MTG Salvation

Draught of Courage 1
Artifact - Formula {C}
Brew (This enters tapped and doesn’t untap during your untap step. You may choose to not untap a tapped creature during your untap step to tap this.)
R, Q: Target creature gets +2/+0 and gains haste until end of turn.

IIW: Non-basic lands with a single basic land type

Obnoxious Rooster R
Creature - Bird {C}
Skulk
R, : Untap another target creature you control.
1/1

IIW: Mad Max themed

Individually spoilertagged judgments...
Next: Mad Max themed

Quote from VolrathTheRisen »

Individually spoilertagged judgments...
[spoiler=Quebec’s Fort Knox]Ulka - Syrup Maker
Is this... is this an MtG-based reference to Canada's weird command economy on maple syrup?

Even if that reference is unintentional, I love it! But I'm still not convinced that "GGG: 2 life & draw" is safe to unleash upon the non-Canuck population.

I had thought about putting a spigot counter on the forest when tapping and making the tree tapper only able to put the spigot on a tree with out one to keep it more manageable but it seemed cluttered. but I'm glad you like it.

any way MAd Max is up:

Witness Me! 1R
Instant
Target creature gains double strike and trample until end of turn. Sacrifice it at the end of turn.
"I will see you in Valhalla were all is Shiny and Chrome."

IIW: North America Wildlife and Native Peoples Plane

Spiky Flamethrower 2
Artifact - Equipment
Equipped creature has trample.
R: Equipped creature gets +1/+0 until end of turn.
Equip 2
When equipping to a Vehicle creature, reduce this Equip cost to 0.

My knowledge of the Mad Max franchise is quite limited.

IIW: Noggles

Horse of Fates 1W
Creature — Horse (U)
4WW, t, Exile Horse of Fates: Exile target creature an opponent controls.
"Bust a deal! Face the wheel!"
—Aunty Entity
1/3

IIW: Madness or a madness enabler.

Chromefill Maniac 1RR
Creature - Human Berserker (Rare)
Haste
Unleash (You may have this creature enter the battlefield with a +1/+1 counter on it. It can't block as long as it has a +1/+1 counter on it.)
As long as Chromefill Maniac has a +1/+1 counter on it, it has trample and "At the beginning of each end step, sacrifice Chromefill Maniac".
3/1

IIW: Squirrels

Anthem of Rage 2RR
Enchantment {R}
Whenever a creature you control attacks, you may double its power until end of turn. If you do, sacrifice it at the beginning of the next end step.

IIW: Mono-hybrid ( ) mana costs

As of now, I stand amazed that I still stand some chance of winning this one!

(This post brought to you by "The Campaign For More Trashtalking For A Greater Club Flamingo".)

Head-Busting Team 4GU
Creature - Giant Dwarf Warrior Wizard (M)
Trample
Whenever Head-Busting Team deals combat damage to a player, counter the next spell that player casts.
GU, Exile Head-Busting Team: Create a 4/4 green Giant Warrior creature token with "You may assign this creature's combat damage as though it weren't blocked" and a 1/1 blue Dwarf Wizard creature token with "T: Counter target spell unless its controller pays 2".
5/5

IIW: Expand the color pie section of an underserved color.

Makeshift Spikes 1
Artifact- Equipment (C)
Brace 1 (1: Attach to target permanent you control.)
Braced Permanent has spiky 1. (When that permanent blocks or becomes blocked by a creature, it deals 1 damage to that creature. When it becomes the target of a spell or ability, it deals 1 damage to that spell or ability's controller.)
"Nice car. Mine has spikes."

IIW: Odd white cards.

I'll be judging sometime today. Probably late afternoon EST.

Judge?

I say there's a three way tie for first place based on flavor, mechanics, and execution of concept. So I'll default to personal bias and declare void_nothing to be the winner. I'm a sucker for Simic and the color combo needs some serious buffing.
Honorable mentions go Ulka and VolrathTheRisen.

Next:
Expand the color pie section of an under-served color.

(Anything under than blue is underserved )

Manablaze 3R
Sorcery (Common)
Disintegrate 3 This spell deals 3 damage to target nonland permanent. If that permanent's converted mana cost is 3 or less, exile it.
"Some say water beats fire. I say you should have brought more fire."
-Jaya

IIW: Devour

Calif's Decree 1W
Enchantment (R)
At the beginning of combat on each opponent's turn, that player may have you draw a card. If they don't, creatures you control get +7/+7 until end of turn.


IIW: An alternate reality version of a character (like Mirri, Cat Warrior - Mirri the Cursed).

Challenge the Alpha 1GG
Sorcery (U)
Target creature you control deals damage equal to its power to target player. That player deals damage equal to their life total to that creature.
The beast stomped its hooves and charged blindly at the archmage.
--Tales From the Rifts, Volume II

Judging in about 12 hours no matter what.

They're lands. Dropping them has a cost. It's still your land drop for the turn. It still doesn't use the stack. Anything about this which you might think would create rules problems doesn't.

They mainly exist in green.

Restless Mulchpile 1G
Land - Forest
When a spell paid for with mana from Restless Mulchpile resolves, create a 1/1 green Saproling token.

Stalking Grove 2G
Land Creature - Forest Treefolk
Stalking Grove has defender while your life total is 10 or more.
Stalking Grove may block while tapped.
3/5

Leyline Intersection 2GG
Enchantment Land - Forest
Whenever a player taps a Forest for mana, that player adds G.

P.S. I hope the challenge allows for expanding a color's slice of the pie by unlocking new design space, not just by cannibalising effects from another color? If not then I've kinda lost.

IIW: More lands with costs

Spooky Dog 2B
Creature - Hound Horror
Whenever ~ becomes blocked by a nonblack creature, return that creature to its owner's hand.
3/2

Gruesome Gutting 3BB
Sorcery
Destroy target creature. Return up to one target nonblack creature to its owner's hand.

Creepy Ritual 1B
Instant
Add BBB. Return up to one target nonblack creature to its owner's hand.
The satyr knew it was time to leave the party when he was passed a skull full of goat blood and told to chug.

IIW: equipment that does not boost power/toughness (eg Leonin Bola, Helm of the Host)

Azhri, Slum Razer 2RW
Legendary Creature - Angel Mythic
Flying, Vigilance
Whenever a player taps a land on another player's turn, destroy that land.
Whenever a land is destroyed, gain 2 life.
3/4


Boros Control is never show anymore nor is Land destruction.

IIW: North America Wildlife and Native Peoples Plane

Dwarven Forger 1R
Creature — Dwarf Artificer (R)
When Dwarven Forger enters the battlefield, you may search your library for an Equipment card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle your library.
Equipment spells you cast cost 1 less to cast.
1/2

IIW: A card with madness that enables madness.

Agrarian Bounty 2(G/W)(G/W)
Enchantment {R}
You may look at the top card of your library any time.
Exile a Forest or Plains from the top of your library: Each player may draw a card.
A Farmer’s goal is to feed every mouth. After their family, that is.
-Mayor Renton Tralbore

IIW: Planes

Man, this must have been a bad challenge, because so many of these entries either missed the point or were just plain bad

Subject16 - This doesn't add that much to red (creature removal based on... CMC instead of toughness I guess? and enchantment kill) and what it does add is problematic.

Mergatroid_Jones - While answering a challenge like this with white card draw feels a bit too easy - it's the flavor-of-the-month design problem - the fact is this card's spot-on. It all but taxes your opponents with card draw in order to attack you, and the fact that it's a big ol' Righteousness referenced doesn't hurt it with little old nostalgic me.

Helix Pinnacle - Interesting if obvious (just write it as "fights target player" like a manly custom designer you coward) design that maybe solves a problem that doesn't exist; green already HAS trample and Thorn Elemental's ability, it doesn't really need extra help hitting face.

VolrathTheRisen - One, this does not work and I don't blithely ignore stuff like that; two, what color pie problem is this supposed to be solving? The point of the challenge was to use new or new-to-color design space to actually make a color more playable. What's the point of this in that context? Like green gets, uh, creatures and enchantments just fine lmao

JaceTheBodySculptor - What in the world made you think black needed or wanted bounce? First of all, black is not exactly starving for removal options (and at sorcery speed and "nonblack" it's not useful to save your own creatures). "It makes them go back to hand because they're spooked" is an especially childish and inappropriate flavor justification; the color pie's not built to handle stuff like that otherwise we'd casually have blue lifegain because medicine is a science and red hexproof because it stubbornly ignores enemy spells or something.

Ulka - I dunno, I feel like these abilities could easily be printed in a Commander-set commander, possibly with both body and cost slightly bigger; there's nothing even marginally shifting the current color pie about this, especially since it's not """""part of an LD strategy that's not supported anymore""""", it's just a City of Solitude/taxing variant.

Flatline - I'm definitely comfortable moving this stuff into red and away from white; let white keep Aura manipulation and let the other weenie color get Equipment stuff, yknow? There's already precedent of some kind for it. Feels like a core set card. Realistic enough.

Cardz5000 - I've judged this card before. Whatever I said before still goes

HMs: Helix Pinnacle, Flatline
Winner: Mergatroid_Jones
Next: An alternate reality version of a character (like Mirri, Cat Warrior - Mirri the Cursed).