MTG Salvation

July has officially come to an end and we have a winner: willows. Congratulations to them and thanks to everybody who played or judged. Final scores are in the round thread.

Congrats willows!

Just a couple of notes:
1. My original design (when I just had a placeholder posted) was very similar to Jimmy Groove's, but he posted it first so I had to think of something else. If I remember right, the one I was working on hit Planeswalkers too and dealt damage based on CMC.

2. I actually managed to sneak in a Wheel of Time reference this time!

As a judge, do I ignore card renders or can I potentially give extra points for flavor or whatever?

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As a judge, do I ignore card renders or can I potentially give extra points for flavor or whatever?

ManyCookies,

Card renders are ignored in terms of adding or taking of points from the participant. They are merely for "flavor" purposes, and should have no bearing on a result.

Judgement is done.

Judgments are done.

I liked every card I judged in some way. Even the cards with significant problems still had some fun ideas behind them.

My judgments and round 2 should both be up later tonight.

Something came up, I'll have them first thing tomorrow.

Getting some 2014 CF flashbacks here.

While I am being watchful of the MCC, I'm not omnipotent. If you feel there is an infraction going on please post in the thread or PM me if you feel more comfortable that way.

As is stands currently, AA posted within the grace period asking for an extension and has until tonight to post his judgings and the next round. Otherwise it will be an infraction as no more extensions can be given.

What no no, I was just teasing. I don't mind extensions if one needs em (for good reason), and I'm not gonna yell at the host who's already doing a bunch of extra work over me!

I'm not complaining, or at all want my score changed. Mostly just bringing it up because it's funny.


My card had point's deducted for being underpowered.

My card was from COLDSNAP have you ever played in a Coldsnap draft? Literally everything is such trash I was worried my uncommon was overpowered. #TribalAuroks4Life

Aww crap I took balance points away from a Champions of Kawigama submission for being underpowered, should give those back.

The recover cards weren't THAT bad. They're playable-ish even if you never recovered them, I wouldn't be too embarrassed having one in a modern limited deck (aside from the lifegain card). If we're aiming for the "overcosted but playable" power level on display there, your card should create two tokens at 4 mana or something.

I get that, Coldsnap is actually one of my favorite sets, it has so many interesting parts.

I balanced off buyback token spells completely totally expected it to lose out on being underpowered, no one really cares about those spells.

We should have a thread where we rate real magic cards with the same criteria we do here. That sounds fun.

Most of the recover cards were overcosted by one mana (Controvert vs Cancel, Grim Harvest vs Raise Dead, etc). Yours is overcosted by two mana.

But at any rate, I'm glad you had fun this round at the MCC. I wish you good luck the next month you participate in And when you say "same criteria", do you mean the MCC rubric?

I have zero complaints about your judgement, it came in exactly where it deserved.

I was just making a stab at Coldsnap.

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(1.5/3) Viability: Pseudo Upheaval stitched to Pseudo Wheel of Fortune. Not sure I like that the second choice can be played with just blue mana, but at least there’s red in the entwine cost. However, it’d be the first time an entwine card didn’t have a mono color identity (ever, not just in Mirrodin). Power-level-wise, it should be mythic, but the effect isn’t especially interesting, so rare seems OK.
(1/3) Balance: The going rate for the first choice alone is 3UU. It would be undercosted without the second choice or the option to entwine them. This would dominate limited environments and definitely feature prominently in standard. Global effects like this get better in multiplayer formats, so suffice it to say I think this card is far too good.

I guess you missed the Windfall card, so without Entwine it will be slightly undercosted Devastation Tide or overcosted Windfall. I added red mostly to make card more unique, but each of these effects is blue (though second effect can be monored as well).
I passed the first round challenge so everything is fine but I feel like I should explain more.
And about flavor - kinda agree, it fits Fifth Dawn better than Mirrodin (but Entwine was introduced in Mirrodin, not in the third set of the block). Totally can't agree about Glissa and need for green color identity because it shouldn't be a case all the time. For example, we have monowhite Hour of Revelation spell that was planned by Bolas and performed by Razaketh but no one of them is white.

So... anyone know how to do the new "Choose One" template for custom cards? Can anyone look at mine and tell me whether that's acceptable or not?

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So... anyone know how to do the new "Choose One" template for custom cards?

Copy and paste these:

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Ok yall better think real hard about whether your card is actually appropriate at common. Because if it's clearly not, I'm taking the subchallenge point AND taking multiple points off viability. Don't screw up a good uncommon just for 1 point, the competition isn't that cutthroat!

Thanks Raptorchan!

Hey, if you need help designing a common, here's a couple articles on the subject.
http://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/making-magic/common-courtesy-2002-06-10
http://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/making-magic/common-knowledge-2011-04-18

Round 2 brackets are up.

Judgements are done, do love me a common/limited focused challenge. I feel people were being unique for the sake of being unique rather than actual practicality. I blame the MCC rubric for that.