Meteor Launch RRR
Sorcery M
Meteor Launch can't be countered and its damage can't be prevented.
As an additional cost to cast Meteor Launch, sacrifice any number of lands. Choose X targets, where X is equal to the number of land sacrifced this way. Meteor Launch deals X damage to those targets. "Are you sure this is a good idea?"
- Bork, goblin astronaut, last words
Next: Sephon's command
Choose two:
- can somehow give you a nongreen druid creature
- something costing UBRG
- "prevent damage matters" in nonwhite
- aura with "instant" and/or "sorcery" in its rules text
Edit: Let's save that for later.
Instead, next:
Remake any card from Alpha/Beta, at least changing its card type.
Subject16: Peresophia of Meletis
This definitely feels like an uncommon legend. The coolest thing is that it upgrades itself to a 3/3. It's kinda inefficient, but it's neat. Which describes the card pretty well.
Eventide Sojourner: Subvert
A Barter in Blood for lands is no joke. Three mana for it is probably oppressive. Being able to wipe the opponent's only two lands (on the play) and keeping one yourself is an extremely common line with this. You might even get some free damage out of it. I'm not against a Barter in Blood for lands, but putting it at RRR really risks making monored the deck to beat in standard. How much of this card does anybody really want to see? Also the name "Subvert" doesn't really capture the card. Cards like this are usually depicted as cataclysmic events.
Graffd02: Warleader's Blade
Hmmm. That's powerful, and it's splashy, but it's probably okay at uncommon. The power level leans heavily towards rare though, and RRR is not a cost found on many nonrare cards. We're definitely going to see this effect on an equipment one of these days.
TheRavenManIsSquee: Sunscorch
Welcome! This is pretty interesting, and is closest to things like Fire Covenant, Volcano Hellion, and Hex. I like it. It's a huge advantage at a huge cost. When the land doesn't matter, the life loss will, and vice-versa.
Forestsguy: Essemer of Wonders
I like the card, but there's no way a card costing RRRWWW could be uncommon. It's cute that it refers to the RRR or WWW thing, but 2RRWW would be much more acceptable. You don't want a bunch of these clogging up your draft pod.
Stille Nacht: Achilles // Menin
It took a bit of googling to really understand the reference. I've read the Odyssey, but never the Iliad. Apparently, "Menin" means "rage", and is the first word of the epic as well as being a major theme of the character. When a friend of Achilles dies (Patroclus), his god-like anger becomes manifest. That could be made more clear with the card-names, but I like the way it fits together to tell the story. BUT the design is not right for an uncommon. A 3/3 indestructible for 3 is already huge, but then it becomes a 5/1 (still indestructible) repeatable monster. This is not a card you want to be all over draft, and should be a rare. Even as a rare, I don't tend to like the way cards like this play out.
Sephon19: Meteor Launch
Hmm. It's a Firestorm variant. We don't get a lot of those. This doesn't do all that much unless you have a bunch of lands to sacrifice, and it doesn't look like something you're going to use much unless you're going for a kill. Saccing three lands to blow up three creatures is okay, but still kinda dubious. It can't be countered or damage prevented, so when it's lethal, there's not much to be done about it. It's powerful, and would probably be pretty useful in some EDH decks, and it has it's niche, but I don't see it as a very joyous card to win with or lose to. It's more the right tool for the right job in certain decks. EDIT BY REQUEST: Yes, funtime flavor text is a good description of this. Everybody loves goblins who die for nothing.
Winner: TheRavenManIsSquee
Next: Artifacts that can counter spells.
@TheRavenManIsSquee: Since you're a new player, it would be helpful to us if you could confirm that you saw that you won. Not that you would, but some people never show up again after one post.
It's fine ofc but I'd love to hear your thoughts, even if short!
Chaos Bauble 4
Artifact U
Flash
When Chaos Bauble enters the battlefield, counter target spell you don't control. When Chaos Bauble leaves the battlefield, its owner casts a spell from their graveyard without paying its mana cost.
Next: Remake a card from Alpha/Beta, changing its card type. : )
Hex-Soul Golem5
Artifact Creature - Golem {R}
Flash
As Hex-Soul Golem enters the battlefield, exile target instant, sorcery, or aura spell.
When Hex-Soul Golem leaves the battlefield, the exiled card’s owner may cast that card without paying its mana cost.
Hex-Soul Golem's power and toughness are each equal to the converted mana cost of the exiled card.
*/*
Bauble of Mystery2
Artifact (R)
When Bauble of Mystery enters the battlefield, draw a card. W, Sacrifice Bauble of Mystery: Exile target creature. Its controller gains life equal to its power. U, Sacrifice Bauble of Mystery: Counter target spell unless it's owner pays 1. B, Sacrifice Bauble of Mystery: Add BBB to your mana pool. R, Sacrifice Bauble of Mystery: Deal 3 damage to any target. G, Sacrifice Bauble of Mystery: Target Creature gets +3/+3 until end of turn. "Break in case of emergencies"
IIW: Artifacts or Enchantments in the Command Zone.
Whenever you cast a spell, you may counter it. If you do, you may choose one of the following:
Put X 1/1 bird tokens with flying onto the battlefield
Put 1 X/X beast token with trample onto the battlefield
Gain X life
Where X is the spell's converted mana cost.
It turns out all energy can be converted into life
Less Complicated
Idol of the Squirrel3
Artifact (M)
Whenever you cast a spell, you may counter it. If you do, put X 1/1 Squirrel tokens onto the battlefield, where X is the spell's converted mana cost.
ALL THAT WAS, SHALL BE THE SQUIRREL. ALL THAT WILL BE, SHALL BE THE SQUIRREL. - the Mad Hermit
IIW: Genre Subversion
AN: This would have been a lot more elegant with only one ability, but I like cool things haha. Also, for the previous thing, I may have stopped reading before the "Uncommon" part; kinda thought I was making a Mythic Rare lol.
Sword of Silence and Secrets3
Artifact - Equipment (Mythic)
Equipped creature gets +2/+2 and has protection from blue and from black.
Whenever equipped creature deals combat damage to a player, that player loses 2 life and creates a 0/1 blue Illusion creature token with "Whenever you cast a spell, sacrifice this creature and counter that spell unless you pay 1."
Equip 2
Judging these based on how crazy they are, and how much originality is contained.
Chaos bauble
I do so enjoy chaos, and this is quite good at that. The only problem I see is that the drawback seems to good for your opponent.
8/10
Cardz5990
Hex soul golem
Seems like a sideboard card, and the design is very good. I don’t think this is the first time we’ve seen a temporary exile effect though.
8/10
Graffd02
Bauble of mystery
Seems very fun, but and it does have originality. Only problem is that it’s broken in half.
7/10
Stille_Nacht
Circle of life
This seems like so much fun to play with, and so much originality too! You would have won easily if it wasn’t for the slightly awkward wording with [sym:x].
Subject16
Sword of silence and secrets
I love the original swords cycle, and this is very balanced. The whole design is perfect. It lacks slightly in originality though.
9.5/10
Void_nothing
Vertrev’s metamage
Very balanced design, very good card. It has originality and fun in it. However, it feels like it does too much for an uncommon, and feels like it should be a blue colored artifact.
9/10
Winner is subject16, with HM to stille_nacht.
Next, ally colored swords.
Sword of Rage and Power 3
Artifact-equipment (Mythic)
Equipped creature gets +2/+2 and has protection from red and from black.
Whenever equipped creature deals combat damage to a player, you may cast an instant or sorcery card from your graveyard without paying it’s mana cost and that player sacrifices two creatures.
Whenever equipped creature becomes the target of a spell or ability, destroy target creature you control.
Sword of Law and Lore
Artifact - Equipment {M}
Equipped creature gets +2/+2 and has protection from white and from blue.
Whenever equipped creature deals combat damage to a player, exhaust a creature they control and scry 2. (To exhaust a permanent, tap it. It doesn't untap during its controller's next untap step.)
Sword of Power and Endurance3
Artifact - Equipment (M)
Equipped creature gets +2/+2 and has protection from green and from white.
Whenever equipped creature deals combat damage to a player, you gain that much life, then put that many +1/+1 counters on target creature.
Equip 2
IIW: Sagas
Private Mod Note
():
Rollback Post to RevisionRollBack
May your games be chaotic and your decks be Rogue.
Sword of Growth and Prosperity3
Artifact - Equipment (MR)
Equipped creature gets +2/+2 and has protection from green and white.
Whenever equipped creature deals combat damage to a player, proliferate, then put a +1/+1 counter on target permanent.
Equip 2
Iiw
Clone or copy stuff.
Private Mod Note
():
Rollback Post to RevisionRollBack
MtG is where you can hate white players or black players, and still not be racist.
Sword of Razing & Renewal3
Artifact - Equipment
Equipped creature gets +2/+2 and has protection from green and red.
Whenever equipped creature deals combat damage to a player, that player sacrifices a nonbasic land, then untap all basic lands.
Equip 2
IIW: A new archvillain to replace Bolas
(Just realised the problem with this entry. Ah well, not going to change it because reasons.)
TheRavenManIsSquee: This is way too overpowered. The swords already give a huge aggressive advantage in protection and buffing but this thing can absolutely cripple opponents when it connects, and the other triggered ability is just as broken imo. This would need to be scaled back a hell of a lot before it would be acceptable.
Cardz5000: Well balanced for sure, and I appreciate trying to make exhaust as an evergreen term (not sure it's the word I would use but I'm not sure what I would use). My only gripe is that the two abilities of the swords usually distinguish the colors pretty well, whereas here both abilities seem a lot more blue than white.
EventideSojourner: Way too strong, especially with the +1/+1 counters. Forestsguy's version is significantly more balanced and still overs the same value over time thing you're going for here.
Forestsguy: What's interesting about this is that it's not especially obvious to me which effect is white and which one is green, which I suppose isn't super good when the swords' abilities are so tied to each of their colors. I like that the proliferation comes before the counter so as to not generate too big of an advantage, and I'm also curious as to why target any permanent with the +1/+1 counter ability.
VolraththeRisen: The first effect is very red and is pretty nice because it's not super oppressive, but the green effect is too similar to Feast and Famine's for me, and I find it odd that it untaps all basics not just your own.
I'm going to give the win to VolraththeRisen!
Next challenge: A new archvillain to replace Bolas
Revrak Nagul 3GGG
Legendary Planeswalker - Revrak M
+1: Create a 6/6 green legendary Plant creature token named Scar of Society.
+1: Create two 1/1 green Insect creature tokens.
-3: Scry 3, then look at the top card of your library. If it's a green creature card, you may cast it without paying its mana cost.
-8: For each creature you control, destroy target noncreature permanent you don't control.
5
Concept: Green villain. Wants to return everything to a natural state, and to end all civilization to achieve it.
Next: Remake any card from Alpha/Beta, changing the card type
Them8
Creature - Horror (M)
Emerge, Shadow
Whenever another creature dies, Them deals damage, or a spell targets Them, put a copy of Them onto the battlefield
Do not look for Them. Do think about Them. Ignorance is your best defense. They cannot see you now. If you look, you will be seen.
Lim-Dûl, the Mastermind3BB
Legendary Planeswalker - Dûl (Mythic)
[+1]: Choose a card type. Target opponent reveals their hand. You choose a card from among them of the chosen type. That player discards that card. If they can't, they lose 2 life and you gain 2 life.
[-3]: Put an artifact or creature card from an opponents graveyard onto the battlefield under your control. Each opponent puts the top X cards of their library into their graveyard, where X is that card's converted mana cost.
[-5]: Each opponent loses life equal to the number of cards in their graveyard.
{3}
Tezzeret, Lord of Phyrexia 1BBUU
Legendary Planeswalker- Tezzeret (M)
[+1] Create an X/X black horror creature token, where X is equal to half the number of artifacts you control, rounded down.
[-2] Search your library for an artifact card, then put that card on top of your library.
[-9] Tezzeret, Lord of Phyrexia deals 200 damage to any target. At the beginning of the next end step, you lose the game.
[3]
Gideon, Unhallowed Lich King2BBB
Legendary Planeswalker - Gideon
{+1} Until end of turn, Gideon, Unhallowed Lich becomes a 4/4 Zombie Soldier creature with indestructible and deathtouch that's still a planeswalker. Prevent all damage that would be dealt to him this turn.
{-2} All creatures lose indestructible and hexproof until end of turn, then destroy target creature.
{-9] Put all creatures from all graveyards into the battlefield under your control.
{6}
IIW: Artifacts or Enchantments in the command zone.
Sephon19 - Revrak Nagul
SAC: CMC6 to get either a vanilla 6/6 and two free creature drops or a monogreen ticking time bomb towards wiping out their lands is... rude. Feels quite basic for a Mythic. That said, this is very green in a rather old fashioned way. 3/5
VIL: Would WotC even consider this guy a villain? I like the unexpectedness of a monogreen beatstick archvillain though. 3/5 TOTAL: 6/10
Stille_Nacht - Them
SAC: It emerges without tricks. It has shadow. It replicates unless you deal with it in an unconventional way. If you don't regulate it, it can go exponential very quickly. BUT it's not all that quick at killing you from scratch if it puts you on a clock, and most kill spells can at least stall it. So it's an unconventionally challenging threat but it's far from insurmountable. 4/5
VIL: Utterly fantastic. Everyone else went for an unsympathetic "celebrity" planeswalker, you went for the faceless interplanar equivalent of grey goo. This is genuinely creepy & mysterious, so even though They start off as a total blank slate there's a lot of storytelling to be done here. This would be a wonderful change of pace for the MtG storyline & I'd love to see it play out. 5/5 TOTAL: 9/10
Subject16 - Lim-Dûl, the Mastermind
SAC: I like the synergy between the abilities, but somehow it's a flavor let down that the ultimate just... kinda kills everyone's face. I really love both the +1 and the -3 though, especially as a long time player of hand kill decks. I'd play this so clearly it can't be bad! 3/5
VIL: Pretty unsurprising, but I do like Lim-Dul as a character so I'm okay with this. Not sure how you build a storyline about this though? Like, does he dig up (out of print) terrors from Dominaria's past? If so, more of a nod towards that in the abilities would have been nice. Like, maybe let him make snowy Juzám Djinn tokens as his ultimate. Or something. Everything's fine here but I'm just not feeling you can get a multi-block story out of this. 2.5/5 TOTAL: 5.5/10
TheRavenManIsSquee - Tezzeret, Lord of Phyrexia SAC: Whoa. That's one hell of a mixed bag of abilities. He's so SMALL for a mythic planeswalker, in terms of his starting loyalty & the increments he can gain. Feels a lot like a win more card. By the time the Horrors are of any decent size, you're either overextended or already dominant. The midrange ability is a toolbox but a very slow one. It's hard to read the ultimate as anything other than "Win a duel which you could have won ten minutes ago". I feel like I'm really missing something here. 2/5
VIL: It has Phyrexia written on it & it creates good old-fashioned black Horrors, so I'm going to like it! I just wish it was Mishra (or even Gix) not Tezzeret for the greater sense of unexpected villainous grandeur. 3/5 TOTAL: 5/10
graffd02 - Gideon, Unhallowed Lich King
SAC: It has the original Liliana Vess ultimate & I'm honestly not sure whether that's intentional. I really like the addition of deathtouch to Gideon's signature ability to turn this into a graveyard stocker. 3/5
VIL: I would be giving this a much higher rating if only it had the crucial "This can be your commander" line of text. As an archvillainous planeswalker that can turn into a creature, it REALLY wants that. A fallen hero as an archvillain makes me happy too, especially as Gideon was always hardhearted enough that this reenvisioning of him as a sort of cross between Gerrard & Crovax is a real hit with me. 3.5/5 TOTAL: 6.5/10
Sorry if my ratings for most entries seem a bit downbeat! I just love the obvious winner SO VERY MUCH that everything else looked a bit less exciting by comparison.
Sorcery M
Meteor Launch can't be countered and its damage can't be prevented.
As an additional cost to cast Meteor Launch, sacrifice any number of lands. Choose X targets, where X is equal to the number of land sacrifced this way. Meteor Launch deals X damage to those targets.
"Are you sure this is a good idea?"
- Bork, goblin astronaut, last words
Next:
Sephon's command
Choose two:
- can somehow give you a nongreen druid creature
- something costing UBRG
- "prevent damage matters" in nonwhite
- aura with "instant" and/or "sorcery" in its rules text
Edit: Let's save that for later.
Instead, next:
Remake any card from Alpha/Beta, at least changing its card type.
This definitely feels like an uncommon legend. The coolest thing is that it upgrades itself to a 3/3. It's kinda inefficient, but it's neat. Which describes the card pretty well.
Eventide Sojourner: Subvert
A Barter in Blood for lands is no joke. Three mana for it is probably oppressive. Being able to wipe the opponent's only two lands (on the play) and keeping one yourself is an extremely common line with this. You might even get some free damage out of it. I'm not against a Barter in Blood for lands, but putting it at RRR really risks making monored the deck to beat in standard. How much of this card does anybody really want to see? Also the name "Subvert" doesn't really capture the card. Cards like this are usually depicted as cataclysmic events.
Graffd02: Warleader's Blade
Hmmm. That's powerful, and it's splashy, but it's probably okay at uncommon. The power level leans heavily towards rare though, and RRR is not a cost found on many nonrare cards. We're definitely going to see this effect on an equipment one of these days.
TheRavenManIsSquee: Sunscorch
Welcome! This is pretty interesting, and is closest to things like Fire Covenant, Volcano Hellion, and Hex. I like it. It's a huge advantage at a huge cost. When the land doesn't matter, the life loss will, and vice-versa.
Forestsguy: Essemer of Wonders
I like the card, but there's no way a card costing RRRWWW could be uncommon. It's cute that it refers to the RRR or WWW thing, but 2RRWW would be much more acceptable. You don't want a bunch of these clogging up your draft pod.
Stille Nacht: Achilles // Menin
It took a bit of googling to really understand the reference. I've read the Odyssey, but never the Iliad. Apparently, "Menin" means "rage", and is the first word of the epic as well as being a major theme of the character. When a friend of Achilles dies (Patroclus), his god-like anger becomes manifest. That could be made more clear with the card-names, but I like the way it fits together to tell the story. BUT the design is not right for an uncommon. A 3/3 indestructible for 3 is already huge, but then it becomes a 5/1 (still indestructible) repeatable monster. This is not a card you want to be all over draft, and should be a rare. Even as a rare, I don't tend to like the way cards like this play out.
Sephon19: Meteor Launch
Hmm. It's a Firestorm variant. We don't get a lot of those. This doesn't do all that much unless you have a bunch of lands to sacrifice, and it doesn't look like something you're going to use much unless you're going for a kill. Saccing three lands to blow up three creatures is okay, but still kinda dubious. It can't be countered or damage prevented, so when it's lethal, there's not much to be done about it. It's powerful, and would probably be pretty useful in some EDH decks, and it has it's niche, but I don't see it as a very joyous card to win with or lose to. It's more the right tool for the right job in certain decks. EDIT BY REQUEST: Yes, funtime flavor text is a good description of this. Everybody loves goblins who die for nothing.
Winner: TheRavenManIsSquee
Next: Artifacts that can counter spells.
@TheRavenManIsSquee: Since you're a new player, it would be helpful to us if you could confirm that you saw that you won. Not that you would, but some people never show up again after one post.
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.
It's fine ofc but I'd love to hear your thoughts, even if short!
Chaos Bauble 4
Artifact U
Flash
When Chaos Bauble enters the battlefield, counter target spell you don't control. When Chaos Bauble leaves the battlefield, its owner casts a spell from their graveyard without paying its mana cost.
Next: Remake a card from Alpha/Beta, changing its card type. : )
Artifact Creature - Golem {R}
Flash
As Hex-Soul Golem enters the battlefield, exile target instant, sorcery, or aura spell.
When Hex-Soul Golem leaves the battlefield, the exiled card’s owner may cast that card without paying its mana cost.
Hex-Soul Golem's power and toughness are each equal to the converted mana cost of the exiled card.
*/*
IIW: Cipher
Artifact (R)
When Bauble of Mystery enters the battlefield, draw a card.
W, Sacrifice Bauble of Mystery: Exile target creature. Its controller gains life equal to its power.
U, Sacrifice Bauble of Mystery: Counter target spell unless it's owner pays 1.
B, Sacrifice Bauble of Mystery: Add BBB to your mana pool.
R, Sacrifice Bauble of Mystery: Deal 3 damage to any target.
G, Sacrifice Bauble of Mystery: Target Creature gets +3/+3 until end of turn.
"Break in case of emergencies"
IIW: Artifacts or Enchantments in the Command Zone.
Artifact (M)
Whenever you cast a spell, you may counter it. If you do, you may choose one of the following:
Put X 1/1 bird tokens with flying onto the battlefield
Put 1 X/X beast token with trample onto the battlefield
Gain X life
Where X is the spell's converted mana cost.
It turns out all energy can be converted into life
Less Complicated
Idol of the Squirrel 3
Artifact (M)
Whenever you cast a spell, you may counter it. If you do, put X 1/1 Squirrel tokens onto the battlefield, where X is the spell's converted mana cost.
ALL THAT WAS, SHALL BE THE SQUIRREL. ALL THAT WILL BE, SHALL BE THE SQUIRREL. - the Mad Hermit
IIW: Genre Subversion
AN: This would have been a lot more elegant with only one ability, but I like cool things haha. Also, for the previous thing, I may have stopped reading before the "Uncommon" part; kinda thought I was making a Mythic Rare lol.
UWUW ControlUW
UGWSpiritsUGW
GHardened ScalesG
WGRUKiki PodWGRU [RIP]
Artifact - Equipment (Mythic)
Equipped creature gets +2/+2 and has protection from blue and from black.
Whenever equipped creature deals combat damage to a player, that player loses 2 life and creates a 0/1 blue Illusion creature token with "Whenever you cast a spell, sacrifice this creature and counter that spell unless you pay 1."
Equip 2
IIW: Ally pair swords
Artifact Creature - Wizard (U)
T, Discard a card, Sacrifice Vertrev's Metamage: Spells you cast cost 1 less to cast this turn.
6, T, Discard a card, Sacrifice Vertrev's Metamage: Counter target spell unless its controller pays 3.
0/2
IIW: The number 20
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Judging these based on how crazy they are, and how much originality is contained.
Chaos bauble
I do so enjoy chaos, and this is quite good at that. The only problem I see is that the drawback seems to good for your opponent.
8/10
Cardz5990
Hex soul golem
Seems like a sideboard card, and the design is very good. I don’t think this is the first time we’ve seen a temporary exile effect though.
8/10
Graffd02
Bauble of mystery
Seems very fun, but and it does have originality. Only problem is that it’s broken in half.
7/10
Stille_Nacht
Circle of life
This seems like so much fun to play with, and so much originality too! You would have won easily if it wasn’t for the slightly awkward wording with [sym:x].
Subject16
Sword of silence and secrets
I love the original swords cycle, and this is very balanced. The whole design is perfect. It lacks slightly in originality though.
9.5/10
Void_nothing
Vertrev’s metamage
Very balanced design, very good card. It has originality and fun in it. However, it feels like it does too much for an uncommon, and feels like it should be a blue colored artifact.
9/10
Winner is subject16, with HM to stille_nacht.
Next, ally colored swords.
Artifact-equipment (Mythic)
Equipped creature gets +2/+2 and has protection from red and from black.
Whenever equipped creature deals combat damage to a player, you may cast an instant or sorcery card from your graveyard without paying it’s mana cost and that player sacrifices two creatures.
Whenever equipped creature becomes the target of a spell or ability, destroy target creature you control.
Artifact - Equipment {M}
Equipped creature gets +2/+2 and has protection from white and from blue.
Whenever equipped creature deals combat damage to a player, exhaust a creature they control and scry 2. (To exhaust a permanent, tap it. It doesn't untap during its controller's next untap step.)
IIW: Cipher
Artifact - Equipment (M)
Equipped creature gets +2/+2 and has protection from green and from white.
Whenever equipped creature deals combat damage to a player, you gain that much life, then put that many +1/+1 counters on target creature.
Equip 2
IIW: Sagas
Artifact - Equipment (MR)
Equipped creature gets +2/+2 and has protection from green and white.
Whenever equipped creature deals combat damage to a player, proliferate, then put a +1/+1 counter on target permanent.
Equip 2
Iiw
Clone or copy stuff.
Artifact - Equipment
Equipped creature gets +2/+2 and has protection from green and red.
Whenever equipped creature deals combat damage to a player, that player sacrifices a nonbasic land, then untap all basic lands.
Equip 2
IIW: A new archvillain to replace Bolas
(Just realised the problem with this entry. Ah well, not going to change it because reasons.)
Cardz5000: Well balanced for sure, and I appreciate trying to make exhaust as an evergreen term (not sure it's the word I would use but I'm not sure what I would use). My only gripe is that the two abilities of the swords usually distinguish the colors pretty well, whereas here both abilities seem a lot more blue than white.
EventideSojourner: Way too strong, especially with the +1/+1 counters. Forestsguy's version is significantly more balanced and still overs the same value over time thing you're going for here.
Forestsguy: What's interesting about this is that it's not especially obvious to me which effect is white and which one is green, which I suppose isn't super good when the swords' abilities are so tied to each of their colors. I like that the proliferation comes before the counter so as to not generate too big of an advantage, and I'm also curious as to why target any permanent with the +1/+1 counter ability.
VolraththeRisen: The first effect is very red and is pretty nice because it's not super oppressive, but the green effect is too similar to Feast and Famine's for me, and I find it odd that it untaps all basics not just your own.
I'm going to give the win to VolraththeRisen!
Next challenge: A new archvillain to replace Bolas
Legendary Planeswalker - Revrak M
+1: Create a 6/6 green legendary Plant creature token named Scar of Society.
+1: Create two 1/1 green Insect creature tokens.
-3: Scry 3, then look at the top card of your library. If it's a green creature card, you may cast it without paying its mana cost.
-8: For each creature you control, destroy target noncreature permanent you don't control.
5
Concept: Green villain. Wants to return everything to a natural state, and to end all civilization to achieve it.
Next: Remake any card from Alpha/Beta, changing the card type
Creature - Horror (M)
Emerge, Shadow
Whenever another creature dies, Them deals damage, or a spell targets Them, put a copy of Them onto the battlefield
Do not look for Them. Do think about Them. Ignorance is your best defense. They cannot see you now. If you look, you will be seen.
2/2
IIW: Genre breaks
UWUW ControlUW
UGWSpiritsUGW
GHardened ScalesG
WGRUKiki PodWGRU [RIP]
Legendary Planeswalker - Dûl (Mythic)
[+1]: Choose a card type. Target opponent reveals their hand. You choose a card from among them of the chosen type. That player discards that card. If they can't, they lose 2 life and you gain 2 life.
[-3]: Put an artifact or creature card from an opponents graveyard onto the battlefield under your control. Each opponent puts the top X cards of their library into their graveyard, where X is that card's converted mana cost.
[-5]: Each opponent loses life equal to the number of cards in their graveyard.
{3}
IIW: Uncommon lands with a basic land type.
Legendary Planeswalker- Tezzeret (M)
[+1] Create an X/X black horror creature token, where X is equal to half the number of artifacts you control, rounded down.
[-2] Search your library for an artifact card, then put that card on top of your library.
[-9] Tezzeret, Lord of Phyrexia deals 200 damage to any target. At the beginning of the next end step, you lose the game.
[3]
IIW: Timmy cards
Legendary Planeswalker - Gideon
{+1} Until end of turn, Gideon, Unhallowed Lich becomes a 4/4 Zombie Soldier creature with indestructible and deathtouch that's still a planeswalker. Prevent all damage that would be dealt to him this turn.
{-2} All creatures lose indestructible and hexproof until end of turn, then destroy target creature.
{-9] Put all creatures from all graveyards into the battlefield under your control.
{6}
IIW: Artifacts or Enchantments in the command zone.
1) StandAlone Card rating (SAC)
2) Villainy rating (VIL)
SAC: CMC6 to get either a vanilla 6/6 and two free creature drops or a monogreen ticking time bomb towards wiping out their lands is... rude. Feels quite basic for a Mythic. That said, this is very green in a rather old fashioned way. 3/5
VIL: Would WotC even consider this guy a villain? I like the unexpectedness of a monogreen beatstick archvillain though. 3/5
TOTAL: 6/10
Stille_Nacht - Them
SAC: It emerges without tricks. It has shadow. It replicates unless you deal with it in an unconventional way. If you don't regulate it, it can go exponential very quickly. BUT it's not all that quick at killing you from scratch if it puts you on a clock, and most kill spells can at least stall it. So it's an unconventionally challenging threat but it's far from insurmountable. 4/5
VIL: Utterly fantastic. Everyone else went for an unsympathetic "celebrity" planeswalker, you went for the faceless interplanar equivalent of grey goo. This is genuinely creepy & mysterious, so even though They start off as a total blank slate there's a lot of storytelling to be done here. This would be a wonderful change of pace for the MtG storyline & I'd love to see it play out. 5/5
TOTAL: 9/10
Subject16 - Lim-Dûl, the Mastermind
SAC: I like the synergy between the abilities, but somehow it's a flavor let down that the ultimate just... kinda kills everyone's face. I really love both the +1 and the -3 though, especially as a long time player of hand kill decks. I'd play this so clearly it can't be bad! 3/5
VIL: Pretty unsurprising, but I do like Lim-Dul as a character so I'm okay with this. Not sure how you build a storyline about this though? Like, does he dig up (out of print) terrors from Dominaria's past? If so, more of a nod towards that in the abilities would have been nice. Like, maybe let him make snowy Juzám Djinn tokens as his ultimate. Or something. Everything's fine here but I'm just not feeling you can get a multi-block story out of this. 2.5/5
TOTAL: 5.5/10
TheRavenManIsSquee - Tezzeret, Lord of Phyrexia
SAC: Whoa. That's one hell of a mixed bag of abilities. He's so SMALL for a mythic planeswalker, in terms of his starting loyalty & the increments he can gain. Feels a lot like a win more card. By the time the Horrors are of any decent size, you're either overextended or already dominant. The midrange ability is a toolbox but a very slow one. It's hard to read the ultimate as anything other than "Win a duel which you could have won ten minutes ago". I feel like I'm really missing something here. 2/5
VIL: It has Phyrexia written on it & it creates good old-fashioned black Horrors, so I'm going to like it! I just wish it was Mishra (or even Gix) not Tezzeret for the greater sense of unexpected villainous grandeur. 3/5
TOTAL: 5/10
graffd02 - Gideon, Unhallowed Lich King
SAC: It has the original Liliana Vess ultimate & I'm honestly not sure whether that's intentional. I really like the addition of deathtouch to Gideon's signature ability to turn this into a graveyard stocker. 3/5
VIL: I would be giving this a much higher rating if only it had the crucial "This can be your commander" line of text. As an archvillainous planeswalker that can turn into a creature, it REALLY wants that. A fallen hero as an archvillain makes me happy too, especially as Gideon was always hardhearted enough that this reenvisioning of him as a sort of cross between Gerrard & Crovax is a real hit with me. 3.5/5
TOTAL: 6.5/10