Miscellaneous Card Design Thread

Inspired by this:

Sinless Stonecasting 
Instant
This spell can’t be countered if exactly was spent to cast it.
This spell costs less to cast for each crime committed this turn.
This spell can’t be cast if less than was spent to cast it.
Each player who committed a crime this game loses the game.



Errata: for effects like "mana of any type can be spent to cast that spell", just so long as four mana pips were spent to cast it, the conditions will be met.  Mind you, most of those effects are in color combinations that make it almost impossible to be a Todd, so...

Inspired by Idea their Melsoda card from the boosterpack game:

Chinda, Great Hexer
Legendary Creature - Vampire Shaman
Double strike, trample.
Whenever ~ deals damage to a permanent or player, you may remove a counter from that permanent or player or add a counter of a type that's already on it.
1/3

Wouldn't you wanna go with the bestow wording, so that if the targeted creature is gone by the time it enters, it enters as a creature?

Idea : Neat ability.

Small notes:
- Right now, the exile is a trigger; when it goes to a hidden zone, you can technically no longer verify which card it was, so the trigger would have an issue resolving. I think you'd need to have it be a replacement instead: "If it would leave the battlefield, exile it instead."
- Not sure how the game would handle a card having multiple names. Maybe have "Enchanted creature has this permanent's name and becomes this permanent's colors in addition to its other colors."
- When in the graveyard, this is not a creature, but a card, so you'd need to have: "You may cast this card from your graveyard..."

Summary:
"You may cast this card from your graveyard as an Aura enchantment spell with enchant creature for its inhabit cost. If it would leave the battlefield, exile it instead. Enchanted creature has this permanent's name and becomes this permanent's colors in addition to its other colors."

You might be able to save a little space if you template the creature's abilities and P/T in a slightly different way:
"~ and enchanted creature gets +3/+1 and has trample." And make the base P/T to be 0/0. It would mean that when it's a card, it would have 0/0, but as soon as it's on the battlefield, it would be a 3/1.

That's an amazing line of text that I want to see in Outlaws of Thunder Junction.

I'm looking to make a Goblin pauper commander deck, and I got some inspiration by the bumbling goblin medics, specifically in the flavor text:

Goblin Nurse
Creature - Goblin Shaman
Put a -1/-1 counter on a Goblin you control: Target creature you control gets +2/+0 and gains haste.
"You said scalp 'er doccor, so tha's what I did!"
1/1

This is from Oceanspiller, set 2 of Birthright block:

The Oceanspiller 
Legendary Tribal Artifact--God Vehicle
This spell can’t be countered.
Vigilance, trample, indestructible, shroud
Other creatures you control can’t attack.
You can’t cast planeswalker spells.
If a planeswalker would enter under your control or you’d gain control of a planeswalker, exile that planeswalker instead.
Whenever The Oceanspiller attacks or blocks, reveal the top X cards of your library. Put all basic Island cards revealed this way onto the battlefield tapped and exerted, and the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.
Attacking creatures get -1/-0 for each basic Island that entered tapped and exerted under your control since your last turn began.
Crew X
(X/4)

Fallout previews made me think about energy:

Galvanizer Aprentice
Creature - Human Artificer
Haste
Galvanizer Aprentice’s power is equal to the ammount of you have.
Whenever Galvanizer Aprentice attacks, you get .
*/4

Trying to expand my Instant/Sorcery Creatures design space...

Assassination Adept
Instant Creature - Insect Assassin
(This spell resolves onto the battlefield and is no longer an instant.)
Target creature get -3/-3 until end of turn. If it dies this way, ~ enters with a +1/+1 counter on it.
Flying
2/2

I like the idea, and I think it's interesting enough to play around with, but I haven't really settled on if I like it enough to commit to it being a full-on theme for something. I have a couple of set ideas that I'd like to flesh out with designs, but I haven't committed the time to it. I hope to make a full set this year, and instant/sorcery creatures might make it it.

Jace & Chandra: Garruk's Inside Story.

So, about 2-3 hours ago, I was watching the Bon Appetit channel; Chris Morocco was making marinated, thinly-sliced brisket for a salad, & he revealed that Andy named his (Andy’s) knife "Herbslayer".

Herbslayer, Andy's Knife 
Legendary Artifact--Equipment
Equipped creature gets +2/+0 and has first strike, trample, deathtouch for Plants and for Treefolk, and “This creature must be blocked by a Plant or a Treefolk if able.”
Equip Andy Baraghani
Equip

And here I was thinking it was a reference to Osmosis Jones!