MTG Salvation

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The world flared in front of Waegen and then dimmed. When the smoke cleared she found herself in the middle of a truly bizarre landscape. Above her five moons, each of a different hue, shone down and reflected rainbows of light off the silvery ocean. She stood on a misshapen metallic ledge that overlooked a vast, rolling sea of quicksilver.

Brus coughed behind her as he waved the smoke from her planeswalking out of his face. “Couldn’t you at least give us some warning before you erupted into a fireball?”

Waegen smiled at the dour Vedalken, “Not likely.”

Coiloon Molbanni walked up to them. “Alright, alright. No time for bickering, you two. In case you’ve forgotten, there is a magical plague twisting the light of the multiverse.

Waegen surveyed the abundance of metal around her. It all looked too perfect, too . . . orderly. “Yeah, this place is definitely evil.”

“But doesn’t that mean we’re too late, Molbanni? It’s too late for this plane,” Brus said.

The elderly human looked around, “Looks like you’re right. This is an artificial plane known as Mirrodin. I sent an agent here a few weeks ago to observe the change—and hopefully prevent it—but I lost contact with him. I sent someone else here to track him down, another planeswalker by the name of Tezzeret, and he’s requested some help.

“My task for you two is to help him in whatever way you can and to continue studying the effects of this plague. Go to the area known as the Glimmervoid, its name has become must more appropriate as late, there should find Tezzeret. It’s due east, not too far. I’ll contact you once I’ve had time to go over your findings from the last plane. I’m sure they’ll be of great use to my superior.”

My Superior? Waegen thought. She had been under the impression that they were helping only Molbanni himself. Just how many planeswalkers were working on this she wondered?

“Well, I guess we should go find this Tezzeret,” Brus said.

Waegen started walking, “Yeah, you scientist types are so smart.”

Without allowing Brus a chance to respond she reached inside her soul and cast a spell, a beacon for something to help her. Green energy flared up around her and in just a few seconds a great reptilian beast raced to them out. She put a palm up to it and the monster stopped just short of crushing Brus underfoot.

It bent its massive head down and allowed Waegen to climb on top of its neck. She noticed long curved blades growing out of its scales at seemingly random places. At first she thought it must have survived a great deal of battles, but with a closer look she realized that these metal bits were growing out of its skeleton. Disgusting. Waegen decided that she was much more eager to leave than she had thought.

“Oh, I think I’ve heard of this before,” Brus said, “a karstoderm I believe. I’ve read one or two descriptions of Mirrodin before. I can’t believe I’m actually here.”

“Hm, excuse me if I want to sightsee later. Maybe after we save the multiverse. “

She kicked the side of the, what’d he call it, karsoderm, and it ran east. Brus was left coughing, once again.


By the time he caught up to her Tezzeret had already explained the situation to her. This first agent that Molbanni sent, some guy named Venser, was there when the change happened and it seemed that he lost all memory—or at least most memory—of ever working for the good guys. He’d gone rogue and decided that dark Mirrodin was a nice place to set up shop and subjugate its peoples.

“This Molbanni guy really knows how to pick ‘em,” she said once she’d given the update.

“All’s not lost. I’ve made a device that could capture even someone as powerful as Venser, the problem is that he has to touch it,” Tezzeret said. “He’s way past trusting me at this point, but maybe one of you two could make something that would entice him.”

“I think I could easily make some sort of artifact that might pique his interest. Your device could be hidden within it,” Brus said.

“Sure, let’s go up to the insane planeswalker with a metal fetish and offer him more toys. Bad idea. I say we whip up one of these metal beasts and send it at him. He might be curious enough to let it attack him once. And that’s all we need, right Tezzy?”

“Yeah, either one of those has potential,” Tezzeret said. “Hm, I’m not quite sure which one has the best chance though. . .

serotonin: Hallowness (This creature comes into play with a -1/-1 counter for each color of mana used to pay it's mana cost.)

WUPBRGspellsPlanarChaos: Pustle 2 (This creature comes into play with two -1/-1 counters on it. Whenever another creature comes into play, you may move a -1/-1 counter from this creature onto it.)

blacker_lotus: Monstrify X (This comes into play with X -1/-1 counters on it. As this comes into play, remove a -1/-1 counter from it for each card that shares a creature type with this you reveal in your hand.)

Dranith: Smuggle (As this card comes into play, you may look at the top four cards of target opponent's library and remove one of those cards from the game face down, then put the rest of the cards on the top of their deck in any order)

Solesticio: Recoil N(Any opponent may play this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then remove it from the game.)

MagicProfessor28: Sunburn. (This creature comes into play with a -1/-1 counter on it for each color of mana used to pay its cost.)

Alabran: Forebode - N: Target player may reveal a land from his or her hand. If he or she does not, destroy target land that player controls. (Play this ability only during your upkeep and only once a turn.)

Pseudofate: Cripple 2- N (N, Discard this card: Put two -1/-1 counters on target creature.)

GiftsTrix: Cumulative Decay- # (at the beginning of your upkeep put an age counter on ~, and target opponent may pay # for each age counter on ~ or sacrifice a permanent.)

Long5h0t: Skulk N (Whenever another creature comes into play, pay N. Otherwise, turn this creature face down. It becomes a 2/2 creature and gains shroud until end of turn.)

Slikenfist: Taint a Creature (When this comes into play, sacrifice it unless you remove target creature with converted mana cost 4 or less from the game. When this leaves play, return that card to play under its owner's control.)

Kami of Randomness: Intimidate 2 (Creatures this blocks get -2/-2 until end of turn. When this becomes blocked, each blocking creature gets -2/-2 until end of turn.)

Lorgalis: Repulsion for swamps (This spell costs more to play for each swamp you control)

Autumn Willow: Swamplust - If defending player controls a swamp, ~ gains +2/+1 until end of turn.

FruiouslySleepingIdea: Pyre N (You may play this for its pyre cost if a giant was put into your graveyard from play this turn.)

Ace: Hallucination N (If this card would be put into your graveyard from your library, you may play it for its hallucination cost instead of putting it into your graveyard).

Catarax: Revenge 2 (Whenever a source deals damage to this creature it deals 2 damage to that source's controller.)

BlackBull: Contagion N (The next time another activated ability of this permanent is played, copy it for each time you paid this permanent's contagion cost. You may choose new targets for the copies.)

MindWrencher: Erase (Whenever this creature comes into play, choose a spell or permanent, the text box of that spell or permanent becomes empty)

1T4: Last strike (This creature deals combat damage after creatures without last strike.)

Secondary challenge: make an artifact creature.

Long5h0t
Slikenfist
Kami of Randomness
Lorgalis
Autumn Willow
FruiouslySleepingIdea
Ace
Catarax
BlackBull
MindWrencher (sorry, Team Brus was all filled up)

Secondary challenge: Make a noncreature artifact

serotonin
WUPBRGspellsPlanarChaos
blacker_lotus
Dranith
Solesticio
MagicProfessor28
Alabran
Pseudofate
GiftsTrix
1T4

Executor by fxEVo@DeviantART.com

Sword of Termination
3B
Artifact-Equipment
Rare

You may equip Sword of Termination to any creature in play for 1B.
Equipped Creature gets +3/-3 and Deathtouch.
Whenever equipped creature deals damage to an opponent, that player discards a card at random.
Equip 2

The contagion spread across the land, like the blood on an assassin’s blade.

Abrar Ajmal
http://www.epilogue.net/cgi/database/art/view.pl?id=63827

Poisoned Battlefield 3B
Artifact (U)
Whenever a creature attacks, put a -1/-1 counter on it at end of combat.
Cripple 2 — , Discard this card: Put two -1/-1 counter on target creature.)
There, you literally fight until death.

yes, a Twisted and Evil Caltrops (you didn't figure it, did you?)

Long5h0t
-So, what we have here is a creature that would excel in block contructed, be decent limited, and sideboard standard, and avoiding most other formats.
-5 for a 4/4 is a standard. It's indestructible, yes, but it's other ability does sorta weaken it.
-I get the fact it releases the 'taint' when hit, but corrupter makes it sound like a more proactive thing
-Twisted Mirroden is fun, ain't it? It's a solid card, but it's not an exceptional start to this month's.

Slikenfist
-I get a 2/1 for three with flash, with a chance to weaken/kill a creature? It's a colorless Pestermite, except no where near as interesting. Not because of anything in particular, but the reverse Modular doesn't do much for me.
-This would fit a set, and it's useful, but Inhibit isn't a perfect parrale to Modular and the card just doesn't scream anything in particular
-Flavor nitpick Yaviyma IS NOT IN Mirrodin. Not at all. If you used the Tangle, you would have got points.
-I get the feeling I'm going to be saying this a lot. Solid, but not much else.

Kami of Randomness
-It's strange because it becomes stronger as it becomes weaker, but weaker as it get's stronger
-Flavor takes a few seconds to chew on, but when you get it's like ''ok, that works."
-It's cool in the sense it took more chances compartively, and it really is one of the cards that really makes you think.
-Honorable mention if not T3

Lorgalis
-Considering it's an artifact, why is just a beast. I mean we have a mechanical goat, why not something else My mistake on that. I guess. If it makes sense to Wizards...
-Rust is probably a closer match to Modular, but it doesn't change much.
-The reverse ravenger mirrors the Triskillious and Grim Poppet relation, but like that before it, it's useful, but fails to obtain the same hype and level
-Removal is always good
-Another Solid, but nothing else...

Autumn Willow
-Finally something that actually inspires me.
-The card is flavorful, balanced, and fun. It's the first or second card to really catch my eye
-The limited deathtouch is a great touch, and it's stats are good.
-What really gets me though is Blacksteel. It's generic, but really cool. I can even imagine Whitesteel, Bluesteel, etc.
-Top 3 material for sure.

FruiouslySleepingIdea
-Cute, but is that it?
-Solid attacker, but I doubt I'd sack an artifact for a thropter.
-May I say it again? Cute, but not really inspiring.
-I could even go so far to say it isn't even twisted. I could imagine this in MIR.
-Balanced yes, but not inspiring.

Ace
-Cortex? Okay. Seems interesting enough
-Decent fat, a bit powerful in block, but useless everywhere else.
-Why is this not black and/or artifact? It confuses me. It's missing one element or the other.
-I like that fact it get weaker the more you use it and that the tokens are slated to be sacked, but it doesn't get me
-cool concept, not much else to say.

Catarax
-For a newcomer this impresses me.
-Solid card with a good, synergetic abilities, that culminate to a cool creature.
-Then entire card just resonates with me
-Thumbs Up, this is a great card.

BlackBull
-Sadist? Yes. There we go. This guy is the perfect mix of the tainted world and the original one.
-Flavorwise good
-A bit over the curve, but useful
-I have difficult saying much about cards I actually like, especially in the CCL. Top 3 notated.

MindWrencher
-Sadly, I can't judge critiques and non existent cards.

T3
1. Catarax
2. Willow
3. BlackBull
HM to Kami/Lorgalis.