Writ of ExecutionWB
Enchantment (R)
As Writ of Execution enters the battlefield, name a card. W: Destroy target creature with the chosen name. B: Destroy target planeswalker with the chosen name. "Justice? --You get justice in the next world, in this world you have the law."
-William Gaddis
Song MoteU
Creature — Elemental [C]
Flying
Sacrifice Song Mote: The next instant or sorcery spell you cast this turn costs 1 less to cast. “A familiar’s usefulness is not solely determined by its power or its intellect.”
—Ettovard, Tolarian archivist
1/1
Skeletal Abomination3BB
Creature — Skeleton [U]
If Skeletal Abomination would be dealt 2 or less damage, prevent it. “Do not smite that which you cannot kill, lest it rears its twisted head and laugh at your pitiful attempt.”
—Journa, Viscera Seer
5/3
Mystic UndoingUU
Instant [U]
Counter target spell with converted mana cost 3 or less. “What once was is no more. Nothing calls to nothing and the silence is broken no longer.”
—Pegrix, Tolarian scholar
Foundry InitiateR
Creature - Human Artificer (U)
Whenever an artifact enters the battlefield under your control, Foundry Initiate deals 1 damage to target creature.
"Spare parts are both a boon and a danger to artificers. A little tinkering is great fun, but a little too much tinkering and a city block burns down."
—Kiran Nalaar
1/1
Do you like polls? I like polls! For example, this one: what would you prefer, if I wait for another 2-3 entries, or judge now(well, "now")? It's been like two days.
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Wizards can start putting booster packs inside dog poo and dog owners will still complain.
I scavenge half-devoured words
I lick and swallow rotten sounds
After the feasts of those who'll linger
Beyond this time and modern lingo
Beyond the fingers of the crowd.
avatarz
With no flavor text to shamelesly google, I was quite puzzled as to what this card is a reference to. "Beloved Dead" sounded vaguely Robert-Frost-like, so I searched the archives and found precisely nothing. Then I realised that this is a late entry to last challenge.
Also, you know, sacrificing stuff as a cost is a thing. This little zombie recurs infinitely. Winterspring
Destructive Envy is a nice addition to an already enormous library of Big Red Random Spells, and is a cool - not good, but cool - combo with Gargadon. I like the flavour text, but it feels a bit out of its color pie slice - envy is black, as it stems from egoism.
Transistor was quite enjoyable, and yet the atmosphere and setting it features are just about impossible to convert to MtG. Royce here looks like a flawless design from the point of one unfamiliar with the original, but alas, I can't really say it captures the character well enough; furthermore, the quote is certainly memorable, but has little to do with the card.
Embersteel Paladin fits beautifully with the Bards' quote, and makes me wish Wizards printed more cards that follow the same top-down flavor. Simplicity rounds out the card, as other keywords would overburden it.
Jet Stream is not my favorite, at least I can certainly say it lags from the other designs you posted. Not untapping is ice territory, and Jace here seems to don the mask of his uncharacteristic arrogance. This is his flanderized version, and I'm not the biggest fan of the whole "as you only learned to stand upright" thing.
Pact is opressive in all the worst ways, it makes the game less fun for both players. Nice quote, though. Necarg
Double froms sounds so awkward, like a bad translation of obscure anime. In general, the card featuring only the second ability would be much subtler, but the first line kind of destroys it. Ink-Treader
It's ye olde vampir english! Wouldn't personally attribute such words to a bloodsucker, it fits a blood knight type of personality better - I live only to draw blood, the usual story. In general design seems like it goes to ways - either this is [BBB/ upkeep BB, sacrifice a permanent/ You can't lose] deal, or somebody finds the most obvious two-card combo in the world. Both variants lead to a very unexiting type of gameplay. This honestly feels like a 1998 design, which is not necessary bad. scarbo
Oh, just beautiful! Declaration of Naught always appealed to me, and this is an even prettier version. I don't really know how to describe those designs which feel clean and simple even if they shouldn't. Flavour text is not spectacular, but rounds up the card nicely. admirableadmiral
First card is eeeeh. A common trope among Magic cards is a tiny helper or assistant which you sacrififce later on to draw power from it. I feel it's a bit overdone. Flavor text makes sence, but I can't imagine a real guy saying such a simple sentiment in a roundabout way like that.
Spooky guy is spooky, but I really wish you made it a zombie, because the "whole remove the head or destroy the brain" deal corresponds nicely to this mechanic. Viscera Seer here once again puts a simple thought in words really obtusely and unnecessary epic. Not seeing the rest of the card, I'd take she is talking about Universal Evil or something, not literally about an undead guy.
Counterspell is a nice design, A+. For some reason the quote sounds straight out of Time Spiral block. SelesnyaNewLife
Somewhere, gently MaRo weeps. Insta-win buttons are as fun as a dredge mirror. Flavour text is the kind of epic the internet grew to despise - a very shallow declaration. Cythare
Nice Forge Devil variant, seems just pushed enough to be cool in limited. Flavor text is cool because it kills itself and your guys if the board is empty, got it.
AND THE WINNER IS: scarbo YOU ALSO DID WELL: Cythare, WS, aa NEXT CHALLENGE SHALL BE: with the same name as
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Wizards can start putting booster packs inside dog poo and dog owners will still complain.
Bound for Oblivion2BB
Enchantment (R)
At the beginning of your upkeep, each player sacrifices a permanent.
Whenever a nonland permanent an opponent controls is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, you may search that player's hand, graveyard, and library for all cards with the same name as that permanent and exile them. If a library is searched this way, shuffle it.
Reconstitution Field1BG
Enchantment (R)
If another permanent would be put into your graveyard from the battlefield, you may exile it instead. If you do, you may search your library for a card with the same name as that permanent, reveal it, and put it into your hand. Then, shuffle your library.
No CompromiseUB Sorcery(R)
Search your library for any number of non-land cards, reveal them, then search target opponent's library for any number of cards that share a name with a card found that way. Exile all cards that have matching names with another card, then shuffle the rest into your library. That opponent shuffles his or her library. "I shall eradicate my only weakness, father: I have something in common with you."
- Werdan, defiant Prince
Presumably, your card should have "with the same name as" somewhere in its text. Evil Twin, for example, works within the requirements.
yes
JUDGE ENTRY FOR YOUR EDUCATIONAL ENRICHMENT
Elvish Congregation1GG
Creature - Elf (R)
Elvish Congregation's power and toughness are each equal to the number of Elves you control.
Whenever another Elf enters the battlefield under your control, you may search your library for a card with the same name as that card, reveal it, and put it into your hand. Then shuffle your library.
*/*
I've been informed that we recently passed 2,000,000 thread views, which means that, after a two year hiatus, it's time for another...
Club Flamingo Statistics Update — July 2015
Thread Rating: ☆☆☆☆☆. We actually were at ☆☆☆☆ two years ago at this time but thread ratings no longer exist. This thread will always be 5 stars in my heart.
Thread Size: Unsurprisingly, we're still #1 with 59,150 posts. Note that two years ago at this time we had 41,490 posts. That's 17,660 posts in two years.
Thread Views: First, with 2,008,742 views! Crazy. Two years ago we were still at #2 (under the Alphabetical Card Game), but now we have nearly 300,000 views more than that thread.
Posts per Day Lifetime: 34.19, which is down a fair bit from 40.12 two years ago. With the overall lower activity this isn't surprising, of course, but I'm still impressed we have such a count even after the Curse changeover. This is 59,150 posts over 1730 days.
Posts per Day since last update: 24.42, which is (unsurprisingly) a giant drop from when we were last measured at 87.23 posts per day in a single month. This is 17,660 posts in 723 days. I think we can do better.
Thanks Count: 66. Only one new thank in two years? Go thank the OP if you haven't, you freeloading scoundrels.
And now for another special feature, the 2015 Flamingo Awards!
Our first category is the "I Really Hope Chutzpah Isn't a Dirty Word" award. This award is for the the previously-ranked poster that put the most work in over the last two years to maintain their rank. And the winner is...
Cythare!
With just over 1500 posts in the past two years, Cythare left zero room for debate as to where this award would be going tonight. Consider that he has more posts in that time period than our 8th place poster has lifetime. That's some hustle, folks.
Thanks so much! Please accept your
Our next category is the "Wait Where did this Guy Come From Again?" award. This special award is for the poster who made the deepest penetration into the leaderboard without having been previously ranked. And the winner is...
admirableadmiral!
While I don't have post stats for AA from back in the day to see how many posts he's actually logged on the board in the last two years, you can't argue with going from unranked to fifth place in that time. He has almost 1000 posts on the next contender, as well, which is very convincing.
Congratulations! Please accept your
Our final category for the evening is the "I Can't Believe it Actually Happened™" award. This is a special award for... well, if I tell you, it'll spoil it, so just roll with it for a second. And the winner is...
Chemtrails!
Chemtrails gets the award for a simple reason: He's now the most prolific poster in this thread ever. I think the official dethroning happened last year, but it's never too late to acknowledge this historic and frankly frightening achievement.
This is what I get for resting on my laurels! Please accept your
That wraps up the 2015 Flamingo Awards! Congratulations to all of the winners. We hope you enjoyed the show, and we'll see you back here in this very thread in another few years or so!
Felnia the Riftwalker1UUR
Legendary Creature - Deva Wizard (R)
Flying, Double strike
When you cast Felnia the Riftwalker, if you control a permanent with the same name, exile that permanent. If you do, take an extra turn after this one.
3/3
Mirrored Behemoth4UG
Creature - Beast (MR)
Trample
At the beginning of your upkeep, put a token that's a copy of this creature onto the battlefield under each opponent's control, except it has "3,T: Return target creature with the same name as this one to its owner's hand." "The beast is so prolific, it's within our ranks." - Karval the Brave
8/9
IIW: Some cartoon reference (Bonus points for noting the show it's from.)
My thoughts are with the friends and family of the Orlando Shooting victims and with the rest of the LGBTQA+ community.
Check out my Newborder Peasant Cube here! http://www.cubetutor.com/draft/37467
Necarg, please don't acknowledge this in any way whatsoever.
True Name Mafia (Win),Clan Contest IX Mafia (Win), Bravely Default Mafia (Loss), BOTAS (loss), BfV (Loss), Ace Attourney (loss)
Rules Advisor before they were eradicated
You really need a rarity on that thing. May I suggest whatever WotC implements to supersede mythic rare?
Thanks. Edited it to have a rarity.
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My thoughts are with the friends and family of the Orlando Shooting victims and with the rest of the LGBTQA+ community.
Check out my Newborder Peasant Cube here! http://www.cubetutor.com/draft/37467
Necarg, please don't acknowledge this in any way whatsoever.
True Name Mafia (Win),Clan Contest IX Mafia (Win), Bravely Default Mafia (Loss), BOTAS (loss), BfV (Loss), Ace Attourney (loss)
Rules Advisor before they were eradicated
Unity Majestic1GG
Creature - Avatar (R)
Trample
Each creature has "Whenever a creature with the same name as this one enters the battlefield, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature." [3/3]
IIW: Pick one of the "Inside Out" personified emotions and turn it into a card.
Choose target creature card in your graveyard. If there is a creature that shares a name with it on the battlefield under your control, put that card from that graveyard onto the battlefield under your control.
IIW: Enlightenment Themed cards (bonus points for not Jeskai or Oujitai)
Duplicate1UU
Sorcery [R]
Choose target nonland permanent you control. Search your library for a permanent card with the same name as the chosen card and put that card onto the battlefield under your control.
Buyback 3
Enchantment (R)
As Writ of Execution enters the battlefield, name a card.
W: Destroy target creature with the chosen name.
B: Destroy target planeswalker with the chosen name.
"Justice? --You get justice in the next world, in this world you have the law."
-William Gaddis
IIW: with the same name as
Creature — Elemental [C]
Flying
Sacrifice Song Mote: The next instant or sorcery spell you cast this turn costs 1 less to cast.
“A familiar’s usefulness is not solely determined by its power or its intellect.”
—Ettovard, Tolarian archivist
1/1
Skeletal Abomination 3BB
Creature — Skeleton [U]
If Skeletal Abomination would be dealt 2 or less damage, prevent it.
“Do not smite that which you cannot kill, lest it rears its twisted head and laugh at your pitiful attempt.”
—Journa, Viscera Seer
5/3
Mystic Undoing UU
Instant [U]
Counter target spell with converted mana cost 3 or less.
“What once was is no more. Nothing calls to nothing and the silence is broken no longer.”
—Pegrix, Tolarian scholar
IIW: Everything is a resource
Creature - Human Artificer (U)
Whenever an artifact enters the battlefield under your control, Foundry Initiate deals 1 damage to target creature.
"Spare parts are both a boon and a danger to artificers. A little tinkering is great fun, but a little too much tinkering and a city block burns down."
—Kiran Nalaar
1/1
IIW: Green two-drops
Draft my cube! (630 cards)
I concur
Choose one of these judge of creation:
Make Strionic Resonator shine!
You can not grasp the true form of Ashiok's attack!
I lick and swallow rotten sounds
After the feasts of those who'll linger
Beyond this time and modern lingo
Beyond the fingers of the crowd.
avatarz
With no flavor text to shamelesly google, I was quite puzzled as to what this card is a reference to. "Beloved Dead" sounded vaguely Robert-Frost-like, so I searched the archives and found precisely nothing. Then I realised that this is a late entry to last challenge.
Also, you know, sacrificing stuff as a cost is a thing. This little zombie recurs infinitely.
Winterspring
Destructive Envy is a nice addition to an already enormous library of Big Red Random Spells, and is a cool - not good, but cool - combo with Gargadon. I like the flavour text, but it feels a bit out of its color pie slice - envy is black, as it stems from egoism.
Transistor was quite enjoyable, and yet the atmosphere and setting it features are just about impossible to convert to MtG. Royce here looks like a flawless design from the point of one unfamiliar with the original, but alas, I can't really say it captures the character well enough; furthermore, the quote is certainly memorable, but has little to do with the card.
Embersteel Paladin fits beautifully with the Bards' quote, and makes me wish Wizards printed more cards that follow the same top-down flavor. Simplicity rounds out the card, as other keywords would overburden it.
Jet Stream is not my favorite, at least I can certainly say it lags from the other designs you posted. Not untapping is ice territory, and Jace here seems to don the mask of his uncharacteristic arrogance. This is his flanderized version, and I'm not the biggest fan of the whole "as you only learned to stand upright" thing.
Pact is opressive in all the worst ways, it makes the game less fun for both players. Nice quote, though.
Necarg
Double froms sounds so awkward, like a bad translation of obscure anime. In general, the card featuring only the second ability would be much subtler, but the first line kind of destroys it.
Ink-Treader
It's ye olde vampir english! Wouldn't personally attribute such words to a bloodsucker, it fits a blood knight type of personality better - I live only to draw blood, the usual story. In general design seems like it goes to ways - either this is [BBB/ upkeep BB, sacrifice a permanent/ You can't lose] deal, or somebody finds the most obvious two-card combo in the world. Both variants lead to a very unexiting type of gameplay. This honestly feels like a 1998 design, which is not necessary bad.
scarbo
Oh, just beautiful! Declaration of Naught always appealed to me, and this is an even prettier version. I don't really know how to describe those designs which feel clean and simple even if they shouldn't. Flavour text is not spectacular, but rounds up the card nicely.
admirableadmiral
First card is eeeeh. A common trope among Magic cards is a tiny helper or assistant which you sacrififce later on to draw power from it. I feel it's a bit overdone. Flavor text makes sence, but I can't imagine a real guy saying such a simple sentiment in a roundabout way like that.
Spooky guy is spooky, but I really wish you made it a zombie, because the "whole remove the head or destroy the brain" deal corresponds nicely to this mechanic. Viscera Seer here once again puts a simple thought in words really obtusely and unnecessary epic. Not seeing the rest of the card, I'd take she is talking about Universal Evil or something, not literally about an undead guy.
Counterspell is a nice design, A+. For some reason the quote sounds straight out of Time Spiral block.
SelesnyaNewLife
Somewhere, gently MaRo weeps. Insta-win buttons are as fun as a dredge mirror. Flavour text is the kind of epic the internet grew to despise - a very shallow declaration.
Cythare
Nice Forge Devil variant, seems just pushed enough to be cool in limited. Flavor text is cool because it kills itself and your guys if the board is empty, got it.
AND THE WINNER IS: scarbo
YOU ALSO DID WELL: Cythare, WS, aa
NEXT CHALLENGE SHALL BE: with the same name as
Enchantment (R)
At the beginning of your upkeep, each player sacrifices a permanent.
Whenever a nonland permanent an opponent controls is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, you may search that player's hand, graveyard, and library for all cards with the same name as that permanent and exile them. If a library is searched this way, shuffle it.
IIW: Green two-drops
Draft my cube! (630 cards)
Enchantment (R)
If another permanent would be put into your graveyard from the battlefield, you may exile it instead. If you do, you may search your library for a card with the same name as that permanent, reveal it, and put it into your hand. Then, shuffle your library.
IIW: Recursion
Choose one of these judge of creation:
Make Strionic Resonator shine!
You can not grasp the true form of Ashiok's attack!
The clan for custom card creators!
Sorcery (R)
Search your library for any number of non-land cards, reveal them, then search target opponent's library for any number of cards that share a name with a card found that way. Exile all cards that have matching names with another card, then shuffle the rest into your library. That opponent shuffles his or her library.
"I shall eradicate my only weakness, father: I have something in common with you."
- Werdan, defiant Prince
IIW: Noir
yes
JUDGE ENTRY FOR YOUR EDUCATIONAL ENRICHMENT
Elvish Congregation 1GG
Creature - Elf (R)
Elvish Congregation's power and toughness are each equal to the number of Elves you control.
Whenever another Elf enters the battlefield under your control, you may search your library for a card with the same name as that card, reveal it, and put it into your hand. Then shuffle your library.
*/*
Club Flamingo Statistics Update — July 2015
Thread Rating: ☆☆☆☆☆. We actually were at ☆☆☆☆ two years ago at this time but thread ratings no longer exist. This thread will always be 5 stars in my heart.
Thread Size: Unsurprisingly, we're still #1 with 59,150 posts. Note that two years ago at this time we had 41,490 posts. That's 17,660 posts in two years.
Thread Views: First, with 2,008,742 views! Crazy. Two years ago we were still at #2 (under the Alphabetical Card Game), but now we have nearly 300,000 views more than that thread.
Posts per Day Lifetime: 34.19, which is down a fair bit from 40.12 two years ago. With the overall lower activity this isn't surprising, of course, but I'm still impressed we have such a count even after the Curse changeover. This is 59,150 posts over 1730 days.
Posts per Day since last update: 24.42, which is (unsurprisingly) a giant drop from when we were last measured at 87.23 posts per day in a single month. This is 17,660 posts in 723 days. I think we can do better.
Thanks Count: 66. Only one new thank in two years? Go thank the OP if you haven't, you freeloading scoundrels.
Top Ten Most Prolific Posters, Lifetime:
CrustaceanCrusader — 3434 (+1068)
Megiddo — 3231 (+466)
Cythare — 2837 (+1520)
AsianInvasion — 2572 (+1054)
admirableadmiral — 2515 (NR)
Oculus — 1673 (+149)
void_nothing — 1573 (NR)
avatarz — 1462 (NR)
MDenham — 1355 (+198)
Winterspring — 1342 (NR)
And now for another special feature, the 2015 Flamingo Awards!
Our first category is the "I Really Hope Chutzpah Isn't a Dirty Word" award. This award is for the the previously-ranked poster that put the most work in over the last two years to maintain their rank. And the winner is...
With just over 1500 posts in the past two years, Cythare left zero room for debate as to where this award would be going tonight. Consider that he has more posts in that time period than our 8th place poster has lifetime. That's some hustle, folks.
Thanks so much! Please accept your
Our next category is the "Wait Where did this Guy Come From Again?" award. This special award is for the poster who made the deepest penetration into the leaderboard without having been previously ranked. And the winner is...
While I don't have post stats for AA from back in the day to see how many posts he's actually logged on the board in the last two years, you can't argue with going from unranked to fifth place in that time. He has almost 1000 posts on the next contender, as well, which is very convincing.
Congratulations! Please accept your
Our final category for the evening is the "I Can't Believe it Actually Happened™" award. This is a special award for... well, if I tell you, it'll spoil it, so just roll with it for a second. And the winner is...
Chemtrails gets the award for a simple reason: He's now the most prolific poster in this thread ever. I think the official dethroning happened last year, but it's never too late to acknowledge this historic and frankly frightening achievement.
This is what I get for resting on my laurels! Please accept your
That wraps up the 2015 Flamingo Awards! Congratulations to all of the winners. We hope you enjoyed the show, and we'll see you back here in this very thread in another few years or so!
Thank you, and goodnight!
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Draft my cube! (630 cards)
Legendary Creature - Deva Wizard (R)
Flying, Double strike
When you cast Felnia the Riftwalker, if you control a permanent with the same name, exile that permanent. If you do, take an extra turn after this one.
3/3
iiw: mecha dinosaur
Creature - Beast (MR)
Trample
At the beginning of your upkeep, put a token that's a copy of this creature onto the battlefield under each opponent's control, except it has "3,T: Return target creature with the same name as this one to its owner's hand."
"The beast is so prolific, it's within our ranks." - Karval the Brave
8/9
IIW: Some cartoon reference (Bonus points for noting the show it's from.)
Check out my Newborder Peasant Cube here! http://www.cubetutor.com/draft/37467
True Name Mafia (Win),Clan Contest IX Mafia (Win), Bravely Default Mafia (Loss), BOTAS (loss), BfV (Loss), Ace Attourney (loss)
Rules Advisor before they were eradicated
Thanks. Edited it to have a rarity.
Check out my Newborder Peasant Cube here! http://www.cubetutor.com/draft/37467
True Name Mafia (Win),Clan Contest IX Mafia (Win), Bravely Default Mafia (Loss), BOTAS (loss), BfV (Loss), Ace Attourney (loss)
Rules Advisor before they were eradicated
Creature - Avatar (R)
Trample
Each creature has "Whenever a creature with the same name as this one enters the battlefield, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature."
[3/3]
IIW: Pick one of the "Inside Out" personified emotions and turn it into a card.
The clan for custom card creators!
Sorcery U
Choose target creature card in your graveyard. If there is a creature that shares a name with it on the battlefield under your control, put that card from that graveyard onto the battlefield under your control.
IIW: Enlightenment Themed cards (bonus points for not Jeskai or Oujitai)
Sorcery [R]
Choose target nonland permanent you control. Search your library for a permanent card with the same name as the chosen card and put that card onto the battlefield under your control.
Buyback 3
IIW: Everything is a resource