When is the last chance I have to cast a spell to prevent an opponent's werewolf from transforming. Can I cast it in response to the trigger, or do I have to cast it during his second main phase?
1: Have Fun!!! 2: Each round, except round 1 (signup round), will have a theme, and the contestants will design cards to match that theme. 3. Players may submit a new, original card, or any card[s] they have created, so long as they are the players own original design and the card[s] meet the challenge requirements. Last word on meeting these requirements and any penalties is up to the hosts. 4: Each round will have 4 days to submit cards and 3 days to to vote for the cards. 5: Judging is only done by poll and the player with the lowest number of votes will be eliminated. Voting will be public and open to the general public. You may vote for as many, or as few cards as you like (including yourself if you want). The host(s) have final say on the validity of a vote in the case of questionable votes. 6: Any player that doesn't submit a card for any reason will be eliminated. 7: If a player submits a card or cards that does not meet the challenge requirements, that player may receive a DQ and be eliminated. If possible, the player in question will be notified to try and correct the problem before the end of the round. If the mistake is not corrected or is not caught until after the voting has begun, then the hosts will decide if a DQ will be assigned. 8: If there's a tie for the lowest vote total, all those people get to stay in the game but they get a next to their name. Anybody who already had a :symb:, however, is out. Players that get a will keep it until he or she is eliminated or we reach the Top 7 bracket. Anybody with three or less votes in a single round will also receive a :symb:. Similar rules apply. 9: The game will continue until we have a single champion... our Design Idol. 10: If the winner of the last Design Idol returns to defend his or her title (he or she must now sign-up like everyone else), he or she will earn a beside his or her name. This means if he or she would earn a for a round, the falls off instead. Or, if that player would face single elimination, the will convert into a :symb:. If the goes unused by the time we reach the Top 7 Bracket, it will fall off. 11: The Top 4 of the last Design Idol get the right to "shotgun" a place on the new season. The same is true for hosts, only they get shotgun rights for two seasons. (So any hosts of Season VI can shotgun in VII and VIII). They still have to create a card for the first round, however.
New Rule: Renders may be submitted, but text is required. The text of the card will be copied and pasted into the poll with any links.
We've reached the showdown between Morguloth and Oculus.
This round is a "What if" round. The challenge was to change a design or creative decision for a past block and design cards showcasing the difference. A sentences or two explaining the change is allowed and encouraged. What if alara were split into wedges? What if flip cards or two face cards had debuted in Shadowmoor? What if the Phyrexians had invaded Kamigawa?
Your challenge is to make 7 cards showing the differences. These should include not only the change you made, but other cards effected by the change. The 7 cards must include all 4 rarities, all 5 colors, and all the major types (artifact, creature, enchantment, land, instant, sorcery, and planeswalker.) Not all cards must relate to the change, but all must be appropriate for the same block.
Morguloth asked "What if the Zendikar allies, aided by a mystery planeswalker, managed to repel the Eldrazi? This would be shown by expanding the 'Ally' mechanic to the 'Rise of Eldrazi' set, bringing about the "Fall of Eldrazi"".
Allied Stronghold
Legendary Land {R}
Whenever Allied Stronghold or an Ally enters the battlefield under your control, you may add to your mana pool.
Allied Blade
Artifact - Equipment {U}
Equipped creature gets +1/+1 for each Ally creature you control.
Equip
Allied Funeral Rites :1mana::symb::symw:
Enchantment {R}
Whenever an ally you control dies, you may pay :1mana:; if you do put a 1/1 white Soldier Ally creature token onto the battlefield.
Allied Battle-Mage :2mana::symr:
Creature - Human Wizard Ally{U}
Whenever Allied Battle-Mage or another Ally enters the battlefield under your control, Allied Battle-Mage deals 1 damage to target creature or player.
1/3
Allied Research :3mana::symu:
Sorcery {C}
Tap any number of untapped Ally creatures you control, draw cards equal to the number of creatures tapped this way.
Allied Ambush :1mana::symg::symg:
Instant {C}
Ally creatures you control get +2/+2 until the end of turn.
Vynax the Emancipator :1mana::symg::symw::symu:
Planeswalker - Vynax {M}
<+1> Reveal the top card of your library. If it's a land card, put it onto the battlefield. Otherwise, put that card into your hand.
<-2> Exile target creature with power greater than or equal to 4.
<-6> Put a 1/1 white Soldier Ally creature token onto the battlefield for each land you control.
[3]
Occulus proposed "Short and simple - Mirrans lost the war because they tried to overwhelm the Phyrexians with force. Contraptions explore an alterate Mirrodin Besieged, where the Mirran forces instead experimented with countless new devices, leading to a chaotic warfare the Phyrexians were incapable of adapting to (see Spiraling Duelist's flavor text).
While Steamflogger Boss implies an inherently parasitic relationship between Riggers and Contraptions, this can be minimized by making only one dependent, and taking the other out of the deck (either sideboarding or tokens) to minimize the loss of deck space."
Ghalma's Workshop
Artifact Land - Contraption {R}
(Ghalma's Workshop isn't a spell.) : Add to your mana pool. : Artifact spells you cast this turn cost less to cast.
Piston Myr
Artifact Creature - Myr Contraption {C}
When Piston Myr enters the battlefield, untap up to two target artifacts. These repurposed myr scuttle around Mirran encampments, maintaining various golems and devices.
1/1
Scrap Lasher :1mana::symr:
Creature - Goblin Rigger {U}
:symr:, , Sacrifice an artifact: Assemble a Contraption. (To assemble a Contraption, choose a Contraption card you own outside the game. You may play it this turn.) Goblins believe it perverse to use any scrap metal that wasn't functional before it got to them.
2/1
Razor Salvage :1mana::symw:
Tribal Sorcery - Rigger {C}
Choose one - Return target artifact card from your graveyard to your hand; or exile target artifact card from your graveyard, then assemble a Contraption. (To assemble a Contraption, choose a Contraption card you own outside the game. You may play it this turn.) Generations of Auriok tradition told them to restore the golem. Neccessity told them to drag it to the ironworks.
Makeshift Assembly :2mana::symu:
Tribal Enchantment - Rigger {R}
Artifacts you control and artifact cards you own that aren't on the battlefield are Contraptions in addition to their other types. "A week with a seastrider shell and a quiet space is all I need to rebuild a leveler."
- Velus, Synod artificer
Toxic Claim :1mana::symg:
Instant {U}
Destroy target artifact. If was spent to cast Toxic Claim, proliferate. (You choose any number of permanents and/or players with counters on them, then give each another counter of a kind already there.) With the remaining Phyrexian forces pushed into the Mephidross, cooperation between its factions was no longer a matter of politics.
Grivor Stra, Putremancer :2mana::symb::symg:
Planeswalker - Grivor {M}
{+1}: Each player may return a card from his or her graveyard to his or her hand.
{0}: Exile up to three target cards from a single graveyard.
{-7}: Creatures you control get +3/+3 until end of turn. Creatures you don't control get -3/-3 until end of turn.
{4}
Everyone please vote and critique in this final round as we determine once and for all our next design idol.
These people can have both the resources and the means to uproot themselves, abandon their lives and live on a private, artificial island.
Yup, government sure has harmed them.
Here I was evaluating harm by what one group did to another. By this logic the Klan never harmed southern blacks, they still had the resources to move north. Are you putting this forward as a theory or just snarking?
Coercive force is part of it, but also social tradition and legitimacy. The average person, in their everyday life, never experiences coercive force from the government.
Threats count too. By that grounds being mugged at gunpoint isn't a violent crime if the victim hands over their wallet and shots aren't fired.
I would condemn such a killing as immoral. I hope that if the temptation arose I would be able to say no. However, given the chance at the stakes proposed the answer would probably be yes. To claim that I would resist some temptation is easy before the temptation arises.
I didn't. I thought that an appropriate action would have been to demand extradition of Bin Laden from Afganistan, and possible assassination of him if the opportunity arose. I thought the Afgan war had to high a cost in collateral damage and too much risk of blowback and that the Iraq war was not good. I thought that the domestic response was overblown as well. The US government and much of the populace did overreact though.
One major reason is that there are multiple religions coexisting side by side. When this happens the only options are oppression, conflict or secularism.
If one religion sets the terms for the interactions, everyone who rejects that religion gets the shaft.
If two or more contradictory religions both attempt to set terms simultaneously, there is a struggle.
Because neither of these are good, people create a secular order.
1: Have Fun!!! 2: Each round, except round 1 (signup round), will have a theme, and the contestants will design cards to match that theme. 3. Players may submit a new, original card, or any card[s] they have created, so long as they are the players own original design and the card[s] meet the challenge requirements. Last word on meeting these requirements and any penalties is up to the hosts. 4: Each round will have 4 days to submit cards and 3 days to to vote for the cards. 5: Judging is only done by poll and the player with the lowest number of votes will be eliminated. Voting will be public and open to the general public. You may vote for as many, or as few cards as you like (including yourself if you want). The host(s) have final say on the validity of a vote in the case of questionable votes. 6: Any player that doesn't submit a card for any reason will be eliminated. 7: If a player submits a card or cards that does not meet the challenge requirements, that player may receive a DQ and be eliminated. If possible, the player in question will be notified to try and correct the problem before the end of the round. If the mistake is not corrected or is not caught until after the voting has begun, then the hosts will decide if a DQ will be assigned. 8: If there's a tie for the lowest vote total, all those people get to stay in the game but they get a next to their name. Anybody who already had a :symb:, however, is out. Players that get a will keep it until he or she is eliminated or we reach the Top 7 bracket. Anybody with three or less votes in a single round will also receive a :symb:. Similar rules apply. 9: The game will continue until we have a single champion... our Design Idol. 10: If the winner of the last Design Idol returns to defend his or her title (he or she must now sign-up like everyone else), he or she will earn a beside his or her name. This means if he or she would earn a for a round, the falls off instead. Or, if that player would face single elimination, the will convert into a :symb:. If the goes unused by the time we reach the Top 7 Bracket, it will fall off. 11: The Top 4 of the last Design Idol get the right to "shotgun" a place on the new season. The same is true for hosts, only they get shotgun rights for two seasons. (So any hosts of Season VI can shotgun in VII and VIII). They still have to create a card for the first round, however.
New Rule: Renders may be submitted, but text is required. The text of the card will be copied and pasted into the poll with any links.
Last round, Morguloth and Oculus edged out Twilight Kiwi and earned their places in the finals. Thanks for playing Twilight Kiwi.
This round is a "What if" round. Your challenge is to change a design or creative decision for a past block and design cards showcasing the difference. A sentences or two explaining the change is allowed and encouraged. What if alara were split into wedges? What if flip cards or two face cards had debuted in Shadowmoor? What if the Phyrexians had invaded Kamigawa?
Your challenge is to make 7 cards showing the differences. These should include not only the change you made, but other cards effected by the change. The 7 cards must include all 4 rarities, all 5 colors, and all the major types (artifact, creature, enchantment, land, instant, sorcery, and planeswalker.) Not all cards must relate to the change, but all must be appropriate for the same block.
Again, you have 1 week to submit. The deadline is Wednesday at 3:00 PM eastern time. If both players finalize their submissions beforehand, I will end the round early.
1: Have Fun!!! 2: Each round, except round 1 (signup round), will have a theme, and the contestants will design cards to match that theme. 3. Players may submit a new, original card, or any card[s] they have created, so long as they are the players own original design and the card[s] meet the challenge requirements. Last word on meeting these requirements and any penalties is up to the hosts. 4: Each round will have 4 days to submit cards and 3 days to to vote for the cards. 5: Judging is only done by poll and the player with the lowest number of votes will be eliminated. Voting will be public and open to the general public. You may vote for as many, or as few cards as you like (including yourself if you want). The host(s) have final say on the validity of a vote in the case of questionable votes. 6: Any player that doesn't submit a card for any reason will be eliminated. 7: If a player submits a card or cards that does not meet the challenge requirements, that player may receive a DQ and be eliminated. If possible, the player in question will be notified to try and correct the problem before the end of the round. If the mistake is not corrected or is not caught until after the voting has begun, then the hosts will decide if a DQ will be assigned. 8: If there's a tie for the lowest vote total, all those people get to stay in the game but they get a next to their name. Anybody who already had a :symb:, however, is out. Players that get a will keep it until he or she is eliminated or we reach the Top 7 bracket. Anybody with three or less votes in a single round will also receive a :symb:. Similar rules apply. 9: The game will continue until we have a single champion... our Design Idol. 10: If the winner of the last Design Idol returns to defend his or her title (he or she must now sign-up like everyone else), he or she will earn a beside his or her name. This means if he or she would earn a for a round, the falls off instead. Or, if that player would face single elimination, the will convert into a :symb:. If the goes unused by the time we reach the Top 7 Bracket, it will fall off. 11: The Top 4 of the last Design Idol get the right to "shotgun" a place on the new season. The same is true for hosts, only they get shotgun rights for two seasons. (So any hosts of Season VI can shotgun in VII and VIII). They still have to create a card for the first round, however.
New Rule: Renders may be submitted, but text is required. The text of the card will be copied and pasted into the poll with any links.
This round's challenge is Ravnica revisited. Your design challenge is to chose a guild and replace its guild mechanic (dredge, replicate, haunt, etc.) with a new mechanic of your design. You must design 6 cards showing off your guild and mechanic.
The cards must be 2 commons, 2 uncommons, 1 rare and 1 mythic rare. They must include at least 2 creatures, 1 instant or sorcery, and 1 noncreature permanent. They must include at least 4 cards using your new mechanic. They must include at least 1 monocolored card of each color, 1 hybrid card, and 2 multicolored cards.
The entries were as follows.
Morguloth
Aspiring Cultist
Creature - Human Rogue {C}
Haste Twisted - If a creature was sacrificed this turn, Aspiring Cultist enters the battlefield with a +1/+1 counter on it.
1/1
Bloodrot Ritual
Instant {C}
Each players sacrifices a creature.
Gruesome Spectacle :symrb::symrb:
Enchantment {U}
Whenever an opponent sacrifices a creature, you may pay :1mana:, if you do, draw a card.
Bloodbraid Cultist :2mana::symr::symb:
Creature - Elf Zombie {U}
Haste Twisted - If a creature was sacrificed this turn, when Bloodbraid Cultist enters battlefield, you may have target creature get -3/-3 until the end of turn.
3/2
Rakdos Usurper :4mana::symr::symb:
Creature - Demon {R}
Flying Twisted - If a creature was sacrificed this turn, when Rakdos Usurper enters the battlefield, target player sacrifices each creature they control.
4/6
Corrupted Faith :8mana::symr::symr::symb::symb:
Sorcery {MR}
Corrupted faith deals 10 damage to each opponent. You gain life equal to the damage done this way. Twisted - If a creature was sacrificed this turn, Corrupted Faith deals 20 damage to each opponnent instead.
Twilight Kiwi
Blind Hunter :2mana::symb:
Creature - Spirit Assassin (C)
Binding (When this card goes to your graveyard from anywhere, you may exile it bound to target player.)
As long as Blind Hunter is bound to a player, at the beginning of that player's upkeep, he or she loses 1 life. He doesn't need to see you to make you bleed.
3/1
Shadow Lance :symb::symw:
Instant (C)
Shadow Lance deals 2 damage to target creature and you gain 2 life. If that creature dies this turn, exile it bound to target player.
Binding (When this card goes to your graveyard from anywhere, you may exile it bound to target player.) Such ethereal weapons pierce both flesh and soul, pinning the unfortunate in place until the lawmages find time to deal with them.
Exhumer Thrull :2mana::symw:
Creature - Thrull Cleric (U)
Binding (When this card goes to your graveyard from anywhere, you may exile it bound to target player.) : Exile target card in a graveyard bound to target player. : Target player gains 1 life for each creature bound to him or her.
2/3
Seize the Soul :2mana::symb::symw:
Sorcery (U)
Put target exiled creature onto the battlefield under your control. It gains haste until end of turn. Sacrifice it at end of turn. Not even the endless eternity of the void will keep the Orzhov from collecting what they're owed.
Graven Dominator :3mana::symwb::symwb:
Creature - Human Wizard (R)
Lifelink
Whenever a creature dies, you may exile it bound to target player.
Graven Dominator gets +1/+1 for each card bound to you. "Necromancy is not, by nature, evil. I give purpose and a meaningful existence to souls who would otherwise wander aimlessly."
3/3
Debtors' Knell :1mana::symb::symb::symw::symw:
Enchantment (M)
Whenever you discard a card, each opponent discards a card.
Whenever you're dealt combat damage, each opponent loses 1 life.
Whenever a creature you control dies, each opponent sacrifices a creature. "The Ghost Council plays fair - they make sure everyone suffers equally."
- Agrus Kos, wojek veteran
Oculus
Spire Retainer
Creature - Human Soldier {C}
As an additional cost to cast Spire Retainer, return a creature you control to its owner's hand. Despite Prahv's vast inefficiencies, some of its ranks can still mobilize surprisingly quickly.
2/2
Seek Asylum :1mana::symw:
Instant {C}
Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt this turn. Ethereal - If a creature was put into your hand from the battlefield this turn, attacking creatures don't untap during their controllers' next untap steps.
Ghostly Eddy :2mana::symu:
Enchantment {U} Ethereal - Whenever a creature is put into your hand from the battlefield, you may pay :1mana::symu:. If you do, return target creature to its owner's hand. "The rush of one soul leaving this world can sometimes pull others with it."
- Ezea, Azorius soulbinder
Watcher of the Skies :1mana::symw::symw::symu:
Creature - Human Wizard {U} Ethereal - Whenever Watcher of the Skies or another creature you control is put into your hand from the battlefield, you may put a 1/1 white Bird creature token with flying onto the battlefield. The patterns of fate manifest in many places - his medium of choice is Ravnica's bird flocks.
1/4
Azorius Gatekeeper :3mana::symw::symw:
Creature - Elephant Soldier {R}
Vigilance Ethereal - Whenever Azorius Gatekeeper or another creature you control is put into your hand from the battlefield, you may put a +1/+1 counter on each creature you control. The arbiters enter the courtyard every day, but none are ever seen leaving.
4/5
Coalescent Elite :symw::symu:
Creature - Spirit Knight {M} Ethereal - Whenever Coalescent Elite or another creature you control is put into your hand from the battlefield, you may pay :1mana::symu:. If you do, put a creature card from your hand onto the battlefield.
:symw:: Return Coalescent Elite to its owner's hand.
2/1
Say a 0/13 tree (0/19 with armor) and 20 life. I switch, leaving me with 19 life and a 0/26 tree, switch back for 26 life and a 0/25 tree. And so on.
The rules.
1: Have Fun!!!
2: Each round, except round 1 (signup round), will have a theme, and the contestants will design cards to match that theme.
3. Players may submit a new, original card, or any card[s] they have created, so long as they are the players own original design and the card[s] meet the challenge requirements. Last word on meeting these requirements and any penalties is up to the hosts.
4: Each round will have 4 days to submit cards and 3 days to to vote for the cards.
5: Judging is only done by poll and the player with the lowest number of votes will be eliminated. Voting will be public and open to the general public. You may vote for as many, or as few cards as you like (including yourself if you want). The host(s) have final say on the validity of a vote in the case of questionable votes.
6: Any player that doesn't submit a card for any reason will be eliminated.
7: If a player submits a card or cards that does not meet the challenge requirements, that player may receive a DQ and be eliminated. If possible, the player in question will be notified to try and correct the problem before the end of the round. If the mistake is not corrected or is not caught until after the voting has begun, then the hosts will decide if a DQ will be assigned.
8: If there's a tie for the lowest vote total, all those people get to stay in the game but they get a
Anybody with three or less votes in a single round will also receive a :symb:. Similar rules apply.
9: The game will continue until we have a single champion... our Design Idol.
10: If the winner of the last Design Idol returns to defend his or her title (he or she must now sign-up like everyone else), he or she will earn a
11: The Top 4 of the last Design Idol get the right to "shotgun" a place on the new season. The same is true for hosts, only they get shotgun rights for two seasons. (So any hosts of Season VI can shotgun in VII and VIII). They still have to create a card for the first round, however.
New Rule: Renders may be submitted, but text is required. The text of the card will be copied and pasted into the poll with any links.
We've reached the showdown between Morguloth and Oculus.
This round is a "What if" round. The challenge was to change a design or creative decision for a past block and design cards showcasing the difference. A sentences or two explaining the change is allowed and encouraged. What if alara were split into wedges? What if flip cards or two face cards had debuted in Shadowmoor? What if the Phyrexians had invaded Kamigawa?
Your challenge is to make 7 cards showing the differences. These should include not only the change you made, but other cards effected by the change. The 7 cards must include all 4 rarities, all 5 colors, and all the major types (artifact, creature, enchantment, land, instant, sorcery, and planeswalker.) Not all cards must relate to the change, but all must be appropriate for the same block.
Morguloth asked "What if the Zendikar allies, aided by a mystery planeswalker, managed to repel the Eldrazi? This would be shown by expanding the 'Ally' mechanic to the 'Rise of Eldrazi' set, bringing about the "Fall of Eldrazi"".
Legendary Land {R}
Whenever Allied Stronghold or an Ally enters the battlefield under your control, you may add
Allied Blade
Artifact - Equipment {U}
Equipped creature gets +1/+1 for each Ally creature you control.
Equip
Allied Funeral Rites :1mana::symb::symw:
Enchantment {R}
Whenever an ally you control dies, you may pay :1mana:; if you do put a 1/1 white Soldier Ally creature token onto the battlefield.
Allied Battle-Mage :2mana::symr:
Creature - Human Wizard Ally{U}
Whenever Allied Battle-Mage or another Ally enters the battlefield under your control, Allied Battle-Mage deals 1 damage to target creature or player.
1/3
Allied Research :3mana::symu:
Sorcery {C}
Tap any number of untapped Ally creatures you control, draw cards equal to the number of creatures tapped this way.
Allied Ambush :1mana::symg::symg:
Instant {C}
Ally creatures you control get +2/+2 until the end of turn.
Vynax the Emancipator :1mana::symg::symw::symu:
Planeswalker - Vynax {M}
<+1> Reveal the top card of your library. If it's a land card, put it onto the battlefield. Otherwise, put that card into your hand.
<-2> Exile target creature with power greater than or equal to 4.
<-6> Put a 1/1 white Soldier Ally creature token onto the battlefield for each land you control.
[3]
Occulus proposed "Short and simple - Mirrans lost the war because they tried to overwhelm the Phyrexians with force. Contraptions explore an alterate Mirrodin Besieged, where the Mirran forces instead experimented with countless new devices, leading to a chaotic warfare the Phyrexians were incapable of adapting to (see Spiraling Duelist's flavor text).
While Steamflogger Boss implies an inherently parasitic relationship between Riggers and Contraptions, this can be minimized by making only one dependent, and taking the other out of the deck (either sideboarding or tokens) to minimize the loss of deck space."
Ghalma's Workshop
Artifact Land - Contraption {R}
(Ghalma's Workshop isn't a spell.)
Piston Myr
Artifact Creature - Myr Contraption {C}
When Piston Myr enters the battlefield, untap up to two target artifacts.
These repurposed myr scuttle around Mirran encampments, maintaining various golems and devices.
1/1
Scrap Lasher :1mana::symr:
Creature - Goblin Rigger {U}
:symr:,
Goblins believe it perverse to use any scrap metal that wasn't functional before it got to them.
2/1
Razor Salvage :1mana::symw:
Tribal Sorcery - Rigger {C}
Choose one - Return target artifact card from your graveyard to your hand; or exile target artifact card from your graveyard, then assemble a Contraption. (To assemble a Contraption, choose a Contraption card you own outside the game. You may play it this turn.)
Generations of Auriok tradition told them to restore the golem. Neccessity told them to drag it to the ironworks.
Makeshift Assembly :2mana::symu:
Tribal Enchantment - Rigger {R}
Artifacts you control and artifact cards you own that aren't on the battlefield are Contraptions in addition to their other types.
"A week with a seastrider shell and a quiet space is all I need to rebuild a leveler."
- Velus, Synod artificer
Toxic Claim :1mana::symg:
Instant {U}
Destroy target artifact. If
With the remaining Phyrexian forces pushed into the Mephidross, cooperation between its factions was no longer a matter of politics.
Grivor Stra, Putremancer :2mana::symb::symg:
Planeswalker - Grivor {M}
{+1}: Each player may return a card from his or her graveyard to his or her hand.
{0}: Exile up to three target cards from a single graveyard.
{-7}: Creatures you control get +3/+3 until end of turn. Creatures you don't control get -3/-3 until end of turn.
{4}
Everyone please vote and critique in this final round as we determine once and for all our next design idol.
Here I was evaluating harm by what one group did to another. By this logic the Klan never harmed southern blacks, they still had the resources to move north. Are you putting this forward as a theory or just snarking?
Threats count too. By that grounds being mugged at gunpoint isn't a violent crime if the victim hands over their wallet and shots aren't fired.
If one religion sets the terms for the interactions, everyone who rejects that religion gets the shaft.
If two or more contradictory religions both attempt to set terms simultaneously, there is a struggle.
Because neither of these are good, people create a secular order.
The rules.
1: Have Fun!!!
2: Each round, except round 1 (signup round), will have a theme, and the contestants will design cards to match that theme.
3. Players may submit a new, original card, or any card[s] they have created, so long as they are the players own original design and the card[s] meet the challenge requirements. Last word on meeting these requirements and any penalties is up to the hosts.
4: Each round will have 4 days to submit cards and 3 days to to vote for the cards.
5: Judging is only done by poll and the player with the lowest number of votes will be eliminated. Voting will be public and open to the general public. You may vote for as many, or as few cards as you like (including yourself if you want). The host(s) have final say on the validity of a vote in the case of questionable votes.
6: Any player that doesn't submit a card for any reason will be eliminated.
7: If a player submits a card or cards that does not meet the challenge requirements, that player may receive a DQ and be eliminated. If possible, the player in question will be notified to try and correct the problem before the end of the round. If the mistake is not corrected or is not caught until after the voting has begun, then the hosts will decide if a DQ will be assigned.
8: If there's a tie for the lowest vote total, all those people get to stay in the game but they get a
Anybody with three or less votes in a single round will also receive a :symb:. Similar rules apply.
9: The game will continue until we have a single champion... our Design Idol.
10: If the winner of the last Design Idol returns to defend his or her title (he or she must now sign-up like everyone else), he or she will earn a
11: The Top 4 of the last Design Idol get the right to "shotgun" a place on the new season. The same is true for hosts, only they get shotgun rights for two seasons. (So any hosts of Season VI can shotgun in VII and VIII). They still have to create a card for the first round, however.
New Rule: Renders may be submitted, but text is required. The text of the card will be copied and pasted into the poll with any links.
Last round, Morguloth and Oculus edged out Twilight Kiwi and earned their places in the finals. Thanks for playing Twilight Kiwi.
This round is a "What if" round. Your challenge is to change a design or creative decision for a past block and design cards showcasing the difference. A sentences or two explaining the change is allowed and encouraged. What if alara were split into wedges? What if flip cards or two face cards had debuted in Shadowmoor? What if the Phyrexians had invaded Kamigawa?
Your challenge is to make 7 cards showing the differences. These should include not only the change you made, but other cards effected by the change. The 7 cards must include all 4 rarities, all 5 colors, and all the major types (artifact, creature, enchantment, land, instant, sorcery, and planeswalker.) Not all cards must relate to the change, but all must be appropriate for the same block.
Again, you have 1 week to submit. The deadline is Wednesday at 3:00 PM eastern time. If both players finalize their submissions beforehand, I will end the round early.
On a side note, who wants to run the next season?
Self contradictory. The act of not tolerating intolerant. Even if you really dislike klansmen, that is intolerant.
The rules.
1: Have Fun!!!
2: Each round, except round 1 (signup round), will have a theme, and the contestants will design cards to match that theme.
3. Players may submit a new, original card, or any card[s] they have created, so long as they are the players own original design and the card[s] meet the challenge requirements. Last word on meeting these requirements and any penalties is up to the hosts.
4: Each round will have 4 days to submit cards and 3 days to to vote for the cards.
5: Judging is only done by poll and the player with the lowest number of votes will be eliminated. Voting will be public and open to the general public. You may vote for as many, or as few cards as you like (including yourself if you want). The host(s) have final say on the validity of a vote in the case of questionable votes.
6: Any player that doesn't submit a card for any reason will be eliminated.
7: If a player submits a card or cards that does not meet the challenge requirements, that player may receive a DQ and be eliminated. If possible, the player in question will be notified to try and correct the problem before the end of the round. If the mistake is not corrected or is not caught until after the voting has begun, then the hosts will decide if a DQ will be assigned.
8: If there's a tie for the lowest vote total, all those people get to stay in the game but they get a
Anybody with three or less votes in a single round will also receive a :symb:. Similar rules apply.
9: The game will continue until we have a single champion... our Design Idol.
10: If the winner of the last Design Idol returns to defend his or her title (he or she must now sign-up like everyone else), he or she will earn a
11: The Top 4 of the last Design Idol get the right to "shotgun" a place on the new season. The same is true for hosts, only they get shotgun rights for two seasons. (So any hosts of Season VI can shotgun in VII and VIII). They still have to create a card for the first round, however.
New Rule: Renders may be submitted, but text is required. The text of the card will be copied and pasted into the poll with any links.
This round's challenge is Ravnica revisited. Your design challenge is to chose a guild and replace its guild mechanic (dredge, replicate, haunt, etc.) with a new mechanic of your design. You must design 6 cards showing off your guild and mechanic.
The cards must be 2 commons, 2 uncommons, 1 rare and 1 mythic rare. They must include at least 2 creatures, 1 instant or sorcery, and 1 noncreature permanent. They must include at least 4 cards using your new mechanic. They must include at least 1 monocolored card of each color, 1 hybrid card, and 2 multicolored cards.
The entries were as follows.
Morguloth
Aspiring Cultist
Creature - Human Rogue {C}
Haste
Twisted - If a creature was sacrificed this turn, Aspiring Cultist enters the battlefield with a +1/+1 counter on it.
1/1
Bloodrot Ritual
Instant {C}
Each players sacrifices a creature.
Gruesome Spectacle :symrb::symrb:
Enchantment {U}
Whenever an opponent sacrifices a creature, you may pay :1mana:, if you do, draw a card.
Bloodbraid Cultist :2mana::symr::symb:
Creature - Elf Zombie {U}
Haste
Twisted - If a creature was sacrificed this turn, when Bloodbraid Cultist enters battlefield, you may have target creature get -3/-3 until the end of turn.
3/2
Rakdos Usurper :4mana::symr::symb:
Creature - Demon {R}
Flying
Twisted - If a creature was sacrificed this turn, when Rakdos Usurper enters the battlefield, target player sacrifices each creature they control.
4/6
Corrupted Faith :8mana::symr::symr::symb::symb:
Sorcery {MR}
Corrupted faith deals 10 damage to each opponent. You gain life equal to the damage done this way.
Twisted - If a creature was sacrificed this turn, Corrupted Faith deals 20 damage to each opponnent instead.
Twilight Kiwi
Creature - Spirit Assassin (C)
Binding (When this card goes to your graveyard from anywhere, you may exile it bound to target player.)
As long as Blind Hunter is bound to a player, at the beginning of that player's upkeep, he or she loses 1 life.
He doesn't need to see you to make you bleed.
3/1
Shadow Lance :symb::symw:
Instant (C)
Shadow Lance deals 2 damage to target creature and you gain 2 life. If that creature dies this turn, exile it bound to target player.
Binding (When this card goes to your graveyard from anywhere, you may exile it bound to target player.)
Such ethereal weapons pierce both flesh and soul, pinning the unfortunate in place until the lawmages find time to deal with them.
Exhumer Thrull :2mana::symw:
Creature - Thrull Cleric (U)
Binding (When this card goes to your graveyard from anywhere, you may exile it bound to target player.)
2/3
Seize the Soul :2mana::symb::symw:
Sorcery (U)
Put target exiled creature onto the battlefield under your control. It gains haste until end of turn. Sacrifice it at end of turn.
Not even the endless eternity of the void will keep the Orzhov from collecting what they're owed.
Graven Dominator :3mana::symwb::symwb:
Creature - Human Wizard (R)
Lifelink
Whenever a creature dies, you may exile it bound to target player.
Graven Dominator gets +1/+1 for each card bound to you.
"Necromancy is not, by nature, evil. I give purpose and a meaningful existence to souls who would otherwise wander aimlessly."
3/3
Debtors' Knell :1mana::symb::symb::symw::symw:
Enchantment (M)
Whenever you discard a card, each opponent discards a card.
Whenever you're dealt combat damage, each opponent loses 1 life.
Whenever a creature you control dies, each opponent sacrifices a creature.
"The Ghost Council plays fair - they make sure everyone suffers equally."
- Agrus Kos, wojek veteran
Oculus
Creature - Human Soldier {C}
As an additional cost to cast Spire Retainer, return a creature you control to its owner's hand.
Despite Prahv's vast inefficiencies, some of its ranks can still mobilize surprisingly quickly.
2/2
Seek Asylum :1mana::symw:
Instant {C}
Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt this turn.
Ethereal - If a creature was put into your hand from the battlefield this turn, attacking creatures don't untap during their controllers' next untap steps.
Ghostly Eddy :2mana::symu:
Enchantment {U}
Ethereal - Whenever a creature is put into your hand from the battlefield, you may pay :1mana::symu:. If you do, return target creature to its owner's hand.
"The rush of one soul leaving this world can sometimes pull others with it."
- Ezea, Azorius soulbinder
Watcher of the Skies :1mana::symw::symw::symu:
Creature - Human Wizard {U}
Ethereal - Whenever Watcher of the Skies or another creature you control is put into your hand from the battlefield, you may put a 1/1 white Bird creature token with flying onto the battlefield.
The patterns of fate manifest in many places - his medium of choice is Ravnica's bird flocks.
1/4
Azorius Gatekeeper :3mana::symw::symw:
Creature - Elephant Soldier {R}
Vigilance
Ethereal - Whenever Azorius Gatekeeper or another creature you control is put into your hand from the battlefield, you may put a +1/+1 counter on each creature you control.
The arbiters enter the courtyard every day, but none are ever seen leaving.
4/5
Coalescent Elite :symw::symu:
Creature - Spirit Knight {M}
Ethereal - Whenever Coalescent Elite or another creature you control is put into your hand from the battlefield, you may pay :1mana::symu:. If you do, put a creature card from your hand onto the battlefield.
:symw:: Return Coalescent Elite to its owner's hand.
2/1