Weekend Art Challenge 013113—SeeEffEye

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.

If you choose, you may use that feedback to revise your submission any number of times. I will post and review the most recent submission from each designer some time on Monday, life permitting. To help ensure I recreate your design accurately, please use CARDNAME instead of ~ in your submissions.

CCDD 013014—Mogg Skulk

Cool Card Design of the Day
1/30/2014 - Goblins are such cowards.

CCDD 012914—Search the Catacombs

Cool Card Design of the Day
1/29/2014 - This design needs some work, but I like the core idea that it's a self-contained dungeon dive. Who knows what treasures you'll find and what monsters you'll unleash? I'm not sure it should be black, and I have very little idea how much it should cost. Thoughts?

A Set in Four Cards: Ruins of Zendikar

Ulamog's Devourer (Common)

{6}{G}

Creature - Eldrazi Wurm

CARDNAME is colorless.

Ingest 1 (Whenever CARDNAME becomes blocked by a creature with lesser power, exile that creature and put a +1/+1 counter on CARDNAME.)

6/6

Ondu Refugee (Common)

{1}{W}

Creature - Kor Cleric

Teamwork - Whenever CARDNAME attacks with exactly one other creature, they both gain lifelink until end of turn.

1/3

Guul Draz Vivisector (Uncommon)

{2}{B}{B}

Creature - Vampire Assassin

When CARDNAME enters the battlefield, you may destroy target colorless creature.

3/2

Desperate Rage (Common)

{3}{R}

Instant

Target creature gets +4/+0 and gains first strike until end of turn.

CCDD 012814—Forest Giant

Cool Card Design of the Day
1/28/2014 - I mocked Forest Giant up about a year ago. IIRC, it came about when we were discussing giants that wield trees as clubs, but I love that it's a reasonable card to play in Limited both with and without forests. Not nearly as strong as Kird Ape, but strong enough (again, for Limited).

Weekend [Art] Challenge Review 012414—Greek Tropes

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

Assault the Boggart Warrens: An MtG Challenge Deck

I'm going to let you all in on a secret: I don't play nearly as much Magic as I wish I could.

I used to. I had two roommates who were down for games whenever, but nowadays I have a family and more demands on my time. I try to make it out to a Tuesday Night Draft when I can, but the fact is I enjoy casual-constructed formats a lot more (EDH, Planechase, and kitchen table decks). It doesn't matter that I rarely get a chance to play them. I still routinely build decks and tweak them.

Weekend [Art] Challenge 012414—Greek Tropes

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 012314—Sever Ties

Cool Card Design of the Day
1/23/2014 - In his article today, Jacob Van Lunen wrote "Being able to interact with the opponent's board on the same turn we clear out his or her hand is almost always going to result in victory." I didn't want to mess with "Discard X and sacrifice X" but I did want to explore in the space of potentially killing cards in play as well as in hand.

CCDD 012214—Verduran Mystic

Cool Card Design of the Day
1/22/2014 - Meletis Astronomer made me want a card that produces mana whenever you cast an enchantment. Why not an elf?

A Set in Four Cards: Jiang Hu

[Front]

Graceful Crane (Common)

{1}{U}

Creature - Bird

Flying

{2}{U}: Return CARDNAME from your graveyard to the battlefield transformed and attach it to target creature. Activate this ability only any time you could play a sorcery.

1/1

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[Back]

Crane Style (Common)

Enchantment - Aura

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature gets +1/+1 and has flying.

If CARDNAME would be put into a graveyard, exile it.

Whirling Nunchucks (Uncommon)

{1}

Artifact - Equipment

Equip {2}

Whenever equipped creature becomes blocked, it gets +2/+2 until end of turn for each creature blocking it.

Wudan Monastery (Rare)

Land

{T}: Add {1} to your mana pool.

{W}, {T}: Put a +1/+1 counter on target enchanted or equipped creature.

No-Shadow Kick (Common)

{1}{R}

Instant

Target creature deals damage equal to its power to each creature blocking or blocked by it.

Weekend Art Challenge Review 011714—Goblins

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

Weekend Art Challenge 011714—Goblins

Weekend Art Challenge
Click through to see this weekend's art and the design requirements for your card submission, due Monday morning. Every submission warrants feedback, which I will try to provide, and which everyone is welcome to provide as well.

If you choose, you may use that feedback to revise your submission any number of times. I will post and review the most recent submission from each designer some time on Monday, life permitting. To help ensure I recreate your design accurately, please use CARDNAME instead of ~ in your submissions.

CCDD 011614—Sparking Effigy

Cool Card Design of the Day
1/16/2014 - Here's a Sparkmage Apprentice with some elemental gumption. Or something. Been distracted preparing for a game design convention this weekend. I won't be around, but I have prepared a Weekend Art Challenge for tomorrow.

CCDD 011514—Hunter's Grapple & Track with the Tribe

Cool Card Design of the Day
1/15/2014 - I had to stop myself from making a single card out of these to Prey Upon variants. The original idea was Hunter's Grapple, that tapping the creature that's fighting seems like a reasonable cost. But when I first made that, I needed a way to make the card better and found the art for Track with the Tribe which led to the idea of a group hunt as seen on that card. Fortunately I realized at the last moment that tapping didn't help the group flavor and vice-versa, so I broke them apart.

CCDD 011414—Incant, Predict, Ritual & Sow

Cool Card Design of the Day
1/14/2014 - Suspend is a neat mechanic. Trading mana for time is really interesting and many of the best suspend cards really play that choice up, and even add suspense to what will happen when/if they resolve.

Trouble is, writing out what's relatively easy to describe results in a whole lot of awkward rules text. That we need counters to track our progress isn't exactly a bonus, either. If you simplify it to suspend 1, you can clean it up a lot. Here are three different executions that started from that idea.

A Set in Four Cards: Galdreth

Yudra Inquisitor (Uncommon)

{W}{B}{R}

Creature - Human Cleric

Vengeful - Whenever you cast a spell that targets an opponent or a creature an opponent controls, CARDNAME deals 2 damage to that opponent and you gain 2 life.

1/4

Avrem Fief (Common)

{T}: Add {1} to your mana pool.

{T}, Sacrifice CARDNAME: Search your library for a basic Island, Mountain, or Forest card and put it onto the battlefield tapped. Then shuffle your library.

Mosi Taskmage (Uncommon)

{R}{WU}

Creature - Human Wizard

{2}{R}: Attacking creatures you control get +1/+0 until end of turn.

{2}{WU}: Tap target creature.

2/2

Krin Redeemer (Common)

{3}{G}

Creature - Centaur Shaman

Soulspin - When CARDNAME enters the battlefield, you may exile a creature card from your graveyard. If you do, put two +1/+1 counters on CARDNAME.

3/3

Weekend [Art] Challenge Review 011014—Sturmkraft

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

Weekend [Art] Challenge 011014—Sturmkraft

Weekend Art Challenge
Click through to see this weekend's design challenge. Your 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 010914—Slippery Slope

Cool Card Design of the Day
1/9/2014 - I don't remember why I kept this card out of the Weekend Art Challenge that spawned it, perhaps I was just happier with my other submission.

CCDD 010814—Scavenger of the Damned

Cool Card Design of the Day
1/8/2014 - This was the first idea I had for last weekend's art challenge, but it just didn't fit the art at all. For a brief while, the second ability put the card on top of your library, but I didn't want to be able to recur the same creature turn after turn. This is a more challenging puzzle.

Another Card Frame

think outside the box

A Set in Four Cards: Sturmkraft

Holmstadt Zeppelin (uncommon)
{4}
Artifact Creature - Vehicle
Flying
Board ({1}, tap an untapped non-Vehicle creature you control: CARDNAME gets +X/+0 for as long as that creature remains tapped, where X is that creature's power. Board only as a sorcery.)
2/2

Powerfang Marauder (common)
{1}{B}
Creature - Vampire Rogue
{1}⚙: CARDNAME gets +2/+2 and gains lifelink until end of turn. (⚙ can be paid with one mana from an artifact permanent.)
2/1

Spark Transformer (uncommon)
{7}
Artifact
Whenever you cast a spell, CARDNAME deals 2 damage to target opponent.
Remodel (As an additional cost to cast CARDNAME, you may sacrifice an artifact. If you do, reduce the cost of this spell by that artifact's converted mana cost and draw a card.)

Lufthaven Factory (uncommon)
Artifact Land
CARDNAME enters the battlefield tapped.
{T}: Add {W} or {U} to your mana pool.

The New Card Frame

Yesterday, Aaron Forsythe presented a new card frame that will be used on all Magic cards from M15 going forward. I tend to be a bigger supporter of change than the average Magic Twitterer. (The only thing I didn't love about the M10 rules changes was the way deathtouch worked—and they changed that to match my suggestion soon enough.) I'm mostly a fan of this change too.

Weekend Art Challenge Review 010314—fetsch

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

Weekend Art Challenge 010314—fetsch

Weekend Art Challenge
Click through to see this weekend's art and the design requirements for your card submission, due Monday morning. Every submission warrants feedback, which I will try to provide, and which everyone is welcome to provide as well.

If you choose, you may use that feedback to revise your submission any number of times. I will post and review the most recent submission from each designer some time on Monday, life permitting. To help ensure I recreate your design accurately, please use CARDNAME instead of ~ in your submissions.

CCDD 010214—Purge Thought

Cool Card Design of the Day
1/2/2014 - How the hell is it Thursday, already?

CCDD 010114—Dragon Bonsai

Cool Card Design of the Day
1/1/2014 - Eventually, it outgrows its planter…