CCDD 053117—Demonic Bond & Blossom in Deep Shade

Cool Card Design of the Day
5/31/2017 - If an aura triggers when it's countered, that should kick into effect whether it's countered directly by your opponent's Negate, or indirectly by the game rules for lack of a target (because your opponent Murdered the creature you were trying to enchant).

CCDD 053017—Challenger's Glory et al

Cool Card Design of the Day
5/30/2017 - Normally, retrace is only appropriate on sorceries and instants because we don't want the same creature coming back too many times, but there's another permanent type that's infamous for its transience. What happens if we put retrace on auras?

Weekend Art Challenge 052617—AlexKonstad

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CCDD 052617—Spider Sense

Cool Card Design of the Day
5/26/2017 - Was messing with auras yesterday, primarily using flash to mitigate their risk of card disadvantage, and found a tribal line to explore.

CCDD 052517—Feed the Cluster

Cool Card Design of the Day
5/25/2017 - Spider Pack is replicate-for-spiders. You could apply any creature tribe to pack, for more tribal effects. You could alternately apply card types or colors. You could even remove all conditions and just have a version that lets you pay for any number of legal targets.

CCDD 052417—Ambush Spider

Cool Card Design of the Day
5/24/2017 - Fixing Qasali Ambusher and Giant Trap Door Spider by merging them.

CCDD 052317—Widow's Trap

Cool Card Design of the Day
5/23/2017 - Here are two green spider-flavored removal auras.

First, green ~Pacifism with a Spider-tribal bonus.

CCDD 052217—Pack Spider

Cool Card Design of the Day
5/22/2017 - If solitary spiders aren't disturbing enough, consider the spider colonies of Peru. Here's a less disturbing card.

Weekend Art Challenge 051917—InaWong

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CCDD 051817—It's Dangerous

Cool Card Design of the Day
5/18/2017 - Started designing a Briarpack Alpha-à-la-carte spell only to discover it was just Savage Summoning with +2/+2 until EOT instead of a +1/+1 counter (and it was counterable), so I decided to explore a lower rarity version instead:

CCDD 051717—Mind Lure

Cool Card Design of the Day
5/17/2017 - Lure and Mind Control share a certain flavor, and play well together too.

CCDD 051617—Sylvan Ambush

Cool Card Design of the Day
5/16/2017 - Here's a combat trick that repays its mana cost. Or untaps your creatures. It's slightly tribal, favoring elf decks, but usable in any green creature deck.

Weekend Design Challenge 051217—Hour of Devastation mechanics

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CCDD 051117—Fiery Youth & Wolf Cub

Cool Card Design of the Day
5/11/2017 - A couple of common tribal cards (with a triggered effect rather than static, to avoid post-combat damage confusion).

CCDD 051017—The Strong Take

Cool Card Design of the Day
5/10/2017 - Bred for the Hunt gets an upgrade.

CCDD 050917—Ditch

Cool Card Design of the Day
5/9/2017 - Ditch is a smoothing mechanic. It's free, conditional cycling. Could go on anything (except planeswalkers… and it would be awkward on sorceries/instants since they're not the same type), but is ideal on land.

Weekend Design Challenge 050517—God-Pharaoh's Gift

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CCDD 050417—Haunted Blade

Cool Card Design of the Day
5/4/2017 - Top-down equipment.

CCDD 050317—Liliana's Will & Liliana's Command

Cool Card Design of the Day
5/3/2017 - In Impact, Liliana demonstrates command over the undead; not just the ability to raise them, but to turn any undead to her own bidding. When I read that, I had to make this card:

CCDD 050217—Staff of Wisdom

Cool Card Design of the Day
5/2/2017 - Staff of Wisdom is a hybrid between color-fixing like Mana Prism and card advantage like Jayemdae Tome. I was thinking about ways to let a deck play out differently more, and using your opponent's deck is the perfect resource.

Weekend Art Challenge Review 050117—RadoJavor

Weekend Art Challenge Review
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