MTG Salvation

.... So, eventually nobody untaps on untap step? Well, on one hand, that will take a while, on the other hand, that probably means this card should cost at least 4.


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Arbiter of Judgment 3WB
Creature - Angel (R)
Flying
Whenever Arbiter of Judgment attacks, defending player puts X 1/1 white Spirit creature tokens with flying onto the battlefield tapped, where X is Arbiter of Judgment's power.
Whenever Arbiter of Judgment deals combat damage to a player, that player sacrifices X creatures, where X is the amount of combat damage dealt this way.
5/5

So, attacks, gives an opponent 5 spirits, deal 5 damage, opponent loses those spirits again. Comments?

I`m an invincible Homarid! 4
Creature
Persist, Undying
1/2

Idk, just a weird idea I had for some times .. any suggestion how to, well, make it work?
Obviously, making it too cheap will just create an OP indestructible chumpblocker, but what would be a reasonable cost for a card like that?

Arbiter doesn't have anything really black about it. It brings spirits back, then banishes them again.

Undying and Persist on one thing works. It switches between 0/1 and 2/3 every time it comes back.

Boros Recruiter (R/W)
Creature - Goblin Warrior
Haste
Legion - Whenever two or more creatures attack, attacking creatures you control gain +1/+1
1/1

Legion - When X creatures attack, do Y. Yes, it's referring Boros Recruit. Who else would recruit a Goblin?

I like the mechanic, but I think this card is a bit too strong for a 1 drop.
Turn 1 drop it and swing for 1.
Turn 2 drop two more Boros Recruiters and swing for 12.

Also flavor-wise it should probably be Goblin Soldier and not Warrior. Since the Boros are all about Soldiers, whereas the Gruul is the warrior guild more or less.

Covert Extraction 2UBB
Enchantment
Whenever an opponent shuffles their library, exile the top card of their library. You may play cards exiled by ~.

I like Covert Extraction a lot. Maybe "You may play cards exiled by ~" instead so that you can play lands, and probably as a separate line of text.

It is, however, horrendously overcosted. I don't think :symu::symb: pushes it too far, even.

Array of Jellies :2mana::symu:
Creature - Jellyfish (U)
2/2
Array of Jellies doesn't untap during its controller's untap step.
:symu:, :symtap:: Put a token that's a copy of Array of Jellies onto the battlefield.

You have the beginning of the right idea.

Tweaks I would make:

1) Cost becomes 3UB, because asymmetrical colors suck.
2) Make it work on friendly libraries, too, not just enemy ones.
3) Exile the top card face-down, and of course include a "you may look at" clause.
4) Replace the adjective "covert" with something else, since UB always performs extraction covertly to begin with.

EDIT: Nath'd

Array of Jellies...so without help, it clones itself once? Ehhh. :/

As always, non-specialized blue token generation is lamesauce (leave that to green and white).

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Blurring the line between printable and Un-set:

Paparazzi on the Prowl RG
Enchantment (U)
Legendary creatures can't block nonlegendary creatures.
Each nonlegendary creature blocks a legendary creature if able.

Mmm, it's kinda narrow, why don't slap it on a 2/2 or a 2/1 critter? The flavor is good, but it's very narrow unless the metagame has several legendary creatures running from here to there.

Silir of the Mausoleum (W/B)(W/B)
Creature (U)
Silir of the Mausoleum is all creature types (Even if it's not in the battlefield)
(W/B): Put target creature card from a graveyard on the bottom of its owner's library.
For it, all the graveyard is a work of art, from the tombstones, down to the corpses that rest there.
(2/2)

Um, I'm afraid the creature recycling ability may be a bit cheap, but then again, it's not quite Reito Lantern, so maybe ok. Still, 2mana per recycle?


I suddenly want to make cycles.

Sunsworn Behemoth GW
Creature - Beast (R)
Vigilance, trample, hexproof
At the beginning of your upkeep, target opponent gains 4 life.
It will not truly crush the guilty so long as the guilty doesn't yield.
4/4

Comments?


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Sunsworn Behemoth GW
Creature - Beast (R)
Vigilance, trample
At the beginning of your upkeep, target opponent gains 4 life.
It will not truly crush the guilty so long as the guilty doesn't yield.
4/4

Seems pretty dang strong for any non-damage win condition decks running it as a well. For example, turbofog. Always something to consider. Also planeswalkers. Plus, its the sort of thing that dominates a ground game. If we are to have such a creature, it probably shouldn't have hexproof.

The vigilance / trample really make it into too simple to use a card. Just swing every turn blindly, and it evens out while giving you a blocker. Still, I always liked that sort of mechanic, fiery justice and burnwillows and all


anyways:

Mechanizer 0
Artifact Enchantment - Aura (U)
Enchant Permanent
Enchanted Permanent is an Artifact in addition to its other types.

You should sort of avoid any win conditions that are completely uninteractive and give no fair chance to respond- all normal opposing players would have is instant speed removal, and it needs a templating tweak to make it work. One way you could fix that would be to make it a buff for those same black creatures, so that you have to swing your way through a combat step instead of instantly winning. Something like:

"Target black creature gets +25/+25, lifelink, trample and haste until end of turn if you control no other permanents and have no cards in hand."

Could make it "no other non-creature permanents", but it almost fits the barren glory theme better with a 1x limit
But I see it something like this:

T1: Ebon Stronghold
T2: Ebon Stronghold
T3: Archaeological Dig, Putrid Imp, Win



Anywho

Spite Circle BBB
Enchantment - (R)
Sacrifice another nontoken permanent or discard a card: Target player loses 2 life unless he or she sacrifices a permanent or discards a card. Any player may play this ability.

Forbidden Ritual in enchantment form, and publicly accessible? To start with, I'm of the persuasion that to cost a spell at BBB or BBBB is to troll a portion of your audience; rubbing in black mages' faces that Dark Ritual hasn't been Standard-legal in over a decade.

Moreover, though the enchantment is black, green mages stand to garner the most benefit from it.

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Skunkworks 4
Artifact (R)
Each spell you cast costs 1 less to cast for each of its colors.

Nice accel card, it works like a better Urza's Filter, but what does it have to do with skunks?

Chaosbound Fury (B/R)(B/R)
Enchantment - Aura (U)
Enchant creature.
Enchanted creature gets +2/+2 and has protection from white.
Her muscles twitched, her skin blushed, and then the succubuss lunged at her prey, aiming straight to its heart. The thrill of the moment was more tasty than almost any other pleasure she had experienced before.

Hm.... should be ok. If pro white turns out to be too strong, one extra cost should do it.


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Bring Despair 3BB
Sorcery (U)
Destroy target creature. Its controller sacrifices a creature.
"It is a known fact that some people lose the will to live upon seeing death."

Comments?

I dig it, 5 mana for 2 creatures. Nice card, first pick in limited material, but still nicely balanced. Also gets around hexproofer and indestructibles, so long as they aren't swarming the field with creatures.

Voidstone Hedron 7
Artifact - (M)
All other tapped permanents lose all abilities.
"Capable of rendering even the most potent magic inert, the voidstones proved to be the only prisons capable holding the Eldrazi"

I'm inclined to cost this guy 6cc 2/4, seeing that the blink effect it gives is pretty absurd, even if symmetrical.


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Maresaur 3UU
Creature - Lizard (U)
Islandwalk
Whenever Maresaur blocks, creatures it blocks get -1/-0 until end of turn for each Island you control.
Upon getting the attention of its prey, it flees from them as if it were the prey to lure them to the depths.
3/3

Comments?


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Maresaur 2UU
Creature - Lizard (U)
Islandwalk
Whenever Maresaur blocks, creatures it blocks get -1/-0 until end of turn for each Island you control.
Upon getting the attention of its prey, it flees from them as if it were the prey to lure them to the depths.
3/3

This creature suffers from four left feet. Its islandwalk would suggest an offensive purpose, but the second ability applies on defense. Also, it counts Islands, and pushing mono-color in the modern era is a dubious idea at best.

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Performing a fixer-upper on one of the worst-designed cards ever:

Æther Disturbance 1UB
Instant (U)
Choose one or both -- Return target creature to its owner's hand; and/or target player sacrifices a creature.

It's a fair removal spell, unsummon and innocent blood all in one card. Although I'd rather make it an OR effect and turn the unsummon portion into a Disperse.

Sabotage 1U
Instant
Counter target activated ability. If that ability belonged to a permanent, destroy that permanent. (Mana abilities can't be targetted)

Feels like it really wants to be another color besides blue. Blue doesn't destroy things outright. The name and flavor feel blue/red, but destroying creatures is mainly black and non-creature permanents is primarily green.

Perhaps 1(R/G)U or 1(B/G)U for the cost?

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Day of Remembrance WW
Instant

Creatures can't attack or use activated abilities this turn.

Gain 1 life for each creature card in your graveyard.

Cool, except that I don't think a second equip ability is necessary. It could instead read:

0: Attach ~ to target artifact creature you control.

Whether or not it's sorcery-speed only is up to you.

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Biomass Salvage 2G
Instant (U)
Search your library for a number of basic land cards equal to the number of creatures put into your graveyard from the battlefield this turn and put them onto the battlefield tapped. Then shuffle your library.

Quote from Meritocracy

Biomass Salvage 2G
Instant (U)
Search your library for a number of basic land cards equal to the number of creatures put into your graveyard from the battlefield this turn and put them onto the battlefield tapped. Then shuffle your library.

Pretty cool idea; might not even be a build-around-me card, though you could obviously do that as well. I think that it's fairly-costed and the effect is interesting enough to make me want to try it out.

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Ritual of Spring G
Sorcery (U)
Untap up to three target lands.
Spring has sprung.

I thought of this as a quasi-ritual effect, but shifted into green in a way that would make sense. It may be a little powerful for only G, though. It would certainly be good in green-based Cloudpost and Tron decks

..... 2 mana is better for this since this is a lot more powerful than most ritual effects. This works both as hyper mana accel (Tron) or absurdly good mana fixing.


Merito's critique inspires me to make this.

Calm Shores
Land - Island (U)
Calm Shores enters the battlefield tapped.
U, T: Untap target creature with Islandwalk you control.
Still waters can still hide many creatures who live in them.

Comments?

I would lose the Island type and let it enter untapped with "tap: add U to your mana pool".

Aeon Gatekeeper 3BB
Creature – Demon (R)
First strike, deathtouch
Whenever ~ becomes the target of a spell or ability for the first time in a turn, each player sacrifices a creature.
4/3
Those who attempt to challenge her authority soon find out why she has it.

They can kill it with a Giant Growth or you can abuse the effect yourself, eh?

So let me get this straight; a card that reduces an opponent down to 1 life during their upkeep and then causes them to lose the game anyways if they can't win in two turns is... Five mana?

Yeah, that thing's kinda broken.

Arcbound Carrier 2
Artifact Creature - Horror (U)
At the beginning of each players' upkeep, that player removes a counter from a permanent he or she controls.
Modular 3 (This enters the battlefield with a +1/+1 counter on it. When it dies, you may put its +1/+1 counters on target artifact creature.)
0/0

Arcbound Carrier 2
Artifact Creature - Horror (U)
At the beginning of each players' upkeep, that player removes a counter from a permanent he or she controls.
Modular 3 (This enters the battlefield with a +1/+1 counter on it. When it dies, you may put its +1/+1 counters on target artifact creature.)
0/0

a 3/3 for 2 that scavenges for 3 on another artifact for free? I think this is probably worth around 4, maybe 3.

Blastmage RR
Creature - Human Wizard (R)
For each instant or sorcery you cast, you may pay 2 life to deal an additional point of damage.
R, sacrifice ~ Add R to your pool for half the total life lost this turn, rounded down.
0/2

Maybe this should be coloured black. I wanted to introduce something along the lines of Guttersnipe, that could turn basic red burn spells into mini-combos.

Bummer dude.

To begin with, I doubt a creature would just be a "Blastmage". He'd be some particular kind of Blastmage. Also, this guy's abilities don't amount to much by way of blasting. Further, paying life as an investment is dominated by black nowadays, not counting Planar Chaos-type silliness and stuff that got grandfathered in.

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Seismic Shift 1RR
Sorcery (U)
Destroy target nonbasic land. ~ deals 1 damage to each creature without flying for each color of mana that land could produce.