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.
actually that's a bit too restrictive, just create a legendary land called "Serra's realm"
January 7, 2024 6:31 a.m.
griffstick says... #3
Let's start a cycle. The 9 Realms next up Ugin's Realm
January 7, 2024 2:14 p.m.
Ugin's Realm
Legendary Land - Realm
At the beginning of your endstep, you pay any amount of . If you do, Scry X, where X is the amount of mana paid this way.
: Add .
: Add . Spend this mana only to cast colorless spells, or activate abilities of colorless permanents.
Next one is Wild, but a Realm!
January 7, 2024 4:16 p.m.
Hungar, Realm of the magyar
Legendary Land - Realm
At the beginning of your first main phase, if you control at least 2 other realms add
"Hányszor zengett ajkain Ozmán vad népének Vert hadunk csonthalmain Győzedelmi ének!"-Hungarian National anthem
My own personal realm, It might be op, it might be OP but that's fine, Hungary is OP.
Create another realm
January 7, 2024 5:09 p.m.
Made_Compleat says... #6
The Seedcore Locus
Legendary Land - Locus Sphere Realm
~ enters the battlefield tapped. When it untaps, you lose two life.
: Search your library for a Realm, Locus, or Sphere card and put it into your hand.
, Pay two life: Add X mana of any one color where X is the number of Spheres, Loci, and Realms you control.
Another Realm. This time make it tap for mana with some sort of drawback.
January 7, 2024 6:30 p.m.
TypicalTimmy says... #7
Bolas' Meditation Realm
Legendary Land - Realm
Bolas' Meditation Realm enters the battlefield tapped unless you control a Bolas planeswalker.
Bolas planeswalkers you control have "-2 Untap Bolas' Meditation Realm."
: Add . You lose life for each time you've activated this ability this turn.
What seemed like eons may have merely been days... what seemed like days may have been exhaustive eons. However long it has been, one thing was clear: Nicol Bolas' mind was freed of all absolution. What remained, was yet to be seen.
My girlfriend and I have this silly little ongoing joke about a duck that is a police officer.
His name is Officer Duck
He's here to QUACK the case!
He's on the scene because something is FOWL
Make an unset card for Officer Duck. Bonus points if your name is griffstick and you can make AI artwork for him, lol
(The Minotaur artwork is something I generated today btw as I was testing an engine out :3)
January 7, 2024 9:21 p.m. Edited.
griffstick says... #8
At first I wasn't gonna do this. But changed my mind and I'm glad I did. I hope you like it. Next challenge is wild.
January 8, 2024 1:58 a.m.
markbeloit says... #9
Mist-Form Whirlwind
Sorcery
Each player may return an instant or sorcery card from their graveyard to their hand. For each opponent that does, Mist-Form Whirlwind deals 4 damage to up to one target. (Separate targets may be chosen if more than one opponent chooses this option)
Make a goat card.
January 8, 2024 1:16 p.m.
seshiro_of_the_orochi says... #10
Unstoppable Aries
Creature - Goat Beast
Other goat creatures you control get +2/+2.
You may have creatures you control deal their combat damage as though they weren't block.
, discard X cards: Create X 0/1 white goat cteature tokens.
5/5
Wild
January 8, 2024 2:06 p.m.
Community Reallocation
Sorcery
Each player puts a non commander permanent with the highest mana value among permanents they control into a pile. Starting with you and going to the right, each player chooses one permanent from the pile to gain control of.
"Ghriz-Kalkull is here in our conclave for the next few weeks to learn about ecologically safe demolition practices. Meanwhile Emmara will be learning Bludgeoning and Arson from our Gruul cousins."
Show a card that has one or two people swapping membership in Ravnica guilds. The guild colors they swap to must match at least one of the original guilds colors.
January 8, 2024 2:27 p.m.
TypicalTimmy says... #12
Dimir Defector
Creature - Human Rogue
, : Detain target nonland permanent.
Why control the narrative when you could just control the populous?
2/3
Awesome challenge! Let's see another defector!
Name must be the guild and Defector, for example Gruul Defector or Boros Defector
Must have an activated ability that uses the colors of the guild they defect to
I would personally request the guilds share a color, such as Selensya defecting to Gruul. But you could do a complete change such as Simic to Boros. It just means the card would be harder to run, now needing four colors.
If it is four colors, such as say Selesnya to Rakdos, you'd have to make their ability(ies) worthy of four colors. Just keep that in mind.
January 8, 2024 4:33 p.m. Edited.
Gruul Defector
Creature - Goblin
riot (This creature enters the battlefield with your choice of a +1/+1 counter or haste)
Sacrifice another creature you control: create a 4/4 red and black demon token with flying and menace
2/2
"To Turbog's delight he found the ability to smash, smash was applicable in a more sadistic context"
I do like the interaction with an activated ability.
Self indulgence aside, this is a fun challenge so do the above challenge but don't use he 4 guilds already used
January 8, 2024 4:49 p.m.
Made_Compleat says... #14
Selesnya Defector
Creature - Dryad Scientist
Convoke
, : Put a +1/+1 counter on each other nontoken creature you control. Activate only as a sorcery.
4/4
Wild
January 8, 2024 5:21 p.m.
TypicalTimmy says... #15
I know he's dead, but...
Tibalt, Monarch of Lies
Legendary Planeswalker - Tibalt
At the beginning of your upkeep, if you are the Monarch draw two cards then discard a card. If you discard a land, add a loyalty counter to Tibalt, Monarch of Lies.
+1 Target player becomes the Monarch and loses 3 life.
-5 Until the beginning of your next upkeep, all creatures must attack the player who is the Monarch if able.
-10 The Monarch loses the game.
4
Tibalt, Monarch of Lies may be your Commander.
First turn he goes to 5.
Next, he could get to 7 if you had made or already became the Monarch. You can also -5 and leave him at 1 by being the Monarch and discarding a land.
Third turn out he can land at 9.
4th turn, which is a slow progression I'll give you that, if someone else is the Monarch you can discard a land and force them to lose the game.
It is a slow progression, and the ultimate doesn't win you the game. However with enough thought into it, Rakdos can easily make it so someone can't really do anything and force them into a corner.
Or slot him into a deck that allows multiple activations.
Wild
January 8, 2024 5:34 p.m.
markbeloit says... #16
Erdo of Many Forms
Planeswalker - Erdo
Erdo of Many Forms enters the battlefield with a loyalty counter on it for each type of mana spent to cast it.
If Erdo of Many Forms would be put into a graveyard from the battlefield, shuffle it into its owner's library.
+1: Return another target colorless permanent to its owner's hand.
-4: Exile target permanent that's one or more colors. Create a token that's a copy of that permanent.
x
Make a card.
January 8, 2024 6:03 p.m.
Noxious Hatchery
Creature - Nightmare Insect
Haste, flying
Whenever Noxious Hatchery deals combat damage to a player or dies, create a 1/1 Hungry Hatchling red and black creature token with "When this creature dies, deal 1 damage to any target"
"Caustic, Maternal, Viscous. A perfect predator."
Make a character/monster from a horror movie you like but it can't have black in its identity.
January 8, 2024 6:25 p.m.
Torgo, Unfaithful Servant
Legendary Creature - Satyr
Torgo, Unfaithful Servant can't block.
Creatures your opponents control can't block.
Sacrifice Torgo: Torgo deals 2 damage to each creature that was dealt damage this turn.
2/2
It was supposed to be a horror movie...
Same challenge.
January 8, 2024 7:17 p.m.
TypicalTimmy says... #19
The Thing
Legendary Creature - Alien Shapeshifter Horror
Devour 1
When The Thing enters the battlefield, you may exile target creature or planeswalker with mana value X or less. If you do, The Thing becomes a copy of that permanent except it is still an Alien Shapeshifter Horror named The Thing, and is still a legendary creature with power and toughness 2/2.
2/2
Would be better as monoblack but that was the challenge.
Would also be nice if it had a way to copy multiple creatures but meh
I wanted it to be able to copy Planeswalkers too, but that makes it a bit weird by losing it's creature typing, so it needed wordy text to explain how it maintains that identity. I was going to leave it up to the +1/+1 counters to give it a power and toughness, because as a Planeswalker it wouldn't even be a 0/0. It simply wouldn't have it. But it sort of needs it for the counters to even work.
So yeah it's a bit of a clusterfuck but oh well shrug?
Let's see a legendary Boros gnome artificer.
January 8, 2024 7:49 p.m. Edited.
wallisface says... #20
Gnome Manufactor
Artifact Creature - Gnome Artificer
Whenever you cast an artifact spell, you may discard a card. If you do, draw a card and create a 1/1 red and white Gnome Artifact Creature token.
1/4
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Same challenge.
January 8, 2024 8:41 p.m.
TypicalTimmy says... #21
Glendalyn the Magnificent
Legendary Creature - Gnome Artificer
At the beginning of your upkeep, you may reveal the top card of your library. If you reveal an artifact or a land, create a treasure token. Otherwise you may put it on the bottom of your library.
Sacrifice X treasure, : Create a token copy of a nontoken artifact with mana value X or less. If that token is a creature, it gains haste until end of turn.
One strike to superheat the metal. One strike to shape it. And one more strike to sign it, just for good measure.
2/2
Mana Crypt and Sol Ring have entered the chat.
She strikes (LOL) me as a Kill On Sight Commander, because of how absolutely huge her potential can become in such a short amount of time.
Make another KOS Commander.
January 8, 2024 9:58 p.m.
Agorand, Shield of the Forest
Legendary Creature - Treefolk Druid
Forestwalk
At the beginning of your upkeep, put a hexproof counter on each other creature you control.
Sacrifice Agorand: Other creatures you control gain indestructible until end of turn
4/6
January 9, 2024 4:23 p.m.
Take your favorite card with a number in its name and increase/ decrease that number by one. Make the new card (it doesn’t necessarily have to be remotely similar to the original, just whatever fits the new name best)
January 9, 2024 4:25 p.m.
Hundred handed and one handed one
Creature - Giant
Vigilance
Monstrous 101 (if hundred-handed two isn't monstrous, put 100 +1/+1 counters on Hundred and one handed one)
Hundred and one handed one may block an additional hundred creatures each combat
7/9
Hundred-Handed One is in theory not a funny card but you see the number ninety nine so rarely that it just is. Anyway 15 mana for a 107/109 is insanely good. This is most certainly a card that earns the monstrous keyword
make yourself as a planeswalker,
January 9, 2024 4:56 p.m.
TypicalTimmy says... #25
Timmy, Lord of Cats
Legendary Planeswalker - Timmy
+1 Create a 3/1 red Cat creature token with haste.
+1 Create a 1/3 green Cat creature token with reach.
+1 Create a 2/2 white Cat creature token with vigilance.
-8 Create five 4/4 red, green and white Cat creature tokens with haste, reach and vigilance.
3
- they protecc
- they attacc
- but most important
- they a cat
Make a legendary Naya cat. It has to be an actual cat and not a Neko / Leonin / Tigrah / cat-person
January 9, 2024 7:12 p.m.
Great Pride of Suq'Ata
Legendary Creature - Cat
Haste, vigilance
Other Cat creatures you control have vigilance.
Whenever another Cat with power 4 or greater dies, create a number of 1/1 white Cat creature tokens equal to half its power, rounded down.
4/4
After the Phasing of Zhalfir, the remaining city of Suq'Ata is still known for its markets and assassins. The grasslands and mountains, however, are ruled by the Great Pride, more than one hundred lions in constant migration.
Create a card that shows a business agreement.
January 9, 2024 7:37 p.m.
Trade License
Assist
Cast this spell only if two or more players paid mana to cast it.
When ~ Enters the battlefield, choose a card type, then each opponent who paid mana to cast trade license creates a copy of it.
Spells of the chosen type players who don’t control an artifact named Trae License cast cost more to cast
Whenever you cast a spell of the chosen type, create a treasure token.
January 9, 2024 9:31 p.m.
Cautious Connivery
Instant (is blue)
The next spell target opponent casts costs more to cast.
The next spell you cast costs more to cast.
Design a card that would immediately return Jund to tier 1 in modern but wouldn't get banned
January 9, 2024 9:55 p.m.
TypicalTimmy says... #30
Blood Bolt
Sorcery
Blood Bolt deals 3 damage to any target.
Discard this card: Blood Bolt deals 3 damage to any target and 3 damage to you.
Victory has never tasted so sweet.
Brutal.
Let's see the gravity hammer from Halo
January 10, 2024 1:01 a.m.
markbeloit says... #31
Gravity Hammer
Artifact - Equipment
When equipped creature attacks, it deals 4 damage to target creature defending player controls.
Equip creature with power 4 or greater
Equip creature with power 3 or less
I'm no Halo player, but that's my stab at it.
Wild, or redo if you think I f*cked it up.
January 10, 2024 5:37 p.m.
TypicalTimmy says... #32
The Colosseum
Plane - Outworld
Whenever a legendary creature you controls enters the battlefield, you may have it fight target creature you don't control. If your creature survives, exile the other creature.
{Chaos} Whenever Chaos ensues, each player may put a creature card from their hand onto the battlefield.
A Planechase card meant to emulate Mortal Kombat
Wild
January 10, 2024 7:45 p.m. Edited.
Made_Compleat says... #33
Lull from War
Instant
Untap all attacking and blocking creatures and remove them from combat. For each creature removed from combat this way, its controller gains two life and each other player gains one life.
Make a simic theft card. Bonus points if it's a commander.
January 10, 2024 7:53 p.m.
TheForsakenOne says... #34
Forced Mutation
Instant
Target non-human creature an opponent controls mutates with target non-human creature you control (Put it over or under that creature. They mutate into the creature on top plus all abilities under it)
Make a Compleated version of a character from one of the universe beyond sets.
January 10, 2024 8:31 p.m.
Abduct from the Aether
Enchantment - Aura
Enchant Permanent
As Abduct from the Aether resolves, you may exile it with an Abduction counter on it.
Whenever an opponent casts a spell, if Abduct from the Aether is in exile with an abduction counter on it, cast Abduct from the Aether from exile, then exchange control of Abduct from the Aether and target spell. Each player selects new targets for their spells.
(If that spell has a permanent supertype, the permanent enters the battlefield under your control. Abduct from the Aether enters the battlefield under your opponent's control. Your opponent may exile Abduct from the Aether with an abduction counter as it resolves.)
: Enchanted permanent phases out.
Recently, Simic guildmages have been seen setting rune-traps upon the leylines. Such traps envelop hapless casters who try to tap the leylines' power, transporting them directly to Simic laboratories where they become fresh test subjects.
This one may be extremely janky but I think I basically got what I was going for... it's a little odd tracking who 'controls' the card when it's in exile, since there is only 1 exile zone, but this doesn't seem to be a problem for other cards like Misthollow Griffin.
New challenge is.... make an Aura that can also be your commander.
January 10, 2024 8:52 p.m.
TypicalTimmy says... #36
Negan, Perfected Psychopathy
Legendary Creature - Phyrexian Minion
Haste, menace, Toxic 3
Whenever Negan, Perfected Psychopathy attacks, create two 2/1 black Phyrexian Zombie with Toxic 1 tapped and attacking.
Whenever Negan deals lethal combat damage to another nontoken creature, you may pay life equal to its mana value or power, whichever is higher. If you do, return it to the battlefield under your control. It's a black Phyrexian in addition to its other types and gains Toxic 2.
4/6
This was a really fun challenge ^_^
Next up, let's see Doran risen as a Phyrexian!!
January 10, 2024 9:13 p.m.
markbeloit says... #37
Doran, the Corrupted
Legendary Creature - Phyrexian Treefolk
Whenever a creature you control becomes blocked, if the creature blocking it has lower toughness than your creature, its controller gets a poison counter.
: Target creature blocks this turn if able.
0/7
Make a card where someone (or something) would be smiling in the artwork.
January 11, 2024 12:39 a.m.
Happy Ramona
Legendary Creature - Human Construct
Menace
Discard your hand: Return Ramona who once played from your graveyard to the battlefield, except it has a +1/+1 counter on it. You may only activate this ability if you have at least 1 card in your hand and only once per turn.
"Ramona sometimes had fleeting memories, she remembered dancing round the Conclave's temple garden, she remembered the centaur that was made out of felt and strings who told her to see the circus, she remembered how she died, and she remembered how the puppet crafter gave her a new life"
3/2
ooh scary its a smiley puppet thing.
anyway make a card called "The black shock", google it it's a really cool thing in English mythology,
alternatively create a rakdos legendary creature card that turns living things into puppets
January 11, 2024 6:28 a.m.
I changed the name but forgot to alter the ability text. so sorry about that
January 11, 2024 6:30 a.m.
markbeloit says... #40
Black Shock
Creature - Dog
Flash
Morbid - When Black Shock enters the battlefield, if a creature died this turn, destroy target creature.
3/2
Make a angel. Not Sigarda please.
January 11, 2024 3 p.m.
Conclave Halo Weaver
Creature - Dryad Angel
Flying
Whenever you populate, target land you control becomes a 3/3 centaur elemental creature. It's still a land.
Land creatures you control have indestructible.
"The Boros welcomed the new angels with open arms, but most of them found a community and a home within the Selesnya Conclave."
4/5
Create a judge of some kind. Bonus points if the card isn't white.
January 11, 2024 4:31 p.m.
markbeloit says... #42
Judge of the Damned
Creature - Demon
Deathtouch
: Exile two creature cards from among graveyards. Create a token that's a copy of one of those cards, except it's a 1/1 black Spirit.
1/5
Wild
January 11, 2024 4:41 p.m.
Dissolve the World
Sorcery
Choose one:
-
Destroy all lands you don't control.
-
Destroy all nonland permanents target player controls.
Draw a card for each permanent destroyed this way.
Every plane will meet its end one day.
Create a card that makes a minigame.
January 11, 2024 5:43 p.m.
TypicalTimmy says... #44
Rock, Paper, Scissors
Sorcery
You and target opponent each play three games of Rock, Paper, Scissors. The winner is best two out of three games. Whomever wins the game chooses which mode they want as their prize.
- Choose target permanent the losig player controls. Untap it and gain control of it. It gains haste.
- Create five treasure tokens and five clue tokens.
- After this turn, you take an additional turn.
- Detain all nonland permanents the losing player controls.
- The losing player reveals their hand. You may cast up to one spell from among them without paying it's mana cost.
Garruk spent years cursed by Liliana, hunting down other Planeswalkers. He was finally cured on Eldraine.
Suppose he fell to the Phyrexian, only to continue his massacre.
Make a Compleated Garruk Planeswalker.
January 11, 2024 7:32 p.m.
markbeloit says... #45
Garruk, Apex Hunter
Planeswalker - Garruk
Compleated ( can be paid with or 2 life. If life was paid, this planeswalker enters with two fewer loyalty counters.)
+1: Create a 3/3 green Beast creature token with toxic 1.
+1: Until end of turn, Garruk, Apex Hunter becomes a Phyrexian creature with power and toughness each equal to the number of loyalty counters on him. He's still a planeswalker. Until end of turn he gains indestructible and "Whenever this creature attacks, you may destroy target artifact or enchantment."
3
Make a mono-red planeswalker.
January 11, 2024 7:55 p.m.
wallisface says... #46
markbeloit note that for your cards +1 you’ll need the additional text Prevent all damage that would be dealt to him this turn.” or he’ll still lose loyalty counters from taking combat damage (even though he’s indestructible).
Ragavan, Sparked Monke
Planeswalker - Ragavan
+1: Look at the top two cards of target player's library, exile one of them, then put the other into their graveyard. Until end of turn you may cast that card as long as it remains exiled.
0: Until end of turn, whenever one of your creatures deals combat damage to a player, create a Treasure token.
-4: Draw a card for each card target opponent has in exile. Then, discard a card and create a Treasure token for each card drawn this way.
3
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Create another planeswalker card from a very-well known legendary creature. Bonus points if that planeswalker sticks to its creatures typical tropes, as well as feeling unique among-walkers.
January 11, 2024 8:38 p.m.
TheForsakenOne says... #47
Zurgo Dragonbane
Planeswalker - Zurgo
+1: Until your next turn target creature can't block creatures with power 2 or greater.
-3: Destroy Target dragon.
-5: Search target opponents' library for any number of creature cards with power 4 or greater and exile them, then shuffle.
2
Create a Team up card from March of the Machines, except its between two villains teaming up for nefarious purposes. Bonus points if they're from different planes and are doing so using omenpaths
January 12, 2024 12:33 a.m.
Momir Vig and Svogther
Legendary Creature - Lich Elf Wizard
Menace
: Sacrifice a creature, Search your deck for a creature card, shuffle your deck then put it on top of your deck, activate this ability as a sorcery
Exile a creature card from your graveyard: ~ gains indestructible until end of turn, target land or creature card in your graveyard gains dredge 3, (you may activate this ability only once each turn and only as a sorcery)
4/5
these 2 tried to do nefarious things on ravnica.
Make another team up card but they are from different planes (I didn't get bonus points)
January 12, 2024 5:36 a.m.
Zegana and Tishana, Sovereigns Supreme
Legendary Creature - Merfolk Wizard Shaman
When ~ enters the battlefield, put X +1+1 counters on it where X equals the greatest power among creatures you control, or the total number of creatures you control, whichever is greater.
Whenever you put one or more +1 +1 counters on a creature, you may draw that many cards.
Creatures you control have Ward X where X equals the number of +1 +1 counters on them.
1/1
"Both lead their people to safety time and time again, eventually even through omen paths. Many learned to fear and respect the combined power of the River Heralds and the Simic Guild."
Repeat! Bonus points if they are from two very different planes.
January 12, 2024 10:27 a.m.
Legendary Artifact Creature
Changeling
When Golos and Morophon enters the battlefield, choose a creature type.
, : Search your library for a creature of the chosen type or a land, reveal it, then shuffle your your library and put that card on top of it.
, : Reveal the top three cards of your library. Put all creatures of the chosen type and lands onto the battlefield and the rest on the bottom of your library in any order.
6/6
Same challenge. (I don't think I technically completed it, since neither of their planes are known.)
moo1234 says... #1
Crucius the mad
Legendary Creature - Sphinx
Flying, lifelink
At the beginning of each upkeep put 2 -1/-1 counter on each Æther-Liche you control
: "Create 2 artifacts tokens called "etherium" with "sacrifice etherium, return target creature from your graveyard to the battlefield, It becomes an artifact and an Æther-Liche in addition to it's other types,"
5/7
The more the esperites replaced their flesh, bones and souls with his invention, the more they hated him.
I truly despise esper cards usually, mostly because when I first played standard I could not deal with Teferi esper control (because I was bad at the game) and ever since I've had a stigma for these cards. I do however like graveyard shenanigans and Esper can do graveyard shenanigans. So this is a very expensive but very powerful (and lore consistent) graveyard shenanigans commander.
Anyway there's never actually been a land called Serra's Realm, there has been Serra's Sanctum (which is just a little bit good), so create a ridiculously powerful legendary land called Serra's realm, but you sacrifice it after 5 turns
January 7, 2024 6:06 a.m.