How does this card-making game work? It's simple! Whenever your card receives a vote in the day's poll, you receive [1] point for the month. If your card ends up with the most votes for that day, you will receive [2] additional points for the month. In the event of a tie, each person who tied receives [1] additional point. At the end of each month, the person with the most points on the scoreboard wins that month, then the scoreboard is cleared for the next month. You can participate in as many or as few days as you want in any month.
Rules
Each day you may post any card you want. On the next day all of the posted cards will be put into a poll the thread as long as your card didn't get disqualified - see the next point for more details. If you post more than one card in a DCC thread, only the first card you post will be taken.
When you vote, you need to make exactly two votes for two different people. Vote for the cards that are listed in the first post, not other cards being posted in the thread. If you notice that you've only voted for one person, include your second vote in a post, even if you're not submitting a card.
If you want to change your vote for any reason, post that change in the day's thread (you can include it with your card if you want). Changed votes in the discussion thread will be ignored.
Voting for only one person, for three or more people, or for yourself will earn you an asterisk by your name in the monthly leaderboard. So will failing to vote if you've posted a card. (We're not going to do anything about people who don't vote or post cards; that would be kind of silly.) This indicates that you're on probation for the next 21 days. If you're on probation and you make another improper vote, your card will be disqualified. Repeated disqualification is grounds for warnings and/or infractions for not following the game rules, so please don't do it.
Voting for everything in the poll will be grounds for a lifetime ban from the DCC. Don't do it. It just wastes the thread creators' time.
If you wish to post a render, please use the hyperlink option when posting your card and make the card name the image link. Renders are usually large enough to clog up the list, so submit a text-formed card and (optionally) a link in the name to the render.
This thread is just for your card submission. Take your questions/comments to our discussion thread. If it's a question, comment, or complaint about probation, PM me instead and I'll explain it.
Anyone can post the new thread for the day. When you post it, make sure that:
You have a poll in the thread;
You include everyone's cards (excluding cards that have been disqualified);
The poll is marked as public and multiple choice with a one-day time limit; and
You update the leaderboard with the previous day's scores.
(An easy way to post the new thread is to hit the multiquote button on every post in the previous day's thread, then click Post Reply. Select everything in this post, copy it, and then paste it into the first post for a new thread. You'll have to clean up a few small things, like quote tags around the opening post and the previous day's cards.)
Notes of the Day
WELP, SHOULD OF SEEN THAT COMING. NETN10 RECLAIMS THE LEAD.
Zin, the IsolationistWWW
Legendary Creature - Human Monk (M)
Permanent spells with the same name as any permanent on the battlefield can’t be played. Whenever a nonland permanent would go to a graveyard, exile it instead. Spells with the same name as spells exiled in this way can’t be played. Solitude is the path to enlightenment.
2/2
Spelltrapper's Bo1
Artifact - Equipment (Rare)
Equipment creature has prowess.
Instant and sorcery spell you cast targeting equipped creature have rebound. (If you cast the spell from your hand, exile it as it resolves. At the beginning of your next upkeep, you may cast that card from exile without paying its mana cost.)
Equip 2
Morth-Gana, Guzot's Crypt4
Legendary Artifact (M) 2, t, Pay 2 life, Sacrifice two nontoken permanents: Put a lore counter on Morth-Gana, Guzot's Crypt. 5, t, Remove three lore counters from Morth-Gana and exile it: Draw five cards and take an extra turn after this one. For the rest of the game, you have no maximum hand size, spells you cast cost 4 less to cast, and whenever you cast a spell, you may draw a card.
Indighost, BrainPo (I like the Mindbreak Trapesqueness of that card, since with your wording, "countering" Abrupt Decay with spell mastery is a thing.)
Soil ScienceGG
Instant (C)
Kicker—Sacrifice a land (You may sacrifice a land as you cast this spell.)
Search your library for a land card, reveal it, and put it into your hand. Then shuffle your library.
If you paid Soil Science’s kicker cost, instead put that card onto the battlefield.
Votes: RedGauntlet, Bravelion (even though this time I'm the one suggesting it should cost one more mana, since we already have Psychic Possession and yours is straight up better :p)
Azorius Bailiff1W
Creature - Human Knight (U)
Vigilance
Spells you control can't be countered by spells or abilities.
1/3 "The judge has no time for your objections now."
Hero’s Nature3RR
Enchantment (M)
Creatures and planeswalkers you control have “Whenever this permanent becomes the target of a spell you control, you may have this permanent deal 2 damage to each other creature and planeswalker and each player.” “A hero is merely a disaster with a point of view.”
—Tamiyo
Topdown card from the flavor text. The granted trigger being the same as heroic is totally intentional.
Votes: bravelion83 (I genuinely think they're overcosting this sort of effect and this should be the balance standard), Groovelord (the card doesn't look or feel flashy, but becomes really appealing to my Spike sensibilities when I think about it in context)
Diffusive Force1WU
Creature - Elemental (R)
Defender, protection from creatures
Diffusive Force can't gain or lose abilities and its base stats cannot change.
0/1
Pain MirrorWB
Instant (R)
The next time a source of your choice would cause you to lose life this turn, prevent that loss of life. If life loss is prevented this way, target opponent loses that much life instead.
Overload 4WB — (You may cast this spell for its overload cost. If you do, change its text by replacing all instances of “target” with “each.”)
Tactical Suppression1U
Instant (C)
Counter target spell unless its controller pays 2. Martial -- If you control an attacking or blocking creature, counter that spell instead.
This seems balanced, but it's just...not particularly good. It's unplayable in most formats, and not really all that interesting. I think you've made a good card that fits the idea you were going for, but it doesn't do much for me.
This card is trying to do too much. I like the first ability, but the second seems tacked on, and it doesn't even really seem like it fits the flavour all that well. I understand that it's supposed to be like "everyone only gets one of everything," but it doesn't really work. The card also just feels too cluttered. Honestly it would have been fine with just the first ability.
The name is odd, and the card isn't very interesting or unique, but it's balanced and decently playable. Not much else to say about this one.
This is fine. In the kind of deck you're going to play this in, most of your creatures are already going to have prowess anyways, so +2/+2 two turns in a row is worth your mana investment. I would almost argue that it should cost 2, just because this is an equipment that gives card advantage as well as a (conditiona) stat boost. All in all, me like.
Naturalize... Aside from that, it seems like a huge cost for huge payout card, and those only really work in EDH. It's very flavourful though, and I like that, plus the ability seems balanced. Just really hard to get to.
Lol. This is amusing and balanced. -50 points for creativity. I'm joking of course.
This is a bit overpowered. Not massively, but anything that stops your spells from being countered should cost at least 3. I would have made it a 2/3 for 2W. Also, consider make it creature spells instead of every spell.
1 billion flavour points to you. The card seems odd, but it's unique and fairly viable. I like it.
This is like... a super Fog Bank. I think it's cool. Not too useful, but cool.
Votes: netn10, Groovelord
Fruitful Passion RR
Sorcery (R)
Search your library for a Plains or Island card and put it onto the battlefield. Then shuffle your library.
Sometimes, violence IS the answer.
Others in the cycle: Fruitful Honor, Fruitful Insight, Fruitful Decay, Fruiful Growth
Fleeting Projection2URW
Instant (R)
Search your library for a creature card, put it onto the battlefieldand shuffle your library. At the beginning of the next end step, shuffle that creature back into your library.
Votes: Indighost, Mr__Buttons (even though I really think Soil Science should cost 1G and not GG)
Soul Searching4BG
Sorcery (R)
Put a token onto the battlefield that’s a copy of target creature an opponent controls. That token has hexproof and menace. “There is nothing as horrific as seeing yourself for what you truly are. Nothing as brutal as seeing a reflection of your true essence, the one that you’re trying so hard to repress.”
—Liliana Vess
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• 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.)
Madness Amplifier2UB
Creature - Horror (Rare) Forecast — UB, Reveal Madness Amplifier from your hand: Discard a card, then draw a card. (Activate this ability only during your upkeep and only once each turn.)
Madness UB
At the end of turn, if you discarded a card this turn, draw a card.
3/3
Welcome to the DCC!
If you have any questions or comments, feel free to post in the All-New DCC Discussion Thread.
How does this card-making game work? It's simple! Whenever your card receives a vote in the day's poll, you receive [1] point for the month. If your card ends up with the most votes for that day, you will receive [2] additional points for the month. In the event of a tie, each person who tied receives [1] additional point. At the end of each month, the person with the most points on the scoreboard wins that month, then the scoreboard is cleared for the next month. You can participate in as many or as few days as you want in any month.
a pollthe thread as long as your card didn't get disqualified - see the next point for more details. If you post more than one card in a DCC thread, only the first card you post will be taken.You have a poll in the thread;You include everyone's cards (excluding cards that have been disqualified);The poll is marked as public and multiple choice with a one-day time limit; andNotes of the Day
WELP, SHOULD OF SEEN THAT COMING. NETN10 RECLAIMS THE LEAD.
Netn10 62 (+4)
Indighost 61 (+2)
Groovelord 55 (+4)
StonerOfKruphix 51 (+2)
Brainpo 46 (+2)
Bravelion 46 (+2)
Mirrorentity 37 (+0)
Void_Nothing 33 (+0)
Tricedefied 29 (+4)
Mr Buttons 25 (+0)
Redguantlet 22 (+1)
Piar 14 (+0)
Rudyard 12 (+0)
Necarg 7 (+0)
Voxzorz 4 (+0)
Scrad_the_Wanderer 4 (+0)
Aznathom 3 (+0)
ProudAwesome 1 (+0)
Flatline 1 (+0)
Guesswork 1 (+0)
Ilgreven 1 (+0)
Pay in Return 2BB
Instant(R)
Destroy X target creatures that you don't control where X is the number of creatures that you control that died this turn.
Pain Mirror WB
Instant (R)
The next time a source of your choice would cause you to lose life this turn, prevent that loss of life. If life loss is prevented this way, target opponent loses that much life instead.
Overload 4WB — (You may cast this spell for its overload cost. If you do, change its text by replacing all instances of “target” with “each.”)
Instant (C)
Counter target spell unless its controller pays 2.
Martial -- If you control an attacking or blocking creature, counter that spell instead.
Votes: RedGauntlet, Indighost
This seems balanced, but it's just...not particularly good. It's unplayable in most formats, and not really all that interesting. I think you've made a good card that fits the idea you were going for, but it doesn't do much for me.
This card is trying to do too much. I like the first ability, but the second seems tacked on, and it doesn't even really seem like it fits the flavour all that well. I understand that it's supposed to be like "everyone only gets one of everything," but it doesn't really work. The card also just feels too cluttered. Honestly it would have been fine with just the first ability.
The name is odd, and the card isn't very interesting or unique, but it's balanced and decently playable. Not much else to say about this one.
This is fine. In the kind of deck you're going to play this in, most of your creatures are already going to have prowess anyways, so +2/+2 two turns in a row is worth your mana investment. I would almost argue that it should cost 2, just because this is an equipment that gives card advantage as well as a (conditiona) stat boost. All in all, me like.
Naturalize... Aside from that, it seems like a huge cost for huge payout card, and those only really work in EDH. It's very flavourful though, and I like that, plus the ability seems balanced. Just really hard to get to.
Lol. This is amusing and balanced. -50 points for creativity. I'm joking of course.
This is a bit overpowered. Not massively, but anything that stops your spells from being countered should cost at least 3. I would have made it a 2/3 for 2W. Also, consider make it creature spells instead of every spell.
1 billion flavour points to you. The card seems odd, but it's unique and fairly viable. I like it.
This is like... a super Fog Bank. I think it's cool. Not too useful, but cool.
Votes: netn10, Groovelord
Fruitful Passion RR
Sorcery (R)
Search your library for a Plains or Island card and put it onto the battlefield. Then shuffle your library.
Sometimes, violence IS the answer.
Others in the cycle: Fruitful Honor, Fruitful Insight, Fruitful Decay, Fruiful Growth
Fleeting Projection 2URW
Instant (R)
Search your library for a creature card, put it onto the battlefieldand shuffle your library. At the beginning of the next end step, shuffle that creature back into your library.
Soul Searching 4BG
Sorcery (R)
Put a token onto the battlefield that’s a copy of target creature an opponent controls. That token has hexproof and menace.
“There is nothing as horrific as seeing yourself for what you truly are. Nothing as brutal as seeing a reflection of your true essence, the one that you’re trying so hard to repress.”
—Liliana Vess
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.)
Madness Amplifier 2UB
Creature - Horror (Rare)
Forecast — UB, Reveal Madness Amplifier from your hand: Discard a card, then draw a card. (Activate this ability only during your upkeep and only once each turn.)
Madness UB
At the end of turn, if you discarded a card this turn, draw a card.
3/3