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.
TypicalTimmy says... #2
ooooh, okay
Dragonhide Armor
Artifact - Equipment
As you cast Dragonhide Armor, you may sacrifice a dragon you control. If you do, Dragonhide Armor costs less to cast.
Equipped creature gets +2/+2 and has protection from red. If a dragon was sacrificed when you cast this spell, they also gain protection from dragons.
After Dromoka was ruthlessly sacrificed during the Dragonstorm Wars, her scales outfitted entire legions of Abzan warriors who took to all of Tarkir with a ferocity that not even Artaka herself could match.
Equip
For your challenge:
- Make literally anything, but with flavor text that showcases the death of one or more beloved and named characters. In my case, it was the death of Dromoka and the incoming death of Atarka.
August 4, 2024 8:07 p.m.
Storage of Goblins
Storage of Goblins enters the battlefield with 5 embryo counters on it
remove a embryo counter from Storage of Goblins: Create a 1/1 goblin token with haste
: Put a embryo counter in Storage of Goblins. Activate only once per turn
create another mandate like the one above
August 4, 2024 8:12 p.m.
TypicalTimmy says... #4
Felipix, you were looking at challenge #50 on page 830.
We are on challenge #13 of this page, 831.
August 4, 2024 10:05 p.m.
seshiro_of_the_orochi says... #6
Toothbearer's Unmaking
Instant
Create an X/X green and blue setpent creature token with "When thiscreature enters, it fights up to one target creature you don't control".
Fynn had long taunted Koma for a rematch. He didn't expect losing to her tail.
Create a legendary Naya giant.
August 5, 2024 1:49 a.m.
Bestial Anamnesis
Sorcery
Until end of turn, creatures you control get +1/+0 and gain Haste
Creature spells you cast this turn can't be countered.
"Domri had made his choice too quickly. He put the ends before the means. Allying with the Dragon God should have been accompanied by a certain amount of apprehension. However, his brashness had always been his greatest attribute; that which inspired his thrall. The spirit of his intentions, however history will remember them, will be remembered by innumerable generations of Gruul as motivation towards his ideology. His spark was taken by The Advisory, but it lives on within his successors."
I just did a flavor text. Do you have any idea how difficult that was for me? Also, I don't know lore very well, so I had to do research for this, and I'm probably not entirely in touch with whatever happened with the Gruul after WotS. So please just let this one go through.
And because of all that work, obviously I was ninja'd, lol. See challenge above.
August 5, 2024 2:04 a.m. Edited.
Mt Hairikomenai, the Impassible
Legendary Land Creature - Giant Plains Mountain Forest
(: Add , or )
Defender, Indestructible, Reach
Mt Hairikomenai, the Impassible may block creatures with Skulk, Shadow, Landwalk and/or Horsemanship as though they did not have those abilities
: Mt Hairikomenai, the Impassible may block an additional creature this turn
0/20
Make a Planeswalker with a triggered ability, a -6 ability, 2, and nothing else.
August 5, 2024 2:25 a.m. Edited.
TypicalTimmy says... #9
Brior, Cultivator of Realms
Legendary Creature - Giant Druid Shaman
Affinity for plants.
Landfall - Whenever a land enters the battlefield under your control, create X 0/1 green Plant creature tokens, where X is equal to the number of lands you control.
6/6
See above
August 5, 2024 2:30 a.m.
Grik von Headslamer V
Legendary Planeswalker: Grik
Whenever you take damage, put that many loyalty counter on ~
-6; ~ does 4 damage to target creature
2
Make a card with menace
August 5, 2024 11:45 p.m.
TypicalTimmy says... #11
Deathbloom Widow
Creature - Spider (Rare)
Lifelink, reach, deathtouch, menace
Deathbloom Widows are not native to Ravnica. In fact nobody seems to know what plane they migrated from. However one thing is for certain; They've found the deep citadels of the Orzhova to be the perfect nesting grounds for any would-be travelers...
2/5
Make another draftable rare.
August 6, 2024 3:43 a.m.
Marble Wall
Creature: Wall (Rare)
~ enters with a shield counter
Defender
~ can block 3 additional creatures each combat
0/8
Make another card with defender
August 6, 2024 7:23 p.m.
TypicalTimmy says... #13
Sea Wreckage
Artifact Creature - Wall
Flash
Defender
As an additional cost to cast this spell, you may sacrifice an artifact. If you do, it enters the battlefield with a number of +1/+1 counters equal to that cards mana value.
The sea claims many, but on occasion returns few.
0/5
Let's see a legendary Archer with reach
August 6, 2024 8:19 p.m.
seshiro_of_the_orochi says... #14
Sallim Gar, Wilt-Leaf Bow Doyen
Legendary Creature - Elf Archer
Flash
Reach, Vigilance, First Strike
When ~ enters the battlefield, remove up to X unblocked attacking creatures from combat. If you control these creatures, untap them. Otherwise, put a stun counter on each of them.
Archer creatures you control have vigilance and first strike.
3/4
Create a legendary snail that you'd put in an EDH deck around Wick, the Whorled Mind.
August 6, 2024 11:23 p.m.
PhotogenicParasympathetic says... #15
Gary, Loyal Familiar
Legendary Creature - Snail Wizard
Add , , or
Whenever a rat enters under your control, you may return ~ from your graveyard to the battlefield.
1/1
Make a blue dragon to go in a Sivitri, Dragon Master deck.
August 7, 2024 12:24 a.m.
Schadenfreude Dragon
Creature - Dragon
Flying
Whenever an opponent pays life, draw a card
1/3
Make a Planeswalker that would be good in Modern. If you're having trouble, just Google search for the top Modern decks, and make a Planeswalker that would improve one of those.
August 7, 2024 12:57 a.m.
Wait, I have another one in me...
AEther Plunge Dragon
Creature - Dragon
Dragons you control enter with a "Ward " counter on them
: Proliferate. You may use this ability only when you cast a creature spell.
3/3
See challenge above.
August 7, 2024 1:09 a.m.
seshiro_of_the_orochi says... #18
PhotogenicParasympathetic: Perfect design from top to bottom to the Spongebob reference xD
August 7, 2024 1:21 a.m.
And just another blue dragon that would be an EDH staple forever just because...
Hydrogenesis Dragon
Creature - Fish Dragon Serpent
Cascade
Islandhome
Activated abilities of permanents you control cost less for each Blue Dragon you control
: Counter target spell or ability
2/3
Instaban?
See challenge however many above.
August 7, 2024 1:24 a.m. Edited.
Yeah, the activated ability should cost 10x. That might prevent the instaban.
Or maybe
That would keep it from being easily abused.
August 7, 2024 1:31 a.m. Edited.
TypicalTimmy says... #23
- implying my deck doesn't exist...
Dazzle, Shockforce
Legendary Planeswalker - Dazzle
Flash
The first creature spell you cast each turn has flash and haste.
+1 Target creature you control gains haste.
-3 Until the beginning of your next upkeep, the next spell you cast has flash.
2
A while back I asked for a Planeswalker who had "speed force" like powers, similar to The Flash and Quicksilver.
Figured that would be appropriate for a Modern-playable Planeswalker.
Flash on a Planeswalker does nothing, but it lets her get out during your opponents end step, which means you save mana during your next turn since you untap and have already cast her. Plus it's flavorful.
She's from Kaladesh btw :)
Wild
August 7, 2024 2:32 a.m.
Valtiss Kel, Scion of Ahgu II
Legendary Creature: Dragon Shaman
Menace
Whenever a creature you control becomes blocked, reduce its power to 0 until end of turn. Creatures blocking it get -0/-X until end of turn, where X is equal to its toughness
It is the strong who lead, never forget that
4/4
Create a disciple or follower to a card you like; official or custom.
August 7, 2024 2:35 a.m.
TypicalTimmy says... #25
Fist of Zaren
Creature - Ape Berserker
Haste
Whenever Fist of Zaren attacks, you may have it fight target creature you don't control.
Zaren's ferocity and brutality cut swaths of legions down, fertilizing the land with their corpses and watering the crops with their blood. His unbridled rage was so relentless that not even death itself could stop the anger that ensued.
5/5
My #1 favorite custom commander
Repeat!!
August 7, 2024 2:50 a.m.
Gurvada, Aether-Charged
Legendary Planeswalker - Gurvada
Whenever you spend , put a loyalty counter on Gurvada, Aether-Charged.
-2 Create a 1/1 colorless Servo artifact creature token.
-2 You get .
-8 Gurvada deals 4 damage to each creature you don't control. Put two +1/+1 counters on each creature you control.
4
Double ninja'ed. Awesome. That was for the Modern-playable planeswalker.
Watch me get ninja'ed again as I write this, but here's the disciple/follower. Way back I made Sul Bek the Shredder in this thread. Ogre Mercenary with partner and no other abilities in . So,
Sul Bek's Flunkies
Creature - Ogre Warrior
As long as you control another creature with power 5 or greater, Sul Bek's Flunkies and other Ogres you control get +2/+2 and have menace.
6/6
Sul Bek's followers don't accept weakness in their employers, their enemies, or themselves. Each one has a belt of skulls in mimicry of their leader's armor.
If I didn't get ninja'ed, create a legendary equipment that makes loud noises. Otherwise do whatever the new challenge is.
August 7, 2024 3:05 a.m.
TypicalTimmy says... #27
I absolutely love how we both did Boros Planeswalkers from Kaladesh.
August 7, 2024 4:14 a.m.
Horn of the giant Redcap
Legendary Artifact
Equip
Equip to goblin:
Whenever equipped creature attacks choose one:
-
deal one damage to each creature the attacked player controls
-
put a +1/+1 counter on each goblin you control with power less than 3
"RAAAAAAWOOOOOOO!!!!"- General Wortworth
make an evil legendary rabbit
August 7, 2024 5:28 a.m.
I feel like I've slightly incorrectly written "deal one damage to each creature the attacked player controls" feel free to correct me if you know the proper way of writing that
August 7, 2024 5:30 a.m.
seshiro_of_the_orochi says... #30
moo1234: I think it should read "Equipped creature deals 1 damage to each creature defending player controls."
With Baylen, the Haymaker being Naya and being the Bloomburrow rabbit colours, would be an enemy version. A Bant villain seems super-unusual, I kinda dig that.
Samlin, Deceitful Preacher
Legendary Creature - Rabbit Cleric
Ward
Whenever you sacrifice one or more tokens, surveil 2, then draw a card for each token you sacrificed. This ability triggers only once each turn.
, sacrifice X tokens: Reveal the top X cards of your library, choose up to one elemental card from among them and put it onto the battlefield. Shuffle the rest into your library.
1/4
Does this tell enough of its story?
There obviously are fox people on Bloomburrow. I wanna see one of them.
August 7, 2024 1:41 p.m.
Cunning Linguist
Creature - Fox Bard
Hexproof
Whenever an opponent draws a card, they may pay . If they don't, put a +1/+1 counter on each other creature you control
: Each opponent draws a card
1/4
Make a card of any type that would fit into one of the other Bloomburrow precons.
August 8, 2024 1:03 a.m.
Dana_in_Love845 says... #32
Flock Marshal
Creature - Bird Soldier
Flying
Whenever Flock Marshal and at least two other creatures attack, create a token that's a copy of Flock Marshal.
1/1
"We never fly alone."
Create a signature spell for one of the legendary Calamities.
August 8, 2024 11:56 a.m.
Still-Pond Mage
Creature - Frog
You may pay as an offspring token enters. If you do, make a token that is a copy of it.
: If you have not tapped any lands for mana this turn, return Still-Pond Mage and another target creature you control to their owner's hand.
"There is much and more to be gleaned from the glasslike surfaces of Bloomburrow's many small ponds, little. Only those who pay witness to stillness can find the ripple's origin."
Ninja'd
Fancy Feast
Instant
This spell costs less to cast if an enemy controls a Food.
Target creature deals damage equal to its power to up to two target creatures. If one or more creatures die this way, gain 3 life.
The untapped lands ability to represent the stillness of the pond (land). I enjoy this lil pond mage.
Create a card that could help/support Zoraline, Cosmos Caller as a commander.
August 8, 2024 12:33 p.m.
seshiro_of_the_orochi says... #34
Toxin Drainer
Creature - Bat Cleric
Flying
Whenever ~ enters or attacks, you may remove up to three counters from among creatures you control. If you do, surveil X, where X is equal to the number of counters removed this way.
1/3
Is a bat? Check.
Has MV3 or less? Check.
Can instantly get rid of Zoraline's finality counter? Check.
Fills the grave with more creatures to reanimate? Check.
I'd like to see a legendary Calamity Beast in Temur colors.
August 8, 2024 2:15 p.m.
TypicalTimmy says... #35
Akahalla, The Cleansing Fire
Legendary Creature - Elemental Snake
As you cast Akahalla, you may sacrifice any number of permanents. Each permanent sacrificed in this way pays for .
When Akahalla enters the battlefield, scry X where X is the number of permanents sacrificed when casting it. You may choose to exile any number of these cards face down rather than put them in the bottom of your library.
Whenever Akahalla deals combat damage to an opponent, you may play a face down card you own an exile without paying its man failure.
6/6
Artistically he would be a searing red snake setting the world ablaze with his movements, with meadows and groves sprouting from behind him.
He burns and destroys the landscape, but renews and replenishes at the same time.
Repeat, but this time in Naya.
August 8, 2024 5:31 p.m.
Vashab, the Long Day
Legendary creature: Elemental Wolf
: Put a creature with power X from your hand onto the battlefield with a farse counter on it. Activate this ability only once each turn
Creatures with farse counters have base power equal to their mana value
6/6
Make a gruul zombie
August 8, 2024 6:02 p.m.
TypicalTimmy says... #37
Emberwillow
Creature - Plant Zombie
Whenever Emberwillow attacks, it deals 3 damage divided as you choose among any number of targets.
Emberwillows are known to be ablaze for months, even years before finally dying. Some speculate that the plant has long since been dead, and that the fires themselves are what is alive.
3/4
Repeat because I kinda winged it. Personally I don't feel as though I encapsulated it well enough.
August 8, 2024 6:08 p.m.
Impaled Werewolf
Creature - Werewolf Zombie
When Impaled Werewolf enters, gain control of target Equipment or Aura, then attach it to Impaled Werewolf if possible.
Impaled Werewolf gets +1/+1 for each Equipment and Aura attached to it.
2/2
Each weapon lost in its flesh only drives it deeper into mindless fury.
Create a Bat Warrior, Soldier, or Knight.
August 8, 2024 8:06 p.m.
Luminescent Lunarch
Creature - Bat Knight
Flying
When Luminescent Lunarch enters or attacks, choose one:
-
Remove a counter from target creature you control.
-
Put a flying counter or a +1 +1 counter on target attacking creature.
2/2
Create a card that represents magic which gives someone control over fabric, thread, woven things, etc.
August 8, 2024 8:58 p.m.
seshiro_of_the_orochi says... #40
Taylor's Puppetry
Enchantment
Equip abilities you control may target creatures you don't control.
You control all creatures equipped by equipment you control.
Create said taylor.
August 9, 2024 12:50 a.m. Edited.
Baandon Taylor, A-list Seamstress
Legendary Creature: Spider Shaman (Rare)
Whenever a non-creature permanent you control becomes the target of a spell an opponent controls, create a copy of it. The copy is an illusion in addition to its other types. Sacrifice the copy at the beginning of your next endstep
1/3
Create another spider from the same plane as Taylor
August 9, 2024 3:40 a.m.
Peitr, the Animator
Legendary Creature - Spider Warlock
At the beginning of combat on your turn, you may gain control of target artifact or enchantment an opponent controls until end of turn. If the target is an aura or equipment, attach it to target creature you control.
If an artifact or enchantment you control but do not own would be put into the graveyard, exile it instead and draw cards equal to its mana value.
1/6
"Of the five great spider sages, I fear not the shaman, or the wizard. The warlock Peitr is another matter entirely."
Lets do a cycle of five great spider sages each having a different magic caster type - What's left are wizard, druid, advisor, and whatever else you can think of!
August 9, 2024 9:07 a.m.
Vancer Drik,
Legendary Creature: Spider Druid (Rare)
: Return an enchantment you control to your hand
Whenever you cast an enchantment spell, you may pay . If you do, put a ward counter on it.
Whenever an enchantment you control with ward becomes the target of a spell or ability an opponent controls, untap a land.
3/3
Complete the cycle, make a spider wizard or spider advisor next
August 9, 2024 2:54 p.m.
Ricar, Bad Influence
Legendary Creature - Spider Advisor
Whenever you would draw a card, you may pay 2 life. If you do, instead return a card from your graveyard to your hand, then discard a card.
When Ricar, Bad Influence dies, exile each player's graveyard.
4/4
Create a monoblack legendary Spider Wizard with a hybrid mana symbol in its cost.
August 9, 2024 3:33 p.m.
TypicalTimmy says... #46
Andrax, Web of Lies
Legendary Creature - Spider Demon Wizard
Deathtouch
When Andrax enters the battlefield, for every two mana spent to cast it, each opponent discards a card at random. For each card an opponent should have discarded and couldn't, put a +1/+1 counter on Andrax and draw a card.
5/5
So the idea is this. Suppose you have him in a Golgari deck so you have access to a ton of mana. You cast him for .
That's 9 mana, so for every 2 mana spent it triggers his ETB ability. So 4 total triggers
Each opponent now discards 4 cards at random.
Suppose one player only has 2 cards, one has 5 and another has 3.
The player who had 2 can't discard 2, so you put 2 +1/+1 counters on Andrax and draw 2 cards.
The player who had 3 and couldn't discard their fourth card, so another +1/+1 counter and you get another card.
Wild
August 9, 2024 9:43 p.m. Edited.
markbeloit says... #47
Writhing Storm
Enchantment
Spells that players cast from their hand have cascade.
Whenever an opponent casts a spell from exile, you may gain control of that spell unless it controller pays life equal to its mana value.
Make a lifegain card.
August 9, 2024 11:54 p.m.
seshiro_of_the_orochi says... #48
Cryohealing
Instant
Tap target creature and put four stun counters on it. Until the last stun counter is removed, it gains "Whenever a stun counter is removed from this creature, put a +1/+1 counter on it and you gain life equal to its toughness."
This felt against the challenge, but I like the idea. If you think I nailed it, create a global enchantment a la Zur's Weirding. If you think I cheesed it, repeat instead.
August 10, 2024 12:24 a.m.
TypicalTimmy says... #49
Nah I love it!
Heart of War
Enchantment
All creatures have haste, reach, and vigilance, must attack or block each turn if able and may block up to one additional creature.
All Planeswalkers are creatures in addition to their other types and their power and toughness or each equal to their loyalty.
Iroas, God of Victory promises valor and honor. He does not, however, promise it only to you...
I thought this card would be befitting of Iroas. True to the Greek pantheon, the gods always try to find a way to outsmart and belittle mankind. Their gifts are frequently a mockery of the faith.
He doesn't promise YOU victory, he only promises "victory".
If your enemies win, and your comrades fail, then so be it.
Make a Jeskai god for Kaladesh.
Call it ~~~, God of Inventions
August 10, 2024 1:27 a.m.
Ja Nir, God of Inventions
Legendary Artifact Creature: Equipment God
Indestructible
Reconfigure
~ isn’t a creature unless you control 4 or more nonland artifacts
Equipped creature has base power and toughness 5/5
5/5
Make a land that taps for everything that isn’t white
legendofa says... #1
TypicalTimmy I need to point out that blitz exists on New Capenna. Tenacious Underdog
But since it works with the one you made,
Outcast Linebreakers
Creature - Devil Warrior
Blitz (Whenever this creature attacks, create a token copy of it tapped and attacking. Exile the token at the end of combat.)
Blitz (If you cast this spell for its blitz cost, it gains haste and “When this creature dies, draw a card.” Sacrifice it at the beginning of the next end step.)
4/2
Create fireproof armor.
August 4, 2024 7:53 p.m.