Weekend Art Challenge 022814—Tung Monster

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 022714—Evade

Cool Card Design of the Day
2/27/2014 - Green creatures are good at getting into fights; they should be good at getting out of them too.

CCDD 022614—Distant Land & Crowded Bazaar

Cool Card Design of the Day
2/26/2014 - Here are two more ideas that trickled out a bit too late to contend for my WAC submission.

A Set in Four Cards: Shadows of Lorwyn

Weekend Art Challenge 022114 Review—Nightsong

Weekend Art Challenge Review
Here's the challenge we're reviewing today. Note that blogger had some technical difficulties, partially inhibiting our usual back-and-forth.

Weekend Art Challenge 022114—Nightsong

Weekend Art Challenge
Click through to see this weekend's art and the design requirements for your single card submission, due Monday Tuesday 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 022014—Bed of Leeches

Cool Card Design of the Day
2/20/2014 - I was made to remember recently a card designed for M13GA that I was quite fond of, but that didn't make it into the final file for reasons other than design quality. It's not a strong card by any measure, but it is flavorful removal that gets the job done …for a ton of mana. And on very rare occasion, it will be better than Murder or Doom Blade.

That's exactly what I want out of a bad card.

CCDD 021914—Four Green Creatures

Cool Card Design of the Day
2/19/2014 - These are the four designs I didn't submit last weekend, while trying to emulate Ken Nagle's green fatties.

A Set in Four Cards: Sanctuary

Fiercefang Sergeant (common)

{4}{B}{B}

Creature - Rat Soldier

Intimidate

Warborne (CARDNAME costs {1} less to cast for each creature that attacked this turn.)

Watermark: Legion

3/3

Melius Recruit (common)

{1}{W}

Creature - Human Soldier

Veteran 1 (Whenever this creature deals combat damage for the first time, put a +1/+1 counter on it after combat.)

Watermark: Sanctum

1/3

Corpse Catapult (uncommon)

{2}

Artifact

{2}, exile a creature card from your graveyard, {T}: CARDNAME deals 2 damage to target player.

Watermark: Legion

Hospice Captain (common)

{2}{G}

Creature - Elf Cleric

Unite - Whenever another Elf or Cleric creature enters the battlefield under your control, you gain 2 life.

Watermark: Sanctum

2/2

CCDD 021814—Occult Tutor & Whispering Demon

Cool Card Design of the Day
2/18/2014 - Today's mechanic follows in the path of Spoils of the Vault but takes Demonic Consultations perspective a bit further: Instead of naming a card and hoping you find it soon, you simply bid some number of cards and take the best one among them.

Weekend [Art] Challenge Review 021414—Imitation is the Sincerest Form of Flattery

Weekend Art Challenge Review
Here's the challenge we're reviewing today. Note that blogger had some technical difficulties, partially inhibiting our usual back-and-forth.

Weekend [Art] Challenge 021414—Imitation is the Sincerest Form of Flattery

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 021314—Taa-Zhur Druid

Cool Card Design of the Day
2/13/2014 - I'm not remotely suggesting Zhur-Taa Druid should have been different, only that this is another way to make a red-green mana dude.

CCDD 021214—The Corruption and Netherling

Cool Card Design of the Day
2/12/2014 - Yesterday's Face Eater got me thinking about a zombie shapeshifter, resulting in The Corruption. I noticed how criminally underused this trigger was, so I boiled that part of the concept down into Netherling.

A Set in Four Cards: Frontier

Doomwand Brigand (Common)
{2}{B}
Creature - Human Wandslinger
When CARDNAME enters the battlefield, you may tap it and discard a card. If you do, target creature gets -2/-2 until end of turn.
2/3

Dissolving Mirage (Common)
{3}{U}
Instant
Return target nonland permanent to its owner's hand.
Prospect {2} ({2}, Discard this card: reveal cards from the top of your library until you reveal a land card. Put that card in your hand and put all other cards revealed this way into your graveyard.)

Feral Sandwurm (Uncommon)
{5}{G}{G}
Creature - Wurm
Delve (Each card you exile from your graveyard while casting this spell pays for {1}.)
CARDNAME enters the battlefield with a +1/+1 counter for each creature card exiled by its delving.
6/6

Viashino Rustler (Common)
{3}{R}{R}
Creature - Viashino Rogue
Haste
When CARDNAME enters the battlefield, detain target creature an opponent controls. (Until your next turn, that creature can't attack or block and its activated abilities can't be activated.)
3/2

CCDD 021114—Face Eater

Cool Card Design of the Day
2/11/2014 - Like Body Double, Face Eater is a nasty shapeshifter that's still blue as long as the context of her set is dark enough. (Could otherwise be {U}{B} I suppose.)

Weekend [Art] Challenge Review 020714—Lords A'Leapin

Weekend Art Challenge Review
Here's the challenge we're reviewing today. Note that blogger had some technical difficulties, partially inhibiting our usual back-and-forth.

Weekend [Art] Challenge 020714—Lords A'Leapin

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 020614—Blind Summons

Cool Card Design of the Day
2/6/2014 - This was my original design for last weekend's art, but it didn't seem particularly lenticular so I saved it.

CCDD 020514—Indignant Root

Cool Card Design of the Day
2/5/2014 - Indignant Root is based off an idea Nich presented a couple weeks back. What about a defender that can fight specific creatures? In this case, the result is something hardier, but much less dangerous than Royal Assassin. What do you think?

A Set in Four Cards: Tyrants of Vorakai

Ravenous Hatchling (Common)

{3}{R}

Creature - Dragon

5/1

Cloudborne Whelp (Uncommon)

{1}{U}{U}

Creature - Dragon

Hoard - Whenever an artifact enters the battlefield under your control, you may put a +1/+1 counter on CARDNAME.

CARDNAME has flying as long as it has a +1/+1 counter on it.

2/2

Kulrani Wingleader (Common)

{1}{G}

Creature - Human Warrior

Trample

Dragonrider (Whenever a Dragon you control attacks, you may exile CARDNAME riding it. When the ridden permanent leaves the battlefield, return CARDNAME to the battlefield.)

Creatures CARDNAME is riding get +2/+2 and have trample.

2/2

Autarch's Verdict (Uncommon)

{1}{B}{B}

Sorcery

Target player sacrifices a creature.
Dominance - That player sacrifices two creatures instead if you control a creature with greater power than any creature controlled by an opponent.

CCDD 020414—Finishing Blow

Cool Card Design of the Day
2/4/2014 - We've seen various iterations of this card before, including M13GA's Blood in the Water and the recent WAC submission Fatal Flaw. I don't like Finishing Blow better than Blood in the Water, because that card undoes the implicit card disadvantage of this effect, but this one has the benefit that you can combo it with global -1/-1 effects or cheap semi-removal like Weakness so that you at least don't lose a creature in the deal.

Weekend Art Challenge Review 013113—SeeEffEye

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