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 030821 - Headmistress Greag

Inspired by the teaser for Strixhaven, here's a charming commander.

CCDD 080718 - Guild Recruitment

I don't know if I made this quite clear yet, but I'm super pumped to be spending a whole year on Ravnica. I was revisiting my dusty old thread about what I would do if I was in charge of designing Ravnica 3, and one of the themes I wanted to explore was being recruited into a guild.

CCDD 030718 - Sriracha, Seeker of Balance

At this point, I've locked in my card types to each guild, at least for now. My Simic card had to be a creature, which is probably the easiest type to design for. I had a rare slot open, and I wanted something that would make a splash.

CCDD 02132018 - DFC Evolution

KingRitz's submission over the weekend had me thinking about DFCs that could just straight-up be cast on either side.

Suvnica Week 14 Review, Part 1: Living in the Future (Kismi Keywords)

Kismi proved to be one of the more challenging guilds to design keywords for. Because so much of their identity is tied up in predicting the future, and because translating that into game mechanics leads to either very cumbersome rules text or unfun methods of playing, it was tricky to find a keyword that hit that sweet spot of fun, grokable, flavorful, NWO-friendly rules. Still, we came up with a number of really strong efforts here. Let's see what everyone had to say about our fortune-tellers.

Designing Suvnica, Week 14: Present Tense

Here we are -- the last week of keyword design challenges. I'll probably be taking a week or two off after this to figure out where we're going next with Suvnica (and to catch up on card reviews -- I know I'm a few weeks behind). Let's wrap up this stage and dive into Kismi and Sorba.

Suvnica Guild Profile: The Kismi

(This is part of a series of documents that are meant to provide snapshots of each of the guilds. These documents will probably be updated with some regularity. They are meant to provide a starting reference point when developing new cards and ideas for the guilds.)

{G}{U} The Kismi

Fate has a very prominent role on Suvnica, and no group is more immersed in tapping into the signals fate broadcasts and interpreting them than the Kismi.

Suvnica Week 5 Review, Part 2: Life and Taxonomy (Simic)

Here we are. The last of our guild revisions. One of the things that inspired me to start the Suvnica project in the first place was this weekend art challenge. I designed an Izzet artifact and thought it would be cool to fill out a cycle of artifacts for the guilds in DGM, and the concept I came up with initially for Simic was very {G}{U} but not at all consistent with Simic's flavor. That initially got me thinking about guilds with different creative identities, and over 230 cards later, here we are. So let's rethink what it means to be a Simic on Suvnica.

Designing Suvnica, Week 5: Blood on the Streets, Oil in the Heart

Happy Memorial Day to all those who celebrate it! Throw a burger on the grill and grab a soda from the fridge, cause we're wrapping up the first wave of Suvnica design this week. Let's take a look at Rakdos and Simic.

CCDD 102212—Thrashing Crabat

Cool Card Design of the Day
10/22/2012 - I made this card in September before Ravnica was fully spoiled. At the time, it was a black-green mutant horror, based purely on the art. Before sharing it I thought I'd update it as if it were going to be in this block, in which case I wanted it to fit in the future multicolor-matters deck alongside Lobber Crew and Pyroconvergence.