Reverse FlowWUBRG
Sorcery (R)
Cascade
Exile cards from the bottom of your library until you exile a nonland card that costs more than Reverse Flow. You may cast it without paying its mana cost. Put the exiled cards on the top of your library in a random order.
Bloodstealer Elf2RG
Creature - Elf Warrior (U)
Haste
Syphonstream (When you cast this spell, exile cards from the top of target opponent's library until you exile a nonland card that costs less. You may cast it without paying its mana cost. Put the exiled cards on the bottom of their owner's library in a random order.)
3/2
Geometric Progression X (When you cast this spell, exile cards from the top of your library until you exile an Artifact creature with a converted mana cost of X times two. You may cast it without paying its mana cost. Put the exiled cards on the bottom of their owner's library in a random order.)
Avalonian Trine2U
Creature — Faerie Cleric (U)
Roguish (This creature can only be blocked by creatures with roguish or defender.)
Snoop (Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, that player reveals their hand. You may cast a card that costs less than this creature from it without paying its mana cost.)
1/2
Inside Trading1UU
Instant (R)
Scry 2
The next spell you cast this turn has avalanche (When you cast that spell, exile X cards from the top of your library, where X is that spells converted mana cost. You may cast one of the exiled cards without paying its mana cost.)
Darkening Sun2BB
Sorcery [Mythic Rare]
Destroy target creature or planeswalker. Scry X, where X is that creature or planeswalker's converted mana cost.
Clashcade (When you clashcade, choose highest or lowest. Then each player reveals the top cards of his or her library until he or she reveals a nonland card. The player who reveals the highest or lowest converted mana cost may cast that card without paying its mana cost. Shuffle the rest of the revealed cards into their owner's libraries.) The Black Sun approaches, and all hell will break loose. Your corpse will foretell the inevitable.
IIW:
Colorless Hate OR
Multicolor Hate OR
Monocolor Matters.
Concordant Rebuke4WU
Sorcery (R)
For each creature choose one:
Return that creature to its owner's hand
Put that creature on top of its owner's library. Its owner gains 1 life.
Harmonize 4 (Exile the top four cards of your library and add CCCCWU to your mana pool. This mana may only be used to cast spells exiled by harmonize abilities and doesn't empty from your mana pool as steps and phases end.)
Explosive CrescendoRRR
Instant (U)
Explosive Crescendo deals 3 damage to target creature or player.
Harmonize 3 (Exile the top three cards of your library and add RRR to your mana pool. This mana may only be used to cast spells exiled by harmonize abilities and doesn't empty from your mana pool as steps and phases end.)
Note that spells exiled with harmonize cannot be cast using mana generated from abilities other than harmonize
Legend - A "fix" to Cascade abuse, but a very boring, luck-dependant one. Not a fan.
Phyrexian Editor - Reminder text doesn't specifies what happens when the revealed card costs "equal or less". But what really worries me is a potential abuse of stacking four of these somehow and then cast all four of them at the same time.
ManyCookies - This is not exactly what I was expecting. This is dreams for a Johnny player. I like it and it's balanced on the cost.
JamBlock - Ooh, clever dude! Simple, interesting, elegant and fun twist on Cascade. Love it!
Stille_Nacht - My head hurts when I try to understand this. Maybe a simpler example of the mechanic would have been better.
willows - Roguish is just another Flying. But Snoop can be incredibly powerful as repeatable effect, specially on a cheap creatue with evasion.
Rocco - Avalanche still allows for fun stuff, but I think is more easy to abuse too, so while it's a nice twist, it's not that good of a "fix".
Forestsguy - When your reminder text is that long, you gotta think if your mechanic is really worth it. I'm fan of elegance, so while this seems this fun and big, isn't going to win this round.
Cardz5000 - The idea is nice, but it can be a nightmare to track properly.
Boros Pikeman1R
Creature - Minotaur Soldier (C)
When Boros Pikeman enters the battlefield, arm it (Put a Sidearm artifact Equipment token onto the battlefield attached to Boros Pikeman. It has "Equipped creature gets +1/+1" and equip 2)
1/1
Mobilization Effort2W
Instant (C)
Arm up to two target creatures you control. (Put two Sidearm artifact Equipment tokens onto the battlefield attached to those creatures. They have "Equipped creature gets +1/+1" and equip 2)
Armory Manager3RW
Creature - Minotaur Soldier (U)
When Armory Manager enters the battlefield, arm it twice.
Equip abilities of Equipment you control cost 1 less to activate.
2/2
Scheme Graft1UB
Sorcery {U}
[Phyrexian watermark]
Target opponent reveals his or her hand. You choose a nonland card from that opponent's hand or graveyard and exile it. If you do, you may copy that card and put the copy on top of your library. You lose 2 life. It's a beautiful thing when two beings can compleat each other's sentences.
Meneria of the Dance4RW
Legendary Creature - Incarnation
Haste, vigilance
Whenever Meneria deals damage, create that many white Grace enchantment tokens with “Sacrifice this enchantment: Prevent the next 1 damage that would be dealt to target creature or player this turn.” T: Meneria deals 1 damage to target creature or player.
3/5
Master Fabricator2UU
Creature — Gnome Wizard Artificer (R)
When ~ enters the battlefield, create a token that's a copy of target artifact or enchantment.
1/2
Secrets of Jasmine Tower3W
Enchantment — Aura (U)
Enchant creature
Creatures you control that are enchanted get +1/+1 and have lifelink. 1W: Create a colorless Aura enchantment token with enchant creature attached to target creature.
ManyCookies: I like this mechanic and these cards seem fair, but it's definitely something that can get out of hand if it's on a lot of cards. Still fun.
Phyrexian: It's not technically a token I guess, and while I see that you were trying to make the mechanic fit the challenge, it does seem to me like it would be easier to just put the opponent's card on top of your library, and require an equal amount of rules-ing.
Cardz5000: These are nice tokens, and I think the idea of them is something that could be more widespread, even. Big fan of this.
Rocco: This is simple and nice, but it's just nothing particularly new, so it's hard to get excited about, even though it's good.
willows: I like the concept behind this card but I wish the tokens gave SOME effect beyond enabling the +1/+1 and lifelink, even if it's just +0/+1 or something, so that the tokens still matter after SoJT leaves the battlefield.
Work Over (Common) BG
Sorcery
Target creature you control fights another target creature.
Interrogate. (Create a colorless Clue artifact token with "2, Sacrifice this artifact: Target player discards a card.")
EDIT: Wait, dangit. I missed the last challenge.
Germ Warfare (Rare) 3
Enchantment : Creature a 0/0 black Germ creature token, then attach target Equipment you control to it.
Gruesome Pair4
Sorcery (R)
Return target creature card from a graveyard to its owner’s hand. Search target player’s library for a creature card with the same name and put it onto the battlefield under your control. Then that player shuffles his or her library.
Gobbling GoblinR
Creature - Goblin Warrior (R)
Haste
When Gobbling Goblin enters the battlefield, if you've lost life this turn, it gets -1/-0 until end of turn.
3/1
Norn's Commandment1
Sorcery (U)
Put target creature card from an opponent's graveyard onto the battlefield under your control. "Such impudence. But you may serve the Orthodox yet."
IIW: Black/White Commanders
Flicker Life Gain reward Thing
Instant (R)
Exile target creature. If your life total is less than your starting life total, return it to the battlefield under its controller's control.
Skin-Scribed Summoning1B
Sorcery (R)
Multikicker
Search your library for a creature card with converted mana X, where X is the number of times Skin-Scribed Summoning was kicked. Reveal it and put it into your hand. Shuffle your library.
I'm really not a fan of mixing colored mana and Phyrexian mana in the same cost, my other qualm with this card is that it's almost pointlessly modular, the time when I would cast it and not pay 4 life is one in a million.
I don't think this is broken, probably competitive, but correctly costed, only downside is that there isn't much new or exciting going on here :/
GERMS! heavily dependent on you having equipment in your deck, but if/when we return to New Phyrexia we'll probably at least have an equipment subtheme, if not as prevalent as on Mirroden proper. In commander this would be an awesome combo enabler, but what's new?
I understand the need for the normal red mana here, but I still don't like it and would have probably just doubled down on the phyrexian mana. cool card, could probably be uncommon.
There are a lot of interesting moving parts on this card, doubly so for mirror matches, I probably would elect for to make it a bit more painful to cast off color.
Nice use of phyrexian blackwashing for Norn's Commandment, nailed the flavor of the orthodoxy.
I feel like Vorinclex's Bargain could be a little more pushed at due to its limited usage, but it would really be dependent on the rest of the set.
Honestly this would probably be balanced at with the cost of the multikicker.
WINNER: ManyCookies
Next challange: Black/White Commanders
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Sorcery (R)
Cascade
Exile cards from the bottom of your library until you exile a nonland card that costs more than Reverse Flow. You may cast it without paying its mana cost. Put the exiled cards on the top of your library in a random order.
IIW: BW commanders.
Creature - Elf Warrior (U)
Haste
Syphonstream (When you cast this spell, exile cards from the top of target opponent's library until you exile a nonland card that costs less. You may cast it without paying its mana cost. Put the exiled cards on the bottom of their owner's library in a random order.)
3/2
IIW: noncreature tokens
Artifact Creature - Myr (U)
Geometric Progression X (When you cast this spell, exile cards from the top of your library until you exile an Artifact creature with a converted mana cost of X times two. You may cast it without paying its mana cost. Put the exiled cards on the bottom of their owner's library in a random order.)
1/1
IIW: Equipment Synergies
UWUW ControlUW
UGWSpiritsUGW
GHardened ScalesG
WGRUKiki PodWGRU [RIP]
UWUW ControlUW
UGWSpiritsUGW
GHardened ScalesG
WGRUKiki PodWGRU [RIP]
Creature — Faerie Cleric (U)
Roguish (This creature can only be blocked by creatures with roguish or defender.)
Snoop (Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, that player reveals their hand. You may cast a card that costs less than this creature from it without paying its mana cost.)
1/2
IIW: alien brain probe keyword
Instant (R)
Scry 2
The next spell you cast this turn has avalanche (When you cast that spell, exile X cards from the top of your library, where X is that spells converted mana cost. You may cast one of the exiled cards without paying its mana cost.)
IIW: New artifact sybtype
Sorcery [Mythic Rare]
Destroy target creature or planeswalker. Scry X, where X is that creature or planeswalker's converted mana cost.
Clashcade (When you clashcade, choose highest or lowest. Then each player reveals the top cards of his or her library until he or she reveals a nonland card. The player who reveals the highest or lowest converted mana cost may cast that card without paying its mana cost. Shuffle the rest of the revealed cards into their owner's libraries.)
The Black Sun approaches, and all hell will break loose. Your corpse will foretell the inevitable.
IIW:
Colorless Hate OR
Multicolor Hate OR
Monocolor Matters.
Sorcery (R)
For each creature choose one:
- Return that creature to its owner's hand
- Put that creature on top of its owner's library. Its owner gains 1 life.
Harmonize 4 (Exile the top four cards of your library and add CCC CWU to your mana pool. This mana may only be used to cast spells exiled by harmonize abilities and doesn't empty from your mana pool as steps and phases end.)Explosive Crescendo RRR
Instant (U)
Explosive Crescendo deals 3 damage to target creature or player.
Harmonize 3 (Exile the top three cards of your library and add RRR to your mana pool. This mana may only be used to cast spells exiled by harmonize abilities and doesn't empty from your mana pool as steps and phases end.)
Note that spells exiled with harmonize cannot be cast using mana generated from abilities other than harmonize
IIW:
Legend - A "fix" to Cascade abuse, but a very boring, luck-dependant one. Not a fan.
Phyrexian Editor - Reminder text doesn't specifies what happens when the revealed card costs "equal or less". But what really worries me is a potential abuse of stacking four of these somehow and then cast all four of them at the same time.
ManyCookies - This is not exactly what I was expecting. This is dreams for a Johnny player. I like it and it's balanced on the cost.
JamBlock - Ooh, clever dude! Simple, interesting, elegant and fun twist on Cascade. Love it!
Stille_Nacht - My head hurts when I try to understand this. Maybe a simpler example of the mechanic would have been better.
willows - Roguish is just another Flying. But Snoop can be incredibly powerful as repeatable effect, specially on a cheap creatue with evasion.
Rocco - Avalanche still allows for fun stuff, but I think is more easy to abuse too, so while it's a nice twist, it's not that good of a "fix".
Forestsguy - When your reminder text is that long, you gotta think if your mechanic is really worth it. I'm fan of elegance, so while this seems this fun and big, isn't going to win this round.
Cardz5000 - The idea is nice, but it can be a nightmare to track properly.
WINNER: JamBlock
NEXT: noncreature tokens
The clan for custom card creators!
Creature - Minotaur Soldier (C)
When Boros Pikeman enters the battlefield, arm it (Put a Sidearm artifact Equipment token onto the battlefield attached to Boros Pikeman. It has "Equipped creature gets +1/+1" and equip 2)
1/1
Mobilization Effort 2W
Instant (C)
Arm up to two target creatures you control. (Put two Sidearm artifact Equipment tokens onto the battlefield attached to those creatures. They have "Equipped creature gets +1/+1" and equip 2)
Armory Manager 3RW
Creature - Minotaur Soldier (U)
When Armory Manager enters the battlefield, arm it twice.
Equip abilities of Equipment you control cost 1 less to activate.
2/2
IIW: Black/White Commanders
Sorcery {U}
[Phyrexian watermark]
Target opponent reveals his or her hand. You choose a nonland card from that opponent's hand or graveyard and exile it. If you do, you may copy that card and put the copy on top of your library. You lose 2 life.
It's a beautiful thing when two beings can compleat each other's sentences.
IIW: Radiate effects
Legendary Creature - Incarnation
Haste, vigilance
Whenever Meneria deals damage, create that many white Grace enchantment tokens with “Sacrifice this enchantment: Prevent the next 1 damage that would be dealt to target creature or player this turn.”
T: Meneria deals 1 damage to target creature or player.
3/5
IIW: Phyrexian Mana
Creature — Gnome Wizard Artificer (R)
When ~ enters the battlefield, create a token that's a copy of target artifact or enchantment.
1/2
IIW: New artifact subtype
Enchantment — Aura (U)
Enchant creature
Creatures you control that are enchanted get +1/+1 and have lifelink.
1W: Create a colorless Aura enchantment token with enchant creature attached to target creature.
IIW: a dynasty
Phyrexian: It's not technically a token I guess, and while I see that you were trying to make the mechanic fit the challenge, it does seem to me like it would be easier to just put the opponent's card on top of your library, and require an equal amount of rules-ing.
Cardz5000: These are nice tokens, and I think the idea of them is something that could be more widespread, even. Big fan of this.
Rocco: This is simple and nice, but it's just nothing particularly new, so it's hard to get excited about, even though it's good.
willows: I like the concept behind this card but I wish the tokens gave SOME effect beyond enabling the +1/+1 and lifelink, even if it's just +0/+1 or something, so that the tokens still matter after SoJT leaves the battlefield.
WINNER: Cardz
Next: Phyrexian Mana
BG
Sorcery
Target creature you control fights another target creature.
Interrogate. (Create a colorless Clue artifact token with "2, Sacrifice this artifact: Target player discards a card.")
EDIT: Wait, dangit. I missed the last challenge.
Germ Warfare (Rare)
3
Enchantment
IIW: American Revolutionary War Flavor
Sorcery (R)
Return target creature card from a graveyard to its owner’s hand. Search target player’s library for a creature card with the same name and put it onto the battlefield under your control. Then that player shuffles his or her library.
IIW: Agricultural Revolution Tribal
Creature - Goblin Warrior (R)
Haste
When Gobbling Goblin enters the battlefield, if you've lost life this turn, it gets -1/-0 until end of turn.
3/1
IIW: Unstable Wishlist
Bloodbrain Schemes
Sorcery (R)
You draw two cards and lose 2 life.
Retrace.
IIW: cmc 0
Sorcery (U)
Put target creature card from an opponent's graveyard onto the battlefield under your control.
"Such impudence. But you may serve the Orthodox yet."
IIW: Black/White Commanders
Flicker Life Gain reward Thing
Instant (R)
Exile target creature. If your life total is less than your starting life total, return it to the battlefield under its controller's control.
Sorcery (R)
Blood lance deals X damage to target creature and X damage to target player, where X is the amount of life you have lost this turn.
Blood begets more blood.
IIW: Evolve
UWUW ControlUW
UGWSpiritsUGW
GHardened ScalesG
WGRUKiki PodWGRU [RIP]
Sorcery (R)
Multikicker
Search your library for a creature card with converted mana X, where X is the number of times Skin-Scribed Summoning was kicked. Reveal it and put it into your hand. Shuffle your library.
IIW: A dynasty
Enchantment (R)
Pay 2 life: Add C to your mana pool. Spend this mana only to cast spells with phyrexian mana in their mana cost.
(It converts the colorless costs into phyrexian mana)
IIW: Black/White Commanders
I'm really not a fan of mixing colored mana and Phyrexian mana in the same cost, my other qualm with this card is that it's almost pointlessly modular, the time when I would cast it and not pay 4 life is one in a million.
I don't think this is broken, probably competitive, but correctly costed, only downside is that there isn't much new or exciting going on here :/
GERMS! heavily dependent on you having equipment in your deck, but if/when we return to New Phyrexia we'll probably at least have an equipment subtheme, if not as prevalent as on Mirroden proper. In commander this would be an awesome combo enabler, but what's new?
I understand the need for the normal red mana here, but I still don't like it and would have probably just doubled down on the phyrexian mana. cool card, could probably be uncommon.
There are a lot of interesting moving parts on this card, doubly so for mirror matches, I probably would elect for
Nice use of phyrexian blackwashing for Norn's Commandment, nailed the flavor of the orthodoxy.
I feel like Vorinclex's Bargain could be a little more pushed at
Honestly this would probably be balanced at
WINNER: ManyCookies
Next challange: Black/White Commanders