Creature Type Game

Thanks!

Your next challenge is to take a creature type with 5 or less cards dedicated to it (e.g. Assembly Worker) and make a powerful card that helps you play as many of them as possible. The more likely you can play the tribe in some hypothetical Standard/competitive context, the better.

Good luck!

EDIT: Some helpful resources:

# creatures in a creature type as of Zendikar Rising (Thanks Flo00)

Sorry, I've got no idea there. If you do accidentally pick a creature type with too many I'm willing to cut some slack (but don't use this as an excuse to push an entry for something like Cats or Dogs.)

Lonely Aurochs
Creature - Aurochs
Trample
When ~ enters the battlefield, look at the top card of your library. If it’s an Aurochs card, you may reveal it and put it into your hand.
Whenever ~ attacks, it gets +1/+0 until end of turn for each other attacking Aurochs.
2/2



The missing 3-drop Aurochs for your Auroch pauper deck.
And because I read the challenge wrong at first, have the one-drop as well:


(thanks for the creature list viriss )

sdfkjgh You can probably condense "you and your teammates" down to "your team" as seen on cards like Pir, Imaginative Rascal.

To be honest I was inspired by someone who made a similar list for Morophon usage but that seems to have disapperaed, so I'm glad there's an alternative resource. I'll add this to the challenge prompt.

We got a lot of entries for the 2 weeks this has run so I will probably judge this by this weekend.

Let's wrap this up.

viriss - A neat mono-red card that encourages you to play more permanent weenies like Monastery Swiftspear or Robber of the Rich that would stick around and make this hit harder, and does technically promote playing other Red Demigods. It feels like it was more overall focused on being a Captain Lannery Storm sidegrade but it does definitely meet the power level for being played in Standard.

thaneofglamis - Surrakar do like to swing for the hills, so I think the choices of graveyard recursion and rewarding attacking are smart choices. I'm trying to imagine if you could run this, Surrakar Marauder, and Surrakar Spellblade to get something threatening off the ground, and my guess is that this needs to cost 1 mana less to really start pushing Surrakar as a tribe. I think costing it at 3 and making it a rare akin to Realmwalker would've been a better call - Surrakar doesn't exactly have any standouts in their tribe already, so a card to support them can be pushed to pick up the slack.

Nonagon Infinity - I'm surprised more people didn't look into obscure token types, and when I do think of it playing tokens repeatedly is one way to interpret "playing as many as possible". This feels reminiscent of Geist of Saint Traft but a little slower and more battlecruiser-y, presumably to make it a more casual Commander. I think moving the P/T and cost around to resemble Traft might've helped make this fit the prompt more, but as is it's a pretty interesting design and makes me at least somewhat interested in your take on Orange mana. Was the template a custom edit?

melono - The one-drop seems super pushed for a Common and even if you were laser-targeting it at Pauper I don't think WoTC would have printed it below , haha.

That aside, I think you have a nice clean answer to the prompt. Aurochs have always given these incentives to play them but never feel efficient or advantageous enough in value to really ever get there as a tribe. A solid pseudo-cantripping body that continues to contribute even after being played seems very much like what this tribe needs. I also appreciate that you deliberately chose mana costs not yet covered by Aurochs on their curve.

sdfkjgh - Type-hosing is not a bad idea for a gimmick card like this as Plague Engineer shows even the simplest ways to mess up tribes can make things very messy for them in a meta. It's a very technically-correct answer since it doesn't exactly push for the playing of more Brushwaggs (and realistically I think this would mostly just get run in any deck running good creatures or tokens as opposed to a Brushwagg theme deck) but it does come down and demand to be immediately answered otherwise the game ends, and like most good finishers it replaces itself if the opponent tries to mess with it. I'll say it technically works out since it's efficient enough to likely see play in a decent number of decks, even if it doesn't necessarily bring its other tribe cards with it.

Flo00 - Another viable lord for Morophon/Bringer tribal in addition to Morophon, the Boundless and with perfect synergy no less. I think this one is particularly effective as it fits perfectly into the existing combo/strategy of playing Tron + Morophon to cheat out bringers and helps provide redundant nonlegendary lord copies that help make the deck more consistent. Answers both parts of the prompt very well.

spruder - Cool idea but a bit slow. I also feel like most artifact strategies tend to care more about playing two synergistic/cheatable artifacts (e.g.
Master Transmuter + Blightsteel Colossus) than copying one. Maybe it should've been closer to something like Oran-Rief Invoker - something you play for cheap, and then get to expensively copy stuff with later?


hydraheadhunter - An efficient Aristocrats-type sac outlet reminscient of Viscera Seer. I'm pretty sure this would be strong in the same way Cat Oven decks were at least, but it does seem to support the types mentioned in its ability more than it supports Badgers. It's a cool card though and I would play it.


1st: Flo00 - Lots of good entries but only a few really answered the entire prompt. I'd say your card did this very well especially because it pushes an existing strategy that probably needs just a few more cards (like this one) to really have legs.
2nd: melono - A really good answer to the prompt that helps push to revitalize an underpowered tribe.
3rd: sdfkjgh - A very technically correct entry but I can see it actually pushing Brushwaggs into the spotlight so I'll give credit for that.

I figured it was. I think it was interesting how the prompt generated a lot of solid ideas all on its own.

Alright, for what it's worth, you were shitposting on the sixes.

Spirit of Reblossoms
Creature - Elk Spirit Guardian 
Divine Duty - At the beginning of your end step, if ~ is untapped, return target land from your graveyard to the battlefield tapped.
"Even after everything I've done, Zendikar cares for me still. The scars I left won't fade, but at least its wounds will heal. This plane has forgiven me. Maybe someday I'll forgive myself too."
-Nissa Ravane
5/6

Thanks for the win. Design a Cockatrice.

sdfkjgh oh sorry. I thought it was an until end of turn boost.

Feljhorn, Ancient Cavedweller 
Legendary Creature - Elder Cockatrice
Deathouch, flying, ward
When Feljhorn enters the battlefield, create a Feljhorn's Gaze enchantment aura token with "Enchant creature" and "Enchanted creature can't attack and its activated abilities can't be activated". Attatch it to a creature you don't' control.
Whenever Feljhorn attacks, draw X cards and gain X life, where X is the number of auras you control attatched to permaments you don't control.

5/5

EDIT: Changed it a bit. Previous templating didn't work I'm pretty sure. Also made it a bit stronger.