Card creation challenge
Custom Cards forum
Posted on Aug. 28, 2015, 4:15 p.m. by TheNextRedDude
Ok, heres how this works. You create a card to the specifications of the person above you, then list your own card idea for the next person. I'll start.
Variety XX
Sorcery
If X is 2 or lower, draw X cards. If X is 3, put X +1/+1 counters on X target creatures. If X is 4, return X target creatures from your graveyard to the battlefield. If X is 5 or more, Variety deals x damage to target creature or player. If X is 10 or more, you win the game.
Create a life gaining multicolored Turtle with power twice it's toughness or vice versa.
PistonGolem says... #2
Affectionate Lava Puppy 
Creature - Elemental Hound
Defender
When Affectionate Lava Puppy is cast, the caster may select an opponent and put Affectionate Lava Puppy on their battlefield.
During the controller of Affectionate Lava Puppy's upkeep, the controller of Affectionate Lava Puppy takes 2 damage.
0/2
Poor thing, nobody wants to take care of him... Its ok boy, come here, I'll take care of you -Ivib the Mage's last words
April 3, 2016 8:20 p.m.
PistonGolem says... #3
Next, create something that Jace doesn't want to discover while investigating on Innistrad
April 3, 2016 8:21 p.m.
zephramtripp says... #4
Disguised Assailant 
Creature - Human Rogue
When you draw ~, reveal it and destroy all Clue tokens on the battlefield.
Shroud
1/1
Make a new card in red that cares about Clue tokens.
April 3, 2016 11:56 p.m.
BloodoftheBloodMoon says... #5
Kalaz, destroyer of evidence 1RR
Legendary creature - human
When ~ enters the battlefield, investigate. Whenever a clue token enters or leaves the battlefield, deal 1 damage to target creature or player.
Next: create a card that would combo with this one.
April 4, 2016 12:51 a.m.
Trail of blood 1R
Enchantment
At the beginning of each endstep, If an opponent was dealt damage this turn, investigate
Create a creature that aggro and control decks would both love (without making it too powerful)
April 4, 2016 1 a.m.
markbeloit says... #7
Wisp-Flare Rager
Creature - Elemental
Haste
At the beginning of your upkeep, Wisp-Flare Rager deals 2 damage to you. Put a +1/+1 counter on it.
Cycling 
(, Discard this card. Draw a card.)
When you cycle Wisp-Flare Rager, counter target spell with converted mana cost 2.
2/1
Make a unique and interesting tutor.
April 4, 2016 3:32 a.m.
AngryKitten says... #8
Ingrained Empowerment 
Sorcery
Cast Ingrained Empowerment only if you control a creature.
Search your library for an instant or sorcery card and exile it encoded on a creature you control. Whenever that creature deals combat damage to a player, its controller may cast a copy of the encoded card without paying its mana cost.
Create a card that makes an emblem that isn't a planeswalker.
April 4, 2016 11:03 a.m. Edited.
Decree of the Azorius 
Sorcery
You get an emblem with "At the beginning of each upkeep, tap or untap target permanent unless its controller pays for each card in your hand."
Some Azorius laws use magic stronger than that wielded by planeswalkers themselves.
Make a transform card that transforms between two types we haven't seen combined yet.
April 4, 2016 10:03 p.m.
PistonGolem says... #10
Decree of the Overpowered
Tribal Instant - Bird
Put a 1/2 Storm Crow Creature Token with Flying on the battle field. When that token dies, transform this card and put it onto the battlefield from the graveyard.
True Storm Crow
Legendary Creature - Bird
Indestructible
When this card enters the battefield, target opponent must choose between Trial or 2Op4Me. If 2Op4Me is chosen, then all opponents lose the game. If Trial is chosen, destroy all permanents that all players control, and you get X 1/2 Storm Crow Creature Tokens with Indestructible, Flying, and Haste, where X is the highest life total among all players.
1/2
Next, make a planeswalker that involves Chandra if she didn't use Pyromancy
April 4, 2016 10:35 p.m.
zephramtripp says... #12
Chandra, Out of Flame
Planeswalker - Chandra
+1 : Put a 0/1 Goat creature token into play
-2 : Prevent the next one damage that would be dealt to each creature you control.
-8 : You get an emblem that says "Non-Goat creatures can't attack or block."
2
Chandra gives up pyromancy to be a goat - farmer.
Make another walker who has given up their current life.
April 4, 2016 11:48 p.m.
Jace, Archivist of Kaladesh
2UR
Planeswalker - Jace
+2: Scry 1, then deal 2 damage to target creature.
-2: Target creature gains hexproof and +1/+0 until the next end step.
-7: You get an emblem with "Creatures you control have hexproof and +1/+0.
4
Create a legendary creature representing Sarkhan if he had never ascended and eventually became khan of the Mardu.
April 5, 2016 12:40 a.m.
Sarkhan, the usurper 
Legendary creature - human warrior
Creatures you control have first strike and trample
At the beginning of your end step, if all creatures you control attacked this turn, put a 4/4 red dragon with flying into play
3/3
Hey... Don't I know you from somewhere else?
Create a very small leviathan
April 5, 2016 1:54 a.m.
ZombieswithJetpacks says... #15
The Simic Sky Eater GU
Legendary Creature- Leviathan
Flying, Menace
Whenever you cast a spell with a higher mana cost than The Simic Sky Eater, put a +1+1 counter on it equal to difference in mana cost.
Remove a +1+1 counter from The Simic Sky Eater, Tap: Chose one:
Target Leviathan, Octopus, or Kraken gains Hexproof until the end of the turn.
Draw a card, then discard a card. You may put a land from your hand into play tapped.
You gain 2 life.
0/1
Make a non-lengendary creature The Simic Sky Eater could target to give hexproof.
April 5, 2016 1:56 p.m. Edited.
zephramtripp says... #16
Minipus
Creature - Octopus
: Put a +1/+1 counter on ~. Activate this ability only once per turn.
~ has ": Tap target creature" if it has a power of 8 or greater.
1/1
Make a coin flip card.
April 5, 2016 5 p.m.
markbeloit says... #17
Knife Juggler
Creature - Human Rogue
Haste
T: Flip a coin. If you win the flip, Knife Juggler deals 2 damage to target creature. If you lose the flip, Knife Juggler deals 2 damage to you.
0/2
Create a 5-color instant.
April 5, 2016 5:31 p.m.
amazingdan says... #18
Phyrexian Molding
Put an X/X green slime token onto the battlefield, where X is the amount of life you paid to cast ~. Gain X poison counters, where X is the amount of life you paid to cast ~.
Kinda cheated with Phyrexian mana, but whatevs.
Next: Create a balanced card with Phyrexian mana that would be used in Modern Tron.
April 5, 2016 7 p.m.
Spread the Oil
Sorcery
Search your library for a land card and put it onto the battlefield. It gains "Whenever you tap this land for mana, you get a poison counter for each mana this land produced."
Same challenge for another modern deck
April 5, 2016 8:21 p.m.
For modern naya burn (or any other form of burn too I guess)
Blaze over the Earth
Sorcery
For each land in play, it's controller may sacrifice it. If they do not, blaze over the earth deals two damage to that player.
Create a one drop cascade card that wouldn't be broken in modern
April 8, 2016 12:43 a.m.
zephramtripp says... #22
Cascadraw
Instant
Draw a card.
Cascade
If the last card ~ reveals from its cascade ability has no mana cost, instead of casting it without paying its mana cost, exile that card with four time counters on it. If it doesn't have suspend, it gains suspend.
Create a nerfed Sword of the Meek
April 8, 2016 9:32 a.m.
Sword of the Meeker
Artifact - Equipment
Equipped creature gets +1/2
Equip
Whenever a 1/1 creature enters the battlefield under your control, return ~ from your graveyard attached to it at the end of the turn.
Make a 0 cost balanced burn spell
April 8, 2016 5:47 p.m.
Failled Experiment 
Target player takes 3 damage and draws a card
Now we know what not to do next time...
April 8, 2016 11:15 p.m.
Next, make a balanced draw spell that would rival Ancestral Vision
April 8, 2016 11:16 p.m.
Memory's Return
Sorcery
You may return any number of lands from the battlefield to your hand. Draw that many cards.
Make a card that would be good in a zooicide deck
April 9, 2016 11:08 a.m.
Phyrexian Shade
Creature - Shade
: ~ gets +1/+1 until end of turn
0/1
Create a modern playable, sorcery speed counter spell
April 19, 2016 6:35 p.m.
PistonGolem says... #28
That would be impossible but here is a try...
Concealed Mirror
Sorcery
Play this card face-down by paying to make it a 2/2 Creature
Morph
When this card is flipped face-up, counter and exile target spell, you make a copy of it and choose new targets for the copy
Make a card that is very exploitable due to WoTC forgetting to add one missing word that would normally make it balanced
April 19, 2016 7:38 p.m.
AndWelcomeToTheJam says... #29
I think I have another idea for hannibal6's challenge.
Mind Mage's Tactics -
Sorcery
Preemptive - When you cast ~, exile it face down. It has no effect. Whenever an opponent plays their first spell in a turn, you may turn this card face up and its effects are added to the top of the stack. (It is not cast a second time.)
Counter target spell.
Now for PistonGolem's challenge:
Self-Sustaining Experiment - 
Creature - Ooze
T: Put a token on the battlefield under your control that is a copy of target creature. Add X mana to your mana pool, where X is its casting cost. You may activate this ability only once, and only during your upkeep.
1/2
My challenge comes two-fold. First, determine which word was left out to balance this card. Next, create a creature that can win you the game, but at a great cost.
April 20, 2016 8:09 a.m.
Faiths_Guide says... #30
People of the Custom Card elite!
I encourage you to come put your skills to the test here:
::: http://mtgcardsmith.com/contest :::
I am one of three judges and the prizes will be big!
Show us what you've got for a chance at packs and glory!
I may enter this (though as a judge I cannot win):
Found the card here: http://mtgcardsmith.com/view/asterion-maze-vanquisher-1
April 20, 2016 2 p.m.
Faiths_Guide says... #31
Excuse the interruption; let's get back to AndWelcomeToTheJam's challenge now (post #1484)
April 20, 2016 2:01 p.m.
Faiths_Guide says... #32
Realized I may one mistake, grabbed a mid-finished card. Per contest rules we have to enter in a tribe-and-color.
Can be found here: http://mtgcardsmith.com/view/asterion-maze-vanquisher-2
April 20, 2016 2:25 p.m.
My guess would be that the ooze should copy another target creature, so that it can't copy itself.
For the challenge:
Manic Necromancer
Creature - Human Mage
When ~ ETB, sacrifice all non-land permanents you control. Your life total becomes the number of permanents sacrificed this way.
When ~ attacks, return all permanents from your graveyard to the battlefield. Any creatures that enter the battlefield this way enter the battlefield tapped and attacking.
He would sacrifice anything for the chance to succeed
1/1
Make a card that would be broken without a word.
April 21, 2016 4:44 p.m.
zephramtripp says... #36
OP Two Drop
Creature - OP
Haste, first strike
3/2
Make an OP two drop in another color.
April 21, 2016 9:02 p.m.
Death's Champion
Creature - Shadow
Deathtouch, Indestructible
1/1
Create a legendary creature with a literary reference
April 21, 2016 9:14 p.m.
Hari Seldon of Trantor
Legendary Creature - Human Advisor
When Hari Seldon of Trantor enters the battlefield, look at the top four cards of your library and the top four cards of target player's library, then put them back in any order.
1/2
Create an artifact with the clause "you lose the game."
April 22, 2016 6:41 p.m.
Devil's Blood Altar 
Artifact
If you would lose the game, if you have 1 life, control exactly one creature, and that creature is a devil, you win the game instead.
: You lose the game.
Entering in a bargain with a devil is possibly the worst decision any sane person can make. However, most people that bargain with devils are quite the opposite of sane.
Make a card that would cause an entire standard deck to be built around it.
April 22, 2016 9:18 p.m.
markbeloit says... #40
Terrain Reshaper
You can't play lands.
At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice a land. Search your library for a land card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle your library.
Discard a land card: Terrain Reshaper deals 2 damage to target creature or player.
2/4
Feels like it could work. Create a legendary specter card.
April 23, 2016 2:18 p.m.
Edgar Markov, Bloodmist Geist
3BW
Legendary creature - Vampire Specter
Flying, lifelink
When a Vampire creature dies, ~ deals 1 damage to each opponent.
4/6
Create a new planeswalker that flavorfully represents their alleigance to Nicol Bolas
April 23, 2016 4:15 p.m.
markbeloit says... #42
Anat, Servitor of Bolas
Planeswalker - Anat
+1: Look at the top three cards of your library. You may reveal an instant or sorcery card from among them and put it into your hand. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in any order.
-2: Add to your mana pool.
-8: Gain control of all creatures until end of turn. Untap them. They gain haste until end of turn. Sacrifice them at the beginning of the next end step. You gain 1 life for each creature sacrificed this way.
4
Seems powerful. Create a legendary creature who serves as some sort of aide/assistant/companion to Ajani.
April 23, 2016 9:04 p.m.
Zaliki, Shaman of the Pride
Legendary Creature - Cat Shaman
: Zaliki deals one damage to target creature or player. Activate this ability only once per turn.
: Target Creature gets +2/+2 until end of turn. Activate this ability only once per turn.
: Gain 3 life. Activate this ability only once per turn.
2/2
April 24, 2016 2:44 p.m.
Challenge:
Create an enchantment that behaves like a creature without ever putting a creature into play.
April 24, 2016 2:45 p.m.
markbeloit says... #45
Heart Flame Field
Enchantment
At the beginning of your upkeep, Heart Flame Field deals 3 damage to target opponent. That opponent may redirect this damage to a creature he or she controls.
At the beginning of combat on each opponent's turn, choose a creature that opponent controls. That creature can't attack this turn.
First ability meant to be kind of like attacking, the second kind of like blocking.
Wild card next.
April 24, 2016 6:38 p.m.
Chaos Generator
3RR
Artifact
When Chaos Generator enters the battlefield, all players discard their hands and draw 3 cards.
During each player's upkeep, they may target a creature, and that creature gets -X/-X until end of turn, where X is the number of cards in their hand.
"Don't worry; I'm sure those limbs can be put back in the right place."
Create a legendary artifact. The catch: It has to be The Weatherlight.
April 24, 2016 8:25 p.m.
Weatherlight, Reborn 2WUBRG Legendary Artifact When ~ enters the battlefield, search your library for up to 6 legendary permanents and put them into your hand, then shuffle your library. You have no maximum hand size Make a frog commander
April 24, 2016 8:36 p.m.
Gurrat, Monarch of the Marsh
Legendary Creature - Frog Druid
Sacrifice three creatures: Add to your mana pool and draw a card. You may not activate this ability more than twice per turn.
At the beginning of your upkeep, if Gurrat, Monarch of the Marsh is in your command zone, you may pay . If you do, put a 1/1 green Frog token onto the battlefield.
2/4
Create a creature that helps your opponent if you discard it.
April 24, 2016 10:01 p.m.
zephramtripp says... #49
Goblin Demolition
Creature - Goblin Warrior
When ~ ETBS, ~ deals 7 damage divided as you choose among any number of target creatures or players.
If you discard ~, exile it and it deals 7 damage to you.
2/2
Make an enchantment that encourages a black-green tokens deck.
April 24, 2016 10:45 p.m.
Spawn from the Earth
Enchantment
Whenever a non-token creature dies, put a 1/1 green and black spider token with deathtouch and reach onto the battlefield.
Make an ooze commander
hannibal6 says... #1
Arthon, Leader of the Charge
Legendary Creature - Orc Advisor
While ~ is in the command zone, creatures you control have defender
Creatures you control attack each turn if able
Creatures you control have haste, doublestrike, vigilance, and lifelink
Creatures you control get +2/+2 for each time ~ has been cast from the command zone
At the end of your turn, return ~ to the command zone
2/2
Create a creature that comes into play under an opponents control
April 3, 2016 8:09 p.m.