Card creation challenge
Custom Cards forum
Posted on Aug. 28, 2015, 4:15 p.m. by TheNextRedDude
Ok, heres how this works. You create a card to the specifications of the person above you, then list your own card idea for the next person. I'll start.
Variety XX
Sorcery
If X is 2 or lower, draw X cards. If X is 3, put X +1/+1 counters on X target creatures. If X is 4, return X target creatures from your graveyard to the battlefield. If X is 5 or more, Variety deals x damage to target creature or player. If X is 10 or more, you win the game.
Create a life gaining multicolored Turtle with power twice it's toughness or vice versa.
griffstick says... #2
TypicalTimmy I agree Hexproof was a bit much. But because it's a Juggernaut maybe indestructible instead of Hexproof
August 10, 2023 6:36 a.m.
griffstick says... #4
Inspired by the upcoming fallout set
Create a fallout card. If you don't play fallout then Wild
August 10, 2023 4:08 p.m.
Megaton Detonation
Artifact
Destroy all nonland permanents. Put a radiation counter onto each land. For as long as those lands have radiation counters on them, they have "Whenever this land becomes tapped, you lose one life."
I'll take any opportunity to make a homage to Obsidian Fireheart
Create another card that uses radiation counters (they dont have to have the whenever it becomes tapped lose one life).
August 11, 2023 2:24 a.m.
Should be a sorcery, forgot to get rid of the artifact type when I decided to make it a sorcery instead of an artifact with a juicy activated ability
August 11, 2023 3:46 a.m.
FolkOccult says... #7
Presence of the Titans
Enchantment - Aura (IKO/Rare)
Enchant creature
Whenever enchanted creature dies, put a radiation counter onto target creature an opponent controls. Copy this spell whenever enchanted creature mutates, it must target another creature. (Radiation counters give creatures -1/0.)
I never know what to request anymore, Wild lol.
August 11, 2023 6:26 p.m.
TypicalTimmy says... #8
Izzet absolutely loves artifacts
So make an enchantment for them
August 11, 2023 11:38 p.m.
seshiro_of_the_orochi says... #9
Boomtower Laboratory
Enchantment
Instant and Sorcery spells you control have Improvise.
, discard a card: Look at the top three cards of your library. Put a card from among them into your hand und the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.
There you go, an enchantment for a guild that loves instants, sorceries and artifacts.
I want to see a golgari card that cares about artifacts.
August 12, 2023 7:40 a.m.
markbeloit says... #10
Debris Find
Sorcery
Return target permanent card from your graveyard to your hand. If that permanent was an artifact, you gain 2 life and put this card into your hand as it resolves.
Really wanted to name this Treasured Find (sigh)
Make a card.
August 12, 2023 1:31 p.m.
TypicalTimmy says... #11
True Strike
Sorcery
This spell can't be countered.
Tap a legendary Monk you control: You may cast this spell as though it has flash.
Exile target battle, creature or planeswalker.
With an open palm and a touch that would barely disturbed the petals of a flower, the blood-thirsty Orc merely evaporated right before Narset's eyes.
Wild
August 12, 2023 2:22 p.m.
markbeloit says... #12
Fire-Fury Thicket
Sorcery - Adventure
Fire-Fury Thicket deals 2 damage to each creature. Each player sacrifices an artifact. Each player may search their library for a basic land card, reveal it, put it into their hand, then shuffle.
Slumbering Elder-Grove
Land
: Add , , or .
When Slumbering Elder-Grove enters the battlefield, if you played it from your hand, you lose 5 life.
Few knew what the tree had done in its younger days.
Wild.
August 12, 2023 2:33 p.m.
Warforged Assassin
Artifact Creature - Warforged Assassin
Deathtouch, Vigilance
Ninjutsu -
Whenever ~ enters the battlefield, deal X damage to target creature or Planeswalker, where X is equal to the number of Equipment you control
3/3
Make a legendary artifact, with some kind of a recursion ability.
August 12, 2023 7:23 p.m.
Great Statue of Carantus
Legendary Artifact
Whenever a creature attacks you and isn't blocked, Great Statue of Carantus deals 2 damage to that creature.
, Sacrifice Great Statue of Carantus: Create four 2/2 colorless Construct Soldier creature tokens.
At the beginning of your first main phase, if you control no Constructs, you may return Great Statue of Carantus from your graveyard to your hand.
Create a Dragon.
August 12, 2023 7:42 p.m.
TypicalTimmy says... #17
Ashmouth Incinerator
Creature - Demon Dragon
Flying, menace
When Ashmouth Incinerator enters the battlefield, each player flips a coin for each other permanent they control. Each player then puts all permanents they flipped tails on into a pile. For each permanent in that pile, they sacrifice it unless they pay 2 life.
5/6
My mind is a bit fried at the moment. I revised it three times. I think this text is the most clear on what to do.
Make a Minotaur. :3
August 12, 2023 7:55 p.m. Edited.
seshiro_of_the_orochi says... #18
Kragma Intimidator
Creature - Minotaur Berserker
Menace
Other minotaur creatures you control get +1/+1 and have Menace.
3/3
One minotaur is menacing. Many minotaur are a menace to society.
Create a piñata.
August 13, 2023 3:48 a.m.
Piñata
Artifact Creature - Construct
When Piñata enters the battlefield, you may have it fight target creature you control.
When Piñata dies, create a food token for each damage it took this turn.
0/1
Make another bit of party gear
August 13, 2023 6:33 a.m.
griffstick says... #20
seshiro_of_the_orochi I was working on minotaur art and never came up with a card design. So I liked your card and said why not. Simplicity always looks great on a card. What do you think? Do you like the art? Does it fit the card design?
August 13, 2023 9:32 a.m.
seshiro_of_the_orochi says... #21
griffstick: That artwork looks super-dope, but I imagined a rather traditional Theros Minotaur. Would still be an insane alternate art! Thanks for that.
August 13, 2023 9:44 a.m.
TypicalTimmy says... #22
Presents!
Artifact
Presents! enters the battlefield tapped with X gift counters on it.
At the beginning of your upkeep you may choose to not untap Presents!. If you do, put a gift counter on it.
, , sacrifice this artifact: Choose one, with X being the number of Gift counters on Presents!
- Draw X cards.
- Create X treasure tokens.
- You gain X life.
- Create X 0/1 colorless Servo artifact creature tokens.
- Add X loyalty to up to one target Planeswalker you control.
:D
More party themed cards!!
August 13, 2023 2:26 p.m.
griffstick says... #23
Bounce house
Enchantment (rare)
Whenever you cast a creature spell you may pay , if you do return target land you control and target creature you dont control to these owners hands.
Create a Stuffy Doll and Creepy Doll But you don't have to copy it exactly. Just it's effect
August 14, 2023 12:49 p.m. Edited.
seshiro_of_the_orochi says... #24
Fluffy Doll
Artifact - Bear Construct
Indestructible
Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt to other creatures you control.
Whenever damage is prevented, each player gains that much life.
0/1
Create a card named Grind Hawk.
August 14, 2023 2:12 p.m.
Grind Hawk
Creature - Bird
Flying
: Grind Hawk deals 1 damage to target attacking or blocking creature. If this is the second time you have activated this ability this turn, prevent all combat damage Grind Hawk would deal this turn.
1/2
"Like having a sack full of knives thrown in your face." - Gare Garesson
Create a Kobold.
August 14, 2023 6:29 p.m.
Revising:
Grind Hawk
Creature - Bird
Flying
: Grind Hawk deals 1 damage to target attacking or blocking creature. If this is the second time you have activated this ability this turn, sacrifice Grind Hawk.
1/2
"Like having a sack full of knives thrown in your face." - Gare Garesson
First pass was too overpowered. This should be more balanced--repeatable 1 damage, single use Rock Slide-style burst damage.
Create a Kobold.
August 14, 2023 6:49 p.m.
TypicalTimmy says... #27
Krevlar the Malicious
Legendary Creature - Kobold Shaman Warrior
Kobold creatures you control get +1/+1 and have haste.
Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, you may exile that spell and instead create a number of 0/1 red Kobold creature tokens equal to that spells mana value.
1/2
NEED THIS DECK (lol not really)
wild
August 14, 2023 6:54 p.m. Edited.
griffstick says... #28
I love rakdos cards.
Create a card with "Hammer down" it's s keyword that's like trample but only for certain toughnesses
Here's an example
So create a card with Hammer Down or
If you've been working on a wild card. Share that too. Consider this a double card challenge if you've got a wild card brewing allready.
August 15, 2023 9:33 a.m. Edited.
Chumpstomper Baloth
Creature - Beast
Hammer Down 2
Creature tokens must block Chumpstomper Baloth if able.
Prevent all damage that would be dealt to Chumpstomper Baloth by tokens.
5/5
August 16, 2023 9:09 p.m.
For the wildcard half:
Spellswirl
Enchantment - Aura
Enchant creature
At the beginning of your first main phase, you may exile an instant or sorcery card from your graveyard. If you do, copy that spell. It must target enchanted creature if able.
Create a Rat Goblin. It can be a team up card or a weird rat-goblin hybrid.
August 16, 2023 9:12 p.m.
TypicalTimmy says... #31
Chittering Menace
Creature - Goblin Rat
Haste, menace
Goblin Rats were, for centuries, a rumored thing of the past. A relic of a more whimsical and less sophisticated time among Ravnica. The idea of a subspecies of Goblin, with rat-like qualities, was merely conjured up folklore at best and a stark lie at worst. The Simic Combine spent decades deciphering genetic codes to find even a glimpse of truth in their reality and found nothing... until they showed up.
3/2
Sorry, I got deep into lore on that one. I didn't mean to cheese it with a 3/2 hastey menace, but I wanted to have a lot of room for flavor text.
Repeat, if you think I wasn't fair to the challenge. Otherwise if you liked it, wildcard.
August 16, 2023 10:46 p.m.
ThatTroutThing says... #32
Wounded Castaway
Creature - Human Pirate
~ enters the battlefield with three -1/-1 counters on it.
At the beginning of your upkeep, remove a -1/-1 counter from ~. Then, if ~ has no -1/-1 counters on it, transform ~.
0/5
Tuesday: A stranger washed ashore this morning. I found him unconscious, with a large wound in his shoulder. I believe he survived a shark attack, and I've decided to nurse him back to health.
Cursed Castaway
Creature - Human Shark Pirate
Islandwalk
Whenever a creature or planeswalker dealt damage by a Shark you control this turn dies, create an X/X blue Shark creature token, where X is one plus the mana value of that creature or planeswalker.
5/5
Friday: I just heard a loud crash, followed by some strange noises I can't place. It sounds like my visitor may have finally woken. I hope he's alright.
Tried to make a Wereshark card that showed the spreading of lycanthropy, inspired by the monster my dm had our group fight in a recent D&D session. Not entirely happy with it but I've spent too long on this.
Wild.
August 17, 2023 3:58 a.m.
TypicalTimmy says... #33
I posted him / her in their own thread, but that got only 1 comment so I'm posting here since it's a wildcard.
Let's see your choice of a mono-black or a mono-red Angel
August 18, 2023 2:19 a.m.
Brutal Castigator
Creature - Angel
Flying, First Strike
If a creature source would deal damage to another creature, it deals double that damage instead.
4/4
I started playing magic when Shadows Over Innistrad was fresh off the press. Goldnight Castigator was one of the cards that showed me how weird magic cards could be and it'll always hold a special place in my heart, despite being pretty much unplayable. Nice to have an opportunity to make a callback to it.
Make a card from the set you started playing in.
August 18, 2023 4:21 a.m.
TypicalTimmy says... #35
Technically I "started" playing in 2005, but that was just in high school using an occasional deck someone else brought to lunch. I didn't actively start playing and buying cards until Magic: Origins, many years later.
Origin Story
Sorcery
Choose one:
- Put X loyalty counters on target planeswalker you control.
- Put X +1/+1 counters on target legendary creature you control.
- Scry X, you gain X life.
Nice challenge. Let's repeat it.
Also, good on you for sticking it through that set, Asder lol. That was not an easy one to get past.
August 18, 2023 4:28 a.m. Edited.
TypicalTimmy I know this is a controversial opinion but I really liked it, clues were cool, delirium is cool, madness is ok, vampies and werewolves are badass, I could go on.
Probably just nostalgia mainly though haha.
August 18, 2023 4:50 a.m.
griffstick says... #37
I was playing back in 5th edition and I remember the very first time I saw a HUGE creature. That creature was Scaled Wurm
But I stopped playing that day. I played maybe on three occasions when I was young. I didn't start playing again until after the military when a good friend reintroduced me into it. At that time the set was gatecrash, and the first card I remembered wasn't from gatecrash it was from innastrad it was Vampire Nighthawk. But since you are asking for a card that I remember from gatecrash that card is Rubblebelt Raiders
August 18, 2023 9:41 a.m.
griffstick says... #38
I was playing back in 5th edition and I remember the very first time I saw a HUGE creature. That creature was Scaled Wurm
But I stopped playing that day. I played maybe on three occasions when I was young. I didn't start playing again until after the military when a good friend reintroduced me into it. At that time the set was gatecrash, and the first card I remembered wasn't from gatecrash it was from zendikar it was Vampire Nighthawk. But since you are asking for a card that I remember from gatecrash that card is Rubblebelt Raiders. It was my 1st pack rare
August 18, 2023 9:42 a.m. Edited.
ThatTroutThing says... #39
I first started playing in Ixalan, super excited to get back to that plane.
Dire Fleet Pillager
Creature - Orc Pirate
Raid - When ~ enters the battlefield, if you attacked with a creature this turn, create a number of treasure tokens equal to the total amount of life target opponent has lost this turn.
3/3
Repeat
August 18, 2023 9:23 p.m.
Planar Chaos is when I started seriously... What makes a card from Planar Chaos? Suspend, color pie weirdness, alternate timeline characters...
Tahngarth, Predator's Mate
Legendary Creature - Minotaur Warrior
Tahngarth, Predator's Mate can't be blocked except by two or more creatures.
, : Tahngarth, Predator's Mate deals damage equal to its power to target creature.
4/4
Would be updated to have menace and the Phyrexian creature type. Those weren't around in Planar Chaos.
Same challenge, or create a card that would fit the first deck you built.
August 18, 2023 10:17 p.m.
TypicalTimmy says... #41
My first deck was 85 card, 5 color goodstuff. With 23 lands.
- How'd it play?
- It didn't :'3
Was mostly Gatecrash, Battle for Zendikar, Theros and Magic: Origins.
Gift of the Gods
Enchantment
Hexproof
Sacrifice Gift of the Gods: Add five mana in any combination of colors.
Millions prayed. Begrudgingly, a few replied.
I know it sounds silly, but this is a card you could play and let sit out. Let people forget it exists. Tap out and feign an opening.
Great sleeper card. I'd run it, whenever able.
Make another 5-color good stuff card
August 18, 2023 10:39 p.m.
seshiro_of_the_orochi says... #42
Scouting Mission
Sorcery
If there are three or less colors among permanents you control, search your library for up to two basic land cards, put one of them onto the battlefield tapped and the rest into your hand, then shuffle. If there are more than three colors among permanents you control, instead draw cards equal to the amount of colors among permanents you control, than put a permanent card with Mana Value 4 or less from your hand onto the battlefield.
Wild
August 20, 2023 5:54 a.m.
griffstick says... #43
I'm building 4 cmdr decks around previously shared cards
August 20, 2023 9:12 a.m.
griffstick says... #44
Here's for the Wild challenge
So your next challenge will be to help me design a card for zigs deck. Zig, twisted Replicator. A lieutenant card or a 5 mana sorcery card
He likes clones, +1/+1 counters. And ramping hard
August 20, 2023 9:16 a.m. Edited.
TypicalTimmy says... #45
Angel of Rebellion
Creature - Angel Warrior
Flash
Flying, haste
When Angel of Rebellion enters the battlefield, untap target creature and gain control of it for as long as you control Angel of Rebellion. It gains haste until the end of turn.
The Goldnight Angels are known for their abhorrent disdain of all creatures, mortal and otherwise. Although, on occasion, some prove more worthwhile than others...
4/4
Make an unexpected wild; A card in color(s) not usually seen.
August 20, 2023 3:11 p.m. Edited.
markbeloit says... #46
Fruitful Graveyard
Enchantment
At the beginning of your upkeep, put a Fruit counter on Fruitful Graveyard for each artifact, creature and land card among cards in all graveyards.
Remove five Fruit counters from Fruitful Graveyard: Create a Treasure token.
All colors are seen, but I think Abzan is maybe the least common three color combo.
Wild.
August 20, 2023 7:51 p.m.
seshiro_of_the_orochi says... #47
Teneb of the Risen Dead
Legendary Creature - Dragon
Flying
Whenever ~ enters the battlefield or attacks, mill four cards, then return a creature card milled this way from your graveyard to the battlefield.
Shuffle five noncreature cards from your graveyard into your library: Return ~ to its owner's hand.
6/6
Create a card somewhere between Guided Passage and Fact or Fiction.
August 20, 2023 11:41 p.m.
TypicalTimmy says... #48
Perfected Polymorph
Sorcery
Choose a permanent type you control, then reveal your library. For each nontoken permanent of the chosen type, target opponent chooses a card that shares the same type and puts it onto the battlefield under your control. Shuffle all nontoken permanents of the chosen that weren't put onto the battlefield in this way into your library. (All permanents enter the battlefield at the same time, as this spell resolves.)
God this would be an absolute nightmare to deal with. I can't even begin to imagine the sheer clusterfuck that the stack will become afterwards, for specific decks (like what I build hehehe)
Wild
August 21, 2023 1:18 a.m. Edited.
markbeloit says... #49
Soul Harvest Specter
Creature - Specter
Flying
Whenever Soul Harvest Specter attacks, it deals 2 damage to any target and you gain 2 life.
1/4
Make a Jund card.
August 21, 2023 2:15 a.m.
ThatTroutThing says... #50
Evon, Arms Dealer
Legendary Creature - Human Rogue
Equipped creatures your opponents control are goaded.
You may target creatures your opponents control with equip abilities of Equipment you control. An equip ability that targets a creature an opponent controls this way costs more to activate.
3/4
Ninja'd
Ushat, Alpha Predator
Legendary Creature - Bear
First Strike, Trample
~ has indestructible as long as three or more creatures dealt damage by ~ this turn have died this turn.
: ~ fights target creature you don't control.
6/5
Wild
ThatTroutThing says... #1
Phyrexian Leveler
Artifact Creature - Phyrexian Juggernaut
Toxic 3
~ attacks each turn if able.
Whenever ~ attacks, put two oil counters on it. Creatures defending player controls with toughness less than or equal to the number of oil counters on ~ can't block this turn unless that player sacrifices that many permanents
6/6
Wild
August 10, 2023 3:24 a.m.