Ornery Draquus

Creature - Dragon Horse Mount

Saddle 2

Whenever a red creature saddles this creature, it deals 1 damage to target creature.

3/2

Wild.

I don't know if Hivestone would really add anything extra for utility here, but it's a permanent effect that pumps all your creatures. for an anthem? There's also Kudo, King Among Bears, but that has timing issues with Figure of Fable and shrinks Tajuru Paragon, both of which are probably a little more valuable.

Minor, easy-to-fix typo: Teval. Arbiter of Virtue has a period instead of a comma.

Balaam__ This deck came together better than I expected thematically, and those counterspells slotted right in. A slight problem with Lofty Denial is that the dragons usually sit in hand until turn 5-ish, so the Dragon-specific counterspells are easier to get the most out of.

I keep trying to convince myself that set Commander decks are filling roughly the same role as second sets in a block, just released at the same time. They're kind of similar in expanding the mechanics and story of the set.

But yeah, I much preferred the once a year, non-connected Commander decks.

Geslek, Grave Desecrator

Legendary Creature - Lizard Druid Rogue

When this creature enters, exile up to three target creature cards from target opponent's graveyard, then create that many 1/1 black Elemental Skeleton tokens.

: Creatures you control gain haste and first strike until end of turn.

3/3

Create a mono-colored legendary creature with two activated abilities that use different colors, like the Mirage guildmages or Alara battlemages (except legendary).

Maralen of the Mornsong is about as close to this effect as you're going to get. Every draw step becomes a Grim Tutor, and it's got a killer hard lock combo with both Opposition AgentGC and Stranglehold. Ob Nixilis, Unshackled won't make you any friends, either.

Or you could just be friendly and use it as free tutors for everyone.

Craeter I do what I can. Happy to hear you're set to face with confidence!

Always happy to offer suggestions, even if they don't make the cut! And I missed the "crewed by Fran and Balthier" on my first read, so I just saw "Whenever a Vehicle attacks, you may pay..." do that's where that thought came from.

Would Radha, Heir to Keld, Kessig Naturalist  ^Flip, or some ATLA firebending cards fit in here to help pay for Balthier and Fran's extra combats? Savage Ventmaw can pay for two extra attacks by itself.

clayperce Thanks for the support! It was a lot of fun to make these.

Aurora Pegasus

Snow Creature - Elemental Pegasus

Flying

Snow lands you control have ": Add one mana of any color."

Snow spells you cast cost less.

3/3

It is a blessing to see one, and a revelation to see a herd.

The art here is a white horse with aurora-colored and -textured wings, mane, and tail, leaving a translucent afterimage flying through a night sky. Mood is a reverie of awe. Something Rebecca Guay-ish.

Create an Equipment that's a book. Bonus points if it's not a spell book.

That Zombie deck just really made my day. Thanks for the support!

Really capturing the essence of the Zombie archetype and aesthetic here. It's just too bad Deadapult isn't Modern-legal.

plakjekaas I'm trying to find a good source for my statement that isn't like five paragraphs long, but the upshot is that if it was a single segment, would always be first, and would always be last, so something like Kynaios and Tiro of Meletis would be , and Atraxa, Praetors' Voice would be .

To put it in slightly different terms, and in line with your point there, shards use the shortest distance around the circle, and wedges use the most symmetrical distance around the circle. The pentagon on the back of the card doesn't start with white and end with green, it loops around and connects, so that if black was on top, for example, it wouldn't change the order of mana symbols in a card cost. The descriptive order would be , but Sedris, the Traitor King would still be .

It's not quite unconditional removal, since there's a pretty important "unless" in there. Red gets "choice of punishment" effects, but I agree this feels like it's pushing some borders. Maybe they're playing with expanding the range and versatility of these effects? Giving your opponent a choice of effects only really works if both effects are reliably impactful. I'm filing this one as "experimental, will either become a standard effect or a weird one-off".

How do you get the precision of the numbers in the description here? What are the calculations?

Thanks for the upvotes and folder add, and welcome to the club!

Transmuter Training

Enchantment - Class

At the beginning of your combat step, target creature becomes 4/4 until end of turn.

: Level 2 - At the beginning of your combat step, switch target creature's power and toughness until end of turn.

: Level 3 - When this card becomes Level 3, target creature gets +2/+0 until end of turn, another target creature gets -2/-0 until end of turn, and transform this card.

Create the transformed Transmuter Training.

Technically, the official order is more like ... as a repeating cycle, so it captures the stuff like and . It's just written as the single segment for convenience.

For this site, I got nothing.