Miscellaneous Card Design Thread

To all the Johnnies and Jennies out there, what can you do with this card?

Electroexperimentation 
Instant
Electroexperimentation deals 3 damage to target creature. This damage can’t be lethal.

Does the damage being unable to deal lethal get tracked like mana that can only be spent on certain cards?

Most effects that care about damage are either things like Inflame or You Are Already Dead or Enrage-adjacent to begin with, but maybe something with spell copying and Mogg Maniac could be interesting.

So, there are a bunch of Archvile variants in God Complex (and other mods like it), one of which requires you to freeze it/its corpse, otherwise it'll keep getting back up again.  This is based on that:

Diabolic Resurrectionist 
Creature--Demon Cleric
Diabolic Resurrectionist enters the battlefield with a +1/+1 counter on it.
Persist (When this creature dies, if it had no -1/-1 counters on it, return it to the battlefield under its owner’s control with a -1/-1 counter on it.)
If Diabolic Resurrectionist would enter the battlefield from a graveyard during any non-end step, it enters the battlefield from that graveyard at the beginning of the next end step instead.
When Diabolic Resurrectionist enters the battlefield from a graveyard, return from your graveyard to the battlefield target nonlegendary creature with equal or lesser mana value not named Diabolic Resurrectionist.
3/2

Unnatural Wakefulness 
Enchantment--Aura
Enchant creature
Flash
Enchanted creature has vigilance, aggressor, and “This creature can’t be tapped.”
At the beginning of each end step, put an insomnia counter on Unnatural Wakefulness.
When Unnatural Wakefulness leaves the battlefield, tap all nonland permanents controlled by the controller of the creature Unnatural Wakefulness was attached to and put X stun counters on each of them, where X is the number of insomnia counters on Unnatural Wakefulness. For as long as a permanent tapped this way has a stun counter on it, that permanent loses all abilities and can’t have or gain abilities.



Get some sleep, kiddies.

For example, Clone Shell's abilities are linked. If you equip it with Kaldra Compleat it usually won't return any of the creatures it exiled with the Kaldra ability. Shady Connections sais they are linked, so with this on the battlefield, it does return those cards.

Actually now that I think about it, it even means that the Clone Shell will know all the cards from a Dread Defiler given that all Shady Connections was on the battlefield when you activated the Defiler. That does sound like its horribly broken. I should probably make it .

Did I forget any of the ways that Control can deal with creatures?

Orgarr, Arena Champion 
Legendary Creature--Orc Berserker Shaman
This spell can’t be countered.
First strike, vigilance, reach, trample, haste, aggressor
Orgarr, Arena Champion can’t be the target of spells or abilities you control.
Whenever a player casts a spell that counters an ability or another spell, that player loses the game.
If a spell or ability an opponent controls causes you to discard Orgarr, Arena Champion or exile it from your hand, put it onto the battlefield instead of putting it into your graveyard or exiling it.
When Orgarr, Arena Champion leaves the battlefield, each of its owner’s opponents loses the game.
7/5





So, while going through some of my designs, I noticed that Orgarr up there is pretty close to and older design of mine:

Ochre Golem 
Artifact Creature--Elemental Golem
If was spent to cast this spell, it enters the battlefield as a red 5/1 with haste. If was spent to cast this spell, it enters the battlefield as a white 1/5 with vigilance. If was spent to cast this spell, it enters the battlefield as a red and white 5/5 with vigilance and haste. Otherwise, it enters the battlefield as a colorless 4/4 with no abilities.
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I kinda like this design, and I remember wanting to fill out the rest of the cycle, so here goes with the first few:

Jade Golem 
Artifact Creature--Elemental Golem
If was spent to cast this spell, it enters the battlefield as a green 4/2 with trample. If was spent to cast this spell, it enters the battlefield as a white 2/4 with lifelink. If was spent to cast this spell, it enters the battlefield as a green and white 4/4 with lifelink and trample. Otherwise, it enters the battlefield as a colorless 3/3 with no abilities.
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Bloodstone Golem 
Artifact Creature--Elemental Golem
If was spent to cast this spell, it enters the battlefield as a black 1/3 with wither. If was spent to cast this spell, it enters the battlefield as a red 3/1 with first strike. If was spent to cast this spell, it enters the battlefield as a black and red 3/3 with first strike and wither. Otherwise, it enters the battlefield as a colorless 2/2 with no abilities.
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Corundum Golem 
Artifact Creature--Elemental Golem
If was spent to cast this spell, it enters the battlefield as a blue 3/6 with hexproof. If was spent to cast this spell, it enters the battlefield as a red 6/3 with menace. If was spent to cast this spell, it enters the battlefield as a blue and red 6/6 with hexproof and menace. Otherwise, it enters the battlefield as a colorless 5/5 with no abilities.
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Labradorite Golem 
Artifact Creature--Elemental Golem
Flash

If was spent to cast this spell, it enters the battlefield as a blue 2/1 with flying. If was spent to cast this spell, it enters the battlefield as a black 1/2 with deathtouch. If was spent to cast this spell, it enters the battlefield as a blue and black 2/2 with flying and deathtouch. Otherwise, it enters the battlefield as a colorless 2/2 with no abilities.
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Amphibolite Golem 
Artifact Creature--Elemental Golem
If was spent to cast this spell, it enters the battlefield as a white 2/3 with vigilance. If was spent to cast this spell, it enters the battlefield as a black 3/2 with deathtouch. If was spent to cast this spell, it enters the battlefield as a white and black 3/3 with vigilance and deathtouch. Otherwise, it enters the battlefield as a colorless 2/2 with no abilities.
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It is increadibly hard to do 10 of these and not have them all seem the same, while also keeping their relative power levels flat, AND not having them all cost the same, but ALSO not having the mana costs for the whole cycle just spiral off into ridiculousness!  Plus, I tried keeping the minerals to ones that have multiple color forms that match the colors of the cards, and that's another layer of difficulty on top; not to mention the overabundance of jargon in the fields of geology & mineralogy (why is there so much jargon in the various fields of science?).

Anyway, I'm kinda out of ideas for now, why don't you all see if you can come up with some?

Pacifism
Enchantment - Aura
Enchant creature
Enchanted creature can’t attack or block.
"Can’t a fella get a moment’s peace around here?”

ZephyrPhantom, kefke: I hate you both.

Temporal Insert 
Instant
Cast this spell only during an opponent’s turn.
Choose from among untap, upkeep, draw, or end. After this step, you take an additional step of the chosen type.

Just had an interesting idea:

Choose one or more.  You may resolve the chosen modes in any order--

Emergency Shutdown 
Legendary Enchantment
Flash
This spell can’t be cast during a beginning phase.
When you cast this spell, tap all permanents.
As long as Emergency Shutdown is on the battlefield, all counters are stun counters.

Shared Findings 
Instant
This spell costs less to cast for each of its targets.
You and any number of other target players each draw four cards.



Drain Existence 
Instant
Exile target planeswalker or non-Zombie creature. Create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token.

I guess you could use this in a deck full of cheap creatures with negative abilities?