The Name Game (Vol. II)

{ZephyrPhantom}Simple card. Cute flavor. I like how Turtle is a sorcery and the Hare an instant to show once more how fast it is in comparison.

{qorbin}Straight forward token land. I think the ability should cost a little bit more. For once, a 1/1 on a similar card costs four mana (two of which are colored. And second, blue is usually not the color for repeatable token creation. I'd say should be about right.

{SilentKobold}Nice form. It looks like it's really hard to crack though this card if you can't destroy the enchantment. Works for me.

By the way, somewhere in the MSE files you should find the fonts. They are .ttf files in a zip called beleren-webfonts or similar. Just double klick and install and your cards will look much better.

{ameisenmeister}That's a nice card to play along. I imagine this to be fun in draft or sealed.

{thaneofglamis}This looks like one of those archetype enablers. A Turtle with flying sounded a bit strange at first, then I remembered, we have flying whales as well. Probably pretty srtong if you get the right deck around it.

{Daij_Djan}Vehicle-hate is an interestign thing. Good card that makes perfectly sense in the right environment.

{winner}SilentKobold

{qorbin }Reminds me a lot of Sarpadian Empires, Vol. VII, but with a few awkward issues. Firstly, I feel the card is slightly over-costed as the effects are all so low impact by turn 3 that the versatility doesn't have much impact over the power level of the card. To remedy this I feel the card should create two tokens or perhaps cost . Secondly, the red and green effects blatantly break white's slice of the color pie, I feel first strike and vigilance respectively would've been a better fit as the keywords a shared between both white and the token's color. Thirdly, creating a zombie creature token doesn't really fit the name of the card, perhaps a rat or thrull may be more appropriate. Finally, there are a few template issues in regards that the tokens should be listed in WUBRG order and there should be a "—" after "Choose one" with bullet points before the options. Altogether I like the idea behind the design and with a bit of work it could be a nice inclusion into a tribal expansion.

{Flo00 }Love the flavor of this one, would've fit nicely as a replacement to Skybind in Journey into Nyx. While the name does lend itself more to a Saga than a plain enchantment as it's representing an event long in the past, I'll let it slide as it works well with the submitted abilities. Balance-wise, this could probably cost as it's a powerful engine in constellation decks almost akin to Eidolon of Blossoms though significantly more difficult to remove.

{MacabreAurora }Never been a great judge of Un-cards but this one seems straightforward enough. Overall I like the exploration into multicolored leylines, though attaching a wider reaching Guardian Project onto a leyline is a little too pushed power-wise. To fix this, I'd probably add Guardian Project's creature and graveyard stipulations and then perhaps shift the colors to .

{Boogymanjunior }Simple, elegant, and working perfectly with its flavor, there's not much I can say about this design. While it is more wide reaching than most modern counterspells, such as Nullify, I can still see this being printed in an environment with fewer artifacts and enchantments around.

{Winners}Winner: Boogymanjunior
Runner Up: Flo00

{And a comment about a reply in this thread from about a month ago}I'm really late to party commenting on this, but it's at the top of the last page so, it's not thaaaaaaaat far out of left field. Just wanted to say, this card hurts my soul because there's enfact a significant mechanical difference between putting a pile of one into your hand and drawing a card, and it's a very important mechanical difference to me, as a Nekusar main.

{SilentKobold}SilentKobold This is a pretty cool interpretation of this story's part. I think it's balanced, but would also say that it stalls the game in a fun-dampening way: it lingers around probably many turns, and no player would be willing to play creatures/artifacts to really move the game forward. The flavor text from the trailer is nice though, and the card captures the essence well.

{ameisenmeister}ameisenmeister Like it's role model, this is a nice card that's fun to play with, playing into the niche of mind games I appreciate. I'd say it's most often balanced powerwise, although in contrast to Choice of Damnation, Choice of Creations is dependant on you having enough cards in your graveyard which is not as secured as enough permanents a player has. For example, if you only have three cards in your graveyard, this would give you maximum three bears or like, one or two cards back. Although at six mana, the probability of that many cards is pretty low, so I' consider it as a minor fragilty.

{hydraheadhunter}hydraheadhunter This is a really interesting card concept which ingenuity I like. It does seem rather niche-y, but I am inclined to say that it fits.

There would be a bit to unravel here, and besides the fact that I like it overall, there are some small inconveniences.

Selecting one additional mode would probably cause some confusion among players since trying to add an additional mode on cards with "choose one or both/more/any number" where they already chose all modes would actually fail, even though it might seem feasible to gain a new shot for one of the modes.

Selecting one fewer mode on a card where only one mode was chosen just fizzles it (basically an unpreventable counter spell), which I don't think should be packed directly on a card since it uses a necessacity in the rules rather than an actual game mechanic.

The distinction between the halves get muddled when you target your own modal spells if they let you choose only one mode, because in both cases the effect is that you get one new mode.

And on a tiny side note, flavour texts from a person's perspective need quotation marks.

This seemed like much negativity, but as stated, they are not crucial, and I dig the original idea and possibilities this card opens. Also, the fact that you can choose between two choose-matter cards is quite funny.

{ZephyrPhantom}ZephyrPhantom This is a hard hitting, red removal all-rounder which in-color versatibility is nice to see, thanks to pioneer Demanding Dragon (Retribution would be too old to serve as a confirmation on red's ability to force sacrifices on creatures).

Two critiques: You can almost always circumvent the fun of choice (and by extend, the card's power balance) because most often, the opponent(s) won't have three planeswalkers- and I dare to say that three artifacts is also not that common. And it should read "Choice of Conundrums deals 5 damage to target opponent unless...", not just solely because the correct wording states it so, but also because with the current wording, the source of the damage is left ambigious for newer players.

All in all, it's cool to see a new versatible red card with headache-implications for the opponent.

{and the winner is...}ameisenmeister! While not the most original among the entries, yours had only one minor flaw, but promises much fun.