Spotlight Challenge 3—Devin E. Green

This fortnight, Devin is going to take lead on this challenge:

Design six cards that inject a clear flavor-identity into a returning mechanic—either by adding flavor where there is none (ala cycling), or by re-branding a returning mechanic (ala chroma and devotion). Include at least two commons, one uncommon, and one rare or mythic. Include at least two colors.

Weekend Art Challenge 012916—Colorless

Weekend Art Challenge
Greetings, artisans! Anastase here, bringing another guest WAC. 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.

Based on the work of Ipaulsen during his spotlight challenge, I came to wonder about the differentiation between generic ({1}) and colorless ({C}) mana. Therefore this week I suggest we dig in that design space!

Goblin Game 2016!

OK Artisans. We're careening towards the end of Goblin Week 2016, and before it closes I wanted to do another round of last year's Goblin Game. Like last year, it will be run on twitter, starting shortly after this is posted. Come check it out and let's make an army of Goblins!

CCDD 012816—Tandem Betrayal

Cool Card Design of the Day
1/28/2016 - Yesterday, there was a complex rare that built off of a relatively simple variation on Act of Treason. Today, I'd like to strip off that added complexity so that we can enjoy the variation on its own.

CCDD 012716—Impress

Cool Card Design of the Day
1/27/2016 - Impress is the exact opposite of idea of Forget. It's potentially un-develop-able, but easily neat enough to warrant exploration.

Spotlight Challenge 2 Final Review—lpaulsen

Here's the challenge lpaulsen took lead on:

Come up with a new kind of mana cost or iterate on an existing one, and design 5 commons and 5 non-commons that demonstrate its value.

Here's the initial submission.

Let's take a look at the final submission.

Weekend Art Challenge Review 012216—Knights

Weekend Art Challenge Review
Hello all! Anastase here. This week's challenge can be found here.

First of all I want to thank Jay for letting me run these. It does help you evaluate card design a lot and I have been enjoying them greatly. I love doing them and have more ready to go, but I would love to hear some input on the WAC format. I also guess that others might be interesting in doing them, as it is an interesting experience.

Now, some ramblings about the challenge. I was blown away by the participation and the research done. I really hoped for some discussion on what being a knight means, and seeing designs that are trying to represent what a knight of each color would consider important. Special cudos to Jay and Bradley for their analysis in the comments and on a whole blog post!

Iconic creatures deserve to have an in-depth analysis of what makes them tick, and I hope we get to discuss more about them in the future.

So without further ado, on to the cards: