Card of the Week Contest #271:The Trouble with Tokens

 

Lemme just reuse this one right here...

That's one of several guidelines/rules that'd need to be modified for Burdens to work properly. It's not completely far-fetched that WotC could make these changes, were something like this ever to be printed. They've surprised us before.

I wanted to do a sorcery token too, but after reviewing the rules (notably 110.5f) it seems there'd have to be a huge overhaul to the rules before this gamespace could be fully explored.

After WAR, I'm stoked about planeswalkers with static abilities and fewer activated ones. They're fun to design for since they can be a little stronger than enchantments due to their combat weakness. I made this card as a spoof on Temple Bell:

Can someone think of a better name? This was supposed to "reset" and protect a permanent but since it could give protection at the beginning instead the name of the sorcery seems a bit dodgy.





Newer Submission:

The idea here is that the creature that dies leaves a legacy in form of an aura. The creature receiving the legacy only receives a plus on base P and T, and the Static abilities of the Died creature.

Flying, first strike, deathtouch
Whenever Mother of the Repudiated deals combat damage to an opponent, create a 1/1 black, red and green insect creature token.
When Mother of the Repudiated dies, create an aura enchantment token with enchant creature and “enchanted creature gets +1/+3 and has flying, first strike and deathtouch” then attach it to target creature you control.


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My entry this week. Considered making her and the Soul token / but in the end felt like Black was enough. Might change my mind if I make other cards with the mechanic.  


  

A few pieces of feedback before I go: gateways7 - Love this card! A great way to do Vampirism. Bravo.

ludvikeverviolet - While your card is good, that keyword drives me up the wall. First, you need a comma between dies and the keyword. Second, keyword actions are usually verbs, because the grammar looks all kind of weird otherwise. Third, the name of the keyword feels hyper-specific to this one card. If you plan on reusing it, I'd change the name to Legacy. Fourth, if you don't plan on reusing the ability, don't keyword it. Just cut the first two words of the reminder text and use that.

Is this cheating?

O-Kagachi, Vengeful Kami was something of a letdown. For the first of the Kami of Kamigawa, the strongest and the greatest of them, he had nothing to do with spirit tribal. Which is... fair enough; Kamigawa's spirit theme was one of its weakest mechanically. But there is a mechanic out of Kamigawa I see a lot in commander, and that's the Honden shrines! After all, the strength of Kamigawa was its flavour more than its actual cards, so why not take advantage of that and give Shrine tribal a try? And what better way to do this than with O-Kagachi's replacements, the Sisters-of-Flesh-and-Spirit, guardians of Kamigawa and unification of Michiko Konda and That-Which-Was-Taken, also known as Kyodai.




Kyodai and Michiko
Legendary Creature — Spirit
As Kyodai and Michiko enters the battlefield, for each color, create a Shrine enchantment token named “Honden of Flesh-and-Spirit” that is that color.
Sacrifice a Shrine: Target creature gains your choice of vigilance, lifelink, flying, or indestructible until end of turn.
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I tried a few approaches, including giving your opponents shrines that if they messed with the Sisters would punish them, but the fun of running the shrines is getting all of them out yourself. I tried making the shrines actually do things, but it felt too complicated and word heavy, and I liked the idea of having a shrine of each colour. Given it was Kamigawa, I also wanted it to drip with flavour, but I couldn't fit that on the card itself. In the end I went with having a clean, clear design, with the draw being the interaction with the existing shrines more than any new gimmick, and let the tokens do the talking.

Overall, I'm quite happy with it, and loved the prompt!

Here are the individual renders:

Fair enough, I had forgotten about Mirror Gallery. My mistake.