MTG Salvation

Stitcher Sister 3U
Creature - Zombie (U)
Whenever a Zombie creature dies, you may pay 2B. If you do, return it to your hand.
"When working with a hundred stitches, sometimes you need another pair of hands." - Stitcher Geralf
2/2

This feels very close to Living Weapon

Convict seems unnecessarily restrictive, but it is very clean.

I agree that Inherit is a tad confusing. I thought it stayed imprinted on the creature.

Basic Duals are sexy. I love them

I don't know if I would like just watching a single person design a card but I wouldn't mind watching a group of people brainstorm

At 4 Wastes and 4 Evolving Wilds you hit a little over 70% of the time. I am okay with that percentage given that Sylvan Scrying isn't an UNPLAYABlE card and sometimes you will still be able to cash this in on Turn 4+ as a Rampant Growth. Plus, with Oath of Nissa making more of an appearance, you are only helping the percentages.

Probably the worst UR I have read so far. Not only was it so poorly written, but it just a waste of time. I also would have thought the Oath would have come AFTER they defeated the Titans, not before. *shrugs* I am going to go reread the Tazri UR again to get the bad taste out of my mouth.

Do we still need a host for Feb? If somebody wants to give me an outline for scoring then I can do it.

It does feel weird to have "Assault" to be on defensive cards. Also, it feels weird that you can trigger this off your opponent's attacks.

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For Dreamscape. I have a number of cards marked for replacement. I'd love any ideas for ways to tweak or replace these cards.

Nurturing Mori
Creature - Elemental Bird (U)
Flying, lifelink
Trance - Nurturing Mori enters the battlefield with a +1/+1 counter on it for each tapped creature you control.
1/1
This usually is a 2/2 but sometimes a 3/3 in playtesting. I just don't need another medium sized flier especially one as swingy as this.
Requirements: A 2W uncommon creature with trance

Dream Soldier 2W
Creature - Human Soldier (U)
Trance - When Dream Soldier enters the battlefield, put a 1/1 white Soldier creature token onto the battlefield for each tapped creature you control.
2/1

Thought Aspirant
Creature - Human Wizard (U)
Dreamwalk (This creature can't be blocked by untapped creatures. Tapped creatures can block it.)
Whenever Thought Aspirant becomes tapped, target creature you don't control gets -4/-0 until end of turn.
4/1
This is part of the aspirant cycle, which have dreamwalk and a "whenever tapped" ability. However I didn't want to simply repeat Fallowsage. This card has been seeing nearly zero play and is being deemed boring in playtests.
Requirements: A 3U or 4U uncommon creature with Dreamwalk and a "Whenever Thought Aspirant becomes tapped, [EFFECT]" ability.

Thought Aspirant 3U
Creature - Human Wizard (U)
Dreamwalk
Whenever Thought Aspirant becomes tapped, scry 1.
3/2

Frenzied Onslaught
Sorcery (U)
Creatures you control gain double strike until end of turn.
Premonition 5-:1mana: (Rather than cast this card from your hand, you may pay and put this card into your library face up just beneath the top five cards. As it reaches the top, cast it without paying its mana cost.)
A red premonition finisher card for either the RB token aggro deck or the UR Premonition deck. This is supposed to be a expensive uncommon red instant/sorcery with a cheap but long premonition.
Requirements: A red premonition card noncreature card with the same casting and premonition costs

Prophesied Meteor 5R
Sorcery (U)
Prophesied Meteor deals 6 damage to target creature or player
Premonition 5-1R

Knight of the Old Ways
Creature - Human Knight (U)
When Knight of the Old Ways enters the battlefield, put a +1/+1 counter on target creature.
Each creature you control with a +1/+1 counter on it has ":1mana: : Regenerate this creature."
2/2
Regenerate is just a little too annoying though the "+1/+1 counters matter" archetype is nice.
Requirements: replacing the "Each creature you control with a +1/+1 counter on it has" effect for something less annoying.

Knight of the Old Ways
Creature - Human Knight (U)
When Knight of the Old Ways enters the battlefield, put a +1/+1 counter on target creature.
Creatures you control with a +1/+1 counter have vigilance.
2/2

*Note: Wording is off but I can't find the sweet spot.

Crusade of the Daumas
Sorcery (R)
Crusade of the Daumas deals 3 damage to target player and each creature he or she controls. You gain life equal to the damage dealt this way.
This just isn't fun or useful. Needs replacement.
Requirements: A Splashy R/W rare.

Bloody Massacre 3RW
Sorcery (R)
Creatures your opponents control block this turn if able, and you choose how those creatures block.

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Oh, in that case I'll give it a look through. Seems like the kind of story I've been asking for. Would be even better if it didn't feature any walkers, but I'll take what I can get

I think you will actually like how Gideon is featured here ;-)

"Noyan rolled his eyes in disbelief. He wanted to slap Gideon, but would probably end up cutting off his own hand. What sane, intelligent person has blades coming out of one's hand?"

Noyan truly is the voice of the readers.

Mothcycle Shaman GWU
Creature - Human Shaman (R)
1G: Put a 1/1 green Larva creature token onto the battlefield.
1W, Sacrifice a Larva: Put a 0/4 white Cocoon creature token with defender onto the battlefield.
1U, Sacrifice a Cocoon: Put a 4/4 blue Giant Moth creature token with flying onto the battlefield.
1/1

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V.devil is a 1 mana burn spell directly to the dome. It is solid in what it does, its just narrow.

Unless your opponent doesn't want to take 4. It is unreliable in what it does, and it's narrow.

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Index is a sorcery, it can sit in your hand at times as a dead card because you need to keep that land open for a counterspell.

Blue wants to have instants that cantrip like Thought Scour and Think Twice so that it can use all it's mana every turn without losing the ability to counter durning the opponents main phase. It's much better to simply draw cards, and make cards available to flash back, rather than only look at them and rearrange a bit.

Ponder, Gitaxian Probe and Preordain disagree with you.

The problem with Index is not that it is a Sorcery. The problem is that it's terrible. It doesn't draw a card. It doesn't let you move cards to the bottom.

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Are we allowed to play ahead? I got a first round bye and am now paired against DXI-Edge, can we play our match before round two begins next week?

Yes, in fact you're encouraged to!

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I'm glad that the color of the admin's names is the worst thing anyone has to complain about in CI atm.

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Sixteen people, many of them excellent players are deck designers, are better than zero. Finally, to make a brutally obvious point, when it comes to the FFL, you're going to see the mistakes. The cards that were fixed or eliminated aren't going to known to the world (save for brief mentions in articles), so it will be always be hard to tell how effective it is from the outside. Expecting anyone to predict the metagame well in advance (without full knowledge of the format in the months before the set is realized) is unrealistic.

Why would you replace it with 0? Why not replace it with competent players instead of Tom LaPille?

Again, I don't expect FFL to be perfect. I do expect them to see things like Splinter Twin/Deceiver Exarch and realize that Burning Vengeance is terrible. That's not asking too much. Except it apparently is.

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