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  • posted a message on [Daily Card Contest] January 25, 2014
    Zekton Helix-Bearer GG

    Creature - Alien

    G, Sacrifice a creature named Zekton Helix-Bearer: Target creature gets +X/+X until end of turn, where X is twice the number of creatures named Zekton Helix-Bearer you control.

    Spawn 2G (At the beginning of your upkeep, if this isn't a token, you may pay the spawn cost. If you do, put a token that's a copy of this onto the battlefield.)

    2/2
    Posted in: Monthly Contests Archive
  • posted a message on ~~Legendary to Planeswalker Game~~
    Varolz, Between Death and Life 2GB

    Planeswalker - Varolz

    [+1] Reveal the top four cards of your library. You gain 1 life for each permanent card revealed this way. Put those cards into your graveyard.

    [-1] Target creature card in your graveyard gains scavenge until end of turn. Its scavenge cost is equal to its mana cost.

    [-7] Put two green and black Elemental creature tokens with trample and "This creature's power and toughness are both equal to the number of cards in all graveyards." onto the battlefield.

    Next: Greel, Mind Raker
    Posted in: Custom Card Contests and Games
  • posted a message on [Daily Card Contest] January 13, 2014
    Rakdos Visionary 1BR

    Creature - Human Shaman R

    Whenever Rakdos Visionary attacks, choose blood or glory, then reveal cards from the top of your library until you reveal a nonland card. If you chose blood, put that card on the bottom of your library and Rakdos Visionary gets +X/+0 until end of turn, where X is that card's converted mana cost. If you chose glory, put that card into your hand and Rakdos Visionary deals X damage to itself, where X is that card's converted mana cost. Put all other cards revealed this way on the bottom of your library.

    3/3
    Posted in: Monthly Contests Archive
  • posted a message on Instant Coffee Game (read the rules please)
    Nayan Atmosphere
    This is a cool application of Naya's 5 power theme, and it invites further exploration of WRG control. It also matches the obnoxious power level of Moat, which is fitting the challenge, but still, well, obnoxious. 8/10

    Noncreature, non-Equipment artifact card that cares about equipments:

    Mycosynth Laboratory


    Artifact 2

    Each equipped creature is colorless and an artifact in addition to its other types.

    Mirrodin quickly spiraled away from Karn's vision.

    Next: Create a new permanent type and explain how it works.
    Posted in: Custom Card Contests and Games
  • posted a message on [Daily Card Contest] January 10, 2014
    Martial Skill RW

    Enchantment

    Whenever you cast a spell or activate an ability during combat, Martial Skill deals 1 damage to target player and you gain 1 life.
    Posted in: Monthly Contests Archive
  • posted a message on The Alphabetical Card Game
    Fidacian Priest 1W

    Creature - Human Cleric

    Enchantment spells you cast cost 1 less to cast.

    1/2
    Posted in: Custom Card Contests and Games
  • posted a message on [Daily Card Contest] January 9, 2014
    Scout's Outpost

    Land C

    T: Add 1 to your mana pool.

    ,T: Look at the top card of target player's library.
    Posted in: Monthly Contests Archive
  • posted a message on [Daily Card Contest] January 8, 2014
    Plutonium Refinery

    Land (R)

    Interface (When this enters the battlefield, you may exile a nontoken creature you control manning this permanent. When this leaves the battlefield, return that card to the battlefield under its owner's control.)

    T: Add U or B to your mana pool. Activate this ability only if Plutonium Refinery is manned.
    Posted in: Monthly Contests Archive
  • posted a message on Collaborative Create-A-Booster!
    The planes drift in blind eternities in a geometric dance, but over eons orbits skew until sometimes planes collide! Rimewrind and Cabalar are two such unlucky planes. Rimewrind is a largely frozen world where life is tough and magic is as blunt as the people. Cabalar on the other hand is a medley of tropical paradises where trade is plentiful and magic is subtle and sly. What will happen in this collision of cultures and realities?

    Rimewrind and Calabar:


    Nolheim Slayer RR
    Creature - Human Berserker (C)
    Haste
    Sacrifice a land, Exile Nolheim Slayer from your graveyard: Target creature gains haste until end of turn.
    [i]Rimewrinder military strategy has not yet developed "lying in wait".[/i]
    2/1

    Reticulated Wurm [mana]4gg[mana]
    Creature - Wurm C
    Chain 4g (You may cast this spell for its chain cost if you've cast another spell with chain this turn.)
    [i]The disappearance of the jungle left it confused and the sudden cold made it angry, but the taste of the Gaar hunting party made it feel slightly better.[/i]
    5/5

    Swing of the Hammer 1R
    Instant - C
    Destroy target artifact. If [i]g[/i] was spent to cast Swing of the Hammer, you may put a +1/+1 counter on target creature.
    [i]Nothing builds muscle like honest smashing.[/i]

    Icebarb Goon 3B
    Snow Creature - Rat Warrior (C)
    Masochism 3 - 2s ([mana]2s[/i], Discard this card: This deals 3 damage to you and to target player.)
    [i]"Oh, you're gonna love your first taste of frostbite, citydweller!"[/i]
    3/3

    Rimeblast SR
    Instant (C)
    Chain [i]s[/i] (You may cast this spell for its chain cost if you've cast another spell with chain this turn.)
    Rimeblast deals 2 damage to target creature or player.
    [i]The times of the Ice Age had not been forgotten, but the Rimewrinder had never felt so cold in his life.[/i]

    Calabarian Pioneer 1W
    Creature - Human Scout
    Whenever Calabarian Pioneer blocks or becomes blocked by a snow creature, Cabalarian Pioneer gets +1/+1 until end of turn.
    2/2
    [i]Only the bravest Calabarians are selected to brave the frosts of Rimewrind.[/i]

    Frost Barrage 2R
    Sorcery
    Frost Barrage deals X damage to target player, where X is the number of snow permanents that player controls.

    Glacial Shelf
    Snow Land C
    Glacial Shelf enters the battlefield tapped.
    t: Add U to your mana pool.
    ,t, Sacrifice Glacial Shelf or SS,t, Sacrifice Glacial Shelf: Draw a card.

    Simmering Fiend 1RR
    Creature - Elemental Devil
    Whenever Simmering Fiend deals damage to a snow creature, destroy that creature.
    2/2
    [i]Cabalarians learned from Rimewrinders that sometimes violence is the answer.[/i]

    Deluded Dance 3U
    Instant (C)
    Choose one - Tap up to two target creatures; or untap up to two target creatures. If B was spent to cast Deluded Dance, you may have those creatures get +2/-1 until end of turn.

    Uncommon 1/3

    Fresh Perspective 1UU

    Sorcery (U)

    Draw two cards, then reveal the top card of your library. If an instant or sorcery card is revealed this way, put it into your hand.

    [i]"Even among these savages, there are valuable insights to be gained." - Jerro Fromiere, Calabarian noble[/i]

    Calabarian Rapier 2

    Artifact - Equipment (U)

    Equipped creature gets +2/+0 and has first strike.

    At the beginning of your post-combat main phase, untap equipped creature if it blocked or was blocked this combat.

    Equip 2

    Posted in: Custom Card Contests and Games
  • posted a message on Card (super)types ABCs
    Evara, Hall of the Sky-Lords

    Legendary Land

    T: Add 1 to your mana pool.

    ,T: Search your library for an Angel, Dragon or Sphinx card, reveal it, and put it into your hand. Then shuffle your library.
    Posted in: Custom Card Contests and Games
  • posted a message on Instant Coffee Game (read the rules please)
    Aro, God of Battle

    I'm not sure why you chose to use hybrid mana here. All her abilities deal noncombat damage, which mono-white shouldn't have access to. I'm also kind of confused about why she's a 3/6 when she's already indestructible and in one of the most aggro-oriented color pairings in the game. I get that you don't want her to be able to deal too much damage on her own, but her rather lackluster stats, paired with how easy it is to turn her into a creature (besides herself, you need a total of three white and/or red permanents? Makes me question the wisdom of making a multicolored god in the first place), detract from the excitement and unique challenge of the god cards. 5/10

    Alright, here goes with not-Apollo:

    Apollina, Goddess of Music 3U

    Legendary Enchantment Creature - God

    Indestructible

    As long as your devotion to blue is less than five, Apollina, Goddess of Music isn't a creature.

    At the beginning of each opponent's upkeep, that player taps an untapped creature he or she controls.

    1U: Draw a card, then discard a card. Activate this ability only if you've cast an instant or sorcery spell this turn.

    5/6

    Next: A legendary creature based on someone who is mentioned only in flavour text. The more obscure, the better.
    Posted in: Custom Card Contests and Games
  • posted a message on [Daily Card Contest] January 7, 2014
    Lorestrike U

    Instant (U)

    Counter target spell if the amount of mana spent to cast it is different from its converted mana cost.

    "I'm not sure you're ready for the more complicated stuff yet." - Gordis, Lapician mentor."
    Posted in: Monthly Contests Archive
  • posted a message on [Daily Card Contest] January 6, 2014
    Arcana Sink 2

    Artifact (R)

    Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, put a charge counter on Arcana Sink.

    Whenever you cast a permanent spell, remove all charge counters from Arcana Sink and Arcana Sink deals that much damage to target creature or player.

    Posted in: Monthly Contests Archive
  • posted a message on The Alphabetical Card Game
    Voltage Coils 4

    Artifact

    Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, put a charge counter on Voltage Coils.

    Whenever you cast a permanent spell, remove all charge counters from Voltage Coils and Voltage Coils deals that much damage to target creature or player.
    Posted in: Custom Card Contests and Games
  • posted a message on Instant Coffee Game (read the rules please)
    Ghas'Reep, the Sadistic Whim:
    You're using haunt, which I like. But as with many haunt cards, the effect doesn't seem powerful or cool enough to really grab the imagination. I like how the opponent detriment is a reflection of the benefit you get (the essence of the Phyrexian praetors which most of the two-colour praetors here have ignored), but the only thing about this guy that's really going to win you the game is stalling with his gigantic toughness value. "Whenever a haunted creature dies, exile target creature" seems more like a Praetor-level ability.

    On a side note, I'm not sure that being a "guild praetor" warrants hybrid mana, since none of the guild champs or leaders have hybrid mana costs.

    Score: 6/10

    Azorius praetor comin' up:

    Levdacion, Synod Judex 3WWUU

    Legendary Creature - Sphinx Praetor (MR)

    Flying

    At the beginning of each player's upkeep, that player draws two cards.

    Spells you cast cost 1 less for each card in your hand.

    For each opponent, spells that player casts cost 1 more for each card in his or her hand.

    4/5

    Next: Simic Praetor. Let's see it.
    Posted in: Custom Card Contests and Games
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