Legend— Your wording is quite off, and frankly it's not quite in the right colors. White gets flash creatures, but blue and green are the colors that grant flash. This needs to read "You may cast creature cards as though they had flash," with a separate line that reads "Creatures you control have haste." Despite both being flavored as fast, the two don't really go together that well. Flash is often used so that creatures can "pretend" to have haste.
You're right about the wording. Thanks for the errata. I was more about the pun than the Mango. As far as flash and haste going "together that well", that's a matter of opinion. Personally, I think it would be highly advantageous for all of my creatures to have flash for playing around counterspells, combat tricks, and leaving mana open for other options; or for haste to gain or maintain the tempo advantage (especially in limited).
The only real way to anonymize the DCC would be for everyone to pm their entry to a noncompeting thread organizer (and hope he's not petty enough to leak information), which would take the soul out of the game.
Ugh, today's coming up round has some really tough choices. There's about five cards I wanna vote for. Gonna have to get really nitpicky to pick the top two.
Anyone who's been leading the polls all month should be held to a slightly higher standard than copy and paste.
I say that anyone who's been leading the polls all month should be held to exactly the same standard as everybody else.
And interestingly enough, it's up to each individual voter to decide what that standard is.
You're missing the point. I said nothing about holding varying standards from one competitor to the next. I said anyone who is so good at designing cards that he can lead the polls all month should be held to a standard that doesn't reward the submission of a design that basically already exists. But then again - in a way - you're right, everyone should be held to such a standard.
I believe that there is creativity in Flatline's card. I especially like it because it curves out nicely with the new era of CMC ≥ 4 LD.
I also think that Dingus Egg is a great model for how LD effects should proceed in contemporary design. It's established that the LD spells themselves should be neither cheap nor abundant. But the fringe benefits can (and IMO, should) be potent. Flatline's card is an example of how that can look.
Flatline's card also suggests a fun, competitive, non-degenerate, non-griefer LD archetype to me. The execution is straightforward and clean. I like it for all these reasons.
It's copy and paste no matter how you spin it.
Anyone who's been leading the polls all month should be held to a slightly higher standard than copy and paste.
Overseer of the Cliffs
Creature - Ogre Shaman (R)
Whenever a land is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, Overseer of the Cliffs deals 2 damage to that land's controller.
3/3
Dingus Egg on legs. How creative. And it's getting votes.
I've also noticed that some people tend to not cast votes for people higher in the standings than they are, which is a shame for people producing genuinely good cards but inevitable in a 'contest' like this.
I always vote genuinely even when it pains me competitively.
Flatline, I would've voted for the uncommon version of Tracker Hound. It was more exciting imo as an uncommon Extract for a creature than rare creature-only-Cranial Extraction.
So my crazy Goblin has only gotten one vote today. Honestly, that's one more vote than I expected it to get, but I have to say, I love the card. I might put it in my top 5 cards that I've made flavor-wise. I'd like to get rid of the kicker cost (since there's so much already going on), but I'm not sure how else to do what I'm trying to do. I realize the card would be more straight forward if I dropped the transform and had the kicker put out a 2/2 haste Goblin token, but I think it loses a lot of flavor that way. Plus it would be quite crowded. Anyway, I'd love to hear people's thoughts on the card.
The flavor is nigh perfect. I didn't vote for it because I don't think it's printable. Like you said, it's "put a 2/2 haste on bf" in disguise, and I doubt WotC would use DFCs for something they could do without them. It's possible, but not likely. At least not for a decade or so. I do love the card though.
Thanks
I tried to find some homunculus art to help get it across but couldn't find anything decent that wasn't already Magic art.
You're right about the wording. Thanks for the errata. I was more about the pun than the Mango. As far as flash and haste going "together that well", that's a matter of opinion. Personally, I think it would be highly advantageous for all of my creatures to have flash for playing around counterspells, combat tricks, and leaving mana open for other options; or for haste to gain or maintain the tempo advantage (especially in limited).
Not worth it.
Any word from MDenham?
Piar really ramped it up rather impressively at the end there too!
You're missing the point. I said nothing about holding varying standards from one competitor to the next. I said anyone who is so good at designing cards that he can lead the polls all month should be held to a standard that doesn't reward the submission of a design that basically already exists. But then again - in a way - you're right, everyone should be held to such a standard.
It's copy and paste no matter how you spin it.
Anyone who's been leading the polls all month should be held to a slightly higher standard than copy and paste.
Dingus Egg on legs. How creative. And it's getting votes.
That was my motivation behind Hypnotic Tutor though - Diabolic Tutor is boring and it sucks.
I always vote genuinely even when it pains me competitively.
Bird not Aven.
The flavor is nigh perfect. I didn't vote for it because I don't think it's printable. Like you said, it's "put a 2/2 haste on bf" in disguise, and I doubt WotC would use DFCs for something they could do without them. It's possible, but not likely. At least not for a decade or so. I do love the card though.