Weekend Art Challenge—022213 Takeru-San

Weekend Art Challenge
The first Gatecrash Art Challenge last week went smashingly, so let's keep it up.

Click to see this weekend's art and requirements.

CCDD 022113—Direlion

Cool Card Design of the Day
2/21/2013 - I've designed this card a few times. I'm amused by the idea that the cost to grow your creature increases with its size. The result is a card that's useful at any point in the game, that you can invest excess mana into, and that grows as you desire, but not in an unbounded fashion that requires it to be rare or mythic like Primordial Hydra.

Random is the New Shuffle

Adding more randomizing elements to MtG is something that had always sounded cool to me. I loved the dice cards like Growth Spurt from Unglued (which is saying alot, because I hated the Unsets as a whole), and one of my favorite mechanics in my old GDS2 project was a dice rolling/level-up monster baby. Even though that mechanic was universally hated by community, I was convinced that some variant could work. However, after listening to Mark Rosewater’s podcasts on designing Innistrad and playing a blue-red burn deck with Desperate Ravings in Standard for a while, I’ve decided that “at random” effects are largely a failed experiment.

CCDD 022013—Flower Wasp

Cool Card Design of the Day
2/20/2013 - How green can do Hornet Sting without bleeding the color pie:

CCDD 021913—Vine Maiden

Cool Card Design of the Day
2/19/2013 - Vine Maiden was inspired while reading Mark Rosewater's Designing for Simic. It's not a Simic card mind you, but it is blue-green. It's entirely possible she needs to cost 5 or even 6 (or just be rare).

Weekend Art Challenge Review 021513—Tsabo6

Weekend Art Challenge Review
Wow. You guys really went all out on this challenge and I couldn't be more pleased. There are 17 entries, not counting my designs. Awesome. This won't be short, so let's jump right in.

Weekend Art Challenge 021513—Tsabo6

Weekend Art Challenge
Inspired by the success of the Gatecrash Art Challenge, I'm going to try a new weekly activity. Each Friday (assuming this takes off), I'll post a piece of art and a set of requirements. You'll submit your card in text form in the comments before Monday morning (~9AM EST) and I'll post and review all the submissions as soon as I have time—ideally the same day but at least by the following Friday. Your own opinions will be most welcome, as well.

Click to see this weekend's art and requirements.