MTG Salvation

Note: This could mean any mechanic designed for RUG. If you want to assign a mechanic to the Temur faction, though, I always thought Ferocious failed to create a meaningful mechanical identity for Temur.

Hydroelemental 3UU
Creature - Elemental [U]
Flying
Skinshift (Remove a +1/+1 counter from this creature: Until end of turn, this creature becomes a copy of another creature you control with power 4 or more that entered the battlefield this turn.)
4/4

Ursine Glorychaser RG
Creature - Bear (R)
Haste
Renown 1 (Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, if it isn't renowned, put a +1/+1 counter on it and it becomes renowned.)
Skinshift (Remove a +1/+1 counter from this creature: Until end of turn, this creature becomes a copy of another creature you control with power 4 or more that entered the battlefield this turn.)
2/2

IiW
Cards with a single pip of colored mana

Gonna do like what Adapt was to Monstrosity, but for Kinship this time.

Qal Sima Farseer 1G
Creature - Human Shaman (Uncommon)
Whispers - At the beginning of your upkeep, look at the top card of your library. If it shares a type with Qal Sima Farseer, you may reveal it. If you do, put a +1/+1 counter on target creature. Put the revealed card on the top or bottom of your library.
She sees conflict in her visions, and so Surrak prepares for war.
1/2


Wave of Frost 1U
Instant (Common)
Tap up to two target creatures.
Whispers - Look at the top card of your library. If it shares a type with this spell, you may reveal it. If you do, those creatures don't untap during their controllers' next untap step. Put the revealed card on the top or bottom of your library.


Goblin Snowballer RR
Creature - Goblin Berserker (Mythic)
Trample
Whispers - Whenever Goblin Snowballer attacks, look at the top card of your library. If it shares a type with this card, you may reveal it. If you do, create a token that's a copy of Goblin Snowballer that's tapped an attacking. Put the revealed card on the top or bottom of your library.
Goblin Snowballer gets +1/+1 for each other Goblin you control.
2/2


IIW: Anything Goes

I couldn't come up with something super Temur per se, so I focused on the URG color identity which thankfully led to Temur concepts.

Mechanics:
Body feeds the Mind - When this creature deals combat damage, if it has power 4 or greater, you draw a card.
Mind fuels the Body - When this creature attacks, you may discard a card. If you do, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.

Examples:
Temur Warbeast 1URG
Creature - Beast
Body feeds the Mind
Mind fuels the Body
3/3
It's smarter than it looks.

Pipsqueak Battlerager RG
Creature - Goblin Warrior
Haste
Mind fuels the body
1/2

Temur Warmage URG
Creature - Beast
Body feeds the Mind
4/2

Supply Dropper 2UG
Creature - Bird
Flying
Mind fuels the Body
3/4

IIW:
Deadpool or Deadpool themed

Quote from Shrapnel Clone »

Cerebral Implosion 7BUU
Sorcery
Exile all cards from all libraries.
Draw a card.
'cause explosions are really messy.

BOOM!

How telling for this to have been the very first CF submission ever.

Mechanic: Mysticism N (As this creature enters the battlefield, you may exile an instant or sorcery card with a converted mana mana cost of N from your hand or graveyard. When it deals combat damage to a player, you may cast a copy of that spell without paying its mana cost).

Cards to follow once I’m off work and have time to flesh them out

Edit: Much delayed, but now for actual cards:

Winds of Seeker
1UU
Creature - Human Shaman (Uncommon)
Mysticism 2 (As this creature enters the battlefield, you may exile an instant or sorcery card with a CMC of 2 from your hand or graveyard. When this creature deals combat damage to an opponent, you may cast a copy of that spell without paying its mana costs).
Whenever one or more cards are exiled from your graveyard, you may put the top card of your library into your graveyard.
1/3

Rune-Carved Stomper
3GG
Creature - Beast [Uncommon]
Trample
Mysticism 3
Whenever you copy a spell or cast a copy of a spell, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.
4/3

Stormbreak Runner
1RR
Creature - Vishano Warrior[uncommon]
Haste
Mysticism 2
When Stormbreak Runner enters the battlefield, if you exiled a card from your hand for its Mysticism ability, it gains haste.
2/2

Bloodbraid Truthspeaker
1URG
Creature - Elf Shaman [Rare]
Haste, Mysticism 3
Whenever you copy a spell or cast a copy of a spell, copy that spell an additional time. You may choose new targets for the copy.
3/2

Quote from Oculus »

*Virtual High Five*
I'm interested too see if this is a short-term flurry of activity or whether this is sustainable.

The verdict is in.

What a great roast, nine years later

Mechanic: Augury - when this creature deals combat damage to an opponent, you may either draw a card or put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.

Temur Battle Shaman 1URG
Creature - Elf Shaman
Trample
Augury (When this creature deals combat damage to an opponent, you may either draw a card or put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.)
3/3

Battlefield Sabertooth 2RG
Creature - Cat (R)
Doublestrike
Augury
2/2

IIW: Zone manipulation

Mechanic - Dreamweave (You may cast this spell for its Dreamweave cost. If you do, each other player copies this spell. Each of those players may choose new targets for their copy.)

Because to me, URG is always dream magic. Also because someone already trademarked the name "Dreamcast".

Dreamlike Whispers 1U
Sorcery
Target opponent gains control of target creature you control.
Dreamweave 3U

Starfire Volley 3R
Instant
Starfire Volley deals 4 damage to any target.
Dreamweave 1R

Trove of Wonders 1GG
Sorcery
Create three Treasure artifact tokens with "T, Sacrifice this artifact: Add one mana of any color".
Dreamweave R

Telepathic Cascade 1UR
Sorcery
Discard your hand. Draw three cards.
Dreamweave 1UR

Illusionary Flood 1UG
Instant
Lands you control become Islands until end of turn. Untap those lands.
Dreamweave 3UU

Subterranean Upheaval 3G
Sorcery
Sacrifice a land. Create a 4/4 red and green Wurm creature token with trample.
Dreamweave RR

IIW: More use of Dreamweave

Judging tonight

Forestsguy (Skinshift)- This is a rather unusual ability. Temporary cloning on an odd trigger. This does refer to Ferocious effectively, and I think a temporary cloning effect would be really cool for RUG. Creatures with Skinshift should be shapeshifters, though, and I'm not so sure about the cost being a +1/+1 counter, or the trigger being when a ferocious creature ETBs.

Subject16 (Whispers)- This ability makes loads of sense. So much sense that it doesn't need to be limited to RUG. An artifact with the ability would be very logical, for example. It strikes me as one that starts out being in a faction, and later gets reprinted in other colors. This is pretty reasonable (and strictly better than scry 1 when it triggers).

Mirrislegend (Mind and body)- These are a strange pair. Obviously they work best together. I do enjoy the idea of paired mechanics that can exist together or separately. That's a new bit of design space to play in.

KarmaHoudini (Mysticism)- I like this ability. The main issue is that it struggles to find its greenness. The trampler is good, but it's still strange to see green on a purely instant/sorcery mechanic, even if it's a mechanic that only works on creatures. It would be difficult to add another type (like enchantment or land) to those mysticism cares about, since part of the point is that the spell triggers with every hit like Cipher. Nevertheless, the green seems out of place on a commando spells matter ability.

Graffd02 (Augury)- Super basic, but really good and really plausible. This is a commando ability for green. This may not be the most inspirational design, but I can't find a flaw. It's basic enough to be evergreen or deciduous, and indeed a case could be made for that: RUG don't really share any evergreen mechanics.

VolrathTheRisen (Dreamweave)- You'd have to have some pretty nice designs to convince me on a grouphug mechanic. Oh, damn, those are indeed some pretty neat designs. You've convinced me that there's more to this ability than grouphug, and you've managed to develop a bit more on what it means to be RUG with the whole dreamworld thing. I can totally see a dreamworld faction in RUG on some plane.

Winner: Volrath

Next: More use of Dreamweave (You may cast this spell for its Dreamweave cost. If you do, each other player copies this spell. Each of those players may choose new targets for their copy.)

Thanks for the win! Thanks also for the first challenge in a while which I’ve had a good enough feel for to submit a (non-troll) entry.

A couple of guidelines for this challenge:
1) Entries won’t be marked down for being white or black. I originally saw this as being a URG mechanic but I’m just interested what others will make of it.
2) Including multiple cards in your entry to help develop the idea is very welcome but not compulsory.

My idea is a sorcery that is good just for you, but gets even better when everyone casts a copy. But also comes with a downside as your opponents reap the benefits first...


All For One 2W
Sorcery
Create a 1/1 musketeer creature token with "At the beginning of your upkeep, draw a card for each musketeer in play."
Dreamweave 1W

Demonic Blessings 1BR
Sorcery
Create a 4/4 demon creature token with flying and "At the end of your turn, if you have 3 or more cards in hand, discard your hand."
Dreamweave BR

IIW: Dimir spell with X in the casting cost.

Keeping it RUG.

Ushra, Dreamweaver RUG
Legendary Creature- Faerie Illusion Shaman (R)
Flying
Instant and sorcery spells in your hand have Dreamweave RUG.
3/3

Gathering of Fae 2G
Sorcery (U)
Dreamweave 2G
You may put a land card from your hand onto the battlefield, then create a 1/1 green Faerie creature token for each land that entered the battlefield this turn.

Glass Storm 3R
Sorcery (U)
Dreamweave RR
Destroy target land. Glass Storm deals 2 damage to that land's controller.

Ushra's Joke U
Instant (U)
Dreamweave 1U
Draw a card. If you would draw another card this turn, skip that draw instead.
"I'm not laughing."

IIW: Enrage, or enrage enabler.

Will judge in 8-10hrs so long as there are at least 4 entries by then.

Spreading Nightmares 1BB
Sorcery (Uncommon)
All creatures get -2/-2 until end of turn.
Dreamweave 3BB
"Why save my torments to only one person each night?"
-Ashiok

Alternative Route 2R
Sorcery (Uncommon)
Discard your hand, then draw seven cards.
Dreamweave 3R
Wouldn't we all do differently, if given the chance?

Passing Thought 1WU
Instant (Uncommon)
Exile target creature. Return it to the battlefield under it's owner's control at the beginning of the next end step.
Dreamweave WU
"I had an idea a moment ago, then it left me. I hope it comes back."
-Ishya the Poet

IIW: You lose/win the game?-.

Giving it another day then, I guess!

People should submit a mountain of entries so that the wait won't be a waste of time.

Ayuh.

Sorry for the self-indulgent challenge! Had kind of hoped people would find more uses for this.Next: Enrage, or enrage enabler.

Enraged Primadox 1GG
Creature - Beast (U)/(R)
Trample
Enrage - Whenever Enraged Primadox is dealt damage, return a creature you control to your hand. You gain 2 life.
5/5

IiW:
Gates card

Yea sorry it was just not my kind of mechanic at all.

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Let's try something black.

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Vengeful Spirit 1BB
Creature - Spirit R
Enrage - Whenever Vengeful Spirit is dealt damage, target opponent discards a card.
Whenever an opponent discards a card, you may return Vengeful Spirit from your graveyard to your hand.
2/1

Next: Hybrid commons

Peaceful Gargantua 3UU
Creature - Leviathan (Uncommon)
Defender
Enrage - Whenever Peaceful Gargantua is dealt damage, until the beginning of your next end step, it can attack as though it didn't have defender.
"Don't worry, it won't hurt you. Not unless you give it a reason to."
-Volat, Abyss Diver
5/5

IIW: Wheel effects

Explosive Kavu 1RR
Creature - Kavu
Enrage - Whenever Explosive Kavu is dealt damage, it deals one damage to all other targets.
2/3
"Those who live in grass huts should not raise kavus"
-Gunphusus, Goblin Philosopher

IIW: Equipment with X as the casting cost.

Frostfeather Stasisaurus 2UU
Snow Creature - Dinosaur
Enrage - Whenever ~ is dealt damage, target opponent skips their next untap step.
2/3

IIW: replacement effects at two mana or less

Judging in 4-5 hours.