CCDD 113015—Sanguine Warrior

Cool Card Design of the Day
11/30/2015 - Dev can tweak the cost and stats here, but the core identity is an aggressive red creature that the opponent can force into a bad attack.

Weekend Art Challenge Review 112015 -- Bramvan / Julian_Faylona

Weekend Art Challenge Review

SciFi Week with RoboRosewater Redesign Bonus!

CCDD 112515—Runed…

Cool Card Design of the Day
11/25/2015 - A very inexpensive way to add smoothing to your deck is through symmetric effects like Ruined Servitor. We want to give players smoothing, and giving both players smoothing with a single card that the first player won't feel bad playing could do a lot to improve games.

CCDD 112315—Sogleaf Brownie

Cool Card Design of the Day
11/23/2015 - These brownies refuse to fight with their own kind. That's good and bad… mostly flavor.

(This post was scheduled. Jay is in Poland pretending to be a Wizard just now.)

Weekend Art Challenge 112015 -- Bramvan / Julian_Faylona

Weekend Art Challenge

OK, Artisans. Jay is on vacation, so I'll be substituting this week. 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. I'll do the renders if no one else volunteers by Monday.

CCDD 111915—Hide

Cool Card Design of the Day
11/19/2015 - Here's a modern take on Avoid Fate.

(This post was scheduled. Jay is in Poland pretending to be a Wizard just now.)

CCDD 111815—Disengage Time

Cool Card Design of the Day
11/18/2015 - You could look at this as a nerfed Remand—and it very much is—but if you ignore its broken pedigree, Disengage Time is far from unplayable, buying time and often invalidating tactics and spells.

(This post was scheduled. Jay is in Poland pretending to be a Wizard just now.)

Weekend Art Challenge Review 111315 - Maaria Laurinen and Nikola Anchev

Weekend Art Challenge Review
Design a card that tells a story using one of the two provided illustrations.

CCDD 111615—Nesting Baloth

Cool Card Design of the Day
11/16/2015 This is a Petravark unless you build a baloth-tribal deck, when it upgrades to Annex on a stick.

(This post was scheduled. Jay is in Poland pretending to be a Wizard just now.)

Weekend Art Challenge 111315 - Maaria Laurinen and Nikola Anchev

Weekend Art Challenge
Greetings, artisans! I'm not your usual challenger, but Jay is on vacation. So here I am, stealing the WAC for my own purposes!

Click through to see this weekend's art and the design requirements for your single card submission, due Monday evening (6PM PST). 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. By the way - this week, I'll be rendering the cards!

CCDD 111215—Foothills & Murky Mountain

Cool Card Design of the Day
11/12/2015 - Both of these lands are meant to help you fix your colors, either slowly in a three-color deck, or colorlessly in a two-color deck.

CCDD 111115—Terramorphic Rift & Gateway Unknown

Cool Card Design of the Day
11/11/2015 - Both of these are inferior choices to Terramorphic Expanse for most sets, but could serve as alternatives somewhere.

Weekend Art Challenge Review 110615—PollyUranus

Weekend Art Challenge Review
Design a monocolored card for this art, whose name falls alphabetically between Killing Floor and Lammasu's Portent.

CCDD 110915—Revenge & Mispronounce

Cool Card Design of the Day
11/9/2015 - Let's say it makes complete sense that blue should have exclusive access to countermagic. There are still ways other colors can respond to spellcasting.

Weekend Art Challenge 110615—PollyUranus

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 110515—Total War

Cool Card Design of the Day
11/5/2015 - Total War's largely weaker than Curse of the Nightly Hunt, but I think it's worthwhile for the big flavor.

CCDD 110415—King of the Eight Seas

Cool Card Design of the Day
11/4/2015 - Here's a big legendary octopus.

Tesla: Your Own Resources

This article is WotC safe.

Hi everyone! Last time, we discussed the art of making commons for playtesting mechanics, and continued our work over at the Tesla Project forum. Since last time, we've had some great commons, but playtesting is understandably hampered by the difficulty of collecting all the cards from across the forum posts, past articles, and so on. Well, no longer - this week, I have a lot of resources to share with you all! In addition, I also have some mechanics in need I'd like for us to focus on this week.

Weekend Art Challenge Review 103015—jubjubjedi

Weekend Art Challenge Review
Design an uncommon creature for this art.

CCDD 110215—Spell Forest 3b

Cool Card Design of the Day
11/2/2015 - I was brainstorming spell lands a few weeks back and was iterating on a few ideas, toward an alternative to the very good Looming Spires and Teetering Peeks spell land cycles. Specifically, it was evident that we could have a more impactful effect if, like more expensive spells, it only worked when you had more mana or lands. A large activation cost worked, but if it's repeatable, the effect must be fairly small, so I considered a land that did something when you sacrificed it, rather then when it ETB'd. That's cool, but fights with the goal of having enough mana to cast Eldrazi. Let me show you my final iteration before I share my conclusion: