Weekend Art Challenge Review 020615—TheHereticDivine

Weekend Art Challenge Review
Here's the challenge we're reviewing today.

We've got a bunch of new designers today. Welcome!

I want to say something before we dive in. Critical feedback is crucial to improvement. Congratulations on taking the first step toward growing as a designer. Every designer twists up their own ego with the quality of their work, and it takes effort to escape that. The reason it's a problem is that we all make terrible cards (especially when we're just starting—but great designers still make bad cards) and that doesn't make us bad designers.

A good designer is just a bad designer who keeps designing.

Why do I mention this? I'm going to tell you your card isn't that great. This isn't a personal attack. Don't take it personally. Use it. Grow.

Weekend Art Challenge 020615—TheHereticDivine

Weekend Art Challenge
Greetings, artisans! Click through to see this weekend's art and the design requirements for your single card submission, due Monday morning. Every submission warrants feedback, and everyone is encouraged to give feedback. You may use that feedback to revise your submission any number of times, though only the version rendered will be included in the review, if someone volunteers to render the cards.

CCDD Twitter Edition: The Goblin Game

Hey Artisans. Last week was Goblin Week (slightly NSFW), and in recognition of the holiday, I had a little design game going on on Twitter. The rules:

I'll post a pic every 20 minutes or so with a design restriction. Design a mtg card to match. #GobGame

Default rules unless otherwise stated:
1) 1 submission per player per pic
2) Must be a red goblin creature
3) include hashtag #GobGame

4) cost, rarity, other types, p/t, and rules text must fit in 1 tweet
5) abbreviations/shorthand ok as long as I can understand it

CCDD 020415: Hiro, Honored by All and Kiro the Collector

I did some art-based designs for today's challenge.

CCDD 020315: Doppelganger Nemesis

It's Doppelganger Week over on facebook, so I put up this uncanny resemblance for my profile picture. In any case, the international holiday of immense importance inspired today's design.

Weekend Art Challenge Review 013015—GuthrieArtwork

Weekend Art Challenge Review
Here's the challenge we're reviewing today.

CCDD 020215: Undercity Hexcaster and Nudge Fate

As I discussed with Jaru, That Kills With Needles last week, Blue Black hybrid is a real problem area of design. And while I recognized counter manipulation is a pretty marginal ability, I thought it worthwhile to see if there are some reasonable commons to offset the mill and evasion commons that normally dominate Dimir hybrid commons.