netn10
To me Shani doesn't really feel like an upgrade to Giant-Slayer, since its selector is not only looking at the opposite thing, but Giant-Slayer's ability actualy disables Shani's, which seems odd if you imagine Shani as a specific, extra cool member of the giant-slayer community. Plus you used shroud.
Leshem is, like, not offensive in terms of flavor, since there's not that much there and it doesn't have a known relationship with any other stuff? But the whole power-2 theme you're pushing here, I don't think it's going to play all that great, and again I think rewarding low-power in reen is an error.
Cardz5000
Iris has daring templating. I feel like these are almost certainly broken but they're exciting and strange, so good on you. I like the flavor pairing of two slightly different kinds of nerdo wizards.
doomfish
I don't know, I'm not mad at them but they don't provoke any reaction really. I'd like them a lot more if they weren't so obviously a mirror pair, I think, and if the flavor pairing worked.
Hemlock
I have a vague flavor based idea about why Vyeran scales on land names but it's pretty obscure and strange! Green evasion is weird even when it's trying to be sneaky and indirect. Yozya is comparatively boring and stodgy.
Raptorchan
What justifies either of these creatures being legendary?
void_nothing
Adhil is still too math. Vonri is math too! It's a little puzzling that Vonri has a specific Skullbriar hosing ability.
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
Tribute to Godot: None of your cards this round can be red. TM49: A card with echo. High Holy Day: A card with converted mana cost exactly 7.
The Eradicator3WWWW
Legendary Creature — Angel (M)
Echo 0
Flying
If The Eradicator would die, exile all permanents instead.
7/7
Methodology of Secrets3UUUU
Instant (M)
Until end of turn, you may cast spells from your hand without paying their mana costs and you may cast them at any time you could cast an instant.
Acrobatic Archaeologist2R
Creature — Human Advisor Rogue (C)
Acrobatic Archaeologist can't be blocked except by creatures with first strike, double strike, vigilance, or haste. A famous thief must always be seen and never be caught.
2/2
Mirage StratagemUU
Instant (R)
Create a token that's a copy of target creature. That token becomes the target of each spell with a single target that could target it. Exile it at the beginning of the next end step.
Deirdre, Peerless Burglar2RR
Legendary Creature — Human Rogue (R)
Double strike, hexproof from non-instant
Deirdre, Peerless Burglar can't be blocked except by creatures that entered the battlefield this turn.
Partner with Detective Suchet "If it's there, I'll see it coming."
2/2
Detective Suchet2UU
Legendary Creature — Human Advisor (R)
Vigilance
Whenever a creature your team controls deals combat damage to a player, create a colorless Clue artifact token with “2, Sacrifice this: Draw a card." No detail escapes the eye of Suchet.
1/4
Illusionist’s FeintU
Instant {U}
Exile target attacking creature you control, then return that card to the battlefield tapped and attacking under your control. Dodging defenses is much easier done when one is simply not there in the first place.
I find this card delightful. The flavor text is a bit clunky, but I have not historically taken off points for that and I'm not starting now.
BravewardingXWW
Instant (U)
Double target creature's toughness until end of turn X times, then for each creature you control, put a +1/+1 counter on that creature for each 4 toughness it has, rounded down. (Doubling a creature's toughness multiple times is cumulative; for example, doubling 2 foughness twice will result in 8 toughness. No counters will be put on creatures with less than 4 toughness.) "We go into the plaguepits armored in tradition and shrewdness and come out alive. Those who do so with mere weapons perish." - Abenta Anhu, sicarius of Bakuwang
There is way too much math on this card. It might be super good but I have to raise 2 to the power of X and multiply it by toughness and then divide it by 4 and do something with two of the values so generated...this is math homework, not a mtg card.
Bubbling DefenseUU
Instant (U)
Escalate 1(Pay this cost for each mode chosen beyond the first.)
Choose one or more —
• Create a 1/1 blue Illusion creature token.
• Change the target of target spell with a single target from a creature you control to another creature you control.
• Target creature gets -3/+3 until end of turn.
There is something about this card that I'm not a big fan of; maybe it's because it feels like so much work and words and possible modes for a pretty basic effect.
Aether Meddling1U
Instant (Uncommon)
Exile target creature. Return that card to the battlefield under its owner's control or to its owner's hand at the beginning of the next end step. "To be one with the aether is to accept that your shape might not be the same at any given time."
- Olka, Mistmeadow Witch
I think this should be templated modally but it seems cool.
Agree with voido's suggestion; why destroy when exile is more secure and has a clear synergy with the other abilities? (It's kind of weird though because it gives green easy access to flying creatures and artifact creatures exclusively)
I feel like the arkbow should look something more like this
Artifact — Equipment
Equipped creature gets +2/+0.
If a creature that equipped creature damaged this turn would die, exile it instead.
Whenever equipped creature deals combat damage, you may have it deal damage equal to its power to target blocking creature.
equip some cost here
for the following reasons:
- It's preferable for weapons to be equipments at this point imo
- It no longer obviously duplicates a function of Vivien
- It actually acts the way you'd expect a bow to act instead of being a weird tutor.
What makes, say, Aurelia more of a goodstuff target than any other random choice if you eliminate the CI deckbuild rule? Afaict, no one has explained this in a sensible way. I assume that you want to cast your commander (that's why it's in your special always-available deckslot) so you should be building for commander reliability and commander synergy anyway.
Mirage StratagemUU
Instant (R)
Create a token that's a copy of target creature. That token becomes the target of each spell with a single target that could target it. Exile it at the beginning of the next end step.
Elvish Giant-Slayer
Creature - Elf Soldier (Common)
Whenever Elvish Giant-Slayer blocks or becomes blocked by a creature with 4 or more power, Elvish Giant-Slayer gets +3/+3 until end of turn. "The bigger they are, the more blind spots to exploit."
2/2
Meets the challenge. I think a flavor fail is evident here, as BG Elves and Giants are clear LRW/SHM references, but in fact giant-slaying is closely associated with Kithkin (cf Goldmeadow Dodger, Gaddock Teeg). I have some questions about pie as well, given that green tends to not punish opponents for using large creatures (much the opposite; fight-based removal and a general low concentration of evasion reward green's opponents for having large creatures of their own).
Artful Ranger2G
Creature - Elf Scout (c)
When Artful Ranger enters the battlefield, create a 0/1 colorless Decoy artifact creature token with "This creature must be blocked if able."
2/3
Meets the challenge if certain circumstances are assumed. I don't know about the decoy being an artifact with a new type. That seems ... unneeded.
Vedalken Ropemaker1GU
Creature - Vedalken Scout (C)
Vigilance 1GUT: Target creature gets -4/+4 until end of turn. "Nets, grapnels, trip lines - I've got it all."
2/2
"Surpass the challenge" is a pretty vague condition, but I don't judge this to pass; my reading was "either kill the baloth or attack and cause it to fail to block." The Ropemaker can survive the baloth when the baloth is attacking and it blocks, but it can't get past it either way.
Hagra Survivalists3B
Creature - Goblin Scout (C)
Skulk (This creature can't be blocked by creatures with greater power.) 1: Hagra Survivalists gets -1/-0 until end if turn. "Why do we carry all this loot? To run faster when we drop it, of course!"
4/2
Meets the challenge. I don't particularly like it. Juggling numbers to turn un skulk is awkward and doesn't seem like it's to your long-term advantage unless you're getting a non-damage benefit out of it. Are there black Goblins on Zendikar? If there are, I'm not aware of them.
Akrasan Aegis1W
Creature - Human Soldier {C}
Exalted (Whenever a creature you control attacks alone, that creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.)
Whenever Akrasan Aegis blocks, it gains indestructible until end of turn.
0/2
By the same metric as above, this doesn't meet the challenge.
Ogre Sneak5R
Creature - Ogre Rogue (C)
Haste
Skulk
When Ogre Sneak enters the battlefield, you may put a +1/+1 counter on another target creature. It takes the smarts of an ogre to get the idea to sneak past a dragon. It takes the size of a dragon to miss a sneaking ogre.
4/4
Meets the challenge. This is another ungainly skulk card.
I'm not GMom but in the past when we do challenges that reference earlier challenges, if you miss a round you just post a card in the new round and say something like, "If I were in round 1 my card would have been this" and use that as your constraint for the second
done:
To me Shani doesn't really feel like an upgrade to Giant-Slayer, since its selector is not only looking at the opposite thing, but Giant-Slayer's ability actualy disables Shani's, which seems odd if you imagine Shani as a specific, extra cool member of the giant-slayer community. Plus you used shroud.
Leshem is, like, not offensive in terms of flavor, since there's not that much there and it doesn't have a known relationship with any other stuff? But the whole power-2 theme you're pushing here, I don't think it's going to play all that great, and again I think rewarding low-power in reen is an error.
Cardz5000
Iris has daring templating. I feel like these are almost certainly broken but they're exciting and strange, so good on you. I like the flavor pairing of two slightly different kinds of nerdo wizards.
doomfish
I don't know, I'm not mad at them but they don't provoke any reaction really. I'd like them a lot more if they weren't so obviously a mirror pair, I think, and if the flavor pairing worked.
Hemlock
I have a vague flavor based idea about why Vyeran scales on land names but it's pretty obscure and strange! Green evasion is weird even when it's trying to be sneaky and indirect. Yozya is comparatively boring and stodgy.
Raptorchan
What justifies either of these creatures being legendary?
void_nothing
Adhil is still too math. Vonri is math too! It's a little puzzling that Vonri has a specific Skullbriar hosing ability.
2. Hemlock
3. doomfish
TM49: A card with echo.
High Holy Day: A card with converted mana cost exactly 7.
The Eradicator 3WWWW
Legendary Creature — Angel (M)
Echo 0
Flying
If The Eradicator would die, exile all permanents instead.
7/7
Methodology of Secrets 3UUUU
Instant (M)
Until end of turn, you may cast spells from your hand without paying their mana costs and you may cast them at any time you could cast an instant.
Creature — Human Advisor Rogue (C)
Acrobatic Archaeologist can't be blocked except by creatures with first strike, double strike, vigilance, or haste.
A famous thief must always be seen and never be caught.
2/2
Mirage Stratagem UU
Instant (R)
Create a token that's a copy of target creature. That token becomes the target of each spell with a single target that could target it. Exile it at the beginning of the next end step.
Legendary Creature — Human Rogue (R)
Double strike, hexproof from non-instant
Deirdre, Peerless Burglar can't be blocked except by creatures that entered the battlefield this turn.
Partner with Detective Suchet
"If it's there, I'll see it coming."
2/2
Detective Suchet 2UU
Legendary Creature — Human Advisor (R)
Vigilance
Whenever a creature your team controls deals combat damage to a player, create a colorless Clue artifact token with “2, Sacrifice this: Draw a card."
No detail escapes the eye of Suchet.
1/4
2. netn10
3. Hemlock
I feel like the arkbow should look something more like this
Artifact — Equipment
Equipped creature gets +2/+0.
If a creature that equipped creature damaged this turn would die, exile it instead.
Whenever equipped creature deals combat damage, you may have it deal damage equal to its power to target blocking creature.
equip some cost here
for the following reasons:
- It's preferable for weapons to be equipments at this point imo
- It no longer obviously duplicates a function of Vivien
- It actually acts the way you'd expect a bow to act instead of being a weird tutor.
Instant (R)
Create a token that's a copy of target creature. That token becomes the target of each spell with a single target that could target it. Exile it at the beginning of the next end step.
2. netn10
3. doomfish