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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.
Crow_Umbra says... #2
Thank you Asder, that was a fun prompt. I wanted to make something that flavorwise felt unsettling, but not necessarily eldritch.
November 26, 2025 12:48 p.m.
seshiro_of_the_orochi says... #3
Unidentified Construct
Artifact Creature
Creature spells you cast that share a creature type with this creature have affinity for artifacts.
1/3
Once it finds a family, its family finds artifice.
Create a card that has and/or gives affinity for crabs.
November 26, 2025 1:58 p.m.
Scuttle Summoning
Sorcery
Affinity for Crabs
Create X 0/1 Blue Crab Creature Tokens. If X is 5 or more, target opponent mills 2 for each Crab you control.
Flashback:
"A rhythmic clicking and clacking of claws draws a hungry clan of cranky crustaceans."
Wild!
November 26, 2025 6:22 p.m. Edited.
markbeloit says... #5
Evermind Engine
Legendary Artifact
: Draw a card. Activate this ability only once each turn.
Exhaust - : Exile target creature. (Activate each exhaust ability only once.)
Evermind Engine can be your commander.
Wild.
November 26, 2025 9:38 p.m.
seshiro_of_the_orochi says... #6
Sorcery
Put a -1/-1 counter on up to one target creature. Its controller loses 2 life and discards a card. Destroy target land.
Create a cat with landfall.
November 26, 2025 11:45 p.m.
TypicalTimmy says... #7
Nutama, Pride of the Savannah
Legendary Creature - Cat
Vigilance
Landfall - Whenever a land enters under your control, gain 2 life and create a 1/1 white Cat creature token.
Whenever a Plains enters under your control, you may have Nutama fight target creature you don't control.
6/6
Make a Whale with Dredge or another graveyard mechanic
November 27, 2025 4:23 p.m.
White Whale of the Black Mist
Creature - Whale
When White Whale of the Black Mist enters or leaves the battlefield, return target creature to its owner's hand.
Vanishing 3
Dredge 5
5/5
Create another permanent with both vanishing and dredge.
November 27, 2025 4:52 p.m.
Unsettling Trinket
Artifact
When Unsettling Trinket enters, Surveil 2 and you lose 2 life.
If you would discard Unsettling Trinket, exile it instead.
Vanishing 3
Dredge 5
, Exile Unsettling Trinket: Exile target permanent.
November 27, 2025 6:49 p.m.
seshiro_of_the_orochi says... #11
Asder: That name is perfect. I can already see me pulling this from an Innistrad pack. Great design.
Stacked Jester
Creature - Demon Clown
Haste, Menace
When this creature dies, create a 3/3 black demon clown token with Menace and a 3/3 red demon clown creature token with haste.
Sacrifice two clowns: Return this card from your graveyard to its owners hand.
6/6
Some guests at Juri's like to call him 'Clown Coil Engine'.
Create a group of raptors.
November 27, 2025 11:43 p.m. Edited.
Bloodprowl Pack
Creature - Dinosaur
Bloodprowl Pack enters with three +1/+1 counters.
Whenever you cast a creature spell, you may remove a +1/+1 counter from Bloodprowl Pack. If you do, create a 2/2 red and green Dinosaur creature token.
Whenever one or more Dinosaurs you control deal combat damage to a player, put a +1/+1 counter on Bloodprowl Pack.
0/0
Noosegraf Mob but for dinos.
Find an interesting card that belongs to a particular tribe, and shift it to work with a different creature type
November 28, 2025 midnight
Treetop Explorer
Creature - Monkey Warrior
Whenever a player casts a Treefolk spell, you may put a +1/+1 counter on Treetop Explorer.
1/1
Vanaras take easily to new experiences, except in humility. But the trees are always ready to teach that.
The base card is Elvish Handservant.
Create a payoff for gaining big chunks of life, something that would make Rest for the Weary or Heroes' Reunion more playable.
November 28, 2025 1:51 a.m.
Herald of Miracles
Creature - Human Cleric
Whenever you gain 7 or more life, you may choose one:
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Search your library for a creature card with mana value 1 and put it onto the battlefield under your control.
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Return target creature card with mana value 1 from your graveyard to the battlefield.
At the beginning of your upkeep, if you control exactly seven non-token creatures with mana value 1, you win the game.
0/2
Create another card that benefits from having many creatures with a specific mana value.
November 28, 2025 4:54 a.m.
seshiro_of_the_orochi says... #16
Seven's Dwarf
Creature - Dwarf Noble
Affinity for Dwarves
Trample, Menace, Ward - Pay 7 life.
Once during each of your turns, you may cast a spell with mana value 7 without paying its mana cost. If a creature cast this way enters under your control, it gains haste until end of turn.
7/7
Create a food golem.
November 28, 2025 8:29 a.m.
markbeloit says... #17
Food Monstrosity
Artifact Creature - Food Golem
,, Sacrifice this creature: You gain 3 life.
Sacrifice a creature: Put a +1/+1 counter on Food Monstrosity.
When Food Monstrosity dies, gain 3 life for each +1/+1 counter on it.
1/1
Make a bird.
November 28, 2025 10:22 p.m.
seshiro_of_the_orochi says... #18
Monastery Skyguard
Creature - Bird Monk
Flash
Flying
Cycling
When you cycle this card, you may pay . If you do, put it onto the battlefield from your graveyard.
3/4
Create a card that combines two of the bending styles from Avatar.
November 29, 2025 6:55 a.m.
Magma Bending
Sorcery
Earthbend 2 then earthbend 2.
Land creatures you gain Firebending X, where X is the number of land creatures you control until end of turn.
Create a card that combines cycling and waterbending.
November 30, 2025 5:06 p.m.
Flow State
Enchantment
When Flow State enters, draw a card then discard a card.
Whenever you discard one or more cards, you may Waterbend . If you do, draw a card.
Cycling - Waterbend
“Water is cool and soothing. It flows. You must be like water yourself.”
- Uncle Iroh, Book 2: Earth "Bitter Work"
November 30, 2025 6:15 p.m.
TheoryCrafter says... #21
No challenge so I'm taking for wild.
Necroforged
Sorcery
As an additional cost, sacrifice a creature.
Create a black artifact equipment food token with "equipped creature gets +X/+X where X is the sacrificed creature's toughness." and has "Equip " and ", : You gain 3 life."
"The necromancer chose to eat it and wear it."
Create a spell named "Winter is Coming". It does not have to be Game of Thrones themed.
November 30, 2025 7:43 p.m.
Winter is Coming
Snow Enchantment
At the beginning of your endstep, put a cold counter on Winter is Coming.
At the beginning of each player's upkeep, that play may tap a permanent for each cold counter on Winter is Coming. For each counter they don't tap a permanent for, that player loses 2 life.
Create an investment banker creature
November 30, 2025 8:31 p.m.
markbeloit says... #23
Kiril, Investment Banker
Legendary Creature - Advisor
Menace
At the beginning of each opponent's upkeep, that player creates a Treasure token.
Whenever an opponent sacrifices a Treasure token, you create a Treasure token.
: Gain control of all Treasure tokens target player controls.
Sacrifice thirteen Treasure tokens: Target player loses the game.
1/1
Wild
November 30, 2025 11:05 p.m.
Boredom
Enchantment - Aura
When Boredom enters, tap enchanted creature.
Enchanted creature doesn't untap during your untap step. Whenever enchanted creature has an ability trigger, or is targeted with a spell or ability, untap it.
Create another aura that imbues a particular emotion onto a creature
November 30, 2025 11:40 p.m.
Forgot to add for the first time each turn to boredom haha, that would be horrendously broken otherwise. Should read "Enchanted creature doesn't untap during your untap step. Whenever enchanted creature has an ability trigger or is targeted with a spell or ability for the first time each turn, untap it.
November 30, 2025 11:41 p.m.
PhotogenicParasympathetic says... #26
Despair -
Kindred Enchantment - Aura Elemental Incarnation
Evoke - Exile a black card from your hand.
Enchanted creature gets -3/-3 if you don't control it.
Enchanted creature gains deathtouch and lifelink if you control it.
Make a new card in the Figure of Destiny/Figure of Fable cycle.
December 1, 2025 12:46 a.m.
Figure of Authority
Creature - Kithkin
: This creature becomes a Kithkin Advisor with base power and toughness 2/2
: If this creature is an Advisor, it gains lifelink and becomes a Kithkin Noble with base power and toughness 3/4
: If this creature is a Noble, it becomes a Kithkin Avatar with base power and toughness 7/7 and "Spells your opponents cast cost more to cast" and "Creatures your opponents control enter tapped."
1/1
Lets see
December 2, 2025 5:19 p.m.
Figure of Allegory
Creature - Kithkin
: This creature becomes a Kithkin Wizard with base power and toughness 2/2.
: If this creature is a Wizard, it becomes an Kithkin Archon and gains Flying with base power and toughness 3/3.
: If this creature is an Archon, it becomes a Kithkin Avatar with base power and toughness 6/6, and gains "Whenever an opponent casts a spell that targets a permanent you control, that permanent gains Ward: until the end of the turn. This ability triggers only twice each turn." and "Whenever you draw a card, you may reveal it. If you do, you may gain 2 life."
1/1
Try to make one that is !
December 2, 2025 5:45 p.m.
Figure of Lore
Creature - Kithkin
: This creature becomes a Kithkin Druid with base power and toughness 2/2
: If this creature is a Druid, it becomes a Shapeshifter with Changeling (this creature has every creature type) and base power and toughness 3/3.
: If this creature has every creature type, it becomes a Shapeshifter with base power and toughness 6/6 and "Each creature you control is every creature type."
1/1
Create figure kithkin that features "pirate" as one of the creature types it gets as it levels up
December 2, 2025 7:13 p.m.
Figure of Plunder
Creature - Kithkin
: This creature becomes a Kithkin Scout with base power and toughness 2/2
: If this creature is a Scout, it becomes a Kithkin Pirate with base power and toughness 4/4
: If this creature is a Pirate, it becomes a Kithkin Pirate Nobel with base power and toughness 8/8 with Menace and "Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, create that many tapped treasure tokens."
1/1
Create a commander for all these fun Figures.
December 3, 2025 10:41 a.m.
seshiro_of_the_orochi says... #31
Demigod of Metaphor
Legendary Creature - Kithkin
While casting a spell that has exactly two colours, you may choose one of that spell's colours. You may pay instead of mana of that colour to cast that spell.
, : Until end of turn, creatures you control have all creature types and get +1/+1 for each of their colours.
4/5
That was quite hard to word, I hope it works as intended.
Wild.
December 3, 2025 11:46 p.m.
Painter's Paradise
Enchantment - Illusion
: Add one mana of any color.
All lands are Illusions in addition to their other types.
Whenever you cast a spell, you may to create a 0/1 blue Illusion creature token.
Paint me a picture of a better world, and I shall paint it for you in return.
Create a card that might benefit from lands being Illusions.
December 4, 2025 3:55 p.m.
Beyond The Veil
Enchantment
At the beginning of your endstep surveil X, where X is the number of Illusions you control.
When Beyond The Veil enters, return target permanent from your graveyard to the battlefield with an illusory counter (When a creature with an illusory counter on it would leave the battlefield or becomes the target of a spell or ability exile it instead. Creatures with illusory counters on them are Illusions in addition to their other types.).
Create another card that uses illusory counters
December 4, 2025 5:58 p.m.
PhotogenicParasympathetic says... #34
End the Nightmare
Sorcery
Put an Illusory counter on each creature your opponents control.
"Not real, they're not real, they're not real..."
Make a card that punishes the ramp player at the table.
December 4, 2025 6:38 p.m.
Vexing Archangel
Creature - Angel
Flying
Ward - Tap an untapped legendary creature you control
This spell costs less to cast, where X is the number of lands and artifacts controlled by the player who controls the most lands and artifacts.
At the beginning of each opponents upkeep, phase out the permanent they control with the highest mana value.
6/5
Create another spell that has its cost reduced by X
December 4, 2025 7:07 p.m.
TheoryCrafter says... #36
Toby, the Magic Spider
~ costs less to cast where X is the number of Forests you control.
Forestwalk, Reach
When ~ enters if there are no Forests on the Battlefield, it loses Forestwalk and Reach and gains Flying, Ward and ":Destroy target creature".
1/3
Okay, so my speculation is the story for the upcoming set Reality Fracture is Jace partially succeeding at his endgame only for there to be serious flaws and what's left of the Gatewatch and their allies fighting the temptations of their new realities to undo what Jace did. Your mission is to either create a Gideon Planeswalker card that would flavor well with this scenario or, if you're not familiar with Gideon's and Liliana's lore, a non-story spotlight card.
December 4, 2025 8:43 p.m.
Gideon, Ripped From Death
Legendary Planeswalker - Gideon
At the beginning of your postcombat mainphase, add for each creature that attacked this turn.
+1: Until end of turn, Gideon becomes a 5/5 Spirit creature with indestructible that’s still a planeswalker. Prevent all damage that would be dealt to him this turn.
0: Create a 1/1 red and white Soldier creature token with haste, then do it again if an opponent controls more creatures than you.
-7: Exile each other nonland permanent.
4
I think if gideon came back, he would not be happy about it.
Create another card from Reality Fracture
December 4, 2025 9:12 p.m.
Liliana, Dominator of Death
Legendary Planeswalker - Liliana
As long as you control ~, you may cast creature spells from your graveyard. Whenever you cast a creature spell this way, it becomes a Zombie in addition to its other types.
+2: Mill 3. If a creature card was put into the graveyard this way, each opponent loses life equal to your devotion to Black and you gain that much life.
-3: Add X mana where X is your devotion to Black. You lose X life.
-12: You gain an emblem with "Your devotion to is equal to the number of permanents you control and the number mana symbols of creature cards in your graveyard."
5
Remember in the War of the Spark where Bolas promises Liliana that he would teach her to use the full capability of The Chain Veil? Well, in this Fractured Reality version, instead of honoring Gideon's sacrifice, Liliana instead uses the Chain Veil to domineer over the supposed Dragon God himself.
Repeat!
December 5, 2025 4:12 p.m.
Loot, Transcribed
Legendary Creature - Beast Noble
When Loot, Transcribed enters, create three Map tokens.
At the beginning of your upkeep, choose one:
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Scry 1.
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Create a Map token.
As long as you control three or more Maps, you have hexproof.
Discard a land card: Creatures you control get +1/+1 until end of turn.
2/4
Same challenge.
December 5, 2025 6:55 p.m.
Reality Assunder
Enchantment
Vanishing 2
When Reality Assunder enters, exile each creature.
Whenever a player plays a spell from their hand, exile it with a time counter and it gains suspend.
Create a card that uses two or more types of counters
December 7, 2025 5:05 p.m.
markbeloit says... #41
Kelcheck, Dynamo
Legendary Creature - Goblin Wizard
Whenever the number of charge counters on Kelcheck, Dynamo equals the number of release counters on him, remove all counters from Kelcheck, Dynamo. Kelcheck, Dynamo deals X damage divided as you choose among any number of targets, where X is the number of counters removed this way.
: Put a charge counter on Kelcheck, Dynamo.
: Put a release counter on Kelcheck, Dynamo.
1/3
Wild.
December 7, 2025 5:46 p.m.
Form of the Demon
Enchantment
When Form of the Demon enters and at the end of each turn, your life total becomes 7.
You cast spells with life instead of mana. (You must cast spells by paying life equal to their mana cost instead of mana)
Create another Form of the Dragon style card
December 7, 2025 6:09 p.m.
Form of the Eldrazi
Enchantment
At the beginning of your upkeep, target opponent sacrifices 2 permanents.
At the beginning of your end step, your life total becomes 7.
Creatures you control have "Sacrifice this creature: Add "
Create a card to ask "do you pay the 1" for Green, Black, or Red.
December 8, 2025 10:33 a.m.
seshiro_of_the_orochi says... #44
Bolt Knowledge
Enchantment
Whenever an opponent draws a card, they may pay . If they don't, this enchantment deals 3 damage to them.
Create a card referencing typical MtG lingo.
December 8, 2025 11:16 a.m.
austintayshus says... #45
Sack of Fodder
Artifact - Food
: Create a 0/1 white goat creature token
, , sacrifice ~ : You gain 3 life.
Repeat
December 8, 2025 11:51 a.m. Edited.
Turn the Corner
Instant
Prevent all damage that would be dealt to you this turn. Put a first strike counter on up to two target creatures you control. Untap each creature you put a counter on this way.
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Swing Out
Sorcery
Aftermath
Damage can't be prevented this turn.
Creatures you control get +2/+0 and gain trample, menace, and "This creature attacks if able." until end of turn.
Create a card with protection from something unusual.
December 8, 2025 1:14 p.m. Edited.
Crow_Umbra says... #47
Frontline Deserter
Creature - Human Soldier Survivor
Skulk
Protection from Battles
Whenever another Soldier you control leaves the battlefield, you may draw a card. This ability only triggers once per turn.
1/2
Create another card with protection from something unusual
December 8, 2025 1:53 p.m.
Inquisitive Primatologist
Creature - Human Scientist
Inquisitive Primatologist has protection from Monkeys as long as you control a Banana.
Whenever Inquisitive Primatologist or a Monkey Creature enters, create a colorless artifact token named Banana with ", Sacrifice this artifact: Add or . You gain 2 life."
1/2
Sorry if the formatting is poor on this one, I couldn't remember a creature that cared about a different type entering to reference.
Repeat! Tough challenge!
December 8, 2025 3:16 p.m.
DeinoStinkus says... #49
Dr. Vinastro, Engineer of Discord
Legendary Creature - Human Scientist
Protection from Robots
When Dr. Vinastro enters and at the beginning of your upkeep, each opponent creates a 3/2 colorless Robot creature token.
Whenever a Robot an opponent controls dies, if Dr. Vinastro dealt combat damage to it this turn, put two +1/+1 counters on Dr. Vinastro and draw two cards.
2/4
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Repeat!!
December 8, 2025 5:18 p.m.
burferking says... #50
Witch Denyer
Legendary Artifact - Vehicle
As long as Witch Denyer is crewed, you have protection from Ward and Hexproof.
Crew 2
4/5
Create a creature that trains in a gym and named Mister/Miss Multiverse.
Asder says... #1
Crow_Umbra I love that man, honestly feels like how wizards would go about doing something like this (in a good way haha)
November 26, 2025 8:42 a.m.