Soundtrack Game

temawimag
Yeah, I know about the not-mixing of counters and would have rather not done so, but I just got this idea in my head about something growing bigger and taking over space from others, and this felt like the best way to represent that, mixing be damned.

This song gave me the idea of someone who rises for the betterment of their fellow citizens in dark times of war: every time a new friend enters into her life, her heart pumps with joyful light as yet another reminder for what she's fighting for. The more there becomes worth fghting for, the more excitement for the cause. And when the tendrils of war inevitable reach for her people, she just as inevitably defends them. And with every battle, the inner light radiates as hope, making her symbolically and literally a shiny example for the solidarity and courage that will usher in a free world. And after all these countless battles (6 minutes), it is finally done, and complete harmony defines the life. Or is it? It doesn't  matter that much, for the striven hope is what will keep all of them alive throughout these times.

temawimag Thank you very much for the win! Not offended at all, thanks for the information too. Every time in challenges, I already think about whether I should write my thoughts behind the card or not, because on the one hand it could be seen as kind of cheating because some would prefer to rate the cards on their ability to stand alone, but on the other hand - if the ability to stand alone is not explicitly demanded -  some as myself would like to rate the cards completely how the designer intended them to be, and extra text can help to fill in the possibly vague spots, especially when there is not (enough) room for flavour text. But at least I will now know how you specifically want it.

I think a great thing about just having the music is that people can get wildly different mental pictures from the same song.

...though I suppose the extra condition could be used to nudge people toward what you were feeling.

Tme to judge!

ameisenmeister Oh so sweet! I really get behind this interpretation, a wild muddle of bouncing beings that explode for an even bigger muddle of potentially different counters greatly convey the feeling of those different and upbeat sounds. To make matters even better, the surging second part of the track can be found in the idea of your permanents surging with counters, most evident in +1/+1 counters.
And btw, the card itself is also a gem that would be fun to include.

gateways7 I agree with you, it fits very nicely, a really cool idea of a card! The many different sounds which also end abruptly sometimes, like the many different creatures which could bounce back and forth between the players. Flavour-wise the only little criticism I have is that the song feels very upbeat to me, and your name+picture convey a pretty dark theme. I like to imagine that the different hands in the song's visuals are those hands in the picture though. 
The card itself is, like I said, a very fun and innovative one. However, one major error: if enchanted creature becomes tapped, it never untaps unless you switch the aura because everyone's untap step happens before the upkeep step where they would get the creature.

Oh, and I don't even know if visuals should be considered in the design/judging or not. It's probably okay or rather even better, and I did here, but maybe kefke could make a statement? Because I don't feel like this is a subject where the judge can judge from their subjective view.

kefke At first I wanted to say that although it fits with the general changing nature of the song, these many different sounds accentuate more the side of the creatures being copied from, and without really having a main sound to convey the Shapeshifter itself, the Shapeshifter itself does go down a little bit. But then I realized that this little sound which appears on the 40th//41th second feels like a drop of water representing the watery creature, and from that point on I heard these drops throughout the song, giving a nice vibe of a elemental cat jumping between all those other creatures.

Now the card itself confuses me: it is almost the same as Escaped Shapeshifter? With so few of these „the same is true for...“ cards I don't feel that it's the time yet for a condensed version of an already existing shapeshifter. Having other ways to copy from creatures (and also more abilities) would be a better way I think. Also, being able to copy more abilities would make it a more balanced card, right now it's a little bit weak.

temawimag I dig this interpretation, an interpretation which compares the many strange sounds to an unmatched variety: the imagination of each person. All that channeled into one sentence which conveys this flavour tightly when adding the flavour text. The only little criticism I would give is that it could have a little bit more magic-feel to it, like a spell that's oozing out of these diverting daydreams, protecting the man in more „substantial“ way. Right now, it doesn't really explain why a spell shot against him gets dispelled in the real world.

The card itself is also an excellent design, one sentence which has so many uses.

I think I'm going to need some clarification. Do you mean "does not care" as in "is perfectly willing to", or in a "sacrificing is not a part of its mechanics" sense?

So, this sounds very aggressive and "red" to me, but with that underlying melodic section that seems almost heroic and very "white". I got this image of an all-out assault on some impossibly strong opponent from the song. So that's what I tried to make. Hopefully it's not cheating to have it be a non-permanent that makes you sacrifice other cards, but I feel like getting a second battle phase should be aggressively costed, and also wanted to capture that "this is our last chance, so throw everything we've got at them" vibe that the song was giving me.

It's not the ability word Enrage because this here triggers only at combat damage, mainly to not use "combat damage" and "(any) damage" on the same card, secondly to emphasize the pure battle flavour, and thirdly to not have to worry about whether making this card cost four mana would be a little bit more unsmooth/bad. Also, I think the flavour of poking your own creatures to enrage them works a little bit better on dinosaurs than on warriors who at least have some sort of feeling of belonging.
Oh, and btw, even if I did write it to "any damage", the Enrage stamp would still be out of place as it occurs to me that only creatures can have it, so there's that.

Thank you very much for the win!

Will post my song tomorrow at the latest.

As much as it is a bit of a silly concept, the card doesn't do anything off the wall, so I've decided to keep it black-border. The multiverse is vast, who's to say there isn't a cyberpunkish plane somewhere? XD Also, I would like to thank this card, for teaching me the difference between Sunburst and Converge. And also pointing out that as of Chamber Sentry both keywords may be irrelevant? It seems odd to me that they have two keywords that could have done that effect, and they chose specifically to use neither of them.

It's still less than a week. But I think a lot of us are struggling with the fact that we have to listen to a song and then find inspiration from the song. It's a cool game, but it takes a bit more effort than most of the others.

It could be worse. You could have had one of the smallest responses ever to a CotW challenge...