MTG Salvation

I'm imagining Space cards to play with the Exile zone. Being in exile represents floating in space, so creatures out there can't attack and can't be targeted by the kinds of cards that target creatures on the planet (battlefield), but they can do other things, maybe interact with each other. Suspend represents cards being sent to space for a limited amount of time.

Spy Satellite 3
Space Artifact
Suspend 3 - U
While Spy Satellite is exiled, your opponents play with their hands revealed.
When Spy Satellite enters the battlefield, draw a card.
3, T: Exile Spy Satellite with 3 Time counters on it.

Completing the cycle and adding more cards due to boredom

Communications Satellite 3
Space Artifact
Suspend 3 - W
While Communications Satellite is exiled, creatures you control gain Vigilance.
When Communications Satellite enters the battlefield, creatures you control get +2/+2 until end of turn.
3, T: Exile Communications Satellite with 3 Time counters on it.

Solar Energy Satellite 3
Space Artifact
Suspend 3 - G
Whenever a Time counter is removed from Solar Energy Satellite, add G to your mana pool. Until end of turn, this mana does not empty as you pass through phases.
When Solar Energy Satellite enters the battlefield, spells you cast this turn cost G less to cast.
3, T: Exile Solar Energy Satellite with 3 Time counters on it.

Laser Beam Satellite 3
Space Artifact
Suspend 3 - R
Whenever a Time Counter is removed from Laser Beam Satellite, it deals 1 damage to target creature or player.
When Laser Beam Satellite enters the battlefield, it deals 2 damage to each creature.
3, T: Exile Laser Beam Satellite with 3 Time counters on it.

Sunblocker Satellite 3
Space Artifact
Suspend 3 - B
While Sunblocker Satellite is exiled, creatures you control gain Intimidate.
When Sunblocker Satellite enters the battlefield, tap all creatures target player controls.
3, T: Exile Sunblocker Satellite with 3 Time counters on it.

Launcher 2
Space Artifact Creature - Artificer Construct
X, T: Exile target Space permanent you control and put X Time counters on it. If it doesn't have Suspend, it gains Suspend.
0/3

Orbiting Handyman 1
Space Creature - Human Artificer
Suspend 5 - 1
1: Choose a Space card in Exile that has counters on it. Add or remove one of those counters. Activate this ability only if Orbiting Handyman is Exiled.
1/1



IIW: A card that is 50% off for a limited time

Dimension Sink 1BR
Space Sorcery (R)
Destroy all white and colorless non-land permanents.
(Space spells cannot be played if you played a land this turn.)
A phenomenon that sweeps extraplanar infections from planes. Native entities are anchored by the colors of mana, it can be subverted by exploiting white mana's affinity for the blind eternities.

IIW
Sorceries!

RX-350 Starfighter 3
Artifact — Space Vehicle
Spaceflight (This creature can't be blocked, except by creatures with spaceflight.)
Crew 2
3/3

IIW: Vermin

Multiple submissions seem necessary to demonstrate the purpose of the new type.

Lunar Palace
Space Land (U)
(Space permanents are in space when they are on the battlefield.)
T: Add C to your mana pool.
1,T: Untap another target permanent in space.

Gravity Generator 2
Space Artifact (C)
(Space permanents are in space when they are on the battlefield.)
T: Target permanent is in space until end of turn.
T: Target permanent is not is space until end of turn, even if it is a space permanent.

Terror Beyond the Stars
Space (R)
(Space permanents are in space when they are on the battlefield.)
2,T, Sacrifice Terror Beyond the Stars: Target creature in space gets -3/-3 until end of turn. Tap that creature.
6,T Sacrifice Terror Beyond the Stars: Target creature that is not in space gets -3/-3, and is in space until end of turn.

IIW: Small text boxes.

Space is a supertype. The rules for space objects are simple:

A space object (a space card, a copy of a space card, a space token, a space spell, a space permanent, a space emblem, or an ability on the stack whose source is space) cannot affect or be affected by non-space objects.

Star-Death Blastwave 5R
Space Sorcery (R)
Star-Death Blastwave deals X damage to each (space) creature and each player, where X is the amount of mana that entered your mana pool this turn.

IIW: "the amount of mana that entered your mana pool this turn"

Givawayatron 6
Artifact Creature - Thopter (R)
Flying
Other Thopter creatures you control have "Fabricate 2".
Givawayatron costs 3 less to cast if you created an artifact creature token this turn.
1/1

IIW
Emblems! from nonPW or
Anthems! from nonWhite

Secret Pet 2GGGG
Creature - Beast (R)
Trample, reach
Secret Pet costs less to cast during your first and second turn of the game.
When a baloth broke out of Galluva barn and peacefully roamed the streets of town, everybody wondered how three children could have tamed such a beast and kept it hidden for so much time
5/5

Salt in the Wound RR
Instant (C)
Salt in the Wound deals 3 damage to target creature or player.
Embolden R (You may cast this for its embolden cost if a creature you control dealt combat damage to a player this turn.)
Pain is Yorin's pleasure.

IIW: Efficient, Mischievous, Faeries.

Dual Pyromancy 2RR
Sorcery {U}
Discard a card from your hand. If it's a sorcery or instant card, deal damage equal to its converted mana cost to up to two creatures and/or players.
Madness 1R

IIW: A card based on a movie.

Jewel-Encrusted Stilettos 4
Artifact — Equipment (U)
Half Off — If you cast an artifact spell with converted mana cost equal to or greater than Jewel-Encrusted Stiletto's this turn, Jewel-Encrusted Stilettos costs 2 less to cast and 1 less to equip.
Equipped creature gets +2/+2 and has menace.
Equip 2

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Monstrous Genesis 6GGGG
Instant (U)
Create 5 5/5 green Beast creature tokens.
If ~'s undershot cost was paid, instead create one 5/5 green Beast creature token instead.
Undershot 3GG (You may cast this card by paying its undershot cost rather than its mana cost.)

IIW: Simple text boxes.

Hope you all had a good Cyber Monday. Judgment time!

Givawayatron - What I like most about this card is that it's a kind of Thopter lord. We need these. I would like my Ornithopters and Pilgrim's Eyes to live more interesting lives. I also like how they get out of hand in multiples. As a single card, however, I find the effect a bit underwhelming. It takes a lot to set up - three mana plus whatever mana you likely used to create a token, and the reward is not immediate. I'd like to see this pushed more.

Secret Pet - I expect a card like this to get printed some day (a sign of good design), and you did a lot of things right. It can be simple, like Serra Avenger, because the design space is unexplored. It ought to be powerful enough to be worth playing with its restriction. It ought to have a lot of colored mana to play well with Devotion. The only criticism I can come up with is that it's possible 5/5 isn't the optimal p/t, and that maybe the discount should continue into the third turn, because the first turn is pretty much irrelevant, and I think the game can handle a turn 3 french vanilla big guy. Those are more development questions, so as far as design is concerned, the card is perfect. Good flavor text too.

Salt in the Wound - Great card, simple, powerful, common, mana costs that are simultaneously responsible (double red) and enticing (single red). Mechanic that feels like it could see print irl. Perfect score.

Dual Pyromancy - This card is difficult to evaluate, but in a good way. I like that it can hit two targets, I like that it can fuel another copy of itself, and I generally like cards that have indeterminate power levels such as Erratic Explosion. I wonder if it would be good in limited, because my first instinct was no, the instant/sorcery restriction is too much, but then again I can also see getting blown out by this card, especially if there's other good madness spells in the format. So add extra points for being a good skill tester, which I like to see, whereas the previous card is obviously good and would go in any red limited deck.

Blind Vortex - I'm not sure I understand the reduction or if it was written correctly. 0 spells and it costs 1000, 1 and x = 500 so x is taken away once, so it costs 500. 2 spells and x = 250 and x is taken away twice, so it's still 500. 3 spells and x = 166, taken away 3 times leaves the cost at 502. A couple more stops at 500 with no need for rounding, then 502 at 6 again and 503 at 7. Very strange, or maybe something was written wrong. In any case, let's not care about that part. It's a really expensive storm spell that can only be played in a Storm deck or infinite mana deck. I'm not a big fan of such narrow cards, though I'm not at all afraid of Storm. I'll say the nicest things I can about the card: I like that randomness element because it points you in a casual, multiplayer direction, and I like the use of "may", because that makes it possible to Mindslaver an opponent, cast this, and decline all the opponent's triggers. All I can gather from this card is that you are an evil man who likes to do evil things.

Quickforge - What makes this card for me is the free equip. If it only copied the equipment, it would be too fair. Copy and equip and now you have something to get excited about and to search Gatherer for cheap equipment with high equip costs. I also appreciate that it does something we don't see often, instant speed alternative ways to attach equipment, while still being "worth a card" by creating the extra copy. A+ flavor text.

Jewel-Encrusted Stilletos - I like every word that is written on this card, including the name, but I don't like the numbers so much. I expect the only way to make this card exciting to play is with Affinity (Frogmite, Myr Enforcer), but if you are going that efficient you probably don't want this card in your deck. If the 4+ cmc spell you cast isn't free, you need to spend 6 or 7 mana in one turn to make use of the price reduction, and I don't think the reward is enticing enough for the cost.

Monstrous Genesis - This feels underwhelming most of all because the price reduction mechanic is so close to Kicker. What's nice is that if you copy the spell or play it for free, you don't have to pay Kicker, you get the big effect as the default. The card and mechanic could see irl printing some day, and cool things could be done with it, but there's not much novelty here.

There are multiple cards that I feel are worthy of winning a round, so I will make the tie break by asking myself, which card would generate the most excitement if it saw print? Although I'm usually a sucker for the kind of brutal efficiency and simplicity showcased in Salt in the Wound, maybe there are enough Lightning Bolts in Modern already, so I will go with the more niche card Quickforge

Winner: picnic_bomber
Next: Epic spells (such as Enduring Ideal or Eternal Dominion)

Runes of Greater Enlightenment UUUR
Enchantment
Epic (For the rest of the game, you can't cast spells. At the beginning of each of your upkeeps, create a token copy of this enchantment without its epic ability.)
Imprint- When ~ enters the battlefield, search your hand, graveyard, and library for an instant or sorcery spell, and exile it.
Pay the mana cost of the exiled card: Copy the effect of that card.
Discard two cards that share a type: Counter target spell that shares a type with the discarded cards.

IIW: Fun with graveyards.

Doom of Power 4UB
Sorcery {M}
Each opponent sacrifices a permanent, then puts X cards from the top of his or her library into his or her graveyard, where X is the sacrificed permanent's converted mana cost.
Epic (For the rest of the game, you can't cast spells. At the beginning of each of your upkeeps, copy this spell except for its epic ability. You may choose a new target for the copy.)

IIW: A card based on a movie.

Legion of Myr 9
Sorcery [M]
Create 3 1/1 Myr artifact creature tokens with "Cumulative Upkeep- Create a token copy of this creature."

Epic (For the rest of the game, you can't cast spells. At the beginning of each of your upkeeps, copy this spell except for its epic ability. You may choose a new target for the copy.)

IIW: Permanents that transform back and forth repeatedly

Chaos Pact 2RRR
Sorcery
You may put a permanent card from your hand onto the battlefield. Return a random permanent you control to its owner's hand.
Epic

IIW: A new mechanic that involves untapping opponents' permanents

Endless growth GGG
Instant
Populate, then proliferate, then create a green 1/1 Plant Creature token with "This creature enters the battlefield with a +1/+1 counter on it."
Epic (For the rest of the game, you can't cast spells. At the beginning of each of your upkeeps, copy this spell except for its epic ability. You may choose a new target for the copy.)

IIW: A card that pushes the color pie towards an allied color, like Evangelize or Unyaro Bee Sting.

Inescapable Ennui 5UUU
Sorcery (R)
Target opponent returns a permanent he or she controls to his or her hand, then exiles cards from the top of their library equal to the number of cards in their hand.
Epic

IIW fashion

Striking Ragebeast 1RR
Creature- Elemental Beast (U)
Last Strike, Provoke, Trample
~ gets +1/+0 for each point of damage it has taken this turn.
"It's just looking at me... I'm gonna hit it!"
1/5

IIW: Legendary lands, enchantments, or artifacts

Empower 1U
Sorcery {U}
Proliferate
Awaken 2 - 3U
Buyback 3

IIW: A card based on a movie

Envious Dead BR
Creature - Zombie Pirate
Raid - At the beginning of your end step, each opponent loses 2 life if you attacked with a creature this turn.
Unearth 1BR
2/1

IIW: Creatures that are one half Ixalan creature type and the other half a creature type not seen in the Ixalan card set.

Emergency Response Unit 1WW
Creature - Human Soldiers
Dash 2RW
First Strike
When ~ enters the battlefield, detain target creature an opponent controls.
2/1

IIW: Winter Holiday theme card.

Sacred Ibis 1W
Creature — Bird (M)
Flying
When Sacred Ibis enters the battlefield, populate. (Create a token that's a copy of a creature token you control.)
Eternalize 4WW (4WW, Exile this card from your graveyard: Create a token that's a copy of it, except it's a 4/4 black Zombie Bird with no mana cost. Eternalize only as a sorcery.)
1/2

IIW: A major award that is fragile. (You know, like a trashy leg lamp.)

Selesnya Inventor WG
Creature - Human Arificer (R)
Fabricate 1 (When this permanent enters the battlefield, you may put one +1/+1 counter on it. If you don't, create one 1/1 colorless Servo artifact creature token.)
When Selesnya Inventor dies, populate.
2/2

IIW: A card that pushes the color pie towards an allied color sucha as Evangelize and Unyaro Bee Sting.

Urza's Beret
Legendary Artifact - Equipment

2W: Prevent all damage that would be dealt to equiped creature this turn.
2R: If you control a card called Sunglasses of Urza, redirect all damage that would be dealt to equipped creature this turn to target creature or player. Activate this ability only once per turn.
Equip 3

With his beret, Urza was a chill dude, but when the glasses came out you knew someone was about to get it.

IIW: famous movie character as a card