Weekend Design Challenge 092818: Psychographic Design

Click through to see the requirements for your design challenge, due by Tuesday morning. Every submission warrants feedback, which you may use to revise your submission any number of times. (I encourage you all to revise your designs at least once in response to feedback!) I will review the most recent submission from each designer, or whichever submission you specify you wish to have reviewed.

CCDD 092718—Corroded Invader

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Here's a simple design that has a sum greater than its parts.

Designing for Timmy and Tammy

BARK BARK BARK!

Why, it’s Bassie, my faithful dog hound! What’s wrong, girl?

CCDD 092618—Memory of a Massacre

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This design went through nine iterations before I found an effect fitting of the title, unique, and interesting.

CCDD 092518—Whitecopse Hermit

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Looking through my files, I found this first design, apparently meant to be a high-variance card with a short window of vulnerability.

CCDD 092418—Scorchknight

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Here's a rare to reward you for playing damage effects.

CCDD 092218—Hale Hydra

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Hale Hydra is meant to be compelling to Tammy and new players without being over-complicated.

Weekend Design Challenge 092118 - What's Bolas Up To, Anyway?

Hey Artisans. Click through to see the requirements for this weekend's design challenge, due Monday morning. Every submission warrants feedback, so once you've got your great idea down, give some thoughtful critique to some of your peers. Revise your submission any number of times, and I'll review the most recent submission from each designer on Monday evening.

CCDD 092018—Fever Dreamling

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Fever Dreamling was designed to appeal to enfranchised players looking for new cards with great potential.

CCDD 091918—Tyron Spark & Bronze Dragon Suit

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If Iron Man were a Magic card.

CCDD 091818—Dimir mechanics

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Surveil is clearly a good mechanic because scry is a good mechanic and this also sets up your graveyard for interaction, which Dimir, Golgari, and Izzet all benefit from. Even so, my initial reaction was disappointment because it's the most familiar and least innovative of the Return to Return to Ravnica guild mechanics (after convoke, obv). It's wise to include familiar mechanics in a set with five keywords and it's also great to create synergy with the adjacent guild mechanics, so I wouldn't undo the choice to use surveil as the Dimir mechanic. That doesn't mean I could stop myself from considering alternatives…

CCDD 091718—Patient Tutor

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I think this was top-down from the art. I recognize that the lineage of cards from Demonic Tutor mean this would need a name tweak.

Weekend Design Challenge 091418 - Out-of-Guild Ravnica Keywords

Hey Artisans. Click through to see the requirements for this weekend's design challenge, due Monday morning. Every submission warrants feedback, so once you've got your great idea down, give some thoughtful critique to some of your peers. Revise your submission any number of times, and I'll review the most recent submission from each designer.

CCDD 091318—Exploit Weakness

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Discard lives in an awkward spot where it can't be too focused or too efficient. When we can pair it with another small effect it a way that feels mechanically or thematically organic, that helps us justify that little bit of extra cost.

CCDD 091218—Ever Vigilant

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How kosher is it to grant a keyword to all your creatures, but first reward all your creatures that already have that keyword?

Walk with me.

Tinkering With the "No-Shuffle Solution"

Aaron Forsythe had some interesting Twitter comments about R&D's move towards using "look at the top N cards for [card type(s)], put it into your hand and the rest on the bottom" technology rather than tutoring or card draw, which led to a discussion of whether the mechanic inherently had bad feelings associated with it.

CCDD 091018—Gold Mine

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What should a gold mine look like in Magic? We know what gold is, and we know the card's a land. The trouble is that gold can put players ahead on mana in a way we're not comfortable with our land doing, particularly not repeatedly (which is what we expect from a mine).

Weekend Design Challenge 090718 - Planeswalker's Artifacts

Hey Artisans. Click through to see the requirements for this weekend's design challenge, due Monday Wednesday morning. Every submission warrants feedback, so once you've got your great idea down, give some thoughtful critique to some of your peers. Revise your submission any number of times. I'll be AFK during Rosh Hashanah Monday and Tuesday, but Wednesday-ish, I'll review the most recent submission from each designer.

CCDD 090618 - The Arkbow

I was reading the Vivien Reid story, and thought how her signature weapon might be captured on a card like with Pyromancer's Goggles, The Chain Veil, and Sword of the Animist.

CCDD 090518 - Ghostfireball

This is something I came across in my file while working on something else, and I don't think I ever posted it.

CCDD 090418—lowlander

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Here's an idea I explored two seasons back. It started off called Highlander, with the intention that it would reward you for casting only one of a legend.