Voting

I will post my votes as a template for you all.

Green

Acrid Leech - Yes

Gaurdvark - Yes

Latchvein canopy - NO

Ooze-rot Fungus - NO

Black

Abrupt mortification - Yes

Iguanid, Burrowing Thrinax - NO

Ulgresian fly - YES

Waning Landscape - NO

Blue

Mist Hunter - NO

Will of the masses - Yes

Blue/Black

Food for my body, Poison for your brain - Yes

Ravenous Eel-mass - NO

B/U/G

Reaping Menace - NO

Other

Ethereal Ooze - YES

suggestions

Acrid Leech - As suggested above

Gaurdvark - change over to spider as described above

Abrupt mortification - as is

Ulgresian fly - i like it as a 0/1 with wither, but any version is cool with me.

Will of the masses - might work better as a B/U/G card

Food for my body, Poison for your brain - needs a new name so desperately

Ethereal Ooze- should be made mono-blue

Green

Acrid Leech - NO Gaurdvark - Yes Latchvein canopy - YES Ooze-rot Fungus - NO

Black

Abrupt mortification - YES Iguanid, Burrowing Thrinax - NO Ulgresian fly - YES Waning Landscape - NO

Blue

Mist Hunter - NO!!! Will of the masses - NO!!!

Blue/Black

Food for my body, Poison for your brain - Yes Ravenous Eel-mass - NO

B/U/G

Reaping Menace - NO

Other

Ethereal Ooze - YES

suggestions

Guardvark- agreed that the type should be changed. Im all for an aardvark card, just not one that kills flyers. Maybe insects that can fly.Latchvein Canopy- agree with designersAbrupt Mortification- I think double black will suffice, still think it is a little OP but tolerable. Ulgresian fly- 1/1 drop deathtouch for wither. I hate both blue cards equally. Etheral Ooze- i like this card but I honestly don't know what suggestions to make. It must have defender, of that I am sure. It is somewhere between Wall of Denial and Guard Gomazoa .

Green

all yes

Black

Abrupt Mortification and Ulgrisian Fly - Yes

Blue Black

Ravenous Eel Mass - Yes

unmentioned = No

Acrid Leech - yes. I like the design team's suggested tweak.

Guardvark - yes. It needs to be a spider.

Latchvein Canopy - no. I like the design team's idea, but I think Ulgris shouldn't have any +1/+1 counters. It has wither and -1/-1 counters instead.

Ooze-rot Fungus - no. It's definitely too complicated to print at common. Also, it's missing its P/T.

Abrupt Mortification - yes. What if it was XB and "Only spend black mana this way"?

Iguanid, Burrowing Thrinax - yes. I like its interactions with Irindu. My problem is with its name; it sounds like a legendary creature. What if it was just Burrowing Thrinax?

Ulgrisian Fly - no. I agree that deathtouch should change to wither, and think the cost would be better as 1B.

Waning Landscape - yes. It should be whenever enchanted land is tapped for mana, not just tapped in general.

Mist Hunter - yes. I like off-color activation cost. I don't like trample, though. What about cutting shroud and making the green activated ability hexproof? Also drop the P/T to 2/3.

Will of the Masses - no. If it is used, I believe it should be GU and "Target player puts the top card of his or her library into his or her graveyard for each creature you control."

Food for my Body, Poison for your Brain - no. The name sucks and the ability seems more appropriate for a rare.

Ravenous Eel-Mass - no. A creature with an ETB effect that makes -1/-1 counters is good, but this has too much going on. It should also be a Fish, not Eel Swarm.Also, it's missing its P/T.

Reaping Menace - yes. Maybe as a 4/2?

Ethereal Ooze - no. Not a fan.

Green

Acrid Leech - Yes-the team suggestion but make first strike vigilance

Gaurdvark - Yes an argument for keeping the name, they eat termites which do fly.)(and we will have allot of insects on this shard)

Latchvein canopy - NO

Ooze-rot Fungus - yes

Black

Abrupt mortification - Yes-no changes

Iguanid, Burrowing Thrinax - NO to complicated at anything but rare

Ulgresian fly - no we kind of already have one squadron hawk variant...and this is almost better.

Waning Landscape - Yes with the teams changes (these kind of cards need to be in the set)

Blue

Mist Hunter - NO

Will of the masses - Yes-make it the amount of creatures you control

Blue/Black

Food for my body, Poison for your brain - no to complicated on uncommon.

Ravenous Eel-mass - yes make it one creature get rid of flash.

B/U/G

Reaping Menace - Yes get rid of flying make it a 3/3

Other

Ethereal Ooze - YES-get rid of the black green slot and make it blue green.

Arid Leech: Yes but make it a 3/3 with wither and vigilance

Guardvark: Yes but make it a spider.

Latchvine Canopy: No. Wizards rarely does -1/-1 counters and +1/+1 counters in the same block and almost never in the same set. No way to make this work.

Ooze Rot Fungus: Yes

Abrupt Mortification: Yes and I think at uncommon its fine as is. Basically a black Fireball .

Ulgrisian Fly: Yes but drop the deathtouch altogether and change its mana cost to 1B. Even then its still really abusable with sac engines and equipment.

Waning Landscape: No, we have enough mass removal in this set.

Mist Hunter: Yes with all the changes suggested by dude1818

Will of the Masses: Yes but change the cost to 1gu

Food for my body, poison for your brain: No. As a repeatable hard to remove effect its to powerful and too complex for anything short of rare.

Ravenous Eel Mass: Yes with a low p/t.

Reaping Menace: No. Deathtouch + Trample on one card should be a rare combo. Also no part of that is blue and I'd like to avoid Alara's chief problem of having multicolored cards that didnt need to be multicolored.

Ethereal Ooze: Yes but add defender and drop the illusion subtype.

Also for Etheral Ooze I support the change from gu to gb.

Oh and for Iguanid, Burrowing Thrinax I vote yes with the proposed changes.

@all I created Iguanid, Burrowing Thrinax originally as a legendary creature (probably forgot to add that in the original) as replacement effects don't stack and it would balance it in a way because that was another way to remove it. However, I propose my own changes if you don't mind?

Creature - Lizard

When Burrowing Thrinax enters the battlefield, you may return target creature card with converted mana cost 3 or less from your graveyard to the battlefield.

At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice a creature.

2/2

Bare in mind, I made this card so it could have synergy with Sprouting Thrinax , his older brother

I think I actually left out the legendary by accident. Sorry about that.

BTW Jarrod, you should put in your votes

I'm sorry this is vague, but a whole lot of these look way too overpowered.

I'm only really interested in Ulgrisian Fly but only if it gets heavily nerfed. At the moment it is a better Squadron Hawk

One suggestion I have is make the player pay life to activate the ability.

EG "when this creature dies, you may pay 2 life. If you do, search your library blah blah blah..."

Nobilior. That is because people designed them as rares but there were not enough slots in rare. These were some that we thoughts could be altered to make uncommons. Not as they are

Ooo okay. :)

Green

Acrid Leech: NO - I might be okay with this if it just had wither and regenerate. With all three, it becomes too powerful in limited. Mono green only gets first strike in extreme cases (and hasn't since Mirri, Cat Warrior in tenth addition), so I don't agree with giving it first strike.

Guardvark: YES - I'm fine with the mechanics, but agree that the flavor needs to be changed. I like the idea of it being a Frog ala Anurid Swarmsnapper . Why do you have to sacrifice it to kill the flyer? Imagine a frog filled with volatile acid that explodes on impact similar to a paddle ball, where the flyer is the paddle, the frog is the ball, and the frog's tongue is the string.

Latchvein Capnopy - NO - As mentioned, +1/+1 counters should avoid -1/-1 counters.

Ooze-Rot Fungus - YES - I think the best way to clean up the rules text here is to take a nod from Rot Wolf : "Whenever a creature dealt damage by Ooze-Rot Fungus this turn dies, put a 1/1 green Ooze token with wither onto the battlefield." Play-wise, it pretty much accomplishes the same thing as the current wording. As for power and toughness, I propose either a 3/3 or a 2/4.

Abrupt Mortification - NO - I think this is better off as a common. It's the opposite side of Thrive , which is common and fills a similar role removal-wise as Heat Ray , which is common.

Burrowing Thrinax - NO - As a draw trigger with a replacement effect, this does feel more like a rare, even with the proposed changes.

Ulgrisian Fly - YES - A Swarm that just won't die screams Ulgris. For uncommon, I think the searched card should go to your hand. Also, I'm in the camp that agrees that deathtouch should be changed to wither.

Waning Landscape - NO - I would like this a lot more if it were more similar to Contaminated Ground (if it had a CMC of 2, but put a -1/-1 counter on one of their creatures instead of having them lose life). However, that would be a common. If it puts them on all creatures they control, I think this would be a rare (despite the cost).

Mist Hunter - YES - A creature that can potentially have both deathtouch and trample excites me. It's one of those cards that makes players who might not know about how those two mechanics interact to ask questions and investigate the rules. I love that. At uncommon though, I would remove shroud and make it a 2/3.

Will of the Masses - YES - I think milling equal to twice your creature count may be too much for a CMC of 1. Either the CMC should increase or the number of cards milled should decrease.

Blue/Black

Food for My Body, Poison for Your Brain - NO - I like the basic thought behind this, but I think there's too much going on here. Maybe if the ability cost one mana, no life, and required cards to be put on the bottom as part of the cost, I would like it better.

Ravenous Eel-Mass - YES - I think this just needs to be toned down a bit. Keep the current CMC, make the ability only trigger upon entering, distribute only 1 -1/-1 counter per target, and make it a 2/2.

Reaping Menace - NO - As I said before, I like the idea of havin deathtouch and trample together on one creature, but I like the way that Mist Hunter executed it better and don't want more than one creature with that combination.

Ethereal Ooze - YES - I would be okay with this as a Blue/Black card as is.

Vote yes for Acrid Leech & Guardvark.Acrid LeechI like this guy as smaller, but wither+first strike is ridiculous at uncommon. only killable by creatures w/ p.t. 4/4 & it dents them up bad. I like the vigilance + wither, maybe keep all abilities but put it at a 2/2 for 2GG. It keeps the same flavor; it's not too big a deal as you're only taking 2 damage from it, and the regenerate makes it a very playable card.GuardvarkYeah, it's cool and should be a spider, but the flash is unnecessary since the sacrifice ability is instant speed anyway. flash just isn't a green ability.Latchvein CanopyWhy doesn't it have defender (it's a wall)? Could make it a spider & keep it as suggested.

(voting yes for Iguanid & Abrupt Mortification).Ulgrisian Fly - no, no, no. First off, black doesn't even have 1/1's with flying and no drawback (see Nightshade Stinger). If it had wither, cost 1B, & put it into your hand, it would probably be okay but still quite strong. When it dies is a good downside.Waning Landscape seems like bad land destruction (as reimagined by design) possibly make it cost 1B - comparable to Contaminated Ground (though it would probably be too strong)Vote yes for Will of the MassesWill of the Masses is fine as is - definitely not worth paying GU for. the 'creature matters' implies green so it fits great with the shard.

It seems like they need some more card suggestions- where can you submit those?

@hubatish:

We'll be looking for those in the next article. Stay tuned!

@hubatish - I assume you are voting no for ones you did not mention. Let me know so I can record your votes. and as mistergreen527 said, you will get to fill in cards in the next challenge which will be out next week.

Also why are people anti-first strike on the Acrid leach. Remember Land Leeches , the first leech that was made for the game I believe and he was a common. Under the suggestion above the cost and rarity increased from Land Leeches and wither was added. seems fair to me, but you already saw my vote. Just saying, old cards are precedent.

Land Leeches was created before a lot of design rules regarding the color pie were implemented.

and reprinted after many of them were created, just sayin

It was reprinted only 8 months after it was originally printed. Even though mono green normally doesn't have first strike, it can still have some access it to it (Elvish Archers , Emerald Dragonfly , Glissa Sunseeker , Hornet Cobra , Mirri, Cat Warrior , Root Spider , and Spitting Slug ). However, flavor-wise why would a leech have first strike? It has been admitted many times by Wizards team members that design back in the day was disconnected from flavor. Land Leeches is a prime example.

alright based on me remembering the timeline completely wrong, I concede the point and will stop fighting for that card to have first strike. It just felt like homage.

I really thought that the dark was way before 4th edition. It has been a while. My love for old cards tainted me again

Acrid Leech - No. As it is, I can't follow this card...a green card, and a leech no less, with vigilance? Also I think a leech would never have a higher toughness than power. What if it was a 3/2 First strike, wither, at 3GG and regenerated for 1 black mana?

Guardvark - Yes. However, that name and creature type have to change. I think the point here, however, is that perhaps we don't need to fall back on spiders as the only thing to hunt flying creatures. Perhaps some sort of overgrown tree frog?

Latchvein Canopy - No. I don't think creature type "wall" gets used much at all anymore, if ever. I think it should be types "Mutant Plant" and add defender to its abilities. Also, here's an idea, what if instead of getting +0/+1 counters, it was a 0/0 and read, " Latchvein Canopy's power and toughness are equal to the number of -1/-1 counters on creatures you don't control." That would pump it, and tie it in with wither. Perhaps give it wither over deathtouch too.

Ooze-Rot Fungus - Yes. Cool idea but it definitely could use some power/toughness. Perhaps 2/3.

Abrupt Mortification - No. As it stands its overpowered. That casting cost and the fact that its instant make it absolutely insane. This would need to be a sorcery and cost something more like XBB. Or you could do something more interesting and leave it as is, but change the wording to "each player distributes up to X -1/-1 counters amongst any number of target creatures."

Iguanid, Burrowing Thrinax - Yes. But this card is way out of wack. Its a Gravedigger on crack. I would make the casting cost 2BB, but go down to a 1/2 and keep the deathtouch. I would word it as follows: "Whenever you would draw a card, you may pay 2 life instead. If you do, return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand." Also that name sounds legendary, drop the Iguanid part.

Ulgrisian Fly - No. This is so above and beyond overpowered. Perhaps something more around 2B casting cost, and a requirement to pay 1 life to search out a replacement. Also that replacement should come into play tapped or something.

Waning Landscape - No. I want to say yes to this card badly, but its kinda out of hand.

Mist Hunter - No. I don't like the feel of this card.

Will of the Masses - No. I respect this idea, but personally if my deck is trying to mill, I probably am not running alot of creatures to get real use out of this.

Food for my Body,Poison for your Brain - No. Too much going on here, including that name.

Ravenous Eel-Mass - No. Overpowered, even at 1/1.

Reaping Menace - No. This card feels rare. Also I am not a fan of having deathtouch and trample on the same creature. It just doesn't feel right.

thanks @squire1 I'll be back then for next article. Also, voting no for Mist Hunter, Ravenous Eel Mass, & Reaping Menance. Right now they all just seem very overpowered. I don't really want to say yes or no to any of the others.

Still need more designs herehttp://tappedout.net/mtg-articles/2011/nov/25/card-design-challenge-blue-and-blueblack-uncommon/