I think my cycle is going to be five ally-color knights with exotic mounts.
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Rhox Sundiver5GW
Creature - Rhino Knight {R}
Flying, first strike 3GW, T: Rhox Sundiver deals damage equal to its power to target attacking or blocking creature.
When Rhox Sundiver dies, create a 4/4 white Bird creature token with flying. "Even shall I fall in battle, wings alabaster will champion my cause."
7/7
Vedalken Riddlestrider5WU
Creature - Vedalken Knight {R}
Flying, vigilance
Attacking creatures your opponents control lose all abilities.
When Vedalken Riddlestrider dies, create a 4/4 blue Sphinx creature token with flying. "Even shall I fall in battle, the wise one will not let justice die."
6/6
Kederekt Veinlancer4UB
Creature - Vampire Knight {R}
Menace, prowess
Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, Kederekt Veinlancer gains prowess until end of turn. (If a creature has multiple instances of prowess, each triggers separately.)
When Kederekt Veinlancer dies, create a 3/3 black Horror creature token with menace. "Even shall I fall in battle, your blood will feed my next life!"
4/4
Rip-Clan Dragonmaster5BR
Creature - Human Knight {R}
Flying, menace
When Rip-Clan Dragonmaster dies, create a 5/5 Dragon creature token with flying. "Even shall I fall in battle, my slayers will be bathed in dragonfire."
7/7
Cylian Godspurrer6RG
Creature - Elf Knight {R}
Trample, haste
When Cylian Godspurrer dies, create a 6/6 green Beast creature token with trample.
"Even shall I fall in battle, my companion will stomp your entire army underpaw!"
8/8
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The Harbringer of Conquest3UU
Legendary Creature - Avatar Knight (M)
When The Harbringer of Conquest enters the battlefield, gain control of all creatures your opponents control for as long as you control The Harbringer of Conquest.
Other creatures you control have base power and toughness 1/1. The first horse rider came to rule with an iron fist and under her reign the world withered.
3/3
The Harbringer of Beasts4GG
Legendary Creature - Avatar Knight (M)
Beasts you control have trample.
At the beginning of your declare attackers step, for each opponent, create a 4/4 green Beast creature token that's tapped and attacking that opponent. The second horse rider brought with her the wild beasts of the world to end all civilization.
5/5
The Harbringer of War3RR
Legendary Creature - Avatar Knight (M)
All creatures have haste and attack each turn if able.
Each postcombat main phase is replaced with an additional combat phase.
At the end each combat phase, untap all creatures that attacked this turn. The third horse rider ignited a war to last until the end of days.
3/3
The Harbringer of Pestilence2B
Legendary Creature - Avatar Knight (M)
When The Harbringer of Pestilence enters the battlefield or whenever one or more creatures die, deal 1 damage to all creatures other than The Harbringer of Pestilence. The fourth horse rider plagued the world with never ending sickness.
3/3
The Harbringer of Death3WWW
Legendary Creature - Skeleton Avatar Knight (M)
When The Harbringer of Death enters the battlefield or attacks, destroy all other creatures.
When The Harbringer of Death is put into a graveyard from anywhere, shuffle it into its owner's library. The fifth and last horse rider came to reap all souls in an act of merciful release.
1/1
My cards are inspired by the biblical Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. Obviously, Magic would have five of them. While most of popculture has them depicted as Pestilence, War, Famine and Death, it turns out the original four were Conquest, War, Famine and Death. Pestilence has been made up from the line "They were given power over a fourth of the earth to kill by sword, famine, plague, and by the wild beasts of the earth." I decided with Magic being popculture and all that I'd adapt that, for better resonance. So turns out green and blue where rather hard to match, so I picked up the theme of making up some from that sentence and made green the one about "the wild beasts of the earth". Famine and pestilence both sounded very black to me, so decided I'd match black to the one I'd have the better idea for, pestilence. That left me with either conquest or famine for blue. In the end I named that one after conquest, but the blue card now is also a match for famine, because your creatures become weak under it's rule. Note that I called them horse riders in the flavortext, instead of horsemen and assigned genders to them, to have some equality, which is something Magic does more and more. Blue and green are female, as their flavortext specifies and red and black are male. The white one is death and has no gender as I felt it would be a shame to have "the" Death in Magic and not have it be a skeleton.
Well, it's time to close the poll, so we can award bonus points for September's CCL. Since it's a dead heat at the moment, I'll give it another day leave it open through the 14th to see if anyone else wants to get their vote in before September's critique deadline passes.
As always, voting in this poll nets you 2 total bonus points across the first two rounds of September's CCL.
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WIP
Rhox Sundiver 5GW
Creature - Rhino Knight {R}
Flying, first strike
3GW, T: Rhox Sundiver deals damage equal to its power to target attacking or blocking creature.
When Rhox Sundiver dies, create a 4/4 white Bird creature token with flying.
"Even shall I fall in battle, wings alabaster will champion my cause."
7/7
Vedalken Riddlestrider 5WU
Creature - Vedalken Knight {R}
Flying, vigilance
Attacking creatures your opponents control lose all abilities.
When Vedalken Riddlestrider dies, create a 4/4 blue Sphinx creature token with flying.
"Even shall I fall in battle, the wise one will not let justice die."
6/6
Kederekt Veinlancer 4UB
Creature - Vampire Knight {R}
Menace, prowess
Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, Kederekt Veinlancer gains prowess until end of turn. (If a creature has multiple instances of prowess, each triggers separately.)
When Kederekt Veinlancer dies, create a 3/3 black Horror creature token with menace.
"Even shall I fall in battle, your blood will feed my next life!"
4/4
Rip-Clan Dragonmaster 5BR
Creature - Human Knight {R}
Flying, menace
When Rip-Clan Dragonmaster dies, create a 5/5 Dragon creature token with flying.
"Even shall I fall in battle, my slayers will be bathed in dragonfire."
7/7
Cylian Godspurrer 6RG
Creature - Elf Knight {R}
Trample, haste
When Cylian Godspurrer dies, create a 6/6 green Beast creature token with trample.
"Even shall I fall in battle, my companion will stomp your entire army underpaw!"
8/8
The Harbringer of Conquest 3UU
Legendary Creature - Avatar Knight (M)
When The Harbringer of Conquest enters the battlefield, gain control of all creatures your opponents control for as long as you control The Harbringer of Conquest.
Other creatures you control have base power and toughness 1/1.
The first horse rider came to rule with an iron fist and under her reign the world withered.
3/3
The Harbringer of Beasts 4GG
Legendary Creature - Avatar Knight (M)
Beasts you control have trample.
At the beginning of your declare attackers step, for each opponent, create a 4/4 green Beast creature token that's tapped and attacking that opponent.
The second horse rider brought with her the wild beasts of the world to end all civilization.
5/5
The Harbringer of War 3RR
Legendary Creature - Avatar Knight (M)
All creatures have haste and attack each turn if able.
Each postcombat main phase is replaced with an additional combat phase.
At the end each combat phase, untap all creatures that attacked this turn.
The third horse rider ignited a war to last until the end of days.
3/3
The Harbringer of Pestilence 2B
Legendary Creature - Avatar Knight (M)
When The Harbringer of Pestilence enters the battlefield or whenever one or more creatures die, deal 1 damage to all creatures other than The Harbringer of Pestilence.
The fourth horse rider plagued the world with never ending sickness.
3/3
The Harbringer of Death 3WWW
Legendary Creature - Skeleton Avatar Knight (M)
When The Harbringer of Death enters the battlefield or attacks, destroy all other creatures.
When The Harbringer of Death is put into a graveyard from anywhere, shuffle it into its owner's library.
The fifth and last horse rider came to reap all souls in an act of merciful release.
1/1
give it another dayleave it open through the 14th to see if anyone else wants to get their vote in before September's critique deadline passes.