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Posted on Oct. 10, 2012, 2:20 p.m. by Cirdan13
So the idea here is obviously to create a card but the catch is that you are given the name of the card and design the card to fit the name. You then pick the name for the next card.
EXAMPLE (I am using an actual card chosen at random on http://gatherer.wizards.com)
Welding Jar (Name of the card you create)
0 (Casting Cost)
Artifact (Card Type)
Sacrifice Welding Jar: Regenerate target artifact. (Rules Text)
The wires crawl over broken metal and heat themselves to melting, filling cracks quickly and efficiently. (Flavor text. Completely optional.)
Dragon Fodder (The name of the card that the next person will be designing. [Another random card from Gatherer])
Additional Rules:
You cannot create a card for a name you give. In other words, you cannot design 2 cards in a row.
If 2 cards get posted at the same time it is up to you to chose which name you want to continue with.
Cards can be serious or "Un"-style. Your choice.
Now to get this started I give you:
Psychopathic Storyteller
Fiery Sanctuary
2RW
Enchantment
RW: Prevent the next 1 combat damage that would be dealt to you and/or permanents you control this turn. If damage is prevented this way, Fiery Sanctuary deals that much damage to target attacking creature.
Next Card: Goblin Beermaster
October 21, 2012 5:29 p.m.
Goblin Beermaster3RCreature-GoblinWhen Goblin Beermaster enters the battlefield, all creatures get +1/-1, gain trample, and can't block until your next turn.2/2
Next card: Murmuring Madman
October 21, 2012 7:45 p.m.
Murmuring Madman
1BU
Creature - Human Wizard
2/1
U, T: Draw a card, then discard a card. ~ deals 1 damage to target creature or player and 1 damage to you.
Next Card: Love/Hate (Split Card, perhaps)
October 22, 2012 11:36 a.m.
Love/Hate
W/R,W/R
Instant
If white was spent to play this spell, you gain 3 life.
If red was used to play this spell, Love/Hate deals 3 damage to target creature or player.
"Sometimes the only difference between love and hate is perception."
Next Card: Phyrexian Chopsticks
October 22, 2012 12:08 p.m.
Absinthman says... #6
Next Card: Wrath of Men (Inspired by Wrath of God . What would happen if we got angry for a change? I'm curious about what you guys will come up with...)
October 22, 2012 12:53 p.m.
Wrath of Men
2RR
Sorcery
Destroy all lands. Wrath of Men deals damage to all creatures and players equal to the number of lands destroyed this way.
"When God shows his wrath, the land is purified. When man shows his wrath, the land is destroyed, causing all life to suffer."
Next Card: Lucky Rabbit's Foot
October 22, 2012 1:40 p.m.
Avatar of Weakness
6BB
Creature - Avatar
Avatar of Weakness enters the battlefield with a weakness counter on it. All other creatures get -X/-X, where X equals the number of weakness counters on Avatar of Weakness. During each end step, put a weakness counter on Avatar of Weakness if a nontoken creature an opponent controls died that turn.
6/5
Planar Transformation
October 23, 2012 4:27 a.m.
Caine, Father of Vampires
2BBB
Planeswalker - Caine
+2: Put 2 1/1 black Vampire creature tokens with flying onto the battlefield.
-3: Gain control of target creature. That creature is a black Vampire in addition to its other colors and types.
-9: You get an emblem with, Whenever a Vampire you control deals combat damage to a player, put a +1/+1 counter on it.
4
This was actually hard to do because I didn't want a clone of Sorin yet he already had some of the best vampire flavored abilities I could think of.
Next Card: Salt Merchant
October 23, 2012 6:24 p.m.
Rhadamanthus says... #12
Salt Merchant
1WU
Tap: Destroy target enchantment attached to you or a permanent you own.
"A little pinch over the shoulder wards off the evil eye. A circle can keep the most mischievous spirits at bay."
2/2
October 23, 2012 10:27 p.m.
Rhadamanthus says... #13
Whoops, forgot a couple things.
Creature - Human Shaman
Next card: Merfolk Mercenary
October 23, 2012 10:28 p.m.
GriffinRider says... #14
Merfolk Mercenary
1UU
Unblockable
Tap, Sacrifice Merfolk Mercenary: Put a token that's a copy of Merfolk Mercenary onto the battlefield under your control.
2/2
Next card: Mind Violator
"As the towns militia hired merfolk mercenaries, they quickly discovered that they had too many mercenaries to handle"
Explanation:
0) I'm terrible at flavour text
0) I like Myr Propagator .
October 24, 2012 2:56 a.m.
GriffinRider says... #15
Whoops I'll redo that whole last paragraph
- I'm terrible at flavour text
- I like Myr Propagator
October 24, 2012 2:58 a.m.
Merfolk Mercenary
1UU
Creature - Merfolk
Unblockable
Merfolk Mercenary enters the battlefield with one contract counter on it.
X: X equals the number of contract counters on Merfolk Mercenary. Put a contract counter on Merfolk Mercenary and gain control of it. Any player may use this ability.
3/3
"We like mercenaries. They always work for the highest bidder and we are always the highest bidder." - Orzhov Ghost Council
Side note: While searching for ideas for a better subject for the attribution I came across the flavor text on Rebel Informer (The problem with mercenaries is that if you can buy their loyalty, others can too.) and seriously thought about hijacking it and just replacing the whole flavor text.
Next Card: Weak Spot
October 24, 2012 3:51 a.m.
Ok I guess I was searching around for almost an hour and got sniped. My bad.
October 24, 2012 3:53 a.m.
Weak Spot
2W
Instant
Target creature gains protection from all colors of permanents target opponent controls.
Next card: Army Of One
October 24, 2012 11:48 a.m.
GriffinRider says... #19
Army of One
3W
Creature - Human Soldier
At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice Army of One if you control another creature.
Exalted, Exalted, Vigilance.
Whenever Army of One attacks or blocks, destroy target permanent.
"War drove him crazy so he sought solitude. Then he realised that solitude was boring."
Next Card: Mind Violator
October 24, 2012 4:24 p.m.
Mind Violater
2BB
Creature - Specter
Flying
Whenever Mind Violater deals combat damage to a player, that player reveals his or her hand. Choose a sorcery, instant, or enchantment card from it. That player discards that card.
3/3
Next Card: Watcher of the Road
October 24, 2012 4:56 p.m.
cartwheelnurd says... #21
Watcher of the road
1WW
Creature-Human Soldier
Defender
Creatures can't attack unless their controller pays 1 for each attacking creature.
Whenever a creature deals damage, tap it. It doesn't untap during its controllers next untap step.
1/5
"He cannot be distracted. He does not take bribes. He does not pick favorites. All are scrutinized under his gaze."
Next Card: Ludevic's other test subject.
October 24, 2012 5:15 p.m.
The flavor text is a homage to the flavor text on card:Ludevic's Abomination Flip.
Next Card: Controlled Chaos
October 24, 2012 9:42 p.m.
TheOne4221 says... #23
Controlled Chaos
1WR
Enchantment
At the beginning of every player's upkeep, they discard a card. You gain life equal to that card's converted mana cost.
"The landlord's not very pleasant, and the barmaid may be sultry, but don't cause too much trouble or you're out the door"
Next card: Eon Tear
October 24, 2012 9:52 p.m.
GriffinRider says... #24
Eon Tear
1UU
Enchantment
At the beginning of each player's upkeep, that player shuffles the creature with the greatest power among creatures they control into their library then reveals cards from their top of their library until they find a creature with the same name. That player puts that creature on top of their library. Put the revealed cards on the bottom of that players library in any order.
"Back to square zero"
Next Card: Leukin's Terror.
(See the flavour text for Death Wind ).
October 25, 2012 1:09 a.m.
Leukin's Terror
2B
Enchantment - Aura
Enchant creature
Enchanted creature gets -X/-0, where X is equal to its power, cannot attack, and its activated abilities can't be activated.
Next Card: Rage of Sarkhan Vol
October 25, 2012 9:33 a.m.
Indomitable Fuzzy Bunny
3W
Creature - Rabbit
Defender, Reach, Deathtouch
3/5
"AIIIEEEE!" - The Knights of the Round Table, Last Words
Next Card: Open Discussion
October 25, 2012 4:25 p.m.
GriffinRider says... #28
Open Discussion
WU
Enchantment
Each player plays with their hands revealed.
At the beginning of each player's upkeep, that player gains 1 life.
"Can't we just be friends?"
Next Card: Thalia's Vengeance
October 25, 2012 4:30 p.m.
Rhadamanthus says... #29
Open Discussion
3U
Sorcery
Each player reveals his or her hand. Starting with you, each player chooses a nonland card in an opponent's hand. The owners of the chosen cards may cast them without paying their mana costs.
Next Card: Godly Plate of the Whale (if you played the original Diablo you might know where I'm going with this)
October 25, 2012 4:32 p.m.
GriffinRider says... #31
Forget my suggestion for the next card, King's Sword of Haste looks more interesting.
October 26, 2012 6:33 a.m.
King's Sword of Haste
3
Artifact - Equipment
Equipped creature has double strike.
If King's Sword of Haste and Godly Plate of the Whale are both equipped to the same creature, equipped creature has hexproof and is indestructible.
Equip 4
Next Card: Goblin Hunting Party
October 26, 2012 9:19 a.m.
Serra Cupid
1 W/R
Legendary Creature - Angel Deity
Flying, First Strike
When Serra cupid enters the battlefield you may put an arrow counter on target creature your opponent controls. And a blessing counter on target creature you control.
As long as Serra Cupid is in the battlefield, creatures with arrow an arrow counter can't block creatures with blessing counters. Damage dealt by creatures with arrow counters to creatures with blessing counters is prevented.
2W (tap): Put a blessing counter on target creature you control.2R (tap): Put an arrow counter on target creature you don't control.
If Serra cupid would leave the battlefield, you may exile it. If you do put a token named "Spirit of cupid" with the same abilities of Serra Cupid except this one.
October 26, 2012 1:21 p.m.
Not to backtrack, but Absinthman, nice job on the flavor text of "Goblin Hunting Party". Very creative!
October 26, 2012 2:03 p.m.
Brilliant Eureka
4UG
Sorcery
Draw three cards. Then, starting with you, each player may put a permanent card from his or her hand onto the battlefield. Repeat this process until no one puts a card onto the battlefield.
This card is based directly playing off the combination of "Brilliant Plan" and "Eureka", just slightly overpowering the original eureka.
Next Card: Honor Among Thieves
October 26, 2012 2:12 p.m.
cartwheelnurd says... #39
Diseased mad cow
Creature-Human Witch
1BBR
T: put two -1/-1 counters on target creature and a -1/-1 counter on ~.
1/3
I may have taken "Cow" The wrong way.
Next card: Popcorn machine
October 26, 2012 3:32 p.m.
Absinthman says... #40
Thanks drakanar! Glad you liked it. :-)
Next Card: Emohawk Polymorph (This is a reference to the Red Dwarf series)
October 26, 2012 6:30 p.m.
TheOne4221 says... #42
Tribbles
Creature - Rabbit
1/1
GGWW
Tribbles is indestructible and hexproof
"You wouldn't hurt a little bunny... Would you?"
October 27, 2012 1:15 p.m.
cartwheelnurd says... #44
Freelance Dragonhunter
2RR
Creature-human mercenary
Protection from dragons, reach, first strike
RRR, pay 3 life: Gain control of ~. Any player may activate this ability
T: destroy target dragon
3/2
Next card: parallel recourse
October 27, 2012 1:24 p.m.
GriffinRider says... #45
Parallel Recourse
2XU
Instant
Kicker - 2W
Return X creature cards to their owner's hands. If Parallel Recourse was kicked, you gain life equal to the total converted mana cost of all creatures that have been returned to their owner's hand this way.
## Next Card: Aether Renewal
October 28, 2012 5:10 a.m.
Dang, was about to post but refreshed to make sure no one had beaten me to it. Griffin Rider had. However, I decided I still wanted to share anyway, so I will just keep the same next card the he had.
Next Card: Aether Renewal
October 28, 2012 5:23 a.m.
Looks like we have stalled again. How about: Chocolate Covered Phyrexian Coffee Bean (Have fun)
October 29, 2012 11:24 a.m.
Absinthman says... #48
I though that it would be a shame to let ther Renewal slip, so I created both of the proposed cards. The Bean is kind of an unplayable Unglued or Unhinged type of card though. :-)
Next card: Dwarven Drinking Contest
October 29, 2012 3:46 p.m.
GriffinRider says... #49
Dwarven Drinking Contest
2R
Sorcery
Buy the entire contents of your venue's fridge and separate it into two piles. You and your opponent have a drinking contest with the two piles of drinks. Whoever finishes their pile first gets an emblem with "At the beginning of your upkeep, you may put an X/X red elemental creature with haste and protection from everything onto the battlefield, where X is your opponent's life total". If there is more than one opponent, split the drinks up into enough piles for each opponent.
## Next Card: Agoraphobia
(Agoraphobia is the fear of leaving your house)
October 29, 2012 4:19 p.m.
TheOne4221 says... #50
Agoraphobia
2UU
Enchantment
Neither player may cast nonartifact creature spells.
"Have you SEEN what's out there? I might get West Nile virus or... COMPLIMENTED!"
cartwheelnurd says... #1
lair of the beast
Land
T: add G, B or R to your mana pool. ~ deals 2 damage to you.
T, Sacrifice another permanent: Put a beast counter on ~. The, if ~ has 6 or more beast counters on it, untap it, then transform it.
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Awakened beast
Creature-Beast Demon
Flying, Trample, Double Strike, Lifelink
Annihilator 2
8/8
Next card: Fiery sanctuary
October 21, 2012 12:13 p.m.