MTG Salvation

Am I allowed to research for this, or is it more of a "show what you know" type deal?

Glass Cannon3
Artifact (R)
T: ~ deals 4 damage to target creature or player.
Whenever a source deals damage to you, sacrifice ~.

Next:
Darkness Descending
Summer Lovin'

I don't believe either of you!

Go Cluck Yourself 1UR
Tribal Sorcery - Chicken
Target creature deals damage to itself equal to it's power.
Because chickens love giving a big middle feather to dem haters.

IIW: Go cluck yourself

I thank thee for bestowing this honor unto me, oh feathered one.

I love it! Interaction ftw. Also, loving the phyrexian overlord/mirran resistance duality. Only complaint is the rarity on these guys, I think they should both be uncommons. 9.5/10

Etched Obliterator :sym2w::sym2u::sym2b::sym2r::sym2g:
Artifact Creature - Golem (M)
~ enters the battlefield with 5 -1/-1 counters on it.
If damage would be dealt to ~ while it has at least one -1/-1 counter on it, prevent that damage and remove that many -1/-1 counters from it.
Whenever one or more -1/-1 counters are removed from ~, destroy target permanent.
10/10

Next: Ooze!

Hey guys! Cans I please joins your shiny clan?

Engulfing Ooze XG
Creature - Ooze (R)
When ~ enters the battlefield, you may exile a creature with converted mana cost X or less.
~ has power equal to the total power of all creatures exiled by it, and toughness equal to the total toughness of all creatures exiled by it.
X,T: Exile target creature with converted mana cost X or less.
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"Whoa! I don't think it's even possible for that thing to grow any bigger!"
-Hyman, Veteran Explorer, last words

IIW: Palindromes!

EDIT: Dammit nath'd. The sad part is that I spent 10 minutes trying to think up a name for the guy who dies in the flavor text.

Dwarven Swordsmith 2R
Creature - Dwarf Soldier (R)
T: Put a colorless artifact equipment sword token on the battlefield. It has "Equip 2" and "Equipped creature gets +1/+0." Then, you may equip it to target creature that shares a creature type with ~.
1/2
"This is your sword. There are many others like it, but this one is yours."

IIW: Palindromes!!!

Ageless Conflagration :3mana::sym2r:
Sorcery
Ageless Conflagration deals X

Bite Me G
Sorcery (U)
You fight target creature. (You deal damage equal to your life to target creature. Then, it deals damage equal to its power to you.)
"I can't believe you actually bit me!"

IIW: Palindromes!!

My name seemed like a good idea at the time. If impulses that that didn't run in my family, I would never have been born.

I got a couple:

Person 1: Hey, are you a Johnny?
Person 2: Silly you, Ajani is a Magic Card!

Now that you're shaking yourself with uncontrollable laughter, how about a math joke!

Two mathematicians, Arthur and Bernard, walk into a bar. After a few drinks, a debate emerges. Bernard thinks that not many other people know very much about calculus. Arthur, always ready to bust Bernard's chops, bets him $20 that a random person will be able to answer a basic calculus question when asked. Bernard accepts the bet, but first he slips off to the bathroom to take a tinkle.
While he's away, Arthur turns to the bartender and tells her: "When my friend comes back, he will ask you a question. No matter what he says, answer by saying 'One-third x cubed.'"
"No matter what he says?" asks the bartender.
"Yep." says Arthur and slips her a five dollar bill.
Sure enough, when Bernard returns, he asks the bartender: "What is the integration of x squared?"
The bartender is silent. She looks to Arthur, then back to Bernard. At last, she says quietly "One-third x cubed?" Bernard then concedes the bet to Arthur. However, as the two are leaving the bar, the bartender mutters under her breath: "Plus a constant."

Geddit?

Thanks for the feedback guys. I think the fundamental problem with an atog lord is that to use one, you have to run atogs, and running too many cards that are, ideally, swingy one-shots will turn your deck into a wallowing mass of negative card advantage. I tried to make the lord so that he could be used when you're going for that big game swing but I dunno if I executed it properly.

Anyways, the part that is more important to me is actually making an entry and establishing myself in the community, and I'm glad that I made an honest effort.

And yeah, I will try to contribute here whenever I have the time to.

EDIT: Oh and, just to make it clear, I'm not completely obsessed with atogs or anything. (Despite my username) I just figured that using Atogatog would be a nice debut card and it fit what the challenge was.

Atogatog 2RR
Legendary Creature — Atog {R}
Haste
Other Atog creatures you control have first strike.
Sacrifice an Atog creature: CARDNAME gets +X/+X until end of turn, where X is the sacrificed creature's power.
3/4

IIW: Palindromes