burferking on Card creation challenge
3 weeks ago
No More Taxes
Legendary Enchantment
Once per spell, you may pay instead of additional costs.
Note: each white mana symbols would be different, as depicted in here: [https://mtg.fandom.com/wiki/White#Trivia]
Create a book artifact written by your favorite Magic character.
legendofa on Card creation challenge
3 weeks ago
Ideal of Overcoming
Legendary Enchantment
Escalate - Put a +1/+1 counter on target creature you don't control.
At the beginning of each upkeep, choose one or more:
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Creativity - Scry 1, then you may discard a card. If you do, draw a card.
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Strategy - Target permanent you control gains hexproof and indestructible until end of turn.
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Courage - Creatures you control and creature spells you cast this turn gain haste and first strike until end of turn.
Ideal of Overcoming can be your commander.
Create any card you really want to see. Don't worry about power level; make this your own personal fantasy. Regulars and new participants welcome! Don't be shy!
Moondrop on Volo, guide to monsters and …
3 weeks ago
I have built a Volo deck built around double good cards as well as ones that may not be as good on their own but become discounted versions of themselves because of volo. I was playtesting it when I saw a interaction I didn't before. If you have Volo, Guide to Monsters on the battlefield and then cast Mirror Image could I have it enter as a copy of volo and still have volo copy it( practically double it) with his ability since it does not become a copy of volo until it enters and therefore meets the subtype condition for coping?
plakjekaas on Anowon, the Ruin Thief + …
3 weeks ago
The Water Crystal states: one or more, then that many plus four. Anowon, the Ruin Thief
attacks and isn't blocked. Anowon triggers it's ability that triggers once per player taking damage: damaged player mills cards. How many cards? One for every point of combat damage. In the trigger, that's one number. That's the number modified by the Water Crystal, so four more than the damage taken by rogues in combat.
That's how it works, Anowon triggers once for every time a player is dealt combat damage by rogues. Because the amount it's variable, the amount it's worded to be variable. But it's one amount per trigger.
DrummerGarrett on Kess Grixis Commander !
3 weeks ago
Consider replacing Snapcaster Mage with Feed the Swarm or some other Instant/Sorcery.
seshiro_of_the_orochi on Mortal Kombat
4 weeks ago
Aren't these the best kinds of decks? Even though it might not be competitive, this uses an underutilized card in the way it was supposed to work. So: Good job!
I guess I didn't consider that when I came up with the name. As my phone seems to not let me autofill the username, logging in on mobile is always taking some effort ;D
Balaam__ on Mortal Kombat
4 weeks ago
Thanks seshiro_of_the_orochi. You’re almost certainly right. This started as a fun build when I first came across the namesake card, and at first I didn’t intend it to be anything serious. It’s rather shaky, but it actually turned out much more playable than I first thought. It’s still caught in that no man’s land between ‘vaguely reliable if not exactly competitive’ and ‘this technically functions’, so anything to tip the scales in the other direction is worth considering.
I’ll go ahead and add your suggestions to the maybeboard in case we get some deck tech in the future that gives me good reason to restructure this one. Thanks, as always. Also, your username is a pain in the butt to type in on my phone here, what with those darned underscores XD
LimboPrime on The Syndicate
4 weeks ago
Changed around a few cards, added rooftop bypass, managed to delete one of the phantom blade copies, changed to 10 swamps, 9 Islands
seshiro_of_the_orochi on Mortal Kombat
4 weeks ago
I've seemingly upvoted this before, but didn't comment or anything else.
Awesome idea for a deck! Have you considered a 1-of of Archon of Falling Stars as a way to reanimate Mortal Combat? This would also work quite well with some copies of Dread Return.
Thoughts?
Tsukimi on Card creation challenge
4 weeks ago
Something... Unusual
Creature - Mutant Artificer
Whenever this creature is blocked you may have an opponent Surveil 2, then reveal the top card of their library. If they do, this creature gains first strike and + X + X until end of turn where X is the mana value of the card on top of their library.
Put a flying counter on a creature an opponent controls: You get an Energy Counter.
3/2
"It seems to rely more on delight than strategy captain, but it's already taken out two battalions- What should we do?"
Create something else unusual!
Czarnian90 on Hellegion, Shadows and Flames (Raphael)
4 weeks ago
Oh yeah and Varragoth, Bloodsky Sire is here now :)
Czarnian90 on Hellegion, Shadows and Flames (Raphael)
4 weeks ago
After several more battles, things have begun to shift within the Hellegion. While the Balrog couldn’t even be bothered to wake, another giant is slowly taking the stage. Rakdos’s power and strength are rising, and so is his influence within the Hellegion. It’s becoming very likely that he’ll soon demand the position of commander.
Several black demons have stepped back, leaving Hellegion in search of their own designs. Who knows if they’ll return or reappear in another deck. I’ve heard whispers about Liliana — she would probably welcome some of them.
Feaster of Fools, Goremand, Arbiter of Woe, Dreadhound, Archfiend of Spite, and Embodiment of Agonies have departed. Perforating Artist no longer amuses Rakdos with his petty tricks, and the skeletons have turned to dust.
Rakdos’s growing presence is felt in cards like Rakdos, the Showstopper and Rakdos Joins Up. Juri, Master of the Revue joins to us, and there's now more spotlight for Judith through Judith, Carnage Connoisseur.
Belzenlok’s influence deepens with Rite of Belzenlok, and someone powerful has joined the Hellegion — Ardyn, the Usurper. Though his price is high and he leans heavily into black, I decided to accept his services.
But other beings circle the fire, waiting for their moment.
As Rakdos’s power swells, cards like Rakdos, Patron of Chaos and the guild’s signature mana rocks — Rakdos Cluestone, Rakdos Keyrune, Rakdos Locket — are seeing more attention to support the shift toward a stronger Rakdos color identity.
Infernal Grasp is another devilish trick straight from the pit.
The paths ahead are unclear. Dark beings still linger at the edge, ready to offer their power to the Hellegion — for a price: Skirsdag High Priest, Doom Whisperer, Overseer of the Damned, Spawn of Mayhem, and others...
I also cracked a Mount Doom recently and added it to the deck. I think it fits quite well here.
seshiro_of_the_orochi on Card creation challenge
4 weeks ago
Scourge of the Vengeful
Legendary Creature - Dragon
Flying, Trample
Whenever this creature enters or attacks, you may destroy up to one target artifact, up to one target enchantment, and up to one target land. For each permanent destroyed this way, its controller reveals cards from the top of their library until they reveal a card that shares a card type with it and puts it onto the battlefield, then shuffles the rest into their library.
6/6
Create something unusual.
TheCatHerder on Dwarves pt 2
4 weeks ago
add: needle spires, raging ravine,sunhome,boros keyrune, duelist heritage, berserkers onslaught.
jaykay93 on Anowon, the Ruin Thief + …
4 weeks ago
Mills "a" card not Mills cards so i think first guy is wrong. The draw trigger i think only counts for the 1st cards each proc'd by Anowon.
LimboPrime on The Syndicate
4 weeks ago
It won't let me take out one of the copies of Phantom Blade, it's supposed to have 10 swamps, but oh well.
SufferFromEDHD on Tsabo Tavoc Havoc
4 weeks ago
DreadKhan since you made me aware of Scavenged Brawler it's my turn to make you aware of Qarsi Revenant. They relentlessly release stuff now it's impossible to keep up with. I think in a vacuum Brawler is better because commander damage and the vigilance/trample PB&J but Revenant makes First Strike very scary and is half the cost.
wallisface on Grim Feaster and Orzhov Pallbearers
4 weeks ago
Apologies in advance if the below critique comes across a bit harsh.
These are both extremely weak cards, both in their original forms and your recreations.
The Golgari one you could easily have only cost 2 mana, as well as remove the self-damage clause, and it would still be unlikely to see any play at all.
The Orzhov one you can easily reduce to at least costing only 3 mana, as well as giving it an additional keyword like Flying or First-Strike.
I think with both cards, the reference material is super old, and a lot more could have been done to make these cards feel unique or different (as opposed to just copying rules text onto a creature body).
legendofa on How Are Black, White, and …
4 weeks ago
DemonDragonJ Yeah, that's pretty much it outside of Limited formats. I picked Findbroker as an example because it's a good representative of the philosophy, not because it's an especially efficient card.
DemonDragonJ on Grim Feaster and Orzhov Pallbearers
4 weeks ago
I find both Grim Feast and Proper Burial to be fascinating cards, but they both are rather underpowered in that they cannot do anything on their own (especially since the latter costs 4 mana to cast), so I have created creature versions of each of them, as seen, here.
Grim Feaster Show
For a mere 1 mana more over Grim Feast, this card is a 3/3 creature, and it made sense, to me, for it to be a zombie. This card likely could have been mono-black, as neither of its effects are particularly green, but the original card was black/green, so I made this card those colors, as well. I contemplated giving this creature deathtouch, to trigger its second ability more easily, but I decided that that would make it too powerful, so I did not give it such an ability.
Orzhov Pallbearers Show
I gave this creature vigilance because pallbearers are supposed to be watchful and careful as they carry the casket of the deceased to their grave, and I initially did not wish to give it a name that associated it with a specific faction, but I could not think of a better name, and the artwork of Proper Burial, the card that inspired this one, clearly depicts members of the Orzhov guild, so I decided that that was acceptable, in this case.
What does everyone here think about these creatures? How well did I do, with them?
DemonDragonJ on How Are Black, White, and …
4 weeks ago
All of these are excellent responses, so I thank everyone, for your answers!
legendofa, why would any player ever use Golgari Findbroker over Eternal Witness, when the former creature has a stricter casting cost and can return only permanents? I presume that its advantage is its higher power and toughness, making it better in combat?
DemonDragonJ on How Can Tutor Effects Remain …
4 weeks ago
DreadKhan, I was new to the game during the original Ravnica block, but Brainspoil is definitely a terrible card, and I cannot imagine ever actually casting it, rather than using its transmute ability, and, on that subject, I dearly would like to see WotC print additional cards with transfigure, which currently exists only on Fleshwrither.
DemonDragonJ on Commander/EDH Game Changers
4 weeks ago
Crow_Umbra, I would never do anything that degenerate, as Kinnan is merely a support card/value engine in my Chulance deck, and most of the creatures in that deck, outside of Craterhoof Behemoth, are fairly minor creatures that simply provide value, for me, until I can assemble one of that deck's win conditions.
SaberTech on How Are Black, White, and …
4 weeks ago
In terms of the flavour of each colours' mechanics:
Black doesn't care about the individuality or humanity of what it reanimates. The corpse is just a tool to use for the Black mage's goals. Black gets cheap reanimation effects because it doesn't care about bringing the person back to life, it just wants to get those bones moving. That's why a number of black's reanimation effects also make the creature a zombie when brought back from the graveyard or depict the creature being revived as a zombie in the artwork.
White's reanimation is framed either as the uplifting of the weak (characterized by generally limiting the reanimation target to things with a mana value of 2 or 3) or as some sort of grand miracle of revival that heals and gives a champion a second chance (See higher costed effects like Karmic Guide). It tries to convey a sense of faith that all will be well and people will endure.
Green generally returns cards back to the hand instead of the battlefield because it's framed more as a new member of a species taking the place of a dead one, like when a bear gets to take up the territory of another bear that has passed away. It's all about the cycle of nature continuing on. Even with cards like Reincarnation, the flavour is that one life was given up and a new one takes its place. Green doesn't care about a given individual, once a person's time is up then that's it. Their passing gives room for the growth of another.
ZorrosRage on Ninja Equip * Needs Help
4 weeks ago
Crashing Drawbridge is in the deck because the way ninjas work with doublestrike. you can First strike dammage with a creature. then you can ninjutsu in a ninja for regular strike dammage. so on the following turn i will be dropping the creature i returned and use drawbridge to give it haste.
The idea is to attack with a creature with double strike, and then the ninja comes in and all of the equipment that detatched from previous creature triggers when the ninjas comes in and they do bonus dammage on their attack. Then i can cast the 1-2 drop and use crashing to give it haste and ninja in the next creature
Containment Construct is good because my commader causes when i attack to connive(draw a card and discard) that is why i have some madness stuff in the deck also.
Baleful Strix will prob go back in im just trying to figure out room and have to drop a bunch of cards trying to figure out what.
You are prob right about Spell Pierce will prob remove it. just was lookin gat 1 drop counters.
Caran_Lyg on Mono-Green Basking Broodscale Combo
4 weeks ago
legendofa thanks for clarifying. I removed myself from this thread but you had to tag me still.
OberstHati on Transylvania (Edgar Markov)
4 weeks ago
Nice 1, I took this as a base for Arena Brawl vampires, even lacking a solid Commander it’s rather effective,… I had to Chose Olivia, Opulent Outlaw as Commander for Color Identity and Flavor, Rally the Ranks as another cheap anthem, Sorin of House Markov Flip for flavor and ping,…Cards that really have an impact even without the eminence spawned coven areBloodletter of Aclazotz, especially when on the Board with another Pearl, Roaming Throne. Banner of Kinship is absurd in your Build, Ruinous Ultimatum might come in Handy too, in a few Matches. Moogles' Valor might be fun too… Since you don’t run Vito or marauding blightpriest Bloodthirsty Conqueror would not raise the Deck to Bracket 4,… Just a few Thoughts, You made me want to build Vampires with this Deck instead of Orzhov Aristocrats, definite +1!
Rhadamanthus on Official missing/incorrect card/token thread
4 weeks ago
Some cards from Arena Alchemy 2025 (Y25) seem to be missing (don't know if there are others, these are just the ones I'm currently trying to add to a Brawl decklist): Desert Cenote, Illuminating Lash, Song of Seasons
Blaster-master on Engineer Forge
4 weeks ago
then you get the one sword that untaps for 3 omgggg!!! idk i was trying to brew it but i think it sucks. exert tribal seems goated tho and then you can run like to arms and get people its even good with goblin engineer just spitballing gl king.
DubbleDecker on dragon deck idk
4 weeks ago
It looks like most of these are not standard legal, due to sets cycling out. This means to turn it into a Standard-legal deck, you would need to trade out all the cards with red letters with ones from newer sets that do the same things. This site is a good overview of how Standard works, and which sets are currently legal. https://draftsim.com/mtg-standard-rotation/
I tried copying this deck into Modern, and only nine cards showed up as needing replaced. So I personally, as a slightly impatient deck-building beginner-intermediate would start there, replace cards from earlier sets with ones from newer releases, then play it a bit to see how it works. From there, keeping in mind cards that aren't Standard-legal, find ones with similar functions that are legal. If you go to Edit, then change the format to Modern, you should see less red card names, and know where to start for card replacement.
Not sure how much this helps, or what your Magic experience is, but I hope it works out!
psionictemplar on $20 Sack of Elementals
4 weeks ago
I'm a fan of Sunflare Shaman as a potential finisher myself. I don't think you'd want it as a 4x but 1-2 seems reasonable here.
DreadKhan on How Can Tutor Effects Remain …
4 weeks ago
I'm a fan of Diabolic Revelation, obviously a bit of a build around. I think most tutors suffer from people wanting them to be almost as good as Demnonic/Vampiric Tutor, and those are badly designed/broken cards that ate bans, yet because they exist they normalize something that hurts the game. Diabolic Tutor sees a surprising amount of casual play, and I think that's a reasonable card.
I also enjoyed Transmute, but I will forever be doing penance for having actually cast Brainspoil, is that actually the worst removal spell ever printed? I think it's worse than the Portal stuff, 5 mana for sorcery speed conditional removal with an upside that almost never mattered from the day it was first used? I know they didn't want it to be a good spell, but even Murder was only 3 mana, and this is MUCH WORSE than Murder. I still wonder if they'll do something like Transmute for Boros, only it's restricted to finding Artifacts/Enchantments to keep it from being too useful. I just hope they don't nerf the spells THAT hard.
Nohx on Ninja Equip * Needs Help
4 weeks ago
I really like the idea here. Keep in mind that you can't give double strike to the creature you ninjutsu in.
You have maybe a bit too much counter magic for my taste. Spell Pierce only works in the early game. Since you can give unblockable, you could maybe switch that out with Swan Song.
I also don't really know what you want to use Crashing Drawbridge for, unless you're hardcasting your ninjas.
You have Containment Construct but I don't see any other discard synergy in your deck.
Baleful Strix is a really good draw engine with ninjutsu.
FauxFaux on Card creation challenge
4 weeks ago
Creativity
Creature - Weird Elemental Incarnation
Flash, Myriad
Whenever ~ enters the battlefield, target player may draw two cards, then put one card on top of their library. If that player doesn't, create a Treasure Token.
Whenever you sacrifice a Treasure Token, the next instant or sorcery spell you cast this turn costs less.
3/1
Wild!
legendofa on Combat Distortion
4 weeks ago
NV_1980 Good thought. Shadowspear is out of the budget of this deck, but I'll find space for the other two. I haven't seen a lot of shroud/hexproof in my games recently (usually I'm the one hexproofed up), but it's out there, and indestructible can be an issue.
Doombeard1984 on The Queen's Egg
4 weeks ago
hello Mortlocke and Bishoprage
Sorry to put my 2 pence worth in, but you could also look at the Battlebond lands. There is super limited possibility it comes into play tapped, but with Slivers you are probably killing everyone in 1 go. Rejuvenating Springs could work for you. You could also potentially consider a Verge land Willowrush Verge which again could sort your land quandy with an untapped land. Your shocks should let you hit both land types from it.
Hope that helps a little
Epicurus on Card creation challenge
4 weeks ago
Regret
Creature - Spirit Elemental Incarnation
Whenever a player casts a spell, each of that player's opponents draws a card
Whenever a player draws a card, they lose 2 life
Whenever this creature is put into a graveyard from anywhere, shuffle it into its owner's library.
5/5
Complete this cycle. is left.
NV_1980 on Combat Distortion
4 weeks ago
Interesting take on Xyris there legendofa. If you're going to targeting opposing creatures a lot with enchantments and goad-abilities, you'd want to make sure they can't employ hexproof against you. Adding Arcane Lighthouse, Shadowspear or maybe a less expensive alternative like Bonds of Mortality can help with that.
Simic!
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niceguyeddy00 on X-Points Midrage/Aggro Patriot Skies
4 weeks ago
I took down the XP monthly 52 with this deck. Finals streamed on YT via channel The Orb.
seshiro_of_the_orochi on Card creation challenge
4 weeks ago
Decay
Legendary Creature - Elemental Incarnation
At the beginning of each player's upkeep, that player sacrifices a nonland permanent.
Whenever an opponent sacrifices a permanent, you create a 1/1 black and green worm creature token.
Whenever this creature is put into a graveyard from anywhere, shuffle it into its owner's library.
5/5
Repeat, including the option to go wild.