MTG - You Make The Card VIII: Escape - Exile 7 MTG topics to create this thread

[Quiddle]

Reflection 1U
<A wizard looks somberly into a mirror while magic bounces off of it>
Enchantment R
Whenever your opponent casts a spell you may reveal a card with the same name from your sideboard. If you do place that card in your hand then counter that spell.
When you know yourself you can defeat yourself.

[mystic1110]

Girl with the Pearl Earing 2W
Creature - Human Townsfolk R
When Girl with the Pearl Earing enters the battlefield create a Treasure Token and Investigate.
As long as you control a Treasure Token, you have hexproof.
As long as you control a Clue Token, prevent all damage that would be dealt to you.
"Don't you just want to lay down your arms and paint her mysteries?"
0/1

[Dr.Gunsforhands]

Spoiler: I started questioning the wisdom of making too many token land copies

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Prolific Cartographer - 3G
Creature - Elf Scout U
Vigilance
When Prolific Cartographer enters the battlefield, create a token that's a copy of target land you control.
3/2

Unbroken Stroke - XU
A hand is drawing a long line with a paintbrush connected to a little hose. In the background, a construct seems to be pouring paint into whichever vat the hose draws from.
Instant - R
Choose a color. Reveal cards from the top of your library until you reveal X cards or you reveal a card that's not the chosen color, whichever occurs first. Put all cards revealed this way into your hand.

[mythmonster2]

Apologies for the delay, I'll give 24 hours for submissions before giving judgment.

Edit: Submissions are now closed, judgment will come later today.

[mythmonster2]

Spoiler: ben-zayb: Lorehold Curator

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Lorehold Curator WW
Creature - Human Noble U
1W: Create Exhibit, a colorless artifact token with "At the beginning of your upkeep, gain 1 life." Then, exile target sorcery or instant card in a graveyard with that artifact.
"'Reflection' is a celebration of Veyran's humble roots and features twenty of the Prismari master's most renowned works from her Monoblue Period." -Gavion, Lorehold Curator
2/2

Flavor here is nice. Rules-wise, I'm not sure that "exile X with that artifact" would work, and it'd be simpler to just have the Curator exile the card instead. As for power, this would be really good in lifegain decks, since they often want lots of small triggers of lifegain, plus you can start stacking the Exhibits quite quickly to shut down aggro. Maybe make it so you have to exile a card to be able to get the exhibit, so that there's a limit on how many you can make.

Spoiler: Quiddle: Reflection

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Reflection 1U
<A wizard looks somberly into a mirror while magic bounces off of it>
Enchantment R
Whenever your opponent casts a spell you may reveal a card with the same name from your sideboard. If you do place that card in your hand then counter that spell.
When you know yourself you can defeat yourself.

So, on its own, it's a do-nothing card, and it works best against a mirror match. However, I think the play pattern of this is going to un-fun enough that it wouldn't be a good idea to print it. Either your sideboard doesn't match up and it's useless, or your sideboard matches up perfectly and you get multiple counterspells and draws for only 2 mana.

Spoiler: mystic1110: Girl With the Pearl Earring

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Girl with the Pearl Earing 2W
Creature - Human Townsfolk R
When Girl with the Pearl Earing enters the battlefield create a Treasure Token and Investigate.
As long as you control a Treasure Token, you have hexproof.
As long as you control a Clue Token, prevent all damage that would be dealt to you.
"Don't you just want to lay down your arms and paint her mysteries?"
0/1

This feels way too close to a 3 mana Platinum Angel to me. Saddle this up with Protection, Hexproof, or Indestructibility, don't use up the Clue token, and most ways of you losing the game are gone. Even if it does get insta-killed, you still get benefit from the tokens, and this is an amazing blink target.

Spoiler: Dr.Gunsforhands: Unbroken Stroke

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Unbroken Stroke - XU
A hand is drawing a long line with a paintbrush connected to a little hose. In the background, a construct seems to be pouring paint into whichever vat the hose draws from.
Instant - R
Choose a color. Reveal cards from the top of your library until you reveal X cards or you reveal a card that's not the chosen color, whichever occurs first. Put all cards revealed this way into your hand.

This would be a really good draw spell, if it wasn't hampered by the fact that lands are colorless, which means that often you'll only be drawing 2-4 cards no matter how much you put into X. On the other hand, without that drawback, it'd be quite busted since you could just name a color that's not in your deck and it'd be a better Blue Sun's Zenith. I can't really think of a good way to balance it properly.

Spoiler: And the winner is...

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ben-zayb, with Lorehold Curator!

[ben-zayb]

@mythmonster2: Thanks! My templating was clunky, but it was meant to only activate if there's a target instant/sorcery card to exile from a graveyard.



For this next challenge, Jin-Gitaxias tasked you to research and make a phyrexian version of an existing non-creature* permanent. Lands, artifacts, enchantments, and even planeswalkers are all fair game!

*it can't have an ability that let's it become a creature

[Dr.Gunsforhands]

Spoiler: Probably the better entry but the Mox feels more interesting to talk about

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Phyrexian Plateau
This card's cool art is always hidden behind its huge price tag.
Land - Mountain Plains R
(T: Add R or W)
Whenever Phyrexian Plateau is tapped for mana, you get a poison counter. (A player with ten or more poison counters loses the game.)

Spoiler: Cycle Shenanigans

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A problem arises for the cards in this cycle that were two words to begin with. "Phyrexian Volcanic Island," feels like a mouthful, for example. So, those members of the new cycle would have their names shortened:

Volcanic Island -> Phyrexian Seamount
Tropical Island -> Phyrexian Key
Underground Sea -> Phyrexian Well

Norn's Mox - (w/p)(w/p)(w/p)
Artifact - MR
T, pay 2 life: Add W

[Necroticplague]

Mycosynth-Laced Furnace
Legendary Artifact Mountain Land-M
T:Add C. If this mana is used to cast an artifact or phyrexian spell, it enters the battlefield with an infect counter.

[Quiddle]

Perfection of the Fittest 2(g/p)
Enchantment R
Pay 2 life, G, Discard a creature card: Search you library for an artifact card that has the same mana value as the discarded creature. Put it into your hand then shuffle your library.

Spoiler: oops not a permanent

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Perfecting Salve (W/P)
Instant C
Gain 3 life or prevent the next three damage that would be dealt to target permanent this turn.
If you control 3 or more artifacts draw a card.
Healers hands can only do so much. Send them to the artificers.




so it costs W or 2 life

[mystic1110]

March of the Germs 3(B/P)
Enchantment
Each Equipment has Living Weapon.

[Tom the Mime]

Phyrexian Wellspring
Land R
~ enters the battlefield tapped
T: Add 1
(1/p)(1/p), T: Add 2 mana of any colour to your mana pool.

Genetic phyrexian mana doesn't exist now as far as I'm aware but it shouldn't be an issue. Bit of a mana fixer but also allows you to ramp a little if you pay through the nose.

[ben-zayb]

Everyone has 24 hours to make any last-minute (or last-24hour) submissions or changes.

[ben-zayb]

Spoiler: Dr.Gunsforhands - Norn's Mox

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Norn's Mox - (w/p)(w/p)(w/p)
Artifact - MR
T, pay 2 life: Add W

I agree that the dual-lands are overall better designed. The concept of a Phyrexian Mox is intriguing. That said, Phyrexian mana is supposed to make both choices reasonable and I don't see a lot of realistic scenarios where I'd pay WWW over 6 life to get a W rock. Not to mention it's also in white, where life costs can be easier to regain anyway.

Spoiler: Necroticplague - Mycosynth-Laced Furnace

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Mycosynth-Laced Furnace
Legendary Artifact Mountain Land-M
T:Add C. If this mana is used to cast an artifact or phyrexian spell, it enters the battlefield with an infect counter.

I'm not quite sure how to rate this card based on its ability, as that would ultimately depend on what "infect counters" do in the set it's in. Are they supposed to be beneficial, or do they give drawbacks?

Spoiler: Quiddle - Perfection of the Fittest

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Perfection of the Fittest 2(g/p)
Enchantment R
Pay 2 life, G, Discard a creature card: Search you library for an artifact card that has the same mana value as the discarded creature. Put it into your hand then shuffle your library.

I think green gets enough cards that bend or break its color pie, and I'm not sure we really need to add artifact tutor to that list. Survival of the Fittest's Phyrexian equivalent may be better either as a color-shifted version (perfection as a concept can work off blue or white too) or as tutor for a Phyrexian creature instead of an artifact.

Perfecting Salve has a cleaner and a more interesting design to me.

Spoiler: mystic1110 - March of the Germs

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March of the Germs 3(B/P)
Enchantment
Each Equipment has Living Weapon.

Interesting take on Karn's Touch March of the Machines. It lacks rarity, but I guess it's also a rare?

It's a fun addition in Modern decks with Colossus Hammer type of shenanigans. I'd consider adding a "Germs you control get +1/+1" to make it a more viable for Equipments that don't pump P/T, which is commonplace in Standard.

Spoiler: Tom the Mime - Phyrexian Wellspring

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Phyrexian Wellspring
Land R
~ enters the battlefield tapped
T: Add 1
(1/p)(1/p), T: Add 2 mana of any colour to your mana pool.

It does plenty of things that range from okay to good as their own land card; either a really painful ramp for any single color, a souped-up painland with a bit of extra cost (1 generic + 2 life for 2 colored mana), or a straight-up mana fixer. All of those in a single land, though, may be a little too good.

Spoiler: Runner-up

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Tom the Mime with Phyrexian Wellspring

Spoiler: Winner

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mystic1110 with March of the Germs

[mystic1110]

Thank you!

Next challenge - make a card inspired by the Illuminati!

[Tom the Mime]

In hindsight, the wellspring would've been better without the tap for generic to drop the utility in forcing you to at least 2 life to get any net mana from it.

Secret Funds
Conspiracy U
Hidden agenda (Start the game with this conspiracy face down in the command zone and secretly name a card. You may turn this conspiracy face up any time and reveal the chosen name.)
Whenever you cast a spell with the chosen name, create a treasure token.

Because what other type and subtype would you choose for an Illuminati card.

[Quiddle]

Deep Cover UU
Enchantment - Aura R
Enchant creature you don't own.
When Deep Cover enters the battlefield exile a card from your hand facedown then draw a card.
When enchanted creature does combat damage to a player its owner sacrifices it then if the card exiled with Deep Cover is a creature you may put it onto the battlefield under its owner's control.

[Bucky]

Double Agency 1UR
Enchantment - Aura U
Enchant Creature

You control enchanted creature during your turn.

Enchanted creature has Haste.

[Dr.Gunsforhands]

Architect of Inequity - 1WB
Creature - Vampire R
Each other creature you control enters the battlefield with an additional +1/+1 counter on it.
Each creature you don't control enters the battlefield with an additional -1/-1 counter on it.
3/3

[ben-zayb]

Secret Society Journeyman UR
Creature - Goblin Rogue U
T: Tap target creature. It doesn't untap during its controller's next untap unless they have you create a Treasure token.
"It's not a fee—it's your, uh, tribute of acceptance. Listen, if you turn to page 5, it states our Old-Throne Order actually orchestrated the Brother's War and..."
2/2

[Misothene]

Scheming Pyramid 1GW
Artifact Creature- Construct Advisor R
Whenever another creature enters the battlefield under your control, put a brick counter on Scheming Pyramid.
Other creatures you control get +1/+1 for every three brick counters on Scheming Pyramid.
As long as Scheming Pyramid has three or more brick counters on it, it has lifelink and vigilance.
As long as Scheming Pyramid has nine or more brick counters on it, it gets +6/+6 and has trample.
3/3

[mystic1110]

Judging later tonight/tomorrow.

[mystic1110]

Spoiler: Misonthene

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Scheming Pyramid 1GW
Artifact Creature- Construct Advisor R
Whenever another creature enters the battlefield under your control, put a brick counter on Scheming Pyramid.
Other creatures you control get +1/+1 for every three brick counters on Scheming Pyramid.
As long as Scheming Pyramid has three or more brick counters on it, it has lifelink and vigilance.
As long as Scheming Pyramid has nine or more brick counters on it, it gets +6/+6 and has trample.
3/3

I like it but sort of feel like it should have been weirder - that said it's an interesting mix of vertical and horizontal growth on one creature.

Spoiler: Ben-Zayb

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Secret Society Journeyman UR
Creature - Goblin Rogue U
T: Tap target creature. It doesn't untap during its controller's next untap unless they have you create a Treasure token.
"It's not a fee—it's your, uh, tribute of acceptance. Listen, if you turn to page 5, it states our Old-Throne Order actually orchestrated the Brother's War and..."
2/2

I really like this tax concept - it's fairly clever and sort of justifies the red as the treasure creation color.

Spoiler: Dr.Gundsforhands

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Architect of Inequity - 1WB
Creature - Vampire R
Each other creature you control enters the battlefield with an additional +1/+1 counter on it.
Each creature you don't control enters the battlefield with an additional -1/-1 counter on it.
3/3

This is a card I can see in a masters set, but generally wizards avoids using both +1 and -1 counters in the same set, that said even if they do, this is a powerful card much cheaper than Elesh Norn which is essentially double this effect.

Spoiler: Bucky

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Double Agency 1UR
Enchantment - Aura U
Enchant Creature

You control enchanted creature during your turn.

Enchanted creature has Haste.

This is an interesting mix on control magic - each player gets to attack with the creature each turn. It's more like a recurring act of treason or the like. I think it should probably be a rare, but otherwise looks great!

Spoiler: Quiddle

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Deep Cover UU
Enchantment - Aura R
Enchant creature you don't own.
When Deep Cover enters the battlefield exile a card from your hand facedown then draw a card.
When enchanted creature does combat damage to a player its owner sacrifices it then if the card exiled with Deep Cover is a creature you may put it onto the battlefield under its owner's control.

I like this a lot - it's essentially a "do not attack unless you want me to get a free fatty" - I think it's appropriately costed as you can probably combine this with Goad and force an attack. Very Nice!

Spoiler: Tom the Mine

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In hindsight, the wellspring would've been better without the tap for generic to drop the utility in forcing you to at least 2 life to get any net mana from it.

Secret Funds
Conspiracy U
Hidden agenda (Start the game with this conspiracy face down in the command zone and secretly name a card. You may turn this conspiracy face up any time and reveal the chosen name.)
Whenever you cast a spell with the chosen name, create a treasure token.

Because what other type and subtype would you choose for an Illuminati card.

Honestly, I have a hard time understanding the balance of Conspiracies as I don't ever play that format, but it seems fine, although I would guess a bit weak? Sorry again - i'm out of my depth here.

Spoiler: Winner

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Between Quiddle and Ben-Zayb for me, but . . Quiddle manages to win with Deep Cover

[Quiddle]

Thanks mystic!


make a non-black card that depicts a graveyard or something happening in a graveyard

[Bucky]

Grave Vines G
(Illustration, featuring white-flowering vines climbing a sepulcher)
Creature - Plant Wall U
Defender (Grave Vines can't attack)
At the beginning of your upkeep, put target creature card in a graveyard on the bottom of its owner's library. If you do, put a +1/+1 counter on Grave Vines.
0/2

[Dr.Gunsforhands]

Hungry Shadowland
(In this setting, a Shadowland is an area of the material realm that is temporarily coterminous with the realm of the underworld. It is prowled by the twisted half-souls known as hungry ghosts, and is assuredly very spooky.)
Land - Swamp R (Canadian Highlander Masters)
Whenever Hungry Shadowland is tapped for mana, sacrifice a creature.
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Edit: True talk, I totally missed that this round was supposed to be a non-black card, yet it seems that I accidentally met the condition anyway.

[mystic1110]

Cemetery Parrots G
Creature - Bird (U)
Flying
T: Choose a color of a card in your graveyard. Add one mana of that color.
0/1

[Misothene]

Survivor's Guilt W
Enchantment- Aura C
Enchant creature
Morbid- You may cast Survivor's Guilt only if a creature died this turn.
Enchanted creature can't attack or block.

[ben-zayb]

Crocodile Tears 1WU
Enchnatment - Aura Curse R
Enchant player
If a creature dying would cause a triggered ability of a permanent enchanted player controls to trigger, they draw a card instead.

[Quiddle]

Spoiler: bucky

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Grave Vines G
(Illustration, featuring white-flowering vines climbing a sepulcher)
Creature - Plant Wall U
Defender (Grave Vines can't attack)
At the beginning of your upkeep, put target creature card in a graveyard on the bottom of its owner's library. If you do, put a +1/+1 counter on Grave Vines.
0/2

I like it, cheap and slow graveyard hate that builds a defense as it goes. Seems like a solid uncommon in a set with graveyard shenanigans.

Spoiler: dr gunsforhands

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Hungry Shadowland
(In this setting, a Shadowland is an area of the material realm that is temporarily coterminous with the realm of the underworld. It is prowled by the twisted half-souls known as hungry ghosts, and is assuredly very spooky.)
Land - Swamp R (Canadian Highlander Masters)
Whenever Hungry Shadowland is tapped for mana, sacrifice a creature.

Strictly worse swamp! I think its neat to give a free sac outlet to decks that want it and the fact that this is fetch-able means theres definite consideration for it. Its a little awkward that the trigger isn't part of tapping it and so can be responded to but all in all a fine card.

Spoiler: mystic1110

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Cemetery Parrots G
Creature - Bird (U)
Flying
T: Choose a color of a card in your graveyard. Add one mana of that color.
0/1

Thanks for the link
A grave dependent birds of paradise, works nicely and wont power out 3 mana things on turn 2. Nicely done.

Spoiler: misothene

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Survivor's Guilt W
Enchantment- Aura C
Enchant creature
Morbid- You may cast Survivor's Guilt only if a creature died this turn.
Enchanted creature can't attack or block.

The flavor is pretty sick here and a restricted 1/2 off pacifism is good power level-wise. Only gripe is that if you toss it on the creature that killed your dead creature the flavor fails. Cool card!

Spoiler: ben-zayb

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Crocodile Tears 1WU
Enchnatment - Aura Curse R
Enchant player
If a creature dying would cause a triggered ability of a permanent enchanted player controls to trigger, they draw a card instead.

This is a neat death effect hate. I think its a little weak for 3 being a hate card that doesn't replace itself and doesn't just shut off what its hating on. I guess you could try to build around putting it on yourself but thats a lot of hoops to draw a couple more cards.

Spoiler: Week's Winner

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Bucky!

[Bucky]

Next challenge: Design a Wall.

Must be a creature, must have the "Wall" subtype.