MTG Salvation

Frantic Detective 1R
Creature- Human (U)
Discard a card: Investigate.
"You don't understand, this goes deeper than a few murders and a cover-up. Much Deeper."
1/2

IIW: Graveyard synergy for white.

Goblin Analysis R
Instant C
As an additional cost to cast ~, discard a card.
Draw a card, then investigate.
After finding damning evidence, Bobkil declared the case wide open.

Next: Hybrid commons

Cryptic Homicide BB
Instant {U}
Destroy target creature. It’s controller investigates (They create a colorless Clue artifact token with “2, Sacrifice this artifact: Draw a card.”)

IIW: Big Red Rare Enchantments

Tuvu Stonebreaker 2R
Creature - Dwarf Artificer (Rare)
T, Sacrifice a nontoken artifact or land: Investigate twice. (Create two colorless Clues artifact tokens with "2, Sacrifice this artifact: Draw a card.")
Whenever you sacrifice a Clue, flip a coin. If you win the flip, create a colorless Treasure artifact token with "T, Sacrifice this artifact: Add one mana of any color."
Archaeology has seen finer days.
2/3

IIW: Holidays

Cryptopotence BBB
Enchantment
Skip your draw step.
Whenever you discard a card, exile that card from your graveyard.
Pay 1 life: At the beginning of your next end step, investigate.
The tome contained everything he needed to know, except how to read it.

IIW:
Make Red good in Commander, without artifact-related shenanigans nor copying spells/abilities

Curse of Paranoia 1BB
Enchantment — Aura Curse {R}
Enchant Player
Enchanted player skips their draw step.
At the beginning of enchanted player’s upkeep, that player investigates (They create a colorless Clue artifact token with “2, Sacrifice this artifact: Draw a card.”)

IIW: Use your favorite ability word (ability words are: addendum, battalion, bloodrush, channel, chroma, cohort, constellation, converge, council's dilemma, delirium, domain, eminence, enrage, fateful hour, ferocious, formidable, grandeur, hellbent, heroic, imprint, inspired, join forces, kinship, landfall, lieutenant, metalcraft, morbid, parley, radiance, raid, rally, revolt, spell mastery, strive, sweep, tempting offer, threshold, undergrowth, and will of the council.)

Cavern Expeditions 2R
Enchantment (U)
Whenever a creature you control attacks, you may tap an untapped Mountain you control. If you do, investigate.
R, Sacrifice two Clues: Target creature can't block this turn.

IIW: Blue Cats

Autopsy Fanatic 3B
Creature - Thrull
Wither
Whenever a creature dealt damage by Autopsy Fanatic this turn dies, investigate.
1R: Autopsy Fanatic gains first strike & menace until end of turn.
3/2

IIW: Spells which cost 0.

iiw: Steve Irwin

Atlas Nova - Ruthless Tipster : This seems quite overcosted, a sacrifice outlet is great but a 3 cmc 1/1 is just so bad. Wouldnt have minded more beef or less cost (life or cmc, maybe evem gain life?).

Volrath the Risen - Autopsy Fanatic This card has so much depth, balance is fine, I love the 4 cmc and 2 skill cost. At 4 cmc you have already casted this so youre guaranteed to have at least for mana for 1 activation and 1 investigation.

Jam block - Cavern Expeditions. This is powerful indeed, its "dependent on other cards a lot" gets a deduction but not much because red wanna attacks anyways. It effectively costs 2r to draw a card + an attack, and i beleive red could get it at that mana cost.

cardz 5000 - Curse of Paranoia . This is certainly a nice curse. Although i feel weirded oit a bit, this taxes draws with 2 mana and black doesnt feel like the taxing type. It certainly fits black flavorfully though.

mirris legend - Cryptopotence. I see what you did there. Nice callbackbto necropotence. Im not an older player, and i do not know much about black summer, but this is probably worse than Greed or Erebos anyway in terms of power drawing.

subjwct 16 - Tuvu stonebreaker. So many moving parts, saccing, investigating, flipping then treasuring. This guy creates so many artifacts and is an improved and killable version of stuffe like aggressive mining and such. The treasures, which are effectively "savable" refunds on you clue cost seem tacked on, but adds a "wo so many artifacts" feel to it.

sephon 19, goblin analysis Insolent Neonate sorcery version. Useful as above and allows you to effevtively tormenting voice for 2r. Nice. Simple.

megatroimd jones - frantuc analyst powerful for getting hellbent or giving you shrapnel blast ammo immediately. But this kinda goes agains red philosophy of NOW, in my opinion. You trade the cards you have NOW, for cards you xan have later.


All are good, none are jarring.
I like the simplicity and effeciency of some entries, sometimes less is more
I also like some which go for absurd amounts of artifacts as a giveaway to MORE MORE MORE.
Some feel off color but a very solid round indeed.

Subject 16 wins this round.

Next: Holidays

Rauck-Chauv 2R
Legendary Enchantment
Vanishing 2
Goblin creatures get +2/+0.
Red creatures have haste.
Creatures with power 4 or more have provoke & trample.
When Rauck-Chauv leaves play, each player sacrifices an artifact and a land.

IIW: Gobs with jobs (like Goblin Artisans, Goblin Chirurgeon, Goblin Assassin). Orcs also acceptable (like Orcish Librarian, Orcish Lumberjack, Orcish Farmer).

Arbor Day 3G
Sorcery (U)
Search your library for a Forest card and put it onto the battlefield, then you gain 1 life for each Forest you control.

IIW: Blue Cats

Remembrance of the Mending 1WU
Sorcery {U}
Gain 2 life and draw a card for each legendary permanent you control.

IIW:
Make Red good in Commander, without artifact-related shenanigans nor copying spells/abilities

Day of Mourning 1W
Enchantment (U)
At the beginning of your upkeep sacrifice Day of Mourning.
When Day of Mourning enters the battlefield, exile all creatures cards from all graveyards, and gain life equal to the number of cards exiled in this way.
When a creature it put into a graveyard from anywhere, exile it and gain 2 life.

Day of Silence 1G
Enchantment (U)
At the beginning of your upkeep sacrifice Day of Silence.
Play Day of Silence only during your first main phase.
Creatures can't attack and have "T: Add C."

IIW: Legendary cards with thirteen words of rules text or less. (Reminder text doesn't count as rules text. A symbol doesn't count as a word.)

...Ashley Judge?

VolrathTheRisen: I appreciate the use of a holiday that actually exists in the MTG lore, but Vanishing and Provoke wouldn't ever make an appearance on Ravnica I feel. However it does a lot for Goblins as a tribe and its nice to see Provoke make a comeback.

Jamblock: Ramp into lifegain makes for an interesting card for green decks, but aside from the card's name I don't feel the holiday vibe.

mirrislegend: Tying a holiday to the Mending and using the legendary theme on Dominaria to help cement it to the plane is a nice touch. In the right deck this becomes a terribly powerful draw spell however, so there may be balance checks to look over.

Mergatroid_Jones: These enchantments having a one turn survivability help give out the feel that it's an event and not something permanent. Day of Mourning is a fantastic piece of graveyard hate, but I'm not a big fan of Day of Silence as preventing attacks is definitely a white effect and not a green one.

Winner is mirrislegend! Our next challenge is:

Make Red good in Commander, without artifact-related shenanigans nor copying spells/abilities

iiw: Treat a wedge as if it had be isolated like a shard from the other two colors. Create a legendary creature or from there or a representative mythic spell

Shing Ktaxis, World's End 3RRR
Legendary Creature- Avatar (M)
When Shing Ktaxis enters the battlefield, destroy all lands.
"When the prophesy is fulfilled, she will be born and speak a single word to end our world." - Teachings Of the Shkiyune
3/3

IIW: Magic items (not weapons).

Cry of Revolution 3RRRRR
Sorcery [R]
Deal five damage divided as you choose among any number of any targets. Gain control of creatures and planeswalkers dealt damage this way, until end of turn. Untap creatures dealt damage this way, and they gain haste and trample until end of turn.


IiW:
1 Uncommon, 1 Rare, 1 Mythic Rare, that are all themed or related

Elkin Sunderer 2RR
Creature - Efreet (R)
T: Scry 2, then exile the top card of your library. You may play that card this turn.
Whenever you scry, you may pay RR. If you do, create X 1/1 red Splinter creature tokens, where X is the number of cards you scried.
2/4

IIW: Time shenanigans

Linni, the Conqueror 2RR
Legendary Creature - Orc Warrior (Mythic)
Trample, haste
Whenever Linni, the Conqueror deals combat damage to a player, gain control of target land that player controls for as long as you control Linni. Untap that land.
Whenever you tap a land you control but don't own for mana, add one mana of the same type that land produced.
"Consider yourself evicted."
4/4

IIW: Exchanging control

Fires of Inspiration
1RR
Enchantment
At the beginning of your upkeep, exile a card from the top of your library for each opponent who was dealt damage since the beginning of your last turn. You may play those cards this turn.

IIW: Hybrid Spells

Judge?

If I have to, I'll drop and judge tomorrow morning; the challenge is going on four days long.

My bad! I didn't expect to win! I'll judge within the next 4 hours.