MTG Salvation

Telepathic Blast UUUUU
Instant
Telepathic blast deals 5 damage to any target and 2 damage to you.
It's always sad to see a trained mind melt away.

(See sig for art reference.)


IIW: Ninjutsu

Quite doable:

1CC Tibalt R
Legendary Planeswalker- Tibalt
+1: Tibalt deals 1 damage to you.
-1: Target player discards a card then draws a card.
-3: Target player discards three cards then draw three cards.
{{1}}

1CC Jace U
Legendary Planeswalker- Jace
+1: Look at the top card of target player's library.
-2: Draw a card.
{2}

1CC Teyo W
Legendary Planeswalker- Teyo
0: Target creature gets +0/+2 until the beginning of your next upkeep.
-1: Put a +1/+1 counter on target creature or a loyalty counter on another target planeswalker.
{{1}}

1CC Nissa G
Legendary Planeswalker- Nissa
+1: You may shuffle a card from your graveyard into your library.
-2: Untap target land.
-7: Untap target land. It becomes a 7/7 Elemental creature with trample until end of turn.
{{1}}

1CC Devrael B
Legendary Planeswalker- Devrael
+1: Discard a card.
-0: Target player reveals a card at random from their hand.
-2: Name a nonland card. Target player reveals their hand and discards all cards with that name.
{{2}}

I think it's still unlikely we'll see this yet, but I think it's fairly certain we'll see one or two 2cc planeswalkers.

Huh, I thought trinket text was "Sac to draw a card". Essentially the artifact form of a cantrip spell. I'll probably change my response.

Now that I understand the challenge.

Optopod (G/U)
Creature- Homunculus (U)
T, Sacrifice Optopod: Draw a card.
"I keep trying to count the eyes and another one opens." -Thimbald, Biomage's Assistant
1/1

Irascible Telepath 1BUW
Creature- Vedalken Wizard (R)
Each opponent plays with the top card of their libraries revealed.
You may play cards from the top of opponents' libraries.
Hexproof from cards sharing the name of cards revealed with Irascible Telepath.
2/4


IIW: Sagas. (heh, that word's a palindrome.)

Broken Promise 2
Sorcery
Each player secretly names

Teenage Schoolgirl B
Creature- Human
When a creature dies, put a level counter on Teenage Schoolgirl.
[1/1]
______________________________________________________________________________
{Lvl 7+} T: Destroy target Zombie, Spirit, Demon, Ninja, Horror, Warrior, Cyborg, or beast creature.
[5/5]

Yaoi Pairing 2W
Enchantment- Aura
Enchant two creatures you control that are depicted as male in their artwork.
When you lose control of one of the enchanted creatures, sacrifice Yaoi Pairing at the beginning of the next end step.
Enchanted creatures get +2/+2 and gain "Sacrifice this creature: The other enchanted creature gains indestructible until end of turn."
"You're telling me Naruto and Sasuke aren't a thing? Yeah right."



IIW: An underused mechanic.

Recycler Druid 2G
Creature- Elf Druid
At the beginning of your end step, you may sacrifice a land. If you do, reveal cards from the top of your library until you reveal a forest card. Put that card onto the battlefield tapped, and the other cards revealed in this way on the bottom of your library in a random order.
1/1

Alright:

Forestsguy- Liliana Allegiant
This is definitely toned down from a mythic planeswalker, but the build is very similar to those. Giving it a -4 and a -6 gives it something like a mini ultimate and a true ultimate. Neither ability is back breaking, and the +1 isn't either (considering how much easier this is to interact with than Ill-Gotten Inheritance is). The danger here is only in the inherent power of versatility. This just might be uncommonable.

Subject16- Kaya, Orzhov Fugitive
I like blinking planeswalkers as much as the next guy, but we have Venser and Aminatou already, so I don't know that we need Kaya to add that to her wheelhouse. The main thing that makes this feel uncommonable is my least favorite thing about it: the first ability doesn't hate the opponent's graveyard. If I were reworking it, I'd make it eat from any graveyard with the +1, cut the -2, and leave the ult. The ult isn't overpowered, but it is very strong, and also doesn't feel extremely uncommonable considering that it's a 3 ability walker.

Graffd02- Dack Fayden, Master Thief
Domestication is no small thing to do at uncommon, so giving it a plan B is pretty big game. The -1 can get you some pretty sweet card advantage, but it's nothing compared to some existing card-draw planeswalkers. This build feels promising, but the Domestication ability is just a bit over the top. I'd make it take something with power 2 or less.

Legend- Garruk, Wildslord
Once again, we have an optional sorcery ult: Desert Twister. Like Dack, once you use the -2, you can no longer use the twister, but unlike Dack, this has a 0 ability and costs six. It's the cost that makes this more uncommonable than anything. Still, like Dack with Domestication, Garruk gets Desert Twister plus other options without any additional cost. I'm a fan of desert twister, so I won't penalize it for being out of color pie, but it's is still dangerously strong and versatile for an uncommon, and once again feels slightly closer to rare.

VolrathTheRisen- Lovecraft, Scion of Providence and Ignus, Imp Pyrokinetic
So Howard is Awakening Zone. Its much easier to remove than Awakening Zone, so that doesn't make it non-uncommonable. I like the mini-ult works with this, and I think it fees about right. Despite being very strong if left unchecked, this dies to Shock or Wind Drake, and unlike most of the other cards here, you can't get your value out of it unless you let it sit for a few turns. This vulnerability makes it feel like the most uncommonable card I've seen yet. I also enjoy the double meaning of Providence.

For Ignus: This could just as easily be a Chandra. I wonder if you intended to leave it non-legendary. It makes sense for Ignus but less for Howard. This feels right. It's 1RR for a Prodigal Pyromancer that can eventually (but quite predictably) hit everything. The cost, loyalty, and ability balance all feels right. It's good, and would be worth more than most uncommons, but it feels decidedly uncommon. What I was really looking for here is cards that looked at the mechanical strengths and weaknesses of the planeswalker type and took those into consideration to make an uncommon version. This and Howard seem like the ones what really used the inherent fragility of planeswalkers to balance out uncommon designs.

Most of these feel like they're just on the verge between uncommon and rare. I think Volrath got the most uncommonable ones with Forestsguy coming closest.

Winner: VolrathTheRisen
Next: Anime tropes or icons

The Slime Germ BUG
Legendary Creature- Ooze Germ
Trample
As The Slime Germ enters the battlefield, and when it attacks, you may sacrifice a land you control.
The Slime Germ gets +1/+1 for each land card in your graveyard.
T: Return target creature to its owner's hand if its power is less than The Slime Germ's power.
0/0

Next:
Ocean Man
Voodoo Lady
Marble Tulip Juicy Tree

Tiny Little Giant Colossus 8
Artifact Creature - Golem
Trample
Tiny Little Giant Colossus gets +2/-2 for each token you control.
2/

(no and no, but I think original Tibalt is pretty close to right for uncommon.)

Give it say 3 hours. I'll judge whether or not there are any more entries.

Quote from void_nothing »

Suffice it to say, though, M_J's town play was very bad.

You keep saying stuff like this, and I'm not going to say you're exactly wrong, but if you're town, your town play hasn't been particularly strong either considering on how thoroughly convinced you are at the guilt of innocents.

Tiny Little Giant Colossus 8
Artifact Creature - Golem
Trample
Tiny Little Giant Colossus gets +2/-2 for each token you

Judgement tomorrow.

Goldenfield Explorer 1W
Creature- Human Scout
When ~ dies, if you control fewer lands than target player, search your library for a plains card, and put it onto the battlefield tapped, then if you have less life than target player, gain 1 life for each plains you control.
2/1