@Combatwiki: I couldn't agree with your comment more. I've had a number of edh decks over the last few years, ranging from mono blue teferi to Intet the dreamer to 5 color reaper king. Saying that victory comes through reactive cards isn't true. Winning can come all different ways.
As an example, playing against a reactive deck would be an easy win for my teferi deck since the deck was designed to take away peoples ability to respond.
My current deck is ghost chieftain from the counterpunch commander box. I have maybe 2 or 3 "reactive" cards in the deck and yet I still win about 70% of the games I play by just playing powerful "proactive" spells that force my opponent to find answers, which are almost never at hand, as combatwiki points out.
I'm not saying reactive spells are bad, I'm just saying you don't need to always be responding to your opponent to win. I've played plenty of reactive spells in my edh decks. But if you build your deck right and play well you can win with almost any strategy.
But there's a reason they say the best defense is a strong offense.
Pyromantic Burst2R
Instant - Common
Call 2(If this card is in your sideboard you may pay 2 and discard a card. If you do, put this card in your hand.)
~ deals 3 damage to target creature or player.
The Wolf Den
Legendary Land T: Add G to your mana pool.
Whenever a green nontoken creature you control becomes the target of a spell or ability controlled by an opponent, you may put a 2/2 green Wolf creature token onto the battlefield under your control. "You could do that... but you'd probably just piss off the pack."
Fair Play 1W
Instant
Cast ~ only if an opponent controls atleast two more creatures than you.
Exile up to three target creatures. As long as they remain in exile, those creatures have "1: Return this creature to play from exile."
Fort Taskmaster 2WR
Creature - Human Soldier - Uncommon R, T, Sacrifice a creature you control: ~ deals damage to target opponent equal to the sacrificed creature's power.
3/2 "You do WHAT with them!?" "Well we don't want their sickness to spread, so we... well, we catapult them at the enemy."
(Obviously this card works wonders with creatures with "Fever")
Leviathan HeartUUU
Tribal Enchantment - Leviathan
Blue creature cards you own with a converted mana cost of 6 or more cost 1 less to play.
Blue creatures you control with a converted mana cost of 6 or more have shroud and trample and get +1/+1 for each island in your graveyard.
Sudden Fatality3BB
Instant - U
You may return two swamps you control to their owner's hand rather than pay ~'s mana cost.
Destroy two target nonblack, nonartifact creatures.
If I manage to win somehow, make the runner up the judge. I'd rather not be judge.
Firstly, thanks for the nod to my last entry. I thought it was very undervalued by the judge but he earned the right to judge it as he pleases so I can't complain.
Second, my entry:
Jace's Skullcap4
Legendary Artifact - Augmentation {Mythic}
Whenever you activate an ability of the augmented planeswalker, you may put a loyalty counter on that planeswalker.
Augment 3(3: If ~ isn't attached to a planeswalker, you may attach it to target planeswalker you control. Augment only as a sorcery. This card enters the battlefield unattached and stays in play if the augmented planeswalker leaves play.) "Not everyones a natural like me. Some need a little unnatural help." --Jace Beleran
Its pretty straight forward, but just to clarify it basically works like equipment for planeswalkers. The only difference is that once it's attached to a planeswalker it can't be attached to another until the first leaves play.
The way this one works is that every time you use an ability your planeswalker gets an extra loyalty counter (If the ability was +2 loyalty counters you'd end up with +3 instead) or it gives you a counter back (If the ability was -2 loyalty counters you'd end up with -1 instead).
2 IMPORTANT NOTES:
(1) This doesnt mean that you can activate a -5 ability with only 4 counters. The augmentation doesn't put a counter on your planeswalker until after the ability has been activated and you wouldn't be able to activate the ability without the 5 counters to begin with.
(2) If you have 5 counters on your planeswalker and you use a -5 ability THIS WILL NOT SAVE YOUR PLANESWALKER. The augmentation's ability would go on the stack, but before the ability could resolve, the game would see a planeswalker with 0 loyalty counters and promptly send it to the graveyard. Then when the ability tries to resolve, the planeswalker will already be gone.
And again, if I somehow manage to win, make the runner up the next judge. I doubt I'll be checking in often enough to judge.
Sorry for the extremely long post. I like things to be clear.
Edit: The artist credit is supposed to be MichaelCho. Forgot the e. Sorry.
Dragon Idol4
Artifact (R) 1, T: ~ deals 1 damage to target creature or player. T, sacrifice a dragon: Put a token into play thats a copy of dragon idol The power of humans fades in time. The power of a dragon is eternal.
When you said make a centerpiece I assumed you meant make a card that you can build a deck around. You could obviously build a dragon deck around this. Hope you like it.
If I should manage to win somehow, let the runner up judge. I dont check this forum often enough to be a judge.
Dragon Calling2R
Sorcery
Call 2(If this card is in your sideboard you may pay 2 and discard a card. If you do, put this card into your hand.)
Search your library for a dragon card, reveal it, and put it into your hand. Then shuffle your library.
I was reading it wrong. The way I read it I thought that you could fog OR win the game if damage would kill you. I wasn't seeing it as a mandatory fog.
Martyr's Chant 1GW
Instant
Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt this turn. If damage would reduce your life total to less than 0 this turn you win the game instead. "You may think you have won the war."
Army Recruitment PostWW
Enchantment
Cascade
Creatures you control with a converted mana cost of 1 come into play with an additional +1/+1 counter on them.
I was actually just thinking about it as an artifact with charge counters lol but vanishing works out better... It would probably have to have shroud. And yeah something to stop it from comboing with aether snap.
As an example, playing against a reactive deck would be an easy win for my teferi deck since the deck was designed to take away peoples ability to respond.
My current deck is ghost chieftain from the counterpunch commander box. I have maybe 2 or 3 "reactive" cards in the deck and yet I still win about 70% of the games I play by just playing powerful "proactive" spells that force my opponent to find answers, which are almost never at hand, as combatwiki points out.
I'm not saying reactive spells are bad, I'm just saying you don't need to always be responding to your opponent to win. I've played plenty of reactive spells in my edh decks. But if you build your deck right and play well you can win with almost any strategy.
But there's a reason they say the best defense is a strong offense.
Edit: KombatKiwi*
oops.
Instant - Common
Call 2 (If this card is in your sideboard you may pay 2 and discard a card. If you do, put this card in your hand.)
~ deals 3 damage to target creature or player.
Red decks that never run out of gas.
Legendary Land
T: Add G to your mana pool.
Whenever a green nontoken creature you control becomes the target of a spell or ability controlled by an opponent, you may put a 2/2 green Wolf creature token onto the battlefield under your control.
"You could do that... but you'd probably just piss off the pack."
Instant
Cast ~ only if an opponent controls atleast two more creatures than you.
Exile up to three target creatures. As long as they remain in exile, those creatures have "1: Return this creature to play from exile."
Creature - Human Soldier - Uncommon
R, T, Sacrifice a creature you control: ~ deals damage to target opponent equal to the sacrificed creature's power.
3/2
"You do WHAT with them!?"
"Well we don't want their sickness to spread, so we... well, we catapult them at the enemy."
(Obviously this card works wonders with creatures with "Fever")
Tribal Enchantment - Leviathan
Blue creature cards you own with a converted mana cost of 6 or more cost 1 less to play.
Blue creatures you control with a converted mana cost of 6 or more have shroud and trample and get +1/+1 for each island in your graveyard.
Sudden Fatality 3BB
Instant - U
You may return two swamps you control to their owner's hand rather than pay ~'s mana cost.
Destroy two target nonblack, nonartifact creatures.
If I manage to win somehow, make the runner up the judge. I'd rather not be judge.
Second, my entry:
Jace's Skullcap 4
Legendary Artifact - Augmentation {Mythic}
Whenever you activate an ability of the augmented planeswalker, you may put a loyalty counter on that planeswalker.
Augment 3 (3: If ~ isn't attached to a planeswalker, you may attach it to target planeswalker you control. Augment only as a sorcery. This card enters the battlefield unattached and stays in play if the augmented planeswalker leaves play.)
"Not everyones a natural like me. Some need a little unnatural help." --Jace Beleran
Its pretty straight forward, but just to clarify it basically works like equipment for planeswalkers. The only difference is that once it's attached to a planeswalker it can't be attached to another until the first leaves play.
The way this one works is that every time you use an ability your planeswalker gets an extra loyalty counter (If the ability was +2 loyalty counters you'd end up with +3 instead) or it gives you a counter back (If the ability was -2 loyalty counters you'd end up with -1 instead).
2 IMPORTANT NOTES:
(1) This doesnt mean that you can activate a -5 ability with only 4 counters. The augmentation doesn't put a counter on your planeswalker until after the ability has been activated and you wouldn't be able to activate the ability without the 5 counters to begin with.
(2) If you have 5 counters on your planeswalker and you use a -5 ability THIS WILL NOT SAVE YOUR PLANESWALKER. The augmentation's ability would go on the stack, but before the ability could resolve, the game would see a planeswalker with 0 loyalty counters and promptly send it to the graveyard. Then when the ability tries to resolve, the planeswalker will already be gone.
And again, if I somehow manage to win, make the runner up the next judge. I doubt I'll be checking in often enough to judge.
Sorry for the extremely long post. I like things to be clear.
Edit: The artist credit is supposed to be MichaelCho. Forgot the e. Sorry.
Artifact (R)
1, T: ~ deals 1 damage to target creature or player.
T, sacrifice a dragon: Put a token into play thats a copy of dragon idol
The power of humans fades in time. The power of a dragon is eternal.
When you said make a centerpiece I assumed you meant make a card that you can build a deck around. You could obviously build a dragon deck around this. Hope you like it.
If I should manage to win somehow, let the runner up judge. I dont check this forum often enough to be a judge.
Sorcery
Call 2 (If this card is in your sideboard you may pay 2 and discard a card. If you do, put this card into your hand.)
Search your library for a dragon card, reveal it, and put it into your hand. Then shuffle your library.
Wait... Seriously?
Enchantment
Cascade
Creatures you control with a converted mana cost of 1 come into play with an additional +1/+1 counter on them.
Yah, I don't think making it uncounterable would be too bad. It seems rather hard to get it to go off anyways so it should be ok.