Card of the Week Contest #284: Modern 2/10

Designed for multiplayer formats with teams, like 2HG.

Format: Pauper

Not at my desk so please forgive the lack of formatting / proper tags.

Daij: Broadly like this. Balancing for Commander is kind of an oxymoron but this feels about the right spot for this effect.

Arthur: Can you... Can you design specifically for Penny Dreadful? This card probably isn't going to fetch super high prices, sure, but I would question whether it's coherent to design for a format whose cardpool is based on a factor external to the concrete characteristics of the card. Is it balanced? Sure, maybe? Nine black mana should pretty much be winning you the game and this does more or less do that.

Tesa: This is extremely narrow. Eldraine proper only has ten Faeries revealed so far, discounting Brawl deck exclusives, and I can't imagine there'll be that many more; Adventures are a little bit more prevalent, but not being able to cast this card unless you can target both a mid-journey Adventure AND an on-board Faerie makes it hard to imagine playing this in any format even in a sideboard. If you want to hate on a specific tribe, I think that's probably better done as an Eye Gouge effect that hits anything but hits one type harder; the Adventure clause should also probably be optional, or maybe a "choose one or both" situation like Deafening Clarion.

ilnancy: I don't have much experience with team formats but this seems more or less fine? Would question the taste of using Actual Jack the Ripper for art but that's just, like, my opinion, man.

viriss: I play a lot of Pauper and I can't imagine any deck playing this. Too expensive, too narrow, and there aren't really relevant spellcasters in the format that don't already die to commonly played removal.

sdfkjgh: Assuming that this does count as removal, it's out of color for blue by modern (and Modern) standards, and almost certainly too strong in any format it inhabits, especially given that average CMCs tend to slide downwards as format cardpools expand.

Pip: This probably is a balanced delve card but I sort of question whether it's getting played in Modern - I'm not sure whether it kills enough things that Push doesn't, even thinking quite conservatively about how often revolt is switched on. Would've been great against Hollow One, I suppose.

spazlaz: This definitely doesn't need to cantrip. If you're only spending one mana to foil what's actually a pretty wide variety of things, you should at least be spending a card too. I also think having it key off mana spent can cause a few memory issues, since you never have to care about that beyond a few ETB effects and this can refer to things over a bigger time difference. (The wording on this card is generally a bit unclear too, but I don't know how I'd fix it.)

Giraculum: Similar question to Arthur's card re: whether Momir Basic is a format you can actually design for. Also don't like the clever-clever nature of this.

I'll probably enter at some point.

I mean... limited in scope is sort of the point, no? In order to make it only viable in limited. But point taken, I'll think about the options I have.

I made this to deal with Whirza in Modern.

My entry:



The format is probably standard I think.

Daij_Djan: I gave a look at this guy's work he's amazing

Standard.

Hey nice, i thought that if you were gonna leave it the way it was it had to cost 4 maybe at least
Aarhg

I'm not well-versed in the different formats, but I would say it fits into Modern.

You should either add nonland, or increase rarity, or both.  Cf. River's Rebuke, Whelming Wave, etc.