admirableadmiral!
While I don't have post stats for AA from back in the day to see how many posts he's actually logged on the board in the last two years, you can't argue with going from unranked to fifth place in that time. He has almost 1000 posts on the next contender, as well, which is very convincing.
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Oboro NullmageUU
Creature — Moonfolk Wizard (R)
Flying 1U, Reveal a card from your hand: Counter target spell with the same name as the revealed card.
2/1
IIW: Red artifice and/or uncommon non-Aura enchantments.
Grandeur - As an additional cost to cast ~, you may discard any number of cards with the same name as ~ from your hand.
~ deals 1 damage to target creature or player plus 2 for each card discarded for it's grandeur ability.
Quest for the Sunken TomeUB
Enchantment (R)
Whenever you cast a spell with the same name as a card in a graveyard, put a quest counter on Quest for the Sunken Tome.
Remove three quest counters from Quest for the Sunken Tome and sacrifice it: you may play cards from your graveyard until end of turn. If a card would be put into your graveyard from anywhere this turn, exile it instead.
Cythare - Hm OK this sort of puts your opponents in a pretty *****ty situation without any major drawbacks for yourself, and therefore it isn't really all that black. Repeated Surgical Extraction for free is a little too good therefore.
I-T - I'm really sad this is on an enchantment instead of a creature. That pretty much precludes its possibility from ever seeing play.
SNL - OK I guess this is a way of getting around nonbasic tutoring, but in this case I'm annoyed that it's an ability tacked onto a creature. I mean I would never drop a 1/1 for 1 if it didn't have some major benefit. It's probably one of those cards that would end up costing $20-$30 just because of legacy, but if you know anything about me I don't concern myself with busted formats.
AS - blah
iphanx - Free flying and double strike on a pwr 3 for 4? absolutely not. Oh and you want to tack on some more beneficial abilities? Your aspirations are admirable if laughable.
Necarg - You did not follow my advice.
PPN - I mean sure OK I guess.
aa - If Clarion Ultimatum only had one target (actually it doesn't target, and that's kind of important), it would look like this. Except white? Or white and green probably. Or just green. Or green and black? Maybe just black? I don't know, but not blue.
Chem - I'd probably play this in my mono u weenie deck. And it would probably continue to lose.
avatarz - I mean sure OK I guess.
AS - That's not how grandeur works.
aa - I don't think we're going to see sorcery win conditions ever again.
Tilwin - At first I wanted this on a creature, but that wouldn't satisfy the challenge. Then I realized this basically gives your creatures haste and +1/+1 for a turn. Then I was like that's actually pretty cool. Then I was like whoa you need a nontoken clause on that thing. I mean talk about hordeling your outbursts.
Atog - Aren't we cute? I feel like it would be a total ***** to set off, though, worse than Pyromancer Ascension. I'm sure legacy would love it.
AMSH - How will your opponents know you're not cheating?
aa - If Clarion Ultimatum only had one target (actually it doesn't target, and that's kind of important), it would look like this. Except white? Or white and green probably. Or just green. Or green and black? Maybe just black? I don't know, but not blue.
Corporality2RR
Enchantment (R)
Each other nonland permanent is a creature in addition to its other types and has base power and base toughness each equal to its converted mana cost.
I really wanted it to be symmetrical, but I couldn't do that without making it super clunky (since you'll obviously just fail to find when instructed to search your own library and remove stuff).
Induced Forgetfulness1U
Sorcery [U]
Look at target player's hand. You may choose a nonland card from that player's hand. If you do, that player reveals the chosen card, puts it on the bottom of their library, then draws a card.
Draw a card.
Undisputed Champion1BB
Creature - Human Warrior (U)
When Undisputed Champion enters the battlefield, you may have it fight target creature with power 2 or less and toughness 2 or less.
3/3
Knight of the Vigil1WW
Creature - Spirit Knight (U)
Defender W, T: Knight of the Vigil fights target creature blocking or blocked by a creature you control. Prevent all damage that creature would deal to other creatures this turn. “We did not sacrifice happiness in the hereafter, for the preservation of Galgallone and its people is our joy.”
2/4
Ophidiogenesis2G
Instant (U)
Destroy target nonland permanent. Its controller puts X 1/1 green Snake creature tokens onto the battlefield, where X is that permanent’s converted mana cost. Sometimes, people hide their true selves. Sometimes, people are not people at all.
Dreamtrap4UU
Sorcery (R)
Target opponent chooses a creature he or she controls. That creature becomes an Illusion in addition to its other types. Then, destroy all non-Illusion creatures.
IIW: Choose an emotion from the Inside Out movie and turn it into a card.
Flameform InvokerRR
Creature - Human Shaman (R)
First strike
When Flameform Invoker leaves the battlefield, it deals 1 damage to each player. RR: Exile Flameform Invoker. Return it to the battlefield under its owner's control at the beginning of the next end step.
2/1
IIW: players get priority after first strike damage but before regular combat damage
Ok, bleed... I think Phyrexians could carry a motif of (acceptable) bleed. (By acceptable I mean it's an incidental, non-main effect, like Inquisitor Exarch and those veldaken tappy guys.)
White: loss of life (punishment)
Blue: -1/-1 counters (numbness, bad against big creatures)
Red: one shot tapping (racing on tempo) or "return target creature you don't control to it's owner's hand."
that leaves black and green-
Black: put beefy tokens onto the battlefield (3/3, 4/4)
Green:
Tigorok Predator2GG
Creature - Vistal Cat (U)
Trample 1: Tigorok Predator gets -1/+1 or +1/-1 until end of turn.
4/4
I also think phyrexians need race types, and the flavors of New Phyrexia could be developed into them: porcelain-fleshy guys, unlife horrors, techno-implanted guys, and predatory evolution (these would be the 'Vistals', from Beast/Primal.) Vistals would be able to evolve in real time to threats, hence the 'shapeshifter' ability.
Void Implosion1UB
Instant (R)
Destroy target nonland permanent. It's controller reveal the top four cards of his or her library then choose a permanent among them and put it onto the battlefield then put the rest of the card revealed this way in any order on the bottom of his or her library.
Flameform InvokerRR
Creature - Human Shaman (R)
First strike
When Flameform Invoker leaves the battlefield, it deals 1 damage to each player. RR: Exile Flameform Invoker. Return it to the battlefield under its owner's control at the beginning of the next end step.
2/1
IIW: players get priority after first strike damage but before regular combat damage
<3
Chaos Sight3RRR
Enchantment R
Play with the top three cards of your library revealed.
You may play the top card of your library.
You may play the second card from the top of your library if it's a nonland card.
You may play the third card from the top of your library if it's an instant or sorcery card.
No judge in the perimeter, so the only logical thing for me to do is to make their job even harder.
Abandonment2W
Enchantment - Aura Curse (R)
At the end of enchanted player's turn, if he or she controls exactly one creature, he or she sacrifices it.
Wicked Silencer1B
Creature - Shade Assassin (R)
Whenever Wicked Silencer deals damage to a player, name a card. That player can't cast a card with that name until Wicked Silencer leaves the battlefield.
3/1
IIW: Cards with scary implications // Avatars
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Creature — Moonfolk Wizard (R)
Flying
1U, Reveal a card from your hand: Counter target spell with the same name as the revealed card.
2/1
IIW: Red artifice and/or uncommon non-Aura enchantments.
Instant U
Grandeur - As an additional cost to cast ~, you may discard any number of cards with the same name as ~ from your hand.
~ deals 1 damage to target creature or player plus 2 for each card discarded for it's grandeur ability.
Sorcery [M]
You may discard four nonbasic cards with the same name. If you do, you win the game.
In this universe, Relentless Rats and Shadowborn Apostle would be errata'd to be Basic.
IIW: YOU'VE ACTIVATED MY TRAP CARD
Enchantment (R)
Whenever you cast a spell with the same name as a card in a graveyard, put a quest counter on Quest for the Sunken Tome.
Remove three quest counters from Quest for the Sunken Tome and sacrifice it: you may play cards from your graveyard until end of turn. If a card would be put into your graveyard from anywhere this turn, exile it instead.
IIW: Benedict Customcards
Sorcery (R)
Draw cards until you draw a card with the same name as a card you've already drawn that way.
IIW: one-card combo // weird weapons
I-T - I'm really sad this is on an enchantment instead of a creature. That pretty much precludes its possibility from ever seeing play.
SNL - OK I guess this is a way of getting around nonbasic tutoring, but in this case I'm annoyed that it's an ability tacked onto a creature. I mean I would never drop a 1/1 for 1 if it didn't have some major benefit. It's probably one of those cards that would end up costing $20-$30 just because of legacy, but if you know anything about me I don't concern myself with busted formats.
AS - blah
iphanx - Free flying and double strike on a pwr 3 for 4? absolutely not. Oh and you want to tack on some more beneficial abilities? Your aspirations are admirable if laughable.
Necarg - You did not follow my advice.
PPN - I mean sure OK I guess.
aa - If Clarion Ultimatum only had one target (actually it doesn't target, and that's kind of important), it would look like this. Except white? Or white and green probably. Or just green. Or green and black? Maybe just black? I don't know, but not blue.
Chem - I'd probably play this in my mono u weenie deck. And it would probably continue to lose.
avatarz - I mean sure OK I guess.
AS - That's not how grandeur works.
aa - I don't think we're going to see sorcery win conditions ever again.
Tilwin - At first I wanted this on a creature, but that wouldn't satisfy the challenge. Then I realized this basically gives your creatures haste and +1/+1 for a turn. Then I was like that's actually pretty cool. Then I was like whoa you need a nontoken clause on that thing. I mean talk about hordeling your outbursts.
Atog - Aren't we cute? I feel like it would be a total ***** to set off, though, worse than Pyromancer Ascension. I'm sure legacy would love it.
AMSH - How will your opponents know you're not cheating?
Winner - Tilwin
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Mitotic manipulation (and Mask of the Mimic)
Enchantment (R)
Each other nonland permanent is a creature in addition to its other types and has base power and base toughness each equal to its converted mana cost.
IIW: Inspired by Deep Dream
Instant (R)
Choose one -
Draft my cube! (630 cards)
Meaning that my card is blue, as Manipulation is a precedent.
Sorcery [U]
Look at target player's hand. You may choose a nonland card from that player's hand. If you do, that player reveals the chosen card, puts it on the bottom of their library, then draws a card.
Draw a card.
IIW: Everything is a resource
Creature - Human Warrior (U)
When Undisputed Champion enters the battlefield, you may have it fight target creature with power 2 or less and toughness 2 or less.
3/3
IIW: Beneficial Customcards
Creature - Spirit Knight (U)
Defender
W, T: Knight of the Vigil fights target creature blocking or blocked by a creature you control. Prevent all damage that creature would deal to other creatures this turn.
“We did not sacrifice happiness in the hereafter, for the preservation of Galgallone and its people is our joy.”
2/4
IIW: Remnants of a golden age
Choose one of these judge of creation:
Make Strionic Resonator shine!
You can not grasp the true form of Ashiok's attack!
Instant (U)
Destroy target nonland permanent. Its controller puts X 1/1 green Snake creature tokens onto the battlefield, where X is that permanent’s converted mana cost.
Sometimes, people hide their true selves. Sometimes, people are not people at all.
IIW: Red commons that don't deal damage
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Sorcery (R)
Target opponent chooses a creature he or she controls. That creature becomes an Illusion in addition to its other types. Then, destroy all non-Illusion creatures.
IIW: Choose an emotion from the Inside Out movie and turn it into a card.
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Creature - Human Shaman (R)
First strike
When Flameform Invoker leaves the battlefield, it deals 1 damage to each player.
RR: Exile Flameform Invoker. Return it to the battlefield under its owner's control at the beginning of the next end step.
2/1
IIW: players get priority after first strike damage but before regular combat damage
White: loss of life (punishment)
Blue: -1/-1 counters (numbness, bad against big creatures)
Red: one shot tapping (racing on tempo) or "return target creature you don't control to it's owner's hand."
that leaves black and green-
Black: put beefy tokens onto the battlefield (3/3, 4/4)
Green:
Tigorok Predator 2GG
Creature - Vistal Cat (U)
Trample
1: Tigorok Predator gets -1/+1 or +1/-1 until end of turn.
4/4
I also think phyrexians need race types, and the flavors of New Phyrexia could be developed into them: porcelain-fleshy guys, unlife horrors, techno-implanted guys, and predatory evolution (these would be the 'Vistals', from Beast/Primal.) Vistals would be able to evolve in real time to threats, hence the 'shapeshifter' ability.
IIW: B
Instant (R)
Destroy target nonland permanent. It's controller reveal the top four cards of his or her library then choose a permanent among them and put it onto the battlefield then put the rest of the card revealed this way in any order on the bottom of his or her library.
next: mecha dinosaur
<3
Chaos Sight 3RRR
Enchantment R
Play with the top three cards of your library revealed.
You may play the top card of your library.
You may play the second card from the top of your library if it's a nonland card.
You may play the third card from the top of your library if it's an instant or sorcery card.
IIW: Artifact cakes
Abandonment 2W
Enchantment - Aura Curse (R)
At the end of enchanted player's turn, if he or she controls exactly one creature, he or she sacrifices it.
Wicked Silencer 1B
Creature - Shade Assassin (R)
Whenever Wicked Silencer deals damage to a player, name a card. That player can't cast a card with that name until Wicked Silencer leaves the battlefield.
3/1
IIW: Cards with scary implications // Avatars
Creature — Human Archer [R]
Flash
Defender, haste
t: Horizon Archers deals 4 damage to target attacking or blocking creature.
0/4
IIW: Haste