Weekend [Art] Design Challenge 061314—Souls of M15

Weekend Art Challenge
Click through to see this weekend's art and the design requirements for your single card submission, due Monday morning. Every submission warrants feedback, which I will try to provide, and which everyone is welcome to provide as well. You may use that feedback to revise your submission any number of times.

Collaboration Draft

Collaboration Draft
What I love most about drafting Magic is the interaction between myself, the players on either side of me, and the rest of the table. Game like SolForge and Hearthstone that allow you to "draft" without players lack that interaction entirely, which got me thinking about ways to enhance it.

What if your rank at the end of a draft was based not just on your own results, but those of the players next to you? Not necessarily L+C+R, maybe L+2C+R or so, but the formula's not the point. The point is that you now have a very real incentive to coordinate as well as you can with the players you're passing directly to.

Tesla: There for the Taking

After a couple of weeks sorting out the voting, we’re finally decided on a thematic heart for Tesla. Tesla is going to be about progress and all that entails.

CCDD 061114—Impassioned Performance

Cool Card Design of the Day
6/11/2014 - This design was inspired by Nich's suggestion of a color-shifted Three Wishes. What really got my motor running was the idea of exiling multiple cards, such that your choices were greater, but repeated use makes you potentially vulnerable to decking, ala Arc-Slogger.

Three possibilities:

Weekend Art Challenge 060614—OchreJelly

Weekend Art Challenge
Click through to see this weekend's art and the design requirements for your single card submission, due Monday morning. Every submission warrants feedback, which I will try to provide, and which everyone is welcome to provide as well. You may use that feedback to revise your submission any number of times.

CCDD 060514—The Circle of Life

Cool Card Design of the Day
6/5/2014 - Wrath Insurance, anyone?

Tesla: Recount

After exploring our options for Tesla, last week we voted on a theme. I’m happy to announce…wait, I’m now being informed that we have a tie between #4 and #6 (Transcendence and Progress). That leaves us in need of a tie-breaker, but it’s been pointed out that the two have a lot of overlap and could easily be woven together. Whether or not we ought to do that is up for debate. However it plays out, we'll undoubtedly be weaving in more nuanced thematic elements as we go, so for now let’s just take another look at the defining characteristics of our options.