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
Well I guess we are in Jerusalem but since the challenge allowed for a repeat I'm adding Egypt
Oh sorry China too
Next challenge is to continue with this challenge
February 26, 2024 7:32 p.m. Edited.
The Internet
Legendary Enchantment Artifact
Whenever a player plays a card from anywhere other than their hand, that player draws a card.
Discard a card: exile the top card of your library, you may play that card this turn.
: Until the end of your next turn, target player may play cards from outside the game as if they were in your hand. Any player may activate this ability.
Same again, create a card from the real world
February 26, 2024 9:26 p.m.
TypicalTimmy says... #4
Atomic Devastation
Sorcery
Each player sacrifices all permanents they control. They then create a tapped Wastes token for each land they had that was sacrificed. Untap your lands.
Sorry, but I had to.
Keep it going, and this time events in Human history are allowed as well as locations.
February 26, 2024 9:59 p.m.
Operation Overlord
Battle - Siege
When Operation Overlord enters the battlefield, create X white 1/1 Soldier creatures, where X is the amount of cards you've drawn this turn.
Defense Counters - 5
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Allied Foothold
Echantment
Creatures you control get +1/+1 and have haste.
Whenever a creature enters the battlefield under your control, Allied Foothold deals 1 damage to each opponent. Draw a card.
D-day card... frontside is supposed to be a mechanically interesting way to represent the preperation before d-day... and D-day involved 5 beaches :). backside is just a more powerful Warleader's Call because i'm lazy. If anyone has a better idea let me know.
Repeat, but it could also be a historial figure!
February 26, 2024 11:47 p.m.
TypicalTimmy says... #6
Just gotta pop in here to showcase what I just came up with :3
Aurelia is my #1 favorite most beloved Angel in the whole of MTG. I know she can't have a spark, because she's an Angel and Angels are not living beings - they are more akin to Elementals, being comprised of compressed, purified (mostly white) mana. But still.
Artwork is borrowed from the card Demand Answers. I used the website Pic Resize to crop and fit it to frame. :)
Continue with the challenge above :3
February 27, 2024 12:29 a.m.
TypicalTimmy looks sweet, I've been praying for a boros planeswalker than can make red white prison or something similar viable in pioneer. Something about value engines in red is so appealing.
February 27, 2024 3:38 a.m.
The Sacking of Jerusalem
Sorcery
Destroy each creature you don't control then discard your hand. Each opponent loses life equal to half mana value of cards discarded rounded up.
And so the streets ran red in the most holy of city's.
I would say repeat and leave it at that because they've all been pretty cool but we've had a few in a row. If whoever is next is looking to spice it up feel free to do something from an alternative history instead.
February 27, 2024 3:48 a.m.
TheoryCrafter says... #9
Without Warning
Legendary Enchantment
When ~ enters the battlefield, exile all nonartifact, nonland permanents you control. Then Goad all creatures each opponent controls. Then skip a turn.
Artifacts you control become treasures in addition to their other types.
Okay, Without Warning is a novel by John Birmingham about the near total annihilation of the US on the eve of the invasion of Iraq and the consequences for the world. Good book.
For the next challenge, create a card that can be used as a signature spell for an oathbreaker deck for the Planeswalker card you hate the most.
February 27, 2024 8:48 p.m.
Sorcery
Gain control of all Elk your opponents control. Then, exile them and return them to the battlefield under your control.
Steals all those artifacts and creatures that Oko, Thief of Crowns turns into Elk! Then it blinks them to return them to their original state. May be broken.
Wild card or repeat
February 27, 2024 11:10 p.m.
seshiro_of_the_orochi says... #11
I'll do the wild, but let's make a new planeswalker.
Marilo, Tiny Traveler
Legendary Planeswalker - Marilo
Mice you control get +1/+0.
+1 Create two 1/1 white Mouse creature tokens.
-2 Goad target creature. Whenever it deals damage until your next turn, you and its controller both draw a card.
-6 Destroy all artifacts. For each artifact destroyed this way, its controller creates a 1/1 white Mouse creature token.
2
Create a Mouse tribal card.
February 27, 2024 11:43 p.m.
TypicalTimmy says... #12
Dubious Banquet
Enchantment
Mice you control have Foodwalk
When Dubious Banquet enters the battlefield, each player creates X food tokens.
Make a legendary Naya Mouse
February 28, 2024 12:21 a.m.
Lil' Scamp, Mischief Leader
Legendary Creature - Mouse
When Lil' Scamp, Mischief Leader enters, create two 1/1 white Mouse creature tokens.
, , Tap another Mouse creature you control: Choose one--
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Destroy target artifact or enchantment.
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Create two 1/1 white Mouse creature tokens.
-
Lil' Scamp deals 3 damage to any target.
2/2
Per the collective knowledge of the internet, one word for a group of mice is a mischief, so this came together nicely.
Create a Snake creature. Must be intelligent and sentient, must be an actual snake and not a snake-person or Naga.
February 28, 2024 3:25 a.m.
Asmodeus Poisonteeth
Legendary Creature - Snake 4/4
Deathtouch, Skulk
Hypnotizing Gaze: Whenever Asmodeus Poisonteeth attacks, choose up to one target creature defending player controls. Tap it and put a stun counter on it.
Bite: , Asmodeus deals two damage to target creature. This ability costs less if it targets a tapped creature.
"Asmodeussssssss, come with Asmodeussssssss, I will show you eternity!"
For the next challenge, and with outlaws as the next set, lets see a western themed fortification.
February 28, 2024 7:25 a.m.
griffstick says... #15
Western One on One
Artifact - Fortification
Whenever fortified land becomes tapped, No more than one creature can attack each combat. No more than one creature can block each combat.
Fortify (: Attach to target land you control. Fortify only as a sorcery. This card enters the battlefield unattached and stays on the battlefield if the land leaves.)
Make a new Child of Alara
February 28, 2024 10:12 a.m.
griffstick says... #16
Western One on One
Artifact - Fortification
Whenever fortified land becomes tapped, No more than one creature can attack each combat. No more than one creature can block each combat.
Fortify (: Attach to target land you control. Fortify only as a sorcery. This card enters the battlefield unattached and stays on the battlefield if the land leaves.)
Make a new Child of Alara
February 28, 2024 10:12 a.m.
Made_Compleat says... #17
Heir to Progenitus
Legendary Creature - Avatar
You and other permanents you control have Protection from Everything.
10/10
It takes its place as the ruler of the shards.
I sense a reanimator deck in the near future...
So if the Child of Alara is the heir to Progenitus, then Progenitus must die at some point. Make a card showing this.
February 28, 2024 10:40 a.m.
The Fall of Progenitus
Enchantment
When Fall of Progenitus enters, destroy all other nonland permanents. Put a Progenitus counter on this enchantment for each permanent destroyed this way.
Remove a Progenitus coutner: Target nonland permanent gains protection from everything until end of turn.
At the beginning of your upkeep, remove a Progenitus counter from The Fall of Progenitus.
"Legends may die but their names never do."
Make a new mechanic for the Bant shard of Alara (not Renown or Exalted) and put it on a rare/mythic from a new alara set
February 28, 2024 11:03 a.m. Edited.
seshiro_of_the_orochi says... #19
Purpose X - Whenever this creature's power or toughness becomes exactly X, do Stuff
Rafiq, Fateful Protector
Legendary Creature - Human Knight
Vigilance, First Strike
Purpose 7 - Whenever this creature's power or toughness becomes exactly 7, put a Double Strike Counter and a +1/+1 counter on each creature you control.
, remove three counters from among creatures you control: Draw a card.
4/4
Either create another card with Purpose, OR create a new mechanic for the Brokers of New Capenna (yes, the group). Make sure to sufficiently differentiate from Bant.
February 28, 2024 11:44 a.m.
Contracted (At the beginning of your end step, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature if it didn't attack the player that contracted it.)
Set the Terms
Instant
Contract target creature. When that creature deals combat damage this turn, you and its controller each gain 2 life.
Broker Recruiters
Creature - Cat Advisor
At the beginning of each player's upkeep, contract target creature that player controls.
3/3
"You have a lot of talent. We'd hate to see it used the wrong way."
It's a political mechanic. Buff your creatures, or reward your opponent for cooperating.
Create a new mechanic for any existing faction from any plane.
February 28, 2024 1:03 p.m.
mudkipdude says... #21
Kolaghan Stormstrike
Creature - dragon
Electrify 3 (as this creature enters the battlefield, if the electrify cost was paid, put a thunder counter on this creature. It has “when this creature attacks, it deals 3 damage to target creature”)
Flying, haste
6/6
I had a challenge that I wanted to give, but I forgot it. Oh well. Make another card with electrify or a card about forgetting things.
February 28, 2024 3 p.m.
Made_Compleat says... #22
Dementia Shade
Creature - Shade
Shadow
Whenever Dementia Shade deals combat damage to an opponent, you and that player each discard a card.
3/2
Make a card around remembering things.
February 28, 2024 3:17 p.m.
wallisface says... #23
Meddling Mindraker
Arifact
At the beginning of your upkeep, choose a nonland card name.
Spells with the chosen names can't be cast. Activated abilities of sources with the chosen names can't be activated.
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Good luck remembering the multiple cards you’ve named with this thing over the course of a grindy game! Also requires the caster to remember what the opponents deck is likely to include.
Make another card around remembering things, which isn’t some egregious tax/prison piece like this card :)
February 28, 2024 4:36 p.m.
seshiro_of_the_orochi says... #24
Rememberance Engine
Artifact - Vehicle
Whenever ~ enters the battlefield or becomes tapped, shuffle up to three target cards from graveyards into their owner's library.
, : Mill three cards, then draw a card.
Crew 4
6/6
This is about losing and regaining knowledge, so basically the flow of rememberance. It turned out pretty busted, but I like the design a lot.
Make a cat.
February 29, 2024 12:11 a.m. Edited.
TypicalTimmy says... #25
(such a good boy -hugs-)
6 power means he can deal 21 Commander damage before vanishing. Of course that's over multiple turns, but still
I'm getting some real strong R.L. Stine vibes here from Shadow.
So make a card inspired by the legendary R.L. Stine's Goosebumps series
February 29, 2024 1:44 a.m. Edited.
TheoryCrafter says... #26
Slappy, The Living Dummy
Legendary Artifact Creature- Warlock
: Target Player chooses one:
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You gain control of their next turn.
-
~ Deals damage equal it's power.
1/1
The ventriloquist was not in control
Create an Unset card that can only be played on February 29th.
February 29, 2024 9:57 p.m.
TypicalTimmy says... #27
Leap Year
Instant - Leap (Mythic)
You may only cast Leap Year on February 29th.
Target player skips their turn.
It only happens once every four years, but eventually you'll be like "...crap."
Pretty sure some witty rules lawyers can be like "EH HUEHUEHUE I'M NOT CASTING IT SO IT CAN BE PLAYED AT ANY TIME OF THE YEAR EHHH HUEHUEHUE"
to which I say -shrug?-
Make yourself into a Planeswalker based on what your job / career / college studies / passions / hobbies are
February 29, 2024 11:51 p.m. Edited.
Made_Compleat says... #28
Made_Compleat, Aspiring Engineer
Legendary Planeswalker - Made_Compleat
Made_Compleat, Aspiring Engineer can be your commander.
Compleated
+2 Create two 1/1 colorless servo artifact creature tokens.
0 Draw a card. Then, if you control three or more creatures, draw an additional card.
-X Create an X/X blue and green Nightmare creature token with "This creature can't be blocked."
-9 You get an emblem with "At the beginning of your precombat main phase, if you have more cards in your hand than creatures under your control, create a number of 1/1 colorless servo tokens equal to the difference. If the number of creatures you control is higher, draw cards equal to the difference."
5
I'll let you guess which hobbies of mine I based this off of.
Repeat the challenge! Four loyalty abilities seems like a good amount. It should also have the "This 'walker can be your commander" text.
March 1, 2024 10:20 a.m.
seshiro_of_the_orochi says... #29
Seshiro, Fighting Fosterer
Legendary Planeswalker - Seshiro
Creatures you control with Base Power and/or Base Toughness 2 or less enter the battlefield with an additional +1/+1 counter.
+1 Target creature you control fights target creature you don't control.
-4 Draw a card for each creature you control.
-X Until your next turn, ~ becomes an X/X Human creature with Vigilance and Double Strike.
~ can be your commander.
4
Repeat if you feel the challenge. Otherwise, do wild.
March 1, 2024 12:51 p.m.
A, Fungal Refiner
Legendary Planeswalker - A
Whenever you draw your second card each turn, create a 1/1 green Saproling creature token.
+2 Create two 1/1 green Saproling creature token.
-2 Destroy target nonland permanent. Draw a card.
-5 Gain control of target nonland permanent with mana value less than or equal to the number of Saprolings and Fungus you control.
5
A, Fungal Refiner can be your commander.
Same challenge.
March 1, 2024 1:38 p.m.
griffstick says... #31
Same challenge witch means wild is available
I'm gonna build a deck around these cmdr partners
Just do a card either a legendary creature or plainswalker based off of an occupation, doesn't have to be your occupation
March 1, 2024 5:42 p.m. Edited.
TheForsakenOne says... #32
Nathanius, the Mad Doctor
Legendary creature - Human wizard
If a creature you control would die tap it and put a wound counter on it instead.
Creatures you control with wound counters on them have "At the beginning of your upkeep, you lose X life X times, where X is the number of wound counters on this creature"
When Nathanius, the Mad Doctor leave the battlefield sacrifice all creatures with wound counters on them.
3/3 You die when I say you can die
Create a new type of battle that functions differently than sieges.
March 1, 2024 7:56 p.m.
TypicalTimmy says... #33
Ooooh wait I've got one!! >:)
The Razing of Akros
Battle - War
The Razing of Akros enters the battlefield with X war counters on it.
When The Razing of Akros enters the battlefield, create X 2/3 red Minotaur creature tokens with haste and you become the Warlord.
At the beginning of your upkeep if you are the Warlord, and create X 2/3 red Minotaur creature tokens with haste.
Warlord
Emblem
As long as you are the Warlord, all opponents may only attack you and planeswalkers you control if able.
Draw a card at the beginning of your upkeep.
Legendary creatures you control get +2/+2 and creatures you control have vigilance and menace.
Not sure if the rules would allow for more than one Warlord or if it's like the Monarch where it's just one. I think there can be multiple Warlords, and in this case your opponent would have to choose which Warlord they attack.
Make another War!! :D
(IDK if being able to be attacked is an inherent property and mechanic of Battle, as in the Type, or as a mechanic of Siege, as in the Subtype. That's why I left it out. Of course now it feels more like an Enchantment, so idk)
March 1, 2024 8:29 p.m. Edited.
I'm pretty sure Battles are attackable permanents, and the transforminess is from the Siege bit.
The War of the Sun
Battle - War
Creatures you control get +1/+1.
Creatures you don't control get -1/-1.
At the beginning of each combat step, if you control more creatures than each opponent, you become a Warlord.
Defense 5
No special basis for this card, it just felt like it could be a story spotlight for a set.
Take a legendary creature or planeswalker card, anagram the name, and make a card based off that anagram.
March 3, 2024 4:01 p.m.
TypicalTimmy says... #36
Emil Irwinn, Symmetry
Legendary Creature - Human Elf Mutant Wizard
Hexproof
Whenever another nontoken permanent enters the battlefield under any players control, each opponent creates a token copy of it.
Ahh, at long last... Perfection.
3/3
Awesome challenge!!
Repeat, and use This link to make anagrams! :D
Protip: Use a card with a long name and multiple vowels. It'll make it a lot easier ;)
Bonus points if you make a card using Asmoranomardicadaistinaculdacar
March 3, 2024 7:27 p.m.
TypicalTimmy says... #37
It looks like the website can't generate anything with Asmoranomardicadaistinaculdacar.
It may be because it sees it as a singular word? Try adding random spaces into it to help break it up. That might yield some results.
If you're up to using that one, that is.
March 3, 2024 8:35 p.m.
Bridgette Refreezes Matzoth Tezzeret, Master of the Bridge
Legendary Sorcery
Tap target each permanent target opponent controls. Put 2 Stun counters on each permanent tapped this way. You may draw X cards and X life, where X is the amount of permanents tapped this way.
"Many wonder how Bridgette, a calm, collected mage, happened to recreate an Ice Age. Answer is; she wasn't calm or collected."
Create either a card for Bridgette, or a battle for a Plane called Matzoth!
March 5, 2024 7:37 a.m.
sergiodelrio says... #40
Bridgette, Arctic Lawmage
Legendary Creature - Human Avatar
Whenever an opponent draws a card, tap target permanent that player controls.
, : Each player draws a card, then you gain 1 life for each card drawn this way.
0/4
Let's see another card from the plane Bridgette would reside on (see above)
March 5, 2024 8:17 a.m.
Iceshatter Leviathan
Creature - Leviathan 7/7
First Strike, Islandwalk
If Iceshatter Leviathan deals 7 or more combat damage to a player, choose target land that player controls and put a shatter counter on it. That land becomes a waste and loses all other types for as long as it has a shatter counter on it. If the land was snow covered, destroy it instead.
A new plane and new things to explore. Lets see more from the plane of Matzoth and Bridgette (see above for more examples)
March 5, 2024 8:56 p.m.
TypicalTimmy says... #42
Given what we have established, I'd like to think it's a frozen tundra. An endless expanse of snow and ice. Like antarctic.
Sooo...
Frostmourn Abomination
Snow Creature - Yeti (Rare)
Snowwalk (As long as the defending player controls a snow permanent, this creature can't be blocked.)
When Frostmourn Abomination enters the battlefield, each player may search their library for a basic snow land and put it into the battlefield tapped. If they do, they shuffle their libraries. For each player who doesn't, put a Ward counter on Frostmourn Abomination.
6/6
You know, for someone who doesn't play Draft, I sure do make a lot of Draft bombs...
LEGENDARY YETI FOR THIS SET'S PRECON (Bant identity please :3)
March 5, 2024 9:26 p.m. Edited.
TypicalTimmy says... #43
Didn't think I'd find Yeti artwork of one roaring. Nice.
See above.
March 5, 2024 9:34 p.m. Edited.
Moroz, the Embittered
Legendary Snow Creature - Giant Yeti
Trample, Ward 2
Whenever you sacrifice a Snow land, you may put a Snow land card from your hand onto the battlefield tapped and gain 2 life.
At the beginning of your endstep, you may sacrifice a Snow Land. If you do, put a +1/+1 counter on ~. You may reveal the top X cards of your library, where X is ~'s power. You may reveal any number of Snow Permanents from among cards revealed this way, and put them into your hand.
"Ages past, Moroz was the sole reason the mountain passes were clear. As long as he was given his Solstice offerings, one could freely transverse the peaks without issue; since the villages have refused his tithe, he refuses them their hunting grounds."
5/5
I think from ability to flavor text, this is a solid card!
Make another pre-con commander or something else for this Frost covered Snow-plane, Matzoth!
March 6, 2024 8:09 a.m.
Made_Compleat says... #45
With the theme of Izzet horrors from the deep in mind....
Rezan'hoth, Breaker of the Ice
Legendary Creature - Leviathan
Creatures you control have trample.
Creature spells with power 5 or greater you cast have "This spell costs less to cast, where X is the number of spells you've cast this turn."
Emerge
In the deeps he slumbers, dreaming of the day when his fire will melt the snow.
7/4
Inspired by Icebreaker Leviathan (#15), I thought it would be cool to have leviathans lurking around geothermal vents in the depths of the ocean, the one place where the cold doesn't encroach.
Three choices for the challenge:
- The alt-commander for this precon,
- Another precon commander for this set,
- Or a sorcery from this set showing a volcano erupting under the ice.
March 6, 2024 9:05 a.m.
TypicalTimmy says... #46
I absolutely love how Leviathans have almost taken the thematic roll of Dragons in this world
March 6, 2024 5:18 p.m.
TypicalTimmy says... #47
Geothermal Eruption
Sorcery
Each player sacrifices X lands and you create an X/X red and blue Leviathan creature token with haste.
For centuries, the leylines of Matzoth lay dormant; Submerged in miles of ice and in a state of perpetual stasis. With the sudden and violent eruption of the underwater Canal of Fire, the entire world has once again reawoken. And like a bear fresh from hibernation, it is unrelenting in its ferocity.
All worlds need a calamity for our adventure to be interesting...
Take it away, thread!! More Matzoth!
March 6, 2024 5:26 p.m. Edited.
The story of Matzoth so far is that the lawmage/cryomancer Bridgette froze it over. Fiery leviathans live under the ice, and yetis live in the mountain passes, where they're given (or not given) offerings from villagers.
I'm going to imagine some of the villagers of tough, hardy, and determined to make the best of a tough situation. They swing between a desperate but strong hope that Bridgette will unfreeze the world, and a dark, nihilist cynicism that this time, the ice is staying forever. Humans for simplicity's sake, but there's lots of room for other options. Let's also expand the Ranger subtype.
Gerhult, Desperate Outrider
Legendary Creature - Human Ranger
At the beginning of your end step, if a Ranger entered under your control, gain 2 life.
Whenever a Ranger you control dies, draw a card and lose 1 life.
Survival -- As long as you control four or more nontoken creatures, creatures you control get +1/+1 and have lifelink.
4/4
big creature Leviathans, snow land matters Yetis, (stall or go wide?) Rangers, and group hug control.
Create a card for the or deck that reinforces the theme.
March 6, 2024 5:54 p.m.
Or if Bridgette isn't a commander, create another possible commander with somewhere.
March 6, 2024 6:09 p.m.
sergiodelrio says... #50
Cymex, Agent of Forgotten Days
Legendary Creature - Elder Ranger
Whenever a snow permanent becomes tapped, its controller loses 1 life.
At the beginning of each player's upkeep, if that player's graveyard is empty, create a 2/2 green and black Ranger token with Revenge (When it dies while it's blocking, create a 1/1 colorless Spirit creature token with flying that can't block)
Revenge, revenge
2/4
The resistance is real, folks!
I really like the plane so far... please more (look above to get a grip on the themes)
TypicalTimmy says... #1
Shicheng
Legendary Land
All lands are Islands in addition to their other types.
Legendary blue creatures you control have Islandwalk.
I was going to do a flavor text, but I'd rather you all just Google it :) Truly, a sight to behold. I wish to go there, one day <3
Repeat or wild, again
February 26, 2024 7:17 p.m.