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.
Ninja'ed but I can see this as an uncommon "weird combo card" that the Modern Horizons sets have.
Expanding Jungle
Land
Whenever Expanding Jungle becomes tapped, put a charge counter on it.
At the beginning of your upkeep, remove all charge counters from Expanding Jungle.
: Add equal to the number of charge counter on Expanding Jungle plus one.
It can be a cycle with Expanding Atoll, Expanding Ridges, Expanding Marsh, and Expanding Prairie.
Create an alchemist that uses any two of Blood, Food, or Treasure tokens.
February 12, 2024 3:18 p.m.
Voldaren Alchemist
, sacrifice a Blood: Create a Food token.
Whenever a human you control dies for the first time each turn, create a Blood token.
1/3
We can't simply not feed them! What kind of a meal is skin and bones?
February 12, 2024 6:19 p.m.
Take your favorite creature card with a creature type in its name. Change the creature type and make the new card.
February 12, 2024 6:19 p.m.
TypicalTimmy says... #5
So like I can't choose Savage Ventmaw because it doesn't have "Dragon" in it's name, but The Ur-Dragon would suffice?
February 12, 2024 7:48 p.m.
Made_Compleat says... #6
I think so! Speaking of which...
Captivating Dragon
Creature - Dragon
When Captivating Dragon and at least two other creatures attack, gain control of target creature until end of turn. Tap it. It's attacking a player, planeswalker, or battle of your choice.
"My, my. What an interesting tool you are."
5/4
Repeat, only the creature must be legendary. Feel free to add an epithet or something to the name to give it that extra bit of flavor.
February 12, 2024 10:05 p.m.
TypicalTimmy says... #7
So I have to modify the challenge slightly. Apocalypse Hydra isn't my favorite Hydra, but it's one that holds a special place in my heart. My favorite is Heroes' Bane for the absurd plays I've done with this guy.
But Apoccy would make for a fantastic Gruul Commander, and fits the bill of having the subtype as part of its name. So imma do him.
Azezazil, Bringer of the Apocalypse
Legendary Creature - Hydra Demon
Trample, vigilance
When Azezazil enters the battlefield, destroy all other nonland permanents with mana value X or less. For each permanent destroyed in this way, put a +1/+1 counter on Azezazil.
, : Remove up to X +1/+1 counters. Azezazil deals that much damage divided among any number of targets.
0/0
Wild
February 14, 2024 2:19 a.m.
TheoryCrafter says... #8
Forceful Solution
Enchantment
Common
If a Spell or ability would cause an opponent to win the game other than by lifeloss, poison counters, or milling, counter it.
If a spell or ability causes you to lose the game other than lifeloss, poison counters or milling, counter it as long as you did not cast it.
Sometimes, you can't think your way out of a problem.
Create a Planeswalker card that transforms into a noncreature, non planeswalker card when its loyalty counters are gone.
February 14, 2024 1:32 p.m.
Basri, Undimmed
Legendary Planeswalker - Basri
If Basri, Undimmed would be put into a graveyard with no loyalty counters, instead transform him.
+1 Put a +1/+1 counter on target creature. It gains vigilance until end of turn.
0 Put a loyalty counter on up to one target planeswalker.
-2 Create two 1/1 white Soldier creature tokens. Put a +1/+1 counter on each of them.
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Purified Sands
Land - Desert
: Add .
, : Create a 1/1 white Soldier for each +1/+1 counter among creatures you control.
This feels a little too Ajani-ish. Basri Ket doesn't really have a unique identity yet.
Let's make that the challenge. Give Basri Ket a new, more unique planeswalker card, adding another color if needed.
February 14, 2024 9:07 p.m.
TypicalTimmy says... #10
Basri, Shaper of Sands
Legendary Planeswalker - Basri
+2 Create a 2/2 colorless Golem creature token. Put your choice of a +1/+1, haste, vigilance or lifeline counter on it.
-3 Target creature card in your graveyard gains Unearth until end of turn. It's a Golem in addition to its other types.
-8 You get an emblem with "Creature cards in your graveyard have Encore. Their encore cost is equal to their mana value. They are Golems in addition to their other types." and "The legend rule doesn't apply to tokens you control."
4
So, Basri Ket is from Amonkhet and his power is the ability to shape the sand. We know that the desert of Amonkhet is necromantic in nature, as it revives the dead and makes them zombies. We also know that the undead are tied to white mana on Amonkhet, thanks to the mummification process.
My idea was that, because Basri developed his powers to manipulate these reincarnation sands, it would be appropriate for him to utilize it in a similar way. So, he can call upon the sands to create echos of those who have died, forging their identities from the sands themselves, for a limited time.
Let's see a Compleated Niv Mizzet.
February 15, 2024 2:10 a.m.
Niv Mizzet, The Compleated Guildpact
Legendary Creature - Phyrexian Elder Dragon
Flying
Pay 2 life: add one mana of any colour, spend this mana only to cast spells exiled with by ~
When ~ enters the battlefield or deals combat damage to a player reveal the top 5 cards of your library, you may cast those cards until end of turn.
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5/5
Create another ooze,
February 15, 2024 4:46 a.m.
Mirror Mimic
Legendary Creature - Ooze Shapeshifter
You may have Mirror Mimic enter the battlefield as a copy of any creature except its an ooze in addition to its other types.
Whenever another creature you control enters the battlefield as a copy of another creature, you may have that creature becomes an ooze in addition to its other types, if you do, put a shield counter on target creature you control.
Oozes you control get +1 +1 and Ward .
Make another Ooze lord.
February 15, 2024 8:57 a.m.
TypicalTimmy says... #13
moo1234, that design is cool and all but unable to work. He doesn't have a means to exile cards, so his mana ability functionally does nothing.
February 15, 2024 12:43 p.m.
TheoryCrafter says... #14
Glub, Acidic Maw
Legendary Creature- Ooze
Rare
When ~ enters the battlefield, sacrifice any number of Oozes. Put the number of counters on ~ equal to the number of each kind of counters on the sacrificed creatures.
Whenever ~ deals fatal combat damage to a creature or Planeswalker, exile it.
0/0
Create an aura that will allow the modified creature to exile spells.
February 15, 2024 1:15 p.m.
TypicalTimmy says... #15
Oblivion Strike
Enchantment - Aura
Enchant creature
Enchanted creature has hexproof and Obliterate. (A creature dealt lethal damage by a source with Obliterate is exiled instead of destroyed.)
Millions prayed to Ulamog for salvation. His beckoning was granted to all but one.
New Ulamog
February 15, 2024 5:57 p.m.
Ulamog, The Insatiable
Legendary Creature - Eldrazi
~ costs less to cast for each card opponents own in Exile
Indestructible, Annihilator 3
Whenever a spell or ability you control exiles one or more permanents an opponent controls, create a 0/1 colorless Eldrazi Spawn creature token with "sacrifice this creature: add to your mana pool"
9/8
Follow this pattern, and make one of the other Eldrazi Titans. One cost reduction ability, Annihilator and Indestructible, and one triggered ability.
Remember, Ulamog is the weakest.
February 16, 2024 12:13 a.m.
TypicalTimmy says... #17
Canonically, is Ulamog the weakest? Because my understanding is that Ulamog, Kozilek and Emrakul are actually one entity within The Blind Eternities and the physical form that represents them, only represents a portion of the real creature.
Ulamog being the physical strength, Kozilek being the distortion and Emrakul being the mind
But idk maybe that was just internet nonsense I read
Kozilek, The Indomitable
Legendary Creature - Eldrazi Titan
Flash
When you cast Kozilek, exile target spell. Kozilek costs X less to cast where X is that spells mana value.
Indestructible, Annihilator 2
When Kozilek, The Indomitable enters the battlefield, copy the spell exiled with it. You may choose new targets.
, : Cast a spell exiled by Kozilek this game with mana value X or less without paying its mana cost.
11/12
Emrakul is last
February 16, 2024 1:06 a.m.
Emrakul, the Inevitable
When you cast this spell, if at least twenty mana was spent to cast it, each opponent discards their hand, then exile any number of target player's graveyards. You may cast up to one card exiled this way without paying its mana cost.
Flying, Trample, Protection From Everything, Indestructible, Annhilator 5
If Emrakul would die, return her to her owner's hand instead.
20/20
February 16, 2024 7:41 p.m.
Emrakul, the Inevitable
When you cast this spell, if at least twenty mana was spent to cast it, each opponent discards their hand, then exile any number of target player's graveyards. You may cast up to one card exiled this way without paying its mana cost.
Flying, Trample, Protection From Everything, Indestructible, Annhilator 5
If Emrakul would die, return her to her owner's hand instead.
20/20
February 16, 2024 7:42 p.m.
The final legendary eldrazi... Hanweir, the Writhing Township Meld Meld
February 16, 2024 7:44 p.m.
In case its not clear, make a new version of that for funsies. Doesn't have to be meld.
February 16, 2024 7:45 p.m.
Hanweir, the Living Blasphemy
Legendary Creature - Eldrazi Ooze
Haste, wither
, : Create two colorless 3/2 Eldrazi Horror creature tokens.
, : Each Eldrazi creature you control deals damage equal to its power to any target.
7/4
Create a Knight.
February 16, 2024 8:34 p.m.
TypicalTimmy says... #23
The Indomitable Syr Rampart
Legendary Creature - Giant Knight
Indestructible, vigilance, haste
The Indomitable Syr Rampart must attack or block each turn if able, and must be blocked if able.
6/6
Idk if he's playable. That's a lot of mana for a commander that can still be countered or exiled or bounced or imprisoned.
Wild
February 16, 2024 9:04 p.m.
markbeloit says... #24
Writhing Storm
Sorcery
This spell can't be countered
Each player sacrifices all artifacts, creatures, and all but one land they control. For each permanent sacrificed this way, its controller creates a Treasure token.
February 17, 2024 7:26 p.m.
griffstick says... #25
No challenge posted so I'll do wild
Make a 2 mana kill spell in black and blue that kills the creature in a unique way
February 17, 2024 9:47 p.m.
TypicalTimmy says... #26
Violate the Mind
Sorcery (Rare)
Draw two cards.
Target creature gets -X/-X until end of turn where X is the number of cards in your hand.
Violate the Will
Sorcery (Rare)
Discard a card.
Gain control of target creature with mana value equal to or less than the mana value of the card you discarded. Untap it, it gains haste. Sacrifice it the next time it deals combat damage.
Violate the Soul
Sorcery (Rare)
Discard your hand.
Gain control of target players next two turns.
Make Jack Skeleington from A Nightmare Before Christmas.
Bonus points if he transforms into his Santa Claws self
February 17, 2024 9:59 p.m.
seshiro_of_the_orochi says... #27
Jack Skelington, King of Halloween
Legendary Creature - Skeleton Horror Noble
~ enters the battlefield with X +1/+1 counters.
Whenever ~ would die or be put into exile from the battlefield, remove a +1/+1 counter from it instead. If you can't remove a counter from ~, exile it, then return it to the battlefield transformed at the beginning of the next end step.
Remove a +1/+1 counter from ~: Create a 1/1 black Skeleton creature token with ": Regenerate this creature."
2/2
He's the unlife of the party.
Santa Claws, Bringer of Nightmares
Legendary Creature - Bringer Horror
Ward - Discard your hand.
Flying, Menace, Haste
Whenever ~ attacks, exile the top card of each players library. For each of these cards, choose a player except its owner. That player casts that spell without paying its mana cost. If they can't cast the spell, they lose 5 life, discard a card and sacrifice a permanent.
4/4
Create a creature worthy of a 90s action move hero.
February 17, 2024 11:22 p.m. Edited.
Joshua Dunn, Hero
Legendary Creature - Human Warrior
First strike, menace
Whenever Joshua Dunn, Hero becomes tapped, it deals 1 damage to any target.
, : Prevent the next 3 damage that would be dealt to another target creature you control.
: Joshua Dunn, Hero gains indestructible until end of turn. Tap it.
3/3
"You say I can't save them all. I say, look behind you."
Option 1: Expand on this '90s action movie with the bad guy, the bad guy's plan, or something else.
Option 2: Create a card with the phrase "As long as it's your turn, creatures you control..."
February 18, 2024 2:41 p.m.
sergiodelrio says... #29
I expect you to die
Legendary Enchantment - Taunt
As long as it's your turn, creatures you control have "when this creature dies, it deals 1 damage to any target".
Badass - If a legendary creature entered the battlefield under your control this turn, abilities that trigger when a creature would die trigger an additional time.
Try to capture an epic moment ... with the flavor of a 90s action movie xD
February 18, 2024 4:26 p.m. Edited.
Made_Compleat says... #30
The funny bit is, the "I expect you to die" quote spawned a successful trilogy of VR games with incredibly well animated opening credits.
I don't know why I mentioned that.
Put on Shades
Choose a creature or artifact you control and a creature or artifact an opponent controls. Destroy all other creatures and artifacts.
Cue the rock music!
Repeat the challenge, but add more explosions!
February 18, 2024 6:19 p.m.
seshiro_of_the_orochi says... #33
One Man Army
Sorcery
Choose target creature you control. Until end of turn, it gains "At the beginning of your endstep, destroy all artifacts you don't control". Then, it deals damage equal to its power to each creature you don't control. Each of those creatures deal 1 damage to it.
"He's just one man."
Give us the Bad Guy for this movie.
February 18, 2024 11:39 p.m. Edited.
TypicalTimmy says... #34
Cool Guys Don't Look At Explosions
Legendary Sorcery
This spell costs less to cast for each time you've cast your Commander this game.
Each opponent turns all of their permanents face-down and moves their boardstate around in a random order so that it is unknown which card is where. You then choose up to X face-down cards for each opponent, and that player sacrifices them, then they turn the remaining cards face-up.
This would be such a nightmare with unsleeved, unrepresented tokens lmao
See above
February 18, 2024 11:40 p.m. Edited.
seshiro_of_the_orochi says... #35
TypicalTimmy: I actually considered doing exactly that trope, but had no idea on how to do it. Love the execution!
February 18, 2024 11:49 p.m.
Wohn Jick, Evil Mastermind
Legendary Creature - Human Noble
Hexproof
At the beginning of your precombat main phase, you may set another scheme in motion for each player that's lost the game this game.
Whenever you set a scheme in motion, create a 3/2 black and red Human Minion creature token with menace.
2/5
Create this villian's right-hand man!
February 19, 2024 12:41 a.m.
TypicalTimmy says... #37
Daisy
Legendary Creature - Dog
Deathtouch, menace
Whenever Daisy destroys another creature, create a treasure token. If that creature was a commander, instead create a number of treasure tokens equal to the number of times it has been cast this game.
2/6
Wild
February 19, 2024 8:20 p.m.
griffstick says... #38
Just wanted to share my altar with everyone.
Wild challenge from above still applies
February 19, 2024 8:35 p.m.
Made_Compleat says... #39
Harpy's assault
Enchantment
Whenever a player discards a nonland card, they loose life equal to its converted mana cost.
Whenever a player discards a land card, they sacrifice a permanent they control.
Make a card that could fit into my newest EDH deck on this site, They laughed at my ideas. They called me mad!. Bonus points if it has combo potential!
February 19, 2024 9:56 p.m.
Induced Psychomania
Enchantment
Magecraft: Each opponent may pay mana equal to that spell's mana value using any color of mana. If an opponent does, they may choose new targets for that spell, and you may copy that spell. You may choose new targets for that spell. Exile all spells cast or copied this way after they resolve. If an opponent doesn't, you may draw a card, then discard a card.
"'Have you ever tried seeing the world as they do?' 'I have.' And how was it?' 'Maddening. Chaos. Everything is mixed, estranged, and nothing all at once. Yet, I cannot see another way to perceive the world any longer.'" - Therapist Notes
Imagine this with Wheels, counters, or even Veyran, Voice of Duality could go nutty.
February 20, 2024 2:26 p.m.
TypicalTimmy says... #42
Probably a wildcard at this point?
But I've got a stand-in challenge if anyone is interested.
I've recently fallen in love again with Planeschase cards and want to build a commander deck that uses them to their full potential.
So your challenge:
Make a Commander who incorporates Planeschase cards and the planar die. Bonus if it's at least 3 colors.
- Note: The Planar die is considered a six-sided die by the rules (901.3; Planar Die), so that'll make wording it easier if you go the route of dice rolls.
February 20, 2024 5:36 p.m.
Made_Compleat says... #43
Plane Shift
Instant
Roll the planar die. If you land on a blank space, roll again. Repeat this process until either you planeswalk or chaos ensues.
Draw a card for each die you've rolled this turn.
Make another card based off of a D&D 5e (or Pathfinder 2e, or any other TTRPG) spell. If you're not into that sort of thing, wildcard.
February 20, 2024 6:35 p.m.
Astov a-Bokral
Legendary Planeswalker - Astov
Whenever you planeswalk for the second time each turn, draw two cards. You may put a land from your hand onto the battlefield.
+1 Roll the planar die.
-2 Chaos ensues.
-4 Planeswalk.
Astov a-Bokral can be your commander.
6
Astov has traveled for a long time, looking for the most beautiful, awe-inspiring, terrifying, out of control, or otherwise incredible vistas and events across the multiverse. No destination is too unreachable, if the result is rewarding enough. Every detail is recorded in a well-worn journal to be remembered and relived. Basically, Astov is the most dedicated tourist in the multiverse.
And while writing that, ninja'ed.
Tomb of Jade
Enchantment - Aura
Enchanted creature can't attack, block, or activate abilities.
As long as enchanted creature is black, if it would untap, instead put a -1/-1 counter on it and a +1/+1 counter on target creature you control.
The FFG Legend of the Five Rings has a great setting, but awkward rules.
Wild.
February 20, 2024 7:08 p.m.
sergiodelrio says... #45
Overthink
Sorcery
Draw a card.
Whenever a permanent you don't control is returned to its owner's hand, Overthink gains Flashback until the end of your next turn.
Just some love for the bounce decks.
Make a card for a fringe strat that you like, but is really not competitive right now
February 20, 2024 7:53 p.m.
wallisface says... #46
Some-Fetid-Thing
Creature - Zombie
Whenever another creature you control dies, you may put a -1/-1 counter onto target creature you don’t control.
Pay 1 life, sacrifice a creature: Put a +1/+1 counter on Some-Fetid-Thing
0/1
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This acts as an upgrade to two distinct archetypes that are both not particularly viable in modern: Zombies, and -1/-1 counters (i made sure this wasn’t particularly useful for Yawgmoth).
Same challenge.
February 20, 2024 8:03 p.m.
Orzhov Debtor
Creature - Spirit Noble
Extort
Whenever you activate the extort ability of a permanent you control, create a 1/1 black and white Spirit creature token with flying.
0/3
repeat the previous challenge or wild
February 20, 2024 11:39 p.m.
i just realized that might be a bit busted... wouldn't be out of place in modern horizons 3
February 20, 2024 11:43 p.m.
seshiro_of_the_orochi says... #49
Competitive play isn't my core knowledge, so I'll do the wildcard.
Nala Pashiri, Lifecrafter Prodigy
Legendary Creature - Human Artificer
Whenever you cast a nonartifact creature spell, copy that spell. The copy enters the battlefield as a 1/1 colorless Servo artifact creature token.
2/3
"My grandmother taught me all she knew. Maybe I couldn't memorize all of it, but I'm trying my best to honor her."
Wild
February 21, 2024 12:16 a.m.
TypicalTimmy says... #50
Facsimile
Sorcery
Create a copy of target permanent with mana value X or less. For each type of counter on it, copy them and place that many on the copy. Copy all status effects such as but not limited to being tapped, face down or goaded. If the copied permanent is a commander, the token copy becomes a commander. It can change zones without being removed due to state based actions, is subject to commander tax and will cause commander damage. Its casting cost is equal to the original printed casting cost, including all colored mana.
I tried to make a card that ideally represents what a facsimile actually is, which is a perfect copy. Given that, I had to copy counters and statuses, which unfortunately includes the identity of being a commander.
I know it makes the card difficult to understand and probably needs an entire book of rules to make it work, but I wanted to try my hand at it. Especially because "Facsimile" apparently ISN'T a card name??
Since we now have the Omenpaths, what I want you to do is take your favorite legendary Creature and thrust it into a new Plane, giving it powers and abilities from that new home
wallisface says... #1
Abrupter Decay
Instant
For each used to pay for this spell, destroy target creature or planeswalker with mana value 3 or less.
For each used to pay for this spell, destroy target artifact or enchantment with mana value 3 or less.
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The idea of this card was to make something that could conceivably be in MH3 - as a card that is clearly pushing boundaries without breaking the game. Saying that, this card feels obnoxious with Trinisphere in play
Make another card that could conceivably exist in MH3.
February 12, 2024 3:14 p.m.