CCDD 021814—Occult Tutor & Whispering Demon

Cool Card Design of the Day
2/18/2014 - Today's mechanic follows in the path of Spoils of the Vault but takes Demonic Consultations perspective a bit further: Instead of naming a card and hoping you find it soon, you simply bid some number of cards and take the best one among them.

Weekend [Art] Challenge Review 021414—Imitation is the Sincerest Form of Flattery

Weekend Art Challenge Review
Here's the challenge we're reviewing today. Note that blogger had some technical difficulties, partially inhibiting our usual back-and-forth.

Weekend [Art] Challenge 021414—Imitation is the Sincerest Form of Flattery

Weekend Art Challenge
Click through to see this weekend's design challenge. Your single, final submission is due by Monday morning. Every submission warrants feedback, which I will try to provide, and which everyone is encouraged to provide as well. You may use that feedback to revise your submission any number of times. If and only if you provide a direct link to art for your submission, and the artist's name, will I mock it up and include it in a follow-up review.

CCDD 021314—Taa-Zhur Druid

Cool Card Design of the Day
2/13/2014 - I'm not remotely suggesting Zhur-Taa Druid should have been different, only that this is another way to make a red-green mana dude.

CCDD 021214—The Corruption and Netherling

Cool Card Design of the Day
2/12/2014 - Yesterday's Face Eater got me thinking about a zombie shapeshifter, resulting in The Corruption. I noticed how criminally underused this trigger was, so I boiled that part of the concept down into Netherling.

A Set in Four Cards: Frontier

Doomwand Brigand (Common)
{2}{B}
Creature - Human Wandslinger
When CARDNAME enters the battlefield, you may tap it and discard a card. If you do, target creature gets -2/-2 until end of turn.
2/3

Dissolving Mirage (Common)
{3}{U}
Instant
Return target nonland permanent to its owner's hand.
Prospect {2} ({2}, Discard this card: reveal cards from the top of your library until you reveal a land card. Put that card in your hand and put all other cards revealed this way into your graveyard.)

Feral Sandwurm (Uncommon)
{5}{G}{G}
Creature - Wurm
Delve (Each card you exile from your graveyard while casting this spell pays for {1}.)
CARDNAME enters the battlefield with a +1/+1 counter for each creature card exiled by its delving.
6/6

Viashino Rustler (Common)
{3}{R}{R}
Creature - Viashino Rogue
Haste
When CARDNAME enters the battlefield, detain target creature an opponent controls. (Until your next turn, that creature can't attack or block and its activated abilities can't be activated.)
3/2

CCDD 021114—Face Eater

Cool Card Design of the Day
2/11/2014 - Like Body Double, Face Eater is a nasty shapeshifter that's still blue as long as the context of her set is dark enough. (Could otherwise be {U}{B} I suppose.)