CCDD 062514—Master Fire / Life / Science / Death / Nature

Cool Card Design of the Day
6/25/2014 - I think I designed these while looking for ways to interact with Theros' +1/+1 counters.

CCDD 062414—Many Leaks

Cool Card Design of the Day
6/24/2014 - Somewhere between Remand and Force Spike / Mana Leak, there is a counterspell that's worth playing in the right deck, but not quite so effective. Is it Many Leaks?

Weekend Art Challenge 062014—88grzes

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 061914—Bound to…

Cool Card Design of the Day
6/19/2014 - This is likely a terrible idea. It's helpful to guess how useful an idea is early on, but never discard one until you've explored it; until you can explain why it's not worth pursuing, and are sure it doesn't lead to other, better ideas.

Bound to [thing] is a keyword that means you have to run at least as many copies of THING as CARDNAME. The idea is that we can make a card more powerful than normal by requiring you to run specific cards, particularly (but not necessarily) less powerful cards.

Tesla: What's Your Inspiration?

Now that we've settled on the theme of technological progress for Tesla, I'd like to brainstorm sources of inspiration: books, movies, comics, or any other form of media. Here are a few of my picks. What are yours?

CCDD 061814—Mad Scientist

Cool Card Design of the Day
6/18/2014 - Drafted this mechanic and card last week when Jules announced Tesla's core theme. It definitely needs work, but let's look at the pure idea first.

CCDD 061714—Slingshot Spider

Cool Card Design of the Day
6/17/2014 - It's pretty awkward that this art shows the spider attacking an earth-bound target, but I was lucky to find a fantasy illustration of a spider at all. I can only suffer so many macro photographs of real spiders before I lose the ability to sleep, or keep my feet under the desk.