Weekend Design Challenge 122917—Preview Week

Click through to see the requirements for your design test, due Monday morning. Every submission warrants feedback, which you may use to revise your submission any number of times. I will aim to review the most recent submission from each designer.

Choose a Magic set no one else has claimed (and claim it in the comments before you begin work, because it'll take a bit and you could get scooped). Then select ten cards from that set for each of the daily features from the mothership circa 2010.

Multiple Choice Magic Design Question of the Day 9

9) Assuming the next four expansion sets will each feature one of these direct damage cards in the common shock variant slot, which two are least likely to see print?

Magma Jet, Scattershot, Pyromatics,
Blaze, Gut Shot, Erratic Explosion

 a) Magma Jet and Erratic Explosion
 b) Scattershot and Pyromatics
 c) Blaze and Gut Shot
 d) Magma Jet and Scattershot
 e) Scattershot and Erratic Explosion

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Multiple Choice Magic Design Question of the Day 7 & 8

7) Which of the following timeshifted Planer Chaos cards is least likely to be reprinted in a new expansion set?
 a) Malach of the Dawn
 b) Kor Dirge
 c) Harmonize
 d) Blood Knight
 e) Merfolk Thaumaturgist

8) Which of the above is most likely to be reprinted in a new expansion set?

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Multiple Choice Magic Design Question of the Day 6

6) Which of the following is the best way to achieve resonance on a single card?
 a) Use keywords and ability words to define its features.
 b) Prove the rule by finding an exception to it.
 c) Demonstrate as much that's true about the concept as possible.
 d) Show the concept in contrast with its opposite.
 e) Demonstrate one unique thing that's true about the concept.

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CCDD 122517—Rudolph the Red-Nosed & Santa Claus

Cool Card Design of the Day
12/25/2017 - Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays, my friends!

Weekend Art Challenge 122217—feliciacano & rainerpetterart

Click through to see the illustration and design requirements for your single  card submission, due Monday morning. Every submission warrants feedback, which you may use to revise your submission any number of times. I will aim to review the most recent submission from each designer.

Multiple Choice Magic Design Question of the Day 5

5) How many of these abilities can be countered with Stifle?

Flying

Bushido 1

Cascade

Dredge 3

Conspire 

Cycling

Using a face-down creature's morph ability to turn it face-up.

[Mana]: CARDNAME gets +2/+2 until end of turn. Activate this ability only once per turn.

CARDNAME's power and toughness are each equal to the number of cards in your hand.

If a source you control would deal damage to a permanent or player, it deals double that damage to that permanent or player instead. 

CARDNAME gets +1/+1 as long as you control another black creature.

{T}: Add {C} to your mana pool.

If an opponent would draw two or more cards, instead you and that player each draw a card.

You may have CARDNAME enter the battlefield as a copy of any creature on the battlefield.

You may discard a Plains card rather than pay CARDNAME's mana cost.

 a) 4
 b) 5
 c) 6
 d) 7
 e) 8

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