CCDD 050620 - Press the Advantage

Today's card isn't too fascinating; I was just happy to find a nice clean design that's never been printed. Eliminate the Competition is a (mostly) strictly better effect for more mana, but this version makes the choice of X more interesting.

CCDD 103018—Land of Memories

Cool Card Design of the Day
Lands that sacrifice to do something are of great utility, cycling from play when you no longer need so much mana, and providing something of use. They also tend to be a touch dangerous or wicked expensive. This one's free, limited in power, but still useful.

CCDD 071718—Cruel Master

Cool Card Design of the Day
I took a design test (for a non-Wizards company) today, and here's one of the cards I didn't submit.

CCDD 032717—Barter in Bone

Cool Card Design of the Day
1/25/2017 - I'm postponing the Weekend Art Challenge Review a day because I'm sick and my brain not work good. Here's something I made when it did.

Tesla: Archetype Cast

Hi everybody! Work over at the Tesla Multiverse continues, as we finalize the members of each archetype and solidify the common skeleton in preparation for commons-playtesting and the higher rarities. Last week, we discussed the types of archetypes and the roles they serve - this week, we'll be discussing the types of cards in an archetype, and how this helps us design commons!

CCDD 021016—Serve Me or Die

Cool Card Design of the Day
2/10/2016 - mtgdesignprompts on Tumblr posted "Design a card with a 'threaten' effect, like Browbeat. Bonus points if it's not red."

I made this.

CCDD 062415—Unnatural Order

Cool Card Design of the Day
6/24/2015 - I was designing around black tutors that require sacrifice and came up with this card's text before seeing the connection to Natural Order. Would've priced it {1}{B}{B} otherwise.

CCDD 050715—Deplete

Cool Card Design of the Day
5/7/2015 - Why not make the cycles-from-play mechanic MaRo hinted at so many years ago a formal keyword?

CCDD 031115—Hungry Wyrm (Feed)

Cool Card Design of the Day
3/11/2015 - Every time they reprint Dragon Fodder, I want to make a mechanic like devour, but better. It's entirely debatable whether feed is better, but let's take a look anyhow.

CCDD 012314—Sever Ties

Cool Card Design of the Day
1/23/2014 - In his article today, Jacob Van Lunen wrote "Being able to interact with the opponent's board on the same turn we clear out his or her hand is almost always going to result in victory." I didn't want to mess with "Discard X and sacrifice X" but I did want to explore in the space of potentially killing cards in play as well as in hand.

CCDD 072513—Coward's Toll

Cool Card Design of the Day
7/25/2013 - I'm posting this late because the day was insane, but late is better than never. Coward's Toll lies somewhere between Murder and Cruel Edict in power level. Granted neither of those spells can kill multiple creatures, but if that's what's happening when you play Coward's Toll, it's because you'd much rather it just killed the one creature that's really causing you headaches.