Sultai ThiefU(B/G)
Creature- Naga Rogue (U)
When ~ deals combat damage to a player, draw a card.
2/1
Nahh, that's boring.
Overgrown Catacombs
Land (R)
Overgrown Catacombs enter the battlefield tapped. T, Pay 1 life: Add B, G, or U. 2BGU, Sacrifice Overgrown Catacombs: Exile target card from a graveyard. As long as that card remains exiled, you may play it, and you may spend mana as though it were of any color to cast it.
Seeing Megiddo here reminded me of one of the original rules: "2. If you are the judge and fail to judge in a reasonable time frame, I will judge for you, using whatever criteria I feel like."
We obviously need a solution to deadbeat judging (...besides waiting 2yrs for Megs to drop in for the 10th anniversary!). Maybe just agree that once it's been more than a day since the last entry, any of the regulars can call the shot that they're going to judge? Giving 1hr warning to see if the judge wakes up seems polite too??
To be clear, this is not a criticism of Spelldreamer or anyone else. Sometimes real life gets in the way of online stuff & that's fine. Doesn't mean the thread should crawl to a halt. I wouldn't want everyone to be sat around waiting for me.
The glory is winning the challenge. Judging is a courtesy we do to keep the thread alive.
P.S. If no one comes up with a better idea within an hour, I'm judging this one (& happy to!).
Sharpened Senses
Enchantment — Aura {U}
Enchant creature
Enchanted creature has “Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, you may draw that many cards” and “Whenever a creature dealt damage by this creature this turn dies, you may draw a card.” Always be looking for your ‘cut’
IIW: Develop (2: Exile this card from your hand face down. Now and on your upkeep it gets a progress counter. You may look at and cast this as long as it is developing. Develop only as a sorcery.)
702.XX. Develop
702.XXa. Develop is a keyword that represents three abilities. The first is a static ability that functions while the card with develop is in a player's hand. The second is triggered ability that functions in the exile zone. The third is a static ability that functions in the exile zone. "Develop" means "{2}, Exile this card from your hand face down: It gets a progress counter and gains develop. Activate this ability only any time you could cast a sorcery." and "At the beginning of your upkeep, if this card is developing, it gets a progress counter." and "You may look at and cast this card as long as this card is developing "
702.XXb. A card is "developing" if it's face-down in the exile zone, has develop, and has a progress counter on it.
702.XXc. You can't normally exile a card from your hand face down. Develop allows you to do so.
702.XXd. If a player leaves the game, all developing cards owned by that player must be revealed to all players. At the end of each game, all developing cards must be revealed to all players.
GloomsuckerGUB
Creature - Elemental (Uncommon)
When Gloomsucker enters the battlefield, put the top three cards of your library into your graveyard. You may return one of them to your hand. If you do, exile all cards from your graveyard. Recollect2G (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its Recollect cost. If you do, it enters the battlefield with a -1/-1 counter on it. If it would leave the battlefield whilst it has a -1/-1 counter on it, exile it instead.) It searches for lost love, desperate to keep it from fading away.
3/2
Ulka - Bayou Bone-Reader
PLUS POINTS
Beat the rest of us unoriginal schmos to doing something with lands & the bin
MINUS POINTS
Feels like it really wanted to be an enchantment, except that obviously enchantments don't tap
6/10 SULTAI POINTS
Me - Sinkhole Season
PLUS POINTS
Obviously perfect in every way.
MINUS POINTS
Can't declare myself winner.
No one is going to get the British comedy reference in the IIW.
0/10 SULTAI POINTS
Mergatroid_Jones - Overgrown Catacombs
PLUS POINTS
Name might be a pun on two other GB lands.
Balanced, good, flavorful.
Definitely less boring than original entry.
MINUS POINTS
Blue doesn't get to participate in the land namedropping fest.
7 OI SULTAN TIPS
Cardz 5000 - Sharpened Senses
PLUS POINTS
Appropriate green card draw.
MINUS POINTS
Monogreen card sneaks into Sultai challenge.
Nah not really, this is fine.
7.5 AI INSULT STOP
Subject16 - Gloomsucker PLUS POINTS
Either eats or stocks your graveyard. Good.
MINUS POINTS
"Persist but basically worse" is not landing with me as a pitch for a new mechanic. Especially when "Persist but basically better" has already been printed.
7.4 I, SAUL TIN POTS
Cardz5000 wins, partly because it's charming how persistent that rather good IIW has been to get to the front of the queue.
NEXT: Develop(2: Exile this card from your hand face down. Now and on your upkeep it gets a progress counter. You may look at and cast this as long as it is developing. Develop only as a sorcery.)
702.XX. Develop
702.XXa. Develop is a keyword that represents three abilities. The first is a static ability that functions while the card with develop is in a player's hand. The second is triggered ability that functions in the exile zone. The third is a static ability that functions in the exile zone. "Develop" means "{2}, Exile this card from your hand face down: It gets a progress counter and gains develop. Activate this ability only any time you could cast a sorcery." and "At the beginning of your upkeep, if this card is developing, it gets a progress counter." and "You may look at and cast this card as long as this card is developing "
702.XXb. A card is "developing" if it's face-down in the exile zone, has develop, and has a progress counter on it.
702.XXc. You can't normally exile a card from your hand face down. Develop allows you to do so.
702.XXd. If a player leaves the game, all developing cards owned by that player must be revealed to all players. At the end of each game, all developing cards must be revealed to all players.
~~~
My entry:
Timestream Glitch1UU
Instant
Develop
Counter target spell unless its controller pays 4. Put target nonland permanent on top of its owner's library unless that spell's controller pays X, where X is the number of progress counters on Timestream Glitch. "Wait. Where did my angel go to?!"
"No, no. The question you should be asking is 'WHEN did my angel go to?'..."
IIW: Cards which are subtly better in multiplayer.
Weeping Angel 4
Artifact
Develop
When Weeping Angel enters the battlefield, if it was developing, or whenever you cast a developing spell, place up to one target creature into its owners library X cards from the top, where X is the number of progress counters on that spell as it was cast. Then that creature's controller draws a card. 7,t: If there are no creatures on the battlefield, Weeping Angel deals 3 damage to target player. That player puts a card from their hand on top of their library. Any image of one becomes the real thing over time.
IIW: Off-color guild mechanics from RTR block that still make sense flavor-wise(Detain, Battalion, Cipher, Scavenge, Bloodrush, Overload, Extort, Unleash, Populate, Evolve)
Stalking HydraXGG
Creature - Hydra (Rare)
Creatures with power less than Stalking Hydra can't block it.
Develop (2, Exile this card from your hand face down: It gets a progress counter and gains develop. Activate this ability only any time you could cast a sorcery." and "At the beginning of your upkeep, if this card is developing, it gets a progress counter." and "You may look at and cast this card as long as this card is developing.")
Stalking Hydra enters the battlefield with X +1/+1 counters on it and with a number of additional +1/+1 counters on it equal to the number of progress counters on it as it was cast.
0/0
Mental Image 1U
Sorcery
Draw a card for each progress counter on Mental Image.
Develop (2, Exile this card from your hand face down: It gets a progress counter and gains develop. Activate this ability only any time you could cast a sorcery." and "At the beginning of your upkeep, if this card is developing, it gets a progress counter." and "You may look at and cast this card as long as this card is developing.") "the longer I focus on it, the clearer it gets."
IIW: North America Wildlife and Native Peoples Plane
IncubationGGG
Enchantment {U}
When ~ enters the battlefield, put a +1/+1 counter on a creature you control and two +1/+1 counters on the same creature for each progress counter on ~ when it was cast.
Develop (2, Exile this card from your hand face down: It gets a progress counter and gains develop. Activate this ability only any time you could cast a sorcery." and "At the beginning of your upkeep, if this card is developing, it gets a progress counter." and "You may look at and cast this card as long as this card is developing.")
Timestream Glitch - "the number of progress counters on this spell as it was cast." but overall this is probably fine, it's a little odd to have two tax effects on the same spell, it almost feels black or red as a punisher kind of effect if they can only afford to pay for one. Weeping Angel - Never watched the show, but I know the cultural reference. It feels weird that this isn't a creature (or maybe becomes one if their aren't any other creatures) The triggered ability reads poorly. Stalking Hydra - Was there something wrong with my reminder text? This is a simple, but very effective execution of develop, could easily see print. Mental Image - I would love this if it simply had another line that was "draw a card." so that it could be cast from hand. Incubation - I'm not sure why this isn't a sorcery.
Winner goes to Subject16, which means, just after the New Challenge Everyday did it, we're in for some more Wild West Tropes
Overly-full Spittoon 1
Artifact
Tap an untapped creature: Put a charge counter on ~.
Remove X Charge Counters: Tap all creatures with toughness less X or less where X is equal to the number of charge counters removed. "Only the bravest and Toughest can clean out the spittoon."
IIW:North America Wildlife and Native Peoples Plane
Sozzled Sharpshooter2R
Creature - Human Rogue
Haste 2, Q: Sozzled Sharpshooter deals 4 damage to target creature or planeswalker. This ability cannot be activated during combat.
1/3
Train Job2R
Sorcery {U}
Gain control of target artifact until end of turn.
If that artifact is a vehicle, it becomes a creature and gains haste until end of turn.
Wrangler's Lariat2
Artifact — Equipment (U)
Equipped creature has "t: Tap target creature. That creature doesn't untap during its controller's next untap step."
Equip 2
Sturdy Steed1WW
Creature — Horse (U)
Vigilance
Whenever Sturdy Steed attacks, another target attacking creature you control gains horsemanship until end of turn.
2/3
Backroad Bandit1BB
Creature — Human Rogue (R)
Menace
Whenever ~ deals combat damage to a player, that player discards a card at random.
2/3
Circle the Wagons2W
Instant (C)
Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt this turn. You gain 1 life for each creature you control.
Quickdraw Dualist1RW
Creature — Human (U)
Flash
Haste t: Deals 1 damage to target attacking or blocking creature.
0/2
(22 Total) - October 2014; December 2014; January 2015; April 2015; June 2015; August 2015; September 2015; November 2015; December 2015(T); January 2016; March 2016(T); April 2016; June 2016; October 2016; December 2016(T); February 2017; April 2017; December 2017; November 2018(T); January 2019; April 2019; June 2019
(8 Total) - May 2015; May 2016; June 2016; August 2016; October 2016; December 2016; October 2017; May 2019
(7 Total) - September 2015; October 2015; January 2016; March 2016; April 2016; July 2016(T); March 2019(T)
The Nameless Wanderer - 1WBG
Legendary Creature - Human Rogue
Hexproof, Indestructible
As ~ enters the battlefield, an opponent of your choice gains control of it.
~ cannot attack it's owner.
Whenever ~ takes damage, it's controller takes that much damage as well.
The More-Than-Six Shooter- 2
Artifact- Equipment
The More-Than-Six Shooter enters the battlefield with 6 charge counters on it.
As long as The More-Than-Six Shooter is equipped, it has "X,T,remove X charge counters from this permanent: It deals X damage to target player. Then flip a coin. If you win the flip, put a charge counter on it. X can't be 0."
Equip 1 Fun Fact: The average number of rounds fired from a six-shooter without reloading in major action movies is 11.2. Crazy efficient, if you ask me.
Massive apologies to everyone for the late judgements. Last week was very hectic.
Ulka: This is a very odd card and definitely an interesting one. Very good for a go-wide strategy as you could use that in the end step to get rid of all blockers. I like the nod to toughness-matters in the flavour text, but I feel like I don't know where this goes in rarity. Either a janky rare or a very strong uncommon.
VolraththeRisen: I like the flavour of this card. It's a drunk guy who somehow sobers up in time for the killing move. I like the fact that it has to survive attacking for it to use its ability, but I wonder if having the ability at instant speed would make it too good for a limited environment (I like thinking about limited it seems). It's a very cool design and it's probably a strong uncommon power-level wise.
Cardz5000: I feel like if this card was either in a set with little to no artifacts or costed one more R I would let you keep the artifact instead of it being lost at the end of turn. It would fit more in the flavour of a train job I feel. It's a solid design however and could definitely see print.
Flatline: I'm not too sure how I feel about any of these if I can be honest. Wrangler's Lariat is ridiculously good for limited and should probably have a mana activation cost. Horsemanship has been out of the loop for so long I feel that you're more likely to see a new take on it instead of it being reintroduced. Backroad Bandit is a nice card but it doesn't offer much new in terms of design space. Circle the Wagons is a version of Riot Control that hasn't been done before, but the card lacks much needed flavour to help it out. Quickdraw Duelist is a very interesting card, it reminds me of Izzet Staticaster and I feel like you could have made your card a bit more akin to this one's power level - perhaps by making it ping every attacking or blocking creature?
Spelldreamer: Interesting design space and worth exploring its potential as a commander as well as other formats, I'm just not too sure what the trope here is (Lone Ranger I guess?) I think hexproof might be a bit too annoying as people would likely try and damage it to hit its controller somehow as well.
TotallyHaywire: I like the flavour of this card, but I feel it should make the creature tap rather than the equipment as that's not something they've done before. I do understand the decision as it would mean you don't get to fire the gun twice in a turn, but I don't think the card itself is strong enough to justify needing that drawback. The design is really interesting though!
The nameless drifter may have been a better name, but no, it's the space Clint Eastwood was famous for taking up in a fistful of dollars and a few dollars more. It comes up alot. The town is run by gunrunners and then a nameless drifter comes in.
Syrup Maker 2G
Snow Creature - Human (Uncommon)
You may choose not to untap Syrup Maker during your untap step.
Tap an Untapped Forest: Tap Syrup Maker. GG, : Create a colorless Syrup artifact token with "Sacrifice this artifact: Gain 2 Life and Draw a card." "Maple, Oak, Ent I can make Syrup from any of them."
1/2
IIW: North America Wildlife and Native Peoples Plane
That works. Without reminder text, I know I would have played that card wrong when I was a kid.
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.
Sultai Thief U(B/G)Creature- Naga Rogue (U)
When ~ deals combat damage to a player, draw a card.
2/1
Nahh, that's boring.
Overgrown Catacombs
Land (R)
Overgrown Catacombs enter the battlefield tapped.
T, Pay 1 life: Add B, G, or U.
2BGU, Sacrifice Overgrown Catacombs: Exile target card from a graveyard. As long as that card remains exiled, you may play it, and you may spend mana as though it were of any color to cast it.
IIW: Flavorful enchantments
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.
We obviously need a solution to deadbeat judging (...besides waiting 2yrs for Megs to drop in for the 10th anniversary!). Maybe just agree that once it's been more than a day since the last entry, any of the regulars can call the shot that they're going to judge? Giving 1hr warning to see if the judge wakes up seems polite too??
To be clear, this is not a criticism of Spelldreamer or anyone else. Sometimes real life gets in the way of online stuff & that's fine. Doesn't mean the thread should crawl to a halt. I wouldn't want everyone to be sat around waiting for me.
The glory is winning the challenge. Judging is a courtesy we do to keep the thread alive.
Let's actually do it then. It would obviously be better if someone who doesn't have an entry judges this round... but otherwise I'll do it in 30 mins.
Enchantment — Aura {U}
Enchant creature
Enchanted creature has “Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, you may draw that many cards” and “Whenever a creature dealt damage by this creature this turn dies, you may draw a card.”
Always be looking for your ‘cut’
IIW: Develop (2: Exile this card from your hand face down. Now and on your upkeep it gets a progress counter. You may look at and cast this as long as it is developing. Develop only as a sorcery.)
702.XXa. Develop is a keyword that represents three abilities. The first is a static ability that functions while the card with develop is in a player's hand. The second is triggered ability that functions in the exile zone. The third is a static ability that functions in the exile zone. "Develop" means "{2}, Exile this card from your hand face down: It gets a progress counter and gains develop. Activate this ability only any time you could cast a sorcery." and "At the beginning of your upkeep, if this card is developing, it gets a progress counter." and "You may look at and cast this card as long as this card is developing "
702.XXb. A card is "developing" if it's face-down in the exile zone, has develop, and has a progress counter on it.
702.XXc. You can't normally exile a card from your hand face down. Develop allows you to do so.
702.XXd. If a player leaves the game, all developing cards owned by that player must be revealed to all players. At the end of each game, all developing cards must be revealed to all players.
Creature - Elemental (Uncommon)
When Gloomsucker enters the battlefield, put the top three cards of your library into your graveyard. You may return one of them to your hand. If you do, exile all cards from your graveyard.
Recollect 2G (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its Recollect cost. If you do, it enters the battlefield with a -1/-1 counter on it. If it would leave the battlefield whilst it has a -1/-1 counter on it, exile it instead.)
It searches for lost love, desperate to keep it from fading away.
3/2
IIW: Persist/Undying
PLUS POINTS
Beat the rest of us unoriginal schmos to doing something with lands & the bin
MINUS POINTS
Feels like it really wanted to be an enchantment, except that obviously enchantments don't tap
6/10 SULTAI POINTS
Me - Sinkhole Season
PLUS POINTS
Obviously perfect in every way.
MINUS POINTS
Can't declare myself winner.
No one is going to get the British comedy reference in the IIW.
0/10 SULTAI POINTS
Mergatroid_Jones - Overgrown Catacombs
PLUS POINTS
Name might be a pun on two other GB lands.
Balanced, good, flavorful.
Definitely less boring than original entry.
MINUS POINTS
Blue doesn't get to participate in the land namedropping fest.
7 OI SULTAN TIPS
Cardz 5000 - Sharpened Senses
PLUS POINTS
Appropriate green card draw.
MINUS POINTS
Monogreen card sneaks into Sultai challenge.
Nah not really, this is fine.
7.5 AI INSULT STOP
Subject16 - Gloomsucker
PLUS POINTS
Either eats or stocks your graveyard. Good.
MINUS POINTS
"Persist but basically worse" is not landing with me as a pitch for a new mechanic. Especially when "Persist but basically better" has already been printed.
7.4 I, SAUL TIN POTS
Cardz5000 wins, partly because it's charming how persistent that rather good IIW has been to get to the front of the queue.
702.XXa. Develop is a keyword that represents three abilities. The first is a static ability that functions while the card with develop is in a player's hand. The second is triggered ability that functions in the exile zone. The third is a static ability that functions in the exile zone. "Develop" means "{2}, Exile this card from your hand face down: It gets a progress counter and gains develop. Activate this ability only any time you could cast a sorcery." and "At the beginning of your upkeep, if this card is developing, it gets a progress counter." and "You may look at and cast this card as long as this card is developing "
702.XXb. A card is "developing" if it's face-down in the exile zone, has develop, and has a progress counter on it.
702.XXc. You can't normally exile a card from your hand face down. Develop allows you to do so.
702.XXd. If a player leaves the game, all developing cards owned by that player must be revealed to all players. At the end of each game, all developing cards must be revealed to all players.
~~~
My entry:
Timestream Glitch 1UU
Instant
Develop
Counter target spell unless its controller pays 4. Put target nonland permanent on top of its owner's library unless that spell's controller pays X, where X is the number of progress counters on Timestream Glitch.
"Wait. Where did my angel go to?!"
"No, no. The question you should be asking is 'WHEN did my angel go to?'..."
IIW: Cards which are subtly better in multiplayer.
Artifact
Develop
When Weeping Angel enters the battlefield, if it was developing, or whenever you cast a developing spell, place up to one target creature into its owners library X cards from the top, where X is the number of progress counters on that spell as it was cast. Then that creature's controller draws a card.
7,t: If there are no creatures on the battlefield, Weeping Angel deals 3 damage to target player. That player puts a card from their hand on top of their library.
Any image of one becomes the real thing over time.
IIW: Off-color guild mechanics from RTR block that still make sense flavor-wise(Detain, Battalion, Cipher, Scavenge, Bloodrush, Overload, Extort, Unleash, Populate, Evolve)
Creature - Hydra (Rare)
Creatures with power less than Stalking Hydra can't block it.
Develop (2, Exile this card from your hand face down: It gets a progress counter and gains develop. Activate this ability only any time you could cast a sorcery." and "At the beginning of your upkeep, if this card is developing, it gets a progress counter." and "You may look at and cast this card as long as this card is developing.")
Stalking Hydra enters the battlefield with X +1/+1 counters on it and with a number of additional +1/+1 counters on it equal to the number of progress counters on it as it was cast.
0/0
IIW: Wild West tropes
Sorcery
Draw a card for each progress counter on Mental Image.
Develop (2, Exile this card from your hand face down: It gets a progress counter and gains develop. Activate this ability only any time you could cast a sorcery." and "At the beginning of your upkeep, if this card is developing, it gets a progress counter." and "You may look at and cast this card as long as this card is developing.")
"the longer I focus on it, the clearer it gets."
IIW: North America Wildlife and Native Peoples Plane
Enchantment {U}
When ~ enters the battlefield, put a +1/+1 counter on a creature you control and two +1/+1 counters on the same creature for each progress counter on ~ when it was cast.
Develop (2, Exile this card from your hand face down: It gets a progress counter and gains develop. Activate this ability only any time you could cast a sorcery." and "At the beginning of your upkeep, if this card is developing, it gets a progress counter." and "You may look at and cast this card as long as this card is developing.")
IIW: Mad Max themed
Legacy: Strawberry Shortcake, Aggro Loam, DnT+b
Modern: Devoted Karn
Vintage: Survival
EDIT: Sigh, ah well. I tried to hop on, but I couldn't even really walk all that well. Spent the last 3 days in bed.
Weeping Angel - Never watched the show, but I know the cultural reference. It feels weird that this isn't a creature (or maybe becomes one if their aren't any other creatures) The triggered ability reads poorly.
Stalking Hydra - Was there something wrong with my reminder text? This is a simple, but very effective execution of develop, could easily see print.
Mental Image - I would love this if it simply had another line that was "draw a card." so that it could be cast from hand.
Incubation - I'm not sure why this isn't a sorcery.
Winner goes to Subject16, which means, just after the New Challenge Everyday did it, we're in for some more Wild West Tropes
Artifact
Tap an untapped creature: Put a charge counter on ~.
Remove X Charge Counters: Tap all creatures with toughness less X or less where X is equal to the number of charge counters removed.
"Only the bravest and Toughest can clean out the spittoon."
IIW:North America Wildlife and Native Peoples Plane
Creature - Human Rogue
Haste
2, Q: Sozzled Sharpshooter deals 4 damage to target creature or planeswalker. This ability cannot be activated during combat.
1/3
IIW: Justifiably flavourful uses of Q.
Sorcery {U}
Gain control of target artifact until end of turn.
If that artifact is a vehicle, it becomes a creature and gains haste until end of turn.
IIW: "tapped and attacking"
Artifact — Equipment (U)
Equipped creature has "t: Tap target creature. That creature doesn't untap during its controller's next untap step."
Equip 2
Sturdy Steed 1WW
Creature — Horse (U)
Vigilance
Whenever Sturdy Steed attacks, another target attacking creature you control gains horsemanship until end of turn.
2/3
Backroad Bandit 1BB
Creature — Human Rogue (R)
Menace
Whenever ~ deals combat damage to a player, that player discards a card at random.
2/3
Circle the Wagons 2W
Instant (C)
Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt this turn. You gain 1 life for each creature you control.
Quickdraw Dualist 1RW
Creature — Human (U)
Flash
Haste
t: Deals 1 damage to target attacking or blocking creature.
0/2
IIW: Ninja!
Legendary Creature - Human Rogue
Hexproof, Indestructible
As ~ enters the battlefield, an opponent of your choice gains control of it.
~ cannot attack it's owner.
Whenever ~ takes damage, it's controller takes that much damage as well.
5/4
IIW: Sci Fi Tropes
I̟̥͍̠ͅn̩͉̣͍̬͚ͅ ̬̬͖t̯̹̞̺͖͓̯̤h̘͍̬e͙̯͈̖̼̮ ̭̬f̺̲̲̪i͙͉̟̩̰r̪̝͚͈̝̥͍̝̲s̼̻͇̘̳͔ͅt̲̺̳̗̜̪̙ ̳̺̥̻͚̗ͅm̜̜̟̰͈͓͎͇o̝̖̮̝͇m̯̻̞̼̫̗͓̤e̩̯̬̮̩n͎̱̪̲̹͖t͇̖s̰̮ͅ,̤̲͙̻̭̻̯̹̰ ̖t̫̙̺̯͖͚̯ͅh͙̯̦̳̗̰̟e͖̪͉̼̯ ̪͕g̞̣͔a̗̦t̬̬͓͙̫̖̭̻e̩̻̯ ̜̖̦̖̤̭͙̬t̞̹̥̪͎͉ͅo͕͚͍͇̲͇͓̺ ̭̬͙͈̣̻t͈͍͙͓̫̖͙̩h̪̬̖̙e̗͈ ̗̬̟̞̺̤͉̯ͅa̦̯͚̙̜̮f͉͙̲̣̞̼t̪̤̞̣͚e̲͉̳̥r͇̪̙͚͓l̥̞̞͎̹̯̹ͅi͓̬f̮̥̬̞͈ͅe͎ ̟̩̤̳̠̯̩̯o̮̘̲p̟͚̣̞͉͓e͍̩̣n͔̼͕͚̜e̬̱d̼̘͎̖̹͍̮̠,͖̺̭̱̮ ̣̲͖̬̪̭̥a̪͚n̟̲̝̤̤̞̗d̘̱̗͇̮͕̳͕͔ ͖̞͉͎t̹̙͎h̰̱͉̗e̪̞̱̝̹̩ͅ ̠̱̩̭̦p̯̙e͓o̳͚̰̯̺̱̰͔̘p̬͎̱̣̼̩͇l̗̟̖͚̠e̱͉͔̱̦̬̟̙ ̖͚̪͔̼̦w̺̖̤̱e͖̗̻̦͓̖̘̜r̭̥e͔̹̫̱͕̦̰͕ ̗͔̠p̠̗͍͍̱̳̠r̰͔͎̰o͉̥͓̰͚̥s̟͚̹̱͔̣t͉̙̳̖͖̪̮r̥̘̥͙̹a͉̟̫̟̳̠̟̭t͈̜̰͈͎e̞̣̭̲̬ ͚̗̯̟͙i͍͖̰̘̦͖͉ṇ̮̻̯̦̲̩͍ ̦̮͚̫̤t͉͖̫͕ͅͅh͙̮̻̘̣̮̼e͕̺ ͙l͕̠͎̰̥i̲͓͉̲g̫̳̟͈͇̖h̠̦̖t͓̯͎̗ ̳̪̘̟̙̩̦o̫̲f̙͔̰̙̠ ̹̪̗͇̯t͖̼̼͉͖̬h̹͇̩e͚̖̺̤͉̹͕̪ ͚͓̭̝̺G͎̗̯̩o̫̯̮̟̮̳̘d̜̲͙̠-̩̳̯̲̗̜P̹̘̥͉̝h͍͈̗̖̝ͅa͍̗̮̼̗r̜̖͇̙̺a̭̺͔̞̳͈o̪̣͓̯̬͙̯̰̗h̖̦͈̥̯͔.͇̣̙̝
Artifact- Equipment
The More-Than-Six Shooter enters the battlefield with 6 charge counters on it.
As long as The More-Than-Six Shooter is equipped, it has "X,T,remove X charge counters from this permanent: It deals X damage to target player. Then flip a coin. If you win the flip, put a charge counter on it. X can't be 0."
Equip 1
Fun Fact: The average number of rounds fired from a six-shooter without reloading in major action movies is 11.2. Crazy efficient, if you ask me.
IIW: Enemy color pie bends
Ulka: This is a very odd card and definitely an interesting one. Very good for a go-wide strategy as you could use that in the end step to get rid of all blockers. I like the nod to toughness-matters in the flavour text, but I feel like I don't know where this goes in rarity. Either a janky rare or a very strong uncommon.
VolraththeRisen: I like the flavour of this card. It's a drunk guy who somehow sobers up in time for the killing move. I like the fact that it has to survive attacking for it to use its ability, but I wonder if having the ability at instant speed would make it too good for a limited environment (I like thinking about limited it seems). It's a very cool design and it's probably a strong uncommon power-level wise.
Cardz5000: I feel like if this card was either in a set with little to no artifacts or costed one more R I would let you keep the artifact instead of it being lost at the end of turn. It would fit more in the flavour of a train job I feel. It's a solid design however and could definitely see print.
Flatline: I'm not too sure how I feel about any of these if I can be honest. Wrangler's Lariat is ridiculously good for limited and should probably have a mana activation cost. Horsemanship has been out of the loop for so long I feel that you're more likely to see a new take on it instead of it being reintroduced. Backroad Bandit is a nice card but it doesn't offer much new in terms of design space. Circle the Wagons is a version of Riot Control that hasn't been done before, but the card lacks much needed flavour to help it out. Quickdraw Duelist is a very interesting card, it reminds me of Izzet Staticaster and I feel like you could have made your card a bit more akin to this one's power level - perhaps by making it ping every attacking or blocking creature?
Spelldreamer: Interesting design space and worth exploring its potential as a commander as well as other formats, I'm just not too sure what the trope here is (Lone Ranger I guess?) I think hexproof might be a bit too annoying as people would likely try and damage it to hit its controller somehow as well.
TotallyHaywire: I like the flavour of this card, but I feel it should make the creature tap rather than the equipment as that's not something they've done before. I do understand the decision as it would mean you don't get to fire the gun twice in a turn, but I don't think the card itself is strong enough to justify needing that drawback. The design is really interesting though!
Winner: VolrathTheRisen
Next: Justifiably flavourful uses of Q.
Snow Creature - Human (Uncommon)
You may choose not to untap Syrup Maker during your untap step.
Tap an Untapped Forest: Tap Syrup Maker.
GG,
"Maple, Oak, Ent I can make Syrup from any of them."
1/2
IIW: North America Wildlife and Native Peoples Plane