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Post by Daij_Djan on Jan 28, 2019 11:55:17 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 fifty-second challenge!
The winners of the "PTA meeting" poll were kinotherapy (top left), sade612 (top right) & spazlaz (bottom) with...
And the challenge issued by one of our winners was... Morph has always been a favorite mechanic of mine, and I was hoping we would get a few more good cards to work with in Tarkir. Den Protector is fine, but I think we can do better. Design a card with a morph ability or one that mentions face-down 2/2 creatures.
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 viriss on Jan 28, 2019 16:47:49 GMT
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Post by sdfkjgh on Jan 28, 2019 19:19:01 GMT
This is perfect for me, as during the run-up to GDS3, Hipsters of the Coast was holding a series of design challenges. Here's my entry for Challenge #3:
Silarka, the Secret-Breaker  Legendary Creature--Dragon
(Nonexistent mana costs can't be paid.) Flying
Whenever Silarka, the Secret-Breaker or another creature you control is turned face up, you may draw a card. If you do, you may have that creature deal damage equal to the number of cards in your hand to another target creature.
  : Turn target face up creature you control face down.
Morph  (You may cast this card face down as a 2/2 creature for 3. Turn it face up any time for its morph cost.) 5/5 |
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Post by crimsonreaper on Jan 28, 2019 21:47:25 GMT
So I was creating tri-color enemy wedge set, contained on a plane where magic is expressed through the arts (In my world, specifically Music, Fine Arts, Theatrical and Performing Arts, Gastronomy and Perfumery). The "thespians" mechanic was morph and a little theme was cards that were "Plays"; cards that could temporarily allow your face down creatures to "perform" in different roles. Its a bit parasitic and a bit pushed but I quite liked the flavor behind it. So here is one of the Plays! {Spoiler}  |
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Malsey
0/0 Germ
Posts: 24
Formerly Known As: Malsey
Favorite Card: Unexpected Results
Favorite Set: Alara or Innistrad
Color Alignment: Blue, Red, Green
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Post by Malsey on Jan 28, 2019 22:13:09 GMT
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Post by gurfafflekins on Jan 28, 2019 22:53:32 GMT
Energizing Shadow  Creature - Elemental   : Target creature blocking a face-down creature you control gets -2/-2 until end of turn. 1/1 Old (can’t format well on mobile, sorry, will do it on computer tomorrow) Sudden Gust Sorcery  Exile all face down permanents face up. Return all artifacts, creatures, enchantments, lands and planeswalkers exiled this way to the battlefield under their owner's control. Shuffle all instants and sorceries exiled this way to their owner's library. Random idea off the top of my head.
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Post by Tesagk on Jan 28, 2019 23:54:29 GMT
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Fermat
8/8 Octopus
Posts: 436
Favorite Card: Force of Will
Favorite Set: Guildpact (set when I started playing)
Color Alignment: White, Blue, Black
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Post by Fermat on Jan 29, 2019 0:06:15 GMT
Ukud Lookout Creature — Bird Shaman Flying When ~ enters the battlefield, look at target face-down creature an opponent controls, then scry X, where X is that creature's power if it were face-up. (To scry X, look at the top X cards of your library, then put any number of them on the bottom of your library and the rest on top in any order.)"An enemy who has revealed himself has essentially lost, especially against one as cunning as our lord."2/3
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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 29, 2019 0:28:34 GMT
 Abstract Instant Counter target spell with converted mana cost 4 or less. If that spell is countered this way, its controller manifests it instead of putting it into its owner’s graveyard. (That player puts it onto the battlefield face down as a 2/2 creature. If it’s a creature card, it can be turned face up any time for its mana cost.) |
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spazlaz
6/6 Wurm
Posts: 335
Color Alignment: Blue, Black
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Post by spazlaz on Jan 29, 2019 4:15:45 GMT
Well, counterspell was taken:
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Post by sdfkjgh on Jan 29, 2019 16:27:31 GMT
Sudden Gust Sorcery Exile all face down permanents face up. Return all artifacts, creatures, enchantments, lands and planeswalkers exiled this way to the battlefield under their owner's control. Shuffle all instants and sorceries exiled this way to their owner's library. Random idea off the top of my head. Nice mass unmorphing. However, you might wanna stagger the enchantments entering the battlefield. That way, any Auras exiled this way can attach to other permanents that entered that way as well. Proper templating:
Return each artifact, creature, land and planeswalker exiled this way to the battlefield under its owner's control, then do the same for enchantments.
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tarvoc
1/1 Squirrel
Posts: 56
Color Alignment: Blue
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Post by tarvoc on Jan 29, 2019 19:41:17 GMT
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Post by mrlozano on Jan 29, 2019 20:20:49 GMT
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Post by CanterburyEgg on Jan 29, 2019 20:59:45 GMT
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Post by korakhos on Jan 29, 2019 21:27:50 GMT
Random idea I had a few weeks ago:  EDIT: changed the card based on shifty's article. |
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Post by shiftyhomunculus on Jan 29, 2019 22:19:13 GMT
It's probably worth mentioning the Morph Rule for those who might care. In Khans of Tarkir block, to cut down on the out-of-nowhere blowouts morph was prone to causing in its original incarnation, WotC imposed a new rule for morphs to follow: any morph whose face-up form can kill a 2/2 in combat and survive must have a morph cost of at least five mana. ( Source and source.) Manifest obviously does not follow this rule, but megamorph in DTK does. I do think it's a perfectly valid choice to ignore this rule or come up with one of your own, but here it is for reference. |
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Post by korakhos on Jan 29, 2019 22:24:13 GMT
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Post by Fleur on Jan 29, 2019 22:44:37 GMT
 No matter the plane, the rules of math apply. 1 + 1 = 2. Or 1 + 1 = 5/5. Or something. |
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digiman
0/0 Germ
Posts: 31
Formerly Known As: digiman619
Favorite Card: Extinction
Favorite Set: Dominaria
Color Alignment: Blue, Red
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Post by digiman on Jan 30, 2019 0:59:14 GMT
Creature- Human Wizard , Sacrifice a creature: Manifest a creature card from your graveyard. (Put it onto the battlefield face down as a 2/2 creature. Turn it face up any time for its mana cost.)2/4
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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 30, 2019 4:46:54 GMT
Attachment DeletedReal or Recondite -  Instant Exile the top five cards of your library face down. An opponent separates those cards into two piles. Manifest one pile and put the other into your graveyard. (To manifest a card, put it onto the battlefield face down as a 2/2 creature. Turn it face up any time for its mana cost if it's a creature card.) Play on Fact or Fiction. I think it's really clean. Could maybe need another color cost in it's mana cost. 4 mana for three 2/2's is probably too good.
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Post by gurfafflekins on Jan 30, 2019 6:45:30 GMT
sdfkjghThanks for the feedback. Changed my entry for now though but I may still switch back. Your entry confuses me by the way - a GU creature that enables it and others to deal direct damage to creatures. Seems a little out of GU’s pie to me
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Post by gateways7 on Jan 30, 2019 16:00:43 GMT
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darknova
0/0 Germ
I live, I play.
Posts: 25
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Post by darknova on Jan 30, 2019 18:46:28 GMT
Ender of Tribes 4RB Legendary Creature — Demon RareMenace Morph 3RB (You may cast this card face down as a 2/2 creature for 3. Turn it face up any time for its morph cost.)At the beginning of your upkeep, Ender of Tribes deals X damage to any target, where X is equal to the amount of face-down permanents you control. 5/5
Ender of Tribes, while being a nice heavy hitting creature on it's own, benefits from morph decks by using other face down creatures to it's advantage. By providing other face-down permanents, you can fuel the Ender of Tribes damage output each turn. In addition, if you have multiple copies of this in your deck, you can cast them face-down to get creatures on the battlefield without worrying about Legendary creature rules, then flip them when their clone dies. |
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Post by Daij_Djan on Jan 30, 2019 21:19:17 GMT
And here's my take on the challenge!
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Post by Jartis on Jan 30, 2019 21:58:58 GMT
Went back and forth on this one a lot. Still not sure how I feel about cost and all that, but it's what I've got.  |
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Pixi-Rex
1/1 Squirrel
Why am I a 0/0 Germ
Posts: 62
Color Alignment: White, Green
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Post by Pixi-Rex on Feb 2, 2019 10:42:08 GMT
Entry. Minimorph does it work. Im trying, but it feels weird.   |
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Post by sade612 on Feb 2, 2019 21:14:12 GMT
Thanks for all the cards so far! Here's my entry as a remake of Headhunter exhibiting the Totemorph mechanic.  |
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Post by FLAREdirector on Feb 3, 2019 18:18:38 GMT
You know what, I'm not a huge fan of morph, but this was an opportunity for me to make a card that ameliorates my issue--namely, that if the card you manifested is an instant or a sorcery, you don't have a chance to cast it.  Yes, it's League of Legends art.  <iframe width="8.5" height="11.460000000000036" style="position: absolute; width: 8.5px; height: 11.460000000000036px; z-index: -9999; border-style: none;left: 5px; top: 53px;" id="MoatPxIOPT0_50718906" scrolling="no"></iframe> <iframe width="8.5" height="11.460000000000036" style="position: absolute; width: 8.5px; height: 11.46px; z-index: -9999; border-style: none; left: 370px; top: 53px;" id="MoatPxIOPT0_20065539" scrolling="no"></iframe> <iframe width="8.5" height="11.460000000000036" style="position: absolute; width: 8.5px; height: 11.46px; z-index: -9999; border-style: none; left: 5px; top: 563px;" id="MoatPxIOPT0_21091157" scrolling="no"></iframe> <iframe width="8.5" height="11.460000000000036" style="position: absolute; width: 8.5px; height: 11.46px; z-index: -9999; border-style: none; left: 370px; top: 563px;" id="MoatPxIOPT0_97793984" scrolling="no"></iframe> |
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Post by kefke on Feb 4, 2019 7:53:34 GMT
It took me far longer than I would have expected to come up with something I liked for this. I finally came up with something I think is both simple and unique, though. I think the implied cycle could have worked at Common, but I'm leaving it at Uncommon out of respect for the original morphland.  |
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Post by Daij_Djan on Feb 4, 2019 17:33:52 GMT
This thread is now closed, the poll can be found here. And here's the next challenge! |
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