CCDD 022817—Path to Stone Rain & Path to Counterspell

Cool Card Design of the Day
1/25/2017 - Path to Stone Rain is the spell form of Ghost Quarter. It's a Stone Rain that uses the Path to Exile downside, which turns it from mana denial to utility-land denial, something red is known for.

Weekend Art Challenge 022417—Jennifer Miller

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CCDD 022317—Eager Vassal

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2/23/2017 - At first blush, this will look like a tamed Spellwild Ouphe, but its true purpose is to allow players to splash auras and combat tricks in a deck that would have trouble playing them otherwise.

CCDD 022217—Pneumatequine

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2/22/2017 - A couple fairly obvious uses for energy in a future set.

CCDD 022117—Memory Jarhead

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2/21/2017 - Memory Jar on a stick. But not Magus of the Jar.

The motivation for this was to make the second half of the jar an event you have to make happen, instead of it happening immediately. Which has upsides and downsides.

Weekend Art Challenge 021617—FredRubim

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CCDD 021617—Bark Knight

Cool Card Design of the Day
2/15/2017 - A green Jetting Glasskite.

CCDD 021517—Chandra's Fire Reflex

Cool Card Design of the Day
2/15/2017 - There's a solution for making the legendary supertype meaningful in a positive way, it's just years too late to implement: Spells that reference your legend are improved while it's in play. Maybe they all cost a little less to cast, or they all have some kicker, or a wild variation of benefits.

We could today implement a new across-the-board rule that any spell with a legend's name in its own costs {1} less, but Wizards doesn't like to mess with cardnames-matters because of variations due to printing across languages. In theory, proper names should be consistent within a given language, but there are still a number of issues, probably including: Cardnames that share a word or word-part in common with a legend's name but were never intended to be related; cards that were meant to be related but do so by art or flavor text and not by name; cards with no generic mana in the cost.

Anyhow, here's a custom card based on the idea:

CCDD 021417—Adventure Trail

Cool Card Design of the Day
2/14/2017 - This first Adventure Trail came from the idea of some terrible dual lands from Magic's dark years, I think. If you really need color, you can get it and this turn, but you'll be down a land next turn.

Weekend Art Challenge 021017—Larbesta

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CCDD 020917—Caught

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2/8/2017 - Here's an Oblivion Ring that rewards you for having an army.

CCDD 020817—In Custody

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2/8/2017 - Here's an Arrest that rewards armies.

CCDD 020716—Detain for Questioning

Cool Card Design of the Day
2/7/2017 - Make any of your creatures a Banisher Priest. Almost; I embellished a bit with the minimum-power clause, which is flavorful and limits the card's power level.

Weekend Art Challenge 020317—grumplesoup

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CCDD 020217—Mourning Stag

Cool Card Design of the Day
2/2/2017 - Here's the back half of Elephant Guide: a 3/3 for {G} that requires a creature to die. The trigger is worded so that you're guaranteed to get your stag even if someone kills your target in response.

What else can you do with that tech?

CCDD 020117—Cosmic Orrery

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2/1/2017 - A couple different angles on "everything costs half as much." Halving is an unfortunately awkward thing to ask your players to do. Stupid odd numbers.