Miscellaneous Card Design Thread

What's better than fetchlands?  Fetchlands that can be fetched by other fetchlands!

Temporal Timberline 
Land--Forest
(: Add .)
When Temporal Timberline enters, sacrifice it. When you do, search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Temporal Morass
Land--Swamp
(: Add .)
When Temporal Morass enters, sacrifice it. When you do, search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Temporal Pampas
Land--Plains
(: Add .)
When Temporal Pampas enters, sacrifice it. When you do, search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle

Temporal Coral Reef
Land--Island
(: Add .)
When Temporal Coral Reef enters, sacrifice it. When you do, search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle

Temporal Impasse
Land--Mountain
(: Add .)
When Temporal Impasse enters, sacrifice it. When you do, search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Kenzigh, the Stalwart 
Legendary Creature--Elephant Soldier
Flash
Affinity for life you’ve gained this turn
Double strike, trample, lifelink, haste, vigilance, reach
Kenzigh, the Stalwart gets +X/+X, where X is the amount of life you’ve gained this turn.
Pay 4 life: Kenzigh, the Stalwart gains hexproof and indestructible until end of turn.
{Abzan watermark}
5/5





New idea, "How can deal with enchantments?":

Consuming Flames 
Enchantment
Whenever a source you control deals noncombat damage, you may destroy target artifact or enchantment an opponent controls with mana value less than or equal to that much damage.
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Fire burns everything, even the immaterial.



EDIT:

Deszrek, Dark Ritualist 
Legendary Creature--Human Minion
Whenever you spend four or more mana to cast a spell, add .
2/4

I've already run afoul of this before, so take my advice: change "target opponent" to "an opponent".

you get the same result with a mincing gel"an opponent" ("each creature/planeswalker an opponent controls"); plus, no confusion over superfluous instances of target.

Pride
Creature--Elemental Cat Incarnation
Lifelink
Whenever you cast a spell, if an opponent controls any untapped lands, create an Ajani’s Pridemate token.
When Pride is put into a graveyard from anywhere, shuffle it into its owner’s library.
6/6

The modified version of my previous entry on the latest challenge of the There are Two Types of Creatures On This Card Game game.

I changed it following some feedback it might not fit the weird type correctly, but I didn't want to throw the card away, so here's an adjusted version.

I've just been wording it as "deathtouch for planeswalkers".  "Deathtouch for" is rather versatile, as it could be for anything, just like "protection from".

The Royal Road to Learning 
Legendary Enchantment
Companion—Your starting deck contains exactly sixty cards and your sideboard contains forty or more cards.
When you cast this spell, draw two cards.
Your sideboard can contain more than fifteen cards.
You can’t conjure cards.
At the beginning of each end step, if your library contains one hundred or more cards, you win the game.



I can just imagine the preview for this card being full of comments like "The Royal Road to Learning doesn't exist", "There is no Royal Road to Learning", "We most certainly did not bring back the companion mechanic for this new preview card", "I don't actually have a new card to show you", "What am I even doing here?", and "This deck does not reliably win on turn 4, occasionally on turn 3, turn 2 at the earliest (if you have the godhand nutdraw), because it does not, in fact, exist, so stop asking!"

Slith Sleuth 
Creature - Slith Detective

Vigilance.
Whenever ~ deals combat damage to a player, put a +1/+1 counter on it.
, Remove a +1/+1 counter from ~: Investigate (Create a colorless Clue artifact token with ", Sacrifice this artifact: Draw a card.").

1/1

Inspired by conceding early to Leyline of the Guildpact monogreen devotion:

Leyline of Denial 
Enchantment--Leyline
Leyline of Denial can’t be in your starting deck if it isn’t the first game of the match.
If Leyline of Denial is in your opening hand, you may begin the game with it on the battlefield.
When Leyline of Denial enters, choose the name of a card that isn’t a basic land.
Cards with the chosen name can’t be played.
If a permanent with the chosen name would enter, exile it instead.

Banish the Ostentatious 
Instant
Target player exiles target permanent they control with one or more counters on it.
Overload (You may cast this spell for its overload cost. If you do, change its text by replacing all instances of “target” with “each”.)
This spell can only be overloaded as a sorcery.

Harsh Penalties 
Instant
Counter target spell unless any player pays . If a player does, this spell deals 3 damage to any target.

This is obviously just a playtest name, but it'd be so awesome if it actually made it through to print, mebbe as a Universes Beyond tie-in:

America, FUCK YEAH! 
Instant
Counter target spell. If a spell is countered this way, this spell deals X damage to any target and you gain X life, where X is that spell’s mana value.



It sucks that the mana cost isn't ordered though.