Weekend Design Challenge 072817—Ixalan

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Weekend Design Challenge 051217—Hour of Devastation mechanics

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Weekend Design Challenge 050517—God-Pharaoh's Gift

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Weekend [Art] Challenge 110813—Born of the Gods

Weekend Art Challenge
Click through to see this weekend's design challenge. Your card submission is due Monday morning. Every submission warrants feedback, which I will try to provide, and which everyone is encouraged to provide as well. You may use that feedback to revise your submission any number of times. There will be no separate review posted, the feedback and dialog that occurs in the comments below is the review.

CCDD 041811—Azax-Azog, The Demon Thane

Cool Card Design of the Day
4/18/2011 - I love designing Demons because they almost always deliver a devastating or efficient monster at some kind of twisted cost. Designers love tension, often to our own detriment—it's very easy to go overboard. But what's really fun about designing Demons is the cleverness it takes to make a good drawback. Y'know, the kind that a proper black mage will have little trouble turning into a positive.

Azax-Azog was described on the mothership last week and this art was nearby. While I'm certain that a number of the thanes described were accompanied by unrelated art, I'm of the impression this art was for Azax-Azog. Behold:

CCDD 041411—Creepy Puppet Stare, Glissa's Minions & Giz, Corrupter General

Cool Card Design of the Day
4/14/2011 - I strongly suspect that the latest Mirrodin block is not done waxing nostalgic about the original Mirrodin block. The question is, will they reprint Solemn Simulacrum? No, sigh. Will they infect some good old cards? Infect Bringers, pass. Will they bring back a Mirrodin mechanic? I hope so. Will it be Affinity?

CCDD 041311—Crust-Stalker, Sylvok Chromeslut & Karn is all, "WTF?!"

Cool Card Design of the Day
4/13/2011 - Art spoilers are pure gold for speculators and designers. Yesterday's was no different and I was a bit more pleased with my output from it than the one last week, so I'll be sharing several cards with you today and tomorrow. Today, the "normal" ones...