MTG Salvation

Earthcracker 2BG
Creature- Plant Zombie
As long as a basic land is in your graveyard, ~ has Haste.
During your upkeep, if ~ is in your graveyard, you may sacrifice a basic land. If you do, put ~ onto the battlefield.
~ gets +1/+1 for each basic land in your graveyard.
Cycling- Pay 4 life
1/1

Constant Vigilance
1W
Instant
Untap all creatures you control.
Whenever a black creature attacks you, you may cast Constant Vigilance from your graveyard without paying its mana cost.

Monocular Menace 4B
Creature — Eye {U}
Non-Eye creatures you control can't attack.
Monocular menace costs 1B less to cast for each Eye creature you control. (For example, if you control two Eyes, Monocular Menace costs 2 to cast.)
4/5

Charging Tarka 3R
Creature - Beast (U)
Trample, Haste
You may pay 1BG rather than pay Charging Tarka's mana cost.
3/2

OR:

Doubtful Paladin 1WW
Creature - Human Knight (U)
First Strike, Lifelink
You may pay 2BR rather than pay Doubtful Paladin's mana cost.
2/3

Round closed, judgings below.

Quote from Zanny77

Smirking Banshee 2BB
Creature - Spirit (U)
Flying
You may exile a black card from your hand instead of paying Smirking Banshee's mana cost.
Hellbent - At the beginning of your upkeep, if there are no cards in your hand, each opponent reveals their hand and discards a non-land card.
"Hear a cackle with glee,
Know it's time to flee."
Victorian saying
2/2

I like the Hellbent ability and how the alt-cost helps you get to it. Overall, though it feels a bit undercosted, and I don't see how I'd run this in a non-black deck if I have to exile a black card.

Quote from Krey

Viashino Mercenary 0
Haste
Echo - Sacrifice a land (At the beginning of your upkeep, if this came under your control since the beginning of your last upkeep, sacrifice it unless you pay its echo cost.)
Viashino Mercenary is a red creature.
3/1
"Their fee is not measured in gold or pleasure."

Make a non-blue merfolk that makes sense in the color that you choose.

Awww, it's new CC0 Red Creature. And 3/1 with haste. So if you don't pay the echo cost, this is a cheaper, non-trampling Spark Elemental; and if you do, it slows your mana production by one. I'm fine with the first case, but think the second is a bit overpowered. Very much like how you met the requirements of the challenge, regardless.

Quote from Mortal Coil

Earthcracker 2BG
Creature- Plant Zombie
As long as a basic land is in your graveyard, ~ has Haste.
During your upkeep, if ~ is in your graveyard, you may sacrifice a basic land. If you do, put ~ onto the battlefield.
~ gets +1/+1 for each basic land in your graveyard.
Cycling- Pay 4 life
1/1

How about a card like Sprouting Thrinax, except instead of tokens, there is some other effect? Basically, a card that creates a permanent effect on the battlefield when it dies.

So he wants to be in the graveyard and comes with a built in way to get himself there. He wants land(s) in your graveyard and comes with a built in way to get one there. So, this suffers a little bit from having restrictions that are too easy to meet. I'm also thinking that although 4 life and a land sac seems alright for a hasty 2/2, the fact that you can recur it every time it dies and it keeps getting bigger pushes it far above the curve.

Quote from GetItWrong

Constant Vigilance
1W
Instant
Untap all creatures you control.
Whenever a black creature attacks you, you may cast Constant Vigilance from your graveyard without paying its mana cost.

This in interesting. So you're getting access to a white effect, not through playing white, but because white's enemy is attacking you. Enemy of my enemy is my friend. I like it. A bit hard to see one running it in a non-white deck without a way to discard it; imo the "from your graveyard" clause was unnecessary. With it, you'd also need a "... then exile it" card or it becomes a free untap every turn vs black decks.

Quote from Megiddo

Monocular Menace 4B
Creature — Eye {U}
Non-Eye creatures you control can't attack.
Monocular menace costs 1B less to cast for each Eye creature you control. (For example, if you control two Eyes, Monocular Menace costs 2 to cast.)
4/5

Oh neat. So if you have an Eye already, it cost (woot! I can math!). Unfortunately, the only (non-changeling) Eyes in magic are black, so casting this in a non-black (non-Lorywn) deck would still be mighty difficult. Very much like the concept and the name, though.

Quote from Sir Aureus

Charging Tarka 3R
Creature - Beast (U)
Trample, Haste
You may pay 1BG rather than pay Charging Tarka's mana cost.
3/2

Hmm, yeah I've always liked this kind of alt-cost, and am looking forward to the block where it gets a nice keyword. This doesn't quite fit what I was looking for with the challenge, though, as it can only go in a very specific non-red deck. It also seems to be on the low side of the curve, to me.

Quote from Caesarius

Graveyard Creeper BG
Creature - Zombie Rat
Discard Graveyard Creeper from your hand: target player shuffles target card in his or her graveyard into his or her library.
Exile two cards in your graveyard: Exile target card in target graveyard. Play this ability only if Graveyard Creeper is in your graveyard.
Dredge 2
2/1

Oh, I see, so you're never going to cast him in a non-BG deck, but could still run him solely for graveyard removal. That's pretty clever, and answers what I was thinking of as a more limited-relevant challenge with a potentially constructed-worthy card (or a least sideboard-worthy). Nicely done.

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Bloodhungry Flamekin :symr::symr::symr::symr:
Creature - Elemental Warrior (R)
If an opponent was dealt 5 or more damage by creatures this turn , you may play ~ without paying it's mana cost.
Bloodthirst 3
"He loves nothing more than the taste of evaporating blood in his mouth."
2/1

Interesting. So you automatically get a 5/4 if you use the alt cost, and it fact would generally be loath to cast this without hitting the Bloodthirst. I like the four red in the casting cost as it makes the alt cost relevant even in a deck with red mana. Balance wise, 5 creature damage is definitely significant, so I don't see a problem there (it is definitely a win-more card, but that's not a point against it in my mind). Overall, very nicely done.

Wow, quick round.

Sorry if the last round was a bit quick. My schedule's uncharacteristically tight this week, so I had to squeeze in judging were I could.

And apologies to bloodyspasm for closing just before you posted. I've edited in a review.

This round's entry (spinning off the futuresight plane represented by Blade of The Sixth Pride):

Head of the First Pride 5WR
Legendary—Cat Lord
Other Cat creatures you control get +1/+1.
After defending player assigns blockers, you may reassign the blockers of all Cats you control, as long as those creatures are still blocking Cats and the same number of Cats remain blocked.
4/2

Coro, Master of Gasoline and Hair 2WGR
Legendary Creature - Cat Warrior (R)
First strike
Cat creatures you control get +1/+0 and gain "T: Deal 1 damage to target creature or player."
"You think hairballs are bad on their own? How about FLAMING HAIRBALLS?!"
4/4

Old Deuteronomy
1G
Legendary Creature--Cat Advisor (rare)
1/1
Other Cat creatures you control get +1/+1.
When Old Deuteronomy or another Cat creature is put into your graveyard from the battlefield, you may pay 3W. If you do, return that card to your hand.
Old Deuteronomy's lived a long time;
He's a Cat who has lived many lives in succession.
He was famous in proverb and famous in rhyme
A long while before Queen Victoria's accession.

A cat lord, huh? Time to pick out the best of the EDHing!

Jurado, Kalchan Claw 1RGW
Legendary Creature - Cat Warrior M
When Jurado enters the battlefield, choose one: Cats you control have haste; or Cats you control have first strike; or Cats you control have protection from a color of your choice.
Swift Evade ~ 3: Exile Jurado, then return it onto the battlefield under your control.
A leader of the pack, and of his turf.
4/4

The Swift Evade you can ignore, but I felt like putting a name for an ability...since I was influenced by Crusader_8 during the pokemon challenge.

Lyger, Lord of the Pride 3:symwg::symwg:
Legendary Creature - Cat Warrior
Cats you control gain +1/+1.
Whenever Liger, Lord of the Pride attacks you may put one 2/1 white lion creature token into the battlefield tapped and attacking.
Sacrifice a cat: Regenerate Lyger, Lord of the Pride.
3/3

Navi, Troktow 3GG
Legendary Creature — Human Cat {Rarity: 3D Graphics}
When Navi, Troktow enters the battlefield, gain control of all Cats.
Other Cat creatures get +1/+1 as long as you control less land than another player.
Whenever a land you control is put into a graveyard from the battlefield by a spell or ability an opponent controlled, put three 2/2 green Cat creature tokens onto the battlefield.
5/5

Snifter Sniffer WW
Creature — Cat {U}
Other Cat creatures you control get +1/+1.
Whenever a Plains enters the battlefield under your control, Cat creatures you control get +1/+1 until end of turn.
2/2

Mother Tigress 2GW
Creature - Cat
Flash.
For every two other Cat creatures you control, other Cat creatures you control get +1/+1.
2, Tap two untapped Cat creatures you control: Put a 1/1 Cat creature token with first strike onto the playfield.
She springs from nowhere to protect her cubs.
2/3

Macavity, Lord of the Nine Lives 2BUG
Legendary Creature- Cat
Shroud
Whenever an unblocked cat creature you control deals combat damage to a player, draw a card.
All cats gain Persist.
,t: put a +1/+1 counter on target cat.
3/4

Queen of the Hissing Claws 3RG
Creature - Cat Warrior
Doublestrike
Other cat creatures you control get +1/+1.
1RR: Target cat creature you control gains doublestrike until the end of turn.
1GG: Target cat creature you control gains trample until the end of turn.
3/3

I love being runner up. It's almost as good as winning, with no responsibility.

No if I win, so I'll just sit tight for now.

You know, I was actually coming into this thread to fix up my card, only to find it had been judged. The one time a WIJ moves quickly.

Of course, I do agree with meggidos mentality here, so works for me.

Thanks, Caesarius!

Next challenge: Make a card that pertains flavorfully to this subject. The name of the card should ideally be the title of the article. Non-Un if possible, Un if necessary.

Revocation 2UU
Instant (U)
Choose one - Counter target spell, or return target creature to its owner's hand.
Entwine - Target opponent draws 2 cards.
"Hmmm, well, I shall revoke your offer, then revoke your existence."

Mage Bridge 2WU
Artifact
Spells players cast cost 1 more to cast for every charge counter on Mage Bridge.
Whenever a player casts a spell, if there are four or more charge counters on Mage Bridge, remove them all. Then put a charge counter on Mage Bridge at the beginning of the next end step.

Alverstone
Land
1, T: Add two mana to your mana pool of the same type and color used to pay for this ability.
The earth only gives out that which you put in.

The article references the Alverstone Marshes (:symb:), Alverstone Mead (:symg:), and it's on the Isle of Wight (:symu:). Also (these are a bit of a stretch) it was used by the Roman military (:symw:) and had a model brickworks (:symr:).

Tineidae W
Creature - Insect(U)
Flying
Protection from converted mana cost 2 or greater.
0/1

IIW

Crowmarsh Gifford
Land (R)
T: Add 1W or 1B to your mana pool.
Whenever you tap Crowmarsh Gifford for mana, put a 1/1 white and black Bird creature token with flying onto the battlefield under target opponent’s control.
Do not listen to the crows, for you will learn when they lead you astray.