Weekend Art Challenge 092917—thegryph

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CCDD 092817—Swashbuckler

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9/28/2017 - What if Ixalan hadn't pulled back so far on vehicles? One of the pirate mechanics could have been to work well with vehicles. I felt a little bad making just another Spireside Infiltrator but then I realized I wanted a slightly different effect. You see, at the time you tap an Infiltrator to crew a vehicle, it's trigger resolves before that vehicle becomes a creature, so you can't use "target creature you control gets BONUS until EOT" on the vehicle you just crewed. But if you make a static effect while your creature is tapped, then it affects your vehicles (and itself, and your other pirates).

CCDD 092717—taunt

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9/27/2017 - This keyword doesn't have to be just for pirates, but I think it works well both flavor-wise and for the tribe's colors. For those of you who remember, it's basically the opposite of escort.

CCDD 092617—treasure hunt

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9/26/2017 - Ixalan's primary smoothing mechanic is explore, which can draw you a much-needed land or allow you to scry. Treasure can help fix your colors but not until mid- to late-game because it's hard to get on anything cheap. I'm musing about a cycling-for-treasure mechanic.

Weekend Art Challenge 092217—Surk3

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CCDD 092117—Sun-Crowned Hunters & Hadrosaur Pack

Cool Card Design of the Day
9/15/2017 - I wanted to design a couple of enrage dinosaurs to see what space was left unmined. The idea that stuck with me was that of a tiny dino that your opponent has to decide if they really want to enrage or just let through. The ability I wanted to use was already on Sun-Crowned Hunters but it has completely different meaning on a large creature, so:

CCDD 092017—territorial

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9/20/2017 - It was mentioned on the mothership that monstrosity was briefly considered for Ixalan's dinosaur mechanic. I think enrage is great and wouldn't question that choice, but this still got me thinking about other ways we could express dinosaurs mechanically.

This idea started as when-you've-got-enough-lands-all-your-dinos-become-monstrous, so that we could have dinosaurs spread across the mana curve, but still become huge if you give them room to grow unrestricted.

CCDD 091917—Stalking Clanodon

Cool Card Design of the Day
9/19/2017 - I found this art and wanted to play with the idea of a flash blocker that could only be played as a surprise blocker.

Weekend Art Challenge 091517—ReneAigner

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CCDD 091417—Invade Mind

Cool Card Design of the Day
9/14/2017 - Continuing from yesterday's theme of black playing cards that don't belong to it, that seems like a perfect thing to pair with discard.

CCDD 091317—Bad Memory

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9/13/2017 - Yawgmoth's Will as a saboteur effect.

CCDD 091217—imbue

Cool Card Design of the Day
9/12/2017 - Imbue is a mechanic where you cast a spell on a creature and that creature is imbued with the ability to cast that spell on itself once more.

CCDD 091117—Fueled by Pain

Cool Card Design of the Day
9/15/2017 - The impetus of this design was to punish your opponent for hurting you and reward you for playing into black's masochism.

Weekend Design Challenge 090817

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CCDD 090717—Great Hunter of Atliki & Theropod Mates

Cool Card Design of the Day
9/7/2017 - Here are a couple fairly straight-forward dinos.
Because dinos.

CCDD 090617—prism

Cool Card Design of the Day
9/6/2017 - Prism is going to look underwhelming in the light of Ixalan's treasure tokens, but it's not hard to imagine a block that wants similar color-fixing without the danger of mana rituals. And this is much safer and cheaper to put on cards.

CCDD 090517—Skymill

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9/5/2017 - Exert and land can be friends. This is the tip of the iceberg.

CCDD 090417—Caustic Tide

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9/4/2017 - I'm traveling today, so I've queued up a CCDD. I'll review the WAC tomorrow, hopefully. Happy Labor Day!

Weekend Art Challenge 090117—AlexAlexandrov

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