Roxith, Thane of Rot2BBBB
Legendary Artifact Creature- Horror Construct (M)
Whenever a creature an opponent controls dies, if it had any -1/-1 counters on it, put that many +1/+1 counters on Roxith and that many -1/-1 counters on target creature an opponent controls. "If flesh is the cancer of this world, then Complaetion is it's cure."
1/1
Chianul, Who Whispers Twice2GU
Legendary Creature-Human Shaman [R]
Whenever a permanent is turned face up, you may draw a card and/or untap a land you control. UG, t: Look at the top card of your library. You may manifest it. (Put it onto the battlefield face down as a 2/2 creature. Turn it face up any time for its mana cost if it's a creature card.) "I learned all I know by listening to the world."
2/4
Lady Farisa, Patrician1WW
Legendary Creature - Human Advisor T: Destroy target enchantment. Its controller may search his or her library for an enchantment with converted mana cost equal to 1 plus the destroyed enchantment's converted mana cost and put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle his or her library. No, no, no! We simply must find you some better decor. Let's see what we can find, shall we?
1/3
IIW: Depth without complexity and/or your favorite color.
I hadn't thought about using authors quoted in flavor text, but that's a cool idea! I like the creativity!
Cythare: I'm not entirely sure how this represents Coleridge, mostly from my extremely limited knowledge of his life and works. Sorry, I just don't know enough about him and his writing to judge this one accurately.
JuanCu: Cool card, but no IIW. I'll give comments anyway, though. I really like how this illustrates the childishness of his work (a human token wouldn't have been nearly as flavorful, introducing a new creature type was quite appropriate here.) However, from the new creature type stems my main issue with the card: If they kill the 1/1 token, which isn't the hardest thing to do, Lewis Carroll is now a 2/2 vanilla. Nice card, though.
Piar: I think that Chadir should have more navigator-y abilities. He's a cool card, but really doesn't fit the flavor that well. With the exploration flavor of Zendikar, tutoring for an artifact or a land might have been appropriate. Also, I don't know if we have any clues as to Chadir's race or color, but I've always imagined him as green, as evidenced by the flavor text on the Zendikar printing of Vastwood Gorger (can't get that printing to come up here).
Chemtrails: I like this. A lot. It fits flavor well, and it's not too complicated, but it's also not too simple to be a mythic legend. Effective, well designed, and well formatted also.
Luusydh: Volrath the Risen commented that X=0 was an issue. You fixed that, but really everything up to X=3 or 4 is still an issue, paying 1 for a permanent, even with the card, is way too cheap. Cool design, though. You could fix this easily with a "Gain control of target permanent with CMC X or less. Its controller draws a card." instead of any permanent and X cards. I think that gold counters could be an issue too. With the current text, a permanent with no gold counters can't be affected, so nobody would ever pay to put gold counters on their permanents.
RedKid: Roxith is cool, but can quickly get out of hand. Killing their big creature with lots of -1/-1 counters becomes a board wipe AND a huge creature, which can lots-for-one the opponent.
Mikaeus: I REALLY like the feel of Chianul. It's quite powerful, but not overly so. The mystic shaman flavor is portrayed well. My only issue is that the triggered ability is unnecessarily wordy, there are very few instances in which you would only choose one. Aside from this, though, it's a great card that could see a little bit of play in standard and certainly makes for an interesting legend.
TacticalCelebrant: I like Lady Farisa, she's reminiscent of Birthing Pod but not in a going-to-be-banned-in-modern kind of way. A nice enchantment tutor, but much harder to use than pod, as sacrificing an enchantment is a steeper cost than a creature. However, the versatility of the ability for destroying enchantments as well makes it pretty cool.
Tilwin: The challenge said a legendary creature from flavor text. As far as I could find, no flavor text mentions an Avatar of Esper. Cool card, though. Reminds me of the Souls from m15.
Winner: MixMasterMikaeus
HMs: Chemtrails, TacticalCelebrant
Next: Enemy-Colored Dragons of Tarkir
Dragonlord Vamad3UR
Legendary Creature - Dragon
Flying
Whenever you cast an instant spell, you may pay 3UR. If you do, put a 4/4 blue and red Dragon creature token with flying onto the battlefield.
Whenever you cast a sorcery spell, if you control another Dragon, Dragonlord Vamad deals 2 damage to target player.
5/4
Dragonlord Adabh3GU
Legendary Creature - Dragon
Flying
Tap another untapped creature you control: Put a +1/+1 counter on Dragonlord Adabh.
Whenever another creature you control becomes tapped, you may pay 1(G/U). If you do, draw a card.
3/6
Dragonlord Terik4BG
Legendary Creature - Dragon
Flying BG, Discard a creature card: Choose one-
-Put a 2/2 black Zombie creature token onto the battlefield.
-Put two +1/+1 counters on target Zombie.
7/4
Dragonlord Kanir3WB
Legendary Creature - Dragon
Flying
Whenever Dragonlord Kanir attacks, tap up to two target creatures. 3WB: Target player loses 2 life and you gain 2 life.
4/5
Dragonlord Dhamot3RW
Legendary Creature - Dragon
Flying
Whenever a creature you control attacks, that creature gets +2/+0 and gains first strike until end of turn.
At the beginning of your upkeep, put a 1/1 red Warrior creature token onto the battlefield.
6/3
You can choose your favorite to judge, I just couldn't resist making them all!
Silutai Counterflux3WB
Creature - Dragon Mutant
Flying
Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, you may return target creature card in your graveyard to your hand, if you sacrificed it this turn.
4/4
Kolaghan, Swift Lightning4RW
Legendary Creature - Elder Dragon
Flying, Haste
Whenever Kolaghan, Swift Lightning attacks, attacking creatures get +2/+2 until end of turn.
IIW: An Orcish Artillery-type card (giving You a very good ability but at a pretty high cost).
Dragonlord Atraka4GU
Legendery Creature - Dragon (Mythic)
Flash
Flying
When Dragonlord Atraka enters the battlefield, tap all creatures with less power than its power. Mighty - As long as you control the creature with most power, other creatures doesn't untap during their controller's untap step.
6/6
Ojutai, Enraged3WR
Legendary Creature - Elder Dragon
Flying, Haste
When Ojutai, Enraged enters the battlefield, an opponent may have it deals 5 damage to him or her. If he doesn't creatures you control gains +2/+0 and trample until end of turn.
4/4
iiw: what if in alternate timeline, Karn resides in Kamigawa instead of Mirrodin ?
Dromoka, Eternal4WB
Legendary Creature — Elder Dragon (M)
Flying, lifelink
Other creatures you control have lifelink.
Whenever a creature you control attacks, if Dromoka, Eternal is in your graveyard, you may pay half your life, rounded up. If you do, return Dromoka, Eternal from your graveyard to the battlefield tapped and attacking.
4/7
Very well, judging now (before CF decides to clog up the thread with junk posts).
sperlman: Nice set of alternate Elder Dragons. I like Dhamot and Terik the best since they have abilities that connect with each other. Kanir seems disjointed and Vamad could just spawn Dragons from both instants and sorceries and/or straight-up Lightning Bolt whenever a Dragon enters the battlefield. Is Adabh meant to be able to tap itself? Nice touch.
JuanCu: Perhaps it should work like Faith's Reward: "[...]return target creature card put into your graveyard from the battlefield this turn."
scrad_the_wanderer: Lacks P/T: I'm guessing it's around 5/4? Could be a powerful Standard card as a finisher for R/W. It's kind of meh as a Commander, though.
Tilwin: It may seem hypocritical for me to decry combat generals in R/W and praise this, but this is an anthem and a rather innovative one to boot. Reminds me of Legion's Initiative, scaled up.
netn10: Being able to lock down the whole board is very strong, even more so at instant speed. The 6/6 that comes with an effect is gravy. Maybe bumping it up to 7 mana would be better.
admirableadmiral: KoolKoal is right about the proposed wording change. That said, this is okay. Cascading into more Dragons is always good, though I guess I'm just spoiled by Maelstrom Wanderer.
iphanx: A punisher effect might be strong in Standard and other formats, especially if the alternative is pumping up your creatures. Maybe it should trigger on each attack?
avatarz: Relying on your opponent having more creatures than you is not really my cup of tea. I'd rather have something like a bigger Suture Priest.
Cythare: Like how this one suddenly erupts from the grave whenever one of your creatures attacks.
mirrorentity: Yeah, I know, less R/W combat generals-- but the thing is, this one does something unusual. It allows you to re-use ETB effects by bouncing the creature in question. There are a lot of good ETB creatures in both colors.
Megiddo: 8/8 trampling flier for 6 mana. Uh. Isn't that a bit OP?
Winner: mirrorentity
HM: sperlman, Tilwin, Cythare
Next: Golden Globes
King Midas's Trousers3
Artifact — Equipment
Equipped creature gets +0/+3.
Whenever equipped creature deals combat damage, put a colorless Gold artifact token onto the battlefield. It has "Sacrifice this permanent: Add one mana of any color to your mana pool."
Equip 0 "Yes, they're golden. No, I'm not going to tell you the reason why."
Relic of the Suns4
Legendary Artifact (M) 4, T, Exile Relix of the Suns: You return to the battlefield all permanent cards in your graveyard that were put there from the battlefield this turn. Then you put the rest of the cards that is put into your graveyard from anywhere else this turn to your hand. The power of the Old Sun of Selfar were confined in a staff of King Halbatas. It's everflowing power distorts space and time around him.
iiw: A plane where Myojin of Kamigawa's fight the God's of Theros
Aurify1BB
Sorcery (R)
Exile target nonbasic land. Put a colorless land token named Golden Globe onto the battlefield. It has "t: Add 1 to your mana pool."
Celebrity FestivalGW
Instant (R)
Search your library for four planeswalker cards and/or legendary cards with different names. Target opponent chooses one. Put the chosen card into your hand, and the rest on the bottom of your library in any order.
IIW: Depth without complexity and/or your favorite color.
Legendary Artifact Creature- Horror Construct (M)
Whenever a creature an opponent controls dies, if it had any -1/-1 counters on it, put that many +1/+1 counters on Roxith and that many -1/-1 counters on target creature an opponent controls.
"If flesh is the cancer of this world, then Complaetion is it's cure."
1/1
IIW: Sex Appeal
"There are no two words in the English language more harmful than 'good job'." -Terrance Fletcher, Whiplash (2014)
Otherwise as soon as I play Halina I can gank every permanent in play for free.
Plot of Dragon's Maze:
Niv-Mizzet plays Realmwright, chooses "Gate". Then a dramatic retelling of the ensuing argument.
Legendary Creature-Human Shaman [R]
Whenever a permanent is turned face up, you may draw a card and/or untap a land you control.
UG, t: Look at the top card of your library. You may manifest it. (Put it onto the battlefield face down as a 2/2 creature. Turn it face up any time for its mana cost if it's a creature card.)
"I learned all I know by listening to the world."
2/4
IIW: Enemy-colored Dragons of Tarkir
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EDH Decks
BG Vicious Varolz | RW Jor Kadeen, the Mean Machine | RG Atarka: Muh_Dragons.dec (WIP) | WU Brago, Blink Eternal (WIP)
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Mishra, Artificer Prodigy UBR
Iname As One GB
Meloku, the Clouded Mirror U
Legendary Creature - Human Advisor
T: Destroy target enchantment. Its controller may search his or her library for an enchantment with converted mana cost equal to 1 plus the destroyed enchantment's converted mana cost and put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle his or her library.
No, no, no! We simply must find you some better decor. Let's see what we can find, shall we?
1/3
IIW: Depth without complexity and/or your favorite color.
Cythare: I'm not entirely sure how this represents Coleridge, mostly from my extremely limited knowledge of his life and works. Sorry, I just don't know enough about him and his writing to judge this one accurately.
JuanCu: Cool card, but no IIW. I'll give comments anyway, though. I really like how this illustrates the childishness of his work (a human token wouldn't have been nearly as flavorful, introducing a new creature type was quite appropriate here.) However, from the new creature type stems my main issue with the card: If they kill the 1/1 token, which isn't the hardest thing to do, Lewis Carroll is now a 2/2 vanilla. Nice card, though.
Piar: I think that Chadir should have more navigator-y abilities. He's a cool card, but really doesn't fit the flavor that well. With the exploration flavor of Zendikar, tutoring for an artifact or a land might have been appropriate. Also, I don't know if we have any clues as to Chadir's race or color, but I've always imagined him as green, as evidenced by the flavor text on the Zendikar printing of Vastwood Gorger (can't get that printing to come up here).
Chemtrails: I like this. A lot. It fits flavor well, and it's not too complicated, but it's also not too simple to be a mythic legend. Effective, well designed, and well formatted also.
Luusydh: Volrath the Risen commented that X=0 was an issue. You fixed that, but really everything up to X=3 or 4 is still an issue, paying 1 for a permanent, even with the card, is way too cheap. Cool design, though. You could fix this easily with a "Gain control of target permanent with CMC X or less. Its controller draws a card." instead of any permanent and X cards. I think that gold counters could be an issue too. With the current text, a permanent with no gold counters can't be affected, so nobody would ever pay to put gold counters on their permanents.
RedKid: Roxith is cool, but can quickly get out of hand. Killing their big creature with lots of -1/-1 counters becomes a board wipe AND a huge creature, which can lots-for-one the opponent.
Mikaeus: I REALLY like the feel of Chianul. It's quite powerful, but not overly so. The mystic shaman flavor is portrayed well. My only issue is that the triggered ability is unnecessarily wordy, there are very few instances in which you would only choose one. Aside from this, though, it's a great card that could see a little bit of play in standard and certainly makes for an interesting legend.
TacticalCelebrant: I like Lady Farisa, she's reminiscent of Birthing Pod but not in a going-to-be-banned-in-modern kind of way. A nice enchantment tutor, but much harder to use than pod, as sacrificing an enchantment is a steeper cost than a creature. However, the versatility of the ability for destroying enchantments as well makes it pretty cool.
Tilwin: The challenge said a legendary creature from flavor text. As far as I could find, no flavor text mentions an Avatar of Esper. Cool card, though. Reminds me of the Souls from m15.
Winner: MixMasterMikaeus
HMs: Chemtrails, TacticalCelebrant
Next: Enemy-Colored Dragons of Tarkir
Legendary Creature - Dragon
Flying
Whenever you cast an instant spell, you may pay 3UR. If you do, put a 4/4 blue and red Dragon creature token with flying onto the battlefield.
Whenever you cast a sorcery spell, if you control another Dragon, Dragonlord Vamad deals 2 damage to target player.
5/4
Dragonlord Adabh 3GU
Legendary Creature - Dragon
Flying
Tap another untapped creature you control: Put a +1/+1 counter on Dragonlord Adabh.
Whenever another creature you control becomes tapped, you may pay 1(G/U). If you do, draw a card.
3/6
Dragonlord Terik 4BG
Legendary Creature - Dragon
Flying
BG, Discard a creature card: Choose one-
-Put a 2/2 black Zombie creature token onto the battlefield.
-Put two +1/+1 counters on target Zombie.
7/4
Dragonlord Kanir 3WB
Legendary Creature - Dragon
Flying
Whenever Dragonlord Kanir attacks, tap up to two target creatures.
3WB: Target player loses 2 life and you gain 2 life.
4/5
Dragonlord Dhamot 3RW
Legendary Creature - Dragon
Flying
Whenever a creature you control attacks, that creature gets +2/+0 and gains first strike until end of turn.
At the beginning of your upkeep, put a 1/1 red Warrior creature token onto the battlefield.
6/3
You can choose your favorite to judge, I just couldn't resist making them all!
IIW: Cards with options.
Creature - Dragon Mutant
Flying
Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, you may return target creature card in your graveyard to your hand, if you sacrificed it this turn.
4/4
IIW: inside a train
Legendary Creature - Elder Dragon
Flying, Haste
Whenever Kolaghan, Swift Lightning attacks, attacking creatures get +2/+2 until end of turn.
IIW: An Orcish Artillery-type card (giving You a very good ability but at a pretty high cost).
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EDH Decks
BG Vicious Varolz | RW Jor Kadeen, the Mean Machine | RG Atarka: Muh_Dragons.dec (WIP) | WU Brago, Blink Eternal (WIP)
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Legendery Creature - Dragon (Mythic)
Flash
Flying
When Dragonlord Atraka enters the battlefield, tap all creatures with less power than its power.
Mighty - As long as you control the creature with most power, other creatures doesn't untap during their controller's untap step.
6/6
IIW: Nephillim.
Legendary Creature — Dragon [M]
Flying, trample
Cascade
Dragon creature spells you cast have cascade.
5/5
IIW: Cascade
Legendary Creature - Elder Dragon
Flying, Haste
When Ojutai, Enraged enters the battlefield, an opponent may have it deals 5 damage to him or her. If he doesn't creatures you control gains +2/+0 and trample until end of turn.
4/4
iiw: what if in alternate timeline, Karn resides in Kamigawa instead of Mirrodin ?
Dromoka, Eternal 4WB
Legendary Creature — Elder Dragon (M)
Flying, lifelink
Other creatures you control have lifelink.
Whenever a creature you control attacks, if Dromoka, Eternal is in your graveyard, you may pay half your life, rounded up. If you do, return Dromoka, Eternal from your graveyard to the battlefield tapped and attacking.
4/7
IIW: Gruul artifacts
Draft my cube! (630 cards)
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EDH Decks
BG Vicious Varolz | RW Jor Kadeen, the Mean Machine | RG Atarka: Muh_Dragons.dec (WIP) | WU Brago, Blink Eternal (WIP)
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Legendary Creature — Dragon {M}
Flying, trample
R: Dragonlord Kargan gets +1/+0 until end of turn.
8/8
IIW: exploit me like one of your proletarians
You won the challenge almost 36 hours ago. Now is an excellent time to judge.
sperlman: Nice set of alternate Elder Dragons. I like Dhamot and Terik the best since they have abilities that connect with each other. Kanir seems disjointed and Vamad could just spawn Dragons from both instants and sorceries and/or straight-up Lightning Bolt whenever a Dragon enters the battlefield. Is Adabh meant to be able to tap itself? Nice touch.
JuanCu: Perhaps it should work like Faith's Reward: "[...]return target creature card put into your graveyard from the battlefield this turn."
scrad_the_wanderer: Lacks P/T: I'm guessing it's around 5/4? Could be a powerful Standard card as a finisher for R/W. It's kind of meh as a Commander, though.
Tilwin: It may seem hypocritical for me to decry combat generals in R/W and praise this, but this is an anthem and a rather innovative one to boot. Reminds me of Legion's Initiative, scaled up.
netn10: Being able to lock down the whole board is very strong, even more so at instant speed. The 6/6 that comes with an effect is gravy. Maybe bumping it up to 7 mana would be better.
admirableadmiral: KoolKoal is right about the proposed wording change. That said, this is okay. Cascading into more Dragons is always good, though I guess I'm just spoiled by Maelstrom Wanderer.
iphanx: A punisher effect might be strong in Standard and other formats, especially if the alternative is pumping up your creatures. Maybe it should trigger on each attack?
avatarz: Relying on your opponent having more creatures than you is not really my cup of tea. I'd rather have something like a bigger Suture Priest.
Cythare: Like how this one suddenly erupts from the grave whenever one of your creatures attacks.
mirrorentity: Yeah, I know, less R/W combat generals-- but the thing is, this one does something unusual. It allows you to re-use ETB effects by bouncing the creature in question. There are a lot of good ETB creatures in both colors.
Megiddo: 8/8 trampling flier for 6 mana. Uh. Isn't that a bit OP?
Winner: mirrorentity
HM: sperlman, Tilwin, Cythare
Next: Golden Globes
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EDH Decks
BG Vicious Varolz | RW Jor Kadeen, the Mean Machine | RG Atarka: Muh_Dragons.dec (WIP) | WU Brago, Blink Eternal (WIP)
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Artifact — Equipment
Equipped creature gets +0/+3.
Whenever equipped creature deals combat damage, put a colorless Gold artifact token onto the battlefield. It has "Sacrifice this permanent: Add one mana of any color to your mana pool."
Equip 0
"Yes, they're golden. No, I'm not going to tell you the reason why."
IIW: kek
Artifact (R)
At the beginning of each player's upkeep, that player sacrifices a multicolored permanent and draws a card.
IIW: Gruul artifacts
Draft my cube! (630 cards)
Legendary Artifact (M)
4, T, Exile Relix of the Suns: You return to the battlefield all permanent cards in your graveyard that were put there from the battlefield this turn. Then you put the rest of the cards that is put into your graveyard from anywhere else this turn to your hand.
The power of the Old Sun of Selfar were confined in a staff of King Halbatas. It's everflowing power distorts space and time around him.
iiw: A plane where Myojin of Kamigawa's fight the God's of Theros
Sorcery (R)
Exile target nonbasic land. Put a colorless land token named Golden Globe onto the battlefield. It has "t: Add 1 to your mana pool."
IIW: Elves!
Instant (R)
Search your library for four planeswalker cards and/or legendary cards with different names. Target opponent chooses one. Put the chosen card into your hand, and the rest on the bottom of your library in any order.
IIW: Depth without complexity and/or your favorite color.