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| Barnyard Battle by Steve Prescott |
If you need a crop other than this one, be very specific (no custom edging unless you do it yourself):
Old McDonald's Farm
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Legendary Enchantment - Mythic Rare
At the beginning of your upkeep, choose a creature type you haven't yet chosen with Old McDonald's Farm this match. Until end of turn, creatures you control of that type gain [s]a strike strike here and a strike strike there. Here a strike, there a strike, everywhere a strike strike.[/s] double strike.
~And on that farm they had a war...~
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DeleteE-I-E-I..... oh....
DeleteI count 10 strikes. Your card is seriously out.
DeleteAs if I played baseball.
I'm not quite sure this is un enough, any opinions?
ReplyDeleteFood Fight 2GG
Enchantment (R)
Whenever a creature you control dies, return it to the battlefield flipped upside down as a noncreature land with "T: Add one mana of one of this card's colors to your mana pool."
I think it might need a bit more Un. I see this not being printed in a black bordered set because of its power and not its ridiculousness.
DeleteI love the name. I don't see why the card needs to be flipped upside down. You could exile it beneath a land, for example.
DeleteFood Fight 4RR
ReplyDeleteEnchantment (mythic)
Players can attack on their opponent's turn (Players declare attackers and blockers in a counter clockwise order starting with the player whose turn it is.)
Whenever you attack, you may Take A Chance (play a game of rock-paper-scissors with target opponent). If you win, prevent all damage dealt to creatures you control. If you lose, prevent all damage dealt by creatures you control.
"War is Hell's Kitchen."
If I were to submit this idea on a professional level, I would probably attach a sticky note saying "Dear Rules manager, Sorry."
My original idea had all creatures attacking and blocking on all turns and being able to block while tapped. Figured I had to draw the line somewhere.
Take A Chance started out as the choose game until I realized a good portion of people have never played it. Changed to rock-paper-scissors for complexity reasons.
Farmageddon RWG
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At the beginning of your upkeep, if you control a Plant, a Boar, a Chicken, and a Goat, but no Insects ~ deals 5 damage to each opponent.
You sir, have won the Game of Moans.
Delete(Love it! :D )
How about conditional destroy all lands?
DeleteI'm not really excited by the idea of printing "destroy all lands" in a fun set.
DeletefARMAGEDDON
DeleteI understood the reference I was making with the title. I think the right place to reference the card Armageddon directly, if it all, is in the flavor text, not the mechanics.
DeleteWhat is the flavor text on Armageddon, anyway?
DeleteWhat time zone do you live in? Your post was sent after to the post I sent you 5 minutes ago
DeleteNo, they're 11 hours apart. 12am is midnight, 11am is late morning.
DeleteFight Club (uncommon)
ReplyDelete3G
Sorcery
Crowd Favorite - Everyone spectating the game chooses a player in the game to support. Each creature gets +X/+X until end of turn, where X is the number of spectators supporting that creature's controller. Then, choose a creature you control and a creature you don't control. Those creatures fight each other. Give a high five to each spectator who supported you.
This can either be really fun or really, really nasty and unfun, depending on the crowd.
DeleteI also worry this rules text got a bit too long, and that it might be better if it was just the first effect.
I might also allow the players in the game to choose someone to support.
Crowd Favourite is such a fantastic idea.
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DeleteNumber one rule of magic: Do not talk about this Un-Card
DeleteUsing Jules amazing name:
ReplyDeleteFood Fight! 3WB
Enchantment
Fling a card from your hand at target permanent: If the target permanent is hit by the flung card, destroy it. (Cards must be flung from at least 2 feet away. Flung cards are discarded.)
Opponents that have had a card flung at a permanent they controlled may also play this ability.
I VOLUNTEER AS TRIB--I mean, to do the mockups this week.
ReplyDeleteAll-You-Can-Eat Buffet WUBRG
Enchantment (R)
Cumulative Upkeep — Eat:
● Gain 1 life for each grain eaten this way.
● Scry 1 for each dairy food eaten this way.
● Lose 1 life for each fat, oil, or sweet eaten this way.
● Target creature gets +1/+0 until end of turn for each meat or protein eaten this way.
● Put a 1/1 Corn Warrior creature token onto the battlefield for each fruit or vegetable eaten this way.
Flavor text:
FYI, it rhymes with “tuffet.”
Why would you want to discourage players from eating fat, oil and sweets?
DeleteAll of the other foods don't give you the intrinsic reward of tasting deliciously unhealthy?
DeleteNot sure what other black-feeling bonus I could give that isn't worth a whole card.
Farmyard Frenzy 2G
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Choose a farm animal, put a 2/2 green creature token of the chosen creature type onto the battlefield. If you give your opponent food or drink you may put two creature tokens onto the battlefield instead.
Barnyard Brawl 2RR
ReplyDeleteSorcery (Uncommon)
All creatures fight each other.
Just Go With It (Players decide how this card works.)
If Un-sets are all about breaking the rules, let's go ahead and do that in the most literal way possible! The "Just Go With It" mechanic allows us to design cards whose behavior is broken, nonintuitive, undefined, or just plain weird-- and then "make it work" by leaving the actual behavior up to the players. And from a certain perspective, those cards would barely add any complexity to the set at all!
On the one hand, I kinda hate Just Go With It as people will go, "I decide this works like this: I draw 5 cards."
DeleteOn the other hand, this is the most perfect Un-mechanic ever. I think it needs a little more regulation. Perhaps a vote? Or, "If a rules dispute happens, the player with the most silver-bordered permanents says how it works." Some sort of whacky kangaroo court system?
I just love the idea here so much.
Each player sacrifices a creature in his or her graveyard
DeleteDestroy target noncreature creature
Draw a card but do not draw a card
Target spell counters this spell.
@Bass-- my hope was that Just Go With It would also apply to the interpretation of Just Go With It. :-)
DeleteHah! Nice thought.
DeleteOink Brawler 2G
ReplyDeleteCreature - Boar Warrior (U)
Trample
When you draft Oink Brawler, you may draft it face up and squeal like a pig. If you do, Oink Brawler's base power and toughness become 4.
2/2
"All animals are equal, but some are going to get their face smashed in!"
Right-side crop (the pig with an axe).
This is a nice idea about drafting and squeaking, but there's no reason not to do it.
DeleteOink Brawler 2G
DeleteCreature - Boar Warrior (U)
Trample
When you draft Oink Brawler, you may draft it face up and squeal like a pig or grunt like a pig. If you squealed, Oink Brawler's base power becomes 4. If you grunted, its base toughness becomes 4.
2/2
"All animals are equal, but some are going to get their face smashed in!"
Better? It gives you a choice.
Poke 0BURGW
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Poke another player. Put this card into that player's hand
Draw a card.
Untap 0 lands
I like the idea of putting this into another player's hand. That's really cool. And I like that it's "poking".
DeleteBut, I don't see how this fits the picture, and I don't get what "untap 0 lands" means or why the cost is "0BURGW"?
Embrace your inner "un"
DeleteDoes life make sense? No. So why should this make sense. I am intending to have it use the artwork above. Does that make sense? How do you know that the universe actually exists or if it is all just one huge shared dream? For all we know, all of us actually could be deluded flies who think that we are humans.
DeleteNothing makes sense. I am going temporarily back to working on my essay on Kafka's Metamorphosis.
"but judge, the card told me I could poke her." That is not going to fly.
DeleteAlso this card has zero play value, which is a very bad quality for any card (even an un card) to have.
Poke BU
DeleteDraw two cards.
Put this card into another player's hand
Annoy that player.
I think this is the right place for twobrid mana, so that your opponent can definitely cast the card.
DeleteLike a cost of {2/U}{2/U} seems right.
DeleteOkay. Should that be in an Un-Set? I mean, newish players don't know what it is and it just adds complexity
DeleteIt can certainly only be in an unset, since it puts cards in other player's hands.
DeleteBarnyard Battle RGW
ReplyDeleteEnchantment [Rare]
Silver-bordered creatures you control get +3/+3.
"People are going to ask if tokens have borders."
"Not if we don't point it out." — R&D Multiverse Comments
:D
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DeleteThey... don't... right? This becomes hazier the more official token cards we continue to print.
DeleteIt's nice that it's simple, backwards-compatible, and still only printable in an Un-set.
That's what I was aiming for! Thanks. :)
DeleteBarn Burner (Rare)
ReplyDeleteWUBRG
Enchantment
Whenever a player casts a creature spell, counter it That player puts the indicated tokens onto the battlefield for each of its colors.
W — 2/2 white Pig creature token with double strike
U — 3/3 blue Chicken creature token with flying
B — 4/4 black Goat creature token
R — 5/5 red Chicken creature token with “R: This creature gets +1/+0 until end of turn.”
G — Three 1/1 green Corn creature tokens
"Aww shucks!"
Should the tokens be equal in value?
DeleteHey! I just realized! This card encourages 5 color decks with tons of multicolor cards!
Transguild Courier has never looked so good. Even Esper Stormblade is pretty good value.
DeletePoultrykranos 2RR
ReplyDeleteCreature - Hydra Chicken (r)
Banana (At the beginning of your upkeep, tell your banana joke. If you do, place a joke counter on this and it becomes funny.)
Orange — Deliver the punchline of your banana joke: Sacrifice CARDNAME. It deals damage equal to the number of joke counters on it to target player and each creature he or she controls.
4/2
Crop to the three-headed chicken in the upper-left corner.
No! Stop that! Too Silly!
Delete-Monty Python
I love the name of this so much.
Delete{Crop to the pig}
ReplyDeletePork Chop 3R
Sorcery (C)
Delectable (When this card deals damage to an opponent or to an opponent's permanent, that player takes a bite of food or a sip of drink.)
Pork Chop deals 4 damage to target creature or player.
Pork Chop 3R
DeleteSorcery (C)
Delectable (When this card deals damage to an opponent that player takes a bite of food or a sip of drink.)
Pork Chop deals 4 damage to target creature or player.
Renders have been mocked up and emailed.
ReplyDeleteThanks, Jenesis.
DeleteSubmissions are closed now, unless someone renders their own card and gets it to me before I post the review today.