CCDD 111918—Infinitry

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This idea just came from the portmanteau that popped into my head.

CCDD 111618—Rancor of Wildwood

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

CCDD 092618—Memory of a Massacre

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This design went through nine iterations before I found an effect fitting of the title, unique, and interesting.

CCDD 083018—Dread Shade

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This is an older design I found sitting in my file. Not sure how it came to be. I do dig the flavor of it possessing and animating corpses, and how you usually have to pay black mana to do that.

CCDD 103117—Animate Soul & Quick Stitch

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10/31/2017 - This was the creepiest card I found sitting in my CCDD folder. I suspect the inspiration (from January) was to mess with base power and toughness while reanimating, or perhaps I wanted to do the Shade version of Rise from the Grave?

CCDD 100317—Unrelenting

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10/3/2017 - This idea went through 7 revisions before I settled on this version. Originally, it was "when this dies, you can cast a copy of it from your hand for free." That seemed too limiting, so I let you scour the top of your library too. To save on words, to make it a cost, and to make both options viable, I had you exile those cards. The result is an uncertain sort of undying/persist that plays better in multiples (or with Arc-Slogger).

CCDD 060117–Legacy of Terror & Secret of Flight

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6/1/2017 - Inheritance is a variation on Rancor and Dragon Fangs' recursion abilities; it's free and immediate… provided you've got a valid target to enchant at that moment.

CCDD 053017—Challenger's Glory et al

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5/30/2017 - Normally, retrace is only appropriate on sorceries and instants because we don't want the same creature coming back too many times, but there's another permanent type that's infamous for its transience. What happens if we put retrace on auras?

CCDD 092216—Dedicate

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9/22/2016 - Inspired by yesterday's discussion of rebound, I wondered about a version that you can cast every turn, provided you're willing to pay for it. As soon as you choose to save your mana for something else, the option to keep re-casting it ends.

CCDD 091916—Eternal Torment

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9/19/2016 - In Limited, the ability to shuffle a card into your deck after you've used it can be a big deal. I tried to make a mechanic out of this and it was awful. One good rare, though, maybe even a cycle…

CCDD 042616—Violent Resurrection

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4/26/2016 - The trick to fixing the awkward templating of old cards like Animate Dead is not to try to duplicate them precisely. If you preserve what made them cool to begin with, but forget about the rest, modern technology can serve up a clean homage that's interesting in its own right.

CCDD 042116—Dig Up

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4/21/2016 - A few takes on the same basic idea.

CCDD 041316—Protein Hydra

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4/13/2016 - This art begged to have Protean Hydra's head-regeneration effect but I couldn't differentiate the card enough, so I found another execution.

CCDD 021816—Scent of Brains

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2/18/2016 - Almost strictly better than "Each other player discards a card." It doesn't reanimate anything, though, so I think it's safe. Agree?

CCDD 051415—Eternal Faun

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5/14/2015 - Eternal Faun wonders if red can do recursion on a creature other than a phoenix. Red isn't really about recursion or flying, but it makes exceptions for firebirds and dragons.

But that's a very one-sided perspective. Consider that Magic doesn't need the phoenix to satisfy players' flavor requirements like it needs dragons. Do we see them so often purely for nostalgia's sake? Or do these recursive red birds serve a functional purpose? And if they weren't the only example of red creature recursion, they wouldn't be exceptions at all—Is that a space red can embrace?

CCDD 111214—Raise the Unknown & Indiscriminate Necromancy

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11/12/2014 - It occurred to me that a 2/2 colorless creature is an awful lot like a zombie (particularly a Null from Innistrad or Returned from Theros).

CCDD 040214—Servant of Pharika

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4/2/2014 - Based on today's Planeswalker Guide, I wanted to paint a worshiper of Pharika who either uses drugs and poisons to murder others and resurrect herself, or who is rewarded with prolonged life by her god when she poisons someone else.

CCDD 031914—Mnemonic Sorceress

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3/19/2014 - I wanted to use devotion to blue to determine the quality of spell this card nets you.

CCDD 021214—The Corruption and Netherling

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2/12/2014 - Yesterday's Face Eater got me thinking about a zombie shapeshifter, resulting in The Corruption. I noticed how criminally underused this trigger was, so I boiled that part of the concept down into Netherling.

CCDD 120513—Tireless Intruder

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12/5/2013 - For this art, I wanted a spirit soldier that would never stop fighting for you. This is meant to be the aggressive half of a Reassembling Skeleton pair. I definitely want to limit it's ability to working on attacks, since an infinite chump-blocker has already been done.