alive for years and people still don't know that Dack Fayden's dead) /j), but I like to think it'd total be a thing that coulda happened.

Closing at midnight tonight, EST.

Yeah, this is one of those sources I've got queued up because I passionately love spoilers and hate that hollywood hates them. Also, I do love using superscripts: they're great.

sdfkjgh: It's definitely in-flavor. It feels strong, though I suppose Miracle cards just are, by definition. I can't say if it's too strong, but I definitely like it.


MonkeyChewToy: This one definitely feels very in flavor and it's cute as well, the good kind of cute, useful and not broken one way or another. 


hydraheadhunter: A bit deeper on the lore than I've honestly dived, but I assume this one likely wins in terms of flavor. As far as card effects go, it seems interesting though I think it would likely be an uncommon at the very least just by the draw effect alone, even when counter-balanced with the hefty discards and/or damage to the player. In any case, the card is definitely neat either way.


ameisenmeister: This card was also the good kind of cute. It's flavorful for red and for the set theme as well. I like it.

Provisional,

Flo00: It should definitely be a mythic, given its effect. I'm not sure how I feel about the replacement effect though, I think I'd be happier if it just gave you the and let them have their mana, possibly keeping the scry effect if the player investigated that turn. Either way, it's definitely interesting, but technically after I closed the contest so I consider it a provisional entry. Thank you for submitting it, either way!

In that case you might have fun making a whole "Homelands but good," set; which is how I'm interpretting the prompt. I'm taking on the least popular homelands cardson EDHrec from each of the colors and giving it the Wreck the Card treatment. I'll then decide from that which one I like most for your consideration.
Of the five cards I created, I think Deep-Sea Troll feels the most like an unjank homelands cards: so, it's what I'll be submitting for consideration:

Thank you everyone for your entries so far! I'm planning to commence judging at midnight Sunday night (EST or GMT-5), so you're got just about 70 hours if you're planning to submit a design or make any changes. Have fun!