Weekend Art Challenge 123116—jaggudada, aaron miller, yuchenghong & lucastorquato27

Click through to see the illustration and design requirements for your single  card submission, due Monday morning. Every submission warrants feedback, which you may use to revise your submission any number of times. I will aim to review the most recent submission from each designer.

CCDD 122816—Strength of Character

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12/30/2016 - Rounding out the week of white combat tricks with the most simple and obvious. Not yet printed.

CCDD 122916—Call to Stand

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12/29/2016 - Divine Favor as a combat trick.

CCDD 122816—Join the Fray

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12/28/2016 - Here's a very simple combination of Raise the Alarm and white P/T boosting.

CCDD 122716—Sword Prayer

Cool Card Design of the Day
12/27/2016 - As a sorcery, this isn't a combat trick, but it can turn a losing race in your favor.

Weekend Art Challenge 122316—Chriscold, Mac-tire & ebonita

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CCDD 122216—Aerial Assault

Cool Card Design of the Day
12/22/2016 - This doesn't need to by hybrid, much-less twobrid: any combination of white and/or blue would work.

Live Booster Draft

Love drafting? Love playing Magic? Ever wish you could do both at the same time, rather than one after the other? I have. For ten years. I got a game published trying to make it happen. (Here's a diary of how that led somewhere else fruitful.) Last month, the idea struck me again, this time actually for Magic:

A draft format in which the first seven picks form your starting hand, and each following pick happens when you would draw a card mid-game.

— Jay Treat (@WizardsFamiliar) November 12, 2016

I don't hype my own stuff much. Today is different. This is the good stuff. You want to try Live Draft. Really.

CCDD 122016—Racing Whipmaster

Cool Card Design of the Day
12/20/2016 - A delayed-gratification Fiend Binder for a less aggressive formmat.

Weekend Art Challenge 1216161—wiggers123

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CCDD 121516—Hold for Questioning

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12/15/2016 - It's rough when you have to spend four mana to Sleep Paralysis a two-drop. Hold for Questioning tries to make you feel better about that by repaying you the mana over time.

CCDD 121416—Hammer Prodigy

Cool Card Design of the Day
12/14/2016 - Here's an artifacts-matter white rare for Kaladesh.

CCDD 121316—Deathstroke

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12/13/2016 - Here's a vertical cycle of cards featuring deathstroke, a sort of undying or automatically triggered unearth.

Weekend Art Challenge 120916—clover teapot

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CCDD 120816—Voidmage Acolyte & Demolitions Expert

Cool Card Design of the Day
12/8/2016 - How do you make players happier to play a card that's been nerfed for being unfun?

The cards already exist, so we can't change them. We can either make the environment around them sufficiently weaker—which would cause a riot—or we can create cards that make them better…

CCDD 120716—Army Trumpet, Balloon & Prison

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12/7/2016 - A vertical cycle to reward the white mage for going wide.

CCDD 120616—Family

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12/6/2016 - Doubling Season for nontoken creatures… that you have to pay mana for… and ignores counters. So it's nothing like Doubling Season. But hey, free clones!

CCDD 120516—Rooting Spriggans

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12/5/2016 - Here's my any-tribal entry for the weekend's design challenge.

Weekend Design Challenge 120216

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CCDD 120116—Psy-Clone

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12/1/2016 - A single-turn clone.