Guardian of Kruphix 4GU
Creature - Sphinx
Flying, Vigilance
Whenever you draw a card, put a +1/+1 counter on ~.
Whenever two or more creatures attack you or a planeswalker you control, draw a card. If five or more creatures are attacking you or a planeswalker you control, draw two cards instead. "I stand to preserve the world, and learn. My studies go better when under more duress."
4/4
IIW: Make a vertical cycle (one card of each rarity, usually confined to a color or color pair, see the torment cycle) for your favorite ability word (enrage, revolt, or raid) in standard right now.
Lumeria, Serra's Successor 3WWW
Legendary Creature - Cleric T: Gain 10 life, scry 1. 2WW: Exile Lumeria, then return it to the battlefield under its owner's control.
3/4
Next: Take a Legendary Creature that has an off-color activated ability (eg: General Tazri, Yasova Dragonclaw, others) and swap the activated ability color and the card's color. (EG: Tazri would become a WUBRG card with a mono-white activated ability.)
Destructive Brawl 1G
Sorcery
Choose target creature you control, and target creature you don't control. Put a +1/+1 counter on the creature you control if its converted mana cost is greater than the converted mana cost of the creature you don't control. The creature you control fights the creature you don't control.
IIW: Make a vertical cycle (one card of each rarity, usually confined to a color or color pair, see the torment cycle) for your favorite ability word (enrage, revolt, or raid) in standard right now.
Spirit of the woods 6GGG
Legendary Creature - Elemental Horror
Reach, Vigilance, Haste, Protection from Green
Spirit of the woods gets +5/+5 and trample as long as it's attacking.
6/5
Next: Captain Lannery Storm in Blue
Mavren Fein, dusk apostle in Black
Zetalpa, Primal Dawn in Red
Etali, Primal Storm in White
I'm not gonna use old Alara mechanics for each of these designs, but I want to make a design for each of the shards confluence, in a mono-color. Additionally, the mana costs aren't really final, just going with four as a safe middle of the road idea.
Feral Leotau 2GG
Creature - Cat
Devour 1, Trample
At the beginning of combat on your turn, creatures you control with power 5 or greater gain exalted until end of turn. When it ate its knight, the sigils still protected it. When it found more lost beasts, the sigils protected them all.
3/4
Moltenscale Viashino 2RR
Creature - Lizard Shaman
Whenever a creature with power 5 or greater dies, Moltenscale Viashino deals 4 damage to any target.
Whenever another non-token creature enters the battlefield under your control, if it entered from the graveyard, or if you cast it from your graveyard, ~ deals damage equal to that creature's power to target creature. While the god-beasts fell, he learned how to harness their power. When they rose again, he harnessed that as well.
3/3
Etherium Plagueist 2BB
Artifact Creature - Human Wizard
Whenever an artifact is put into your graveyard from the battlefield, choose another target creature card in your graveyard with converted mana cost less than or equal to the artifact's. Until end of turn, you may cast that creature card. BB, sacrifice an artifact or creature: Target creature gets -x/-x until end of turn, where X is the sacrificed permanent's converted mana cost When death closed in around him, he gave up what he didn't need. When death closed in around his enemies, he retrieved what he wanted.
2/4
Sigiled Artificer 2UU
Artifact Creature - Vedalkan Wizard
Whenever a creature you control attacks alone, you may sacrifice an artifact. If you do, attacking creatures you control get +2/+0 until end of turn, and you draw a card.
At the beginning of each end step, if you drew a card this turn, you may return target creature card with cmc X or less from your graveyard to your hand, where X is the amount of cards you drew this turn. When she learned of the power, she studied all she could. When she learned what it could do, she taught others all she could.
1/5
Knight of the etherium blade 2WW
Creature - Human Knight
Whenever a creature you control attacks alone, it gets +1/+1 for each artifact you control until end of turn.
At the beginning of your end step, you gain life equal to the greatest toughness among creatures you control. When hope was fading, she strove to keep it alive. When hope surged again, she championed to bring it to all.
4/3
IIW: Make a vertical cycle (one card of each rarity, usually confined to a color or color pair, see the torment cycle) for your favorite ability word (enrage, revolt, or raid) in standard right now.
I like designing green cards, so let's finish off the multi-set-cycle of riddle of lightning, judge unworthy, interpret the signs of instants and sorceries based on revealing the top card of your library after a scry 3. I know that technically Sifter worm is similar, but shhhhh.
Wisdom of the oaks 4G
Sorcery
Scry 3, then reveal the top card of your library. Distribute X +1/+1 counters among creatures you control, where X is that card's converted mana cost.
Demonic Augry 3BB
Sorcery
Choose target creature. Scry 3, then reveal the top card of your library. That creature's controller loses X life, where X is the revealed card's converted mana cost. Destroy that creature if its converted mana cost is less than the revealed card's converted mana cost
IIW: Make a vertical cycle (one card of each rarity, usually confined to a color or color pair, see the torment cycle) for your favorite ability word (enrage, revolt, or raid) in standard right now.
Path of the Sun 2G
Legendary Enchantment - Aura
Enchant Creature
Whenever enchanted creature attacks, it explores. Then, if it has 3 or more +1/+1 counters on it, exile Path of the Sun, then return it to the battlefield transformed. The greatest service a soldier can do for the sun empire is find new land to conquer.
//
Tocatli, The sun's palace
Legendary Land T: Add G.
Whenever a creature you control attacks, you may pay (R/W). If you do, that creature gains first strike until end of turn. 3G, T: Create a 3/3 green dinosaur creature token with trample. The greatest service the sun empire can do for its heroes is elevate them with the emperor.
Next: Jace, the spymaster
Gideon, Legion's Blade
Chandra, Dragonflame
Vraska, Guildmaster
Ajani, Hand of Mercy
(Just a bunch of ideas for pw names once Rav3 rolls around. If you have an idea for what a different character could be doing on Ravnica, like Jaya, Teferi, feel free to throw them in too.)
Arbiter of life 5BB
Creature - Demon
Flying
When ~ enters the battlefield, each player's life total becomes the lowest life total among all players.
5/5
IDK if this card exists already, but there it is, perfect for your sui-black decks.
Please note that if I were designing this set, the militarism wouldn't be the biggest theme, but it'd be there. I'd also probably have a decent mechanic based on farming as well.
Legion - Whenever you attack, for each color among attacking creatures you control, X
Legion's tactician 2U
Creature - Human Advisor (U)
Legion - Whenever you attack with one or more creatures, Scry X, where X is the number of colors among attacking creatures you control.
1/4
Brash Recruit 1R
Creature - Human Soldier (Common)
Legion - Whenever you attack with one or more creatures, this creature gets +1/+0 until end of turn for each color among attacking creatures you control.
1/2
Inspiring Leader 3W
Creature - Human Soldier (Rare)
Legion - Whenever you attack with one or more creatures, for each color among attacking permanents you control, create a 1/1 white soldier creature token.
2/4
Claudiu, In tune with Nature 3GG
Creature - Human Druid
Legion - Whenever you attack with one or more creatures, put a +1/+1 counter on Claudiu for each color among attacking creatures you control.
Remove 2 +1/+1 counters from Claudiu: Target creature becomes the color of your choice in addition to its other colors until end of turn.
4/4
Next: Make a vertical cycle (one card of each rarity, usually confined to a color or color pair, see the torment cycle) for your favorite ability word (enrage, revolt, or raid) in standard right now.
The Grand Festival 3RR
Enchantment
When The Grand Festival enters the battlefield, exile all cards from all graveyards.
Whenever a player casts a spell with the same name as a card in a graveyard, this enchantment deals X damage to them, where X is that spell's converted mana cost. Originality is prized
Next: Do the M19 Horse cycle, but each horse is moved to the color it is hating (EG: Vine Mare becomes a black card that hates on green.)
Using cards like Kederekt Parasite, Firebrand Archer, and Thermo-alchemist, do you think a modern infect storm deck could work? Using cards like Tainted Strike, Phyresis, and glistening oil, and casting a bunch of spells, or making your opponent draw lots of cards in the case of the parasite, do you think this could work? Deck full of manamorphose or cantrip effects?
Norn's Creation 5 (Was originally 3W, but IDK, maybe this just works better as a colorless artifact.)
(For the art, imagine the myr battlesphere, but as a dude.)
Artifact Creature - Myr Golem
Norn's creation's power and toughness are each equal to the number of artifacts you control.
At the beginning of each end step, if two or more artifacts you control were put into the graveyard from the battlefield this turn, create a 1/1 colorless myr artifact creature token.
Sacrifice three artifacts: Return Norn's Creation from your graveyard to your hand. "The perfect soldier, free from the needs of the flesh." - Elesh Norn, Lord of New Phyrexia
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Next: Make a vertical cycle (one card of each rarity, usually confined to a color or color pair, see the torment cycle) for your favorite ability word (enrage, revolt, or raid) in standard right now.
The Hero of Canton 3WB
Enchantment - Saga
| - Look at the top 4 cards of your library. You may reveal a creature card from among them. If it's converted mana cost is 4 or less, you may put it onto the battlefield, otherwise put it into your hand, then put the rest of the cards on the bottom of your library in any order.
|| - Exile target creature an opponent controls.
||| - Create 5 treasure tokens with (insert treasure text here), then return a creature you control to its owner's hand.
The Saga being told here is the one from the episode of Firefly where Jayne saved a town by dropping a bunch of money on the mudders. The first ability might be a little bit of a bend in white, but with the bugler, I think it can work. Plus, it's actually based on a real saga from within a show.
IIW: Make a vertical cycle (one card of each rarity, usually confined to a color or color pair, see the torment cycle) for your favorite ability word (enrage, revolt, or raid) in standard right now.
Creature - Sphinx
Flying, Vigilance
Whenever you draw a card, put a +1/+1 counter on ~.
Whenever two or more creatures attack you or a planeswalker you control, draw a card. If five or more creatures are attacking you or a planeswalker you control, draw two cards instead.
"I stand to preserve the world, and learn. My studies go better when under more duress."
4/4
IIW: Make a vertical cycle (one card of each rarity, usually confined to a color or color pair, see the torment cycle) for your favorite ability word (enrage, revolt, or raid) in standard right now.
Legendary Creature - Cleric
T: Gain 10 life, scry 1.
2WW: Exile Lumeria, then return it to the battlefield under its owner's control.
3/4
Next: Take a Legendary Creature that has an off-color activated ability (eg: General Tazri, Yasova Dragonclaw, others) and swap the activated ability color and the card's color. (EG: Tazri would become a WUBRG card with a mono-white activated ability.)
Sorcery
Choose target creature you control, and target creature you don't control. Put a +1/+1 counter on the creature you control if its converted mana cost is greater than the converted mana cost of the creature you don't control. The creature you control fights the creature you don't control.
IIW: Make a vertical cycle (one card of each rarity, usually confined to a color or color pair, see the torment cycle) for your favorite ability word (enrage, revolt, or raid) in standard right now.
Legendary Creature - Elemental Horror
Reach, Vigilance, Haste, Protection from Green
Spirit of the woods gets +5/+5 and trample as long as it's attacking.
6/5
Next: Captain Lannery Storm in Blue
Mavren Fein, dusk apostle in Black
Zetalpa, Primal Dawn in Red
Etali, Primal Storm in White
Feral Leotau 2GG
Creature - Cat
Devour 1, Trample
At the beginning of combat on your turn, creatures you control with power 5 or greater gain exalted until end of turn.
When it ate its knight, the sigils still protected it. When it found more lost beasts, the sigils protected them all.
3/4
Moltenscale Viashino 2RR
Creature - Lizard Shaman
Whenever a creature with power 5 or greater dies, Moltenscale Viashino deals 4 damage to any target.
Whenever another non-token creature enters the battlefield under your control, if it entered from the graveyard, or if you cast it from your graveyard, ~ deals damage equal to that creature's power to target creature.
While the god-beasts fell, he learned how to harness their power. When they rose again, he harnessed that as well.
3/3
Etherium Plagueist 2BB
Artifact Creature - Human Wizard
Whenever an artifact is put into your graveyard from the battlefield, choose another target creature card in your graveyard with converted mana cost less than or equal to the artifact's. Until end of turn, you may cast that creature card.
BB, sacrifice an artifact or creature: Target creature gets -x/-x until end of turn, where X is the sacrificed permanent's converted mana cost
When death closed in around him, he gave up what he didn't need. When death closed in around his enemies, he retrieved what he wanted.
2/4
Sigiled Artificer 2UU
Artifact Creature - Vedalkan Wizard
Whenever a creature you control attacks alone, you may sacrifice an artifact. If you do, attacking creatures you control get +2/+0 until end of turn, and you draw a card.
At the beginning of each end step, if you drew a card this turn, you may return target creature card with cmc X or less from your graveyard to your hand, where X is the amount of cards you drew this turn.
When she learned of the power, she studied all she could. When she learned what it could do, she taught others all she could.
1/5
Knight of the etherium blade 2WW
Creature - Human Knight
Whenever a creature you control attacks alone, it gets +1/+1 for each artifact you control until end of turn.
At the beginning of your end step, you gain life equal to the greatest toughness among creatures you control.
When hope was fading, she strove to keep it alive. When hope surged again, she championed to bring it to all.
4/3
IIW: Make a vertical cycle (one card of each rarity, usually confined to a color or color pair, see the torment cycle) for your favorite ability word (enrage, revolt, or raid) in standard right now.
Wisdom of the oaks 4G
Sorcery
Scry 3, then reveal the top card of your library. Distribute X +1/+1 counters among creatures you control, where X is that card's converted mana cost.
Demonic Augry 3BB
Sorcery
Choose target creature. Scry 3, then reveal the top card of your library. That creature's controller loses X life, where X is the revealed card's converted mana cost. Destroy that creature if its converted mana cost is less than the revealed card's converted mana cost
IIW: Make a vertical cycle (one card of each rarity, usually confined to a color or color pair, see the torment cycle) for your favorite ability word (enrage, revolt, or raid) in standard right now.
Legendary Enchantment - Aura
Enchant Creature
Whenever enchanted creature attacks, it explores. Then, if it has 3 or more +1/+1 counters on it, exile Path of the Sun, then return it to the battlefield transformed.
The greatest service a soldier can do for the sun empire is find new land to conquer.
//
Tocatli, The sun's palace
Legendary Land
T: Add G.
Whenever a creature you control attacks, you may pay (R/W). If you do, that creature gains first strike until end of turn.
3G, T: Create a 3/3 green dinosaur creature token with trample.
The greatest service the sun empire can do for its heroes is elevate them with the emperor.
Next: Jace, the spymaster
Gideon, Legion's Blade
Chandra, Dragonflame
Vraska, Guildmaster
Ajani, Hand of Mercy
(Just a bunch of ideas for pw names once Rav3 rolls around. If you have an idea for what a different character could be doing on Ravnica, like Jaya, Teferi, feel free to throw them in too.)
Creature - Demon
Flying
When ~ enters the battlefield, each player's life total becomes the lowest life total among all players.
5/5
IDK if this card exists already, but there it is, perfect for your sui-black decks.
Next: Kopala, warden of waves in Green
Captain Lannery Storm in Blue
Mavren Fein, dusk apostle in Black
Zetalpa, Primal Dawn in Red
Legion - Whenever you attack, for each color among attacking creatures you control, X
Legion's tactician 2U
Creature - Human Advisor (U)
Legion - Whenever you attack with one or more creatures, Scry X, where X is the number of colors among attacking creatures you control.
1/4
Brash Recruit 1R
Creature - Human Soldier (Common)
Legion - Whenever you attack with one or more creatures, this creature gets +1/+0 until end of turn for each color among attacking creatures you control.
1/2
Inspiring Leader 3W
Creature - Human Soldier (Rare)
Legion - Whenever you attack with one or more creatures, for each color among attacking permanents you control, create a 1/1 white soldier creature token.
2/4
Claudiu, In tune with Nature 3GG
Creature - Human Druid
Legion - Whenever you attack with one or more creatures, put a +1/+1 counter on Claudiu for each color among attacking creatures you control.
Remove 2 +1/+1 counters from Claudiu: Target creature becomes the color of your choice in addition to its other colors until end of turn.
4/4
Next: Make a vertical cycle (one card of each rarity, usually confined to a color or color pair, see the torment cycle) for your favorite ability word (enrage, revolt, or raid) in standard right now.
Enchantment
When The Grand Festival enters the battlefield, exile all cards from all graveyards.
Whenever a player casts a spell with the same name as a card in a graveyard, this enchantment deals X damage to them, where X is that spell's converted mana cost.
Originality is prized
Next: Do the M19 Horse cycle, but each horse is moved to the color it is hating (EG: Vine Mare becomes a black card that hates on green.)
(For the art, imagine the myr battlesphere, but as a dude.)
Artifact Creature - Myr Golem
Norn's creation's power and toughness are each equal to the number of artifacts you control.
At the beginning of each end step, if two or more artifacts you control were put into the graveyard from the battlefield this turn, create a 1/1 colorless myr artifact creature token.
Sacrifice three artifacts: Return Norn's Creation from your graveyard to your hand.
"The perfect soldier, free from the needs of the flesh." - Elesh Norn, Lord of New Phyrexia
*/*
Next: Make a vertical cycle (one card of each rarity, usually confined to a color or color pair, see the torment cycle) for your favorite ability word (enrage, revolt, or raid) in standard right now.
Enchantment - Saga
| - Look at the top 4 cards of your library. You may reveal a creature card from among them. If it's converted mana cost is 4 or less, you may put it onto the battlefield, otherwise put it into your hand, then put the rest of the cards on the bottom of your library in any order.
|| - Exile target creature an opponent controls.
||| - Create 5 treasure tokens with (insert treasure text here), then return a creature you control to its owner's hand.
The Saga being told here is the one from the episode of Firefly where Jayne saved a town by dropping a bunch of money on the mudders. The first ability might be a little bit of a bend in white, but with the bugler, I think it can work. Plus, it's actually based on a real saga from within a show.
IIW: Make a vertical cycle (one card of each rarity, usually confined to a color or color pair, see the torment cycle) for your favorite ability word (enrage, revolt, or raid) in standard right now.