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.
Sigil of Tainted Knowledge
Enchantment
Secretly name a non-land card type. Whenever a player casts a spell of the chosen type, you may reveal the chosen type. If you do, draw a card. Then, secretly choose another non-land type not chosen this way. Whenever a player casts a spell other than the chosen type, draw a card, then discard a card.
Whenever a player discards a card, exile it.
"Knowledge is only as useful as those that can remember it; the true measure of a genius is spontaneous, enigmatic, and fleeting."
Wild!
November 7, 2022 9:48 a.m. Edited.
griffstick says... #4
Create a card that is a new in design. The card must only be able to be cast on an opponents turn and only when the stack is clear.
Or create a card that doesn't use the stack... I want something new or unique
November 7, 2022 11:47 a.m.
griffstick says... #5
How about a card that takes a players priority. So for instance I'm playing a 4 player game of cmdr. I play said card and pass. And on my opponents turns I am the one who passes priority first rather than the players turn it is. It's like a priority swap
November 7, 2022 12:19 p.m.
Short//Sweet
Instant
Transience : Resolve the effects of this spell before any other spells or abilities resolve this turn. You may activate or cast spells with a Transience cost once per turn. Once ~ resolves, exile it.
Return target spell to its owner's hand. Players cannot cast spells with the same name as that spell this turn.
"But I..."
So Transience; what's the deal? A sort of revision/change to Split-Second, just less a one time "not right now", but now a "This is happening now" sort of effect. It should/would work as a kicker cost, making this spell a whopping 5 mana Mana Value, but to guarantee it resolves? Well, by the wording, this spell is essentially uncounterable by all means and methods. Since it isn't a "Counter" ability, effects that prevent it, won't. Now, if there were to be another spell casted with Transcience, the most recent would resolve. Rules Chaos! Jeez.
Make Sweet!
November 7, 2022 1:23 p.m. Edited.
markbeloit says... #7
Sweet//Short
Sorcery
Name a card. The next time a player plays a card of the chosen name, create a Food token, a Treasure token, and draw a card.
Wild
November 8, 2022 10:46 a.m.
Proven Guilty
Instant
Return target non-land permanent to its owner's hand.
Evidence - If was spent to pay for this spell, create two Clue tokens.
Bribery - If was spent to pay for this spell, that player discards a card.
Create a sorcery.
November 8, 2022 12:40 p.m.
CordellWambach says... #9
Justice is Served:
Sorcery
Choose up to 2. If a permanent you controlled left the battlefield this turn, choose up to 4 instead.
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Destroy target creature.
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Destroy target artifact.
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Destroy target enchantment.
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Destroy target nonbasic land.
Similar to Casualties of War, but a little cheaper and weaker.
Make a creature with an underrepresented type.
November 8, 2022 1:48 p.m.
seshiro_of_the_orochi says... #10
Skarth, Castlewatch Swarmcaller
Legendary Artifact Creature - Gargoyle
Flying
Creatures with Defender you control get +0+2 and have indestructible.
Gargoyle creatures you control deal combat damage equal to their toughness rather than their power.
: Target gargoyle you control gains defender until end of turn.
0/5
Make another gargoyle tribal card.
November 8, 2022 2:12 p.m.
griffstick says... #11
Here's what I found on Google about Gargoyles
A gargoyle is usually chaotic evil. Gargoyles are sentient, cunning, and malevolent to the extreme. Their favorite sport is to capture intelligent beings and slowly torture them to death. Due to its stone body, a gargoyle has the ability to hold itself so still that it appears to be a statue.I
Their favorite sport is to capture intelligent beings and slowly torture them to death.
Many considered gargoyles the spiritual protectors of churches as well, scaring off demons and evil spirits.
Gargoyles have six powers and abilities: immortality (invulnerable to the passing of time and to diseases), human form (shapeshift to human-like beings), flight posses wings), camouflage (blend with the inanimate grotesques to surprise intruders), endurance (cannot be wounded at night), and petrification
November 8, 2022 5:54 p.m. Edited.
griffstick says... #12
There is so much more but these are the things I think can help build a card
November 8, 2022 5:54 p.m. Edited.
TypicalTimmy says... #13
It's always sort of bothered me that Gargoyles are artifact creatures, because they are made of stone.
We have plenty of stone-based elementals and golems who aren't artifact creatures :(
November 8, 2022 6:45 p.m.
griffstick That sounds like a very Dungeons & Dragons interpretation of gargoyles.
TypicalTimmy I think gargoyles tend to be artifact creatures when they're carved or shaped--compare Tower Gargoyle and Biblioplex Assistant to the more natural Kjeldoran Gargoyle and Basalt Gargoyle. An Earth Elemental doesn't have differentiation; it's basically a pile of rocks or whatever in a more or less humanoid shape (or animalistic, for Greater Stone Spirit and probably others). That's my working theory.
Reaver Gargoyle
Creature - Gargoyle
Flying, deathtouch
Reaver Gargoyle gets -1/-1 for each creature your opponents control.
Reaver Gargoyle gets +1/+1 for each creature you control named Reaver Gargoyle.
5/5
Create a card with battle cry.
November 8, 2022 7:38 p.m.
griffstick says... #15
Make a rakdos card that fits onto return to, return to ravnika
November 8, 2022 8:53 p.m.
TypicalTimmy says... #16
Side-Splitting Entertainment
Sorcery
Reenactment 3 (As you cast this spell, you may sacrifice any number of creatures with total power 3 or greater. If you do, copy it. You may choose new targets.)
Target player discards two cards.
The show so nice, it must go on twice!
Unfortunately Spectacle and Encore are already keyword ability names, but I think Reenactment is a good choice for what this one does.
Make a new keyword ability for one of the other guilds.
November 8, 2022 9:40 p.m.
TypicalTimmy says... #17
Artwork is borrowed from here. Unfortunately I don't read Russian, so I can not properly credit the artist.
November 8, 2022 9:46 p.m.
seshiro_of_the_orochi says... #18
TypicalTimmy: So Reenactment is basically casualty with extra steps, huh? ;)
Skarrgan Pit Boiler
Creature - Ogre Berserker
Brutality 3 (Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, if it dealt 3 or more damage put a +1/+1 counter on each creature you control.)
3/3
Greenbelt Escalator
Creature - Viashino Berserker
Haste
Brutality 4
Whenever ~ attacks, you may sacrifice any number of lands. If you do, ~ gets +2/+0 for each land sacrficed this way.
0/1
Cranking up the condition? Why that? Because this ability is easier to trigger each timeit triggers.
Make another card with brutality.
November 9, 2022 12:17 a.m.
CordellWambach says... #19
Slithering Shade
Creature - Shade
Menace
Brutality 3
, Discard a card: Slithering Shade gets +1/+1 until end of turn. Until end of turn, whenever Slithering Shade deals combat damage to a player, that player discards a card.
2/2
Make a white creature with brutality.
November 9, 2022 7:05 p.m.
TypicalTimmy says... #20
Ha, I completely forgot about Casualty. I guess the only difference is mine allows any number of creatures, whereas theirs only allows for one?
Borborygmos, Reclaimed
Legendary Creature - Cyclops Barbarian
Trample
The first creature spell you cast each turn gains Brutality X where X is that creature's power.
Brutality 7.
Creatures you control with three or more +1/+1 counters on them have trample, haste and menace.
7/8
Oh, crap it was for a white creature. Okay.
Crimson Bride
Creature - Vampire Noble
Flying, Lifelink
Brutality 2
Whenever one or more +1/+1 counters would be placed on a creature you control, you may instead gain that much life.
An immortal vow, for an immortal soul.
2/4
I don't know, I just loved the idea of an absolutely savage Vampiric bride for this one.
Uhh, wild.
November 9, 2022 7:55 p.m.
griffstick says... #21
I thought that art would look good in this card
Challenge from above still remains
November 9, 2022 9:50 p.m.
Deathbrood Naturalist
Creature - Human Warlock
Deathtouch, Brutality 1
Whenever a Forest enters the battlefield under your control, create a number of 0/1 green Plant creature tokens equal to the number of basic Forests you control
1/3
Wildcard.
November 10, 2022 4:02 p.m.
hiddengibbons says... #23
Your significant other wants to talk about feelings
Instant - Uncomfortable
Choose one:
Change the subject- discard two cards, then draw three cards
Get it over with- Each player draws two cards
Make another hilarious “forgotten realms” style uncard
November 10, 2022 7:16 p.m. Edited.
TypicalTimmy says... #24
You Look in the Fridge
Sorcery
Choose one:
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Create two 0/1 green Saproling creature tokens.
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Create two food tokens.
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Scry 2, then draw a card.
Ugh, we literally have nothing!
Make your choice of either a Naya or a Bant Legendary Hydra, who is built for Hydra Tribal.
November 10, 2022 8:43 p.m.
TypicalTimmy says... #25
The Clockwork Pendulum
Legendary Artifact
All spells may be cast as though they had flash.
Each player may only cast spells during another player's turn.
Sometimes to unravel the timestream continuum, one must observe what it has been knotted into, first.
Make a card with the following text:
- Whenever a single opponent would be dealt damage, each other opponent may choose to be dealt that much damage as well. If they do, they---
November 10, 2022 10:30 p.m.
Crystal Soul
Enchantment Creature - Spirit Cleric
Vigilance
Whenever a single opponent would be dealt damage, each other opponent may choose to be dealt that much damage as well. If they do, they can't gain or lose life until end of turn.
1/4
"What price would you pay to forestall a thousand indignities?"
So if an opponent gets Lightning Bolted, each other opponent can take 3 damage to prevent further life loss that turn, if they think it will be worth it. Basically, opponents can choose to protect themselves from life loss at a cost of guaranteed damage and inability to gain life. It's an odd card, but I bet someone can find a home for it.
Create a card that wants you to have a small, but not empty, graveyard.
November 11, 2022 1:15 a.m.
Desecration Golem
Artifact Creature - Golem
Whenever there are no cards in graveyards, sacrifice ~
Creatures you control get +X/+X, where X is 10 minus the total number of cards in all graveyards
: Exile target card from a graveyard
3/3
Make another Golem.
November 11, 2022 4 a.m. Edited.
Fortheboys11 says... #28
Hungry Steel Golems
Artifact Creature - Golem
Whenever Hungry Steel Golems becomes the target of a spell, that spells controller gains control of all permanents they own.
At the beginning of your upkeep, each player chooses a permanent they control, then control of that permanent passes to the player on their left.
2/4
Make a noncreature card that can get counters put on it.
November 11, 2022 11:35 a.m.
Puzzle_Master12 says... #29
Oobleck
Artifact
, tap target creature: Oobleck gets X +1/+1 counters on it where X is equal to the tapped creature's Power.
Make a Playable 1 drop Merfolk.
November 11, 2022 12:47 p.m.
CordellWambach says... #30
Jungle Protector:
Creature - Merfolk
, Exile Jungle Protector: Put a hexproof counter on target permanent you control.
1/1
Make a playable 1 drop dinosaur.
November 11, 2022 1:33 p.m.
TypicalTimmy says... #31
Sunfire Raptor
Creature - Dinosaur
When Sunfire Raptor enters the battlefield, it deals 3 damage to target creature.
1/1
One drop wild
November 11, 2022 3:14 p.m. Edited.
TypicalTimmy says... #32
I don't know why, but I'm getting some real Seb Mckinnon vibes off this one.
November 11, 2022 8:55 p.m. Edited.
Chronoclasmic Pixies
Creature - Fairie
Flash, Flying
Whenever you cast a spell, you may pay . If you do, that spell gains Split Second.
Whenever you cast your 3rd spell each turn, you may pay . If you do, end the turn.
1/3
Would love to post that with the prescribed artwork, but don't have permission on the site to do so.
Make an enchantment with an ETB ability, a static ability, an activated ability, and a triggered ability that triggers when another permanent leaves the battlefield.
God Mode - Do so in 100 characters of rules text or less.
November 11, 2022 10:15 p.m. Edited.
DeinoStinkus says... #34
That was difficult. I didn't count spaces as characters, but this clocks in at precisely 100 characters XD
REPEAT CHALLENGE!!!
November 11, 2022 11:11 p.m.
For the new page, a reiteration of the challenge:
"Make an enchantment with an ETB ability, a static ability, an activated ability, and a triggered ability that triggers when another permanent leaves the battlefield.
God Mode - Do so in 100 characters of rules text or less."
Hints: The wording is "When ~ enters the battlefield," not "Whenever," which saves a couple characters. Also, it doesn't have to specifically say "whenever another permanent leaves the battlefield." It can be anything that achieves that kind of result, such as "whenever a player sacrifices a permanent," or, "whenever a creature dies." Anything of the sort is acceptable, so long as the trigger is something leaving the battlefield.
November 12, 2022 1:01 a.m. Edited.
TypicalTimmy says... #36
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"Make an enchantment with an ETB ability, a static ability, an activated ability, and a triggered ability that triggers when another permanent leaves the battlefield."
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"God Mode - Do so in 100 characters of rules text or less."
Death
Legendary Enchantment
When Death enters the battlefield, destroy target creature.
All creatures get -2/-2.
: Destroy target creature.
Whenever a creature dies, scry 1.
I don't believe, with Magic's current wording, a card like this can be made with 100 characters or less. Essentially every character counter online includes spaces between words, because those spaces still take up space within the text field. Additionally, symbolage on the card would also be considered a character, if not two for their size.
Challenge: Make a Planeswalker that is an incarnation of another idea, such as "Love" or "Life" or something like that.
November 12, 2022 2:01 a.m.
Bull Over
Enchantment
Flash
When Bull Over enters the battlefield or a nontoken creature dies, create a 2/2 red Ox creature token.
Unearth
In the face of the stampede, the rustlers were completely cowed.
111 characters of rules text, including spaces and line breaks. 92 "solid" characters. Plus a name pun on par with Grizzly Fate and flavor text worthy of Ovinize. Yeehaw! (Is it fully on color? Should enchantments have unearth? Maybe not, but I don't care.)
Ninja'ed.
Defiance
Legendary Planeswalker - Defiance
-1 Goad target creature. Defiance deals 1 damage to target creature.
-3 Gain control of target creature until of turn. That creature gains haste until end of turn.
-5 Until your next turn, whenever a player casts a spell that targets only a single player, that player copies that spell once for each player that spell could target. Each copy targets a different player.
8
Create a Dragon.
November 12, 2022 2:10 a.m.
I made that Unearth on Bull Over unrealistically cheap. Add another character and make it "Unearth ".
Create a Dragon.
November 12, 2022 2:19 a.m.
DeinoStinkus says... #39
Oddly enough, that's exactly the project I'm working on right now. My custom set is all about a plane where trash heaps from other worlds build up. Lol.
Wildcard.
November 12, 2022 7:43 a.m.
Guerrilla Warfare
Enchantment
Casualty 3
Exalted
: Bolster X
Whenever a creature dies, target creature connives.
That's 88 characters, including spaces. If you count mana symbols as 2 characters each, it's 91.
Wildcard again.
November 12, 2022 8:36 a.m.
Epicurus That doesn't really have the ETB effect. Casualty is a casting effect. "When ~ enters the battlefield," is 31 characters by itself, not including the name replacement.
Changing Plans
Instant
Changing Plans deals 5 damage to each player who has looked at any card in their library this turn.
Changing Plans deals 5 damage to each player who has drawn two or more cards this turn.
Each player shuffles their hand into their library, then draws cards equal to the number of cards they shuffled from their hand this way.
Create a card that shows the end of a long journey.
November 12, 2022 10:13 a.m.
seshiro_of_the_orochi says... #42
Pilgrimage's End
Sorcery
This spell can't be countered.
Search your library for up to three lands with basic land types and put them onto the battlefield. If you searched only for basic lands this way, also search your library for a green creature card and put it onto the battlefield. Put a +1/+1 counter on each creature you control, the draw a card for each legendary creature you control.
Create a card representing a battle.
November 12, 2022 10:50 a.m.
ArmageddonPanda13 says... #44
Allahan, Precocious Prodigy
Legendary Creature -- Elf Scholar
Child (This creature can't block or be blocked by creatures that entered the battlefield before it.)
Whenever you cast a spell whenever you could only cast an instant, create an X/X blue and green Dinosaur Mutant creature token, where X is that spell's mana value. If it's the first spell you cast this turn, it spell can't be countered.
"Boarding school? More like boring school."
2/2
In the spirit of the BRO prerelease I'm attending later today, make a card that sacrifices Powerstones as part of its casting or activation cost. Pray for no ninjas.
November 12, 2022 12:26 p.m.
TypicalTimmy says... #45
Ammanius Vive
Legendary Artifact Creature - Construct
Indestructible
As an additional cost to cast this spell, you may sacrifice any number of untapped powerstones you control. For each powerstone you sacrifice, draw a card and put a +1/+1 counter on Ammanius Vive.
Whenever Ammanius Vive deals combat damage to an opponent, create a tapped powerstone token. Then, scry X where X is the number of powerstones you control.
4/4
Make a mono-green shapeshifter that can copy another permanent, similar to how the blue Clone line works. But it must still feel mono-green in nature.
November 12, 2022 12:53 p.m.
markbeloit says... #46
Nature's Duplicant
Creature - Shapeshifter
You may have Nature's Duplicant enter the battlefield as a copy of any creature on the battlefield, except it's not an artifact or enchantment, and it's green and no other color.
When Nature's Duplicant dies, you may search your library for a Forest card, put that card onto the battlefield, then shuffle.
0/0
Good challenge. Make a Shapeshifter.
November 12, 2022 1:09 p.m.
seshiro_of_the_orochi says... #47
Shaped Thunderbolt
Creature - Elemental Shapeshifter
Haste, Trample
You may have ~ enter the battlefield as a copy of another target creature. If you do, it is a 7/1 elemental with trample and haste in addition to its other abilities.
7/1
Let's do something pretty demanding: Create a common MV7 non-aura enchantment.
November 12, 2022 1:58 p.m. Edited.
griffstick says... #48
seshiro_of_the_orochi I really like that one. I think it's right on in flavor or magic the gathering. Like something they would actually print.
November 12, 2022 2:10 p.m.
seshiro_of_the_orochi says... #49
griffstick: Thanks for the kudos :D You know, after posting it, I actually wondered why this card hasn't been printed.
November 12, 2022 2:15 p.m.
TypicalTimmy says... #50
Take the artwork from an existing card and make it into a new one.
If you can't post custom cards and their links, just link the card itself. This one is from Garruk's Uprising.
Ravenrose says... #1
Encrypted Data, one white, one blue, three generic
Sorcery
Each player secretly chooses a creature they control and a creature they don't control. When any one of these creatures are destroyed, the choices are revealed. The choices gain indestructible until end of turn.
The Obscura have their ways of protecting valuable information, much to the chagrin of everyone around them.
Repeat challenge!
November 7, 2022 7:45 a.m.