MTG Salvation

You full stole my pretty colourful judging scheme. You monster!

And the hiding is for length concerns... and I can't resist any oppourtunity to practice ninja skillz.

Interesting that you judged higher than me.

Your Range: 19.5-28
My Range: 17-25
Your Mean: 23.9
My Mean: 22.2

So I'm Simon Cowell and your the washed up fat black dude.. or something.

Nice job judging Rath and Alcar Leoricar. And congradulations Poukis; please post the next challenge in the next day or so. Thanks!

Chaos Arena :3mana::symr:
Enchantment
When Chaos Arena comes into play each player searches his or her library for three creature cards, reveals these cards, removes them from the game face down, and then shuffles his or her library.
At the beginning of each upkeep, each player reveals one of his or her face down cards at random. The revealed cards with the lowest converted mana cost are put into play. All other revealed cards are permanently removed from the game.
"May the best man lose." - Goblin Proverb


EDIT: I could swear I had that shuffle library part in there at one time... I hope this edit is not too late.

Juggling Swords RRR
Instant
Remove all land cards and cards with converted mana costs of 0 or less in your hand from the game. Then remove 3 cards in your hand from the game at random face down. Target opponent chooses one. Reveal it and flip a coin. If you win the flip, Juggling Swords deals damage equal to that card's converted mana cost to target player and all creatures he or she controls. Otherwise, Juggling Swords deals damage equal to that card's converted mana cost to you. Then return all cards removed from the game by Juggling Swords to your hand.

Fog of War 2RW
Enchantment
At the beginning of each player's main phase, that player chooses a creature and flips a coin. If you win, gain control of that creature; If you loose, target opponent gains control of that creature. Repeat this process for every creature in play. At the end of turn if either player controls no creatures, sacrifice Fog of War.
After the battle, Gabbro didn't know that it was he who had slain Sapphira. At least the fog had spared him that.

For reference on balance consideration:
Q: In a recent match online I Confiscated a creature during my first main phase. But when I tried to use that creature to attack, Magic Online treated it as though it had summoning sickness. Have I been playing Confiscate wrong over the years? --Eugene O.

A: Yes, MTGO is correct in giving Confiscated creatures summoning sickness. The key is that you haven't controlled the creature since the start of your most recent turn.

The Flavor text I wish I had the room to use.

As she battled through the fog she stopped when she saw it was Gabbro's axe which bore down on her. Before she could warn him, the axe found home on her neck. Her last thought was a wish he would never find out what he did.

Goblin Spirit Guide 2R (U)
Creature - Goblin Spirit
Any time you could play an instant, you may reveal Goblin Spirit Guide from your hand, then remove a card in your hand at random from the game. If you do, add to your mana pool
"First, empty your mind... Good... Keep going... More..."
2/2

Eris, Godess of Chaos 3RR
Legendary Creature--Spirit Godess
Haste
R,T: If target spell has any targets, rechoose those targets at random.
Whenever a player taps a land for mana, that player adds one mana of a random color to his or her mana pool instead.
"Enough talking. I want to hear some screaming."
5/2

(For those who haven't seen the movie: Eris is the Godess of Chaos in Sinbad, the Dreamworks cartoon version.)

Moody Goblin 3:tongue3::tongue3::tongue3::tongue3: (this is pink. If you really hate pink i guess you can pretend its red)
Creature - Goblin Berserker
As ~comes into play, roll 3 dice.
~'s power is equal to the first dice rolled.
~'s tougness is equal to the second dice rolled.
When ~ comes into play, it gains X of these abilities where X is equal to the third dice rolled: First Strike, Haste, Vigilance, Flying, Trample and Fear
On some days he would feel like smashing down cities, on other days he preferred to sleep in.
*/*

Ahrrgg! I can't believe I forgot to add the flavor text, I had it all cooked up and ready to go and I didn't put it in! Damn! :mad::mad::mad::mad:

Acumen Staff 4
Artifact (R)
At the begining of your upkeep spread out your hand facedown on the table. Roll a dice then reveal the Xth card from the left where X is equal to the dice roll. Until end of turn you may play the revealed card without paying it's mana cost.
"Fools may use the staff, but it will avail them nothing, only an intellect like mine can utilise it's potential." - Harrev, Graceful Adept .

I made a small edit on my card, i forgot some essential text that goes with searching.
like Shuffle.

Unis, One for All
Legendary Artifact Creature- Golem Rogue
When Unis comes into play, it deals 1 damage to you, add to your mana pool, and you may search your library for a card with a converted mana cost of 1, reveal it, and put it into your hand. If you do, shuffle your library.
1/1

I have but a small problem with the "The revealed cards with the lowest converted mana cost are put into play". What if the 2 creatures have the same ccc? I know that you mean that they both come into play, but techically there's no "lowest" cost.

Actually, techinally, both cards have the lowest and the highest converted mana costs in case of a tie. Since they are put into play first, the will not be removed from play later.

Also the card is a veritable powerhouse. It is a cripple-cranial extraction mixed with put 3 weenie creatures into play. Imagine against creatureless decks! or decks with nothing but 3 copies of morphling. I was thinking of making the cc :2mana::symr:, but was afraid you might realize how good the card really is.

Honestly it is a multiplayer card.

Cogradulations ZeDorkSlipeur The flavor text of your card made me laugh.

Hey! No fair! If we ever have a prize for most custom card contests won, this counts toward my total!

And about your point that it was random in a non-random way: that is what I was trying to do. If you see the movie ever, you'll see that Eris uses chaos almost systematically to acheive her own ends.

My card:

One With the World 4W
Enchantment
If you control exactly one artifact, one enchantment, one land, and one creature, you win the game.

One with Everything
Instant
Gain 1 life and add to your mana pool.
Choose one: put a +1/+1 counter on target creature; or add 1 mana of any color to your mana pool; or put a land from your hand into play; or return target creature card with mana cost from your graveyard to your hand; or put a 1/1 green Saproling creature token into play.
When everything remains, nothing is impossible.

Spectacular Research - U
Instant

As an additional cost to play Spectacular Research, discard a card from your hand.

Search your library for a card with converted mana cost less than or equal to 1, reveal that card, and put it into your hand. Then shuffle your library.

One for the money...

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Sharda:

Acumen Staff
Artifact (R)
At the begining of your upkeep spread out your hand facedown on the table. Roll a dice then reveal the Xth card from the left where X is equal to the dice roll. Until end of turn you may play the revealed card without paying it's mana cost.
"Fools may use the staff, but it will avail them nothing, only an intellect like mine can utilise it's potential." - Harrev, Graceful Adept .





Flavor/ Innovation: 8 - Pretty original
Ballance: 7 - Might end up doing broken broken things...
Templating/ Design: 3 - Here's my main problem... What if you have 4 cards and roll a 6?
Randomness: 3 - Random in a controled kind of way..
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Total: 21

Couple of issues with my scores
1) Templating/design: The point is that if you do not have a well stocked hand then my card does nothing, so if you roll a six and count from the left and there is no card to reveal, then you don't get anything, note the reference to hand size in the flavor text.
2) Balance: Think about it, the only deck type that maintains a large enough hand size to effectivley use my card is control and all cards in control are reactive, so you get a random card that you can only use on your turn = highly unlikely that the card you reveal will be useful. I also can't see a combo deck going crazy with this either because there is no control over what you get so you would need six of the card you needed in hand, unlikely.
3) Flavor/Innovation: Pretty original? I had to make a whole new template for this card, I'd say that a card must be very original if there are no reference points to work from.
P.S. Flavor and Innovation should not get lumped together as they are two very different things.
4) Randomness: How exactly is my card controlled? There is no way to modify a dice roll, but there is a way to modify coin flips, therefore shouldn't my card be more random than a coin flip card?

I don't want to sound like a whining A-hole, but could you please take another look at my scores? You don't have to change them if you think your originals were right,
but I would appreciate a second look.

The Chosen One 4WW
Instant
Remove target creature from the game. Destroy all creatures in play, they cannot be regenerated. At the end of the turn, put that creature back into play under its owner's control.
"Altes, we tried it your way; now we are doing it mine. Rebuild the world as you built Sher Meron, none here were worth saving." Salus, the traveler.

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zoombinimatt gets a special w00t w00t award.

yay i get an award... for... something... because my card was pink?

anyway, new round so heres my entry
Pinky Ring 1
Enchantment
Whenever a player rolls a dice, if it is a 1, you may put a 1/1 blue one creature token with first strike, bushido 1 and rampage 1 into play. Otherwise the dice roll counts as a 1.
Whenever you have exactly one card in each of your library, hand and graveyard, one permanent in play, one spell on the stack and are on one life, you win the game.
The ring on the little finger counts with only the finger that wears it.

the flavour on these cards is going to be a bit.... strange.

Blessed Are The Meek 1WW (R)
Enchantment
At the beginning of your upkeep, if you have exactly 1 life, you win the game
"You just inherited the Earth! What are you going to do next?"
"I going to... ack! *thud*"

P.S. Flavor and Innovation should not get lumped together as they are two very different things.

Good point, I revised the defalt scoring again. Of course judges do as you like.

@ Poukis, thanks for taking the time to have another look, it is much appreciated.

My card:

The Many 5
Creature - Elemental
~ comes into play as one of the following of your choice: a white 2/3 with vigilance, a blue 3/2 with flying, a red 4/1 with first strike or a green 3/3 with trample.
If you control 2 or more creatures named 'The Many' they must all be different colours.
If you control exactly 4 creatures named 'The Many' remove them all from the game and put a Legendary 13/13 black Elemental creature token with vigilance, flying, first strike and trample named 'The One' into play.
The One is greater than the sum of it's parts.
*/*

@erikcu: Well, it depends from match-up to match-up... You might end up getting 3 suntail hawks... Or giving your opponent 3 of them... (or of course, both). Plus most of the decks now are running green and you might as well give your opponent free birds ands elves.

All hail Ornithopter.