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Post by Daij_Djan on Mar 11, 2019 13:08:00 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-eighth challenge!
The winner of the "Strike One!" poll was shiftyhomunculus with... And the challenge issued by our winner was... Design a card with an effect that's delayed somehow.
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 sade612 on Mar 11, 2019 16:51:36 GMT
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Post by viriss on Mar 11, 2019 17:10:10 GMT
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Post by FLAREdirector on Mar 11, 2019 18:31:40 GMT
I wanted to submit something that got stronger in matches against multiple players but also took longer to activate. I think I've struck a good chord between something that's really desirable in 4- or 6-player kitchen table Commander games but also isn't a totally garbage option if you had to draft it for 1v1.  |
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Post by Daij_Djan on Mar 11, 2019 20:02:11 GMT
What can I say.. While I don't like the Phasing mechanic, I still enjoy cards using phasing itself quite much (also I till this day don't get why people consinder it complicated  ). So here we go:
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Post by sdfkjgh on Mar 11, 2019 20:15:00 GMT
You never specified which direction in time the delay had to be!
Harness the Rifts    Instant  Exile target permanent. Return that permanent to the battlefield under its owner’s control at the beginning of the previous turn’s upkeep. |
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Post by FLAREdirector on Mar 11, 2019 22:41:18 GMT
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spazlaz
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Post by spazlaz on Mar 12, 2019 3:04:19 GMT
Here is a fun one for ya:
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Post by sdfkjgh on Mar 12, 2019 6:42:08 GMT
Here is a fun one for ya:
You need to use the templating of the Mirrodin shard cycle ( Crystal Shard, et al). |
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Post by gurfafflekins on Mar 12, 2019 19:51:08 GMT
Careful PlanningSorcery  (Nonexistent mana costs can't be paid.)Suspend 3 - (Rather than cast this card from your hand, you may pay and exile it with 3 time counters on it. At the beginning of your upkeep, remove a time counter. When the last is removed, cast it without paying its mana cost.)Draw a card. Then, exile ~ with 3 time counters on it. Slow and steady wins the race.Thoughts: -Changing suspend time -Is wording enough because Jhoira of the Ghitu but it already has suspend?
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Post by Daij_Djan on Mar 12, 2019 19:56:31 GMT
This old Future Sight cycle says it's just fine  Just use "three" instead of "3".
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Post by gurfafflekins on Mar 12, 2019 19:57:47 GMT
Damn it that's already a cycle? And here I was thinking I was being creative... oh well, it's my entry for now. Thanks daij.  |
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spazlaz
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Post by spazlaz on Mar 12, 2019 20:49:32 GMT
Here is a fun one for ya:
You need to use the templating of the Mirrodin shard cycle ( Crystal Shard, et al). I'm pretty sure they've never made 3+ options for costs, and I like the way it is formatted. I don't think having 5 "or"s in there really helps get the point across. |
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Post by sdfkjgh on Mar 13, 2019 0:22:34 GMT
You need to use the templating of the Mirrodin shard cycle ( Crystal Shard, et al). I'm pretty sure they've never made 3+ options for costs, and I like the way it is formatted. I don't think having 5 "or"s in there really helps get the point across. You actually do need 5 "or"s, as the way you have it now only represents two different payment options, one of which is exorbitant. No one's going to sacrifice a land, pay 3 life, discard a card, and sacrifice a creature when they can just pay  . That's what your current wording says. Fortunately, we can shorten it a bit.
or Sacrifice a creature or land or Pay 3 life or Discard a card: Remove a time counter from ~.
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Post by hydraheadhunter on Mar 13, 2019 5:13:45 GMT
I'm pretty sure they've never made 3+ options for costs, and I like the way it is formatted. I don't think having 5 "or"s in there really helps get the point across. You actually do need 5 "or"s, as the way you have it now only represents two different payment options, one of which is exorbitant. No one's going to sacrifice a land, pay 3 life, discard a card, and sacrifice a creature when they can just pay . That's what your current wording says. Fortunately, we can shorten it a bit.
or Sacrifice a creature or land or Pay 3 life or Discard a card: Remove a time counter from ~.
What about: "Sacrifice a land, pay 3 life, discard a card, sacrifice a creature, pay 3. Pay any one cost:" I agree that you can't not have it formatted the way you do because magic's language is super precise and without the "or's" it reads like sdkjgh says, but I get where spazlaz is coming from: five "or's" is ugly and repetitive. |
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powernoel
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I'm having fun playing EDH
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Post by powernoel on Mar 13, 2019 10:15:14 GMT
Here's my entry for this week!
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kinotherapy
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stupid kor i just fell out of the floor
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Post by kinotherapy on Mar 13, 2019 18:11:31 GMT
 Elwyn, Yet to Prosper Legendary Creature — Human Wizard If you would draw a card, you may instead exile the top two cards of your library face down and put a +1/+1 counter on Elwyn, Yet to Prosper. You may look at cards exiled with Elwyn. Whenever Elwyn deals combat damage to a player, remove all +1/+1 counters from it. For each counter removed this way, put a card exiled with Elwyn into its owner’s hand. 1/1 |
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Post by sdfkjgh on Mar 13, 2019 23:15:11 GMT
powernoel: I find you avatar intensely disturbing. Shibari on a pikachu plushie seems both wrong and unnecessary. Don't ever change it, you'll fit right in here.
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Post by Xenagos on Mar 14, 2019 2:05:20 GMT
{Old Entry}  |
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Post by sdfkjgh on Mar 14, 2019 2:34:41 GMT
Is there any particular reason you chose At instead of Until? |
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Post by mrlozano on Mar 14, 2019 7:11:35 GMT
 So, this is a small delay, but a delay anyways. Is it fair game? |
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Post by melono on Mar 14, 2019 19:37:51 GMT
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Post by fluffydeathbringer on Mar 15, 2019 8:44:09 GMT
when in doubt, make a simple rare
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Post by Daij_Djan on Mar 15, 2019 8:51:27 GMT
@ mrlozano : I'm sorry to say, but there is no delay at all. A spell's effect only happens when it resolves anyway, which means "When ~ resolves" literally means nothing. You could however tie the first ability to an "When you cast this spell" trigger (I kind of assume that's what you wanted to do in the first place?) instead: |
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Post by mrlozano on Mar 15, 2019 11:27:48 GMT
@ mrlozano : I'm sorry to say, but there is no delay at all. A spell's effect only happens when it resolves anyway, which means "When ~ resolves" literally means nothing. You could however tie the first ability to an "When you cast this spell" trigger (I kind of assume that's what you wanted to do in the first place?) instead: My idea was taht it would put an ability in the stack when it resolved but it think I will go with your wording. Thanks! |
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Post by Xenagos on Mar 15, 2019 16:54:43 GMT
Is there any particular reason you chose At instead of Until? I chose "At" because the prompt is to make a card with a delayed effect - and I reasoned, if I did "Until", that wouldn't be delayed per se because it could immediately be cast.
EDIT: However, I now realize I could have it say "Until your next turn, you may cast that card." and "At the beginning of your next upkeep, if you didn't cast the exiled card, return ~ from your graveyard to your hand." I'll consider the change.
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Post by hergusbergus on Mar 15, 2019 19:34:31 GMT
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Post by Xenagos on Mar 15, 2019 20:21:36 GMT
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Post by gateways7 on Mar 16, 2019 0:41:16 GMT
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Post by Jartis on Mar 17, 2019 14:47:48 GMT
 I'm not sure if the abilities are in the right order. The intention is to be able to do its damage from exile and then re-exile it for casting again later. |
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"When in doubt, do a common." 
). So here we go:
Just use "three" instead of "3".
