CCDD 011514—Hunter's Grapple & Track with the Tribe

Cool Card Design of the Day
1/15/2014 - I had to stop myself from making a single card out of these to Prey Upon variants. The original idea was Hunter's Grapple, that tapping the creature that's fighting seems like a reasonable cost. But when I first made that, I needed a way to make the card better and found the art for Track with the Tribe which led to the idea of a group hunt as seen on that card. Fortunately I realized at the last moment that tapping didn't help the group flavor and vice-versa, so I broke them apart.

CCDD 011414—Incant, Predict, Ritual & Sow

Cool Card Design of the Day
1/14/2014 - Suspend is a neat mechanic. Trading mana for time is really interesting and many of the best suspend cards really play that choice up, and even add suspense to what will happen when/if they resolve.

Trouble is, writing out what's relatively easy to describe results in a whole lot of awkward rules text. That we need counters to track our progress isn't exactly a bonus, either. If you simplify it to suspend 1, you can clean it up a lot. Here are three different executions that started from that idea.

A Set in Four Cards: Galdreth

Yudra Inquisitor (Uncommon)

{W}{B}{R}

Creature - Human Cleric

Vengeful - Whenever you cast a spell that targets an opponent or a creature an opponent controls, CARDNAME deals 2 damage to that opponent and you gain 2 life.

1/4

Avrem Fief (Common)

{T}: Add {1} to your mana pool.

{T}, Sacrifice CARDNAME: Search your library for a basic Island, Mountain, or Forest card and put it onto the battlefield tapped. Then shuffle your library.

Mosi Taskmage (Uncommon)

{R}{WU}

Creature - Human Wizard

{2}{R}: Attacking creatures you control get +1/+0 until end of turn.

{2}{WU}: Tap target creature.

2/2

Krin Redeemer (Common)

{3}{G}

Creature - Centaur Shaman

Soulspin - When CARDNAME enters the battlefield, you may exile a creature card from your graveyard. If you do, put two +1/+1 counters on CARDNAME.

3/3

Weekend [Art] Challenge Review 011014—Sturmkraft

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

Weekend [Art] Challenge 011014—Sturmkraft

Weekend Art Challenge
Click through to see this weekend's design challenge. Your final submission is due by 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. If and only if you provide a direct link to art for your submission, and the artist's name, will I mock it up and include it in a follow-up review.

CCDD 010914—Slippery Slope

Cool Card Design of the Day
1/9/2014 - I don't remember why I kept this card out of the Weekend Art Challenge that spawned it, perhaps I was just happier with my other submission.

CCDD 010814—Scavenger of the Damned

Cool Card Design of the Day
1/8/2014 - This was the first idea I had for last weekend's art challenge, but it just didn't fit the art at all. For a brief while, the second ability put the card on top of your library, but I didn't want to be able to recur the same creature turn after turn. This is a more challenging puzzle.