Miscellaneous Card Design Thread

Just lost to Temur Energy with the new MH3 energy cards + the old Temur Energy cards

Leaky Conduits 
Instant
Split second (As long as this spell is on the stack, players can’t cast spells or activate abilities that aren’t mana abilities.)
Kicker (You may pay an additional as you cast this spell.)
Each player gets an emblem with “At the beginning of your end step, you lose (one energy counter).” If this spell was kicked, draw a card.

I'm surprised this hasn't been done yet:

Arcbound Hydra 
Artifact Creature--Hydra
This spell can’t be countered.
Vigilance, trample, haste, reach, hexproof, modular X (This enters the battlefield with X +1/+1 counters on it. When it dies, you may put its +1/+1 counters on target artifact creature.)
0/0

Hans Eriksson, Sword of Revenge
Legendary Creature - Human Ranger

First strike.

Whenever ~ deals damage to a Lhurgoyf, destroy that creature.

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"This one's for you, Saffi!"

3/3

Yeah but I just got the East-Mark Cavalier's wording in mind, so....

Stupefying Revelation 
Instant
Each player puts the top seven cards of their library into their hand, then discards five cards. Discarding cards this way can’t cause triggered abilities to trigger.





Great Expedition
Instant
Each creature explores twice. You gain life equal to the number of +1/+1 counters put onto creatures this way.

Inspired by COTW 525:

Spawn Seal
Token Artifact - Stamp
, Sacrifice this permanent: Put a +1/+1 counter or a finality counter on target creature. Activate only as a sorcery.

Corresponds to . I think spawn-ifying enemy creatures is a good way to flip the concept on its head and make it distinctly Eldrazi-influenced.

Bear Seal
Token Artifact - Stamp
, Sacrifice this permanent: Put a +1/+1 counter or a nonbasic landwalk counter on target creature. Activate only as a sorcery.

Corresponds to . Wasn't sure what would be the best fit so I tried a "caring about lands" mechanic.

Spider Seal
Token Artifact - Stamp
, Sacrifice this permanent: Put a +1/+1 counter or a shroud counter on target creature. Activate only as a sorcery.

Corresponds to , specifically the scrapped version from Planar Chaos. The idea was to bring back an old keyword that acted 'weirdly' while fitting the general anti-spell theme.

This was designed in my sleep, after thinking about Matthew Perry's death and the demons that haunted him, then thinking about my own demons:

Thanatophobia
Legendary Creature--Incarnation
When you cast this spell, exile this card haunting target creature. Thanatophobia enters when that creature leaves the battlefield.
Fear, trample, deathtouch
Discard a card: Thanatophobia loses fear until end of turn and must be blocked each combat this turn if able.
7/7

EDIT: I decided to make this slightly better by adding "must be blocked".

Cauterize 
Instant
Lifelink, wither (This deals damage to creatures in the form of -1/-1 counters.)
This spell deals 3 damage divided as you choose among one, two, or three target creatures.





Inspired by Kaalia of the Vast:

Cinder Necromancer 
Creature--Elemental Warlock
Cast this spell only during a precombat main phase.
Cinder Necromancer can only enter during a precombat main phase.
Haste, aggressor
When Cinder Necromancer enters, exile target creature card from a graveyard.
Whenever Cinder Necromancer attacks, return a creature card exiled by it to the battlefield under your control tapped and attacking. That creature is an Elemental in addition to its other types. Sacrifice that creature at end of combat.
4/4

Because she just missed her boo so much, she replicated her spark's capabilities via filigree technology:

Saheeli, Technospark-Augmented 
Legendary Planeswalker--Saheeli
When you cast this spell, you get six .
Damage dealt to you also causes you to lose that much .
When you have no , sacrifice Saheeli, Technospark-Augmented.
::L+::: Create a 0/2 colorless Thopter artifact creature token with flying.
::L-::: You get an emblem with ": All creatures get +1/+0 until end of turn."
::L-Eleven ::: Choose any number of nonartifact, nonland permanents. Those permanents become artifacts until end of turn. Then choose any number of artifacts. Those artifacts become nonartifacts until end of turn. Then destroy all artifacts.



Master Teacher 
Creature--Vedalken Wizard Advisor
Level up    (2/3)
Level 3-6>Whenever a Class you control enters, it becomes level 2.  (3/4)
Level 7+>Whenever a Class you control enters, it becomes level 2, then it becomes level 3.  (4/5)

Even before the loss of mana burn, this might not have done much of anything, as either way, you're losing life for lands.  Now that mana burn is no longer a thing, there's nothing stopping any player from tapping out before this would trigger, thereby redering it unfortunately useless.

Everflowing Knowledge
Enchantment

Whenever you cast the first spell you drew this turn, draw a card. If you cast another spell that was drawn that way, repeat this process.

Surprise Snakes 
Kindred Enchantment--Snake
Flash
Whenever a player casts a spell, you may sacrifice a non-Snake permanent. If you do, create a 1/1 green Snake creature token.
, Sacrifice a Snake: Counter target spell.
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"Why'd it have to be snakes?!"
—Unknown former survivor, last words

Banisher Warlock 
Creature--Zombie Warlock
When Banisher Warlock enters, choose one or both—
• Exile up to one target creature an opponent controls. You lose life equal to its mana value.
• Exile up to one target enchantment an opponent controls. You lose life equal to its mana value.
3/1

Designed in my sleep, based on the WarCraft III spell:

Entangling Roots 
Instant
This spell costs less to cast if it targets a player while they’re taking an extra turn.
Target player loses X life and skips the next X phases of a turn.



What it means to skip a phase, aside from the obvious: if a player is required to make a decision during a phase that they're skipping, that player can't, so play proceeds as though they made no decision.  This means no attacking, no blocking, no casting spells, & no activating abilities.  Abilities that player controls that would trigger during a skipped phase don't trigger, because that player is skipping that phase.  If the end phase is skipped, that means the entire cleanup step is skipped for that player, and all that entails.  If X is greater than the number of phases remaining in the current turn, then phases in the next turn are also skipped, and so on, and so on.



Have some Class(es):

Group Hugger 
(Gain the next level as a sorcery to add its ability.)
If a player would gain life, each player gains that much life instead.
When Group Hugger enters, you gain 4 life.
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: Level 2
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If a player would draw one or more cards, each player draws that many cards instead.
When this Class becomes level 2, you draw two cards.
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: Level 3
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If a creature would enter under a player’s control, that creature enters, then each other player creates a nonlegendary token copy of that creature instead.
When this Class becomes level 3, you create a green 3/3 Beast creature token with trample.
Enchantment--Class


Bear Hugger 
(Gain the next level as a sorcery to add its ability.)
If a spell or ability a player controls would cause another player to discard one or more cards, each player discards that many cards instead. The same is true for exiling cards from hand.
When Bear Hugger enters, target player discards a card.
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: Level 2
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If a spell or ability controlled by a player would cause another player to sacrifice a permanent, each player sacrifices a permanent of that type instead.
When this Class becomes level 2, target player sacrifices a permanent.
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: Level 3
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If a player would lose life, each player loses that much life instead.
When this class becomes level 3, target player loses 4 life.
Enchantment--Class