CCDD 20210901 - Simic Mutagen

 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 Kraj deck.

CCDD 20210624 - Gambling Hall

 

Memorizing MDFCs: Kaldheim Edition

This is the second edition of my series on the inherent memory issues with modal double-faced cards and how different sets resolve them in different ways. Part 1, on Zendikar Rising, can be read here. I also wrote a companion piece for my personal game blog about why memorizing things in tabletop games is often a slog.

CCDD 092518—Whitecopse Hermit

Cool Card Design of the Day
Looking through my files, I found this first design, apparently meant to be a high-variance card with a short window of vulnerability.

CCDD 092418—Scorchknight

Cool Card Design of the Day
Here's a rare to reward you for playing damage effects.

CCDD 042918—Now or Later Land

Cool Card Design of the Day
4/29/2018 - Now or Later Land is a rare dual land cycle where you choose whether you can't use it the turn you play it or the turn after.

CCDD 120617—Master's Journal

Cool Card Design of the Day
12/6/2017 - Here's a six-mana rare that does nothing on its own. Also, it lets you counter more than one spell and is therefore completely broken, like Counterbalance and Forbid.

Weekend Art Challenge 081117—DiegoGisbertLlorens

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 050317—Liliana's Will & Liliana's Command

Cool Card Design of the Day
5/3/2017 - In Impact, Liliana demonstrates command over the undead; not just the ability to raise them, but to turn any undead to her own bidding. When I read that, I had to make this card:

CCDD 042617—Seek All Destinies & Celestial Parade

Cool Card Design of the Day
1/25/2017 - A couple of splashy all-the-auras rares.

Weekend Art Challenge 042117—arvalis

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.

Weekend Art Challenge 031017—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 030817—Amberfield Castle & Worldscorcher's Tomb

Cool Card Design of the Day
3/8/2017 - Here are two very powerful lands. Are they too powerful to print? (Probably, but let's discuss.)

Tesla Design Challenge: Inspiring Rares

Hi everybody! Over at the Multiverse, we've been working hard to design more rares for Tesla. This week, as a part of the final push, let's have a weekend design challenge - to finish up the rares, and make some exciting build-arounds while we're at it.

CCDD 071316—Iaiajutsu Master's cycle

Cool Card Design of the Day
7/13/2016 - This mechanic would make for a terrible keyword because it can only matter at most once per game, so I put it on a rare. Then another. Settled on a cycle. Still possibly too much, but I like what it offers at rare.

CCDD 062216—Game of Venom

Cool Card Design of the Day
6/22/2016 - Clash gets some nuance in the form of risk-reward analysis on this lone rare. You have some information to inform your decision, and can bet high or low depending on your confidence (or desperation).

CCDD 051716—Sphinx of the Waning Moon

Cool Card Design of the Day
5/17/2016 - Blacker Sphinx.

CCDD 10516—Battlefield Ruler & Conqueror King

Cool Card Design of the Day
1/5/2016 - Two top-down designs from the same art. One probably a bit too strong and the other a bit weak.

CCDD 110515—Total War

Cool Card Design of the Day
11/5/2015 - Total War's largely weaker than Curse of the Nightly Hunt, but I think it's worthwhile for the big flavor.

CCDD 110415—King of the Eight Seas

Cool Card Design of the Day
11/4/2015 - Here's a big legendary octopus.