ℵGelt: A card with converted mana cost exactly 1.
➽Probably Chaff: A black card that targets but doesn't destroy or reduce the power and toughness of creatures.
𝍆Feroz is Serious About His Ban: All of your cards have a flavorful connection to Ulgrotha.
Sengir DepredationXB
Sorcery (R)
Choose target creature. Search its controller's graveyard, hand, and library for up to X cards that share a creature type with that creature and exile them. Then that player loses X life and shuffles their library.
A little technical on the first restriction but works. The idea here is interesting. As a tribe focused cranial extraction it carves out a pretty cool niche for different formats as a strong tribal hate card. The point where this card could cripple a tribal deck will usually be expensive though, and requires they have something on the board to use it. Since that would likely happen after stabilizing the board, it almost falls into win more potential. Still. some tribes are pretty resurgent and can play around wrath-esque effects.
The variability of the card also allows for it to snip a card or two out of an opponents deck for a low cost. For tribes that like to combo or in EDH, this could be pretty disruptive in niche cases. But it is very balanced in how it approaches it.
Adding the life loss gives the card a lot more use as it can be a win condition in itself. It still requires a creature on the board so it doesn't draw as being strictly better then similar counter parts. But so long as they do you can "fail" your searches and just kill off an opponent.
Mechanically the makes the card pretty well balanced with a lot of obvious and less obvious uses that don't directly overshadow cards of the past. It does a lot and scales, but the targeting restrictions I think make it fair. This card doesn't come up with fancy new mechanical terms or ideas, but takes often used ideas and combines them in a fresh, very black way. Well done.
The name is solid and references Ulgrotha, but I feel like some saucy/morbid flavor text would tie it together better and add gravitas. Especially as a way to tie in the tribe-hating nature of the card. It has the room for a little blurb. What makes Sengir Depredation "racist"?
♦Tribute to Godot: None of your cards this round can be red.
•Devoid the Noid: A colorless nonartifact card.
🀨Pretty Tech in Hobo Magic: None of your cards have mana costs.
Barren Plateau
Land - Plains {R} (T: Add W.)
As Barren Plateau enters the battlefield, you may pay 1 life. If you don’t, Barren Plateau enters the battlefield tapped. T, Pay 1 life: Add B or R.
A plateau is a raised plain. Barrenness is nicely portrayed by life payment and B and R mana production so the flavor is coherent. Makes me wonder what the other nine would be flavored like.
Its mechanically sound if not novel. A perfect fit for a wedge set. Some folks might overlook the fact that it's a Plains. Playing it could be quite painful, but at least it taps for W painlessly.
Megiddo's Justice: A Bird without flying. Antitribu: All of your cards are creatures, and none of your cards share a creature type.
No Time to Read: None of your cards has more than fifteen words of rules text.
Roadrunner (Uncommon) 2R
Creature - Bird
3/1
Haste
Roadrunner can't be blocked by Vehicles or Walls.
Flying over the restriction list I did not come up with an idea for a bird that could not do that. On the spot this was an elusive concept to me. But of course, there are actual flightless birds! It's like you just went right through the wall I found myself running against. I think you did capture this roadrunners flavour quite nicely. The actual animal is indeed a pretty fast fellow, I just watched a video of one running. And of course the comic version, always unharmed by the ol' coyote's contraptions.
When doing a top-down design like this, it can sometimes happen that every aspect of the model ends up on the card, leading the card to be clunky and have too much going on. Here you met two of the core qualities with the little words you where allowed to use.
In Keldon Overseer we have a very recent creature that's very similar. Mana cost and stats are the same. The Overseer has a significant upside in the late game. Whereas the Runner has basically trinket text. I think he could be common without causing any issues.
With the second chosen restriction I wish there was at least one other creature. While you did technically abide by it, your single card is a creature and does not share a creature type with zero other cards, it does feel unneeded.
6/10
How can I post Non Latin Unicode characters again? I read it somewhere a while ago. . .
High Holy Day: A card with converted mana cost exactly 7. AP Credit for Alchemy: All your cards are rare artifacts. No Time to Read: None of your cards has more than fifteen words of rules text.
(I wanted to have the neat little icons, but it says "Non Latin Unicode characters are temporarily not allowed".)
Orb of Infinite Failure7
Artifact (R)
Spells cost your opponents an additional 3 to cast. Constant failure is an excellent teacher.
I think that if you plan to hardcast it, it's not very exciting. At such a stage of the game the effect comes more as an annoyance that might slow your opponent a bit or keep a bomb out of cast reach for a while, but for buying time there are more reliable tools. In limited formats this is something you wouldn't want to be opening.
However, if you start to think what you can end up doing with it, it gets a bit more interesting: Cheating this into play aa early as possible can have devastating consequences for yoir opponent while turning you into a very hated opponent. Welder and Transmuter are the ways of cheating this into play from the top of my head, but they need some setup. This might work also as a final nail in the coffin if paired with some resource denial.
Now in commander, this might be a tool for keeping problematic commanders from cast range, but other players will not like it very much. Is that kind of effect that annoys you since you can endure it as long as something worrying is kept at bay, but it demanda to be blasted away sooner or later. it might be something to give a try at least, but the commander pool is so huge and varied it's hard to find room for it.
The effect is very clean, and althought I can't really see it working too well it haa a certain charm that invites you to think around it.
Gerrard's Mom - Sneakily done on the restrictions, just how I like it. Sure, Homelands flavor is easy now, but just wait until you have to make the twelfth card using it kappa. 'S a pretty unique effect, the sort of thing that generally wouldn't really need to target a creature and would just have you choose a creature type, but that might have to cost more due to its ability to cripple tribal decks out of the gate. The flavor and effect are both... bretty gud, I don't have much to say other than 9.
Cardz5000 - An ETBuntapped triple land cycle seems scary, especially a fetchable one, but it being a hybrid pain/shockland (well, not quite, given it's only 1 life) is a good balancing factor. Definitely would like to see this in an enemy tricolor context. Flavor is a bit generic. 7.5
Mergatroid_Jones - More's the pity, as the card you kept from your three original designs was the one I liked the least. This is not an effect that's going to matter all that much late-game so in practice this'll probably be a thing that gets cheated out and makes everyone hate you like your name is Winterspring and it's 2013 in Club Flamingo. Cycling was a good addition here that should have stayed on. Shoulda used the septuple Ophidian! 4
IcariiFA - There are... probably too many moving parts here? Legendary instants/sorceries work on Kamigawa well enough but the typeline screams "fanmade card" overly much. I can't look at the card name without thinking of Goku and his Genki Dama, which is not the image I want in mind necessarily. Checking two CMC values would get hard to parse and you'd see a lot of people gaining the wrong amount of life. All in all this should have just checked the spell's CMC to make splice matter more - in the ideal world this'd be a Celestial Kirin reference and monowhite. 6.5
picnic_bomber - The name, referring to an order of religious people rather than an order in the sense of a command that must be obeyed, is bizarre on a sorcery. So is black creature stealing without a life payment or similar; in fact the whole dealie is kinda... fringe color-pie-wise. 5
Antiantiserum - Reprocess is awesome but complex and math-intensive and relatively hard to justify at common. The Golgari getting Vehicles is also somewhat strange flavorwise. All in all, quite a lot of work for a square-stats beater. 6
Legend - The "or Walls" part is the only bit of the trinket text that baffles me. The whole faster-than-anything-driving thing is sensible, but why the run-around-Walls bit? Also, 3 power seems a bit big for a mundane roadrunner. If this had some sort of fantastical place name in the name - Jamuraan Roadrunner, for example - I'd be able to buy it's much bigger or fiercer than an Earthly one. 6.5
willows - The Eradicator seems... highly annoying without a "nonland" clause. Great in concept though - I recall you did something similar with a little card called Ascension War in an old CCL. Methodology of Secrets is somehow even more abuseable than Omniscience but it's also harder to cheat out, so fair's fair. Still could use an "Exile this card" clause. 6
Hemlock - Strictly better Serra Angels gonna strictly better. I made a card with that exact ability very recently so you know I think it's good kappa. High toughness plus that same ability might prove to be a problem, but meh. 8
Tribute to Godot: None of your cards this round can be red. Probably Chaff: A black card that targets but doesn't destroy or reduce the power and toughness of creatures.
Pretty Tech in Hobo Magic: None of your cards have mana costs.
Defiled Order
(B) Sorcery (R)
Suspend X - XBB. X can't be 0.
Whenever a time counter is removed from Defiled Order, create a 0/1 black Cleric creature token.
Gain control of target creature with converted mana cost X or less, where X is the number of Clerics you control.
Okay, your restrictions are all on point. This card seems, like, decent, but it's not wildly compelling to me. 6/10
I̟̥͍̠ͅn̩͉̣͍̬͚ͅ ̬̬͖t̯̹̞̺͖͓̯̤h̘͍̬e͙̯͈̖̼̮ ̭̬f̺̲̲̪i͙͉̟̩̰r̪̝͚͈̝̥͍̝̲s̼̻͇̘̳͔ͅt̲̺̳̗̜̪̙ ̳̺̥̻͚̗ͅm̜̜̟̰͈͓͎͇o̝̖̮̝͇m̯̻̞̼̫̗͓̤e̩̯̬̮̩n͎̱̪̲̹͖t͇̖s̰̮ͅ,̤̲͙̻̭̻̯̹̰ ̖t̫̙̺̯͖͚̯ͅh͙̯̦̳̗̰̟e͖̪͉̼̯ ̪͕g̞̣͔a̗̦t̬̬͓͙̫̖̭̻e̩̻̯ ̜̖̦̖̤̭͙̬t̞̹̥̪͎͉ͅo͕͚͍͇̲͇͓̺ ̭̬͙͈̣̻t͈͍͙͓̫̖͙̩h̪̬̖̙e̗͈ ̗̬̟̞̺̤͉̯ͅa̦̯͚̙̜̮f͉͙̲̣̞̼t̪̤̞̣͚e̲͉̳̥r͇̪̙͚͓l̥̞̞͎̹̯̹ͅi͓̬f̮̥̬̞͈ͅe͎ ̟̩̤̳̠̯̩̯o̮̘̲p̟͚̣̞͉͓e͍̩̣n͔̼͕͚̜e̬̱d̼̘͎̖̹͍̮̠,͖̺̭̱̮ ̣̲͖̬̪̭̥a̪͚n̟̲̝̤̤̞̗d̘̱̗͇̮͕̳͕͔ ͖̞͉͎t̹̙͎h̰̱͉̗e̪̞̱̝̹̩ͅ ̠̱̩̭̦p̯̙e͓o̳͚̰̯̺̱̰͔̘p̬͎̱̣̼̩͇l̗̟̖͚̠e̱͉͔̱̦̬̟̙ ̖͚̪͔̼̦w̺̖̤̱e͖̗̻̦͓̖̘̜r̭̥e͔̹̫̱͕̦̰͕ ̗͔̠p̠̗͍͍̱̳̠r̰͔͎̰o͉̥͓̰͚̥s̟͚̹̱͔̣t͉̙̳̖͖̪̮r̥̘̥͙̹a͉̟̫̟̳̠̟̭t͈̜̰͈͎e̞̣̭̲̬ ͚̗̯̟͙i͍͖̰̘̦͖͉ṇ̮̻̯̦̲̩͍ ̦̮͚̫̤t͉͖̫͕ͅͅh͙̮̻̘̣̮̼e͕̺ ͙l͕̠͎̰̥i̲͓͉̲g̫̳̟͈͇̖h̠̦̖t͓̯͎̗ ̳̪̘̟̙̩̦o̫̲f̙͔̰̙̠ ̹̪̗͇̯t͖̼̼͉͖̬h̹͇̩e͚̖̺̤͉̹͕̪ ͚͓̭̝̺G͎̗̯̩o̫̯̮̟̮̳̘d̜̲͙̠-̩̳̯̲̗̜P̹̘̥͉̝h͍͈̗̖̝ͅa͍̗̮̼̗r̜̖͇̙̺a̭̺͔̞̳͈o̪̣͓̯̬͙̯̰̗h̖̦͈̥̯͔.͇̣̙̝
A little technical on the first restriction but works. The idea here is interesting. As a tribe focused cranial extraction it carves out a pretty cool niche for different formats as a strong tribal hate card. The point where this card could cripple a tribal deck will usually be expensive though, and requires they have something on the board to use it. Since that would likely happen after stabilizing the board, it almost falls into win more potential. Still. some tribes are pretty resurgent and can play around wrath-esque effects.
The variability of the card also allows for it to snip a card or two out of an opponents deck for a low cost. For tribes that like to combo or in EDH, this could be pretty disruptive in niche cases. But it is very balanced in how it approaches it.
Adding the life loss gives the card a lot more use as it can be a win condition in itself. It still requires a creature on the board so it doesn't draw as being strictly better then similar counter parts. But so long as they do you can "fail" your searches and just kill off an opponent.
Mechanically the makes the card pretty well balanced with a lot of obvious and less obvious uses that don't directly overshadow cards of the past. It does a lot and scales, but the targeting restrictions I think make it fair. This card doesn't come up with fancy new mechanical terms or ideas, but takes often used ideas and combines them in a fresh, very black way. Well done.
The name is solid and references Ulgrotha, but I feel like some saucy/morbid flavor text would tie it together better and add gravitas. Especially as a way to tie in the tribe-hating nature of the card. It has the room for a little blurb. What makes Sengir Depredation "racist"?
8.5/10
A plateau is a raised plain. Barrenness is nicely portrayed by life payment and B and R mana production so the flavor is coherent. Makes me wonder what the other nine would be flavored like.
Its mechanically sound if not novel. A perfect fit for a wedge set. Some folks might overlook the fact that it's a Plains. Playing it could be quite painful, but at least it taps for W painlessly.
Overall very nice.
8/10
Flying over the restriction list I did not come up with an idea for a bird that could not do that. On the spot this was an elusive concept to me. But of course, there are actual flightless birds! It's like you just went right through the wall I found myself running against. I think you did capture this roadrunners flavour quite nicely. The actual animal is indeed a pretty fast fellow, I just watched a video of one running. And of course the comic version, always unharmed by the ol' coyote's contraptions.
When doing a top-down design like this, it can sometimes happen that every aspect of the model ends up on the card, leading the card to be clunky and have too much going on. Here you met two of the core qualities with the little words you where allowed to use.
In Keldon Overseer we have a very recent creature that's very similar. Mana cost and stats are the same. The Overseer has a significant upside in the late game. Whereas the Runner has basically trinket text. I think he could be common without causing any issues.
With the second chosen restriction I wish there was at least one other creature. While you did technically abide by it, your single card is a creature and does not share a creature type with zero other cards, it does feel unneeded.
6/10
How can I post Non Latin Unicode characters again? I read it somewhere a while ago. . .
I think that if you plan to hardcast it, it's not very exciting. At such a stage of the game the effect comes more as an annoyance that might slow your opponent a bit or keep a bomb out of cast reach for a while, but for buying time there are more reliable tools. In limited formats this is something you wouldn't want to be opening.
However, if you start to think what you can end up doing with it, it gets a bit more interesting: Cheating this into play aa early as possible can have devastating consequences for yoir opponent while turning you into a very hated opponent. Welder and Transmuter are the ways of cheating this into play from the top of my head, but they need some setup. This might work also as a final nail in the coffin if paired with some resource denial.
Now in commander, this might be a tool for keeping problematic commanders from cast range, but other players will not like it very much. Is that kind of effect that annoys you since you can endure it as long as something worrying is kept at bay, but it demanda to be blasted away sooner or later. it might be something to give a try at least, but the commander pool is so huge and varied it's hard to find room for it.
The effect is very clean, and althought I can't really see it working too well it haa a certain charm that invites you to think around it.
6/10
Cardz5000 - An ETBuntapped triple land cycle seems scary, especially a fetchable one, but it being a hybrid pain/shockland (well, not quite, given it's only 1 life) is a good balancing factor. Definitely would like to see this in an enemy tricolor context. Flavor is a bit generic. 7.5
Mergatroid_Jones - More's the pity, as the card you kept from your three original designs was the one I liked the least. This is not an effect that's going to matter all that much late-game so in practice this'll probably be a thing that gets cheated out and makes everyone hate you like your name is Winterspring and it's 2013 in Club Flamingo. Cycling was a good addition here that should have stayed on. Shoulda used the septuple Ophidian! 4
IcariiFA - There are... probably too many moving parts here? Legendary instants/sorceries work on Kamigawa well enough but the typeline screams "fanmade card" overly much. I can't look at the card name without thinking of Goku and his Genki Dama, which is not the image I want in mind necessarily. Checking two CMC values would get hard to parse and you'd see a lot of people gaining the wrong amount of life. All in all this should have just checked the spell's CMC to make splice matter more - in the ideal world this'd be a Celestial Kirin reference and monowhite. 6.5
picnic_bomber - The name, referring to an order of religious people rather than an order in the sense of a command that must be obeyed, is bizarre on a sorcery. So is black creature stealing without a life payment or similar; in fact the whole dealie is kinda... fringe color-pie-wise. 5
Antiantiserum - Reprocess is awesome but complex and math-intensive and relatively hard to justify at common. The Golgari getting Vehicles is also somewhat strange flavorwise. All in all, quite a lot of work for a square-stats beater. 6
Legend - The "or Walls" part is the only bit of the trinket text that baffles me. The whole faster-than-anything-driving thing is sensible, but why the run-around-Walls bit? Also, 3 power seems a bit big for a mundane roadrunner. If this had some sort of fantastical place name in the name - Jamuraan Roadrunner, for example - I'd be able to buy it's much bigger or fiercer than an Earthly one. 6.5
willows - The Eradicator seems... highly annoying without a "nonland" clause. Great in concept though - I recall you did something similar with a little card called Ascension War in an old CCL. Methodology of Secrets is somehow even more abuseable than Omniscience but it's also harder to cheat out, so fair's fair. Still could use an "Exile this card" clause. 6
Hemlock - Strictly better Serra Angels gonna strictly better. I made a card with that exact ability very recently so you know I think it's good kappa. High toughness plus that same ability might prove to be a problem, but meh. 8
I̟̥͍̠ͅn̩͉̣͍̬͚ͅ ̬̬͖t̯̹̞̺͖͓̯̤h̘͍̬e͙̯͈̖̼̮ ̭̬f̺̲̲̪i͙͉̟̩̰r̪̝͚͈̝̥͍̝̲s̼̻͇̘̳͔ͅt̲̺̳̗̜̪̙ ̳̺̥̻͚̗ͅm̜̜̟̰͈͓͎͇o̝̖̮̝͇m̯̻̞̼̫̗͓̤e̩̯̬̮̩n͎̱̪̲̹͖t͇̖s̰̮ͅ,̤̲͙̻̭̻̯̹̰ ̖t̫̙̺̯͖͚̯ͅh͙̯̦̳̗̰̟e͖̪͉̼̯ ̪͕g̞̣͔a̗̦t̬̬͓͙̫̖̭̻e̩̻̯ ̜̖̦̖̤̭͙̬t̞̹̥̪͎͉ͅo͕͚͍͇̲͇͓̺ ̭̬͙͈̣̻t͈͍͙͓̫̖͙̩h̪̬̖̙e̗͈ ̗̬̟̞̺̤͉̯ͅa̦̯͚̙̜̮f͉͙̲̣̞̼t̪̤̞̣͚e̲͉̳̥r͇̪̙͚͓l̥̞̞͎̹̯̹ͅi͓̬f̮̥̬̞͈ͅe͎ ̟̩̤̳̠̯̩̯o̮̘̲p̟͚̣̞͉͓e͍̩̣n͔̼͕͚̜e̬̱d̼̘͎̖̹͍̮̠,͖̺̭̱̮ ̣̲͖̬̪̭̥a̪͚n̟̲̝̤̤̞̗d̘̱̗͇̮͕̳͕͔ ͖̞͉͎t̹̙͎h̰̱͉̗e̪̞̱̝̹̩ͅ ̠̱̩̭̦p̯̙e͓o̳͚̰̯̺̱̰͔̘p̬͎̱̣̼̩͇l̗̟̖͚̠e̱͉͔̱̦̬̟̙ ̖͚̪͔̼̦w̺̖̤̱e͖̗̻̦͓̖̘̜r̭̥e͔̹̫̱͕̦̰͕ ̗͔̠p̠̗͍͍̱̳̠r̰͔͎̰o͉̥͓̰͚̥s̟͚̹̱͔̣t͉̙̳̖͖̪̮r̥̘̥͙̹a͉̟̫̟̳̠̟̭t͈̜̰͈͎e̞̣̭̲̬ ͚̗̯̟͙i͍͖̰̘̦͖͉ṇ̮̻̯̦̲̩͍ ̦̮͚̫̤t͉͖̫͕ͅͅh͙̮̻̘̣̮̼e͕̺ ͙l͕̠͎̰̥i̲͓͉̲g̫̳̟͈͇̖h̠̦̖t͓̯͎̗ ̳̪̘̟̙̩̦o̫̲f̙͔̰̙̠ ̹̪̗͇̯t͖̼̼͉͖̬h̹͇̩e͚̖̺̤͉̹͕̪ ͚͓̭̝̺G͎̗̯̩o̫̯̮̟̮̳̘d̜̲͙̠-̩̳̯̲̗̜P̹̘̥͉̝h͍͈̗̖̝ͅa͍̗̮̼̗r̜̖͇̙̺a̭̺͔̞̳͈o̪̣͓̯̬͙̯̰̗h̖̦͈̥̯͔.͇̣̙̝
Not around... through.
(I guess my age is showing.)