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.
Baandon Taylor, A-list Seamstress
Legendary Creature: Spider Shaman (Rare)
Whenever a non-creature permanent you control becomes the target of a spell an opponent controls, create a copy of it. The copy is an illusion in addition to its other types. Sacrifice the copy at the beginning of your next endstep
1/3
Create another spider from the same plane as Taylor
August 9, 2024 3:40 a.m.
Peitr, the Animator
Legendary Creature - Spider Warlock
At the beginning of combat on your turn, you may gain control of target artifact or enchantment an opponent controls until end of turn. If the target is an aura or equipment, attach it to target creature you control.
If an artifact or enchantment you control but do not own would be put into the graveyard, exile it instead and draw cards equal to its mana value.
1/6
"Of the five great spider sages, I fear not the shaman, or the wizard. The warlock Peitr is another matter entirely."
Lets do a cycle of five great spider sages each having a different magic caster type - What's left are wizard, druid, advisor, and whatever else you can think of!
August 9, 2024 9:07 a.m.
Vancer Drik,
Legendary Creature: Spider Druid (Rare)
: Return an enchantment you control to your hand
Whenever you cast an enchantment spell, you may pay . If you do, put a ward counter on it.
Whenever an enchantment you control with ward becomes the target of a spell or ability an opponent controls, untap a land.
3/3
Complete the cycle, make a spider wizard or spider advisor next
August 9, 2024 2:54 p.m.
Ricar, Bad Influence
Legendary Creature - Spider Advisor
Whenever you would draw a card, you may pay 2 life. If you do, instead return a card from your graveyard to your hand, then discard a card.
When Ricar, Bad Influence dies, exile each player's graveyard.
4/4
Create a monoblack legendary Spider Wizard with a hybrid mana symbol in its cost.
August 9, 2024 3:33 p.m.
TypicalTimmy says... #7
Andrax, Web of Lies
Legendary Creature - Spider Demon Wizard
Deathtouch
When Andrax enters the battlefield, for every two mana spent to cast it, each opponent discards a card at random. For each card an opponent should have discarded and couldn't, put a +1/+1 counter on Andrax and draw a card.
5/5
So the idea is this. Suppose you have him in a Golgari deck so you have access to a ton of mana. You cast him for .
That's 9 mana, so for every 2 mana spent it triggers his ETB ability. So 4 total triggers
Each opponent now discards 4 cards at random.
Suppose one player only has 2 cards, one has 5 and another has 3.
The player who had 2 can't discard 2, so you put 2 +1/+1 counters on Andrax and draw 2 cards.
The player who had 3 and couldn't discard their fourth card, so another +1/+1 counter and you get another card.
Wild
August 9, 2024 9:43 p.m. Edited.
markbeloit says... #8
Writhing Storm
Enchantment
Spells that players cast from their hand have cascade.
Whenever an opponent casts a spell from exile, you may gain control of that spell unless it controller pays life equal to its mana value.
Make a lifegain card.
August 9, 2024 11:54 p.m.
seshiro_of_the_orochi says... #9
Cryohealing
Instant
Tap target creature and put four stun counters on it. Until the last stun counter is removed, it gains "Whenever a stun counter is removed from this creature, put a +1/+1 counter on it and you gain life equal to its toughness."
This felt against the challenge, but I like the idea. If you think I nailed it, create a global enchantment a la Zur's Weirding
. If you think I cheesed it, repeat instead.
August 10, 2024 12:24 a.m.
TypicalTimmy says... #10
Nah I love it!
Heart of War
Enchantment
All creatures have haste, reach, and vigilance, must attack or block each turn if able and may block up to one additional creature.
All Planeswalkers are creatures in addition to their other types and their power and toughness or each equal to their loyalty.
Iroas, God of Victory promises valor and honor. He does not, however, promise it only to you...
I thought this card would be befitting of Iroas. True to the Greek pantheon, the gods always try to find a way to outsmart and belittle mankind. Their gifts are frequently a mockery of the faith.
He doesn't promise YOU victory, he only promises "victory".
If your enemies win, and your comrades fail, then so be it.
Make a Jeskai god for Kaladesh.
Call it ~~~, God of Inventions
August 10, 2024 1:27 a.m.
Ja Nir, God of Inventions
Legendary Artifact Creature: Equipment God
Indestructible
Reconfigure
~ isn’t a creature unless you control 4 or more nonland artifacts
Equipped creature has base power and toughness 5/5
5/5
Make a land that taps for everything that isn’t white
August 10, 2024 1:55 a.m.
seshiro_of_the_orochi says... #12
The Maelstrom
Legendary Land
~ enters the battlefield tapped and with a stun counter.
: Add , , or .
, : The next spell you cast this turn gains cascade.
Create a legendary squirrel ninja.
August 10, 2024 2:18 a.m.
Akit, the Silent Squeek
Legendary Creature: Squirrel Ninja
Skulk
Whenever a squirrel you control becomes the target of a spell or ability an opponent controls, you may pay , if you do, return it to your hand.
1/3
Create a low-cost space elemental
August 10, 2024 12:32 p.m.
Ithva, the Heavy Rain
Legendary Creature: Elemental (Uncommon)
~ enters tapped
Skulk
When ~ does combat damage to a player, put any number of cards from your hand onto the battlefield face-down and tapped. Those cards are island lands.
3/2
Hazif, Chief Scholar of the Mother-Star
Legendary Creature: Elemental (Rare)
Haste, Vigilance
The Mother Star
Legendary Land Creature: Elemental
~ enters tapped
~ can be orbited as though it were a planet
; Add two mana in any one color a planet you control could produce
; Target elemental you control gets +1/+x until end of turn.
Wild
August 10, 2024 6:53 p.m.
TypicalTimmy says... #15
Alioth, Devourer of Realities
Legendary Creature - Nightmare Elemental
Trample, haste
Annihilator 6
5/7
Ok, so I wanted to see how clean and simple I could make it.
How's that? (Alioth is the big purple cloud in the MCU that devours things found in The TVAs Void)
August 10, 2024 7:37 p.m. Edited.
TypicalTimmy I know Alioth from Marvel Snap! I remember when Alioth was a game-breaking card, I had managed to pull them from a weekly event! Later on, I watched “Loki” with my little sister
August 10, 2024 9:41 p.m.
hiddengibbons says... #18
Is it still wild?
Mentos, The Fresh Maker
Legendary Creature - Fresh Phyrexian Praetor
Creatures you control are fresh
Creatures your opponents control lose all freshness and can’t gain or have freshness. Spells can’t be countered by spells or abilities controlled by players named “Richard”
5/7
Create a card that explains the “fresh “ mechanic
August 11, 2024 12:37 a.m.
That Richard restriction is pretty specific. I'm not sure Dr. Garfield would approve...
Is Fresh supposed to be a creature type and a mechanic? I see Fresh as sort of like Monstrous--pay a cost or meet some condition, and then you get the benefit. It's more of a condition marker than a specific ability.
Mint and Ice Water
Enchantment
Green and blue creatures you control are fresh.
Fresh creatures you control are unblockable except by other fresh creatures.
Create a creature that can gain freshness for itself.
August 11, 2024 3:47 a.m.
seshiro_of_the_orochi says... #20
Prince of Bel Air
Creature - Human
Haste
As long as you control a legendary land, ~ is fresh and its name is treated as "Fresh Prince of Bel Air".
3/2
Do as you wish to continue. May Will Smith be with you ;D
August 11, 2024 4:39 a.m. Edited.
TypicalTimmy says... #21
Fresh sounds a lot like Shadow and Horsemenship, tbh. Basically you need to have it to block those who have it.
- Big dumb creatures [✓]
- Evasion [✓]
- Aggressive combat [✓]
- ETB triggers [✓]
- Noncombat damage [✓]
- Tokens [✓]
- Tribal synergy [✓]
- One of my favorite colors [✓]
- Manasink [✓]
Oooh yeah...
Challenge: Make a Commander (or secret commander!) for your absolute preferred style of play!!
August 11, 2024 12:46 p.m. Edited.
seshiro_of_the_orochi says... #22
Some of my favourite commanders are Goreclaw, Terror of Qal Sisma, K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth, Neheb, the Eternal and Chiss-Goria, Forge Tyrant. What do these have in common? They are monocolor and do big-mana things. I haven't found a mono- or mono- commander for me, so I'll try that.
Yrr, Master of the Tides
Legendary Creature - Jellyfish Illusion
Hexproof, Islandwalk
When ~ enters the battlefield, until end of turn, whenever you tap an Island for mana, you add an additional .
Whenever ~ deals combat damage to a player, you may return it to its owner's hand. If you do, you can't cast spells named ~ until end of turn.
3/3
Repeat.
August 11, 2024 1:33 p.m.
Discard, removal, empty boards, empty hands. Preferably in some version of .
Kirada, Qarsi Overseer
Legendary Creature - Human Druid
Landfall - Whenever a land enters under your control, each player discards a card.
, : Create a 4/4 green Ape creature token. You may have it fight target creature. If you control two or more Apes, you may destroy target nonland permanent.
2/3
A powerful human female mage, Kirada is the custodian of the Qarsi Palace. She runs the place, from the dockside gambling halls to the upper-level pleasure domes. She is a native of the Sagu jungle and was said to be a fierce warrior who was a master of the forest and its secrets before she took on the role of overseer. She is often seen with her trained baboons, who attack anyone at her command. She is also well-versed in various poisons and intoxicants—a valuable skill when wishing to close a deal with a wealthy client or removing a particularly irritating obstacle.
https://magic.wizards.com/en/news/feature/planeswalkers-guide-khans-tarkir-part-1-2014-09-03
Same challenge, or create another card for a minor character.
August 11, 2024 8:37 p.m.
That Ape token ability should have "Activate this ability only as a sorcery."
August 11, 2024 9 p.m.
Pushing past limits and ‘rule of cool’ are my style
Vold, Last Vayith of Dark-Rock
Legendary Creature: Elemental
Flying, trample, ward - sacrifice a land
You can’t play lands
when ~ enters or attacks, create a tapped planet land token with “, sacrifice this land; add ”
4/4
Make another commander or secret commander that matches your playstyle
August 11, 2024 9:58 p.m.
TypicalTimmy says... #27
Shout-out to Epicurus. I'd love to see his design if he is part of this thread still. Or Wolfpig. Dude's got some outstandingly crazy decks.
August 11, 2024 10:02 p.m.
Zampanó, Arbiter of Truth
Legendary Creature - Phyrexian Zombie Goblin Wizard Advisor
Ward - Creatures you control can't attack or block this turn. You may pay this cost only during any player's upkeep.
At the beginning of your end step, choose one. If you've taken damage or gained life since your last turn, choose two instead:
-
Create two 2/1 white, black, red and green Zombie Goblin Soldier creature tokens with Menace, Deathtouch and Lifelink
-
Until your next turn, whenever a creature deals combat damage to you, exile that creature
-
If you've taken damage since your last turn, draw a card. If you've gained life since your last turn, draw a card.
-
Each opponent sacrifices a Land, Creature or Artifact
1/4
Nonblue stax would be my preferred playstyle. I do like spellslinger, Go-Wide, Stompy, Recursion and a lot of other themes, but Stax is my love. A deck that says "really, you don't want to mess with me." A deck that prevents anyone from messing with me. A deck that allows me to play my deck, by preventing anyone from being able to stop it.
And accomplishing this task without blue's array of Counterspells is a feat most can agree to.
Repeat.
August 12, 2024 12:08 a.m. Edited.
TypicalTimmy says... #29
Fun little piece of information about the artwork of my Dragon.
So typically we see that a European style Dragon has a mouth that can open approximately as wide as a man is tall, so roughly 5 to 6 feet. Let's call it 6 feet for funsies.
This means we can scale the picture.
Looking at the two dragons in the foreground, we can see their open maws and physically measure it, and compare to their estimated body lengths. Given we know how long their necks and arches back is, and that this is half of their total length, we can estimate their length is approximately 10 spans of their open mouth.
If their open mouth is 6 feet, and their bodies are 10x, then their bodies are 60 feet in length.
Looking at the dragon on the right, we see it being ensnared by the big ones claws. The claws encapsulate half of its body. This means that big one's claws are 30 feet in length. Meaning one claw is about the length of a school bus.
One more. The open dragons mouth that is 6 feet? Look at the big ones teeth. Same size.
That big one?
One tooth is likely as tall, or taller, than you are.
August 12, 2024 12:38 a.m. Edited.
Kalus, that one storm player
When Kalus enters you discard your hand and draw 5 cards
if you would discard, exile instead
When Kalus leaves return all the cards exiled to your hand, until end of turn your maximum hand size is five
Create a Nadu with or (make it, unbanable)
August 12, 2024 8:29 p.m.
Nadu, Expedition Leader
Legendary Creature: Bird Warrior
Flying
Creatures you control have “Whenever this becomes the target of a spell or ability, it explores. If a card was put into your graveyard this way, this creature fights a creature. This ability only triggers once each turn.”
3/4
Shouldn’t be as bad, since you’re not putting lands directly onto the battlefield. Your forces may also eventually turn on eachother if there aren’t enough opposing creatures to fight.
Create a new card for the The Scorpion God, The Scarab God, or The Locust God
August 12, 2024 9:51 p.m.
seshiro_of_the_orochi says... #32
Considering Locust and Scarab are busted and Scorpion...is not, I think I know which one I'll do.
The Scorpion God, Fate's Sting
Legendary Creature - Scorpion God
Creatures with Deathtouch you control have Wither.
Whenever a creature with a -1/-1 counter on it dies, draw a card and create a 1/1 black scorpion creature token with Deathtouch.
: Target creature you control fights another target creature.
When The Scorpion God dies, return it to its owner’s hand at the beginning of the next end step.
6/5
This seems better.
Create a legendary scorpion.
August 12, 2024 11:42 p.m.
The One who Devoured Xlix
Legendary Creature: Scorpion (Uncommon)
Menace
At the beginning of your post-combat mainphase, if ~ attacked, it does 1 damage to each other creature.
2/4
Make a new card for The Scarab God or The Locust God
August 13, 2024 1:12 a.m.
The One who Devoured Xlix
Legendary Creature: Scorpion (Uncommon)
Menace
At the beginning of your post-combat mainphase, if ~ attacked, it does 1 damage to each other creature.
2/4
Make a new card for The Scarab God or The Locust God
August 13, 2024 1:13 a.m.
PhotogenicParasympathetic says... #35
The God of the Swarm
Legendary Creature - God Horror
Menace, Flying, Haste
Whenever ~ attacks, choose one:
Scry 1, then draw a card
Create 3 1/1 insects with flying
Exile a creature card from a graveyard, then create a copy of it except it's a 4/4 black zombie.
Whenever ~ dies, return it to it's owner's hand at the beginning of the next upkeep.
5/5
Create a card that gives cozy vibes.
August 13, 2024 2:17 a.m. Edited.
TypicalTimmy says... #36
Rejuvenating Fireplace
Artifact
, : Exile the top card of your library. You may play it until end of turn. If it is a land, add when it enters the battlefield.
Let's see a non-legendary creature with power and toughness that is 9/9
Have fun with it. Don't just make a 9/9 for 8 mana or something. Make it actually playable.
August 13, 2024 2:37 a.m.
Ascended Soul
Enchantment Creature ()
Bestow
Indestructible, Shroud
Enchanted creature has power and toughness 0/1, Indestructible, Shroud and can't be sacrificed by spells abilities you control.
9/9
Can be used as a Darksteel Transmutation effect, or if you reckon you can make the enchanted creature die (Languish type effects is the only stuff I can think off off the top of my head that would do it.) then you get a 9/9 to smack your opponent with. Might be a bit broken in cascade decks but I'm not sure how to remedy that without a wall of text.
Make another bestow creature
August 13, 2024 5:54 a.m.
Skittish Stoat
Enchantment Creature - Weasel Spirit
Bestow:
Whenever ~ or the bestowed creature becomes the target of a spell or ability an opponent controls, you may exile it. If you do, return the exiled creature to the battlefield and attach ~ to it at the beginning of the next end-step.
Enchanted creature gains +2/+2, and Vigilance.
2/2
"A skittish stoat, trembling at every sound, In shadows hides, too fearful to be found."
Wild!
August 13, 2024 10:51 a.m. Edited.
Web of Lies
Enchantment
Whenever an opponent attacks you, you may choose up to one target attacking creature and choose target opponent. That creature attacks that opponent instead this combat.
Whenever a creature you choose this way deals combat damage to an opponent, draw a card.
"You thought I would say something so vile? Doesn't that sound so much more like something Vedric would say?"
Always trying to think of new abilities for color combos, and I think UR can be so much more than spell slinger. Make a UR card that fits this theme of combat manipulation.
August 13, 2024 12:23 p.m.
seshiro_of_the_orochi says... #40
Combat Meddling
Instant
Remove target blocking creature from combat. Creatures it was blocking that hadn’t become blocked by another creature this combat become unblocked, then it blocks an attacking creature of your choice.
Draw a card.
Create an enchantment that creates Hill Giant tokens.
August 13, 2024 1:02 p.m.
TypicalTimmy says... #41
The Hills Have Eyes
Enchantment
Giants you control enter the battlefield with your choice of a haste, lifelink or +1/+1 counter.
Landfall - Whenever a land enters the battlefield under your control, create a 3/3 red Giant creature token names Hill Giant.
Make a tribal supporting enchantment for another dramatically underrepresented tribe.
August 13, 2024 4:43 p.m.
Rainbowspore Grove
Legendary Tribal Enchantment - Fungus
At the beginning of each upkeep, if there are no spore counters on Rainbowspore Grove, place a spore counter on each Fungus you control.
At the beginning of each end step, remove all spore counters from Rainbowspore Grove, then create a 0/2 Fungus creature token named Utopia Mycon for each counter removed this way.
Sacrifice a Saproling: Put a spore counter on Rainbowspore Grove
IDK is that broken? lol
Make a card that can only be played from a zone other than your hand
August 13, 2024 6:10 p.m. Edited.
seshiro_of_the_orochi says... #43
Exiled Griffin
Creature - Griffin
Flying, Vigilance
You can't cast ~ from your hand.
You may cast ~ from exile.
, exile ~ from your hand: Exile target creature. Its controller gains life equal to its toughness.
2/2
Create an MV2 sorcery in Rakdos colours, but don't make it a removal spell.
August 14, 2024 12:17 a.m.
Last Dance
Sorcery
Up to two target creatures you control get +2/+0 and gain menace until end of turn. At end of turn, sacrifice each non-Vampire creature targeted this way.
As Olivia and Edgar began their waltz, the final refreshments were served.
Create a creature without a blink or evasion ability.
August 14, 2024 12:40 a.m.
TypicalTimmy says... #45
Neurallock
Artifact Creature - Construct
You may choose to not untap Neurallock during your untap step.
You may have Neurallock enter the battlefield tapped. If you do, gain control of target creature with power 4 or less for as long as Neurallock is tapped.
2/3
How cool is that??
Ooooh, let's see let's see... Let's go with a spooky clown that isn't just another Joker or Pennywise knockoff.
Maybe a Killer Klownz from Outerspace card if you recognize that franchise?
August 14, 2024 1:50 a.m.
The Jester
Legendary Creature - Clown Viashino
Whenever you sacrifice a permanent you do not own, deal 4 damage to that creature's owner.
: Return target creature card from an opponent's graveyard to the battlefield. Exile that creature at the beginning of the next end step.
2/4
"'Everybody loves a puppet show until they recognize the puppets.' - The Jester "
The Jester loves to parade the animated corpses of your loved ones in front of you, ya know, for fun! I imagine The Jester was exiled from the cult of Rakdos for managing to creep out even Rakdos himself.
Show us what an exile from the Selesnya or Simic guilds would look like.
August 14, 2024 9:19 a.m.
seshiro_of_the_orochi says... #47
Palmis Vorg, Simic Devolutionary
Legendary Creature - Elf Troll Wizard
Whenever ~enters or attacks, put a -1/-1 counter on target creature, then proliferate.
Whenever a creature dies for having 0 or less toughness, discover X, where Xis equal to its Mana Value minus 1.
"You call my vision a perversion. I say sometimes you need to reverse evolution to learn."
2/3
Create another ravnican outcast.
August 14, 2024 9:29 a.m.
TypicalTimmy says... #48
Count Marivold, The Mad
Legendary Creature - Vampire Spirit
All creatures have lifelink.
Whenever a source causes an opponent to gain life, you gain 1 life.
Pay 100 life, : Target player loses the game.
Imagine selling your soul for power, and then losing your soul while still mortal. A paradox to be sure, but one of twice the eternal torment. Enslaved by not only your own ambition, but your sin as well.
3/3
Oh, Door to Nothingness on a stick?
Aetherflux Reservoir on a stick?
Ha, no thank you. I'll take that Tainted Remedy, though ;)
Also Angelic Accord, just for funsies >;)
Repeat
August 14, 2024 11:44 a.m. Edited.
Al-Sharran, Grievous Gardener
Legendary Creature - Centaur Dryad
Each player cannot control more creatures than they do lands. If a creature entering would cause a player to have more creatures than they do lands, that player must sacrifice non token creatures until they control a number of creatures equal to the number of lands they control.
: Put a land from your hand onto the battlefield. Each player creates a 0/1 green plant creature token.
"Trostani can pretend all they like that control, death, and desire are not inherent to nature but I have learned better. Control is paramount to growth."
1/4
Turning out to be a very fun challenge. The wording is a little clunky but it's a very new/odd effect so I didn't have anything to compare it to. Continue the challenge and make someone who has been exiled from one of the seven guilds we haven't used yet.
August 14, 2024 12:24 p.m.
seshiro_of_the_orochi says... #50
Tsukimi: Isn't there a YGO card with text similar to the first ability? Wild stuff for sure!
Balshoy, Corrupt Seargant
Legendary Creature - Human Soldier
Haste
Whenever ~ attacks a player or planeswalker, defending player may have you draw two cards and creature two treasure tokens. If they do, untap ~ and remove it from combat. Otherwise, ~ can't be blocked this turn.
Whenever one or more creatures you control deal combat damage to a player, choose one:
-
Draw a card.
-
Create a treasure token.
5/4
Repeat
seshiro_of_the_orochi says... #1
Taylor's Puppetry
Enchantment
Equip abilities you control may target creatures you don't control.
You control all creatures equipped by equipment you control.
Create said taylor.
August 9, 2024 12:50 a.m. Edited.