CCDD 123115—Find Beauty

Cool Card Design of the Day
12/31/2015 - I'd like green to have a little bit of incidental life gain in each block. Time to Feed and Aerial Predation are great examples. Found a spot for another.

CCDD 123015—Despondency

Cool Card Design of the Day
12/30/2015 - This effect is in blue's color pie, but it fits this flavor so well I wonder if it's not worth the bleed. Could alternately be {UB} in the right set.

CCDD 122915—Personal Nemesis

Cool Card Design of the Day
12/29/2015 - This top-down illusion ended up as weird, conditional, creature removal for blue. Kinda cute, I guess.

CCDD 122815—Springwind Invoker

Cool Card Design of the Day
12/28/2015 - Inspired by surge's multiplayer-friendly-ness:

Spotlight Challenge 1—Zeno Rage

This fortnight, Zeno Rage is going to take lead on this challenge:

Design a cycle of mythic rare legendary creatures to be the marquee cards for a new launch of Commander decks.

Weekend Art Design Challenge Review 121815—dchan, sanskaran, 404mockingbirds

Weekend Art Challenge Review
Choose one of these illustrations and design a card that cares about colorless mana.

Announcing a New Design Challenge Series—The Spotlight Challenge

It's time for something new.

This community is ready to stretch itself again and I've finally figured out a good way to do it.

Weekend Art Design Challenge 121815—dchan, sanskaran, 404mockingbirds

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 121715—Goblin Ritesinger

Cool Card Design of the Day
12/17/2015 - I envision what "Drawblin" might look like after listening to Re-Making Magic episodes 42 and 43.

CCDD 121615—Enrage the Stone

Cool Card Design of the Day
12/16/2015 - What do you do when you've got a clever effect that's not quite strong enough to be its own card?

CCDD 121515—Auntie's Lore

Cool Card Design of the Day
12/15/2015 - Dan Felder was discussing the 0 ability on Chandra's newly spoiled card and it got me wishing there was a modern version of Goblin Lore.

As it happens, there are a bunch of them, including Burning Inquiry, Dangerous Wager, Faithless Looting, Desperate Ravings & Tormenting Voice.

Pfft. Like that's going to stop me.

Weekend Art Challenge Review 121115--Copia / Seb / Casiopeia

Weekend Art Challenge Review
Choose one of these illustrations and design a card that cares about the cards Act on Impulse exiles or combos with red cards like it in some way. For bonus points, make a mechanic usable for multiple cards (demonstrated on a single card).

Weekend Art Challenge 121115--Copia / Seb / Casiopeia

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 121015—Hunt

Cool Card Design of the Day
12/10/2015 - Can Tail Slash be green? Seems like red doesn't necessarily need it, but it easily fits green's removal-via-creatures shtick.

CCDD 120915—Trash the Heirarchy

Cool Card Design of the Day
12/9/2015 - I've explored modern options for land destruction before, looking to make the effect viable where it's needed while avoiding the issues that got Stone Rain excommunicated from modern Magic. Here's another.

Weekend Art Challenge Review 120415—Damie M

Weekend Art Challenge Review
Design a rare card for this art. What's the setting? How does that impact your design?

CCDD 120715—Engrave Guilt

Cool Card Design of the Day
12/7/2015 - This design's been sitting in my folder getting passed over dozens of times for being unworthy. I finally re-worked it.

Tesla: Playtest Engineering I: Structure

This article is WotC safe.

Hello again, everybody! I hope you've all been enjoying your holidays, and that you continue to do so! Now, back to business. This week, I'll be starting a three-part series on designing an all commons playtest, from start to finish. First off, we'll be discussing the overall structure of a playtest set, and how one can use concepts like as-fan to help quickly create such a structure, using our custom collaborative set Tesla as an example. (The lessons in this article are great for anyone looking to design a set, though!)

Weekend Art Challenge 120415—Damie M

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 120315—Temple Ruins

Cool Card Design of the Day
12/3/2015 - A simple but potentially very useful land in the right context. Too strong for common? Uncommon?

CCDD 120215—Draconic Reconnaissance

Cool Card Design of the Day
12/2/2015 - While not nearly as deep as creature-type-tribal*, keyword-tribal remains a relatively unexplored vein of design. In particular, I'm attracted to effects that reward prowess because more than many keywords, prowess feels like a skill the creature possesses rather than a mere characteristic, and because the non-creature spells it triggers off of can actively double their benefit.

CCDD 120115—Grave Desecrator

Cool Card Design of the Day
12/1/2015 - Here's a dangerous way to get added value from your zombie cards.