Creature Type Game

{Text}Hinterland Watchtower 
Creature - Wall 
Defender
You may look at the top card of your library at any time.
As weeks turned to months, Juliex almost hoped for the Krav raiders to return.
0/6

{Spoiler}{Judging}odivesco - Self-Replicating Barrier: a cool card that can keep your opponent’s attackers under control for a while. Makes me think of Sorcerer’s Broom but then a lot more defense-oriented.



viriss - Bokeh Distractions: Interesting card with lots of possible interactions. Do you give your own guy a boost, but defender? Or will you stop an enemy creature by giving it defender? You’ll also get a creature after the bestow, which is pretty strong on its own, so I feel like having the bestow cost only 3 make it a bit powerful, but not necessarily too much. I do find it strange that the bestow costs less than the normal cast, but that was probably decided with having Defender on your own creature being a negative in mind. Also, Bestow I remember as only giving all creature effects to the enchanted creature, so I’d also go for flying in the bestowal.



Flo00 - The Soul Wall; Nicely white, interesting ability. It gives you a flyer army once dealt damage which you can then attack with with reckless abandon so the wall becomes the only creature again. Though if creatures stick around on your side it can’t block everything. Very strong defender with indestructible, but it costing 4 mana makes it not that strong. It also lets flyers pass. Another way to build around it as a commander is to damage it yourself (though white isn’t the strongest color to do that in, it should be possible). I wonder how fun it is to play against though.



sdfkjgh - Wall of Life: A strong wall that has it all. Catches flyers, can block multiple creatures, gains you life for being hit. The paying life to block multiple creatures is interesting mechanicwise, but besides that, I don’t if it would be particularly fun to play against, same with Flo00 their Soul Wall. It is really hard to go through and is hard to remove (at least with any kind of damage; hard removal would be needed).



ZephyrPhantom - Kodama of the Cursed Garden: an interesting ability that is very build-aroundy and would interest Johnies, especially as it is a legendary so it can work as a commander.

Though this is absolutely a wall you’d want to attack with, which is frustrating, but would be another workaround.



Xenozfan2 - Doboro, The Great Wall: Another build-around commander that is all for Wall-tribal. Cool to keyword the existing mechanic of blocking any number of creatures. Would be fun to see in play.



thaneofglamis - Barrier of Doubt: Something that I’ve seen in the other creatures, but that is done in another interesting way: get damage, do X. And X is tapping or untapping nonland permanents. It could be a niche combo-piece where you damage the wall yourself, but it can also really function as a great deterrent, because if the opponent attacks you, but leaves themselves some blockers so they don’t get attacked by you, you can tap the opponent’s blockers because you can block his creatures.



SilentKobold - Hinterland Watchtower: Nice and simple. A great common that can be useful for certain deck-strategies where you want to know your top card. Also pretty strong in that it doesn’t reveal the card for all to see, but only shows it to you (unlike something like Field of Dreams or Lantern of Insight or Goblin Spy)

{Spoiler}{Winner}
Alright, I liked all of them, but I liked some more than others, which is a good thing as I am supposed to be judging these.

Anyhow, the winner is: thaneofglamis with Barrier of Doubt for making opponents doubt swinging in. Second place goes to SilentKobold and third to Xenozfan2 .

{Text}Loan Shark 
Creature - Shark Pirate 
When ~ enters the battlefield, target opponent gains control of it.
At the beginning of your upkeep, put an age counter on ~, then you may pay life equal to the number of age counters on ~. If you don't, ~'s owner gains control of it.
4/3