MTG Salvation

Sweet design! I'd play that.

Looking at some restricted mox alternatives...

Shimmering Mox 0
Artifact Enchantment
T: Add one mana of any color to your mana pool. Spend this mana only on enchantment spells and abilities.

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Mirror pulse - XU
Instant

Reveal an instant or sorcery card with converted mana cost X from your hand. Copy that card and exile the copy. Until end of turn, you may cast the copy from exile without paying it's mana cost. X can't be 0.

That doesn't actually work:

704.5. The state-based actions are as follows:
704.5e If a copy of a spell is in a zone other than the stack, it ceases to exist. If a copy of a card is in any zone other than the stack or the battlefield, it ceases to exist.

Given that Mirror Pulse is an instant, there's no real reason that it couldn't just have you cast the copy right away anyway. So:

Reveal an instant or sorcery card with converted mana cost X from your hand and copy that card. You may cast the copy without paying its mana cost. X can't be 0.

Not the flashiest card we need, but the one that cubes around the world deserves.

Catacombs' Purifier 2W
Creature - Human Cleric (Uncommon)
When Catacombs' Purifier enters the battlefield, you may destroy target artifact or enchantment.
"To be pure is to be simple."
1/3

Mysterious grave robber. 3B
Creature- zombie berserker
At the beginning of the game you may exile a creature from your unused draft pool.

When ~ dies you may cast a token copy of a card exiled with ~ without paying its mana cost.
1/1

I know how greedy it is but I really just don't want naturalize stapled to an inefficient vanilla dude. I want something ridiculous for artifact/enchantment removal.

Like

Magic derailer 1(g/w)(g/w)
Creature- human monk
Lifelink
Whenever a Creature deals combat damage to a player that player sacrifices an artifact or enchantment, and you gain 1 life.
2/3

Or
Magistrate of derision 1W
Creature- mutant advisor
At the beginning of combat on your turn one target creature gains life link and one target creature gains" when this creature deals combat damage to a player, that player sacrifices an artifact or enchantment"
2/2

Schematic for Civilization
Conspiracy
The first instant or sorcery spell you cast each turn costs 1 less.
You can't cast creature spells.

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Schematic for Civilization
Conspiracy
The first instant or sorcery spell you cast each turn costs 1 less.
You can't cast creature spells.

That would need a better bonus or reduced drawback to work. Creature-based decks are the default in cube and no creatures is a much tougher restriction than no instants/sorceries. I hope we'll get something for the creatureless/creature-light decks, but there are only three conspiracies left to reveal and one of them is the white hidden agenda, so I'm not getting my hopes up.

I'd probably go for something like your creature spells cost 2 more, your first noncreature spell each turn cost 1 less.

Champion of the Host 1WW
Creature - Angel
Flying
Creature tokens you control get +1/+0
Creature tokens your opponents control get -1/-0
Whenever ~ deals combat damage to a player, put a 1/1 spirit creature token with flying onto the battlefield.
2/3

The black version of the above:

Vile Commander1BB
Creature - Zombie Snake

Deathtouch. Lifelink.
Creature tokens you control have deathtouch and lifelink.
Creature tokens your opponents control get -0/-1
Whenever a creature your opponent controls dies, put a 1/1 snake creature token onto the battlefield.
1/3

Red version:

Rabble Rager 4RR

Creature - Goblin Giant
Haste
Creature tokens you control have first strike.
Creature tokens your opponent controls cannot block.
When Rabble Rager attacks, put two 2/1 Goblin Warrior creature tokens onto the battlefield tapped and attacking.
5/5


EDITED

Yea I intended to have them tapped and attacking, thanks for pointing that out.

Those are definitely some words you could write on a card, no clue why you would want to though.

Titanic growth > rampant growth would be neat. Rampant growth seems out of place.
Rabble rouser is 9 hasty power for 6, which seems great.

As it's worded, the newly created tokens wouldn't be able to attack. Which is probably good, because it would've been pretty close to OP if they could've.

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As it's worded, the newly created tokens wouldn't be able to attack. Which is probably good, because it would've been pretty close to OP if they could've.

He edited it with they come into play attavking
But seriously that thing makes grave Titan look like hot garbage.

On that spellshaper artifact, you would never activate the green ability, and you would probably never activate the white ability when the black one is an option.

That's the trouble with these kinds of cards. Once you have two or three of them, they are all kind of same-y. The stock 'terse' card effects in each color offer enough uniqueness, and everything else is either too wordy or overlaps too much.

Despite that, they are fun to think about...

Stained Glass Totem 4
Artifact
Chroma? -- T, discard a card: Do the following based on the discarded card's mana cost:
Create a 1/1 white soldier token for each white mana symbol;
Scry X where X is the number of blue mana symbols;
Target player loses one life for each black mana symbol;
Stained Glass Totem deals damage divided as you choose among any number of target creatures and/or players equal to the number of red mana symbols;
Untap target creature or land for each green mana symbol.

I'm not sure I've solved any of those problems, and I'm pretty sure this would need some new kind of template text or ability word to fit on a card. It could probably be made much stronger by looking at devotion instead of the discarded card.

That's a pretty neat concept. The red ability obviously shouldn't hit players because that is the black ability, and the black ability might be too weak.

Gor, Bid Worthy Baloth RWU
Legendary Creature - Beast (M)

Vigilance, trample, haste

CARDNAME can't attack its owner.

CARDNAME's owner gains control of a permanent you control:
Gain control of CARDNAME and put a +1/+1 counter on it. Any player other than CARDNAME's owner may activate this ability.

All Sales Final!

[3/3]

So basically it's designed for FFA. Once the beast is "sold" it remains loyal to it's original owner but the original owner knows that this beast is unique and so lets bidding begin. (And sits back to enjoy the show but more importantly, profit)



NOTE: I'm new to this thread so I hope I didn't commit any errors. The designs and discussions in this thread are some great stuff

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As it's worded, the newly created tokens wouldn't be able to attack. Which is probably good, because it would've been pretty close to OP if they could've.

He edited it with they come into play attavking
But seriously that thing makes grave Titan look like hot garbage.

Yea I think I got carried away with the red one...

Plague Splicer BB
Creature -- Human Artificer
When ~ ETBs, create a 3/3 colorless Golem artifact creature token.
Golems creatures you control have "At the beginning of your upkeep, this permanent deals 1 damage to you."
1/1

Saheeli rai 2UR
Planeswalker- saheeli
+1: sacrifice an artifact: search your library for an artifact with converted mama cost equal to its CmC +1
-2: create a 3/2 bird artifact creature token named bird with flying and first strike.
-6: create an emblem with, counter each spell with CmC less than the number of artifacts you control.
4

The +1 probably needs to be a may, so that it's cleaar you can do it without an artifact in play to still increase loyalty.

Wotc has stated they won't make another planeswalker with CmC 2 or less because they suck.