Telberik, Logophage HegemonUUB
Legendary Creature- Vedalken Rogue (M)
Whenever Telberik, Logophage Hegemon deals damage to a player, mindwipe that player. (That player exiles a card at random from his or her hand face-down. At the beginning of your next upkeep, that player returns that card to his or her hand.)
You may look at and cast cards mindwiped by spells or creatures you control as though they were in your hand. "So you think to hide your secrets from me, is that it? No matter. You will be dealt with in due time."
3/2
Infiltrator's Guile1U
Enchantment- Aura (U)
Enchant creature
Whenever enchanted creature attacks alone, it gets +1/+0 until end of turn and is unblockable this combat. "The best spies are often unseen even to their own side."
-- Telberik, Logophage Hegemon
The rumor came to Telberik just this morning, during breakfast at the Stone Hedge. The messenger was a Logophage cultist of the First Pedestal, an obese man with a smooth head and a grace that belied his bulk. From his dossier he knew him as a minor functionary for the Seventy-Seventh Lesser Office of Tithes, where he regulated the movement of taxes from public utilities and dipped into the coffers every now and then. Little people like him were Telberik's favored minions: petty officials, two-bit alchemists, bedchamber maids... they all had a way of being near the powerful while being inconspicuous.
Somehow, the news did not faze him as much as he'd expected. Scarlet Jane taught him everything he knew, from the hidden pathways of the city to the ten thousand ways of extracting information. In his youth he'd admired her uncanny ability to winkle out the things she wanted with but a word or a gesture, tried to emulate her feats of inflitration and escape.
That was before he could steal the thoughts of people merely by touching their heads.
Ever since the day he became a full-fledged player of the game, the two of them had grown more and more distant. Once or twice they'd worked on the same case, but the cordiality that passed between them was growing strained. The last time they'd met, Jane asked if he'd ever thought if his "logophagy", as he called his power now, was warping his mind.
Well, that's all in the past now, he reflected as he left the Stone Henge, I am alive now and she is dead. Yet the stirrings of doubt tugged at his thoughts. Hundreds of times her foes thought they'd finally finished her off, yet she always emerged the next time, to steal another jewel or winkle out another secret. Was there a chance this was yet another false demise?
It was high time to investigate, he decided, slipping into a dirty alleyway and down a flight of stairs only he knew of. The death of the greatest spy in the land left a gap in the game, one too big to be filled by just anyone. The chaos would let him gather a cache of information unhampered-- with the identity of Scarlet Jane's murderer as its crowning glory.
And with it would come power.
After all, in a world of lies, the truth was the greatest treasure.
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ShadowburstB
Instant (C)
Target creature gets +1/+0 and gains intimidate until end of turn. If it already has intimidate, it gets +3/+0 and gains haste until end of turn instead. "I can teach you to walk the shadows, but if you already know how, I can teach you something a little more flashy."
—Darryn, Shadowslider
Reminisce 2U Instant (R)
Search your library for a card with the same name as a card in any graveyard, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle your library. "The answer to any mistery can be found in the past"
- Neville, Library Keeper
Whenever you draw a card, put a charge counter on Second Thoughts.
Remove four charge counters from Second Thoughts: Draw a card.
Engrammatic duplication is essential for deep cover agents - their employers can consult with the copied brain without needing to pull the agent from cover.
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2BR: Search target opponent's library for a creature card with a converted mana cost less than or equal to Rogath, Cruel Deceiver's power. Put that creature into play under your control, it is a black red spy in addition to it's other types. At the beginning of your upkeep each spy you control deals 1 damage to it's owner.
3/4
Round one.
Inquisition cells 1BB
Enchantment
At the beginning of each opponent's upkeep that player discards a card,
if your opponent has no cards in hand put a broken counter on Inquisition cells. Sacrifice Inquisition cells: Search your opponent's deck for a card for each broken counter on Inquisition cells, exile those cards face down you may play those cards by paying their converted mana cost.
Slinking kidnapper: Lord Rogath has not left the Inquisition cells in days, what is he doing?
Fist of the deceiver:Torturing anyone's heard of Scarlet Jane.
Slinking kidnapper:Again with that wench, why is he hunting a dead woman?
Fist of the deceiver:She stole that which is most important to him
Slinking kidnapper:Which is?
Fist of the deceiver:His wings.
Part two:
Rogath, Cruel Deceiver:WHERE IS SCARLET JANE?
Groveskimmer ranger:She's gone, please no more.
Rogath, Cruel Deceiver:YOU LIE!
Groveskimmer ranger:PLEASE NO, HAVE MERCY.
Rogath, Cruel Deceiver:Send the word out to everyone I want Scarlet Jane's friends, family, lovers, and employers. I will find her!
Fist of the deceiver:As you wish my lord, what shall I do with the corpses?
Rogath, Cruel Deceiver:Send for the tailor, I need a new cloak.
Oberas, the Burning Blade3BR
Legendary Creature - Viashino Rogue (R)
Intimidate
Whenever Oberas, the Burning Blade deals combat damage to a player, that player discards a card at random. Oberas, the Burning Blade deals damage to that player equal to that card's converted mana cost. 2: Oberas, the Burning Blade becomes the color or colors of your choice until end of turn.
3/2
Oberas' Hot-Rod4(B/R)
Artifact - Vehicle (R)
Board 1BR(1BR: Attach target creature you control to Oberas' Hot-Rod. Board only as a sorcery.)
Boarded creatures have haste and intimidate.
[2]
For reference, the [2] at the bottom is the number of creatures that can be attached to the Hot-Rod at any given time. If a vehicle is already at capacity, then the only way for another creature to board is for one of the currently attached creatures to board another vehicle.
Vituperative Peregrination XU
Sorcery
Name a card. Target player reveals his or her hand and discards all cards of the chosen name. Then that player reveals the top X cards of their library and puts all cards with the chosen name revealed in this way into their graveyard. Put all other revealed cards on the top of their owner's library in a random order.
Flashback - U, Tap X untapped creatures you control.
"Tell me what you know, or I'll choose what you forget!" - Olt, Guttercrawler
Olt, Guttercrawler 2GG
Legendary Creature - Ooze Rogue
Prowl - Discard a card.
When Olt, Guttercrawler dies, you may pay any amount of green mana. Put X 1/1 green Ooze tokens into play where X is the total amount of mana spent in this way.
Sacrifice an Ooze: Return Olt, Guttercrawler from your graveyard to your hand.
"Novice agents don't understand the benefits of leaving a meticulous trail."
3/4
Manifesting from the sewers, the runoff of the city above, Olt absorbed the secrets of the citizens. From the street urchins to the nobility, Olt accumulated a tapestry, a written tome, his life's work, that chronicled all the inner-workings of the city. His running, organized blueprint of correspondence that was his key to blackmail for everything he wanted went missing, and with his impeccable streetwise cunning, he knew exactly who absconded with it. It could only have been Scarlett Jane.
They say she is dead, but Olt knows she is not.
He will be the one who finds her.
Oculus
The design here is very solid, though I think the kicker may be slightly high. I think you could've gotten away with a 2G and it still wouldn't have been too broken, but at this range, I don't see it being too desirable of a play. That or it doesn't have to exile itself upon resolving. Yours is probably my favorite of the RPing this round.
Savia
I like this card, but it feels like it is utterly broken. It doesn't even take much to break it, either. It just seems to break itself and at U, you're going to find yourself fairly ahead of your opponents for a very small investment.
Gallus
Not a big fan of this one. It has got a nice idea riding on it, I guess because it could allow you to Sry 4 at the end of your turn, but as blue, you'd usually be casting Instants on your opponent's turn, right? Wouldn't that be the point of Scrying so much in the first place? I guess then it has its power in check, but I could see this hitting the board and either being broken or useless.
Phyrexian Editor
Interesting card, but I see it as being fairly expensive with little reward. It has a narrow room for opportunity, and in that, I don't see it as being too encouraging to play in general.
TacticalCelebrant
Simple, sweet and far from broken. Not unplayable, but also not entirely exciting. I am impressed, however, with your level of back story for such a brief design. I could see this card getting printed.
Gerrard's Mom
I think this card is fun, but it's also kind of sketchy. Could you also exile the spells you attempt to play from the graveyard by paying 1 per? By the wording, I would imagine so, which I think would be an interesting play within itself. Nevertheless, I like the design here, especially that you tinkered with something new like exiling spells on the stack to sneak in cards from the graveyard.
Rudyard
This card seems so simple, it's as if it should already exist. I say this as a compliment. It's subtle, it has its use, isn't entirely broken and is a must have to the right decks. The only problem I have is the title. It doesn't really capture much, Nostalgia doesn't seem to be black's forte. Some description of it would be nice, any flavor text and/or back story would've been helpful to describe the card beyond functionality.
aurorasparrow
This card is pretty fun. I like how it doesn't entirely set you up for the auto-win, only in really set circumstances, it just gives you a bit of foresight which may also work against you if you don't remember the order. Flavorful indeed and the quote is wonderful. Great design all around.
Igmhorus
Problematically, the effect was spoken for much earlier in the thread and I like it better that way. Yours is perhaps a safer play, maybe more sensibly costed, but the title lacks even more than Nostalgia, since the name you picked already exists. I'm sure it's possible that you missed that post, it happens.
WUGPhelddagrif GGGOmnath, Locus of Mana BBBXiahou Dun, the One-Eyed RRRAshling, the Pilgrim BBWTeysa, Scion of Orzhov UUUTalrand, Sky Summoner UUBVela the Night-Clad GGBVhati il-Dal RUWRuhan of the Fomori
When Follutt had his wingbones broken and was moments from being flayed alive when his investigation of the Jogia bandit clan took a wrong turn, it was Scarlett Jane who knocked out the torturer and his thuggish friends and carried Follutt to safety. And Follutt didn't easily forget his debts; he'd arranged Jane's pardon on one or two occasions, but still felt as though he could never repay her heroic kindness enough.
Now he'd never have the chance to try any further, and the first thing he felt when he received the news was guilt. The second was that damnable curiosity of his. He couldn't help poking his beak into a dangerous place yet another time, for Scarlett's sake.
In his lofty top-floor library, five hundred feet above the ground, he dangled his feet off the balcony as he cracked open Ruskea's On Risk and Reward. Ordinarily not his favorite book, but he'd have to take some unwise chances this time if he was ever to find out what happened to his friend.
Unfolding ImprovisationXUU
Sorcery (R)
X can't be less than 2.
Look at the top X cards of your library. Put one of them into your hand and exile one of them. Until end of turn, if the exiled card is nonland, you may cast it by paying its mana cost reduced by up to :3mana:. Put the rest back in any order. "Nine-tenths of planning is knowing when to deviate from the plan." - Follutt
Kiron’s eyes briefly sank in solemn remembrance, as he stood on the balcony of his safe house,looking out into the city.
She was by no means a friend. Friends in Kiron’s line of work came and went. It was a business where allies were but a change of fortune away from being at your throat. A friendship could be made or broken with the right amount of coin or power.An enemy, however, a true dyed-in-the-wool enemy was much harder to come by.
Such was the case with Scarlett Jane. They had crossed paths for the first time early their careers, it seemed almost a lifetime ago.
He had just managed to gain a small holding in the city when he set out to “acquire” the location of a bandit groups cache of rare gems, only to arrive to find the cache already looted save for a single red thread. He responded by taking the red thread and tracking down her buyer and slitting his throat, taking her payment for his own, and leaving the thread behind for the city guards to find. He thought it was finished, he was not prepared for her reprisal of breaking into his house, and putting the gems inside, so the bandits she had tipped off would think Kiron was responsible for the theft all along. He was lucky to escape with his life, having to leave his meager holdings behind.
Since then, whenever their paths crossed, chaos and foiled schemes soon followed. He had always assumed that when she met her end, he would have a hand in it. Sadly, that was not meant to be. A new puzzle arose, namely, who had killed her and why were they so silent. It was quite the problem, but he knew where to start.
He needed a bottle of Tyrrian Red…
***
Count Rolef , was a greedy pig of a noble, however, he had considerable influence in this cities parliament, and would do anything to keep his family’s dwindling coffers full, which made him a valuable chess piece. A few months ago a large sapphire in his treasury had been looted by Scarlett Jane, later it turned out that she had been helped by one of the counts personal guard. The guard had since spent his time in Rolef’s hidden dungeons being intermittently tortured for information.
The dungeon was where Kiron was now,he had gotten this private time for a nice bottle of wine. Some days it was just that easy. The guard looked up as he entered.
“What do you want….” The guard said wearily
“ I’m looking for someone, I believe you have the information I seek, about the one they call Scarlett Jane.” Kiron said casually.
“ Go to hell.” he spat
”Enough with the pleasantries then,” Kiron said holding out his hand as pitch black energy rippled out, the guards eyes rolled back in his head as his mouth opened in a silent scream as Kiron forcibly extracted the information from his mind. It was not a painless process, but every second he wasted, allowed the trail to go cold. Eventually, the energy dissipated and the guard collapsed.
“Thank you, you've been most helpful.” Kiron said with a smirk as he pulled a small leather bound book, opening it and crossing off the guards name.
One lead down, so many more to go.
The Card
Agony Extraction2WB
Sorcery (R)
Search target opponent's library for a card and exile it.That player loses life equal to it's converted mana cost.Then that player shuffles his or her library. If your secrets are worth your life, then it's a price I'll gladly pay.
-Kiron,Extortion Operative.
Swamp's Toll B
Sorcery
Target player reveals a number of cards from his or her hand equal to double the number of Swamps you control. You choose a nonland from them. That player discards that card.
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The game is not being dumbed down. Control is doing fine; Draw-Go is not the only kind of control. Aggro is doing fine; Red Deck Wins is not the only kind of aggro. Creature combat is an important core concept and belongs in every color. Mythic rarity is not destroying the game. People whine too much for no good reason. Magic is more popular than ever, so keep calm, brew some decks and play some damn cards.
Nirik, Deceptive Gargoyle5
Legendary Artifact Creature - Gargoyle Rogue (MR)
Flying
Whenever Nirik, Deceptive Gargoyle would be destroyed, if it is a creature, it becomes a noncreature artifact until end of turn instead. (It is still legendary.)
4/4
Mind Filter2
Artifact (R)
Whenever you would draw a card, instead choose a card type. Then look at the top two cards of your library, you may reveal a card of the chosen type from among them and put it into your hand. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in any order. (The card types are artifact, creature, enchantment, instant, land, planeswalker, sorcery, and tribal.)
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I'll bet you wish you had a non-unglued/unhinged card that shared your first name.
Retrogress3UU
Instant
Return all permanents that entered the battlefield this turn to their owners' hands, then draw a card for each permanent returned this way. The surest way to jog one's memory? Run back time itself.
I'm calling it right now- worst rare in the set. Even good limited players will find better bombs at common and uncommon no sweat. Worst. Episode. Ever.
I really do predict this to be our worst rare in set award winner. I'd be happier opening a jar of eyeballs, so I think anything worse is highly unlikely. This card wont just have zero constructed potential, but not be significantly better than a mass of ghouls in a draft.
Legendary Creature- Vedalken Rogue (M)
Whenever Telberik, Logophage Hegemon deals damage to a player, mindwipe that player. (That player exiles a card at random from his or her hand face-down. At the beginning of your next upkeep, that player returns that card to his or her hand.)
You may look at and cast cards mindwiped by spells or creatures you control as though they were in your hand.
"So you think to hide your secrets from me, is that it? No matter. You will be dealt with in due time."
3/2
Enchantment- Aura (U)
Enchant creature
Whenever enchanted creature attacks alone, it gets +1/+0 until end of turn and is unblockable this combat.
"The best spies are often unseen even to their own side."
-- Telberik, Logophage Hegemon
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Maokun
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Ninja_Caterpie
Saagn
The rumor came to Telberik just this morning, during breakfast at the Stone Hedge. The messenger was a Logophage cultist of the First Pedestal, an obese man with a smooth head and a grace that belied his bulk. From his dossier he knew him as a minor functionary for the Seventy-Seventh Lesser Office of Tithes, where he regulated the movement of taxes from public utilities and dipped into the coffers every now and then. Little people like him were Telberik's favored minions: petty officials, two-bit alchemists, bedchamber maids... they all had a way of being near the powerful while being inconspicuous.
Somehow, the news did not faze him as much as he'd expected. Scarlet Jane taught him everything he knew, from the hidden pathways of the city to the ten thousand ways of extracting information. In his youth he'd admired her uncanny ability to winkle out the things she wanted with but a word or a gesture, tried to emulate her feats of inflitration and escape.
That was before he could steal the thoughts of people merely by touching their heads.
Ever since the day he became a full-fledged player of the game, the two of them had grown more and more distant. Once or twice they'd worked on the same case, but the cordiality that passed between them was growing strained. The last time they'd met, Jane asked if he'd ever thought if his "logophagy", as he called his power now, was warping his mind.
Well, that's all in the past now, he reflected as he left the Stone Henge, I am alive now and she is dead. Yet the stirrings of doubt tugged at his thoughts. Hundreds of times her foes thought they'd finally finished her off, yet she always emerged the next time, to steal another jewel or winkle out another secret. Was there a chance this was yet another false demise?
It was high time to investigate, he decided, slipping into a dirty alleyway and down a flight of stairs only he knew of. The death of the greatest spy in the land left a gap in the game, one too big to be filled by just anyone. The chaos would let him gather a cache of information unhampered-- with the identity of Scarlet Jane's murderer as its crowning glory.
And with it would come power.
After all, in a world of lies, the truth was the greatest treasure.
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Club Flamingo Wins: 10
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EDH Decks
BG Vicious Varolz | RW Jor Kadeen, the Mean Machine | RG Atarka: Muh_Dragons.dec (WIP) | WU Brago, Blink Eternal (WIP)
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Custom Race: Guaroga
G Seshiro, the Appointed G
B// Vaevictus Asmadi - "I'm 'exy and I know it" B//
W// Treva, The Renewerer W//
B/ Rakdos, Lord of Grouphate B/
W//// Cromat the Charmer W////
Instant (C)
Target creature gets +1/+0 and gains intimidate until end of turn. If it already has intimidate, it gets +3/+0 and gains haste until end of turn instead.
"I can teach you to walk the shadows, but if you already know how, I can teach you something a little more flashy."
—Darryn, Shadowslider
Reminisce 2U
Instant (R)
Search your library for a card with the same name as a card in any graveyard, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle your library.
"The answer to any mistery can be found in the past"
- Neville, Library Keeper
Guild ability being used by another guild
Graveyard effects
Done:
1 Mana Legendary Permanent
Kamigawa re-done
Second Thoughts
U
Enchantment (U)
Whenever you draw a card, put a charge counter on Second Thoughts.
Remove four charge counters from Second Thoughts: Draw a card.
Engrammatic duplication is essential for deep cover agents - their employers can consult with the copied brain without needing to pull the agent from cover.
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Meet the master.
Round one.
Enchantment
At the beginning of each opponent's upkeep that player discards a card,
if your opponent has no cards in hand put a broken counter on Inquisition cells. Sacrifice Inquisition cells: Search your opponent's deck for a card for each broken counter on Inquisition cells, exile those cards face down you may play those cards by paying their converted mana cost.
Slinking kidnapper: Lord Rogath has not left the Inquisition cells in days, what is he doing?
Fist of the deceiver:Torturing anyone's heard of Scarlet Jane.
Slinking kidnapper:Again with that wench, why is he hunting a dead woman?
Fist of the deceiver:She stole that which is most important to him
Slinking kidnapper:Which is?
Fist of the deceiver:His wings.
Part two:
Rogath, Cruel Deceiver:WHERE IS SCARLET JANE?
Groveskimmer ranger:She's gone, please no more.
Rogath, Cruel Deceiver:YOU LIE!
Groveskimmer ranger:PLEASE NO, HAVE MERCY.
Rogath, Cruel Deceiver:Send the word out to everyone I want Scarlet Jane's friends, family, lovers, and employers. I will find her!
Fist of the deceiver:As you wish my lord, what shall I do with the corpses?
Rogath, Cruel Deceiver:Send for the tailor, I need a new cloak.
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Legendary Creature - Viashino Rogue (R)
Intimidate
Whenever Oberas, the Burning Blade deals combat damage to a player, that player discards a card at random. Oberas, the Burning Blade deals damage to that player equal to that card's converted mana cost.
2: Oberas, the Burning Blade becomes the color or colors of your choice until end of turn.
3/2
Artifact - Vehicle (R)
Board 1BR (1BR: Attach target creature you control to Oberas' Hot-Rod. Board only as a sorcery.)
Boarded creatures have haste and intimidate.
[2]
For reference, the [2] at the bottom is the number of creatures that can be attached to the Hot-Rod at any given time. If a vehicle is already at capacity, then the only way for another creature to board is for one of the currently attached creatures to board another vehicle.
Draft my cube! (630 cards)
Vituperative Peregrination XU
Sorcery
Name a card. Target player reveals his or her hand and discards all cards of the chosen name. Then that player reveals the top X cards of their library and puts all cards with the chosen name revealed in this way into their graveyard. Put all other revealed cards on the top of their owner's library in a random order.
Flashback - U, Tap X untapped creatures you control.
"Tell me what you know, or I'll choose what you forget!" - Olt, Guttercrawler
Olt, Guttercrawler 2GG
Legendary Creature - Ooze Rogue
Prowl - Discard a card.
When Olt, Guttercrawler dies, you may pay any amount of green mana. Put X 1/1 green Ooze tokens into play where X is the total amount of mana spent in this way.
Sacrifice an Ooze: Return Olt, Guttercrawler from your graveyard to your hand.
"Novice agents don't understand the benefits of leaving a meticulous trail."
3/4
Manifesting from the sewers, the runoff of the city above, Olt absorbed the secrets of the citizens. From the street urchins to the nobility, Olt accumulated a tapestry, a written tome, his life's work, that chronicled all the inner-workings of the city. His running, organized blueprint of correspondence that was his key to blackmail for everything he wanted went missing, and with his impeccable streetwise cunning, he knew exactly who absconded with it. It could only have been Scarlett Jane.
They say she is dead, but Olt knows she is not.
He will be the one who finds her.
Oculus
The design here is very solid, though I think the kicker may be slightly high. I think you could've gotten away with a 2G and it still wouldn't have been too broken, but at this range, I don't see it being too desirable of a play. That or it doesn't have to exile itself upon resolving. Yours is probably my favorite of the RPing this round.
Savia
I like this card, but it feels like it is utterly broken. It doesn't even take much to break it, either. It just seems to break itself and at U, you're going to find yourself fairly ahead of your opponents for a very small investment.
Gallus
Not a big fan of this one. It has got a nice idea riding on it, I guess because it could allow you to Sry 4 at the end of your turn, but as blue, you'd usually be casting Instants on your opponent's turn, right? Wouldn't that be the point of Scrying so much in the first place? I guess then it has its power in check, but I could see this hitting the board and either being broken or useless.
Phyrexian Editor
Interesting card, but I see it as being fairly expensive with little reward. It has a narrow room for opportunity, and in that, I don't see it as being too encouraging to play in general.
TacticalCelebrant
Simple, sweet and far from broken. Not unplayable, but also not entirely exciting. I am impressed, however, with your level of back story for such a brief design. I could see this card getting printed.
Gerrard's Mom
I think this card is fun, but it's also kind of sketchy. Could you also exile the spells you attempt to play from the graveyard by paying 1 per? By the wording, I would imagine so, which I think would be an interesting play within itself. Nevertheless, I like the design here, especially that you tinkered with something new like exiling spells on the stack to sneak in cards from the graveyard.
Rudyard
This card seems so simple, it's as if it should already exist. I say this as a compliment. It's subtle, it has its use, isn't entirely broken and is a must have to the right decks. The only problem I have is the title. It doesn't really capture much, Nostalgia doesn't seem to be black's forte. Some description of it would be nice, any flavor text and/or back story would've been helpful to describe the card beyond functionality.
aurorasparrow
This card is pretty fun. I like how it doesn't entirely set you up for the auto-win, only in really set circumstances, it just gives you a bit of foresight which may also work against you if you don't remember the order. Flavorful indeed and the quote is wonderful. Great design all around.
Igmhorus
Problematically, the effect was spoken for much earlier in the thread and I like it better that way. Yours is perhaps a safer play, maybe more sensibly costed, but the title lacks even more than Nostalgia, since the name you picked already exists. I'm sure it's possible that you missed that post, it happens.
Top 3:
Rudyard
Gerrard's Mom
TacticalCelebrant
B Infect
BW Death & Taxes
UBR Affinity
R Burn
UBR Sac Land Tendrils
UBRG Oops, All Spells
WUG Phelddagrif
GGG Omnath, Locus of Mana
BBB Xiahou Dun, the One-Eyed
RRR Ashling, the Pilgrim
BBW Teysa, Scion of Orzhov
UUU Talrand, Sky Summoner
UUB Vela the Night-Clad
GGB Vhati il-Dal
RUW Ruhan of the Fomori
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When Follutt had his wingbones broken and was moments from being flayed alive when his investigation of the Jogia bandit clan took a wrong turn, it was Scarlett Jane who knocked out the torturer and his thuggish friends and carried Follutt to safety. And Follutt didn't easily forget his debts; he'd arranged Jane's pardon on one or two occasions, but still felt as though he could never repay her heroic kindness enough.
Now he'd never have the chance to try any further, and the first thing he felt when he received the news was guilt. The second was that damnable curiosity of his. He couldn't help poking his beak into a dangerous place yet another time, for Scarlett's sake.
In his lofty top-floor library, five hundred feet above the ground, he dangled his feet off the balcony as he cracked open Ruskea's On Risk and Reward. Ordinarily not his favorite book, but he'd have to take some unwise chances this time if he was ever to find out what happened to his friend.
Unfolding Improvisation XUU
Sorcery (R)
X can't be less than 2.
Look at the top X cards of your library. Put one of them into your hand and exile one of them. Until end of turn, if the exiled card is nonland, you may cast it by paying its mana cost reduced by up to :3mana:. Put the rest back in any order.
"Nine-tenths of planning is knowing when to deviate from the plan." - Follutt
I̟̥͍̠ͅn̩͉̣͍̬͚ͅ ̬̬͖t̯̹̞̺͖͓̯̤h̘͍̬e͙̯͈̖̼̮ ̭̬f̺̲̲̪i͙͉̟̩̰r̪̝͚͈̝̥͍̝̲s̼̻͇̘̳͔ͅt̲̺̳̗̜̪̙ ̳̺̥̻͚̗ͅm̜̜̟̰͈͓͎͇o̝̖̮̝͇m̯̻̞̼̫̗͓̤e̩̯̬̮̩n͎̱̪̲̹͖t͇̖s̰̮ͅ,̤̲͙̻̭̻̯̹̰ ̖t̫̙̺̯͖͚̯ͅh͙̯̦̳̗̰̟e͖̪͉̼̯ ̪͕g̞̣͔a̗̦t̬̬͓͙̫̖̭̻e̩̻̯ ̜̖̦̖̤̭͙̬t̞̹̥̪͎͉ͅo͕͚͍͇̲͇͓̺ ̭̬͙͈̣̻t͈͍͙͓̫̖͙̩h̪̬̖̙e̗͈ ̗̬̟̞̺̤͉̯ͅa̦̯͚̙̜̮f͉͙̲̣̞̼t̪̤̞̣͚e̲͉̳̥r͇̪̙͚͓l̥̞̞͎̹̯̹ͅi͓̬f̮̥̬̞͈ͅe͎ ̟̩̤̳̠̯̩̯o̮̘̲p̟͚̣̞͉͓e͍̩̣n͔̼͕͚̜e̬̱d̼̘͎̖̹͍̮̠,͖̺̭̱̮ ̣̲͖̬̪̭̥a̪͚n̟̲̝̤̤̞̗d̘̱̗͇̮͕̳͕͔ ͖̞͉͎t̹̙͎h̰̱͉̗e̪̞̱̝̹̩ͅ ̠̱̩̭̦p̯̙e͓o̳͚̰̯̺̱̰͔̘p̬͎̱̣̼̩͇l̗̟̖͚̠e̱͉͔̱̦̬̟̙ ̖͚̪͔̼̦w̺̖̤̱e͖̗̻̦͓̖̘̜r̭̥e͔̹̫̱͕̦̰͕ ̗͔̠p̠̗͍͍̱̳̠r̰͔͎̰o͉̥͓̰͚̥s̟͚̹̱͔̣t͉̙̳̖͖̪̮r̥̘̥͙̹a͉̟̫̟̳̠̟̭t͈̜̰͈͎e̞̣̭̲̬ ͚̗̯̟͙i͍͖̰̘̦͖͉ṇ̮̻̯̦̲̩͍ ̦̮͚̫̤t͉͖̫͕ͅͅh͙̮̻̘̣̮̼e͕̺ ͙l͕̠͎̰̥i̲͓͉̲g̫̳̟͈͇̖h̠̦̖t͓̯͎̗ ̳̪̘̟̙̩̦o̫̲f̙͔̰̙̠ ̹̪̗͇̯t͖̼̼͉͖̬h̹͇̩e͚̖̺̤͉̹͕̪ ͚͓̭̝̺G͎̗̯̩o̫̯̮̟̮̳̘d̜̲͙̠-̩̳̯̲̗̜P̹̘̥͉̝h͍͈̗̖̝ͅa͍̗̮̼̗r̜̖͇̙̺a̭̺͔̞̳͈o̪̣͓̯̬͙̯̰̗h̖̦͈̥̯͔.͇̣̙̝
The deadline will be when Tuesday turns into Wednesday, Pacific time. Which means you have about one more day of submissions.
Deadline for critique will be Thursday, December 6th at 23:59.
EDIT: P.S. The RPing is awesome! Here's a cookie for anyone who took the time to RP
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The Spy
Round 1
Scarlett Jane was dead.
Kiron’s eyes briefly sank in solemn remembrance, as he stood on the balcony of his safe house,looking out into the city.
She was by no means a friend. Friends in Kiron’s line of work came and went. It was a business where allies were but a change of fortune away from being at your throat. A friendship could be made or broken with the right amount of coin or power.An enemy, however, a true dyed-in-the-wool enemy was much harder to come by.
Such was the case with Scarlett Jane. They had crossed paths for the first time early their careers, it seemed almost a lifetime ago.
He had just managed to gain a small holding in the city when he set out to “acquire” the location of a bandit groups cache of rare gems, only to arrive to find the cache already looted save for a single red thread. He responded by taking the red thread and tracking down her buyer and slitting his throat, taking her payment for his own, and leaving the thread behind for the city guards to find. He thought it was finished, he was not prepared for her reprisal of breaking into his house, and putting the gems inside, so the bandits she had tipped off would think Kiron was responsible for the theft all along. He was lucky to escape with his life, having to leave his meager holdings behind.
Since then, whenever their paths crossed, chaos and foiled schemes soon followed. He had always assumed that when she met her end, he would have a hand in it. Sadly, that was not meant to be. A new puzzle arose, namely, who had killed her and why were they so silent. It was quite the problem, but he knew where to start.
He needed a bottle of Tyrrian Red…
***
Count Rolef , was a greedy pig of a noble, however, he had considerable influence in this cities parliament, and would do anything to keep his family’s dwindling coffers full, which made him a valuable chess piece. A few months ago a large sapphire in his treasury had been looted by Scarlett Jane, later it turned out that she had been helped by one of the counts personal guard. The guard had since spent his time in Rolef’s hidden dungeons being intermittently tortured for information.
The dungeon was where Kiron was now,he had gotten this private time for a nice bottle of wine. Some days it was just that easy. The guard looked up as he entered.
“What do you want….” The guard said wearily
“ I’m looking for someone, I believe you have the information I seek, about the one they call Scarlett Jane.” Kiron said casually.
“ Go to hell.” he spat
”Enough with the pleasantries then,” Kiron said holding out his hand as pitch black energy rippled out, the guards eyes rolled back in his head as his mouth opened in a silent scream as Kiron forcibly extracted the information from his mind. It was not a painless process, but every second he wasted, allowed the trail to go cold. Eventually, the energy dissipated and the guard collapsed.
“Thank you, you've been most helpful.” Kiron said with a smirk as he pulled a small leather bound book, opening it and crossing off the guards name.
One lead down, so many more to go.
The Card
Agony Extraction 2WB
Sorcery (R)
Search target opponent's library for a card and exile it.That player loses life equal to it's converted mana cost.Then that player shuffles his or her library.
If your secrets are worth your life, then it's a price I'll gladly pay.
-Kiron,Extortion Operative.
The Anabyn
Stay Hungry My Friends....
Yay a Cookie!
Artist: //gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Search/Default.aspx?action=advanced&artist=[%22Daniel%20Ljunggren%22">"]Daniel Ljunggren
Swamp's Toll B
Sorcery
Target player reveals a number of cards from his or her hand equal to double the number of Swamps you control. You choose a nonland from them. That player discards that card.
Mythic rarity is not destroying the game. People whine too much for no good reason. Magic is more popular than ever, so keep calm, brew some decks and play some damn cards.
I was late in RPing. Can I still have a cookie?
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Club Flamingo Wins: 10
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EDH Decks
BG Vicious Varolz | RW Jor Kadeen, the Mean Machine | RG Atarka: Muh_Dragons.dec (WIP) | WU Brago, Blink Eternal (WIP)
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Artifact (R)
Whenever you would draw a card, instead choose a card type. Then look at the top two cards of your library, you may reveal a card of the chosen type from among them and put it into your hand. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in any order. (The card types are artifact, creature, enchantment, instant, land, planeswalker, sorcery, and tribal.)
I'll make another round at the bakery at the end of the round so that every one could get one.
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Instant
Return all permanents that entered the battlefield this turn to their owners' hands, then draw a card for each permanent returned this way.
The surest way to jog one's memory? Run back time itself.
Round one: Urashima, Time Thief
Oops...I will try and be more patient next time, first time joining in on one of these games and I guess I got ahead of myself.
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