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Post by Daij_Djan on Jan 7, 2019 19:31:50 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 forty-ninth challenge!
The winner of the "The Heart of the Cards" poll was penacho with... And the challenge issued by our winner was... Design a card with an alternative win condition. Most commonly this is a card that states that if you do something, " you win the game". But it also can be something like Aetherflux Reservoir, that makes you do something in order to deal 50 damage to a player. Note: As this is the same challenge as CotW#77, please don't reuse any old entries from that contest. ~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 Daij_Djan on Jan 7, 2019 20:53:44 GMT
To start things off, here's an updated (a.k.a. much more mischievous) version of an older design I thankfully did not use for the old contest:
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Post by melono on Jan 7, 2019 21:02:44 GMT
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Post by Aarhg on Jan 7, 2019 23:48:37 GMT
Here's a big dumb mythic that'll drive everyone at the table nuts. Hopefully your opponents will deck themselves before they can do anything crazy.
Sorcery  Each player draws cards equal to the number of cards in their library minus one. Wildly overwhelming, yet deeply calming.
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Post by shiftyhomunculus on Jan 8, 2019 0:51:16 GMT
Bring 'em in, boys. Closing the Net   Enchantment  Whenever you draw your third card each turn, investigate. (Create a colorless Clue artifact token with ", Sacrifice this artifact: Draw a card.")Whenever you sacrifice a Clue, put a proof counter on Closing the Net. Then, if there are ten or more proof counters on Closing the Net, target player loses the game. Getting the numbers right on this is going to be an absolute nightmare. I think three cards in a turn is a pretty good sweet spot, since it stops you just self-fuelling it with the Clue it generated last turn while still being reachable with some planning. (Also makes it substantially harder to pull off on your opponent's turn, which is a perk as far as I'm concerned.) |
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Post by Jartis on Jan 8, 2019 0:58:08 GMT
Obligatory:  |
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Post by viriss on Jan 8, 2019 2:14:14 GMT
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Post by sade612 on Jan 8, 2019 4:56:51 GMT
Hopefully I'm not stepping too closely on Mayael's Aria.  |
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Post by gurfafflekins on Jan 8, 2019 6:31:16 GMT
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jrey15
0/0 Germ
Player of mostly Standard and EDH. Lover of all things Tribal.
Posts: 15
Favorite Card: Surrak, Dragonclaw
Favorite Set: Theros
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Post by jrey15 on Jan 8, 2019 6:57:33 GMT
Attachment DeletedRecycling Plant - Legendary Artifact  ,  : Draw a card, then discard a card. At the beginning of your end step, you may exile any number of artifact cards from your graveyard. If you do, you gain 1 life for each artifact card exiled this way. Then if the total converted mana cost of all artifact cards exiled with Recycling Plant is greater than 50, you win the game. “Let nothing go to waste; Especially the trash.” Thought it'd be a neat rift since there's not many "I win the game" cards centered around artifacts (Besides Mech Pro, which is....neat lol) I like that you can build it up slowly over time, or do it all at once. EDIT: I originally posted it for the clause to be 100, but realized that's just way too high, even if you had 10 cards with CMC 10, that's still 1/6 of the deck, which just isn't feasible.
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Post by sdfkjgh on Jan 8, 2019 9:38:48 GMT
Jungle's Vitality   Enchantment When you have ::50:: or more mana in your mana pool, you win the game. |
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Post by mrlozano on Jan 8, 2019 11:40:22 GMT
The worst part is that it can actually be playable.  |
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Post by fluffydeathbringer on Jan 8, 2019 21:07:03 GMT
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Post by gateways7 on Jan 8, 2019 23:54:22 GMT
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spazlaz
6/6 Wurm
Posts: 335
Color Alignment: Blue, Black
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Post by spazlaz on Jan 9, 2019 2:38:54 GMT
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Post by crabclanbestclan on Jan 9, 2019 13:06:15 GMT
Challenge, Focus, Strike
Enchantment - Saga (As this Saga enters and after your draw step, add a lore counter. Sacrifice after III.)I — Each player exiles all creatures they control. II — Each player returns a creature card they own exiled with ~ onto the battlefield tapped. III — You get an emblem with "When a creature deals combat damage to one of its controller's opponents, its controller wins the game." I wanted to try something other than a "you win the game" condition, and I thought a life-and-death one-stroke duel was a fitting representation. Of course, you can always get more creatures onto the battlefield while the "duel" is happening - nobody said Planeswalkers have to be honest and honorable. White mana because a lot of "exile all creatures" effects are white, and because the emblem (got a little cheeky there, adding an emblem to a Saga) is like a "fair" version of Vraska, Golgari Queen's emblem.
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Post by Tesagk on Jan 10, 2019 15:34:37 GMT
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Post by shiftyhomunculus on Jan 10, 2019 17:43:15 GMT
Tesagk: I think your entry could use some trimming. 
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spazlaz
6/6 Wurm
Posts: 335
Color Alignment: Blue, Black
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Post by spazlaz on Jan 10, 2019 18:42:08 GMT
Also, the lands and low life clauses are way way easier than the others. Mana ramp deck into this is all to easy.
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Post by Tesagk on Jan 10, 2019 19:55:14 GMT
More like "Three Font Victory" am i right?! Sorry, not trying to be mean, but I totally misread the title at first. I mean, the next three posts rip into it, so whatever. I don't even get this much attention when I ask for help. |
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Post by shiftyhomunculus on Jan 10, 2019 20:16:09 GMT
Without meaning to be rude, you would probably get more of a response to your requests for help if you responded to critical commentary with a little less... disdain? I don't think any of us were "ripping into" your entry - I'm not sure viriss was even seriously critiquing it. And I can't speak for spazlaz, but my aim was to point out "hey, this card is too wordy, cutting it down would probably improve it", and I find that visual representations of how text looks on a render are often the best way to judge whether a card's too much.
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Post by Tesagk on Jan 10, 2019 21:08:27 GMT
Without meaning to be rude, you would probably get more of a response to your requests for help if you responded to critical commentary with a little less... disdain? I don't think any of us were "ripping into" your entry - I'm not sure viriss was even seriously critiquing it. And I can't speak for spazlaz, but my aim was to point out "hey, this card is too wordy, cutting it down would probably improve it", and I find that visual representations of how text looks on a render are often the best way to judge whether a card's too much. You know full well that I receive the vast majority of criticism just fine. |
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Post by Fleur on Jan 11, 2019 0:46:57 GMT
 There's nothing more you can give? Are you sure? |
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Post by sdfkjgh on Jan 11, 2019 3:11:22 GMT
Tesagk : I think your entry could use some trimming. Tesagk: Speaking as the resident king of the small typefont, don't listen to those Frazzled Editors! You let your grand vision lead your design. Who cares if you make War and Peace or Bambi Meets Gotzilla? As long as you enjoy the process, it's fine, as sometimes these 2000 lightyear designs can inspire amazing Magic. Just look at the Un- sets.
Buy, you have to be willing to be brave enough to own it. If it's not at all feasible, leave it there & move on, don't try to delete it. Remember, on the internet, nothing is ever truly deleted.
This post started out as a joke, but midway through, I paid the morph cost to turn it into a serious, hopefully inspirational soapbox.
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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 Jan 11, 2019 5:32:26 GMT
i havnet slept  Exploited Vitality   Enchantment — Rare If you would gain life, you may put that many life counters on Exploited Vitality instead. Remove twenty life counters from Exploited Vitality: Each opponent loses 20 life. , Sacrifice a creature: You gain life equal to the sacrificed creature’s toughness. |
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Post by guardsmanfortunate on Jan 11, 2019 6:09:00 GMT
Tried to think outside the box with this one in the same way "One with Nothing" would. *Snip* All renders require proper artist credit in the appropriate space. ~Daij_Djan
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Post by Tesagk on Jan 11, 2019 13:28:36 GMT
Tesagk : Speaking as the resident king of the small typefont, don't listen to those Frazzled Editors! You let your grand vision lead your design. Who cares if you make War and Peace or Bambi Meets Gotzilla? As long as you enjoy the process, it's fine, as sometimes these 2000 lightyear designs can inspire amazing Magic. Just look at the Un- sets.
Buy, you have to be willing to be brave enough to own it. If it's not at all feasible, leave it there & move on, don't try to delete it. Remember, on the internet, nothing is ever truly deleted.
This post started out as a joke, but midway through, I paid the morph cost to turn it into a serious, hopefully inspirational soapbox.
Why in the world would I keep it? I didn't delete it to hide it, I deleted it because it clearly wasn't worth it as an entry. |
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Post by Fleur on Jan 11, 2019 15:43:50 GMT
I mean, there's no reason not to keep it. Keeping an entry, even an old one, can provide inspiration to yourself and others for future designs. Some of my best designs have been inspired by some of my more shitty designs. 'Course, this doesn't apply to everyone but I think generally you're better off keeping than deleting  |
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Post by sdfkjgh on Jan 11, 2019 17:41:50 GMT
I mean, there's no reason not to keep it. Keeping an entry, even an old one, can provide inspiration to yourself and others for future designs. Some of my best designs have been inspired by some of my more shitty designs. 'Course, this doesn't apply to everyone but I think generally you're better off keeping than deleting : See, this guy gets it. |
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Post by Daij_Djan on Jan 14, 2019 21:36:49 GMT
This thread is now closed, the poll can be found here. And here's the next challenge! |
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"When in doubt, do a common." 
