Weekend Art Challenge 102513 Review—tamerr

Weekend Art Challenge Review
Here's the challenge we're reviewing today.

Weekend Art Challenge 102513—tamerr

Weekend Art Challenge
Click through to see this weekend's art and the design requirements for your card submission, due Monday morning. Every submission warrants feedback, which I will try to provide, and which everyone is welcome to provide as well.

If you choose, you may use that feedback to revise your submission any number of times. I will post and review the most recent submission from each designer some time on Monday, life permitting. To help ensure I recreate your design accurately, please use CARDNAME instead of ~ in your submissions.

CCDD 102413—Identity Thief

Cool Card Design of the Day
10/24/2013 - Identity Thief is just a Mind Control that's countered by Essence Scatter instead of Negate. And is an awesome shapeshifter, that also copies its target's ETB and LTB effects. And when you Doom Blade it, you get your creature back.

Designing for Low-Skill Players: Subtle Rightness

One tendency of LSPs that I find particularly surprising and unintuitive is that they don't read cards.

Oh, they'll glance at them and get a feeling for what the card does. But they won't internalize the rules text; instead, they'll form a vague mental impression of the card's effect ("big dragon", "mana elf", or "lightning bolt") and only call to mind the actual text when it becomes relevant. In short, they evaluate cards by feeling as well as mechanics. This tendency is shared by many HSPs as well, but it shows up far more at lower skill levels.

CCDD 102313—Unwanted

Cool Card Design of the Day
10/23/2013 - These cards are silver-bordered not because they're silly, but because they're not printable for tournament Magic. They utilize your opponent's sideboard, which is not public information in a tournament, and isn't even a defined game term outside of tournament rules and Jester's Sombrero. Take a look.

CCDD 102213—Sudden Monstrosity

Cool Card Design of the Day
10/22/2013 - I debated whether to make this an X spell that put any number of counters on a creature or just cost {G}{G} and only ever give one. Ultimately, the non-counter portion of it makes it weird enough to be uncommon and X (which all but requires uncommon rarity) gives the card three substantially different uses.

Weekend Art Challenge Review 101813—batatalion

Weekend Art Challenge Review
Here's the challenge we're reviewing today.
My only direction was "Discover an ancient world."