Weekend Art Challenge 040513—Dragon's Maze

Weekend Art Challenge

Jay is swamped with work this weekend, so I'll be filling in this week.

Click through to see this weekend's art and the design requirements for your card submission, due Monday morning. Remember that you may ask for feedback by mid-day Sunday and redesign your submission after you get it.

CCDD 040413—Trees

Cool Card Design of the Day
4/4/2013 - My biggest complaint with the game of Magic is how often mana screw and mana flood can decide games. Yes, it's important that your mana curve isn't guaranteed and that there's something that can give new players a chance against old players, and to give players a scapegoat for their mistakes. But sometimes it just wastes your time. I want to see less of it, and for that reason, I support including some kind of smoothing mechanic in most if not every set.

Cycling is the cleanest mechanic for this and today's card is meant to explore the question,
What if cycling was free sometimes?

CCDD 040313—Lightning Wake

Cool Card Design of the Day
4/3/2013 - My day disappeared again so instead of jabbering on, I'll leave this as an exercise for the reader. This card seems pretty busted. How would you improve it?

Ankh-Theb: The Restless Dead

HV: This pitch is by Antny.  Here are the pitches from rounds one, two, and three.

What are the major mechanical themes in the set according to your vision?

Mummify (all), Monuments (W/B ), River Flooding (U/G ), Proliferate

(all ), Vandalise(R )

CCDD 040213—Fiery Likeness

Cool Card Design of the Day
4/2/2013 - It's been a nasty day at work, so I'll put something cool and self explanatory here today.

Frontier: Fall of the Eldrazi

HV: This pitch is by Antny. Here are the pitches from rounds one, two, and three.

What are the major mechanical themes in the set according to your vision?

Large creatures (not just Eldrazi), supported by dig, gold counters and hideaways.
Bounty, wither, annihilator, protection from colorless/all colors.

Weekend Art Challenge Review 032913—Maze Champion

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