Weekend Art Challenge 080715—Unused Origins Art

Weekend Art Challenge
Greetings, artisans! Click through to see this weekend's art and the design requirements for your single card submission, due Monday morning. Every submission warrants feedback, and everyone is encouraged to give feedback. You may use that feedback to revise your submission any number of times, though only the version rendered will be included in the review, if someone volunteers to render the cards.

Zeffrikommons, Part 3: Cyclical Behavior

In the Modern Orthodox Jewish synagogues I attend, during Rosh Hashanah prayers, someone stands next to the person leading the prayers and, at specific times during the services, sounds a shofar. A shofar is a hollowed-out ram's horn akin to a single-note trumpet. It is used briefly at various points during the primary services on Rosh Hashanah, but at the end of the services, a long series of note-patterns is sounded, roughly equal in length to all the other times the shofar was sounded earlier in the services.

CCDD 080515—Splice

Cool Card Design of the Day
8/5/2015 - If splice returns, it'll be splice onto sorcery/instant. But getting away from the arcane subtype wasn't the only problem with splice. Another deal-breaker is that adding an effect to a card (as opposed to simply triggering the effect) serves no purpose despite bearing a high cost to complexity. So for splice to return, the cards that use it will have to make the fact that we're adding this text to that spell relevant. Evermind is the only existing splice spell that does this. Here are all the other angles of attack I thought of.

CCDD 080515—Master

Cool Card Design of the Day
8/5/2015 - What if there were a set of spells that you learned from, that let you experiment with different combinations of spell effects, like a scientist?

Master is splice-onto-instants/sorceries from graveyard instead of hand (minus the meaningless text grafting). A modular form of improve. Each of these cards in your gy becomes an optional kicker effect for new spells you cast.

Weekend Art Challenge Review 073115—zimzibar

Weekend Art Challenge Review
Design a card for this art. Try to make a new tribal mechanic that does not affect power or toughness.

Zeffrikomons, Part 2: White Creatures and Spells

Hi Artisans. I'm still doing a bunch of Zeffrikar work behind the scenes, and I'm hoping to have the final list of skeleton commons ready to go before Battle for Zendikar spoiler season really starts. I haven't had a lot of time to write up much as far as the development goes, but I have most of my common pool completed, except for a few segments I wanted to write about separately. This week I'll be starting to piece together the skeleton for the white commons. Today I'm posting the white cards I have so far, and I'll follow up with some other materials and exercises I want to consider before the design skeleton starts in earnest.

CCDD 080315—Irrefutable Request

Cool Card Design of the Day
8/3/2015 - Using Miming Slime tech to differentiate black's kill-and-reanimate from blue's Mind Control. Also making an expensive piece of removal that will still excite players, at least in Limited.