This is a card I was tinkering with for this past weekend's design challenge before I put it up. It's designed for my Experiment Kr...

Starting to think about which mechanics would be useful to include as a returning mechanic for my Heist Movie set. Renown seems like it migh...

At best, a much better  Cancel . At worst, a much worse  Distress . It all depends on how the mind game plays out.

For a long time, many Magic  players advised players just getting into limited formats to follow the heuristic "BREAD". After bomb...

Invisible Stalker  showed that hexproof and unblockable make for un-interactive gameplay, especially in combination. I went looking for ways...

Welcome back to the Great Redesigner Search, a series where I redo all of my GDS3 entries. This week is a little bit different from the othe...

Here's a Blind Phantasm  modeling a weird idea for an ability word!

This design went through a bunch of iterations, if I remember correctly. I knew I wanted a card selection effect that gave players the opti...

Designing "Norse gods" has been an appealing design goal since we saw Magic take on the Greek pantheon in Theros, even more so ...

As I run low on cool card design ideas I've started using the "random card" button for inspiration. Here's the first pro...

Here's another card from the Have They Really Never Printed This? file.

Here's a common meant to show off a mechanic. This time around the model is Divination .

There's a well-known design trap where adding "bad" abilities to an otherwise fine card can make it read a lot worse-- like t...

This design started out as part of a brainstorming session for blue evasion mechanics. The idea wasn't enough to support a named keyword...

Yeah, this one's stupid.

Holding up mana for Cancel  (and other counterspells) during an opponent's turn is stressful. You more or less commit to countering what...

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

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

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 spe...