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.
Stiplock, Horned Scholar
Legendary Creature - Minotaur Wizard
Menace
Inpired - Whenever Stiplock becomes untapped, you may cast an instant or sorcery spell from your hand without paying its mana cost. If you do, Stiplock deals damage to your equal to that spells mana value.
3/2
Make a character that would either be friends or enemies with Stiplock
November 9, 2024 3:05 a.m.
StarRushford says... #3
Stoplick, Horned Researcher
Legendary Creature - Minotaur Wizard
Menace
Magecraft — Whenever you cast or copy an instant or sorcery spell, unatap target creature.
: Tap target creature. If you controlled it, draw a card and gain 1 life.
2/3
I almost gave him 'Partner with Stiplock, Horned Scholar.'
Make a card based on League of Legends
November 9, 2024 11:14 a.m.
Aatrox, Cruel Savage
Legendary Planeswalker - Aatrox
Creatures you control have Haste, First Strike and Vigilance
+1 Deal 10 damage to target creature, and 1 damage to each of up to 3 other target creatures
+1 Deal 1 damage each to up to 3 target creatures. Put a Stun counter on each creature dealt damage in this way.
-10 You get an emblem with "Whenever a creature you control deals combat damage, ~ deals that much damage to target creature or planeswalker"
8
I know absolutely nothing about League of Legends. I tried very hard to do this justice, and got all of my inspiration from teh internets. I hope I did it right.
In the event that I did this all wrong, feel free to repeat the challenge.
If not, then wild.
November 11, 2024 3:04 a.m. Edited.
TypicalTimmy says... #5
Zurgo, Mardu's Outcast
Legendary Planeswalker - Zurgo
Zurgo is a Creature - Orc Barbarian in addition to his other types. His power and toughness are each equal to his loyalty.
+1 Zurgo deals 3 damage to any target. If it would be destroyed this turn, exile it instead.
-3 You get an emblem with "Creatures you control get +2/+2 and have vigilance and haste."
-10 Search your library for any number of creature cards and put those, and any from your hand, onto the battlefield. They gain vigilance and haste until end of turn.
4
I hope they bring Zurgo back during the Dragonstorm Arc.
Different take on a usual challenge
Go to your favorite plane (As I did with Tarkir) and take a named figure that isn't necessarily a character you love (Again, as did I with Zurgo) and ignite their spark.
November 11, 2024 4:03 a.m.
Radha, Time scarred
Elf spells you cast have Riot (a creature with riot enters the battlefield with either a +1/+1 counter or haste)
+1: add for each creature you control that attacked this turn
-3: untap all creatures you control and after this phase there is an additional combat phase followed by an additional main phase
3
Yes it dies to Lightning Bolt but whatever. I know that dominaria is the flagship plane but as a lover of lore the lore of dominaria with the thousands of years of history going back to the thran is so cool to me.
Next challenge create a card set on a plane that is dominated by a race of geese
November 11, 2024 5:21 a.m.
Claim the Ponds
Enchantment
At the beginning of each player's end step, if that player controls more lands than you, Claim the Ponds deals 2 damage to that player and you create a 1/1 white Bird creature token with flying.
Safe nesting grounds are hard to come by these days, and Brantur Graylegs wants them all.
Create a card showing the main conflict of Goose Plane.
November 11, 2024 5:29 p.m.
Battle for the golden goose egg Enchantment When this card enters, draw a card and create a treasure and a food token. Whenever a player deals combat damage to an opponent, they gain control of each food and treasure that player controls, then draws a card.
Make a gen alpha card.
November 11, 2024 9:21 p.m.
TypicalTimmy says... #9
Mox Hematite
Artifact
: Add
Make a 10/10 wurm with a relatively high mana value (such as +10) or a relatively complex mana cost (such as )
To throw more fun into the fray, it must do something when it enters, attacks, and leaves the battlefield. All three triggers are required, but don't need to be separate things. It could be the same action (such as dealing damage) whenever all three occur.
Or make it all unique triggers. Whateva all good man
November 11, 2024 10:54 p.m.
StarRushford says... #10
Worldrender Wurm
Legendary Creature - Wurm
Trample
When Worldrender Wurm enters the battlefield, creatures you control gain indestructible until end of turn.
When Worldrender Wurm attacks, creatures defending player controls get -3/+0 until end of turn.
When Worldrender Wurm leaves the battlefield, destroy all creatures. They can´t be regenerated.
10/10
November 11, 2024 11:39 p.m.
Apex Regisaur
Creature - Dinosaur
Trample
At the beginning of your upkeep, you may draw cards equal to the power of another target creature you control. If you do, tap ~, and sacrifice a creature with power equal or greater to the amount of cards drawn this way.
Whenever ~ attacks, create three 3/3 Green Dinosaur creature tokens with Trample tapped and attacking. This ability only triggers once each turn.
9/9
"Large tracks have been sighted in the area. The sheer size of a creature that makes such tread...truly must be...." - Lost Explorer's Notes
Wild!
November 12, 2024 11:38 a.m. Edited.
StarRushford says... #14
They Are Watching
Legendary Creature — Eldrazi Scion
When They Are Watching enters the battlefield, exile target creature. Create X 1/1 colorless Eldrazi Scion creature tokens with “Sacrifice this creature: Add {C}.” where X is its mana value.
Eldrazi Scions and Eldrazi Spawn you control have Annihilator X, where X is the number of Eldrazi Scions and Eldrazi Spawn you control.
Sacrifice this creature: Add X {C}, where X is the amount of Eldrazi Scions and Eldrazi Spawn you control.
6/6
Create another Avacyn.
November 12, 2024 11:47 a.m.
Avacyn the traitor
Legendary creature-angel
Flying, Haste At the beginning of your end step, target opponent gains control of this card. This card gets -3/+3 as long as it isn’t controlled by its owner.
Make a card that brings a non-meta deck back to life in any 60-card format.
November 12, 2024 8:52 p.m.
What would it take to bring back Modern 8-Rack?
No Hope
Enchantment
At the beginning of each player's end step, if that player has no cards in hand, they sacrifice a creature.
Ashiok smiled, and the room fell silent and dark. Every corner of Pallar's mind screamed, but her mouth refused to move.
Either make a card for Pallar (literally just a name I made up, no current lore or backstory) or create a Legendary Snow Creature - Elemental.
November 12, 2024 10:04 p.m.
StarRushford says... #17
legendofa I made two cards for Pallar.
Pallar, the Broken
Legendary Creature - Human Wizard
When Pallar or another creature enters the battlefield, each opponent mills X cards, where X is Pallar's power.
1/4
Pallar, Thrall of Ashiok
Legendary Creature - Human Nightmare Wizard
When Pallar attacks, destroy target creature. Each player may discard their hand. Each player who doesn't (or can't) exiles the top five cards of their library. You may cast one of them for each player who exiled cards this way without paying its mana cost.
3/3
Create Pallar, but she's free - either before or after she was taken by Ashiok.
November 12, 2024 10:51 p.m.
Pallar, desperate dreamer
Legendary creature-human
When this card enters, shuffle your library, then exile the top card face down, then draw a card.
, name a card: reveal the exiled card. If it was the named card, you may cast it without paying its mana cost. Exile this card, than return it to the battlefield under it’s owners control. If it wasn’t the card you named, sacrifice this card and search your library for an ashiok planeswalker and put it into your hand, then shuffle. 3/3
Make a card that can be abused at least four different ways.
November 12, 2024 11:20 p.m.
StarRushford says... #19
Visions of Destruction
Enchantment
Whenever a card enters the battlefield, goes into the graveyard, leaves the graveyard, or goes into exile, if this card is visible (in a graveyard, exiled (not face down), or in play), you may draw a card.
Altar of the Brood is the first one that comes into mind. Enter Battlefield Trigger + Enter Graveyard Trigger
Same with a mill deck + Leyline of the Void. Enter Graveyard Trigger --> Leave Graveyard Trigger --> Enter Exile Trigger.
Token decks. We love token decks. Enter Battlefield Trigger + Enter Graveyard Trigger --> Leave Graveyard Trigger --> Enter Exile Trigger (maybe?)
Reanimator decks. Enter Graveyard Trigger --> Leave Graveyard Trigger --> Enter Battlefield Trigger (sometimes).
Same as above.
November 12, 2024 11:56 p.m.
TypicalTimmy says... #20
Embrace the Hive
Enchantment
Whenever you lose life for the first time each turn, create that many 1/1 black Sliver creature tokens.
Sliver tribal, obviously.
A menagerie of token decks that could run things such as Impact Tremors for kickback damage or Doubling Season for swarmlord tactics or Cathars' Crusade for indomitable forces.
Then you have, of course, death and taxes. Nobody wants to swing into you, for you to take 27 damage to the face and have 27 creatures enter.
Finally, any mass sac outlet will want this card. Phyrexian Altar as an example.
Make a brand new Planeswalker who can be used as your commander.
For their power level, design them to be the face of a precon.
November 13, 2024 1:16 a.m.
Dyfed the fool
Creatures enter the battlefield with a phyresis counter on them.
+3:Each player may put a creature with converted mana cost 4 or less from their hand onto the battlefield
0: Put a phyresis counter on target creature
-5: gain control of all creatures with phyresis counters on them
4
Could be the commander of a group hug/theft deck.
Next challenge make a non legendary goblin that is a flip land
November 13, 2024 7:45 a.m.
Mons’s personal guards
Creature-goblin
,sacrifice this card: target goblin you control gets indestructible until end of turn
2/2
Mons’s raided mountain
Mountain
This card enters tapped with a stun counter on it. When it does, target creature gains indestructible until end of turn.
Make a card that is a really bad alt win con
November 13, 2024 10:13 a.m.
Mons’s personal guards
Creature-goblin
,sacrifice this card: target goblin you control gets indestructible until end of turn
2/2
Mons’s raided mountain
Mountain
This card enters tapped with a stun counter on it. When it does, target creature gains indestructible until end of turn.
Make a card that is a really bad alt win con
November 13, 2024 10:13 a.m.
seshiro_of_the_orochi says... #24
Gorex, Delayed Decay
Legendary Creature - Zombie Turtle
Deathtouch, Vigilance
Whenever a creature with toughness greater than its power you control would deal any amount of combat damage to an opponent, that player gets that many decay counters instead.
If a player has 40 or more decay counters, they lose the game.
1/12
Wild.
November 13, 2024 10:25 a.m.
Bant Cataclysm
Sorcery
Destroy all lands.
Each player then draws 7 cards. And may put any number of lands from their hand onto the battlefield.
"Every 10,000 years strange mana full of rage and passion floods Bant and every 10,000 their is a great cataclysm"-Grotus, Grand Loxodon
Make a cataclysm for one of the other shards of alara. It can do whatever you want it to do just make it suitably interesting.
November 13, 2024 12:34 p.m.
Jund Cataclysm
Sorcery
Each player sacrifices all creatures they control. Each player gains X life, where X is the total power of creatures that player sacrificed this way. If an opponent controlled more creatures than you, that player gains twice the amount of life, and you gain half as much life.
"The damned shards; everlasting separation from the medium of balance and control: it's well past due for a correction."
Continue!
November 13, 2024 2:10 p.m.
Esper Cataclysm
Sorcery
Each player sacrifices all artifacts they control, then you gain X mana where X is the total number of artifacts sacrificed.
"Esper, thriving, bountiful- it's absolutely disgusting."
Continue
November 13, 2024 2:53 p.m.
Options left are Grixis (same color), Grixis (same color), Naya (anti color), and Naya (anti color).
Grixis Cataclysm
Sorcery
Each player shuffles their graveyard into their library, then discards their hand and draws equal to the number of cards discarded this way.
"The ground! What happened to the ground?!"
Finish the cycle with Naya Cataclysm.
November 13, 2024 3:11 p.m.
Naya Cataclysm
Sorcery
Each player loses 3 life. Any player may sacrifice a creature. If they do, repeat this process.
"Wilt."
Make a tribal legendary creature that isn't part of the chosen tribe.
November 14, 2024 2:14 a.m.
Old farmer Barrett
Legendary Creature - Human Peasant
Goats, Oxes, Boars and Sheep you control get +2/+2
Whenever a goat, ox, boar or sheep you control dies create a food token.
Sacrifice a goat, ox, boar or sheep you control: Create a treasure token
"He's a farmer"
THere are just not enough good ox, boar, sheep or goat cards to make a good commander deck around this fella, and arguably the best ox is red (Ox of Agonas). There's Pathbreaker Ibex which is a banging card as well and of course the immensely powerful Yoked Ox.
Make a mythic rare white or green ox, goat, sheep or boar that might help pad out this deck.
November 14, 2024 9:04 a.m.
Sheep of sacrifice
Creature-sheep
When this card enters, draw a card.
When you sacrifice this card, create a food token for each boar, ox, sheep, or goat you control.
Escape-, exile a card from your graveyard, sacrifice three foods.
1/1
Make a vanilla for this deck.
November 14, 2024 10:27 a.m.
TypicalTimmy says... #34
Field Ox
Creature - Ox
(no text, it's vanilla)
5/5
Hey a 5/5 for 3 ain't that bad
Wild
November 14, 2024 12:37 p.m.
Temple Mosaic
Artifact
Clerics and Knights you control have vigilance.
: Target Cleric or Knight you control gets +0/+1 until end of turn.
: Temple Mosaic becomes a 2/2 Knight creature in addition to its other types until end of turn.
Create a Legendary Snow Creature - Elemental.
November 14, 2024 4:56 p.m.
griffstick says... #36
Im sharing this deck that's totally alters. I'm sharing it in hopes that you guys have good suggestions as to what to add. Please take a look and make suggestions. I'm about %50 done with the alters. Thank you guys. Deans car collection
November 14, 2024 5:56 p.m.
TypicalTimmy says... #37
Zygoth, The Indomitable
Legendary Snow Creature - Elemental
Snowwalk
Zygoth, The Indomitable gets +1/+1 for each snow permanent you control and has Ward where X is the number of snow permanents your opponents control.
Landfall - Whenever a land enters the battlefield under your control, you may put a snow counter on target permanent. It becomes a Snow type in addition to its other types.
0/1
Wild
November 14, 2024 6:07 p.m. Edited.
TypicalTimmy says... #38
Had to drop him to 0/1 because I forgot basic snow lands are a thing XD
November 14, 2024 6:12 p.m.
markbeloit says... #39
Dark Tendrils
Instant
Choose one —
• Target player reveals their hand. You choose a nonland card from it. That player discards that card.
• Dark Tendrils deals 3 damage to target creature.
Entwine (Choose both if you pay the entwine cost.)
Make a card.
November 14, 2024 8:31 p.m.
Hungry Slime
Creature - Ooze 1/1
Whenever Hungry Slime deals combat damage to a player, create a token that's a copy of Hungry Slime.
Whenever a creature dealt damage by Hungry Slime is put into a graveyard from play, put a +1/+1 counter on Hungry Slime.
Create a creature next
November 14, 2024 9:52 p.m.
TypicalTimmy says... #41
I think I worded that correctly?
So it should function like this:
You don't actually target Wellington.
You do target up to one other creature.
It SHOULD allow you to grab BOTH Wellington AND an opponents creature, but I don't know if I worded that accurately.
You will lose life for both creatures. If you grabbed Wellington and Zetalpa, Primal Dawn, you're looking at 13 life. But that's a Zetalpa you stole from an opponent, so Shrug?
Make another legendary Bard!
November 14, 2024 10:49 p.m.
TypicalTimmy says... #42
Btw yes, there is a musical reference in the card ;)
November 14, 2024 11:29 p.m.
Kinnia, Resplendent Chorus
Legendary Creature - Elemental Bard
Ward - This creature's controller draws two cards.
Whenver Kinnia, Resplendent Chorus enters or attacks, put a Chorus counter on target creature.
Whenever an effect you control would create 1 or more tokens, you may instead have those tokens enter the battlefield as a copy of any creature with a Chorus counter on it.
2/4
"'There is always music if you are willing to truly listen my friend!' - Kinnia, Resplendent Chorus"
I wanted to try and word a Ward ability that would protect/offer a buff to one of my other creatures but the wording was tricky and kept lending to loopholes where opponents wouldn't be able to target Kinnia if I had no other creatures. Something like "Ward - put an indestructible counter on another target creature this player controls" or something to that effect.
Create a (non broken) card with the clause "A deck may have any number of cards named X"
November 15, 2024 12:07 p.m.
Thought Spies
Enchantment
When Thought Crime enters the battlefield choose a card name
Spells of the chosen name can't be cast
A deck may have any number of cards named ~
"Back in my day your skull was your own."-Ravings of a lunatic
Useless in commander and probably too slow for modern when Surgical Extraction exists
Make a black nonhuman wizard creature with power twice its toughness
November 15, 2024 12:14 p.m.
StarRushford says... #45
Shadicon, Ascendant Wizard
Legendary Creature - Skeleton Nightmare Wizard
Unkillable (If this creature would die, instead return it to the battlefield with a -1/-1 counter for each time it has died since it has entered the battlefield. If it has 0 toughness, put it into the graveyard. This does not count as dying.)
When Shadicon enters the battlefield, target opponent loses life equal to its power. You draw two cards and lose two life.
6/3
So, Unkillable makes Shadicon not die for three times and you get its etb effects three times. So, it dies at 6/3, 5/2, 4/1, and 3/0. After it gets to 4/1, it enters one more time, at 3/0, then it goes into the graveyard.
It is similar to Undying and Persist, but keeps coming back until toughness 0.
Make another creature with Unkillable.
November 15, 2024 2:25 p.m.
Unkillable feels like a digital/Arena ability. (That's not a bad thing.)
Gavadey, Chaos Charger
Legendary Creature - Elemental Warrior
Flying, haste
Unkillable
When Gavadey, Chaos Charger enters, draft a card from Gavadey's spellbook.
5/5
(Spellbook: Disperse, Fire / Ice, Flame Discharge, Fog, Frost Breath, Giant Growth, Hydrosurge, Lightning Bolt, Pit Fight, Pyroclasm, Windstorm, Creeping Trailblazer, Lightning Stormkin, Risen Reef, Song of Creation)
Create a Giant in a color pair that doesn't have a Giant.
November 15, 2024 3:21 p.m.
Nan Slapper
Creature - Giant
Trample
When Nan Slapper enters the battlefield it fights target creature you don't control.
Whenever a creature you control fights another creature that creature becomes indestructible until the end of the turn
5/4
"Grandma's of the world beware"
Those who are legends know.
Next challenge make a card with the same name as a song
November 15, 2024 4:08 p.m.
StarRushford says... #48
Giant of the Hordes
When Giant of the Hordes enters the battlefield, create 5 1/1 white Human Warrior creature tokens.
When Giant of the Hordes attacks, create 5 1/1 white Human Warrior creature tokens.
Giant of the Hordes gets +1/+1 for each creature token you control.
If you have ten or more creature tokens, Giant of the Hordes has trample.
3/3
Create a new mechanic that seems like it should be in Arena.
November 15, 2024 4:12 p.m.
Ramp-Put a random land card from your library on the battlefield tapped face down. Turn it face up at any time for . (It tapped for while face down.)
Make a card with this mechanic.
TypicalTimmy says... #1
Inquisitive Minds
Instant
Look at target players hand.
I was combing through the set list for Legends and honestly, as simple as that card is, it would fit nicely into it.
I'm busy at work so I can't reword it like it would have been back in the day.
Make a Minotaur
November 8, 2024 6:25 p.m.