Mavel the Ingenious(U/R)
Legendary Creature – Human Wizard [R]
When Mavel the Ingenious enters the battlefield, return an instant or sorcery card at random from your graveyard to your hand. 3UR, T: Exile Mavel the Ingenious, then return it to the battlefield under its owner's control. 2/2
Del, Eternal ChampionWUBRG
Legendary Creature – Human Wizard [MR]
Flash
When you cast Del, Eternal Champion, draw X cards and gain X life, where X is the number of legendary permanents you control.
Del, Eternal Champion has indestructible as long as you control five or more legendary permanents. 3/4
A one-mana card that recycles your spells in addition to providing a body is already beyond good without the ability to continuously buy back spells for you each turn. It doesn't even matter that the card is random, you still get a better card draw and all this needs to get going is your early Opt, though Shock also gets a lot better if it comes back over-and-over. Essence Scatter can get annoying really fast - so can any early answer. And then Glimmer of Genius. And never will this just draw you a land. Bonkers.
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Planar Chaos was not a mistake neither was it random. You might want to look at it again.
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A one-mana card that recycles your spells in addition to providing a body is already beyond good without the ability to continuously buy back spells for you each turn. It doesn't even matter that the card is random, you still get a better card draw and all this needs to get going is your early Opt, though Shock also gets a lot better if it comes back over-and-over. Essence Scatter can get annoying really fast - so can any early answer. And then Glimmer of Genius. And never will this just draw you a land. Bonkers.
It doesn't just keep recurring a free card without any effort. It has to survive at least one turn before you can use its activated ability that costs 5 mana so the Essence Scatter scenario doesn't really apply. If you're playing a deck built around Mavel the Ingenious, you're not going to only cast one instant spell over the course of 6+ turns.
I will mention that I did consider including a drawback that caused it to enter the battlefield tapped. Also, perhaps more importantly, I probably should have mentioned for both of these designs I had the Commander format in mind rather than non singleton constructed formats. I agree that in constructed formats Mavel the Ingenious could potentially be more problematic than in Commander but I disagree that it would be super degenerate.
Unrelated Question, where do you get that frame for the legendary cards? In which program do you make them?
Mavel, this is a 3 mana effect at least on a 1 mana body with additional upside. It is also significantly more powerful in commander than other formats as you always have access to the effect, at a reasonable price until the third time. If you remove the flicker and make the etb the activated ability it would be an interesting and powerful card instead of an annoying and broken card advantage engine.
Del is disappointing. His cast trigger doesn't count himself and he's rather lack luster once he's resolved.
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Legendary Creature – Human Wizard [R]
When Mavel the Ingenious enters the battlefield, return an instant or sorcery card at random from your graveyard to your hand.
3UR, T: Exile Mavel the Ingenious, then return it to the battlefield under its owner's control.
2/2
Legendary Creature – Human Wizard [MR]
Flash
When you cast Del, Eternal Champion, draw X cards and gain X life, where X is the number of legendary permanents you control.
Del, Eternal Champion has indestructible as long as you control five or more legendary permanents.
3/4
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It doesn't just keep recurring a free card without any effort. It has to survive at least one turn before you can use its activated ability that costs 5 mana so the Essence Scatter scenario doesn't really apply. If you're playing a deck built around Mavel the Ingenious, you're not going to only cast one instant spell over the course of 6+ turns.
I will mention that I did consider including a drawback that caused it to enter the battlefield tapped. Also, perhaps more importantly, I probably should have mentioned for both of these designs I had the Commander format in mind rather than non singleton constructed formats. I agree that in constructed formats Mavel the Ingenious could potentially be more problematic than in Commander but I disagree that it would be super degenerate.
I designed the cards with mtg.design.
UBRKess, Dissident MageUBR - Controlling Dissidents
GRhonas the IndomitableG - Indomitable Four Drops
WUBOloro, Ageless AsceticWUB - Loot & Renanimate
Del is disappointing. His cast trigger doesn't count himself and he's rather lack luster once he's resolved.