Weekend Art Challenge 033117—maciejkuciara

Click through to see the illustration and design requirements for your single  card submission, due Monday morning. Every submission warrants feedback, which you may use to revise your submission any number of times. I will aim to review the most recent submission from each designer.

CCDD 033017—Tactical Genius

Cool Card Design of the Day
3/30/2017 - Tactical Genius wants you to attack, or for your opponent to attack, or both. It's stats are tuned for survival: its own and that of enemy attackers. Give her enough combat data, and she'll start churning out plans to help you win the war.

CCDD 032917—Bloodpact

Cool Card Design of the Day
3/29/2017 - Here's a keyword for suicide black and dead guy red. These colors care more about hurting their enemy than themselves, so they're happy to pay a few life to make their creatures more aggressive.

Designing Duel Decks

Hey folks. I'm pleased to announce a new guest columnist for Goblin Artisans. Please welcome Jake Mosby. This article was originally posted to MTG Salvation.—Jay Treat

Introduction
There are countless formats and ways to play Magic: The Gathering, and there are just as many different ways to participate in amateur/custom Magic design. Some people enjoy designing single cards. Some people enjoy participating in design challenges. Many embark on the journey of creating an entire custom set. But strangely, few custom designers focus their energy on creating one of the best tools to develop design skills: the Duel Deck.

CCDD 032717—Barter in Bone

Cool Card Design of the Day
1/25/2017 - I'm postponing the Weekend Art Challenge Review a day because I'm sick and my brain not work good. Here's something I made when it did.

Weekend Art Challenge 032417—Aaron Miller

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CCDD 032317—Sorting Hat

Cool Card Design of the Day
3/23/2017 - Top-down Jenny strangeness.

CCDD 032217—Sylvan Preserver

Cool Card Design of the Day
3/22/2017 - Here's a green creature that helps you combat countermagic.

CCDD 032117—Carrion Screecher & Singing Sister

Cool Card Design of the Day
3/21/2017 - The harpy challenge earlier this month got me thinking about harpy tribal, for some reason. When I think of harpies, I imagine them in a small flock, attracted to dying victims.

Weekend Art Challenge 031617—Anna Lakisova

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CCDD 031617—Stream Forder

Cool Card Design of the Day
3/16/2017 - I was playing a Limited game online a while back and was struck by the distinct moment when my strategy switched from primarily aggressive to totally controlling. I observed that the benefits of racing as I had been were dropping slowly but that I wasn't far from establishing sufficient board control to reach inevitability.

What if there were a card that helped a player switch from aggro to control?

CCDD 031517—Nighthawkmobile

Cool Card Design of the Day
3/15/2017 - Vampire Nighthawk is the new let's-make-callbacks-to-this-broken-card card. Deathgaze Cockatrice, Insatiable Harpy, Aerial Responder, and Gifted Aetherborn are all examples. So here's another, in vehicle form.

CCDD 031417—Sizeable Destiny

Cool Card Design of the Day
3/14/2017 - I tried to make a variant of totem armor where you can save a creature by enchanting it when it would die, perhaps for a return to Theros where aura keywords are viable.

Weekend Art Challenge 031017—ukitakumuki

Click through to see the illustration and design requirements for your single  card submission, due Monday morning. Every submission warrants feedback, which you may use to revise your submission any number of times. I will aim to review the most recent submission from each designer.

CCDD 031017—Virgin Territory

Cool Card Design of the Day
3/10/2017 - As a bonus CCDD, here's a City of Brass for players without access to a lot of dual lands.

CCDD 030917—Vacant Mansion

Cool Card Design of the Day
3/9/2017 - We don't usually want to reward players for doing nothing (because if the reward is substantial enough, they will, and nothing ain't fun), but helping a player comeback from a position where they can't do anything seems reasonable.

Walk with me.

CCDD 030817—Amberfield Castle & Worldscorcher's Tomb

Cool Card Design of the Day
3/8/2017 - Here are two very powerful lands. Are they too powerful to print? (Probably, but let's discuss.)

CCDD 030717—City of Aspiration & City of Industry

Cool Card Design of the Day
3/7/2017 - Here's a simple take on a land that levels up after some use. You can use it immediately, and it starts fixing your mana later.

Weekend Art Challenge 030317—xXang3leyesXx

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CCDD 030317—Bad Cairns

Cool Card Design of the Day
3/3/2017 - Here's a bonus CCDD I made before MaRo's review of dual lands, but is sure relevant to the filter lands he discussed.

CCDD 030217—Fast or Colorful Bog/Land & Yoyo Bog

Cool Card Design of the Day
3/2/2017 - Inspired by MaRo's review of dual lands, in particular the ability to choose to use your land immediately or let it enter the battlefield tapped… How about a dual land that ETBT, unless you need the mana immediately (and colorless will do)?

CCDD 030117—Cruel Memory

Cool Card Design of the Day
3/1/2017 - This creature costs {B}{B}. If you don't have double-black at the moment, you can pay {2}. The cost is that you have to pay {2} again next turn. We could use echo as an alternate casting method so that it makes cards easier to play, rather than just faster.