Weekend Design Challenge 113018 -- Keyword Action Triggers

Good morning, Artisans. Click through to see the requirements for this weekend's design challenge, due Monday morning. Every submission warrants feedback, so once you've got your great idea down, give some thoughtful critique to your peers. Revise your submission any number of times, and I'll review the most recent submission from each designer some time next week.

CCDD 112918 -- Create Triggers

I feel like one of the great things we overlooked when they updated the templating for token-making to "create" a few years back was finding fun ways to interact with the new Keyword Action.

Weekend Design Challenge 112318 -- Black Friday

Good morning, Artisans, and Happy American Thanksgiving to one and all. Click through to see the requirements for this weekend's design challenge, due Monday morning. Every submission warrants feedback, so once you've got your great idea down, give some thoughtful critique to your peers. Revise your submission any number of times, and I'll review the most recent submission from each designer some time next week.

CCDD 112118 -- Destroyer of Champions

Good morning, Artisans. Here's a Ball Lightning variant I came up with a little bit ago.

CCDD 112018—Eva and Elena

Cool Card Design of the Day
This art begged to be made into a red-blue legend for Innistrad.

CCDD 111918—Infinitry

Cool Card Design of the Day
This idea just came from the portmanteau that popped into my head.

CCDD 111618—Rancor of Wildwood

Cool Card Design of the Day
Rancor's too strong and Talons of Wildwood is too weak. Let's try and meet somewhere in the middle.

Eternal Analysis 008—Nightfall

Nightfall is a different kind of Eternal keyword: It's not a skill, modifying how a card works, but an event (or a keyword action in Magic terms). When night falls, it lasts through the next round, and when your turn begins at night, you take 1 damage and draw a card.

CCDD 111418—learn a lesson

Cool Card Design of the Day
During the weeks between learning I'd made the top 100 for GDS3 and the initial design test, I designed and playtested a Magic world and a number of potential mechanics for it, knowing that work would either be directly relevant or at least good practice. One of the keywords I tested had been stewing in my head for quite some time.

CCDD 111318—Dire Lane Pickpocket

Cool Card Design of the Day
This top-down card ended up a lot like Feral Prowler, but I like the slightly different angle; it's both evocative and sets you up to build around it.

CCDD 111218—Path to Peace

Cool Card Design of the Day
The problem with Path to Exile is that pesky downside. What if we turned that around and made it an upside?

CCDD 110918—Bad Jerks

Cool Card Design of the Day
This creature's main purpose is to act like an unreliable Rootwalla or Hungry Spriggan; You can't always count on yours being able to grow, and I can't always predict whether it will or not.

CCDD 110818—Foresee Obstacles

Cool Card Design of the Day
Here's a weird spell.

CCDD 110718—Restrain

Cool Card Design of the Day
This counterspell can straight up counter a spell that costs the same or less. It can still answer a bigger spell, but only temporarily. I wanted to explore this space because it's problematic for unconditional countermagic to create a mana advantage.

Eternal Analysis 007—Echo

Echo is another excellent Eternal keyword. When you draw a card with echo, you draw an extra copy.

CCDD 110518—Moon Dial

Cool Card Design of the Day
This is strictly better than a Manalith and I think it's totally printable.

CCDD 110218—Pangs of Regret

Cool Card Design of the Day
This design is from July of last year, which is why it uses the old damage template. It stood out to me as I scanned my folder because it's literally an undergrowth card, just red.

CCDD 110118—Call into Question

Cool Card Design of the Day
Here's a new way to make hybrid cards, good for a cycle or two: Modular cards with one effect of each color, where the opponent gets to choose the mode if you only pay one color, but you get to choose if you pay both.