Card of the Week Contest #276: The Good Ol' Days

Does anyone remember Elite Inquisitor? I hope so, because this card isn't going to make much sense otherwise.

This card used to be pro-Humans, pro-Angels, pro-Spirits, but I figured that making a straight flip of the original was a little boring. So, since this creature is meant to be a mortal enemy of Humans in the same way that original Innistrad was pretty much Humans versus the world, I gave it protection from two of the things the white-based Humans of Innistrad tend to use to deal with monsters: Pacifism effects and tappers.

Might change the entry later, but one of the first things that comes to mind is Akroma's iconic "ability salad." Here's one for black.

Tarzoth, Demon of Pride
Legendary Creature — Demon
Flying, menace, deathtouch, lifelink, haste, protection from green and from white
"Arrogance is a sin only if committed by the weak.
6/6

P.S. How does one put a flavor bar again?

Edit: Removed regenerate since it's obsolete. Will put up a render once I have access to the program. Thanks for the input, Neottolemo . Haven't been up to date when it comes to phased out mechanics. I didn't even know prowess had been discontinued too. I had thought protection was similarly phased out and only kept it in homage to Akroma's card. I didn't know it was back albeit "on probation."

Design name: Niv-Mizzet's Reproach

Lu Su is mentioned in the flavor text for Borrowing 100,000 Arrows, and Lu Su, Wu Advisor draws cards anyway, so it seemed like a natural fit.

Pushed the random button on Scryfall until I hit something interesting:


Herald of the Dark Realms
Creature - Zombie Wizard
, , Sacrifice Herald of the Dark Realms: Put up to one target creature card from each graveyard onto the battlefield under your control.
4/3

Referencing Ancestral Recall:



Master of the Mind
Sorcery
Target player draws three cards.
If you control a Jace planeswalker, you may pay instead of this spell's mana cost.

Edit 1: Even for Mythic, the one-for-three felt forced, so I upped it a bit. I did decrease the initial cost to cast by 1 CMC, however.

Don't you fucking dare!  It's perfect as-is.

This one's a little out there but I based it on Empyrial Armor and the licids from the following block. It's difficult to find art assets for flip cards, but I think it cleans up the WALL OF TEXT that licids tend to have quite nicely. (reads in 5 lines instead of 6-8)

When the Licid is flipped back to its basal form, it is no longer an aura and becomes unattached. Since attach is the primary action rather than flip, if the creature you would attach the licid to dies before you can attach it, the licid remains in creature form tapped.

I've also omitted "Enchant Creature" in favor of a +P/+T box. This could cause a problem with rule 303.4j, but we can save that kind of rules lawyering for the oracle text. I feel that "Enchant creature" can be implied on Auras with +P/+T unless they have specialized targets since ~90% of auras enchant creatures and only creatures have power and toughness. A new player will probably be happier with the lucidity of the redesigned licid than with the completeness of its rules text.

Unlike Empyrial Plate, which can be a game-ending bomb with few opportunities for counterplay when used in conjunction with a token generator such as Bitterblossom, this bad boy dies to Doom Blade or Shock any time they want to reequip it. It also cannot escape sweepers like WoG. Having a 3 CMC requirement will also turns the power level down from Plate since they'll have to play 5 cards to turn it on instead of only 4.

Actually, not like any of those - those target your own graveyard.  Mine targets an opponent's.  It's more akin to other things that bring back from an opponent's yard, which are irrelevant because my card is based on the one provided.

My point is that you could lay claim to any of those being your inspiration, as they all sac to return a creature from a player's graveyard, with your tweak being that the gy that's utilized is an opponent's instead of your own.  In any case, they're all pretty similar takes on a stock effect.

You're breaking the Color Pie with that bestow cost.  The way to think about it is "Does this color have access to these abilities?"  is primary in first strike, but deathtouch absolutely goes against 's core philosophies.  A better bestow cost would've been .