Walking Messa R Land Creature - Mountain Giant
(~ isn't a spell, it's affected by summoning sickness, and it has "T: Add R to your mana pool.")
Defender, reach
1/1
IIW: Top down real life location, object, or person
H...how you extrapolated land creatures from that card, I'm not sure. In any case, this is boring and has nonsense flavor (a 1/1 Giant?) and is probably as degenerate as Dryad Arbor
2 out of 5 compleations
Joyful Obedience2WW
Enchantment- Aura (U)
Enchant creature
You control enchanted creature. That creature loses all abilities, and has base power and toughness 1/1. "Free me for loyal servitude!"
IIW: Red control cards
Debt of Loyalty/Preacher holla. I think you sorta got the feel I was going for. If you drop abilities though rather than just setting base p/t this is a lot more like a Banisher Priest than it is a Control Magic. Which I guess was the point, but the card isn't as exciting if you think about it than it is on first glance
3 out of 5 all will be ones
So there seems to be one dude named Hequedi who rules the masses in a religious manner?
One of Us1WWUU
Enchantment (U)
Whenever a creature enters the battlefield under your control, if it shares a creature type with any other creature you control, draw a card and gain 2 life. Welcome to the fold. Membership has benefits.
Lurking Reinforcements2W
Creature - Soldier (R) 2W: Other creatures you control get +2/+2 until end of turn.
2/2 It's not the soldiers you can see that matter...
Sister of the Pureflame
Creature - Human Monk (C)
Meditation (At the end each turn if Sister of the Pureflame didn't attack or block, put a +1/+1 counter on it, otherwise remove all +1/+1 counters from it)
1/1
Ingenious Larcenist4U
Creature- Human Wizard Rogue (R)
When Ingenious Larcenist deals combat damage to a player, draw 3 cards.
Morph 2UU(You may cast this card face down as a 2/2 creature for 3. Turn it face up any time for its morph cost.)
1/3
Blind SwordsbearRGW
Creature — Bear Warrior (R)
Blind Swordsbear gets +X/+X, where X is the total converted mana cost of all Equipment attached to it.
3/3
Bond of Peace1WW
Enchantment {M}
Creatures can't attack unless their controller pays 2 for each creature he or she controls that's attacking.
Whenever three or more creatures attack, transform Bond of Peace and attach it to target creature you control.
================= Blade of Retribution
Artifact – Equipment {M}
Equipped creature gets +3/+3 and has flying, hexproof, and lifelink.
At the beginning of your end step, if no creatures attacked this turn, transform Blade of Retribution.
IIW: A thief that with no ability that involves drawing cards.
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SUBTLETY - Of the character. How easy is it for me to believe that
the character on the card acts demurely in their day-to-day? (0 to 5 pts)
GAME IMPACT - For rares and mythics: In EDH, what is the chance that
playing this card will make you public enemy no. 1? For commons and
uncommons: How real of a threat is this in "the average draft format",
whatever that is? (0 to 5 pts)
WHATEVER ELSE I FEEL LIKE - No, it doesn't make the numbers meaningless,
it makes them more like tiebreakers. (0 to 10 pts)
Lurking Reinforcements2W
Creature - Soldier (R) 2W: Other creatures you control get +2/+2 until end of turn.
2/2 It's not the soldiers you can see that matter...
SUBTLETY - 0/5. Bro, have you ever seen a 2/2 Soldier? That guy isn't melting out of the forest,
or lurking in the shadows or any doing any other kind of tactical what-not -- he's posing on a boat or posing on the Weatherlight.
You can definitely see him, is what I'm saying. So the flavor text is a little confusing!
GAME IMPACT - 2/5. If you've got a bunch of tokens and actually infinite mana...yeah, you're
a problem now. But people's incidental Supreme Verdicts should keep it from mattering all of the time.
Sister of the Pureflame
Creature - Human Monk (C)
Meditation (At the end each turn if Sister of the Pureflame didn't attack or block, put a +1/+1 counter on it, otherwise remove all +1/+1 counters from it)
1/1
Return to New Phyrexia
SUBTLETY - 5/5. Monks are quiet people for sure.
GAME IMPACT - 2/5. 3 dmg on turn 3 that attacks for 2 every other turn needs
lots of help (like an Equipment set theme) to be real, and I expect there'd be realer.
GUT NUMBER - 5/10. I like the concept, but I don't buy the ability as a keyword because I
find it hard to see that ability being good in its colors. G{W/U/B} get down with some
+1/+1 counters, but it seems hard to interact with this ability in any way other than
specifically naming it.
Ingenious Larcenist4U
Creature- Human Wizard Rogue (R)
When Ingenious Larcenist deals combat damage to a player, draw 3 cards.
Morph 2UU(You may cast this card face down as a 2/2 creature for 3. Turn it face up any time for its morph cost.)
1/3
Alternate costs
SUBTLETY - 5/5. Magic ninja? On board.
GAME IMPACT - 2/5. "Wait, he's attacking with his Den Protector without flipping it? Oh, no, I
know what this jiggery-pokery is - it's that new rare from Pyxamtil. I
better throw something in front of it to oh for pity's sake" Okay sure,
but starting guessing games and just being Mr. Riddles isn't going to raise anyone's hackles.
STUFF QUOTIENT - 4/10. You got "speak softly", but I didn't see a stick. The wand/lockpick set combo this guy is holding in his art doesn't count.
Blind SwordsbearRGW
Creature — Bear Warrior (R)
Blind Swordsbear gets +X/+X, where X is the total converted mana cost of all Equipment attached to it.
3/3
Cost reduction
SUBTLETY - 2/5. A martial master that's also a bear is, it turns out, scrupulously polite and a gentleman.
Hilarious! Have a couple of points.
GAME IMPACT 2/5. - If he could be your commander, yeah, he'd be a problem. If not, he's not really capable of blowing somebody up
outright, is he?
THE VOICE OF MY HEART - 3/10. I don't think G belongs in this card's mana cost - I feel like it wants to be 2RW?
Bond of Peace1WW
Enchantment {M}
Creatures can't attack unless their controller pays 2 for each creature he or she controls that's attacking.
Whenever three or more creatures attack, transform Bond of Peace and attach it to target creature you control.
================= Blade of Retribution
Artifact – Equipment {M}
Equipped creature gets +3/+3 and has flying, hexproof, and lifelink.
At the beginning of your end step, if no creatures attacked this turn, transform Blade of Retribution.
A thief that with no ability that involves drawing cards.
SUBTLETY - 4.5/5. You're obviously trying for a more metaphorical adherence to the theme, and I like that direction.
GAME IMPACT - 3/5. Nobody, including you, being able to attack is interesting because 1) Now the whole table is mad at you
and 2) Your win-condition is probably noncombat, like mill. The back face of this card doesn't help enough with No. 1 and
not at all with No. 2, but the front face sends a strong enough signal to score points here.
DEEP THOUGHTS 5/10 - Mythic seems a little far-fetched; I am happier thinking of this card as a more expensive (3WW?) rare.
Would also have liked it better if its front face said "creatures can't attack *you*" and its back face interacted at instant speed, because then you could flip it yourself
for immediate impact.
Swift Retribution3WW
Instant [R]
Destroy all attacking creatures.
Ridiculous politic cards
SUBTLETY - 3/5. The art for this card is probably some kind of nova, which is not very discreet,
but I'm getting the impression that you're trying for a statement about the game itself. Laudable,
but I think being able to hang the threat of wiping someone's team over their head and not doing it
to them until combat on their turn instead of just during your own main phase doesn't convey the theme
or make the card much more powerful (Rout confuses me).
GAME IMPACT - 2/5. The knowledge that you might have a specific bomb is really only a game-changer in
draft, but rares go in EDH-land. Wraths there are more of a pressure valve than a threat.
OTHER THOUGHTS - 3/10. I think this experiment failed.
Audacious Spellthief1RR
Creature- Human Wizard Rogue (U)
When Audacious Spellthief enters the battlefield, target opponent reveals his or her hand. You may copy an instant or sorcery spell with converted mana cost 3 or less from that player's hand, and cast the copy without paying its mana cost. If you don't, put a +1/+1 counter on Audacious Spellthief. (Either way, the chosen card stays in that player's hand.)
2/2
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Impoverished Pickpocket1B
Creature — Human Rogue (U)
When Impoverished Pickpocket enters the battlefield, create a colorless artifact token named Gold. It has “Sacrifice this artifact: Add one mana of any color to your mana pool.”
Impoverished Pickpocket can't attack or block unless you control a permanent named Gold.
2/1
IIW: Use the rules text, "put (something) into the sanctuary."
Generator Siphoner1UR
Creature - Human Rogue (U)
Prowess
Whenever Generator Siphoner deals combat damage to a player, target land that player controls doesn't untap during its controller's next untap step and untap target land you control.
2/2
Larcenous Tern3U Art description: a big, silver bird is prying a shiny trinket out of the hands of a confused and frightened merchant.
Creature - Bird Rogue (U)
Flying
When ~ enters the battlefield, gain control of target artifact unless its controller pays 2. At the Sky Market, the pickpockets in dark alleys are the least of your problems.
2/2
Pastburglar2GG
Creature - Elf Rogue Shaman (R)
Whenever Pastburglar deals combat damage to a player, return target card from your graveyard to your hand. 1G: Pastburglar gains indestructible until end of turn. "I can't explain it, constable - nothing was taken but the family records of nobility." - Kekilya, matron of House Dhao
1/1
Ghirapur Privateer1UU
Creature — Human Rogue (R) 2U, T: Create a token that’s a copy of target artifact or creature an opponent controls. That token gains haste. Exile it at the beginning of the next end step. The bootleg invention trade provides world class ingenuity at a fraction of the price and twice the liability.
2/2
me too.. been a while busy with life and haven't opened this forum for long time..
Boros PioneerWR
Creature - Human Rogue
Flash
When Boros Pioneer enters the battlefield, until end of turn, if a token creature would enter the battlefield, it enters the battlefield under your control instead.
1/2
Absconding Infiltrator4UB
Artifact Creature - Human Rogue (R)
Absconding Infiltrator can't be blocked.
Whenever Absconding Infiltrator deals combat damage to a player, that player reveals his or her hand. You choose a card from it and exile it. You may play the card for as long as it remains exiled, and may spend mana as though it were mana of any color to cast it.
3/2
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It's wacky, isn't it? I don't have a ready answer but I expect to inflate that number in short order
Apprentice ThiefUU
Creature - Human Rogue (U)
When ~ enters the battlefield, gain control of target artifact with converted mana cost 2 or less for as long as you control ~.
1/1
Audacious Spellthief1RR
Creature- Human Wizard Rogue (U)
When Audacious Spellthief enters the battlefield, target opponent reveals his or her hand. You may copy an instant or sorcery spell with converted mana cost 3 or less from that player's hand, and cast the copy without paying its mana cost. If you don't, put a +1/+1 counter on Audacious Spellthief. (Either way, the chosen card stays in that player's hand.)
2/2
IIW: Underused creature types (with ten or fewer creatures to date)
I like the design. There are a few wording problems (when they're in hand, they're "cards" not "spells") but the point gets across. I would've preferred if you get until end of turn to cast the spell even at the cost of the +1/+1 mode, but that might just be me. 4.5/5
Impoverished Pickpocket1B
Creature — Human Rogue (U)
When Impoverished Pickpocket enters the battlefield, create a colorless artifact token named Gold. It has “Sacrifice this artifact: Add one mana of any color to your mana pool.”
Impoverished Pickpocket can't attack or block unless you control a permanent named Gold.
2/1
IIW: Use the rules text, "put (something) into the sanctuary."
It doesn't really steal anything, and it has its gold from the beginning. Also, you'd think not having gold is what would motivate a pickpocket to attack. It doesn't really come across for me. 2/5
Generator Siphoner1UR
Creature - Human Rogue (U)
Prowess
Whenever Generator Siphoner deals combat damage to a player, target land that player controls doesn't untap during its controller's next untap step and untap target land you control.
2/2
IIW: E
I dig the design a lot. I think development would have problems with repeated mana denial being so cheap, but that can be fixed by adjusting the stats. 4/5
Larcenous Tern3U Art description: a big, silver bird is prying a shiny trinket out of the hands of a confused and frightened merchant.
Creature - Bird Rogue (U)
Flying
When ~ enters the battlefield, gain control of target artifact unless its controller pays 2. At the Sky Market, the pickpockets in dark alleys are the least of your problems.
2/2
IIW: Cats!
My favorite card name so far. And it might be narrow enough to be ok, though when this is good, it's a blowout. 3.5/5
Pastburglar2GG
Creature - Elf Rogue Shaman (R)
Whenever Pastburglar deals combat damage to a player, return target card from your graveyard to your hand. 1G: Pastburglar gains indestructible until end of turn. "I can't explain it, constable - nothing was taken but the family records of nobility." - Kekilya, matron of House Dhao
1/1
IIW: Red or green loving on artifacts.
This is really, really strong. Probably too strong. I'd rather see this restricted to creatures and possibly in black so it could've been called some variation on "Grave Robber." The card name is a little abstract to me. 2/5
Ghirapur Privateer1UU
Creature — Human Rogue (R) 2U, T: Create a token that’s a copy of target artifact or creature an opponent controls. That token gains haste. Exile it at the beginning of the next end step. The bootleg invention trade provides world class ingenuity at a fraction of the price and twice the liability.
2/2
IIW:XX
I was skeptical of the flavor until I got to the flavor text! Those cheap knockoffs, man. You gotta be careful. 4/5
me too.. been a while busy with life and haven't opened this forum for long time..
Boros PioneerWR
Creature - Human Rogue
Flash
When Boros Pioneer enters the battlefield, until end of turn, if a token creature would enter the battlefield, it enters the battlefield under your control instead.
1/2
Absconding Infiltrator4UB
Artifact Creature - Human Rogue (R)
Absconding Infiltrator can't be blocked.
Whenever Absconding Infiltrator deals combat damage to a player, that player reveals his or her hand. You choose a card from it and exile it. You may play the card for as long as it remains exiled, and may spend mana as though it were mana of any color to cast it.
3/2
IIW: Make a clue-related card in red or black!
This is the type of card that ends friendships. I want one. 4/5
Also, Ragaxus: How are you a member for over ten years and have just a double-digit post count? In other words: Where have you been all my life?
It's wacky, isn't it? I don't have a ready answer but I expect to inflate that number in short order
Apprentice ThiefUU
Creature - Human Rogue (U)
When ~ enters the battlefield, gain control of target artifact with converted mana cost 2 or less for as long as you control ~.
1/1
IIW: A bait and switch.
Simple, not subtle, but I like it just fine. It should probably be a 2/1 to be playable more consistently. 3.5/5
Winner: iphanx
Next: a keyword ability named "Paranoia"
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Frigid Impersonator(2/U)U
Creature - Shapeshifter (R)
You may have Frigid Impersonator enter the battlefield as a copy of any creature on the battlefield, except it has paranoia. (Whenever this creature becomes the target of a spell or ability, tap it and it doesn't untap during its controller's next untap step.) "Who knew someone so cold could be quite so shy?"
-Grete, Order of St. Traft
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Startled Footsoldier2
Creature - Human Soldier {C}
Paranoia (Whenever one or more creatures attack you, flip a coin. If you win the flip, untap Startled Footsoldier.) In the infantry, fear isn't irrational. It's a survival strategy.
3/2
IIW: Bar fight!
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Sorcery (U)
Choose one:
- Create two 1/1 Pawn artifact creature tokens.
- Exchange control of two target creatures.
Cheating in the Great Game is an offense punishable by death. That's why the cheaters that survive are so good at it.IIW: "Speak softly, and carry a large stick."
H...how you extrapolated land creatures from that card, I'm not sure. In any case, this is boring and has nonsense flavor (a 1/1 Giant?) and is probably as degenerate as Dryad Arbor
2 out of 5 compleations
Debt of Loyalty/Preacher holla. I think you sorta got the feel I was going for. If you drop abilities though rather than just setting base p/t this is a lot more like a Banisher Priest than it is a Control Magic. Which I guess was the point, but the card isn't as exciting if you think about it than it is on first glance
3 out of 5 all will be ones
Feels too much like Hequedi's Arena trolol
Um. Not sure what to say here. Other than "should probably be a rare"
2 out of 5 Conclaves
Oh man, a nonwhite, nongreen card that actually understood the challenge! And extrapolated the flavor! And that has interesting gameplay applications!
I wish this maybe made three Pawns to make the modes feel somewhat equivalent, but that might have been OTT.
4.5 out of 5 worldbuildings
Winner: Ragaxus
HM: Mergatroid_Jones
Next: "Speak softly, and carry a large stick."
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Creature - Soldier (R)
2W: Other creatures you control get +2/+2 until end of turn.
2/2
It's not the soldiers you can see that matter...
IIW: Make a blue Collective spell or a green Collective spell (or both!) to complete the "Collective" cycle from Eldritch Moon (Collective Brutality Collective Defiance Collective Effort)
Legacy: Strawberry Shortcake, Aggro Loam, DnT+b
Modern: Devoted Karn
Vintage: Survival
Creature - Human Monk (C)
Meditation (At the end each turn if Sister of the Pureflame didn't attack or block, put a +1/+1 counter on it, otherwise remove all +1/+1 counters from it)
1/1
IIW: Return to New Phyrexia
Creature- Human Wizard Rogue (R)
When Ingenious Larcenist deals combat damage to a player, draw 3 cards.
Morph 2UU (You may cast this card face down as a 2/2 creature for 3. Turn it face up any time for its morph cost.)
1/3
IIW: Alternate costs
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My 1570 card cube (no longer updated)
My 415 Peasant+ Artifact and Enchantment Cube
Ever-Expanding "Just throw it in" cube.
Creature — Bear Warrior (R)
Blind Swordsbear gets +X/+X, where X is the total converted mana cost of all Equipment attached to it.
3/3
IIW: Cost reduction
Enchantment {M}
Creatures can't attack unless their controller pays 2 for each creature he or she controls that's attacking.
Whenever three or more creatures attack, transform Bond of Peace and attach it to target creature you control.
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Blade of Retribution
Artifact – Equipment {M}
Equipped creature gets +3/+3 and has flying, hexproof, and lifelink.
At the beginning of your end step, if no creatures attacked this turn, transform Blade of Retribution.
IIW: A thief that with no ability that involves drawing cards.
Instant [R]
Destroy all attacking creatures.
IIW: Ridiculous politic cards
Let's state some preferences.
SUBTLETY - Of the character. How easy is it for me to believe that
the character on the card acts demurely in their day-to-day? (0 to 5 pts)
GAME IMPACT - For rares and mythics: In EDH, what is the chance that
playing this card will make you public enemy no. 1? For commons and
uncommons: How real of a threat is this in "the average draft format",
whatever that is? (0 to 5 pts)
WHATEVER ELSE I FEEL LIKE - No, it doesn't make the numbers meaningless,
it makes them more like tiebreakers. (0 to 10 pts)
Now then -
SUBTLETY - 0/5. Bro, have you ever seen a 2/2 Soldier? That guy isn't melting out of the forest,
or lurking in the shadows or any doing any other kind of tactical what-not -- he's posing on a boat or posing on the Weatherlight.
You can definitely see him, is what I'm saying. So the flavor text is a little confusing!
GAME IMPACT - 2/5. If you've got a bunch of tokens and actually infinite mana...yeah, you're
a problem now. But people's incidental Supreme Verdicts should keep it from mattering all of the time.
RAGAPOINTS - 4/10. Does not move me.
TOTAL - 6/20 swarmhugs.
SUBTLETY - 5/5. Monks are quiet people for sure.
GAME IMPACT - 2/5. 3 dmg on turn 3 that attacks for 2 every other turn needs
lots of help (like an Equipment set theme) to be real, and I expect there'd be realer.
GUT NUMBER - 5/10. I like the concept, but I don't buy the ability as a keyword because I
find it hard to see that ability being good in its colors. G{W/U/B} get down with some
+1/+1 counters, but it seems hard to interact with this ability in any way other than
specifically naming it.
TOTAL - 12/20 Ojut-high fives.
SUBTLETY - 5/5. Magic ninja? On board.
GAME IMPACT - 2/5. "Wait, he's attacking with his Den Protector without flipping it? Oh, no, I
know what this jiggery-pokery is - it's that new rare from Pyxamtil. I
better throw something in front of it to oh for pity's sake" Okay sure,
but starting guessing games and just being Mr. Riddles isn't going to raise anyone's hackles.
STUFF QUOTIENT - 4/10. You got "speak softly", but I didn't see a stick. The wand/lockpick set combo this guy is holding in his art doesn't count.
TOTAL - 11/20 smooth criminals.
SUBTLETY - 2/5. A martial master that's also a bear is, it turns out, scrupulously polite and a gentleman.
Hilarious! Have a couple of points.
GAME IMPACT 2/5. - If he could be your commander, yeah, he'd be a problem. If not, he's not really capable of blowing somebody up
outright, is he?
THE VOICE OF MY HEART - 3/10. I don't think G belongs in this card's mana cost - I feel like it wants to be 2RW?
TOTAL - 7/20 great big bears.
SUBTLETY - 4.5/5. You're obviously trying for a more metaphorical adherence to the theme, and I like that direction.
GAME IMPACT - 3/5. Nobody, including you, being able to attack is interesting because 1) Now the whole table is mad at you
and 2) Your win-condition is probably noncombat, like mill. The back face of this card doesn't help enough with No. 1 and
not at all with No. 2, but the front face sends a strong enough signal to score points here.
DEEP THOUGHTS 5/10 - Mythic seems a little far-fetched; I am happier thinking of this card as a more expensive (3WW?) rare.
Would also have liked it better if its front face said "creatures can't attack *you*" and its back face interacted at instant speed, because then you could flip it yourself
for immediate impact.
TOTAL - 12.5/20 kind words and a gun.
SUBTLETY - 3/5. The art for this card is probably some kind of nova, which is not very discreet,
but I'm getting the impression that you're trying for a statement about the game itself. Laudable,
but I think being able to hang the threat of wiping someone's team over their head and not doing it
to them until combat on their turn instead of just during your own main phase doesn't convey the theme
or make the card much more powerful (Rout confuses me).
GAME IMPACT - 2/5. The knowledge that you might have a specific bomb is really only a game-changer in
draft, but rares go in EDH-land. Wraths there are more of a pressure valve than a threat.
OTHER THOUGHTS - 3/10. I think this experiment failed.
TOTAL - 8/20 nuclear options.
Winner: Phyrexian Editor
HMs: Cardz5000, Mergatroid_Jones
Next: A thief that with no ability that involves drawing cards.
Creature- Human Wizard Rogue (U)
When Audacious Spellthief enters the battlefield, target opponent reveals his or her hand. You may copy an instant or sorcery spell with converted mana cost 3 or less from that player's hand, and cast the copy without paying its mana cost. If you don't, put a +1/+1 counter on Audacious Spellthief. (Either way, the chosen card stays in that player's hand.)
2/2
IIW: Underused creature types (with ten or fewer creatures to date)
Low-power cube enthusiast!
My 1570 card cube (no longer updated)
My 415 Peasant+ Artifact and Enchantment Cube
Ever-Expanding "Just throw it in" cube.
Creature — Human Rogue (U)
When Impoverished Pickpocket enters the battlefield, create a colorless artifact token named Gold. It has “Sacrifice this artifact: Add one mana of any color to your mana pool.”
Impoverished Pickpocket can't attack or block unless you control a permanent named Gold.
2/1
IIW: Use the rules text, "put (something) into the sanctuary."
Creature - Human Rogue (U)
Prowess
Whenever Generator Siphoner deals combat damage to a player, target land that player controls doesn't untap during its controller's next untap step and untap target land you control.
2/2
IIW: E
Choose one of these judge of creation:
Make Strionic Resonator shine!
You can not grasp the true form of Ashiok's attack!
Art description: a big, silver bird is prying a shiny trinket out of the hands of a confused and frightened merchant.
Creature - Bird Rogue (U)
Flying
When ~ enters the battlefield, gain control of target artifact unless its controller pays 2.
At the Sky Market, the pickpockets in dark alleys are the least of your problems.
2/2
IIW: Cats!
Creature - Elf Rogue Shaman (R)
Whenever Pastburglar deals combat damage to a player, return target card from your graveyard to your hand.
1G: Pastburglar gains indestructible until end of turn.
"I can't explain it, constable - nothing was taken but the family records of nobility." - Kekilya, matron of House Dhao
1/1
IIW: Red or green loving on artifacts.
I̟̥͍̠ͅn̩͉̣͍̬͚ͅ ̬̬͖t̯̹̞̺͖͓̯̤h̘͍̬e͙̯͈̖̼̮ ̭̬f̺̲̲̪i͙͉̟̩̰r̪̝͚͈̝̥͍̝̲s̼̻͇̘̳͔ͅt̲̺̳̗̜̪̙ ̳̺̥̻͚̗ͅm̜̜̟̰͈͓͎͇o̝̖̮̝͇m̯̻̞̼̫̗͓̤e̩̯̬̮̩n͎̱̪̲̹͖t͇̖s̰̮ͅ,̤̲͙̻̭̻̯̹̰ ̖t̫̙̺̯͖͚̯ͅh͙̯̦̳̗̰̟e͖̪͉̼̯ ̪͕g̞̣͔a̗̦t̬̬͓͙̫̖̭̻e̩̻̯ ̜̖̦̖̤̭͙̬t̞̹̥̪͎͉ͅo͕͚͍͇̲͇͓̺ ̭̬͙͈̣̻t͈͍͙͓̫̖͙̩h̪̬̖̙e̗͈ ̗̬̟̞̺̤͉̯ͅa̦̯͚̙̜̮f͉͙̲̣̞̼t̪̤̞̣͚e̲͉̳̥r͇̪̙͚͓l̥̞̞͎̹̯̹ͅi͓̬f̮̥̬̞͈ͅe͎ ̟̩̤̳̠̯̩̯o̮̘̲p̟͚̣̞͉͓e͍̩̣n͔̼͕͚̜e̬̱d̼̘͎̖̹͍̮̠,͖̺̭̱̮ ̣̲͖̬̪̭̥a̪͚n̟̲̝̤̤̞̗d̘̱̗͇̮͕̳͕͔ ͖̞͉͎t̹̙͎h̰̱͉̗e̪̞̱̝̹̩ͅ ̠̱̩̭̦p̯̙e͓o̳͚̰̯̺̱̰͔̘p̬͎̱̣̼̩͇l̗̟̖͚̠e̱͉͔̱̦̬̟̙ ̖͚̪͔̼̦w̺̖̤̱e͖̗̻̦͓̖̘̜r̭̥e͔̹̫̱͕̦̰͕ ̗͔̠p̠̗͍͍̱̳̠r̰͔͎̰o͉̥͓̰͚̥s̟͚̹̱͔̣t͉̙̳̖͖̪̮r̥̘̥͙̹a͉̟̫̟̳̠̟̭t͈̜̰͈͎e̞̣̭̲̬ ͚̗̯̟͙i͍͖̰̘̦͖͉ṇ̮̻̯̦̲̩͍ ̦̮͚̫̤t͉͖̫͕ͅͅh͙̮̻̘̣̮̼e͕̺ ͙l͕̠͎̰̥i̲͓͉̲g̫̳̟͈͇̖h̠̦̖t͓̯͎̗ ̳̪̘̟̙̩̦o̫̲f̙͔̰̙̠ ̹̪̗͇̯t͖̼̼͉͖̬h̹͇̩e͚̖̺̤͉̹͕̪ ͚͓̭̝̺G͎̗̯̩o̫̯̮̟̮̳̘d̜̲͙̠-̩̳̯̲̗̜P̹̘̥͉̝h͍͈̗̖̝ͅa͍̗̮̼̗r̜̖͇̙̺a̭̺͔̞̳͈o̪̣͓̯̬͙̯̰̗h̖̦͈̥̯͔.͇̣̙̝
Ghirapur Privateer 1UU
Creature — Human Rogue (R)
2U, T: Create a token that’s a copy of target artifact or creature an opponent controls. That token gains haste. Exile it at the beginning of the next end step.
The bootleg invention trade provides world class ingenuity at a fraction of the price and twice the liability.
2/2
IIW: XX
I̟̥͍̠ͅn̩͉̣͍̬͚ͅ ̬̬͖t̯̹̞̺͖͓̯̤h̘͍̬e͙̯͈̖̼̮ ̭̬f̺̲̲̪i͙͉̟̩̰r̪̝͚͈̝̥͍̝̲s̼̻͇̘̳͔ͅt̲̺̳̗̜̪̙ ̳̺̥̻͚̗ͅm̜̜̟̰͈͓͎͇o̝̖̮̝͇m̯̻̞̼̫̗͓̤e̩̯̬̮̩n͎̱̪̲̹͖t͇̖s̰̮ͅ,̤̲͙̻̭̻̯̹̰ ̖t̫̙̺̯͖͚̯ͅh͙̯̦̳̗̰̟e͖̪͉̼̯ ̪͕g̞̣͔a̗̦t̬̬͓͙̫̖̭̻e̩̻̯ ̜̖̦̖̤̭͙̬t̞̹̥̪͎͉ͅo͕͚͍͇̲͇͓̺ ̭̬͙͈̣̻t͈͍͙͓̫̖͙̩h̪̬̖̙e̗͈ ̗̬̟̞̺̤͉̯ͅa̦̯͚̙̜̮f͉͙̲̣̞̼t̪̤̞̣͚e̲͉̳̥r͇̪̙͚͓l̥̞̞͎̹̯̹ͅi͓̬f̮̥̬̞͈ͅe͎ ̟̩̤̳̠̯̩̯o̮̘̲p̟͚̣̞͉͓e͍̩̣n͔̼͕͚̜e̬̱d̼̘͎̖̹͍̮̠,͖̺̭̱̮ ̣̲͖̬̪̭̥a̪͚n̟̲̝̤̤̞̗d̘̱̗͇̮͕̳͕͔ ͖̞͉͎t̹̙͎h̰̱͉̗e̪̞̱̝̹̩ͅ ̠̱̩̭̦p̯̙e͓o̳͚̰̯̺̱̰͔̘p̬͎̱̣̼̩͇l̗̟̖͚̠e̱͉͔̱̦̬̟̙ ̖͚̪͔̼̦w̺̖̤̱e͖̗̻̦͓̖̘̜r̭̥e͔̹̫̱͕̦̰͕ ̗͔̠p̠̗͍͍̱̳̠r̰͔͎̰o͉̥͓̰͚̥s̟͚̹̱͔̣t͉̙̳̖͖̪̮r̥̘̥͙̹a͉̟̫̟̳̠̟̭t͈̜̰͈͎e̞̣̭̲̬ ͚̗̯̟͙i͍͖̰̘̦͖͉ṇ̮̻̯̦̲̩͍ ̦̮͚̫̤t͉͖̫͕ͅͅh͙̮̻̘̣̮̼e͕̺ ͙l͕̠͎̰̥i̲͓͉̲g̫̳̟͈͇̖h̠̦̖t͓̯͎̗ ̳̪̘̟̙̩̦o̫̲f̙͔̰̙̠ ̹̪̗͇̯t͖̼̼͉͖̬h̹͇̩e͚̖̺̤͉̹͕̪ ͚͓̭̝̺G͎̗̯̩o̫̯̮̟̮̳̘d̜̲͙̠-̩̳̯̲̗̜P̹̘̥͉̝h͍͈̗̖̝ͅa͍̗̮̼̗r̜̖͇̙̺a̭̺͔̞̳͈o̪̣͓̯̬͙̯̰̗h̖̦͈̥̯͔.͇̣̙̝
I̟̥͍̠ͅn̩͉̣͍̬͚ͅ ̬̬͖t̯̹̞̺͖͓̯̤h̘͍̬e͙̯͈̖̼̮ ̭̬f̺̲̲̪i͙͉̟̩̰r̪̝͚͈̝̥͍̝̲s̼̻͇̘̳͔ͅt̲̺̳̗̜̪̙ ̳̺̥̻͚̗ͅm̜̜̟̰͈͓͎͇o̝̖̮̝͇m̯̻̞̼̫̗͓̤e̩̯̬̮̩n͎̱̪̲̹͖t͇̖s̰̮ͅ,̤̲͙̻̭̻̯̹̰ ̖t̫̙̺̯͖͚̯ͅh͙̯̦̳̗̰̟e͖̪͉̼̯ ̪͕g̞̣͔a̗̦t̬̬͓͙̫̖̭̻e̩̻̯ ̜̖̦̖̤̭͙̬t̞̹̥̪͎͉ͅo͕͚͍͇̲͇͓̺ ̭̬͙͈̣̻t͈͍͙͓̫̖͙̩h̪̬̖̙e̗͈ ̗̬̟̞̺̤͉̯ͅa̦̯͚̙̜̮f͉͙̲̣̞̼t̪̤̞̣͚e̲͉̳̥r͇̪̙͚͓l̥̞̞͎̹̯̹ͅi͓̬f̮̥̬̞͈ͅe͎ ̟̩̤̳̠̯̩̯o̮̘̲p̟͚̣̞͉͓e͍̩̣n͔̼͕͚̜e̬̱d̼̘͎̖̹͍̮̠,͖̺̭̱̮ ̣̲͖̬̪̭̥a̪͚n̟̲̝̤̤̞̗d̘̱̗͇̮͕̳͕͔ ͖̞͉͎t̹̙͎h̰̱͉̗e̪̞̱̝̹̩ͅ ̠̱̩̭̦p̯̙e͓o̳͚̰̯̺̱̰͔̘p̬͎̱̣̼̩͇l̗̟̖͚̠e̱͉͔̱̦̬̟̙ ̖͚̪͔̼̦w̺̖̤̱e͖̗̻̦͓̖̘̜r̭̥e͔̹̫̱͕̦̰͕ ̗͔̠p̠̗͍͍̱̳̠r̰͔͎̰o͉̥͓̰͚̥s̟͚̹̱͔̣t͉̙̳̖͖̪̮r̥̘̥͙̹a͉̟̫̟̳̠̟̭t͈̜̰͈͎e̞̣̭̲̬ ͚̗̯̟͙i͍͖̰̘̦͖͉ṇ̮̻̯̦̲̩͍ ̦̮͚̫̤t͉͖̫͕ͅͅh͙̮̻̘̣̮̼e͕̺ ͙l͕̠͎̰̥i̲͓͉̲g̫̳̟͈͇̖h̠̦̖t͓̯͎̗ ̳̪̘̟̙̩̦o̫̲f̙͔̰̙̠ ̹̪̗͇̯t͖̼̼͉͖̬h̹͇̩e͚̖̺̤͉̹͕̪ ͚͓̭̝̺G͎̗̯̩o̫̯̮̟̮̳̘d̜̲͙̠-̩̳̯̲̗̜P̹̘̥͉̝h͍͈̗̖̝ͅa͍̗̮̼̗r̜̖͇̙̺a̭̺͔̞̳͈o̪̣͓̯̬͙̯̰̗h̖̦͈̥̯͔.͇̣̙̝
me too.. been a while busy with life and haven't opened this forum for long time..
Boros Pioneer WR
Creature - Human Rogue
Flash
When Boros Pioneer enters the battlefield, until end of turn, if a token creature would enter the battlefield, it enters the battlefield under your control instead.
1/2
next: a keyword ability named "Paranoia"
Artifact Creature - Human Rogue (R)
Absconding Infiltrator can't be blocked.
Whenever Absconding Infiltrator deals combat damage to a player, that player reveals his or her hand. You choose a card from it and exile it. You may play the card for as long as it remains exiled, and may spend mana as though it were mana of any color to cast it.
3/2
IIW: Make a clue-related card in red or black!
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
It's wacky, isn't it? I don't have a ready answer but I expect to inflate that number in short order
Apprentice ThiefUU
Creature - Human Rogue (U)
When ~ enters the battlefield, gain control of target artifact with converted mana cost 2 or less for as long as you control ~.
1/1
IIW: A bait and switch.
I like the design. There are a few wording problems (when they're in hand, they're "cards" not "spells") but the point gets across. I would've preferred if you get until end of turn to cast the spell even at the cost of the +1/+1 mode, but that might just be me. 4.5/5
It doesn't really steal anything, and it has its gold from the beginning. Also, you'd think not having gold is what would motivate a pickpocket to attack. It doesn't really come across for me. 2/5
I dig the design a lot. I think development would have problems with repeated mana denial being so cheap, but that can be fixed by adjusting the stats. 4/5
My favorite card name so far. And it might be narrow enough to be ok, though when this is good, it's a blowout. 3.5/5
This is really, really strong. Probably too strong. I'd rather see this restricted to creatures and possibly in black so it could've been called some variation on "Grave Robber." The card name is a little abstract to me. 2/5
I was skeptical of the flavor until I got to the flavor text! Those cheap knockoffs, man. You gotta be careful. 4/5
The only care that made me say, "Whoa!" 5/5
This is the type of card that ends friendships. I want one. 4/5
Simple, not subtle, but I like it just fine. It should probably be a 2/1 to be playable more consistently. 3.5/5
Winner: iphanx
Next: a keyword ability named "Paranoia"
Creature - Shapeshifter (R)
You may have Frigid Impersonator enter the battlefield as a copy of any creature on the battlefield, except it has paranoia. (Whenever this creature becomes the target of a spell or ability, tap it and it doesn't untap during its controller's next untap step.)
"Who knew someone so cold could be quite so shy?"
-Grete, Order of St. Traft
Next: Clues in Red and Black
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 - Human Soldier {C}
Paranoia (Whenever one or more creatures attack you, flip a coin. If you win the flip, untap Startled Footsoldier.)
In the infantry, fear isn't irrational. It's a survival strategy.
3/2
IIW: Bar fight!
Fruitful Suspicion 1UB
Instant
Target creature gains paranoia until end of turn.
Draw a card.
"I knew it!" -Modogo the Insane
IIW: A sad and tragic story.