So, I finished my judgments and now the end is coming. (Meaning the last round is up.)
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Multiple instances of lifelink on the same creature are redundant.
Multiple instances of lifelink on the same creature are redundant.
Multiple instances of lifelink on the same creature are redundant.
—Eli Shiffrin, Rules Manager, on a design stacking lifelink instances
Just a quick note on the flavor of my round three entry. I didn't attribute the flavor text to anybody because I'm not sure the flavor text would fit well on the card to begin with. Also, when the flavor text is spoken by the person the card is referring to (as is meant to be the case with my card), it seems ok to not attribute it to the person (this could be wrong). I would have liked to have made the FT longer and more in depth, but alas there was no room. The idea I was trying to convey was, since Culstath built the wall, there is no need for anybody to stay back and guard the kingdom, which is why the other defenders can now go on the offense. That's also the reason the card itself can't attack. It's the only thing left behind to defend the kingdom. Anyway, as always, thanks to all the judges for their time. On to the end!
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(22 Total) - October 2014; December 2014; January 2015; April 2015; June 2015; August 2015; September 2015; November 2015; December 2015(T); January 2016; March 2016(T); April 2016; June 2016; October 2016; December 2016(T); February 2017; April 2017; December 2017; November 2018(T); January 2019; April 2019; June 2019
(8 Total) - May 2015; May 2016; June 2016; August 2016; October 2016; December 2016; October 2017; May 2019
(7 Total) - September 2015; October 2015; January 2016; March 2016; April 2016; July 2016(T); March 2019(T)
when the flavor text is spoken by the person the card is referring to (as is meant to be the case with my card), it seems ok to not attribute it to the person (this could be wrong).
Not only this is not wrong, but it's 100% right and it's common practice in Magic card design. I just wanted to point this out.
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MCC - Winner (6): Oct 2014, Apr Nov 2017, Jan 2018, Apr Jun 2019 || Host (15): Dec 2014, Apr Jul Aug Dec 2015, Mar Jul Aug Oct 2016, Feb Jul 2017, Jun Nov 2018, Feb Jul 2019 (last one here) || Judge (34): every month from Nov 2014 to Nov 2016 except Oct 2015, every month from Feb to Jul 2017 except Apr 2017, then Oct 2017, May Jun Nov 2018, Feb Jul 2019 (last one here) CCL - Winner (3): Jul 2016 (tied with Flatline), May 2017, Jul 2019 (last one here) || Host (5): Feb 2015, Mar Apr May Jun 2016 DCC - Winner (1): Mar 2015 (tied with Piar) || Host (3): May Oct 2015, Jan 2016
• The two public custom sets I've been part a part of the design team for: "Brotherhood of Ormos" - Blog post with all info - set thread - design skeleton / card list || "Extinctia: Homo Evanuit" - Blog post with all info - set thread - card list spreadsheet
• "The Lion's Lair", my article series about MTG and custom card design in particular. Latest article here. Here is the article index.Rather outdated by now, and based on the old MCC rubric, but I'm leaving this here for anybody that might be interested anyway.
• My only public attempt at being a writer: the story of my Leonin custom planeswalker Jeff Lionheart. (I have a very big one that I'm working on right now but that's private for now, and I don't know if I will ever actually publish it, and I also have ideas for multiple future ones, including one where I'm going to reprise Jeff.)
Are there examples for this? Because usually that only happens if it's a quote by the character the card represents.
So in our case here it'd be the wall talking.
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Multiple instances of lifelink on the same creature are redundant.
Multiple instances of lifelink on the same creature are redundant.
Multiple instances of lifelink on the same creature are redundant.
—Eli Shiffrin, Rules Manager, on a design stacking lifelink instances
Are there examples for this? Because usually that only happens if it's a quote by the character the card represents.
So in our case here it'd be the wall talking.
I understand that what I am saying is a stretch, but since the wall bears Culstath's name, and it's an inanimate object, I felt it wasn't entirely inappropriate. I certainly understand where you're coming from though, and I didn't mean for my original comment to come across as a complaint in any way, I was just conveying my thought process. As I said, I would've attributed the quote if there was room on the card.
Edit: Is it possible that Jace's Erasure is a precedent for what I'm talking about?
Edit2: Actually, if you type the possessive form of almost any planeswalker's name into the Gatherer, it returns many precedents. I doubt Chandra's Spitfire is the one being quoted on the card of the same name.
(22 Total) - October 2014; December 2014; January 2015; April 2015; June 2015; August 2015; September 2015; November 2015; December 2015(T); January 2016; March 2016(T); April 2016; June 2016; October 2016; December 2016(T); February 2017; April 2017; December 2017; November 2018(T); January 2019; April 2019; June 2019
(8 Total) - May 2015; May 2016; June 2016; August 2016; October 2016; December 2016; October 2017; May 2019
(7 Total) - September 2015; October 2015; January 2016; March 2016; April 2016; July 2016(T); March 2019(T)
Regarding the deadline, I was a bit confused as to which date we had.
So for me, the day ends in about 3 hours from now.
But I won't get to a PC for another 11 hours after that.
That means, when I declared the round closed in about 14 hours from now, submission is closed.
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Multiple instances of lifelink on the same creature are redundant.
Multiple instances of lifelink on the same creature are redundant.
Multiple instances of lifelink on the same creature are redundant.
—Eli Shiffrin, Rules Manager, on a design stacking lifelink instances
So I'll post a placeholder name, for now, but the original name is just too good.
Wake Up // Smell the Coffee WR // 2UG
Sorcery // Sorcery
Target creature gains double strike until end of turn.
Fuse (You may cast one or both halves of this card from your hand)
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Whenever target creature deals damage this turn, its controller draws that many cards.
Fuse (You may cast one or both halves of this card from your hand)
For the record, I think this name is great. If Hot Soup can be a card, I vote Smell the Coffee can be too.
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(8 Total) - May 2015; May 2016; June 2016; August 2016; October 2016; December 2016; October 2017; May 2019
(7 Total) - September 2015; October 2015; January 2016; March 2016; April 2016; July 2016(T); March 2019(T)
Multiple instances of lifelink on the same creature are redundant.
Multiple instances of lifelink on the same creature are redundant.
Multiple instances of lifelink on the same creature are redundant.
—Eli Shiffrin, Rules Manager, on a design stacking lifelink instances
Woo hoo! I finally won another MCC! Thanks to all the judges, and especially doomfish for hosting the month. I am eternally grateful to those that volunteer their time to keep these contests going.
Edit: I'm kinda surprised people didn't think my card was appealing to Johnny, I feel like Johnny would actually be the most appreciative of it.
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(8 Total) - May 2015; May 2016; June 2016; August 2016; October 2016; December 2016; October 2017; May 2019
(7 Total) - September 2015; October 2015; January 2016; March 2016; April 2016; July 2016(T); March 2019(T)
Edit: I'm kinda surprised people didn't think my card was appealing to Johnny, I feel like Johnny would actually be the most appreciative of it.
I commented with 'Johnny sees the possible Time Stop when combined with a sac outlet.', but really that's all there is to it. You can't reanimate it, because of the shuffling. You can't copy it, because of the legendary supertype. What are you to do? You made sure Johnny will have a really hard time to use it. As long as you don't find a way to use it more than once it's just an unreliable Time Stop. The body is far more interesting and saccing it in time feels like value Spike would be after, not so much Johnny, as that's kind of a dead end.
It brings out the Johnny in Spikes, which is part of why it's a cool card.
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Multiple instances of lifelink on the same creature are redundant.
Multiple instances of lifelink on the same creature are redundant.
Multiple instances of lifelink on the same creature are redundant.
—Eli Shiffrin, Rules Manager, on a design stacking lifelink instances
I guess I just inherently think of Johnny when I think of end the turn effects. it seems like Johnny would really like the idea of ending the turn with various triggers on the stack that he has set up to be beneficial only to himself. I once made a Sundial of the Infinite deck that took advantage of Flickerwisp and Galepowder Mage triggers. The deck didn't appeal to the Spike in me (it didn't win enough) as much as it did the Johnny. Of course I could always just be mistaken.
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(22 Total) - October 2014; December 2014; January 2015; April 2015; June 2015; August 2015; September 2015; November 2015; December 2015(T); January 2016; March 2016(T); April 2016; June 2016; October 2016; December 2016(T); February 2017; April 2017; December 2017; November 2018(T); January 2019; April 2019; June 2019
(8 Total) - May 2015; May 2016; June 2016; August 2016; October 2016; December 2016; October 2017; May 2019
(7 Total) - September 2015; October 2015; January 2016; March 2016; April 2016; July 2016(T); March 2019(T)
My judgments for June Round 1 are complete. As usual, not final until deadline.
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MCC - Winner (6): Oct 2014, Apr Nov 2017, Jan 2018, Apr Jun 2019 || Host (15): Dec 2014, Apr Jul Aug Dec 2015, Mar Jul Aug Oct 2016, Feb Jul 2017, Jun Nov 2018, Feb Jul 2019 (last one here) || Judge (34): every month from Nov 2014 to Nov 2016 except Oct 2015, every month from Feb to Jul 2017 except Apr 2017, then Oct 2017, May Jun Nov 2018, Feb Jul 2019 (last one here) CCL - Winner (3): Jul 2016 (tied with Flatline), May 2017, Jul 2019 (last one here) || Host (5): Feb 2015, Mar Apr May Jun 2016 DCC - Winner (1): Mar 2015 (tied with Piar) || Host (3): May Oct 2015, Jan 2016
• The two public custom sets I've been part a part of the design team for: "Brotherhood of Ormos" - Blog post with all info - set thread - design skeleton / card list || "Extinctia: Homo Evanuit" - Blog post with all info - set thread - card list spreadsheet
• "The Lion's Lair", my article series about MTG and custom card design in particular. Latest article here. Here is the article index.Rather outdated by now, and based on the old MCC rubric, but I'm leaving this here for anybody that might be interested anyway.
• My only public attempt at being a writer: the story of my Leonin custom planeswalker Jeff Lionheart. (I have a very big one that I'm working on right now but that's private for now, and I don't know if I will ever actually publish it, and I also have ideas for multiple future ones, including one where I'm going to reprise Jeff.)
If you don’t mind me asking, is there a rationale for having brackets as opposed to going by pure score when choosing who to advance?
Alternatively, have you ever considered top 3 advance with wild card slots dished out to best score from everyone else? (Sort of reminds me of Doomfish’s idea, but perhaps a little less labor?)
Thanks again for your hard work!
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If you don’t mind me asking, is there a rationale for having brackets as opposed to going by pure score when choosing who to advance?
Alternatively, have you ever considered top 3 advance with wild card slots dished out to best score from everyone else? (Sort of reminds me of Doomfish’s idea, but perhaps a little less labor?)
Thanks again for your hard work!
Going by pure score isn't possible, as every judge has a different avarage on scoring. Let's say, hypothetically I'm a judge that gives a lot of points - I tend to give almost full points in potential most of the time, as that's a personal believe of mine. Still, a better card will score higher than a worse card. But the bad card is still at 18 points. Then there's Moss_Elemental, who would score them lower usually - because for every mistake the player loses a point or something. His best player is at 18 points, the others at 16, 15 or even 14. That's still fair, as the best player wins.
But when we make a ranking across all judges, my entire bracket would win over Moss_Elemental's, because even my worst player has as many points as his best.
In the versus round it's no problem, as all players get judged by two judges and you can calculate the difference. That's still fair that way.
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Multiple instances of lifelink on the same creature are redundant.
Multiple instances of lifelink on the same creature are redundant.
Multiple instances of lifelink on the same creature are redundant.
—Eli Shiffrin, Rules Manager, on a design stacking lifelink instances
Quick question : Does putting counter on itself would satisfy the requirement ? Like a creature with Devour or a Planeswalker entering the battlefield with a set number of loyalty counters ?
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Some kind of witty comment should be here.
I'm sure you can think of something by yourself.
Quick question : Does putting counter on itself would satisfy the requirement ? Like a creature with Devour or a Planeswalker entering the battlefield with a set number of loyalty counters ?
And now, something more important: We're going to need someone to run the MCC for July. I should also add that I will be starting a new job and the end of this month, but I have no idea what my schedule will be like, so chances are I won't have time to run the MCC or to judge. It will be up to others to step up.
Multiple instances of lifelink on the same creature are redundant.
Multiple instances of lifelink on the same creature are redundant.
—Eli Shiffrin, Rules Manager, on a design stacking lifelink instances
Not only this is not wrong, but it's 100% right and it's common practice in Magic card design. I just wanted to point this out.
MCC - Winner (6): Oct 2014, Apr Nov 2017, Jan 2018, Apr Jun 2019 || Host (15): Dec 2014, Apr Jul Aug Dec 2015, Mar Jul Aug Oct 2016, Feb Jul 2017, Jun Nov 2018, Feb Jul 2019 (last one here) || Judge (34): every month from Nov 2014 to Nov 2016 except Oct 2015, every month from Feb to Jul 2017 except Apr 2017, then Oct 2017, May Jun Nov 2018, Feb Jul 2019 (last one here)
CCL - Winner (3): Jul 2016 (tied with Flatline), May 2017, Jul 2019 (last one here) || Host (5): Feb 2015, Mar Apr May Jun 2016
DCC - Winner (1): Mar 2015 (tied with Piar) || Host (3): May Oct 2015, Jan 2016
• The two public custom sets I've been part a part of the design team for:
"Brotherhood of Ormos" - Blog post with all info - set thread - design skeleton / card list || "Extinctia: Homo Evanuit" - Blog post with all info - set thread - card list spreadsheet
• "The Lion's Lair", my article series about MTG and custom card design in particular. Latest article here. Here is the article index. Rather outdated by now, and based on the old MCC rubric, but I'm leaving this here for anybody that might be interested anyway.
• My only public attempt at being a writer: the story of my Leonin custom planeswalker Jeff Lionheart. (I have a very big one that I'm working on right now but that's private for now, and I don't know if I will ever actually publish it, and I also have ideas for multiple future ones, including one where I'm going to reprise Jeff.)
So in our case here it'd be the wall talking.
Multiple instances of lifelink on the same creature are redundant.
Multiple instances of lifelink on the same creature are redundant.
—Eli Shiffrin, Rules Manager, on a design stacking lifelink instances
Edit: Is it possible that Jace's Erasure is a precedent for what I'm talking about?
Edit2: Actually, if you type the possessive form of almost any planeswalker's name into the Gatherer, it returns many precedents. I doubt Chandra's Spitfire is the one being quoted on the card of the same name.
So for me, the day ends in about 3 hours from now.
But I won't get to a PC for another 11 hours after that.
That means, when I declared the round closed in about 14 hours from now, submission is closed.
Multiple instances of lifelink on the same creature are redundant.
Multiple instances of lifelink on the same creature are redundant.
—Eli Shiffrin, Rules Manager, on a design stacking lifelink instances
Judge signup thread is up. We need four.
For the record, I think this name is great. If Hot Soup can be a card, I vote Smell the Coffee can be too.
I'm done. Let me know when you have your winner.
theazurespirit 17+17+19 = 53
netn10 18.5+19+18.5 = 56
TriceDefied 18+19.5+20 = 57.5
Flatline 21+20.5+21.5 = 63
Congratulations Flatline for winning May!
Multiple instances of lifelink on the same creature are redundant.
Multiple instances of lifelink on the same creature are redundant.
—Eli Shiffrin, Rules Manager, on a design stacking lifelink instances
Edit: I'm kinda surprised people didn't think my card was appealing to Johnny, I feel like Johnny would actually be the most appreciative of it.
I commented with 'Johnny sees the possible Time Stop when combined with a sac outlet.', but really that's all there is to it. You can't reanimate it, because of the shuffling. You can't copy it, because of the legendary supertype. What are you to do? You made sure Johnny will have a really hard time to use it.
It brings out the Johnny in Spikes, which is part of why it's a cool card.
Multiple instances of lifelink on the same creature are redundant.
Multiple instances of lifelink on the same creature are redundant.
—Eli Shiffrin, Rules Manager, on a design stacking lifelink instances
MCC - Winner (6): Oct 2014, Apr Nov 2017, Jan 2018, Apr Jun 2019 || Host (15): Dec 2014, Apr Jul Aug Dec 2015, Mar Jul Aug Oct 2016, Feb Jul 2017, Jun Nov 2018, Feb Jul 2019 (last one here) || Judge (34): every month from Nov 2014 to Nov 2016 except Oct 2015, every month from Feb to Jul 2017 except Apr 2017, then Oct 2017, May Jun Nov 2018, Feb Jul 2019 (last one here)
CCL - Winner (3): Jul 2016 (tied with Flatline), May 2017, Jul 2019 (last one here) || Host (5): Feb 2015, Mar Apr May Jun 2016
DCC - Winner (1): Mar 2015 (tied with Piar) || Host (3): May Oct 2015, Jan 2016
• The two public custom sets I've been part a part of the design team for:
"Brotherhood of Ormos" - Blog post with all info - set thread - design skeleton / card list || "Extinctia: Homo Evanuit" - Blog post with all info - set thread - card list spreadsheet
• "The Lion's Lair", my article series about MTG and custom card design in particular. Latest article here. Here is the article index. Rather outdated by now, and based on the old MCC rubric, but I'm leaving this here for anybody that might be interested anyway.
• My only public attempt at being a writer: the story of my Leonin custom planeswalker Jeff Lionheart. (I have a very big one that I'm working on right now but that's private for now, and I don't know if I will ever actually publish it, and I also have ideas for multiple future ones, including one where I'm going to reprise Jeff.)
Done. As always, no complaints.
Alternatively, have you ever considered top 3 advance with wild card slots dished out to best score from everyone else? (Sort of reminds me of Doomfish’s idea, but perhaps a little less labor?)
Thanks again for your hard work!
( ancestral on Custom Magic Discord server )
( mproud on reddit )
Going by pure score isn't possible, as every judge has a different avarage on scoring. Let's say, hypothetically I'm a judge that gives a lot of points - I tend to give almost full points in potential most of the time, as that's a personal believe of mine. Still, a better card will score higher than a worse card. But the bad card is still at 18 points. Then there's Moss_Elemental, who would score them lower usually - because for every mistake the player loses a point or something. His best player is at 18 points, the others at 16, 15 or even 14. That's still fair, as the best player wins.
But when we make a ranking across all judges, my entire bracket would win over Moss_Elemental's, because even my worst player has as many points as his best.
In the versus round it's no problem, as all players get judged by two judges and you can calculate the difference. That's still fair that way.
Multiple instances of lifelink on the same creature are redundant.
Multiple instances of lifelink on the same creature are redundant.
—Eli Shiffrin, Rules Manager, on a design stacking lifelink instances
Round 2 is up.
I'm sure you can think of something by yourself.
Was a pleasure to see I did so well in round 1; I certainly knew my card had balancing issues.
I'm done. As always, no complaints.
And now, something more important: We're going to need someone to run the MCC for July. I should also add that I will be starting a new job and the end of this month, but I have no idea what my schedule will be like, so chances are I won't have time to run the MCC or to judge. It will be up to others to step up.