CCDD 20210630 - Distracting Aggression

 

CCDD 20210629 - Exotic Pet

 

CCDD 20210628 - Veteran Thief

This one started out as a common 1/1 lifelink, shadow, vanishing 5 for B. I vacillated between vanishing and cumulative upkeep 1 for the downside/inevitable demise element of the concept, but downside mechanics suck and there's no way I'm actually using them in Cornea. I ended up with a pseudo-cumulative upkeep instead, but it made the life swings big enough that this needed to be bumped up to uncommon (maybe even rare) and I had to tack on at least one more to the mana value.

 

Weekend Design Challenge 062621 - Dungeon

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CCDD 20210624 - Gambling Hall

 

CCDD 20210623 - Invisibility Field

I feel like the top-down Invisibility I was going for here may have gotten away from me a little bit. I'm not sure being able to target it with creatures (and stapling on the Illusion ability) is enough of a window for this to feel different enough from Whispersilk Cloak.

 

CCDD 20210622 - Guardian Hydra

 

CCDD 20210621 - Harmonic Coordination

There is surprisingly little mono-G top-down design space in a Heist Movie theme. I put the clockwork maneuvering of the squad in the Common Bond/Seeds of Strength space, but I wonder if I forced it to be different targets if it would be a better design.

Weekend Design Challenge 061821 - Two Cards

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CCDD 20210617 - Double Cross (Not the Unglued One)

 

CCDD 20210616 - Escape Carriage

 

CCDD 20210615 - Prepared Engineer

 

  

CCDD 20210614 - Alluring Vault

  

The Many Faces of +1/+1 Counters

There are a number of evergreen archetypes that Wizards goes back to when a color pair doesn't have anything in particular it wants to do in a set. These are especially visible in core set Limited environments, which are designed to both teach new players what color combinations usually do and to "reset" enfranchised players back to basics, so to speak. While there are a number of these with enough history to write about – U/R spells, W/B lifegain, and so on – what I wanted to focus on in this article is the +1/+1 counter archetype, which sets itself apart from its coworkers by its flexibility. What we think of as a "counter theme" is actually several themes that happen to use +1/+1 counters, each of which is worth exploring in some depth.

Weekend Design Challenge 061121 - Young Planeswalker Fan

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CCDD 20210610 - Plot Hatcher

 

CCDD 20210609 - Whisperwing Reconnoiter

Weekend Design Challenge 060521 - Iconic Slayer

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