Welcome to the Card Creation League! Round 4 is open to the top 4 participants from the prior 3 rounds.
Theme
In recent years, MTG has been working hard to build up its cast of characters. You've been drafted to do just this. You'll be building a new planeswalker character from the ground up. Every card you make for this month's CCL will relate to this character in some way.
Let's talk about the biggest moment in a planeswalker's life: the spark.
Challenge
For this round you will design a rare or mythic rare instant or sorcery card. This card should describe, somehow, the moment that your planeswalker's spark ignited. There are no constraints on the rules text of the card. However, it must have explanatory flavor text.
Make sure to include a rarity for each card.
Participants
This month's Top 4 are:
Hemlock
Sheoldred
picnic_bomber
RaikouRider
Thanks to everyone for participating!
PLEASE NOTE: This month will continue the trial use of the "Mandatory Top 3 Rule." For this month, you must submit a Top 3 during a round's critique period in order to receive any points for the round. Submitting critiques as well will be worth 2 bonus points in the round.
Dates for this CCL have been adjusted. Your submissions are due Wednesday, November 29, 23:59 CET (UTC+01:00). Please note that your host is in European time, so round closings and postings will be based on that this month.
Schedule
Round 1 — Open to Everyone (October 30–November 5)
Round 2 — Open to Everyone (November 6–10)
Rounds 1 and 2 Critiques (Due November 16)
Top 8 — Open to top 8 finishers (November 17–21)
Top 8 Critiques (Due November 23)
Top 4 — Open to top 4 finishers from last round (November 25–29)
Top 4 Critiques (Due December 1)
Final (December 2-December 6, winner determined by public poll)
“Shalin, which will it be: you, or your Gargantuan companion?” Chirin scowled.
“Neither - I reject your ludicrous Cylian dogma!” Shalin cried back. The elves’ arrows whistled toward her, but girl and beast were already gone.
Phyrexian Torture RB
Instant U
Phyrexian Torture deals 2 damage to target creature.
Put a -1/-1 counter on each creature your opponents control that was dealt damage this turn. In the hellish agonies of phyresis, Gerula's spark ignited. She escaped her plane, but would forever carry its horrors within herself.
Hemlock we haven't heard from you! We have had a lot of delays this month already so I think at this point it's best to proceed straight to critiques. Everyone please rank both your opponents and post crits if you like, as usual.
One with Argoth2WWGG
Sorcery (M)
Each creature's base power and toughness are each equal to the number of enchantments its controller controls until the next end step. "When Merille's tear landed on the earth, each living creature big and small in Argoth stampeded towards the Phyrexians, who were being consumed by the very blight under their feet"
Sheoldred: Card doesn't meet challenge - disqualified. I like the design but the card had to be rare.
picnic_bomber: Design is definitely unique, but I'm sure there's a better way to word this. "End the phase" maybe? Four blue is certainly a restrictive cost - I think this could probably cost 2UU and be fine.
Hemlock: This is brilliant. Nothing negative I can say about this at all. I like this as a potential one sided wrath for enchantress decks. This is also a nice way to deal with indestructibles.
1) Hemlock
2) picnic_bomber
3) Sheoldred
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A mere ten days after the Mending, a young knight of Valeron and a young ranger of Eos made a discovery that would change Alara forever.
Raikou Rider - very reasonable wrath effect, althought a bit too much on the safe side.
picnic bomber - very intersting spell but It's a bit confusing for me. I guess "skip the rest of this phase" + split second would be more like what you meant. I don't think "End the phase" is quite what you wanted. This idea needs some polishing.
sheoldred- fine, but sadly uncommon.
Welcome to the Card Creation League! Round 4 is open to the top 4 participants from the prior 3 rounds.
Theme
In recent years, MTG has been working hard to build up its cast of characters. You've been drafted to do just this. You'll be building a new planeswalker character from the ground up. Every card you make for this month's CCL will relate to this character in some way.
Let's talk about the biggest moment in a planeswalker's life: the spark.
Challenge
This month's Top 4 are:
Hemlock
Sheoldred
picnic_bomber
RaikouRider
Thanks to everyone for participating!
PLEASE NOTE: This month will continue the trial use of the "Mandatory Top 3 Rule." For this month, you must submit a Top 3 during a round's critique period in order to receive any points for the round. Submitting critiques as well will be worth 2 bonus points in the round.
Schedule
Sorcery {R}
Choose one -
“Neither - I reject your ludicrous Cylian dogma!” Shalin cried back. The elves’ arrows whistled toward her, but girl and beast were already gone.
Emille, Seven-Sting Dancer Shalin Nariya
Instant U
Phyrexian Torture deals 2 damage to target creature.
Put a -1/-1 counter on each creature your opponents control that was dealt damage this turn.
In the hellish agonies of phyresis, Gerula's spark ignited. She escaped her plane, but would forever carry its horrors within herself.
WBGGhave Sisters
BUG Sidisi, Brood Tyrant Reanimator
BBBSheoldred, Whispering One Swamps-matter ramp
Standard
UR Drake
Pauper
GW Bogle
One with Argoth 2WWGG
Sorcery (M)
Each creature's base power and toughness are each equal to the number of enchantments its controller controls until the next end step.
"When Merille's tear landed on the earth, each living creature big and small in Argoth stampeded towards the Phyrexians, who were being consumed by the very blight under their feet"
picnic_bomber: Design is definitely unique, but I'm sure there's a better way to word this. "End the phase" maybe? Four blue is certainly a restrictive cost - I think this could probably cost 2UU and be fine.
Hemlock: This is brilliant. Nothing negative I can say about this at all. I like this as a potential one sided wrath for enchantress decks. This is also a nice way to deal with indestructibles.
1) Hemlock
2) picnic_bomber
3) Sheoldred
Emille, Seven-Sting Dancer Shalin Nariya
1 Hemlock
2 Raikou
3 picnic
WBGGhave Sisters
BUG Sidisi, Brood Tyrant Reanimator
BBBSheoldred, Whispering One Swamps-matter ramp
Standard
UR Drake
Pauper
GW Bogle
picnic bomber - very intersting spell but It's a bit confusing for me. I guess "skip the rest of this phase" + split second would be more like what you meant. I don't think "End the phase" is quite what you wanted. This idea needs some polishing.
sheoldred- fine, but sadly uncommon.
1. raikou
2. picnic
3. Sheoldred