January CCL 2018 Round 1 - Support the Unsupported
Welcome to the Card Creation League! Everyone is free to participate in either or both of the first two rounds. Come join us!
Theme
It's a brand new year, so everything this month will require you to do something new! Start those resolutions and get ready, because you'll have to wind your gears around for that fresh take on card design!
Challenge
Design a noncreature card that supports a tribe/creature subtype never supported before.
Make sure to include a rarity.
Stay tuned for Decembers's CCL Final Poll. Anyone who votes will receive 2 bonus points for Januarys's CCL!
PLEASE NOTE: This month will continue the 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.
Your submissions are due Friday, January 5th, 23:59 EST.
Schedule
Round 1 — Open to Everyone (December 31th-January 5th)
Round 2 — Open to Everyone (January 6th–11th)
Rounds 1 and 2 Critiques (Due January 14th)
Top 8 — Open to top 8 finishers (January 15th–18th)
Top 8 Critiques (Due January 21th)
Top 4 — Open to top 4 finishers from last round (January 22st–25th)
Top 4 Critiques (Due January 27th)
Final (End of month, winner determined by public poll)
Tracking Season2G
Enchantment (Rare)
Whenever a land enters the battlefield under your control, you may have target creature you control explores. If that creature is a Scout, that creature explores again.
Spawning Engine 3
Artifact-Equipment R
Living Weapon
Germs you control get +1/+1 and double strike.
Whenever equipped creature deals combat damage to a player, you may return target equipment you control to its owner's hand.
Equip-Sacrifice a germ.
Gremlin ProblemRR
Sorcery (R)
Create a 1/1 red Gremlin creature token named Gremlin Rooter with "Each other Gremlin creature you control gets +1/+1 if an opponent controls an artifact."
Whenever an artifact that an opponent controls is destroyed, return Gremlin Problem to your hand from your graveyard.
Split Growing 2UG
Enchantment (R)
Whenever a Ooze creature you control dies, create X X/X green Ooze creature tokens. Where X is half power of that creature rounded down.
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Split Growing
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Ministerial Hindrance1WU Enchantment (Rare)
At the beginning of your upkeep, if the number of Advisors you control is smaller than the number of players, create a 1/1 white and blue Advisor creature token.
Creatures can't attack you or a planeswalker you control unless their controller lets you fateseal X, where X is the number of Advisors you control. (To fateseal X, look at the top X cards of an opponent's library, then put any number of them on the bottom of that player's library and the rest on top in any order.)
Lorca, Cateran Overseer2BB LegendaryPlaneswalker – Lorca {M} |+2:| Put a bounty counter on up to two target creatures your opponents control. For as long as a creature has a bounty counter on it, it has "When this creature dies, each opponent draws a card and gains 2 life."|0:| Destroy target creature with a bounty county on it. If you control a Mercenary, destroy target creature instead.|-6:| You get an emblem with "Whenever a creature enters the battlefield under an opponent's control, you may search your library for a Mercenary card and put it onto the battlefield. Then shuffle your library." [2]
Altar of the Many Heads4
Legendary Artifact {R}
Hydra spells you cast cost 1 less to cast for each land you control.
Hydra creatures you control have trample.
Can we get a definition for what "supported" means? I take it to mean "A card exists that provides benefits to that type by name," so for instance "Basilisk" is considered unsupported because although in theory "green creatures" support would include Basilisks, it doesn't select them by name. Is that a correct interpretation?
Surrakar CharmUB
Instant (U)
Choose one. If you control a Surrakar creature, you may choose two instead and may choose the same mode more than once.
* Counter target spell unless its controller pays 1
* Target creature gets -1/-1 until end of turn.
* Target creature gains hexproof and is unblockable until end of turn.
Can we get a definition for what "supported" means? I take it to mean "A card exists that provides benefits to that type by name," so for instance "Basilisk" is considered unsupported because although in theory "green creatures" support would include Basilisks, it doesn't select them by name. Is that a correct interpretation?
Correct. A card needs to reference that specific creature type to support it.
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(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)
At the beginning of your upkeep scry X, where X is the number of Gods you control.
God spells you cast cost X less to cast, where X is the number of Gods you control.
No one remembers the name of the God who was turned to stone. But everyone values the pieces.
Hidden in the Branches3G
Enchantment (R)
Whenever one or more creatures attack you or a planeswalker you control, look at the top three cards of your library. You may reveal a Dryad card from among them and put it into your hand. Put the rest on the bottom in a random order.
Equestrian Palace
Land (r)
: Add to your mana pool.
, : Target Horse, Pegasus, Hippogriff or Unicorn gains +1/+1 and indestructible until the next end step.
Break the Dams2BGU
Enchantment (M)
When Break the Dams enters the battlefield, destroy target land.
Whenever one or more lands are put into a graveyard from anywhere, you may return a crocodile, frog, or hippo card from your graveyard to your hand. If that card has converted mana cost 3 or less, put it onto the battlefield instead. When given an inch, nature will take a mile.
Expert Scouting1WU
Enchantment (R)
Flash
Scout spells you cast cost mana 1 less to cast.
You may cast Scout spells as though they had flash. WU: Return target permanent you own and all Auras you own attached to it to your hand. "All disaster can be averted. All danger can be avoided. All directives can be achieved." - Motto of the Shorestriders
It That Sails without Caption8
Legendary Artifact - Vehicle (Mythic)
Flying, hexproof
Whenever a creature dies, exile it and create a 1/1 White Spirit with flying.
Crew 3. Only Spirits can crew It That Sails without Caption.
6/6
Sorry, missed your question. It is legal in the sense it's a noncreature. However, it is not legal in the sense there have been numerous cards that support spirits before.
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January CCL 2018 Round 1 - Support the Unsupported
Welcome to the Card Creation League! Everyone is free to participate in either or both of the first two rounds. Come join us!
Theme
It's a brand new year, so everything this month will require you to do something new! Start those resolutions and get ready, because you'll have to wind your gears around for that fresh take on card design!
Challenge
Stay tuned for Decembers's CCL Final Poll. Anyone who votes will receive 2 bonus points for Januarys's CCL!
PLEASE NOTE: This month will continue the 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
Enchantment (Rare)
Whenever a land enters the battlefield under your control, you may have target creature you control explores. If that creature is a Scout, that creature explores again.
Artifact-Equipment R
Living Weapon
Germs you control get +1/+1 and double strike.
Whenever equipped creature deals combat damage to a player, you may return target equipment you control to its owner's hand.
Equip-Sacrifice a germ.
WBGGhave Sisters
BUG Sidisi, Brood Tyrant Reanimator
BBBSheoldred, Whispering One Swamps-matter ramp
Standard
UR Drake
Pauper
GW Bogle
Sorcery (R)
Create a 1/1 red Gremlin creature token named Gremlin Rooter with "Each other Gremlin creature you control gets +1/+1 if an opponent controls an artifact."
Whenever an artifact that an opponent controls is destroyed, return Gremlin Problem to your hand from your graveyard.
Enchantment (R)
Whenever a Ooze creature you control dies, create X X/X green Ooze creature tokens. Where X is half power of that creature rounded down.
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Enchantment (Rare)
At the beginning of your upkeep, if the number of Advisors you control is smaller than the number of players, create a 1/1 white and blue Advisor creature token.
Creatures can't attack you or a planeswalker you control unless their controller lets you fateseal X, where X is the number of Advisors you control. (To fateseal X, look at the top X cards of an opponent's library, then put any number of them on the bottom of that player's library and the rest on top in any order.)
Legendary Planeswalker – Lorca {M}
|+2:| Put a bounty counter on up to two target creatures your opponents control. For as long as a creature has a bounty counter on it, it has "When this creature dies, each opponent draws a card and gains 2 life."
|0:| Destroy target creature with a bounty county on it. If you control a Mercenary, destroy target creature instead.
|-6:| You get an emblem with "Whenever a creature enters the battlefield under an opponent's control, you may search your library for a Mercenary card and put it onto the battlefield. Then shuffle your library."
[2]
Legendary Artifact {R}
Hydra spells you cast cost 1 less to cast for each land you control.
Hydra creatures you control have trample.
Emille, Seven-Sting Dancer Shalin Nariya
Instant (U)
Choose one. If you control a Surrakar creature, you may choose two instead and may choose the same mode more than once.
* Counter target spell unless its controller pays 1
* Target creature gets -1/-1 until end of turn.
* Target creature gains hexproof and is unblockable until end of turn.
Enchantment (R)
Shade creature spells you cast cost B less to cast.
BB: Shades you control get +1/+1 until end of turn.
Tribal Artifact - God (R)
Indestructible
At the beginning of your upkeep scry X, where X is the number of Gods you control.
God spells you cast cost X less to cast, where X is the number of Gods you control.
No one remembers the name of the God who was turned to stone. But everyone values the pieces.
Enchantment (R)
Whenever one or more creatures attack you or a planeswalker you control, look at the top three cards of your library. You may reveal a Dryad card from among them and put it into your hand. Put the rest on the bottom in a random order.
For those of you posting creature cards, you may want to consider changing your entry less your peers disqualify you in their reviews.
Bon chance!
Land (r)
: Add to your mana pool.
, : Target Horse, Pegasus, Hippogriff or Unicorn gains +1/+1 and indestructible until the next end step.
Enchantment (M)
When Break the Dams enters the battlefield, destroy target land.
Whenever one or more lands are put into a graveyard from anywhere, you may return a crocodile, frog, or hippo card from your graveyard to your hand. If that card has converted mana cost 3 or less, put it onto the battlefield instead.
When given an inch, nature will take a mile.
Enchantment (R)
Flash
Scout spells you cast cost mana 1 less to cast.
You may cast Scout spells as though they had flash.
WU: Return target permanent you own and all Auras you own attached to it to your hand.
"All disaster can be averted. All danger can be avoided. All directives can be achieved." - Motto of the Shorestriders
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