Gatecrash Art Challenge 5 — Christine Chou

Today we're covering Christine Chou's art work.

In completely arbitrary order:

B. This ability is terrifying, but I could see Wizards putting that text on a card. That card would definitely be black-white, though.

C. Corrupting Influence is clever, but imperfect. You can enchant an enemy land or artifact and give its controller the choice of either losing that permanent or suffering 1+ life loss each turn. The problem being that land and artifacts are rarely the most important cards in the Limited games where this would see play, and so it's basically always correct to sacrifice it. Which gives black artifact-removal. You can alternately enchant your own land or artifact, which set you up for a(n unlikely) two-for-one, but will give you an extra extort outlet at the cost of 1 life per turn. I would use this rules text:

Enchant Land
Extort
At the beginning of enchanted land's controller’s upkeep, he or she may sacrifice it.

B. Get the pun? Took me a while. Indestructible is strong, but Wizards isn't too shy to slap it onto rares anymore. Remove the deathtouch (and the accidental linebreak I added) and this card becomes pure and impressive.

B. I also thought this looked like equipment. My execution is a lot less exciting and interesting, but I think very printable and appropriate to the art.

B. This effect fits the art and the cost feels right. Sewer Insurgence would surely be an uncommon since you don't want to have a critical mass of repeatable land destruction effects even at six mana. Put this on a 1/1 unblockable guy and it'll lock your opponent out of the game in <6 turns.

C. I also thought this could be a land. This is a Mystifying Maze type card to help control decks survive to the end game. We have to be careful with effects like these though, because they make games go longer and contribute to stalemates.

A. Awesome. Flawless. Want.

A. Love it. Self-combos are fun when they support a set theme. I wonder if this could cost 3.