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#1

You could throw in 1x Exquisite Blood for the fun of it... goes infinite with Dina! +1 from me

March 14, 2024 6:41 a.m.

Toll of Winter

Snow Enchantment Artifact

When Toll of Winter enters, search target opponent's library for two land cards. That player chooses one of them and puts it onto the battlefield tapped. Put the other one onto the battlefield tapped under your control.

: Target creature loses flying and landwalking abilities until end of turn


Still need to figure out if we merge or split and ... I vote merge actually. We can have more tribes than factions and more factions than decks. It's ok if they cooperate in one deck. We have to go Partner Commander anyway imho, since my OG Bridgette design was supposed to be a commander originally. I officially give her errata to partners with ???


Next challenge: Make a partner for Bridgette! Consider the color identity and mechanical themes. Should probably be a Yeti, maybe their queen or sth.

TypicalTimmy wanna take a shot at it yourself, maybe?

March 13, 2024 10:29 p.m.

Do the and go in one deck so we get 4 precons, or do they go in 2 decks and we get 5?

March 13, 2024 7:57 p.m.

Said on griffstick...

#4

Thank you so much! I really would have thought you used sth more exotic. I'll get into that as soon as I find the time

March 13, 2024 7:53 p.m.

Said on griffstick...

#5

Hi griffstick!

I've seen you posting many great cards over in the card challenge forum with even greater artwork, so I was wondering if you found them online or you make 'em yourself? If so, great job!

In case they are AI generated, would you mind sharing that source with me? Thanks in advance and keep up the amazing work on those custom cards!

March 13, 2024 11:42 a.m.

Shadow Agent

Creature - Cat Ranger

Spells with a supertype your opponents cast cost more to cast.

Revenge

3/1


Iceberg Leviathan

Creature - Leviathan

Iceberg Leviathan's power is equal to the number of snow permanents you control and its toughness is equal to the number of snow cards in your graveyard +1.

n/n+1


Magmatic Fallout

Sorcery

Magmatic Fallout deals damage to target creature or planeswalker equal to the number of permanents with a supertype their owner controls.

If you control a snow permanent, it also deals 1 damage to each creature without flying your opponents control.


Do we have enough stuff for the leviathan faction? In my mind, that deck/faction can both synergize with AND hose snow. Let's see more of that

March 13, 2024 6:47 a.m. Edited.

Sorry folks, I'm in the mood for a couple more, get ready


The Steam Engine

Artifact

Whenever a snow creature deals damage to you, you may mill 3 cards.

Exile 6 cards from your graveyard: You gain protection from snow until end of turn.


Kazaroth's Eye

Legendary Artifact

When Kazaroth's Eye enters, target player may discard a snow permanent. If they don't, look at that player's hand and choose a nonland card from it. That player exiles that card.

Whenever a snow permanent is put into a graveyard, you gain 1 life.


The Zinmuth Experiment

Legendary Artifact

You may choose not to untap one or more permanents during your untap step.

: Gain control of target permanent that shares a card type with most or tied for most permanents on the battlefield for as long as The Zinmuth Experiment remains tapped.


Absolute Zero

Snow Enchantment Artifact

Players must choose 0 for all spells and abilities that contain

Creatures with power 0 can't block.

If no spells were cast last turn, exile Absolute Zero and all cards from all graveyards, then each player draws a card.


Aaah, that felt good xD

More love for Matzoth, please. We're also kinda light on enchantments... wonder which faction might have that subtheme

March 12, 2024 8:52 p.m.

Halite Spurs

Artifact - Equipment

Equipped creature has snowlandwalk.

Whenever equipped creature deals combat damage to a player, phase out target snow permanent that player controls.

Equip


Maybe another one?

March 12, 2024 3:41 p.m.

Glacier Surfer

Snow Creature - Yeti

Snowlandwalk

At the beginning of your upkeep, put a +1/-1 counter on Glacier Surfer.

0/4


Continue with the challenge

March 12, 2024 10:46 a.m.

I think a lot of people don't dislike those filler episodes per se, the stories they tell and the characters they show, but rather the timing. If they were slotted in between the major sagas people would not complain as much imho. Heck, sometimes you had dbz episodes where everyone was just heavy breathing and telling each other how strong they were without progressing the story one iota xD no one needs THAT kind of filler

March 12, 2024 8:25 a.m.

The First Ice Age

Legendary Snow Enchantment - Saga

Each player sacrifices a land and searches their library for two basic snow lands with the same name and puts them onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffles.

Each player sacrifices a creature with toughness 2 or less. Add for each creature sacrificed this way and you don't lose this mana as steps and phases end.

Each opponent draws a card. Search your library for a legendary artifact with mana value less than or equal to the number of cards drawn this way and put that card into your hand, then shuffle. Exile The First Ice Age and return it to the battlefield transformed.


End of The First Ice Age

Legendary Snow Enchantment - Saga

Each player sacrifices a snow permanent.

Exile this permanent, then you gain 1 life for each snow card in all graveyards and in exile.


Repeat previous challenge: create a card for matzoth, bonus points if it's for the

March 12, 2024 7:05 a.m. Edited.
March 10, 2024 11:16 a.m.

(Addition to bullet point 2: that's why the are sending out the Rangers!)

March 10, 2024 8:34 a.m.

More additional thoughts:


  • Why did the Yetis team up with Bridgette? This has bothered me a bit tbh but today it struck me - to them, she restores the world to what they consider to be its natural state, taking reference to the first ice age, a very motif!

  • The faction needs a stronger identity imho. Clearly, the key to fighting the ice lies in . The does not have that, but they are desperately looking to find the remains and offspring? of those people and their artifact tools who managed to defeat the ice in the past... but heck, even their tombs are hard to localize under all that snow.

  • I feel like the should mechanically be able to make use of the snow mechanic in such a way that it works against the snow theme. So while the rest of the defendant tribes are mostly avoiding the snow because they find it hard to deal with, or just melting it down with warmth, have the secret knowledge of how to use to their advantage... possibly, using that knowledge to end the first ice age did cost most of them their lives for some reason.


Tomb of Kazaroth

Legendary Snow Land

Permafrost - Tomb of Kazaroth enters tapped with two stun counters unless you control two or more other snow permanents.

Pay 1 life, : Add or

Tap an untapped artifact you control, : Add . Activate only if an opponent controls three or more snow permanents


The ice has awakened its own greatest enemy.

Tomb inscription


Do the ninja'd challenge:

Create another card for Matzoth! Bonus points if it’s for this faction, or names one or all of the factions (giving them actual names instead of us calling them the yeti/bridgette faction or the red black faction or whatever)

March 10, 2024 8:23 a.m.

Is there not a re-edit remaster where the filler is missing?

March 9, 2024 6:50 p.m.

Imho it's interesting if we just left to be underrepresented for this particular set of precons and the story attached to it. It is way too often used as a sugarcoat for "evil stuff" and we have at our hands a great opportunity where can shine as the good folk suppressed underdog resistance and at the same time the opposite is true for the main aggressor/villain be in the colors considered more "peaceful" or good. Makes total sense for the thing we got going. It creates interesting tensions which could not be explored in a limited/draft set for example.

Maybe, for completeness sake or if we wanted a fifth thing for lore or sth, there could be an artifact centered faction but their ties are much more focused on the time of the first freeze? Maybe they are extinct/dead/missing? Legends looking to be found or to be awoken... their spirits to be summoned?

But again, I do not think we need to go there.


If anyone's wondering, there seems to be no current challenge, so let me just spell out the last one in case readers are lost:

Level 1: Wild.

Level 2: Create another card for Matzoth.

Level 3: Summarize another faction in a single card.

March 9, 2024 5:24 p.m. Edited.

Additional thoughts:


  • The Yeti/Bridgette/Ice faction is clearly the agressor in my mind, bringing misguided law/Cryofascism over the world

  • The Rangers and other tribes are mostly at the mercy of Bridgette, and can only semi-organize themselves into a secret underground resistance. They are scattered all over the icy regions and communication and coordination is hard.

  • The Griffins and most other creatures in that faction can pose the OPEN resistance. Since the equator is hard to control for Bridgette, this faction can openly confront the agressors.

  • The Leviathan faction is almost neutral, indecisive or indifferent about the general situation (at least in my mind) so naturally, the other factions will try to win them over for a decisive victory to gain definitive control over everything.


Current challenge is still:

Level 1: Wild.

Level 2: Create another card for Matzoth.

Level 3: Summarize another faction in a single card.

March 9, 2024 3:16 p.m. Edited.

I feel like we need more lands so here we go:


Equatorial Oasis

Land

Pay 1 life, : Add

Remove a counter from a permanent you control, : Add one mana of any color

Equatorial Oasis enters with a warmth counter on it.


"Inamia Deloratu"

- The belt of life (Ancient Central Matzothian)


Sooo, since the first spell that kicked off the whole designing spree says "REfreezes" it makes sense that the historic people on that plane would already have made similar experience, hence the flavor text.

First I was thinking striktly tailoring this to the Griffin faction, but then decided it should slot into all of the green decks.

The idea is that, while most of the planet is ice, the equator region is kinda hard to maintain for Bridgette since it naturally keeps melting more easily.


Stealing the prev challenge:

Level 1: Wild.

Level 2: Create another card for Matzoth.

Level 3: Summarize another faction in a single card.

March 9, 2024 2:56 p.m.

Pol Ring

Snow Artifact

: Add

Permafrost - Pol Ring enters tapped unless you control two other snow permanents.

Crafted in the high north with silver from the deep south.


Continue with this plane, or wild

March 9, 2024 8:08 a.m.

Aaaah, ninjad but still works, kinda...


Cryoconservation

Instant

This spell costs less to cast for each 1 life gained this turn.

Counter target spell or ability that targets another player or a permanent you don't control unless its controller pays . If they don't, they draw a card.

If you control a Snow-Covered Island, draw a card.


"I must save this world no matter what - the ice will preserve its beauty forever!" - Bridgette


Still loving this plane, maybe give us a land, or noncreature permanent? (See above for lots of reference)

March 7, 2024 7:22 p.m. Edited.

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