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Posted on Oct. 10, 2013, 10:47 p.m. by Dreno33

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Force of Habit

Instant

3UU

You may exile a land card from your hand rather than pay Force of Habit's mana cost.

Counter target spell if you've successfully countered at least one spell this game.

November 4, 2013 7:45 p.m.

MrKnify says... #2

Name: Bringer of the END

Cost: BBWWRR

Card Type - Subtype:Sorcery

Card Text: Target player sacrifices a Creature and a Permanent they control. On that players upkeep they may cast a copy of this spell for 4 colourless.

Every time this spell is copied, The controller of it chooses another target in addition to those chosen.

Flavor Text: When the end comes, it comes in spades!

November 4, 2013 10:27 p.m.

jonhydude says... #3

@MrKnify I would love to use that card in a commander deck, but it seems more grixis coloured.

November 4, 2013 11:11 p.m.

Badhand says... #4

Name: Ruthless Ambition

Cost: 1 B B

Card Type- Subtype- Enchantment

Card Text- Creatures you control are treated as being legendary. Creatures you control gets +1/+1 for each creature of the same name in all players graveyards.

Flavor Text- "What happened to your brother?" "Riding accident." "Your other brother?" "Hunting accident." "Your father?" "He fell down some stairs."

November 5, 2013 12:24 a.m.

Badhand says... #5

@ Devonin When you say "best" do you mean broken or just funny?

November 5, 2013 12:28 a.m.

Devonin says... #6

@Badhand Oh it's not broken at all. It just perfectly captures that element of the character of Roberts.

November 5, 2013 6:56 a.m.

wwhitegoldd says... #7

Name: Trostani, Bringer of the Wild Dawn

Cost: GGWW

Card Type - Subtype: Planeswalker - Trostani

Card Text:

+2 Put two 1/1 white spirit creature tokens with flying onto the battlefield.

-3 Put a 5/5 green wurm creature token with trample onto the battlefield.

-10 Until end of turn creature tokens you control get +X/+X and gain trample, where X is half the number of creature tokens you control rounded down.

Starting Loyalty: 3

Name: Zegana, Master Biomancer

Cost: 1GU

Card Type - Subtype: Planeswalker - Zegana

Card Text:

+1 Target creature gets +3/+3 until end of turn. You may activate this ability during your combat step.

-2 Scry two, than draw a card.

-7 Draw cards equal to the total power of creatures you control.

Starting Loyalty: 3

November 5, 2013 11:31 a.m.

wwhitegoldd says... #8

Oh, here's a broken one.

Name: Rafiq Thrane

Cost: 1GWU

Card Type - Subtype: Planeswalker - Rafiq

Card Text:

+1 Choose one - Target creature gains lifelink until end of turn; or Target creature gains trample until end of turn; or Return target creature to it's owner's hand.

-3 until end of turn up to five target creatures you control gain exalted.

-10 You get an emblem with "Creatures you control have Exalted" and "Whenever a creature you control attacks alone it gains double strike, Hexproof, lifelink, and trample until end of turn."

Starting Loyalty: 4

November 5, 2013 11:53 a.m.

Krayhaft says... #9

Chaos Knight BBRR

Legendary Creature - Knight

First strike, haste

4BR: Put three creature tokens that are a copy of Chaos Knight onto the battlefield. Sacrifice those creatures at end of turn.

4/4

November 5, 2013 2:06 p.m.

Infral says... #10

Krayhaft: Maybe you should make that one none legendary, as either the tokens or itself would die from all the copies of it self.

November 5, 2013 2:25 p.m.

Here's an Idea I almost dismissed because I absolutely dislike randomness (not a single coin toss among all of my cards, i usually tear those to pieces (the cards, not the coins) ). But it's quite reliable if you can prevent single points of damage or have another harmonic essence shield in play. Also, remember that the life total can drop below zero, so picking "even" isn't safer than "odd" by default.

Harmonic Essence Shield

  • 2WW
  • Enchantment
  • When this card enters the field, choose "odd" or "even".
  • If a source would deal damage to you that sets your life total to a number of the chosen quality, prevent that damage and you gain that much life instead.
  • "We're save as long as the shield frequency matches that of their beams." Popular quote from Floggelwyrths Book of Hilarious Last Words
November 5, 2013 3:47 p.m.

Blizzicane says... #12

November 6, 2013 1:23 a.m.

Ultimaodin says... #13

Snowstorm I feel it needs white in the cost. Blue is probably the least appropriate colour wise. Green fits the idea of strong surviving, red fits the dmage to all and white fits the balance of it. (plus white has life gain to put you ahead)

November 6, 2013 2 a.m.

Blizzicane says... #14

@ Ultimaodin

The reason for blue is because blue is usually associated with cold things magic wise.

a example would be this or this Winter's Chill

November 6, 2013 3:05 a.m.

Devonin says... #15

@Triforce-Finder Even though life can go below zero, I still feel like you're much better off picking even. The number of times I've been dealt exactly lethal damage anecdotally outweighs the number of times a huge alpha strike has come in by a large margin.

Just change the syntax to "If a source would deal damage to you that sets your life total to a positive number of the chosen quality" and it's not even a concern anymore.

November 6, 2013 7:28 a.m.

Ultimaodin says... #16

Snowstorm Wasn't the entirety of the Ice Age, Cold Snap, the other snow themed one, sets related to being cold - regardless of colour wheel position. There were even snow mountains for the snow lands.I just don't think flavour wise it suits blue.

November 6, 2013 9:33 a.m.

@ Devonin

It's actually not an issue that the effect can negate damage exceeding lethal. It secures at least a mathematical equality of chances for either choice. Practically, however, the opponent wont spend extra recources to deal more damage than necessary, for example when casting Fireball . Most effects are not capable of dealing variable damage, though. So it will happen often enough that you end up with -1 or -3 etc.

Limiting the effect to positive life totals would actually create an even bigger imbalance towards "even". The only lethal damage that could be prevented is exact lethal damage, as zero is usually treated as even number in MtG. Also, I can see that causing heated discussions about zero being positive or not. Don't want that weighing down my karma...

I'm sorry if it sounded like describing a problem, because I was attempting to preemptively counter critics that wouldn't take negative life totals into account. I appreciate the thought nonetheless, thanks for being helpful.

November 6, 2013 10:47 a.m.

@ Ultimaodin and Snowstorm

Blue represents the the elemental forces of water and air. Physically, Blue is associated with speed, flight, fluidity, movement and the like. I think a snowstorm is a perfect representation of those elements, snow being frozen water crystals, and a storm being very fast moving air. Snowflakes definitely carry the quality of flight when a storm lashes them around. But the one thing that definitely justifies blue is that it's a weather phenomenon.

In a snowstorm, Light is either refracted or completely blocked out, sight is near zero. Even the plainest plains are thick as a forest at night when a snowstorm rages over them. So, that's a clear point against the flavor being related to white. Sun and snow don't exactly go together well (ask frosty, the snowman), that could be seen as another point against white.

Snow isn't really white, just as water isn't really blue. It just looks that way, both are actually colorless. Just a thought that might ease the topic up a little...

November 6, 2013 11:17 a.m.

Minimalistix says... #19

Name: Vespian Phantom

Cost: U

Card Type - Subtype: Creature - Illusion

Card Text: Flying, 2U: Draw a card, Whenever Vespian Phantom becomes the target of a spell or ability, sacrifice it.

Power / Toughness: 1/2

November 7, 2013 3:45 a.m.

JWiley129 says... #20

Storm Collector - 2UU

Creature - Human Cleric

At the beginning of your upkeep put a 1/2 blue Bird creature token named Storm Crow . onto the battlefield.

When you control 20 or more creatures named Storm Crow you win the game.

He who controls the Storm Crow, controls the world.

1/2

November 7, 2013 3:47 a.m.

Minimalistix says... #21

Thanks JWiley129, I like the way you post your idea, I'ma copy that...I mean be completely original...

Vespian Mirage - 3U

Creature - Illusion

Flying

Whenever a non-token Illusion comes into play, put a token onto the battlefield that is a copy of Vespian Mirage.

Whenever Vespian Mirage becomes the target of a spell or ability, sacrifice it.

November 7, 2013 4:05 a.m.

Minimalistix says... #22

oops I meant to say that it's a 1/1

Vespian Mirage - 3U

Creature - Illusion

Flying

Whenever a non-token Illusion comes into play, put a token onto the battlefield that is a copy of Vespian Mirage.

Whenever Vespian Mirage becomes the target of a spell or ability, sacrifice it.

1/1

November 7, 2013 4:07 a.m.

Minimalistix says... #23

Reconstruct the Realms - 5WUBRG

Sorcery

Each Player, Starting with you, loses X life, shuffles all cards he or she owns in the game into their library, and then reveals X cards from the top of their library where X is the number of permanents that player controls plus the number of cards in that player's hand and graveyard.

For each non-land permanent card revealed this way, put that card onto the battlefield.

For each non-permanent card revealed this way, exile that card and that player may play that card at anytime as though it had flash.

For each land card revealed this way, put that card onto the battlefield tapped and that player gains 2 life.

November 7, 2013 4:13 a.m.

Devonin says... #24

Lose life equal to Play, Hand and Graveyard, and then only gain back 2 per land revealed? That's pretty much going to be a "everybody loses, game is a draw" card almost all of the time.

November 7, 2013 8:49 a.m.

Minimalistix says... #25

Reconstruct the Realms - 5WUBRG

Sorcery

Each Player, Starting with you, Exiles all cards he or she owns that are not in their library, reveals that many cards from the top of their library, and then shuffles the exiled cards into their library.

For each non-land permanent card revealed this way, that player puts that card onto the battlefield under his or her control.

For each non-permanent card revealed this way, that player puts that card into his or her hand.

For each land card revealed this way, that player puts that card onto the battlefield tapped and gains 2 life.

November 8, 2013 12:42 a.m.

Minimalistix says... #26

I changed some of the wording, does it work better now? Also I'd like to think that because a lot of magic cards tend to have additional rulings on the website, I can just state here that:

Reconstruct the Realms affects players in turn order, starting with you and then repeating the process again for each other player in turn order.

Permanents placed on the battlefield are placed at the same time, abilities on cards will be put onto the stack and will resolve after Reconstruct the Realms has fully resolved.

Abilities that activate as Reconstruct the Realms resolves, will resolve after Reconstruct the Realms has fully resolved, the order in which the abilities resolve are in turn order starting with you.

November 8, 2013 12:46 a.m.

Fossilized Dragon

2RRR

Creature- Skeleton Dragon

Defender

At the beginning of each step if a player was dealt 6 or more damage this turn, Fossilized Dragon loses defender and gains flying

"The burning cities stirred it from death, reminding it of the familiar, appetizing scent of calamity"

8/8

November 8, 2013 9:17 p.m.

jonhydude says... #28

@BlastercoolWeird So does that mean I have to Lightning Bolt my opponent twice before I can attack him/her?

November 8, 2013 10:54 p.m.

@jonhydude I suppose? Or you could get hit by their Lightning Bolt twice. or you ransack them with a bunch of attackers. or if there's an Inferno

Point here is Fossilized Dragon is lazy (and a mostly dead skeleton) so it won't get wake up unless someone is having a really bad day.

November 8, 2013 11:13 p.m.

also, sorry meant to say "End Step"

November 8, 2013 11:19 p.m.

Thebigshaggy says... #31

How About:

Extreme Inertia

2UU

Sorcery

Each creature with flying deals damage to itself equal to its power.

"I'm comin' in too hot!"

November 9, 2013 12:56 a.m.

DaShPrime says... #32

I think you can afford to lower the mana cost on Fossilized Dragon with a drawback that big, it can even be 1RRR or 3R

November 9, 2013 1:17 a.m.

I think there are no colorless enchantments yet, or are there? Anyway, here goes:

Increased Gravity

3
Enchantment
Every creature's power is reduced by its printed toughness.
All creatures lose flying.

Consumed by Power

3
Enchantment
Every creature's toughness is reduced by its printed power.
All creatures lose trample.

November 9, 2013 2:09 a.m.

Artemis_Swift says... #34

Virus

3
Creature - Virus
(VIrus is colorless)
VIrus untaps on every upkeep.
Obdurate. (This card can target permanents who normally have protection from it.)

Tap: destroy target permanent. Play only as a sorcery on your turn. Any player may use this ability on their turn.

Nothing escapes.

0/1

An idea I had years ago on a different forums page. The idea was that you could destroy anything on the field, extremely overpowered, but an opponent could use the same ability on their turn. Also thought it would be best as a creature.

November 9, 2013 7:45 a.m.

wwhitegoldd says... #35

The Unthinkable

UU

Instant

Counter target spell that cant be countered.

November 9, 2013 8:20 a.m.

@ wwhitegoldd

There's a reason for cards that can't be countered to exist. Every build needs a nemesis, and control decks are already annoying enough as it is.

November 9, 2013 1:23 p.m.

@wwhitegoldd

Problem with that, besides it just being a very narrow card design, is that I'm pretty sure "Can't" trumps "can" in regards to this sort of thing. Kind of like how Defenders can't attack even if forced

November 9, 2013 2:11 p.m.

ErebusX says... #38

Sliver Queen

Figured perhaps that she could break out her plane and spread her horde to other planes.

November 9, 2013 3:30 p.m.

Devonin says... #39

@wwhitegoldd You'll find that BlastercoolWeird is right that a "can't" overrules a "can" (It's one of the Magic Golden Rules)

It would also be incredibly messy and possibly not even work to try and template your way around it. If uncounterability was a keyword, it would be trivial. Assume they replace the clause

"CARDNAME can't be countered by spells or abilities" with the keyword "Uncounterable"

You could easily make a spell


The Unthinkable
UU
Instant

The Unthinkable can only target spells with Uncounterable.

Target spell loses Uncounterable
Counter Target Spell


But as long as it isn't a keyword, I don't think you can template a spell to only be able to target 'cards whose rules text includes 'can't be countered by spells or abilities'

And if it can ONLY counter spells which are otherwise uncounterable, it needs to only cost U, as it is a completely dead card in almost every circumstance.

Alternately, within the existing rules and templating, you could print something like


The Unthinkable
2UUU
Instant

Exile target spell


That would get you passed uncounterability, and everything else, but since it also works on non-uncounterable things and exiles instead of putting in the graveyard, it needs to cost WAAY more than UU to not be insanely broken.

November 9, 2013 4:46 p.m.

Force of Habit

Instant

1UU

You may exile a blue card from your hand rather than pay Force of Habit's mana cost.

Cast Force of Habit only if you've successfully countered at least one spell this game.

Couner target spell.

November 9, 2013 7:55 p.m.

Devonin says... #41

You posted that 5 days ago with a better mana cost.

November 9, 2013 9:32 p.m.

I revised it. I thought that it deserves a lower cost considering its inferiority to Force of Will .

November 9, 2013 10:22 p.m.

Lab of Darkovia

Land

Pathway (When this land enters the battefield, target opponent may choose a creature. That creature is unblockable until your next upkeep.)

Tap: Add B or G to your mana pool.

Where experiments of the greatest darkness are born

November 9, 2013 10:27 p.m.

ErebusX says... #44

Common Cold

November 10, 2013 12:51 a.m.

Devonin says... #45

I like it better with Wither, so it can't one-shot players if you make it unblockable.

November 10, 2013 1:18 a.m.

Korombos says... #46

@ErebusX I think a new type (Disease/ Virus) might be better or good old Germ... and @Devonin I agree that wither would also be a better fit. maybe give something that won't be hitting the battlefield so large Infect. (MRSA)

November 10, 2013 9:29 a.m.

ErebusX says... #47

Common Cold

November 10, 2013 4:23 p.m.

Minimalistix says... #48

Daybreaker Vampire - 1RR

Creature - Vampire Shaman

Haste

Whenever Daybreaker Vampire deals damage to a player, put a +1/+1 counter on it.

Tap: Deal 1 damage to target creature or player.

November 11, 2013 3:56 a.m.

Minimalistix says... #49

1/1

Why do I keep forgetting to type P/T

November 11, 2013 3:57 a.m.

Minimalistix says... #50

Golden Terrain

Land

Golden Terrain enters the battlefield tapped.

When Golden Terrain enters the battlefield, sacrifice it unless you exile a land and a creature you control.

T: Add 2 to your mana pool.

T: Add one mana of any color to your mana pool.

November 11, 2013 4:17 a.m.

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