I don't want to dispute and overturn the results, but wanted to add my commentary on my entry and my bracket.
Firstly, Bravelion83, I don't understand why you cut half a point for the second subchallenge. Of course, I was having fun with adding words with "end" string, but not having the be related to the word "end". I didn't verify it in the first round, so I let it slide, but now I'm quite sure my words are not related to "end", so they should just pass the challenge.
Secondly, I just wanted to tell that the cost and "speed" of a spell are important distinctions in the design, and are important tools both in card and in set design. I don't think anyone would tell that Agonizing Syphon is the same card as Lightning Helix. Even if they have the same text, Wing Snare and Plummet are definitely different cards than mine, being played and appearing in different situations. I'm not saying 3 points different, but not 0 either, especially in common design space.
Finally, it's possible that I'm biased now, but if I were judging, I would take at least some points from Jimmy Grove for color pie and rate issues. Sure, blue is supposed to be able to transform, but let's be honest - 0/1 without abilities instead of any creature, no questions asked, on flash, is just a Murder in Simic, and in his card a possibly recurring Murder. Note that blue now is supposed to have its transformation be random (Polymorph), reversible (EOT, aura) or replacing with a creature with a true creature, 2/2 at least (Reality Shift, Curse of the Swine, Pongify). Green is rather transforming its creatures into 3/3+ (Scale Up). Together, they can have cards that transform any creature into a 3/3 or similar (Incongruity).
Rend WingsG
Sorcery (C)
Destroy target creature with flying. "Have you ever seen a Glen Elendra fearie without wings? Pathetic view."
—Marenda, elvish hunter
Ironroot Infantry GW
Creature - Treefolk Soldier [R]
Vigilance
Ironroot Infantry gets +0/+1 for each creature you control. "Alone, easy to chop down. In a group, a moving castle."
—Skerk Hobnett, wilderness guide
2/0
Endy, the Bend MenderURW
Legendary Artifact Creature - Golem (R)
Whenever a nontoken artifact is put into your graveyard from the battlefield, you may pay 2. If you do, return that card to your hand. He defends and attends so his metallic friends are not expended.
2/4
Nissa, the Awakener
Legendary Planeswalker - Nissa (U)
Whenever a land enters the battlefield under your control, put a +1/+1 counter on each land creature you control.
[-1]: Put two +1/+1 counters on up to one target noncreature land you control. Untap it. It becomes a 0/0 Elemental creature that's still a land.
[3]
Meat WagonUBR
Artifact - Vehicle (R)
Menace T, tap an untapped Cleric you control: Create a 2/2 Zombie creature token.
At the beginning of combat on your turn, you may have target Zombie token you control gain "This creature can't be blocked." until end of turn. If you do, sacrifice it at the beginning of the next end step.
Crew 3
4/4
Regarding Viability, all those replacement effects for "If this creature would die" involve Zone changes. Darigaaz Reincarnated? Exile instead of Graveyard. Gravebane Zombie? Library instead of Graveyard. Phasing does not involve a Zone change because there is no Phase Zone.
Giving a creature invulnerability after lethal damage has been applied does not save it. You also did not address what happens when the creature's toughness is reduced to 0 or less by a shrinkage effect or wither/infect damage.
Rule 702.25b applies to effects that can or do exist. As the effect is attached to a phased-out permanent, it does not exist. This is why Time and Tide was mentioned, because you cannot target a phased-out card. It is not an emblem. Other spells and permanents can reference phased-out permanents. But as they "don't exist" a phased-out permanent cannot have an effect on game state. You cannot count a phased-out Island to reduce the cost for Spire Golem because it does not exist.
I strongly feel Rule 702.25b, applies here as Cardz said. I'm even quite sure that you could target it with something like "phase in target phased out permanent". You could go further - "Destroy target phased out crature". Otherwise, how Time and Tide would "know" if there is something phased out? If cards can work from exile, while in library (even if it takes a whole section of rules), why not when phased out?
I feel this discussion is in the wrong part of comprehensive rules.
101.1. Whenever a card’s text directly contradicts these rules, the card takes precedence. The card overrides only the rule that applies to that specific situation. The only exception is that a player can concede the game at any time (see rule 104.3a).
Blightsteel Containment1W
Enchantment - Aura (C)
Enchant artifact
Enchanted artifact can't attack or block, and its activated abilities can't be activated. What cannot be destroyed, must be contained.
Khanfall 2URW
Enchantment - Saga (R)
I, II-Destroy target creature. Its controller creates a 4/4 red Dragon creature token with flying.
III-Destroy all non-Dragon creatures.
I thought it's going to be an Angel's Grace variant. That could be a good card to counter some combo decks, and would fit other cards in cycle being reactive, not proactive.
Bounty Hunt 3BB
Enchantment {R}
Whenever a creature would die, if it had no bounty counters on it, you may outlaw it instead. (Put a bounty counter on that creature. For as long as that creature has a bounty counter on it, it has "When this creature dies, each opponent draws a card and gains 2 life.") Nobody will pay me if I kill you... now.
Dark Knights of New Alara4(W/B)(W/B)
Creature — Human Knight (R)
When Dark Knights of New Alara enters the battlefield, exile another target creature you don’t control. If it entered from your graveyard and under your control, instead exile all other creatures and all creature cards from all graveyards.
Unearth 5WB(5WB: Return this card from your graveyard to the battlefield. It gains haste. Exile it at the beginning of the next end step or if it would leave the battlefield. Unearth only as a sorcery.) A Bant battalion tainted by Grixis dark magic.
4/4
Design - (2/3) Appeal: It's not a Johnny card, but Spike and Timmy are quite happy. (1.5/3) Elegance: The "and under your control" rider matters basically never (as you already have "from your graveyard"). I also don't like the lack of symmetry of effects and wordiness.
Development - (3/3) Viability: Colors, rules and rarity ok. (2/3) Balance: This may be quite expensive, but it still is a sweeper that doesn't cost you a card, and even without Unearth it's a Duplicant, which is quite a good card.
Creativity - (2.5/3) Uniqueness: I don't feel any part of this card is very new, but the combination seems quite interesting. (2/3) Flavor: No flavor in rules text and quite bland flavor text. Also, unfortunately no references to Knights of New Alara. There's nothing specifically wrong, though.
Polish - (3/3) Quality: OK (2/2) Main Challenge: OK (2/2) Subchallenges:OK
Total: 20/25
Guider from Beyond1W
Creature - Spirit (Rare)
Whenever a creature you control is exiled from the battlefield, you may pay 1W. If you do, return that creature to the battlefield.
Unearth 3W
2/1Design - (2.5/3) Appeal: This card is mainly for Johnny, but Spike and Timmy may use it to protect their stuff or gain some card advantage. (3/3) Elegance: Very elegant design.
Development - (2.5/3) Viability: Effect sounds white to me, and rarity is OK as well. I'm not sure about the rules for it, though. Even if they work, they may be hard to grasp in edge cases. (2.5/3) Balance: In many situations, cards get exiled for a reason, and messing with it may be dangerous. The card itself may get annoying easily. However, this is quite a narrow effect, and replaying it repeatedly is very costly, so it is probably fine.
Creativity - (3/3) Uniqueness: This is a very new design. (2/3) Flavor: Guider is a strange choice of word, and the card lacks exact flavoring.
Polish - (2/3) Quality: Needs reminder text. Needs mention after whose control creatures return. (2/2) Main Challenge: OK (1/2) Subchallenges: Not enough symbols
Total: 20.5/25
Harox, City of Corpses
Legendary Land (M) T: Add C. B, T, Sacrifice Harox, City of Corpses: Add CC.
When Harox, City of Corpses enters the battlefield, if you unearthed it, it becomes a 10/10 black Zombie Giant in addition to it's other types.
Unearth 6BBB
Design - (1.5/3) Appeal: Timmy dreams about a big creature, but Spike sees that this is weak as a land and too expensive to Unearth, and Johnny just skips the card. (2/3) Elegance: A lot of text, and the self-sacrifice ability is very head scratching (fixing for Kozilek, Butcher of Truth, anyone?) on the first glance.
Development - (2/3) Viability: Color is fine; rules-wise, unearthing noncreature is OK with rules, even though it wasn't done before. However, I doubt this deserves a Mythic rarity. If it wasn't legendary, I could easily see it at uncommon, and this card plays like one. (2.5/3) Balance: Well, this card is just weak. It is a colorless land until you reach 10 mana, then you sacrifice it to play en easily chumpable creature for one turn. Even if you skip playing and sacrificing land by self mill, it is hardly game-winning in most scenarios.
Creativity - (2.5/3) Uniqueness: This is an interesting direction for unearth. However, in gameplay, this is not that different from Foundry of the Consuls. (2.5/3) Flavor: I quite like this flavor, but it isn't breathtaking.
Polish - (2/3) Quality: You need to specify that it becomes a creature. "It's" (2/2) Main Challenge: OK (2/2) Subchallenges: OK
That was an awesome idea and I feel a quite successful experiment. Thank you JuanCu for organization and everyone else for the game!
And now, my feedback:
The existence of trap quests instead of normal nightkill was difficult for us as well. It was quite flavorful, that was very nice. Of course, knowing one of the quests was very helpful (and I'd argue existence one such quest is necessary for Bolas players to not be totally screwed), but on the other hand, the fact that at most one Bolas could be there could make for some unneeded "confirmed Guildpact", like Void in the last round. I feel that me being suspicious due to killing Raptorchan was fine, but Void being confirmed Guildpact after killing a Bolas was not.
To remedy it, I think that the "known quest" and the "kill quest" should be decoupled. One quest at random is sent to Bolas, and no more than one of them can go there, but there is also a random quest (or they choose beforehand which one is it, which is basically the same ) in which if there are 2 or more people, Bolas may kill one of them. They may or may not be the same, and it's decided before they get to know the quest.
Also, I feel that different than in other Mafia variants, here Bolas are the ones that have lower info in the most important part of the game. The ties that could also screw us were quite bad. Fortunately, it didn't happen, but a random exile in case of a tie was, I feel, a bad decision from Juan Cu part.
I feel it would be more fair that in case of a tie in votes, a random Guildpact (from all players, not only tied) is exiled instead, so people make sure that no ties happen. Note that if someone causes a tie, then he can be automatically considered a Bolas next round by all players, so it probably wouldn't be as damaging for Guildpact, but just made sure the ties are not an issue.
I believe 3 Bolas may have been too much, if not for immediate Ragnarok kill. And especially if my feedback is taken into consideration, as both suggestions make Bolas stronger.
Maybe something like 7+2 which happened nearly immediately was indeed a good proportion?
Robe of EnlightenmentW
Legendary Artifact - Equipment {R}
Equipped creature has Exalted. WWWW: Attach Cloak of Enlightenment to target creature you control. Prevent all damage that would be dealt to it this turn.
Equip 2 A gift bestowed to Tang Xuanzang by Guanyin to aid him in his journey.
Design - (1.5/3) Appeal: Spike doesn't see anything for them. Johnny may try it, but probably wouldn't find anything. Timmy is content that he may protect his creature. (2/3) Elegance: Different attach abilities and the fact that it doesn't directly improve the creature makes it feel very strange.
Development - (3/3) Viability: Rules, rarity and color fine. (1.5/3) Balance: This is quite weak and I don't know for what format it is supposed to exist.
Creativity - (2.5/3) Uniqueness: Trigger on attach is new. (1/3) Flavor: You made me google combinations of Tang Xuanzang, Guanyin, Cloak, Enlightenment and Journey to the West for a long time, to no avail. I was unable to find a story about such cloak, thus a reason for the enlightenment to be related to damage prevention, and for it to be easily exchangable between creatures. I was trying, really.
Polish - (3/3) Quality: OK (1/2) Main Challenge: Technically, doesn't have Exalted. (2/2) Subchallenges: OK
Total: 17.5/25
Graveyards of Valeron2B
Legendary Artifact (Rare)
Exalted
Whenever a creature you control attacks alone, it gets +1/+1 for each creature card in your graveyard. After the shards' mending, Bant gained excess to dark magic. Still, the Bantians used it for good, calling to their ancestors and fallen in honorable ways.
Design - (2.5/3) Appeal: Johnny and Timmy are happy to find ways to abuse the trigger. Spike is trying to figure out how worth it is. (3/3) Elegance: Elegant and clear.
Development - (3/3) Viability: No problems with rules or color. I could imagine this text on an uncommon (Angelic Exaltation), but it is probably better and rare. (2.5/3) Balance: This card may be very dangerous in its deck, but probably won't be breaking formats in half.
Creativity - (2.5/3) Uniqueness: That's basically lhurgoyfing an attacking single creature, but this is quite unique design. (1.5/3) Flavor: Ancestors' black power is rather reserved for Abzan, Bant has its spirits in white. Bantians? Ugh, I don't like it at all, and I don't think it's official (according to my google search). "Shards' mending": why not just refer to Conflux?
Polish - (2/3) Quality: Excess instead of access. (2/2) Main Challenge: OK (2/2) Subchallenges: OK
Total: 21/25
Sigil of Flight's Wings1W
Enchantment - Aura {C}
Enchant creature
Exalted (Whenever a creature you control attacks alone, that creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.)
Enchanted creature has flying and vigilance. As Eron clutched the golden medallion, large wings white as snow grew from his shoulders. "Look at yourself...!" was all Aravan could say to his friend. Neither of them could believe it--Asha had transformed Eron into an angel!
Design - (2/3) Appeal: Common Aura for Spike and Timmy, but not really Johnny. (3/3) Elegance: I was considering removing points here for unnecesary disjoint of keywords (exalted could be granted), but when I think about flavor, it works better this way.
Development - (2.5/3) Viability: Rules and color OK. I think that three keywords may be too much for NWO common. (2.5/3) Balance: Probably below average power level, but that's fine for a common Aura.
Creativity - (3/3) Uniqueness: Apparently, no Aura with exalted in Magic. No reason to complicate it further in common. (2.5/3) Flavor: Honestly, this flavor text feels much too long to me.
Polish - (3/3) Quality: OK (2/2) Main Challenge: OK (2/2) Subchallenges: OK
Total: 22.5/25
Undying Herald3BB
Enchantment (R)
Exalted
At the beginning of your end step, if you control no creatures, return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield. That creature is a black Zombie in addition to its other colors and types. He received the call as death's champion and was stricken of the will to refuse.
Design - (2.5/3) Appeal: Spike and Johnny are fine with this design and having to work for their creature. Timmy less so. (2.5/3) Elegance: Well constructed, elegant card, but the name suggests a creature.
Development - (3/3) Viability: Rules, rarity and color fine. (2/3) Balance: Seems very dangerous, even with this limitation.
Creativity - (2.5/3) Uniqueness: Interesting, new ability. (2.5/3) Flavor: This flavor text sounds like the call is supposed to be something unique, but if you do it correctly, then it happens every turn
Polish - (3/3) Quality: OK (2/2) Main Challenge: OK (2/2) Subchallenges: OK
Total: 22/25
Freyleyes 17.5 vs. 21 netn10
RaikouRider 22.5 vs. 22 IcariiFA
Firstly, Bravelion83, I don't understand why you cut half a point for the second subchallenge. Of course, I was having fun with adding words with "end" string, but not having the be related to the word "end". I didn't verify it in the first round, so I let it slide, but now I'm quite sure my words are not related to "end", so they should just pass the challenge.
Secondly, I just wanted to tell that the cost and "speed" of a spell are important distinctions in the design, and are important tools both in card and in set design. I don't think anyone would tell that Agonizing Syphon is the same card as Lightning Helix. Even if they have the same text, Wing Snare and Plummet are definitely different cards than mine, being played and appearing in different situations. I'm not saying 3 points different, but not 0 either, especially in common design space.
Finally, it's possible that I'm biased now, but if I were judging, I would take at least some points from Jimmy Grove for color pie and rate issues. Sure, blue is supposed to be able to transform, but let's be honest - 0/1 without abilities instead of any creature, no questions asked, on flash, is just a Murder in Simic, and in his card a possibly recurring Murder. Note that blue now is supposed to have its transformation be random (Polymorph), reversible (EOT, aura) or replacing with a creature with a true creature, 2/2 at least (Reality Shift, Curse of the Swine, Pongify). Green is rather transforming its creatures into 3/3+ (Scale Up). Together, they can have cards that transform any creature into a 3/3 or similar (Incongruity).
Sorcery (C)
Destroy target creature with flying.
"Have you ever seen a Glen Elendra fearie without wings? Pathetic view."
—Marenda, elvish hunter
Creature - Treefolk Soldier [R]
Vigilance
Ironroot Infantry gets +0/+1 for each creature you control.
"Alone, easy to chop down. In a group, a moving castle."
—Skerk Hobnett, wilderness guide
2/0
IIW
Top-down IT Device/concept
Legendary Artifact Creature - Golem (R)
Whenever a nontoken artifact is put into your graveyard from the battlefield, you may pay 2. If you do, return that card to your hand.
He defends and attends so his metallic friends are not expended.
2/4
Legendary Planeswalker - Nissa (U)
Whenever a land enters the battlefield under your control, put a +1/+1 counter on each land creature you control.
[-1]: Put two +1/+1 counters on up to one target noncreature land you control. Untap it. It becomes a 0/0 Elemental creature that's still a land.
[3]
IIW:IT device/concept
Artifact - Vehicle (R)
Menace
T, tap an untapped Cleric you control: Create a 2/2 Zombie creature token.
At the beginning of combat on your turn, you may have target Zombie token you control gain "This creature can't be blocked." until end of turn. If you do, sacrifice it at the beginning of the next end step.
Crew 3
4/4
IIW: IT concept/device
How does regeneration work, then?
You attack me with a Glistening Elf, I block with a Knight of New Benalia and cast Giant Growth on it. After damage, I cast Teferi's Protection. What happens and when to the Knight?
State-based actions don't apply to phased out permanents.
I strongly feel Rule 702.25b, applies here as Cardz said. I'm even quite sure that you could target it with something like "phase in target phased out permanent". You could go further - "Destroy target phased out crature". Otherwise, how Time and Tide would "know" if there is something phased out? If cards can work from exile, while in library (even if it takes a whole section of rules), why not when phased out?
I feel this discussion is in the wrong part of comprehensive rules.
Enchantment - Aura (C)
Enchant artifact
Enchanted artifact can't attack or block, and its activated abilities can't be activated.
What cannot be destroyed, must be contained.
IIW: IT device/concept
Enchantment - Saga (R)
I, II-Destroy target creature. Its controller creates a 4/4 red Dragon creature token with flying.
III-Destroy all non-Dragon creatures.
IIW: IT concept/device
Enchantment {R}
Whenever a creature would die, if it had no bounty counters on it, you may outlaw it instead. (Put a bounty counter on that creature. For as long as that creature has a bounty counter on it, it has "When this creature dies, each opponent draws a card and gains 2 life.")
Nobody will pay me if I kill you... now.
IIW: IT device/concept
Creature — Human Knight (R)
When Dark Knights of New Alara enters the battlefield, exile another target creature you don’t control. If it entered from your graveyard and under your control, instead exile all other creatures and all creature cards from all graveyards.
Unearth 5WB (5WB: Return this card from your graveyard to the battlefield. It gains haste. Exile it at the beginning of the next end step or if it would leave the battlefield. Unearth only as a sorcery.)
A Bant battalion tainted by Grixis dark magic.
4/4
Design -
(2/3) Appeal: It's not a Johnny card, but Spike and Timmy are quite happy.
(1.5/3) Elegance: The "and under your control" rider matters basically never (as you already have "from your graveyard"). I also don't like the lack of symmetry of effects and wordiness.
Development -
(3/3) Viability: Colors, rules and rarity ok.
(2/3) Balance: This may be quite expensive, but it still is a sweeper that doesn't cost you a card, and even without Unearth it's a Duplicant, which is quite a good card.
Creativity -
(2.5/3) Uniqueness: I don't feel any part of this card is very new, but the combination seems quite interesting.
(2/3) Flavor: No flavor in rules text and quite bland flavor text. Also, unfortunately no references to Knights of New Alara. There's nothing specifically wrong, though.
Polish -
(3/3) Quality: OK
(2/2) Main Challenge: OK
(2/2) Subchallenges:OK
Total: 20/25
Creature - Spirit (Rare)
Whenever a creature you control is exiled from the battlefield, you may pay 1W. If you do, return that creature to the battlefield.
Unearth 3W
2/1Design -
(2.5/3) Appeal: This card is mainly for Johnny, but Spike and Timmy may use it to protect their stuff or gain some card advantage.
(3/3) Elegance: Very elegant design.
Development -
(2.5/3) Viability: Effect sounds white to me, and rarity is OK as well. I'm not sure about the rules for it, though. Even if they work, they may be hard to grasp in edge cases.
(2.5/3) Balance: In many situations, cards get exiled for a reason, and messing with it may be dangerous. The card itself may get annoying easily. However, this is quite a narrow effect, and replaying it repeatedly is very costly, so it is probably fine.
Creativity -
(3/3) Uniqueness: This is a very new design.
(2/3) Flavor: Guider is a strange choice of word, and the card lacks exact flavoring.
Polish -
(2/3) Quality: Needs reminder text. Needs mention after whose control creatures return.
(2/2) Main Challenge: OK
(1/2) Subchallenges: Not enough symbols
Total: 20.5/25
Legendary Land (M)
T: Add C.
B, T, Sacrifice Harox, City of Corpses: Add CC.
When Harox, City of Corpses enters the battlefield, if you unearthed it, it becomes a 10/10 black Zombie Giant in addition to it's other types.
Unearth 6BBB
Design -
(1.5/3) Appeal: Timmy dreams about a big creature, but Spike sees that this is weak as a land and too expensive to Unearth, and Johnny just skips the card.
(2/3) Elegance: A lot of text, and the self-sacrifice ability is very head scratching (fixing for Kozilek, Butcher of Truth, anyone?) on the first glance.
Development -
(2/3) Viability: Color is fine; rules-wise, unearthing noncreature is OK with rules, even though it wasn't done before. However, I doubt this deserves a Mythic rarity. If it wasn't legendary, I could easily see it at uncommon, and this card plays like one.
(2.5/3) Balance: Well, this card is just weak. It is a colorless land until you reach 10 mana, then you sacrifice it to play en easily chumpable creature for one turn. Even if you skip playing and sacrificing land by self mill, it is hardly game-winning in most scenarios.
Creativity -
(2.5/3) Uniqueness: This is an interesting direction for unearth. However, in gameplay, this is not that different from Foundry of the Consuls.
(2.5/3) Flavor: I quite like this flavor, but it isn't breathtaking.
Polish -
(2/3) Quality: You need to specify that it becomes a creature. "It's"
(2/2) Main Challenge: OK
(2/2) Subchallenges: OK
Total: 19/25
netn10 20.5
IcariiFA 19
And now, my feedback:
The existence of trap quests instead of normal nightkill was difficult for us as well. It was quite flavorful, that was very nice. Of course, knowing one of the quests was very helpful (and I'd argue existence one such quest is necessary for Bolas players to not be totally screwed), but on the other hand, the fact that at most one Bolas could be there could make for some unneeded "confirmed Guildpact", like Void in the last round. I feel that me being suspicious due to killing Raptorchan was fine, but Void being confirmed Guildpact after killing a Bolas was not.
Legendary Artifact - Equipment {R}
Equipped creature has Exalted.
WWWW: Attach Cloak of Enlightenment to target creature you control. Prevent all damage that would be dealt to it this turn.
Equip 2
A gift bestowed to Tang Xuanzang by Guanyin to aid him in his journey.
Design -
(1.5/3) Appeal: Spike doesn't see anything for them. Johnny may try it, but probably wouldn't find anything. Timmy is content that he may protect his creature.
(2/3) Elegance: Different attach abilities and the fact that it doesn't directly improve the creature makes it feel very strange.
Development -
(3/3) Viability: Rules, rarity and color fine.
(1.5/3) Balance: This is quite weak and I don't know for what format it is supposed to exist.
Creativity -
(2.5/3) Uniqueness: Trigger on attach is new.
(1/3) Flavor: You made me google combinations of Tang Xuanzang, Guanyin, Cloak, Enlightenment and Journey to the West for a long time, to no avail. I was unable to find a story about such cloak, thus a reason for the enlightenment to be related to damage prevention, and for it to be easily exchangable between creatures. I was trying, really.
Polish -
(3/3) Quality: OK
(1/2) Main Challenge: Technically, doesn't have Exalted.
(2/2) Subchallenges: OK
Total: 17.5/25
Legendary Artifact (Rare)
Exalted
Whenever a creature you control attacks alone, it gets +1/+1 for each creature card in your graveyard.
After the shards' mending, Bant gained excess to dark magic. Still, the Bantians used it for good, calling to their ancestors and fallen in honorable ways.
Design -
(2.5/3) Appeal: Johnny and Timmy are happy to find ways to abuse the trigger. Spike is trying to figure out how worth it is.
(3/3) Elegance: Elegant and clear.
Development -
(3/3) Viability: No problems with rules or color. I could imagine this text on an uncommon (Angelic Exaltation), but it is probably better and rare.
(2.5/3) Balance: This card may be very dangerous in its deck, but probably won't be breaking formats in half.
Creativity -
(2.5/3) Uniqueness: That's basically lhurgoyfing an attacking single creature, but this is quite unique design.
(1.5/3) Flavor: Ancestors' black power is rather reserved for Abzan, Bant has its spirits in white. Bantians? Ugh, I don't like it at all, and I don't think it's official (according to my google search). "Shards' mending": why not just refer to Conflux?
Polish -
(2/3) Quality: Excess instead of access.
(2/2) Main Challenge: OK
(2/2) Subchallenges: OK
Total: 21/25
Enchantment - Aura {C}
Enchant creature
Exalted (Whenever a creature you control attacks alone, that creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.)
Enchanted creature has flying and vigilance.
As Eron clutched the golden medallion, large wings white as snow grew from his shoulders. "Look at yourself...!" was all Aravan could say to his friend. Neither of them could believe it--Asha had transformed Eron into an angel!
Design -
(2/3) Appeal: Common Aura for Spike and Timmy, but not really Johnny.
(3/3) Elegance: I was considering removing points here for unnecesary disjoint of keywords (exalted could be granted), but when I think about flavor, it works better this way.
Development -
(2.5/3) Viability: Rules and color OK. I think that three keywords may be too much for NWO common.
(2.5/3) Balance: Probably below average power level, but that's fine for a common Aura.
Creativity -
(3/3) Uniqueness: Apparently, no Aura with exalted in Magic. No reason to complicate it further in common.
(2.5/3) Flavor: Honestly, this flavor text feels much too long to me.
Polish -
(3/3) Quality: OK
(2/2) Main Challenge: OK
(2/2) Subchallenges: OK
Total: 22.5/25
Enchantment (R)
Exalted
At the beginning of your end step, if you control no creatures, return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield. That creature is a black Zombie in addition to its other colors and types.
He received the call as death's champion and was stricken of the will to refuse.
Design -
(2.5/3) Appeal: Spike and Johnny are fine with this design and having to work for their creature. Timmy less so.
(2.5/3) Elegance: Well constructed, elegant card, but the name suggests a creature.
Development -
(3/3) Viability: Rules, rarity and color fine.
(2/3) Balance: Seems very dangerous, even with this limitation.
Creativity -
(2.5/3) Uniqueness: Interesting, new ability.
(2.5/3) Flavor: This flavor text sounds like the call is supposed to be something unique, but if you do it correctly, then it happens every turn
Polish -
(3/3) Quality: OK
(2/2) Main Challenge: OK
(2/2) Subchallenges: OK
Total: 22/25
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