Phage's Brood0
Creature - Zombie Minion {R}
~ is black.
~ enters the battlefield with a -1/-1 counter on it.
~ can't be the target of spells or abilities you control.
When ~ deals combat damage to a player that player loses the game.
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Preponderance of Pests3WW
Enchantment
When ~ enters the battlefield put 5 0/1 Artifact Pest creature tokens with haste and "this creature must attack each turn if able."
Sacrifice a Pest: Pests lose all abilities until end of turn. Here a pest there a pest, everywhere the best pests...
For those unaware (as I was before I searched it out to find the appropriate name) the White Sun/Moon's name from Mirrodin (the place) is Bringer. See http://wiki.mtgsalvation.com/article/Bringer. This card is good again all of the decks mentioned, but particularly good against RB vamps, as for most vamp decks it cuts all the red lands out of the deck, Valakut, as it bones the win condition, and UB as it also uses a high number of non-basics. Kuldotha red is the least damaged by the card as it runs so few non-basics. But it can nerf sac lands, leading to a less efficient deck as they are unable to thin, and Teetering Peak/ Contested Warzone.
Basically said, kill their mana sources and you kill their deck.
Bringer's Moon1WW
Enchantment
Nonbasic lands are Plains. The reflection of the Sun across the world shown so bright only the purest of light could be seen.
I drew from the majority of Liliana's sources. She loves discard, as seen in Duress and Liliana's Specter. She loves killing guys and bringing them back as seen in Mutilate, Disentomb, and Rise from the Grave. She loves search decks, as seen in Demonic Tutor and the Original Lily. With all those in mind I tweaked her references to come up with the following:
Liliana the Gravestalker 4BB
Planeswalker - Liliana
[+1] Name a creature card. Target player reveals his or her hand and discards a card with the chosen name.
[-2] Search target player's library for up to 3 creature cards and put them into that player's graveyard. Then that player shuffles his or her library.
[-3] Put target creature in an opponent's graveyard onto the battlefield under your control.
[-4] Each creature gets -X/-X until end of turn where X is equal to the number of creatures in all graveyards.
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I remember when this thread started, and it was the best thing ever. Megiddo made a WiJ thread so great that I stopped playing in all the other contests. This contest really moved.
And then... well... Megiddo has done a great job, truly. A better job than any on person can be expected to do. He has run this thread quickly and with such high quality content that his praise really does need to be sung more often.
Lately the judges have been really slacking off. Judges are leaving contests for days at a time. This thread is about high quality quick judgments and that's been lost.
So Megiddo I ask you to raise the penalty for abandoning judges. For repeat offenders a week or more ban is much more appropriate than simply a single round. Make offenders truly miss the game and set up a real deterrent. This will both knock out those who slow the game down, resulting in quicker round, and act as prod for judges to hasten their judging times.
I know that life can get in the way, this is after all just a forum game we all play. But then such a ban will serve the penalized well as a stay from the game to get their affairs in better order. Also, winners are always free to pass the round off to the runner-up or some other party if they know they don't have the time.
There is truly no reason why a judge should hold the thread hostage for days on end. If a judge does in fact not have the time, that is what Megiddo has made this thread for. That judge should PM Megiddo and explain, and then suffer the penalty for their inability to follow the game's rules.
I hope this slight-rant doesn't fall on deaf ears. I believe I am not the only one in the forums that feels this way, however I could be wrong. Any replies positive or negative for Megiddo or any other players would be greatly appreciated.
Elspeth, the Exiled2WW
Planeswalker - Elspeth
[+2]: Remove a counter from target permanent or player.
[-1]: Put a 1/1 white Solider creature token on the battlefield with protection from infect.
[-6]: You gain an emblem with, "Sources with infect deal damage to you and permanents you control as though they did not have infect."
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Echoing Incantation2UU
Enchantment - Aura
Enchant Permanent
Whenever an ability of enchanted permanent is activated you may copy that ability. You may choose new targets for the copy.
When enchanted permanent is put into a graveyard from play, if that permanent was not a planeswalker, you may choose an activated ability of that permanent and, put a copy of it on the stack.
Bloom of the Loci
Legendary Land - Locus
When ~ enters the battlefield put a locus counter on target land. That land becomes a locus in addition to its other types.
At the beginning of your upkeep if you control 10 or more loci you win the game. And sometimes on Mirrodin if you catch the sunsets just right you can see the clouds in full bloom.
Desolated Wastes
Land (R)
Whenever a land other than Desolated Wastes enters the battlefield, put a Desolation counter on that land. Lands with Desolation counters on them produce 1 instead of their normal mana.
: Add 1 to your mana pool for each land with a desolation counter you control.
Is it interesting? Yes. Is it way too good? Yes. This card shuts out EVERY strategy, unless your mono-artifact you won’t be able to combat this once it hits play. Also this can produce obscene amounts of mana on its own. 3/10
Mirran Laboratory
Land
Whenever you tap ~ for mana you may put a Reinforcement counter on target other land. Lands with Reinforcement counters on them are Artifacts in addition to their other types. T: Add 1 to your mana pool. ,T: Add 1 to your mana pool for each artifact land you control.
It’s like a slow-growing Cabal Coffers. I like it. My main concern is that this would mainly be used to LD opponents with shatter effects. 6/10
Lotus Field
Legendary Land (M)
At the beginning of your upkeep, put a lotus counter on Lotus Field. 2,, Remove X lotus counters from Lotus Field: Add X mana of any one color to your mana pool.
This might be under powered. It doesn’t actually create any mana until sitting on the field for 3 turns because of the activation cost. The fact that it is legendary means that a player dropping another one can kill this before it does anything other than cost you a drop. This is basically just a slightly worse Lotus Blossom. Not very original. 4/10
Caustic Chunnel
Land [m] T, Tap an untapped permanent you control: Add to your mana pool 2 or two mana of any of colors the permanent tapped this way is. That permanent can't untap this game.
Wording is slightly off, but I get what it does. Interesting. It can act as a single use accelerator, like a crystal vein, and is very good with static artifacts and enchantments. I like it. 7/10
Army Barracks
Land (R)
Tap an untapped creature you control: Tap or untap target land.
I think this is too good. Every creature you control becomes at least a hasted Llanowar Elves/Birds of Paradise. If you have any lands that have a separate tap effect or produces additional mana this can get out of hand very quickly. This feels like an even better Candelabra of Tawnos. 5/10
Mirrorpeak
Land {R} T: Add 1 to your mana pool. U: Until end of turn, Mirrorpeak becomes a 2/2 blue Illusion creature with shroud. It's still a land. 1W:Until end of turn, lands you control get +1/+1 as long as they are creatures.
Cool card. I like that it only taps for colorless yet is powered by 2 separate colored effects. I really like the white ability on this, very creative. The only thing I don’t like is that the land gains shroud, it makes it nearly impossible to every actually answer the creature/land. I can’t even stone rain it as long as the controller leaves U up. 8/10
Temporal Expanse
Land (M) : Add one mana of any color to your mana pool. Activate this ability no more than three times each turn.
Cool card. Requires something more to get it going, but once it does it’s spectacular. I’m sure that this could be broken somehow even with the three times clause, but I’m not the one to do it. Good card. 7/10
Soldier's Armory
Land (Uncommon)
Soldier's Armory enters the battlefield tapped. T: Add W to your mana pool. 1W: Until end of turn, Soldier's Armory becomes a 2/2 white Human Soldier creature with "This creature is indestructible this turn." It's still a land.
Cool man land. Not insane by any stretch but probably runnable in many white decks. Nothing super creative as far as activation or abilities but still nice. 6/10
Zhalfirin Mine
Land (M) t: Add 3 to your mana pool and discard your hand.
"Unimaginable wealth without imagination to spend it." —The Lion's Curse
This card is too good probably. It’s a colorless Lion’s Eye Diamond without the diamond’s drawback. You can accelerate out a serious spell too quickly with this. When you cast a spell you first announce the spell, then pay the costs, meaning you can cast 1 spell with this super-accelerator from your hand. Also this land doesn’t sac to be used like LED, so you can re-use it on each new draw and all abilities of permanents you control. 3/10
Pollen Field
Land (U)
Pollen Field enters the battlefield tapped. T: Add W to your mana pool. W,T, Sacrifice Pollen Field: Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt this turn.
The warriors marched through the field, when a sudden gust blew the field's pollen and the warriors' mettle into the air.
New effect for a land. The comes into play tapped really hurts it, but otherwise it would be “strictly” better than Plains. I wish there was an elegant way for this to come into play untapped as the effect is somewhat limited. Still, cool card. 6/10
Quantum Pillar
Land (R)
Quantum Pillar comes into play tapped.
Exile a card from your hand, : Add X mana to your mana pool, where X is equal to the casting cost and color of the exiled card.
This card is WAY WAY too good. If gamermk’s card was broken, your card is… a word not yet invented to describe a card that should never have been printed. So Turn 2 I can cast an Emrakul assuming I have any spell that costs 14 or more in my hand to go along with it and another land, or another Emrakul or… you know anything that cost less than the Emrakul I’m exiling. And it’s not even legendary. Every deck would run 4 of these. Always. Negative 11 out of 10. -11/10
Resonating Fields
Land (R)
When Resonating Fields enters the battlefield, proliferate. T, Pay 2 life: Add 1 to your mana pool.
Madness 2
Cycling 2
This card does a lot, and yet somehow nothing at the same time! I’m not sure you can Madness a land, but I’ll assume that the rules can be altered to do so. I think that the drawback is too great. I imagine that it could just tap for colorless without any other drawback. Madness + Cycling is always fun. Nothing original here as much as combining a bunch of cool effects. 7/10
Artificers' Assemblage
Land (R) t: Add 1 to your mana pool.
Sacrifice an artifact, t: Add one mana of any color to your mana pool.
Exile an artifact card from your graveyard, t: Add 2 to your mana pool. Spend this mana only to cast artifact spells or activate abilities of artifacts.
If Glimmervoid and Mishra’s Workshop had a baby this is what would pop out. Nice card. Doesn’t do anything to exciting or original as far as lands go. Still, elegant and well crafted. 7/10
Higher Ground
Land {R}
Higher Ground enters the battlefield tapped t: Add to your mana pool.
Attacking creatures your opponents control get -1/-0.
I worry about multiple of these on the field. If you have 1 out it’s an annoy effect, 2 becomes a problem, and 4 becomes extremely hard to deal with. Cool new static effect for a land, but potentially too good. Maybe being a legend would have solved this. 6/10
Compulsion cost 1U and does less than this. This is too good. It doesn’t tap for mana, so that’s good. But nearly every blue deck ever would run this. Also the fact that you can activate this at end of turn take the decision tree away from this card for blue mages. No sir, I don’t like it. 3/10
I'll grade within the next 48 hours, although hopefully quicker, thinking either tomorrow night or Monday afternoon depending on the entries. Or 15 entries, whichever comes first.
Also, side note, SecretInfiltrator, did my card make it into your set?
Summon from the Unconscious3GG
Sorcery {R}
Target player exiles the top X cards of his or her library where X is equal to the total power of all creatures you control. If any creatures are exiled this way you may choose one and put it onto the battlefield under your control. "I saw what you were thinking, I have to say, I kind of liked it." - Garruk
Stupid Comic0
Creature - Human Artificer
When ~ enters the battlefield you lose the game. Boy this is a specific lame challenge. I'm sure there are other forums more appropriate for discussing your like for badly drawn nerdgasms.
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We've PMed out this before Megiddo but feel free to smash me again on it. Here is the refined Karn from before.
Karn the Artificer 5
Artifact Planeswalker - Karn {M}
[+0] Proliferate
[+1] Target non-creature artifact becomes an artifact creature with power and toughness equal to its converted mana cost. If Karn is targeted by this ability prevent the first four combat damage that would be dealt to him this turn.
[-3] Gain control of target artifact.
[-5] Search your library for any number of non-land non-planeswalker artifact cards with total converted mana cost of 5 or less and put them onto the battlefield. Shuffle your library afterward.
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Creature - Elemental
Sacrifice ~: Draw a card.
It lives to feed the mind.
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Creature - Zombie Minion {R}
~ is black.
~ enters the battlefield with a -1/-1 counter on it.
~ can't be the target of spells or abilities you control.
When ~ deals combat damage to a player that player loses the game.
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This card is designed to help, not 1, not 2, not 3, but FOUR different Megiddo pet cards!
1. Indomitable Archangel
2. Glaze Fiend
3. Beastmaster Ascension
4. Dragon Appeasement
Preponderance of Pests 3WW
Enchantment
When ~ enters the battlefield put 5 0/1 Artifact Pest creature tokens with haste and "this creature must attack each turn if able."
Sacrifice a Pest: Pests lose all abilities until end of turn.
Here a pest there a pest, everywhere the best pests...
Basically said, kill their mana sources and you kill their deck.
Bringer's Moon 1WW
Enchantment
Nonbasic lands are Plains.
The reflection of the Sun across the world shown so bright only the purest of light could be seen.
Liliana the Gravestalker 4BB
Planeswalker - Liliana
[+1] Name a creature card. Target player reveals his or her hand and discards a card with the chosen name.
[-2] Search target player's library for up to 3 creature cards and put them into that player's graveyard. Then that player shuffles his or her library.
[-3] Put target creature in an opponent's graveyard onto the battlefield under your control.
[-4] Each creature gets -X/-X until end of turn where X is equal to the number of creatures in all graveyards.
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And then... well... Megiddo has done a great job, truly. A better job than any on person can be expected to do. He has run this thread quickly and with such high quality content that his praise really does need to be sung more often.
Lately the judges have been really slacking off. Judges are leaving contests for days at a time. This thread is about high quality quick judgments and that's been lost.
So Megiddo I ask you to raise the penalty for abandoning judges. For repeat offenders a week or more ban is much more appropriate than simply a single round. Make offenders truly miss the game and set up a real deterrent. This will both knock out those who slow the game down, resulting in quicker round, and act as prod for judges to hasten their judging times.
I know that life can get in the way, this is after all just a forum game we all play. But then such a ban will serve the penalized well as a stay from the game to get their affairs in better order. Also, winners are always free to pass the round off to the runner-up or some other party if they know they don't have the time.
There is truly no reason why a judge should hold the thread hostage for days on end. If a judge does in fact not have the time, that is what Megiddo has made this thread for. That judge should PM Megiddo and explain, and then suffer the penalty for their inability to follow the game's rules.
I hope this slight-rant doesn't fall on deaf ears. I believe I am not the only one in the forums that feels this way, however I could be wrong. Any replies positive or negative for Megiddo or any other players would be greatly appreciated.
Have fun all!
Planeswalker - Elspeth
[+2]: Remove a counter from target permanent or player.
[-1]: Put a 1/1 white Solider creature token on the battlefield with protection from infect.
[-6]: You gain an emblem with, "Sources with infect deal damage to you and permanents you control as though they did not have infect."
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Enchantment - Aura
Enchant Permanent
Whenever an ability of enchanted permanent is activated you may copy that ability. You may choose new targets for the copy.
When enchanted permanent is put into a graveyard from play, if that permanent was not a planeswalker, you may choose an activated ability of that permanent and, put a copy of it on the stack.
Legendary Land - Locus
When ~ enters the battlefield put a locus counter on target land. That land becomes a locus in addition to its other types.
At the beginning of your upkeep if you control 10 or more loci you win the game.
And sometimes on Mirrodin if you catch the sunsets just right you can see the clouds in full bloom.
Is it interesting? Yes. Is it way too good? Yes. This card shuts out EVERY strategy, unless your mono-artifact you won’t be able to combat this once it hits play. Also this can produce obscene amounts of mana on its own. 3/10
It’s like a slow-growing Cabal Coffers. I like it. My main concern is that this would mainly be used to LD opponents with shatter effects. 6/10
This might be under powered. It doesn’t actually create any mana until sitting on the field for 3 turns because of the activation cost. The fact that it is legendary means that a player dropping another one can kill this before it does anything other than cost you a drop. This is basically just a slightly worse Lotus Blossom. Not very original. 4/10
Wording is slightly off, but I get what it does. Interesting. It can act as a single use accelerator, like a crystal vein, and is very good with static artifacts and enchantments. I like it. 7/10
I think this is too good. Every creature you control becomes at least a hasted Llanowar Elves/Birds of Paradise. If you have any lands that have a separate tap effect or produces additional mana this can get out of hand very quickly. This feels like an even better Candelabra of Tawnos. 5/10
Cool card. I like that it only taps for colorless yet is powered by 2 separate colored effects. I really like the white ability on this, very creative. The only thing I don’t like is that the land gains shroud, it makes it nearly impossible to every actually answer the creature/land. I can’t even stone rain it as long as the controller leaves U up. 8/10
Cool card. Requires something more to get it going, but once it does it’s spectacular. I’m sure that this could be broken somehow even with the three times clause, but I’m not the one to do it. Good card. 7/10
Cool man land. Not insane by any stretch but probably runnable in many white decks. Nothing super creative as far as activation or abilities but still nice. 6/10
This card is too good probably. It’s a colorless Lion’s Eye Diamond without the diamond’s drawback. You can accelerate out a serious spell too quickly with this. When you cast a spell you first announce the spell, then pay the costs, meaning you can cast 1 spell with this super-accelerator from your hand. Also this land doesn’t sac to be used like LED, so you can re-use it on each new draw and all abilities of permanents you control. 3/10
New effect for a land. The comes into play tapped really hurts it, but otherwise it would be “strictly” better than Plains. I wish there was an elegant way for this to come into play untapped as the effect is somewhat limited. Still, cool card. 6/10
This card is WAY WAY too good. If gamermk’s card was broken, your card is… a word not yet invented to describe a card that should never have been printed. So Turn 2 I can cast an Emrakul assuming I have any spell that costs 14 or more in my hand to go along with it and another land, or another Emrakul or… you know anything that cost less than the Emrakul I’m exiling. And it’s not even legendary. Every deck would run 4 of these. Always. Negative 11 out of 10. -11/10
This card does a lot, and yet somehow nothing at the same time! I’m not sure you can Madness a land, but I’ll assume that the rules can be altered to do so. I think that the drawback is too great. I imagine that it could just tap for colorless without any other drawback. Madness + Cycling is always fun. Nothing original here as much as combining a bunch of cool effects. 7/10
If Glimmervoid and Mishra’s Workshop had a baby this is what would pop out. Nice card. Doesn’t do anything to exciting or original as far as lands go. Still, elegant and well crafted. 7/10
I worry about multiple of these on the field. If you have 1 out it’s an annoy effect, 2 becomes a problem, and 4 becomes extremely hard to deal with. Cool new static effect for a land, but potentially too good. Maybe being a legend would have solved this. 6/10
Compulsion cost 1U and does less than this. This is too good. It doesn’t tap for mana, so that’s good. But nearly every blue deck ever would run this. Also the fact that you can activate this at end of turn take the decision tree away from this card for blue mages. No sir, I don’t like it. 3/10
Winner!
NEXT CHALLENGE: Make me an interesting land card.
I'll grade within the next 48 hours, although hopefully quicker, thinking either tomorrow night or Monday afternoon depending on the entries. Or 15 entries, whichever comes first.
Also, side note, SecretInfiltrator, did my card make it into your set?
Sorcery {R}
Target player exiles the top X cards of his or her library where X is equal to the total power of all creatures you control. If any creatures are exiled this way you may choose one and put it onto the battlefield under your control.
"I saw what you were thinking, I have to say, I kind of liked it." - Garruk
Creature - Human Artificer
When ~ enters the battlefield you lose the game.
Boy this is a specific lame challenge. I'm sure there are other forums more appropriate for discussing your like for badly drawn nerdgasms.
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Karn the Artificer 5
Artifact Planeswalker - Karn {M}
[+0] Proliferate
[+1] Target non-creature artifact becomes an artifact creature with power and toughness equal to its converted mana cost. If Karn is targeted by this ability prevent the first four combat damage that would be dealt to him this turn.
[-3] Gain control of target artifact.
[-5] Search your library for any number of non-land non-planeswalker artifact cards with total converted mana cost of 5 or less and put them onto the battlefield. Shuffle your library afterward.
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