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.
Make a saga with the same name as a set describing the events of that set’s story
February 4, 2024 9:41 a.m.
mudkipdude says... #3
March of the Machine
Enchantment - Saga
: Create Realmbreaker, a legendary artifact with “: Choose one: chaos ensues, or planeswalk”.
: You get an emblem with “If you would planeswalk, instead planeswalk, but don’t planeswalk away from any plane”.
: Planeswalk up to three times.
: Destroy all phyrexians and artifacts names Realmbreaker. Each player who had no phyrexians destroyed this way cannot win or lose the game until your next turn.
Create a card with squad (Ultramarines Honour Guard)
February 4, 2024 11:57 p.m.
Sapper Team
Creature - Dwarf Artificer
Squad
Battalion - Whenever Sapper Team and at least two other creatures attack, you may destroy target nonbasic land.
2/2
"Thick walls, deep foundation, carved out of a mountain, we've taken it all down. What do you need?"
Continuing the tradition of Dwarven Miner, Mine Layer, Dwarven Driller, and Dwarven Blastminer. Make things go boom.
Create a multicolored card with Squad.
February 5, 2024 12:24 a.m.
Opening of Kher Keep
Creature - Kobold
Squad
Haste, First strike
Kobolds you control get +1/+0
During your end step, ~ deals 2 damage to each Creature and each Planeswalker.
0/1
Does count as multicolor?
Technically, it does, because can be paid with any color mana. Right??
It's been a while...
Make a card with Cascade and Foretell.
February 5, 2024 12:48 a.m. Edited.
In case I'm refuted, here's another.
Unleash the Dreadhode
Creature - Zombie
Squad
When ~ enters the battlefield, Amass 2
2/2
See challenge above.
February 5, 2024 1:02 a.m.
Oh! Oh! Here's another!
Dextaphlighst, Repellent Mass
Legendary Creature - Alien Ooz
Squad
Flash
Wither, Ward , Vanishing 2
The Legend Rule doesn't apply to creatures you control
Whenever a creature an opponent controls dies, create a token that is a copy of it, except it has Wither, Ward and Vanishing 2
1/4
Challenge above the above.
February 5, 2024 2:51 a.m. Edited.
seshiro_of_the_orochi says... #8
Hornbrow Brawler
Creature - Elf Berserker
Cascade, Haste, Trample
When you cast ~ from exile, it gains cascade.
Foretell
4/5
Create a legendary Mouse Knight that's riding on a cat.
February 5, 2024 2:49 p.m.
Syr Kreene, Nightmare Tamer
Legendary creature - Mouse Knight
Creatures you control with power 2 or less have Menace and Doublestrike.
2/2
"Syr Kreene tamed the nightmare beast that has haunted or colony for generations! He has shown us how powerful we can be!"
Make a legendary knight that's a faerie riding on a frog, bird, or large insect.
February 5, 2024 2:57 p.m.
TypicalTimmy says... #10
Syr Prixie, Soul of Eldraine
Legendary Creature - Faerie Knight Frog
Enchantmentwalk (This creature can't be blocked if the defending player controls an enchantment.)
Other faeries you control have enchantmentwalk.
Whenever a player casts a spell, they may pay . If they do, they create a 1/1 blue Faerie Enchantment Creature token with flying.
2/2
:)
Wide, or another grouphug card
February 5, 2024 5:41 p.m. Edited.
Reclaimed Material
Sorcery
Each player may search their library for a card with the same name as a card in their graveyard, reveal it, then shuffle and put the card they revealed on top of their library.
Group recursion, and a piece for my Spellweaver Helix deck that keeps not working right.
Create a card that would help one of your deck ideas that just hasn't come together.
February 5, 2024 9:26 p.m.
TypicalTimmy says... #12
I have tried to build Riku of Two Reflections so many god damn times that it's not even funny.
The biggest holdup isn't the mana, because Temur is arguably the easiest to ramp into outside of janky CEDH shit. No the problem is card advantage. You end up with a grip of ramp and like 1 or 2 spells that aren't impactful enough to be cast singularly. Soooo.....
Riku of Two Flames
Legendary Creature - Human Wizard
Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery, you may pay . If you do, scry 2.
Whenever a nonland, nontoken permanent enters the battlefield under your control, you may pay . If you do, draw a card.
2/2
That's better ^_^
Wild or repeat
February 5, 2024 10:45 p.m.
Chilhuaca, Harbringer phoenix
Legendary Creature - Phoenix God
Flying Haste
When ~ deals combat damage to a player, create an ash token with ": Return Target Phoenix card from your graveyard to the battlefield"
If you control 6 or more phoenixs, phoenix's you control get +3/+3
2/3
"Chilhuaca roams freely and unopposed these days, If your village is her next target, leave, we tried killing her in the past, we did. But we still lost"
not my best flavour text.
Phoenix's are very cool cards in general. They are not very good in commander though, and they are only sometimes good in modern or pioneer. I have good memories of playing with Arclight Phoenix and nightmares of playing against Rekindling Phoenix. And I've always tried to make a phoenix deck work in either commander or modern but, it just doesn't quite work. Despite being powerful modern phoenix's are just not very quick compared to other red strategies, and there's almost no phoenix tribal for commander. So this card solves both issues.
It's very pushed but not as much as Ragavan, Nimble Pilferer so it's fineee....
Next Challenge: Make an uncard along the same lines as Shahrazad where you pause the game and play something outside the game.
February 6, 2024 5:11 a.m.
War of Nutrition
Sorcery
Each player sets aside the game they are playing to play a sub game of Magic with the cards remaining in their library.
Then each player finds a snack in secret for their opponent. Both players reveal their snacks simultaneously. The player who provided the healthiest snack starts the subgame by playing an extra land on their first turn. If it is a tie, each player may play two lands on their first turn.
The winner of the sub game gets to put a Food Pyramid enchantment token into play with "At the beginning of combat on your turn, create a food token or put a +1 +1 counter on target creature you control."
"Doritos are made of CORN which is a VEGETABLE soooo..."
I tried! Hope you like it haha. Make a card in the style of Tiro and Kynaios or Hal and Alena - Queer partners combining their powers to be a cool legendary creature card.
February 7, 2024 10:50 a.m.
Kohar and Sirun
Legendary Creature - Human Elf Wizard
Hexproof
Lifelink
Kohar and Sirun's power is equal to the number of cards in your hand.
Whenever you gain 4 or more life, draw a card. If you gained 6 or more life, draw two cards instead.
*/5
Option 1: Create a card for either Kohar or Sirun, one of the two Wizards from this card.
Option 2: Create a card showing something notable that Kohar and Sirun have done.
February 7, 2024 4:50 p.m.
Made_Compleat says... #17
Kohar's Healing
Sorcery
Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield. You gain life equal to its toughness.
Now make a card draw oriented sorcery for Sirun. It should be in .
February 7, 2024 10:08 p.m.
TypicalTimmy says... #18
Sirun's Blessing
Sorcery
If you control your commander as you cast this spell, scry 3.
Draw cards equal to the number of times you have cast your commander this game.
Wild
February 8, 2024 2:42 a.m.
Ilvic, Cultivator of Kind
Legendary Creature - Ooze 3/3
Whenever an ooze you control dies, at the beginning of the next end step create a 0/0 green and black ooze creature token and put X +1/+1 counters on it, where X is half that creature's power, rounded up.
Sacrifice an ooze: put a +1/+1 counter on each ooze you control. They gain haste until end of turn.
For the next round lets see a prehistoric ocean creature, make a card for dunkleosteus
February 8, 2024 7:15 a.m.
sergiodelrio says... #20
Dunkleosteus, the First Creature
Legendary Creature - Fish
Islandwalk
Planeswalkers are 1/2 Plains Land Creatures with Changeling
Noncreature, Nonswamp Lands are 0/3 Island Land Creatures with Changeling
Enchantments and Battles are Swamps
Noncreature Artifacts are 2/1 Mountain Land Creatures with Changeling
Other Nondryad Creatures are 2/2 Forest Dryads
3/7
Pretty wild :D
Therefore WILDCARD!
February 8, 2024 8:56 a.m. Edited.
WildCard
Sorcery
Choose a colour.
The Next Time a player casts a spell that isn't the chosen colour, Counter that spell
Next Challenge:
Another uno card, or wild
February 8, 2024 11:58 a.m.
seshiro_of_the_orochi says... #22
Reverse Order
Instant
If there are less than three players in this game, this spell costs an additional to cast.
Reverse the game's turn order. If there less than three players in this game, insteas take an extra turn after this one.
Wild
February 8, 2024 12:11 p.m.
TypicalTimmy says... #23
Ballast Stone
Land
: Add
, : Artifact creatures you control gain vigilance until end of turn.
Ballast, which is made of loose flat stones or sometimes grain such as coarse sand or large gravel, is used as a stability mechanism for large, multi-ton craft. It absorbs their vibrations during movement, reduces shock and stress, acts as a sound dampening agent, and provides irrigation if used outside, such as with railroad tracks.
Challenge
Make a card for something interesting you know, and use the flavor text to explain or elaborate on it :)
February 8, 2024 5:49 p.m. Edited.
plakjekaas says... #24
Short-Lived Sentinel
Artifact Creature - Construct
Short-Lived Sentinel enters the battlefield with 8 +1/+1 counters on it.
At the beginning of your upkeep, remove half of the +1/+1 counters off of Short-Lived Sentinel, rounded up, and put that many -1/-1 counters on another target nonartifact creature.
0/0
Their creation beaming with radioactive energy, the alchemists hoped to have found a way to vitalize the public. To their horror, every day the energy seemed to lose half its potency, and most life in its proximity just withered away.
That's actually how people thought radioactivity would work in the early 20th century. I tried to work in the half-life of an isotope, and that strong radiation ruins DNA faster. Also, not a may, if your own creatures are the only ones in proximity, they might be damaged too.
Challenge - make a seasonal holiday-themed card
February 8, 2024 6:47 p.m.
sergiodelrio says... #25
Oktoberfest
Legendary Enchantment - Saga
Prevent all combat damage
Create a food token for each basic land you control
Pick an A-list international celebrity you like (politicians are not celebrities) and make a card for or about them
February 8, 2024 7:32 p.m.
Elvis Presley
Legendary Creature - Human Bard Rogue
Indestructible
: Creatures you control get +1/+0 until end of turn for each Saga and each Bard you control
: Elvis Presley gains all abilities of target Legendary Creature until end of turn
: Return ~ from your graveyard or command zone to the battlefield
2/2
You didn't specify a LIVING a-list celebrity...
... Not that Elvis isn't alive...
Make a card based on a character from Image Comics.
February 9, 2024 12:20 a.m.
Albert Simmons, Demented Darkspawn
Legendary Creature - Human Assassin
Deathtouch, Menace
Whenever ~ dies, return ~ to the battlefield tapped and transformed.
"As far as I know, I'm already dead. Which means, I'll be waiting for your ass in the afterlife."
5/4
Spawn, Vengeance from Hell
Legendary Creature - Human Demon Mercenary
Flying, Persist
For each counter on ~, ~ gains +1/+1.
Whenever ~ attacks, choose target creature the defending player controls. Once each turn, you may have ~ fight that creature. If ~ is not destroyed this way, draw X cards, where X is the amount of damage dealt to ~ this way.
"'Who the fuck are you?' 'Your worst fucking nightmare...'"
6/6
Let's keep this comic train rolling! I'd love to see a Dark Horse property represented!
February 9, 2024 9:58 a.m. Edited.
TypicalTimmy says... #28
Historically speaking, challenges related to comic characters (be it movies or actual comics) tend to fall flat. Strangely enough, it does not appear most people on the CCC like these challenges.
Hellboy
Legendary Creature - Human Devil
Doublestrike, Menace, Haste
Whenever Hellboy destroys another creature, put an infernal counter on him. When he has 10 or more infernal counters, transform him. Infernal counters stay with Hellboy whenever he changes zones.
6/7
Hellboy, King of Hell
Legendary Creature - Demon
Flying, indestructible, menace
Whenever Hellboy, King of Hell attacks create a 4/4 black Demon creature token with flying tapped and attacking or four 1/1 red Devil creature tokens with "When this creature dies it deals 1 damage to any target." tapped and attacking.
10/10
Wild artifact creature that is 2 colors
February 10, 2024 10:57 a.m.
Etherium Plowbeast
Artifact Creature - Beast
Basic landcycling
Domain - At the beginning of your end step, gain 1 life for each basic land type among lands you control.
5/5
Metallurgists and farmers worked together to redomesticate plowbeasts for the farms of Old Bant.
Callback to Yoked Plowbeast, Vagrant Plowbeasts, and Sanctum Plowbeast.
Create a card that acts as both land destruction and discard.
February 10, 2024 11:26 a.m.
sergiodelrio says... #30
Robobot
Artifact Creature - Construct
Robobots Power is equal to twice the amount of spent to cast it and its toughness is equal to three times the amount of spent to cast it.
n/n
ninjad... see above
February 10, 2024 11:33 a.m. Edited.
TypicalTimmy says... #31
So here's an interesting question. Since my infernal counters stay on Hellboy, you'd cast him for his front side and he would ETB as Hellboy, then state bases actions transform him since he has +10 infernal counters.
As Hellboy, he has haste
As Hellboy King of Hell, he doesn't.
So can he no longer attack the turn he enters?
February 10, 2024 6:09 p.m.
TypicalTimmy I would rule that he can't attack, since Hellboy isn't the active face. He basically loses haste when he transforms. But the transformation is a triggered ability, so you could him for whatever reason in response to the transformation trigger.
I'm not a judge, so get a second opinion, but that's my interpretation.
February 10, 2024 8:18 p.m.
TypicalTimmy says... #33
Fate Worse Than Death
Sorcery (Mythic)
Target player chooses one:
- Discard half of your hand at random, rounded up.
- Sacrifice two lands of an opponents choice.
"Fine." Ob Nixilis grinned, "You have my word you'll keep your life."
I would absolutely put my face in my palms and let out a heavy sigh if this were ever cast targeting me. That's like... just so God damn demoralizing. Like, ffs scoop I guess?
I feel bad for making that but holy crap is it a vicious card that meets the challenge beautifully.
Make something cheerful and happy since I feel so disgusted with this abomination lol
February 10, 2024 8:47 p.m.
Sunshine and Rainbows
Sorcery
Gain 3 life, draw a card, add to your mana pool, and Populate
Whenever you cast a Unicorn spell, if ~ is in your graveyard, cast ~ without paying it's mana cost
If ~ is exiled, put 2 time counters on it. It gains Suspend.
I believe it would stay in your graveyard each time you cast a Unicorn spell. If not, then imagine it's worded such that it does.
Make a card that wants you to flip coins and roll dice, but doesn't cause you to do so itself.
February 10, 2024 9:02 p.m. Edited.
TypicalTimmy says... #35
Fate Interjected
Enchantment
Whenever a player would roll a planar die, they may instead roll two and choose the result.
Whenever a player planeswalks, they draw a card.
Whenever chaos ensues, it triggers twice.
Repeat
February 10, 2024 9:19 p.m.
Made_Compleat says... #36
Krark's Influence
Enchantment
Whenever a player rolls a die or flips a coin, they create a copy of the effect that caused them to do so.
Whenever you roll a die or flip a coin, create a copy of the effect that caused you to do so.
"Care for a game?"
This is probably the strangest card I've made in a long time. It's kinda grouphug, but it benefits you the most, but you would only run it as a synergy piece.
Make another strange grouphug card.
February 10, 2024 10:16 p.m.
seshiro_of_the_orochi says... #37
Real Estate Market
Enchantment
Each player may play an additional land during their turn.
Whenever a land enters the battlefield under any player's control, each of that player's opponents creates a treasure token.
Create a lifegain commander in Grixis colours.
February 11, 2024 5:12 a.m.
sergiodelrio says... #38
Tikki, Unholy Saint
Legendary Creature - Human Wizard
Whenever another player casts a noncreature spell during their turn, create a 1/1 black Adept Enchantment creature with deathtouch and lifelink.
1/4
Let's see a legendary MDFC land that is a land on both sides
February 11, 2024 7:29 a.m.
Slough, The Concrete Maze
Legendary Land - Wastes
(: Add )
: Create a 0/4 Wall artifact creature named "Concrete wall"
"Ah yes nice concrete, needs more concrete"
London innit Bruv
Legendary Land - Wastes
(: add )
: Create a crumbling house artifact token with ": house falls down"
"Home of fish, chips, cups o' tea and mary f*king Poppins"
Do above challenge again
February 11, 2024 8:55 a.m.
Overwhelming Seas
Legendary Land
: Add or . If that mana is spent to pay the colored cost of a creature spell, that creature gains hexproof and indestructible until your next upkeep.
////////////////////////////////
Lighthouse of the Gods
Legendary Land
: Add or . If that mana is spent to pay the colored cost of a creature spell, that creature enters the battlefield with a +1/+1 counter and a vigilance counter.
Create a Namazu.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Namazu
February 11, 2024 12:46 p.m.
TypicalTimmy says... #41
Namazu
Creature - Giant Fish
Islandwalk
When Namazu enters the battlefield, exile up to X target lands. When Namazu leaves the battlefield, return those lands to their owners control tapped.
The Namazu is a mythological catfish, enormous in size, whose wake is said to be able to cause earthquakes of the surrounding islands and regions.
4/4
Is anyone here familiar with The SCP Foundation?
If so, make a card for your favorite SCP.
If not, quickly look up what it is and make a card for one of the easier ones you come across.
February 11, 2024 1:10 p.m.
Made_Compleat says... #42
Hard to Destroy Lizard
Legendary Creature - Lizard
Shroud, indestructible.
0/1
I've never read the books, but some of my friends told me about this one.
Make another lizard.
February 11, 2024 10:09 p.m.
seshiro_of_the_orochi says... #43
Unseen Eternal
Creature - Zombie Lizard
Lieutenant - At the beginning of combat on your turn, if you control your commander, ~ deals 2 damage to each opponent.
, exile ~ from your graveyard: Untap all creatures that attacked this turn. After this main phase, there is an additional combat phase followed by an additional main phase. Only do this as a sorcery.
3/1
Ok, so I recently build Neheb, the Eternal, and hardly have I ever fallen for a new commander this fast. The deck is hilarious, and I'm feeling like a ten-year-old with way too much fireworks. This is a Lieutenant card Neheb would easily run. That's your challenge:
Take a commander you have or that you want to build and create a Lieutenant card you'd run in there.
February 11, 2024 11:57 p.m.
TypicalTimmy says... #44
Made_Compleat, lol that lizard is one of the lamest SCP in my opinion. Not your card btw, it's actually insanely accurate for what it is.
So the unkillable lizard is basically a giant monitor lizard kind of thing that is essentially surpassing in Human intelligence and can communicate psionically.
The lizard is said to have been involved in destructive rampages and heals as fast as you can manage to harm it. So, if you fire a 50 cal rifle into its chest, the wound is closing up behind the bullet as it travels through he flesh. Essentially making it immune to all damage of any physical type.
It is unclear if magical or psionic attacks affect it.
The being is held in captivity in an Olympic sized swimming pool of the most powerful acid on the planet, with fresh acid constantly being added in, as to keep it in a perpetual state of being dissolved.
The files on the lizard in the SCP Foundation really don't go into any details on its rampage and carnage. Only explaining it's basic containment. So the mythos of the creature is largely invented by people speaking on it, without having ever read it. Lmao
If you want a really fucked up on, look up SCP-1680
February 12, 2024 1:36 a.m. Edited.
TypicalTimmy says... #45
I think it's 1680?
Tldr it's a school bus that drops off a child every like hour or so. Except the child it drops off is the same child, over and over again. Soon, dozens of "clones" of this child, all with perfect working memory, were held captive by the SCP foundation. Hundreds of this one child kept emerging, endlessly.
Without means to support all of these children, who were all crying and wanting to go home, and all perfect anatomically identical to one another, the SCP Foundation found a solution.
Live, controlled, unwilling... test subjects.
February 12, 2024 1:42 a.m.
TypicalTimmy says... #46
Least I could do is fulfill the challenge after double-posting.
I am interested in building Wayta, Trainer Prodigy, but she confuses me. Her ability says it costs less if it targets two creatures, but it only allows it to target one? I don't understand how you pay for it, paying less, to target a second option, that isn't available upon activation?
Ferocious Armodon
Creature - Dinosaur
Lieutenant - As long as you control your commander, if a creature you control would fight, it fights up to one additional target creature.
Whenever Ferocious Armodon fights, put a +1/+1 counter on it.
"There is really no reason to devise mechanical plating for an Ankylosaurus, Huatli." - "This is true, Saheeli, but it'll be awesome."
3/4
Written with all of the shitty dialog we've come to know and love, courtesy of all the Reddit "authors".
CHALLENGE: - Make a 5-color creature who would benefit from running all of the Lieutenants.
February 12, 2024 2:07 a.m.
TheoryCrafter says... #47
Skye Marshall, Chief of Staff
Legendary Creature- Human Soldier
Uncommon
~ gets +1/+1 for each Creature with Lieutenant you control.
Whenever a Creature with Lieutenant enters the battlefield under your control, you may tap it. If you do, put a 1/1 human soldier on the battlefield that is all colors.
2/2
Create a artifact with fortify that turns a land into a seige battle.
February 12, 2024 2:48 a.m.
Made_Compleat says... #48
Stone Ramparts
Artifact - Fortification
Fortify .
Whenever Stone Ramparts fortifies a land, put 3 defense counters on that land.
Fortified land is a white Battle - Siege in addition to its other colors and types. It has "When this battle has no defense counters on it, sacrifice any fortifications attached to this land and you gain five life. Create three 0/4 walls with reach."
TypicalTimmy, Wayta, Trainer Prodigy's ability always targets two creatures. It costs less only if both creatures are under your control. This lets you use Enrage abilities on your creatures cheaply or remove opposing creatures by fighting them for . Hope this helps!
If the pain of my screwing up the Hard to Destroy Reptile is too great, create another SCP. Otherwise, make a Legendary Enchantment Creature - Siren.
February 12, 2024 9:59 a.m.
Nyml, The Night Descended
Legendary Enchantment Creature - Siren
Flying
If a spell an opponent controls targets Nyml, the Night Descended, that player may choose to have Nyml, the Night Descended's controller gain control of any nonland permanent they control. If they don't, counter that spell.
When Nyml, the Night Descended attacks you may gain control of target goaded creature until end of combat, then untap that creature.
Whenever Nyml, the Night Descended deals combat damage to a player, for each opponent, you may goad target creature that player controls.
Nyml, the Night Descended's power and toughness are equal to the number of enchantments in play.
- / *
I don't think that's too much text for a card? The first ability is a little wordy but working out "Ward - this creature's controller gains control of a non land permanent you control" sounded potentially confusing.
Create a beefy mono green mythic rare that does something new/significantly different for green without being a color bend/break.
February 12, 2024 12:08 p.m.
sergiodelrio says... #50
Leyline Bug
Enchantment Creature - Insect Avatar
You can't cast Leyline Bug from anywhere other than outside the game and only if another effect lets you do so.
If Leyline bug would enter your hand from outside the game, put it onto the battlefield instead.
7/7
Wild!
gatotempo says... #1
Miserable Fact or Fiction
Sorcery
Choose a card name. Each opponent reveals their hand and exiles each card with the chosen name from their hand. You may cast any number of cards exiled this way without paying their mana cost. Scry 1, then look at the top 3 cards of your library. Separate them into a face-up pile and a face-down pile. An opponent chooses one of them. Put that pile into your hand and the other into your graveyard. Repeat this process. If you didn’t cast any spells with CARDNAME, repeat this process twice instead.
You may shuffle any number of cards from your graveyard into your library.
February 4, 2024 9:39 a.m.