Flesh Into Nightmares3BB Instant
Destroy target creature, then put X 1/1 black Horror creature tokens onto the battlefield, where X is that creature's toughness. Frydel knew he would lose the fight when, to his horror, his fist began to wiggle of its own accord, each finger making a "flop" sound and each sucker sticking to his arm as though devouring its master.
Next:
Surrounded by woods, two elves battle on top of an abnormally large, sleeping giant's belly.
Target Acquired3GG Sorcery (U)
Choose a target creature. For each creature you control, that creature fights the chosen creature. "Man, they really do NOT like you, Fisco."
An Izzety goblin commander... Izzet possible? (Sorry, I had to say it.)
Katonk, Indecisive Bookeater3UR Legendary Creature - Goblin Wizard
Whenever ~ deals damage to a player, you may draw a card. If you do, discard a card. 1R, T, discard a card: ~ deals 1 damage to target creature or player. Draw a card. He avoids stale books in favor of freshly printed ink with a touch of mildew.
3/2
I thought, you know, goblins wouldn't be avid readers...even the wizard ones...
Next:
A precon commander's arch-nemesis
OR
A vinebred commander (Vinebreds being the Lorwyn elves who were considered too ugly, and so were engulfed in nettlevines and turned into enhanced soldiers by the "prettier" elves of the plane. Read more about them on the MTGSalvation wiki)
Sure. You take a card that represents something in Magic's mythology, and then you make a new version which represents that thing either before or afterwards.
For example, Wizards basically did this themselves by printing Ob Nixilis of the Black Oath, which is just Ob Nixilis, the Fallen before he "fell". (And then again with Ob Nixilis, Unshackled, which is him AFTER regaining his strength.) So that's the perfect example: the first to be printed was The Fallen, and then they printed "timeshifted" cards of him before and after that period.
Oh, man. This in EDH...all my yes. "Hey, guys. After turn 2, just assume my commander will be bigger. What's that? You don't want more commander damage? OH WELL!"
Regarding Lord of the Void... A 7/7 flier for 7CMC that exile-mills your opponents AND gets you free creatures every time it connects....is a bad mythic?
I see a use with Extractor Demon and this in Esper-colored Mill decks...but it's really a fringe combo piece. Maybe if you have a way of keeping everything somehow? Mass flicker via Ghostway or something? I dunno. Seems like it could be abused, yet only in very narrow circumstances. I wouldn't play it (then again, if it weren't for some of those Jeskai cards, I would avoid all white anyway).
My thoughts: Revert is cool . Hoard tokens, however, seem extremely parasitic, doing nothing on their own. And I think you should change Chivalry to only trigger if it would deal combat damage to a player, so that someone can't just keep pumping up a body even when it's blocked.
Hey, everyone! I thought we'd have a little fun by playing games based on the ones played on the TV show Hollywood Game Night! So here's how it works!
1) At the end of each post, you'll choose a game for the next poster to play. Your choices are games from the following list:
Original Game => MTG Version Game: Description
Celebrity Fusion => Legendary Fusion: Create a card which is a fusion of two Legendary Creatures (mention which creatures).
Timeline => Timeline: Create a timeshifted version of an existing card (timeshifted in flavor, not using old mechanics).
Smash the Buzzer => Cyclic Expansion: Create a custom card that would fit into an existing cycle (mention which cycle).
TV ID => Who Am I?: Create a card inspired by an existing card, but using as few abilities or name-words from the original as possible. The next poster should guess which card inspired it before posting his or her own entry. You can say what the correct answer was any time after, but you must participate in the game in the same post
Picture Purrfect => Purrfection: Type-shift an existing card into a Cat creature or tribal :3
Lost in Translation => Lost in Translation: Pick a card and run its name through the Bad Translator: http://ackuna.com/badtranslator (Remember to break up any compound words that aren't real English.) Then create a card using the resulting bad translation as the name.
Marquee Madness => Triplicate: Create a card by merging three existing cards' names together, preferably three related cards (mention how they're related if it's not obvious).
You'll use the MTG Version Game names when posting for the next player.
2) The next poster will post a custom card which follows the rules of the game assigned to them by the poster above. Then they will choose either the same game, or a different one from the list above, for the next player.
And it continues on forever (P.S. if you can think of a way to turn any of the other Hollywood Game Night games into ones suitable for single-post custom cards, please suggest an addition!)
Workers, Which Is A Big2WU Legendary Creature -- Human (U)
Whenever Workers, Which Is A Big attacks alone, you may cast an artifact card from your hand without paying its mana cost.
1/5
Strangleroot Fields2BG Enchantment
Whenever an opponent draws a card, that player loses 1 life for each card in his or her hand. "The plants appear to become homicidal at the first sign of a footstep," Jorgel noted, watching from afar as his colleague struggled to breathe, then stopped altogether.
I'm hoping the flavor makes the green bleeding acceptable...
Next: pterosaur-looking creatures soar in the sky over stone buildings. The art focuses on the largest of the bunch, who has landed for a moment to chew on an elephant with its fearsome, shark-like teeth embedded in its stork-like beak.
Slanderous Rebuttal2UB Instant
Counter target spell. Then, for each player other than that spell's controller, that spell's controller loses 2 life. "In response to my opponent's accusations... HE EATS BABIES AND MURDERS PUPPIES!"
Next:
Congeniality
Progeny of Progenitus
Hopping Madness
That dragon, in a Gahiji, Mayael, or Rith deck, while also running Gisela... just think about it. Throw in Blades of Velis Vel, Mirror Entity, Runed Stalactite, Shields of Velis Vel, and lots of Changelings...and then EVERYTHING IS QUADRUPLE-STRIKING DRAGONS!
How many "Little Bobby's" do you honestly think are building random Sundial decks?
Sundial is exactly the sort of thing I would have built around in my young, abuse-jank-cards days if it had been printed earlier.
Sorry, I gotta ask -- are we having this discussion because you'd rather have Lava Axes and Hill Giants in the common slots or were you just attacking the "kitchen table" comment?
I think the entire mind set you have is bizarre. I've taught many kids how to play the game over the years, and I've NEVER seen any of them instantly jumping to "I want to abuse janky cards while playing with my friends". It just never happens. They almost all start off with a VERY "Timmy" mindset of "I want to play big, massive, impressive monsters and wreck house with them! Dragons and hydras and giants!!!" I can't picture any of those young, new players being happy about only being able to keep their shiny, impressive dragon for just one turn, and having to essentially jump through janky hoops (per your example) to keep the dragon longer. Chances are, they'll just play something like Shivan Dragon or Siege Dragon and be much happier.
I'd like to point out that from the day I learned to play Magic, I've always been a Johnny, interested in card combos far more than beating face. So, your sample is far from representative of all new players.
I just had a really strange Commander idea. I feel like it should cause some rules headaches, and yet I can't think of any real problems. It's definitely an extremely odd design space, though... let me know if this even works.
Quor'toth, Master Delegator2WWU Legendary Creature -- Human Advisor (R)
Whenever ~ dies, if it's in your graveyard, you may have target creature you own that shares a color identity with Quor'toth become your commander. (Your current commander is no longer your commander.) "You...you will take my place of glory. And should you fail, you are easily replaced." 2/5
As I typed this, I realized there's no clean way of doing that...but I think this still works, right? Kind of? Maybe? No?
903.4. The Commander variant uses color identity to determine what cards can be in a deck with a certain commander. The color identity of a card is the color or colors of any mana symbols in that card’s mana cost or rules text, plus any colors defined by its characteristic-defining abilities (see rule 604.3) or color indicator (see rule 204).
So simply saying "color" is enough. Try this:
Mirror, False Leader Legendary Creature - Shapeshifter
Spend only colored mana to cast Mirror, False Leader.
Mirror, False Leader is all colors.
Changeling
As Mirror, False Leader enters the battlefield, choose a creature type.
Other creatures you control of the chosen type get +1/+1. 1/4
Of course...that's a lot of text, so much that it feels forced. Trying to create a single general to fit every possible deck will always have that consequence. It's much more elegant to simply make a good card for certain decks than just an "okay, but ugly" card for every deck.
Instant
Destroy target creature, then put X 1/1 black Horror creature tokens onto the battlefield, where X is that creature's toughness.
Frydel knew he would lose the fight when, to his horror, his fist began to wiggle of its own accord, each finger making a "flop" sound and each sucker sticking to his arm as though devouring its master.
Next:
Surrounded by woods, two elves battle on top of an abnormally large, sleeping giant's belly.
Sorcery (U)
Choose a target creature. For each creature you control, that creature fights the chosen creature.
"Man, they really do NOT like you, Fisco."
Next:
Fit // Fiddle
Mardu Gambit
Stare at Death
Katonk, Indecisive Bookeater 3UR
Legendary Creature - Goblin Wizard
Whenever ~ deals damage to a player, you may draw a card. If you do, discard a card.
1R, T, discard a card: ~ deals 1 damage to target creature or player. Draw a card.
He avoids stale books in favor of freshly printed ink with a touch of mildew.
3/2
I thought, you know, goblins wouldn't be avid readers...even the wizard ones...
Next:
A precon commander's arch-nemesis
OR
A vinebred commander (Vinebreds being the Lorwyn elves who were considered too ugly, and so were engulfed in nettlevines and turned into enhanced soldiers by the "prettier" elves of the plane. Read more about them on the MTGSalvation wiki)
For example, Wizards basically did this themselves by printing Ob Nixilis of the Black Oath, which is just Ob Nixilis, the Fallen before he "fell". (And then again with Ob Nixilis, Unshackled, which is him AFTER regaining his strength.) So that's the perfect example: the first to be printed was The Fallen, and then they printed "timeshifted" cards of him before and after that period.
So you might take Nath of the Gilt-Leaf and create a version of him before he led an army; or a version of him in his true old-body form in the woods after the Feast of Footbottom ( http://mtgsalvation.gamepedia.com/Nath ).
The MTGSalvation Gamepedia wiki is a great place to find mythology and help decide which direction to go if you're unsure
And then there are more fringe, funny combos... Dark Depths + Thespian's Stage + Hero's Blade = BIG THING FUN TIME.
1) At the end of each post, you'll choose a game for the next poster to play. Your choices are games from the following list:
You'll use the MTG Version Game names when posting for the next player.
2) The next poster will post a custom card which follows the rules of the game assigned to them by the poster above. Then they will choose either the same game, or a different one from the list above, for the next player.
And it continues on forever
So for example:
And on and on it goes!
To begin with: Next: Timeline!
Enchantment
Whenever an opponent draws a card, that player loses 1 life for each card in his or her hand.
"The plants appear to become homicidal at the first sign of a footstep," Jorgel noted, watching from afar as his colleague struggled to breathe, then stopped altogether.
I'm hoping the flavor makes the green bleeding acceptable...
Next: pterosaur-looking creatures soar in the sky over stone buildings. The art focuses on the largest of the bunch, who has landed for a moment to chew on an elephant with its fearsome, shark-like teeth embedded in its stork-like beak.
Instant
Counter target spell. Then, for each player other than that spell's controller, that spell's controller loses 2 life.
"In response to my opponent's accusations... HE EATS BABIES AND MURDERS PUPPIES!"
Next:
Congeniality
Progeny of Progenitus
Hopping Madness
I'd like to point out that from the day I learned to play Magic, I've always been a Johnny, interested in card combos far more than beating face. So, your sample is far from representative of all new players.
Quor'toth, Master Delegator 2WWU
Legendary Creature -- Human Advisor (R)
Whenever ~ dies, if it's in your graveyard, you may have target creature you own that shares a color identity with Quor'toth become your commander. (Your current commander is no longer your commander.)
"You...you will take my place of glory. And should you fail, you are easily replaced."
2/5
As I typed this, I realized there's no clean way of doing that...but I think this still works, right? Kind of? Maybe? No?
So simply saying "color" is enough. Try this:
Mirror, False Leader
Legendary Creature - Shapeshifter
Spend only colored mana to cast Mirror, False Leader.
Mirror, False Leader is all colors.
Changeling
As Mirror, False Leader enters the battlefield, choose a creature type.
Other creatures you control of the chosen type get +1/+1.
1/4
Of course...that's a lot of text, so much that it feels forced. Trying to create a single general to fit every possible deck will always have that consequence. It's much more elegant to simply make a good card for certain decks than just an "okay, but ugly" card for every deck.