Don't call it a sure thing, but I am super-excited about making art for a card called 'psychic mongoose.'

Yea, I thought so too. I made one but would be interested in seeing yours.

Yeah I am planning on posting the art that I have received so far in a couple of days

I've just discovered the existence of this project, so forgive my ignorance. Have you chosen to ignore Wizard's huge rule that +1/+1 and -1/-1 counters can't be in the same set?

Good point. Maybe the following tweak on Sphinx of the Flow: "At the beginning of your upkeep, ~ gets +1/+1 until end of turn for each card you drew since the beginning of your last upkeep." It's not really the same thing, but it's kind of close.

Probably "Whenever you draw a card, ~ gets +1/+1 until end of turn" would be clearest.

If this "Flow" does weird stuff to both spells and creatures, may I suggest a Knowledge Pool type effect? I was thinking of maybe something along the lines of

"Whenever you cast a spell for its flow cost, you may counter it. If you do, choose a card in your graveyard that shares a type with that spell. You may cast that spell without paying its mana cost."

I just noticed that all the stuff in here was creature based, and thought of this. I am a big fan of RUG, so I will be following this shard closely.

glad we piqued your interest. Looking forward to your involvement.

Thought Storm is blue by color indicator, not by rules text.

A very good point, however the current software used to creat mockups do no include the template for that

Indeed. And there ISN'T a template for it... yet. At least in the standard frame.

Hi haven't looked at new cards for the community set for a while, as have been moving and gone back to college.

Should Thought Storm have a conventional mana cost as well?

I ask because if ends up in your opening hand, or draw it without having the mana spare to pay it's flow cost, it becomes a dead card in your hand.

I can see it was made for flow, so may I suggest X1UU (a less blue mana intensive blue sun's zenith that only allows you to draw cards) to keep the card in the game if one of the above situations arises.

All the other cards i seen for this shard look fun to play, I'll have to check out what else i missed in my absence :)

Venifucian Timepiece might want the draw/put a card back ability in the opposite order. Right now it can enable flow on dead cards like Thought Storm, but that's all it can do. if it drew a card, then put one back, it wouldn't be as much of a flow trick, but it would dig deeper, and you would still get the flow opportinity on your next draw.

yeah that was the intent. i mean it is only a one use ability since its ETB type effect, so fixing a dead card in hand or enabling flow on a card in hand is good, since it causes you to draw from flow, so if used with flow properly, it leads to a +1 increase in hand size.

I just realized that the Undulating River cycle probably doesn't work the way you want. Since it enters the battlefield untapped, it can pay for itself. It looks to be based on Rupture Spire , which would make the ETBT clause required. Otherwise, it will never need to be sacrificed.

Dude, I think the point is that it can either pay for itself, or another land can pay for it. It's not the point that it will sometimes be sacrificed, just that it costs 1 to play that land.

shapeshifter essence needs work as far as the wording goes the way it is it says "whenever a creature enters the battlefield, enchanted creature becomes a copy of that creature." is it supposed to change as other creatures enter the battlefield or is it supposed to become the next creature and lose the effect of the enchantment the reminder text makes this very confusing.

It is supposed to change with each creature

kk that is what I thought at first but then I saw this effect lasts indefinitely and started second guessing it thanks for the clarification.

Yeah that was my design before I joined the project. It is supposed to change creatures into Unstable Shapeshifter

question for Shared Foresight. Does each player get to see the order in which the cards are replaced?

noyou are forced to reveal them. not show what you do with them after revealing. i think

The way it's worded now, other players don't know the way they're put back. Also, it doesn't need "to all players"; that's implied.

Permission to rewrite the background info? It's something I happen to be good at.

Polaris you are welcome to. It is a major endeavor though since the story is written for the whole block. Let me know.

I see a problem with viscous plasma: it wouldn't be a very good attacker... Maybe instead of T, the ability should be: put a card from your hand on top of your library. That way it can fix broken cards and also can attack instead of essentially having defender.

Pretty good suggestion. We may have to make that change.

Lesser Vigaan is a card Wizards would probably never print. It's just very difficult to beat, and very non-interactive - i.e. unfun. Why does it need shroud? It's already a 7/7 with haste! It's going to get in for damage the turn you play it.

Just do a Gatherer search on Dragons with CMC > 5: http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Search/Default.aspx?output=spoiler&method=visual&action=advanced&subtype=+%5b%22Dragon%22%5d&cmc=+%3E%5b5%5d You'll notice that none of them have shroud, and for good reason. This thing is like Inkwell Leviathan on steriods! It's a great Reanimator target, and there's very few things your opponent can do against it. Also, shouldn't it be a Greater Vigaan? Unless there's something even scarier than a 7/7 flying, shroud, haste coming up in the next set!

Maybe it should have lower power/toughness (like 5/5), or just a lack of shroud. Without shroud it could also have some cool ability.

Lesser Vigaan is a card Wizards would probably never print. It's just very difficult to beat, and very non-interactive - i.e. unfun. Why does it need shroud? It's already a 7/7 with haste! It's going to get in for damage the turn you play it.

Just do a Gatherer search on Dragons with CMC > 5: http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Search/Default.aspx?output=spoiler&method=visual&action=advanced&subtype=+%5b%22Dragon%22%5d&cmc=+%3E%5b5%5d You'll notice that none of them have shroud, and for good reason. This thing is like Inkwell Leviathan on steriods! It's a great Reanimator target, and there's very few things your opponent can do against it. Also, shouldn't it be a Greater Vigaan? Unless there's something even scarier than a 7/7 flying, shroud, haste coming up in the next set!

Maybe it should have lower power/toughness (like 5/5), or just a lack of shroud. Without shroud it could also have some cool ability.

Lesser Vigaan is a card Wizards would probably never print. It's just very difficult to beat, and very non-interactive - i.e. unfun. Why does it need shroud? It's already a 7/7 with haste! It's going to get in for damage the turn you play it.

Just do a Gatherer search on Dragons with CMC > 5: http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Search/Default.aspx?output=spoiler&method=visual&action=advanced&subtype=+%5b%22Dragon%22%5d&cmc=+%3E%5b5%5d You'll notice that none of them have shroud, and for good reason. This thing is like Inkwell Leviathan on steriods! It's a great Reanimator target, and there's very few things your opponent can do against it. Also, shouldn't it be a Greater Vigaan? Unless there's something even scarier than a 7/7 flying, shroud, haste coming up in the next set!

Maybe it should have lower power/toughness (like 5/5), or just a lack of shroud. Without shroud it could also have some cool ability.

Or you can block it with a spirit token.

The leviathan has trample. Which makes it better in a way. Just because it has not been done before does not mean WOTC would not print it. If anything it means the contrary. It has shroud so it is more difficult to buff and to give trample.

It is a 2 color design so at 7 cmc you can almost consider it an 8 cmc due to casting restrictions.

This is called a French vanilla design. It has a couple evergreen keywords and an appropriate body.

Many designers at WOTC have stated that the presence of good vanilla and French vanilla cards are necessary for a set in design for many reason.

Yeah, french vanilla is fine. It's just that this card is very difficult to beat. A lot of times, your opponent is just going to lose when you cast this. Probably the closest comparison is Simic Sky Swallower , but that has a much slower clock.

Without prior damaging your opponent at all, you can kill them with this in just 3 turns (including the turn you cast it). They only have two turns to draw an answer, which are only a sweeper, or an even larger flying/reaching creature. In comparison, Simic Sky Swallower gives an opponent 5 turns to turn the game around (1 the turn you play, 4 more to kill). This creature just isn't very fun.

Sorry to bash; it would likely be fine as a 6/6, but right now I think it just wins the game too quickly.

On a semi-related note, Vorstclaw makes Lumbering Brute look silly.

Yeah I still have to disagree. You are still missing that that guy has trample. It can't be chump blocked. This guy can. If you have no way to block flyers, yeah you lose. I am ok with that.

The point with Vorstclaw is well taken though. Lumbering brute may need to be changed P/T wise

I think the brute as an 8/6 would be cool. Kind of like a less tough Fusion Elemental .Also, here's an idea for Greater Vidaan: 2UUGGRR Flying, Shroud, Haste, whenever you put a card from your hand on top of your library, deal one damage to target creature or player, Whenever ~ deals combat damage to a creature or player, you may put up to that many cards from your hand on top of your library 8/8. (mythic rare of course) It's kind of like Hellkite Overlord for Irindu. Also it helps Flow.

looking forward to irindu!!!!