Weekend Design Challenge 072817—Ixalan

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 072717—Kenra Mystic

Cool Card Design of the Day
7/27/2017 - Kenra Mystic is a red Initiate's Companion. It can't untap creatures, but it untaps the land soon enough to use on combat tricks. You can, of course, still just use that land after combat like Hardened Berserker.

CCDD 072617—Distant Minotaur cycle

Cool Card Design of the Day
7/26/2017 - We've got creatures with ETB effects that cycle, and creatures with cycling triggers, but we don't have creatures that give you an effect whether you cast them or cycle them.(The Bant Sojourners cycle is as close as we come.) It should look like evoke, but with card draw.

CCDD 072517—War Mup

Cool Card Design of the Day
7/25/2017 - 3/1s for two have become so common (in green and white), they now get significant upsides as well. No color wants a 3/1 for two as much as red, but red isn't so efficient. Here's a new Mogg Flunkies variant.

Weekend Art Challenge 072117—bobkehl

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 072017—Urza's Candle

Cool Card Design of the Day
7/20/2017 - Green and blue love untapping things. In a vacuum, this card seems like a perfect {GU} common.

CCDD 071917—Aggressive Emulation

Cool Card Design of the Day
7/19/2017 - Reverse Akroma's Memorial. Sort of.

Whatever, it plays with green and blue's adaptive nature.

CCDD 071817—Brine Viper

Cool Card Design of the Day
7/18/2017 - Its blood is a paralytic agent.

Weekend Art Challenge 071417—Aaron Miller

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 071317—Sylvan Freemage

Cool Card Design of the Day
7/27/2017 - Players enjoy suiting up auras but sometimes need a reason to push past their flaws. Designers want to make fun things playable.

CCDD 071217—Leper

Cool Card Design of the Day
7/12/2017 - Reuben has been exploring some -1/-1 counter mechanics on his Tumblr blog, Remaking Magic, and this morning I had an idea in that space.

CCDD 071117—Caretaker of Blossoms

Cool Card Design of the Day
7/11/2017 - There are at least a half-dozen cards waiting to be designed around prowess-for-keywords.

Weekend Art Challenge 070717—ukitakumuki

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 070617—Gangling Refractor

Cool Card Design of the Day
7/6/2017 - Getting to copy your opponent's kill spell seems like a more fun twist on the kind of spell protection Glyph Keeper offers.

CCDD 070517—Draw Blood

Cool Card Design of the Day
7/5/2017 - Putting two half-card effects together to reach the value of a full card, using flavor as the glue.

CCDD 070417—Wandering Elf

Cool Card Design of the Day
7/4/2017 - I was surprised to realize this simple card has never been made, after seeing Pasteur's design in the last Weekend Art Challenge.