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 Oops. There should only be decadence counters. I started with peace counters, then changed to a more flavor-y name. I just missed that one.
March 14, 2025 8 p.m.
Indulgent Relaxation
Enchantment
Indulgent Relaxation enters with three decadence counters.
Discard a card, remove a decadence counter from Indulgent Relaxation: Create a Food token. Until end of turn, whenever a creature attacks you or a planeswalker you control, that creature's controller loses 2 life.
Sacrifice a Treasure token: Put a decadence counter on Indulgent Relaxation.
"Work? Bah. It's time for a spa day."
Corrected.
Let's do the opposite. Create a card dedicated to conflict.
March 14, 2025 8:03 p.m.
TypicalTimmy says... #4
Enemy of my Enemy
Enchantment
As Enemy of my Enemy enters the battlefield, choose two target opponents.
Those opponents can only attack each other.
Going to dox myself a little bit here.
I live in Illinois.
We are on a sever tornado watch for like half of the state right now.
Make me a legendary tornado elemental that isn't just Cyclonic Rift on a stick
March 14, 2025 10:06 p.m.
Crow_Umbra says... #5
Best of luck with the tornado watch TypicalTimmy. Wishing you safety from the West Coast.
Zephyris, Who Devours the Horizon
Legendary Creature - Elemental
Flying
When Zephyris enters, for each opponent, exile up to one target nonbasic land that player controls until this creature leaves the battlefield.
Nonbasic lands your opponents control enter tapped.
3/4
Make a legendary elemental for a tsunami.
March 14, 2025 10:34 p.m. Edited.
seshiro_of_the_orochi says... #6
Springflut, Risen Depths
Legendary Creature - Elemental
Flash, Trample
This creature enters with twice X +1/+1 counters.
When this creature enters, return up to to X target creatures to their owner's hands.
This creature can't be blocked unless all creatures defending player controls block it.
0/0
Create a card called "Monolith Golem". You can add a name to that and make it legendary if you wish.
March 15, 2025 2:28 a.m.
Yalnis, Tide's End
Legendary Creature - Elemental
Whenever one or more creatures attacks an opponent, this creature returns one target creature that opponent controls to their hand.
Creatures returned to their owner's hand by Yalnis, Tide's end cost more to cast for as long as you control this creature.
4/5
Ninja'd do challenge above
March 15, 2025 2:28 a.m.
TypicalTimmy says... #8
Monolith Golem
Artifact Creature - Golem
As long as Monolith Golem is the only creature you control, it has hexproof and indestructible.
6/6
Wild
Storm passed btw. Was bad enough that it knocked out power at a hospital I drove past on my way home from work.
March 15, 2025 2:32 a.m.
seshiro_of_the_orochi says... #9
Angrath, the Chainbrawler
Legendary Creature - Minotaur Berserker
Menace, Trample, Haste
Whenever this creature enters or attacks, you may sacrifice a land or discard a land card. If you do either, this creature deals X damage to any target, where X is the number of land cards in your graveyard.
5/5
Ever wanted a deck with 99 lands? ;D
Create a legendary piñata (i.e. a creature that explodes into multiple tokens).
March 15, 2025 8:02 a.m.
TypicalTimmy says... #10
If this isn't my most upvoted card, idk what I'm doing anymore lol
In the spirit of festivities, make anything for a holiday or party you enjoy
March 15, 2025 9:24 a.m. Edited.
TypicalTimmy says... #11
I just rolled 9d6 for fun.
1, 2, 2, 3, 3, 3, 4, 4 & 5
So 1 Thopter, 2 Toys, a total of 10 Food which can get me 1 card & 2 Plants
:3
March 15, 2025 10:02 a.m.
hiddengibbons says... #12
Hardcore Rave
Sorcery
Each player draws x cards, puts up to x permanents from his or her hand onto the battlefield, gains x life, searches his or her library for up to x cards and put them into his or her hand, then each player shuffles their library.
Do you wanna dance with me? Tonight will last forever
Repeat challenge
March 15, 2025 2:58 p.m.
Moonlit Gathering
Enchantment
Creatures you control have ": Add two mana of any color. Use this mana only to cast creature spells."
Whenever you cast your second spell each turn, draw a card.
Sacrifice Moonlit Gathering: Target creature gains hexproof until end of turn.
"Greatness is other people"
Create a multicolored green card that has a "whenever you gain life" trigger.
March 15, 2025 4:05 p.m.
Dispassionate Medic
Creature - Zombie Cleric
At the beginning of each player's first main phase, that player gains life equal to the number of cards in their hand.
Whenever you gain life, each opponent discards a card. This ability triggers only once each turn.
2/3
Diseases are cured and injuries are healed under Pharika's care, but heretics often suffer aftereffects.
Create a big game-changing card.
March 16, 2025 12:17 a.m.
Justicar of Adjucation
Creature - Elemental Avatar
At the beginning of each opponent's end step, this creature deals 1 damage to that player for each untapped creature they control.
Creatures have Haste and Vigilance.
3/3
Create a card that loses you life in nonblack.
March 16, 2025 12:32 a.m.
seshiro_of_the_orochi says... #16
Strength-Granter Leech
Creature - Leech
At the beginning of your upkeep, you lose 2 life for each other creature you control.
Other creatures you control get +3/+3 and have Trample and Menace.
3/3
Create a red pillowfort effect.
March 16, 2025 12:48 a.m.
TypicalTimmy says... #17
Overcome with Frenzy
Enchantment
All creatures have haste and attack at random if able.
Vraska, Jace, Tyvar and the rest of The Outlaws needed a distraction. Angrath usually doesn't smile. But now? Now he was grinning.
Pillowfort is defined as making it so costly or difficult to attack you that nobody does.
Part of disrupting combat in a red manner is taking away choice.
So, for mono-red, I feel this is sufficient.
Let's see a brand new Mardu Planeswalker with four loyalty abilities
OR
Three loyalty abilities and a nice powerful static ability.
March 16, 2025 2:41 a.m. Edited.
Rebarbative Heat
Enchantment
At the beginning of your upkeep, Rebarbative Heat deals 1 damage to each creature you control
Creatures can't attack you or Planeswalkers you control unless their controller pays , where X is half the number of Mountains you control, rounded down. If X is 5 or more, Rebarbative Heat deals 5 damage to that creature.
I picture this as a zone of temperature filling your defensive side of the battlefield, with a base temperature of 75° fahrenheit, which increases by 10° for each mountain you control. From example, 3 mountains equals 105°. 6 mountains equals 135°. 10 mountains, which is what gets you to X=5, equals 165°, which would be 73.8° Celsius, for any of y'all not in the States. That's almost hot enough to smoke a brisket.
Next challenge: Make a cost equipment that equips to a land and allows the land to produce extra mana, but not immediately.
March 16, 2025 2:41 a.m.
TypicalTimmy says... #20
Layline Conduit
Artifact - Equipment
If this card is in your opening hand, you may begin the game with it on the battlefield.
Equip Land: and tap the land being equipped
Equipped land has ": Add ."
I wasn't sure if 0 cost meant MV or equip. This way it functionally becomes both with the autoplay
Scroll up for my last challenge. I believe in you. You've got this.
March 16, 2025 2:52 a.m.
Zec'rzt, Plague of All
Legendary Planeswalker - Zec'rtz
Affinity for Plains, Mountains and Swamps
+2 Deal 1 damage to each player for each Creature in that player's graveyard. You gain that much life.
+1 Each opponent sacrifices a creature unless they lose 3 life. You gain life equal to the amount of life lost in this way.
-2 Until end of turn, creatures you control get +1/+0 for each creature in all graveyards, and gain Fear, Lifelink and Menace.
-10 You get an emblem with "Whenever a creature enters a graveyard from anywhere, each opponent loses 3 life. You gain life equal to the amount of life lost in this way."
7
This will never fit on cardboard (btw, prove me wrong if you want to by using your imaging skills to post a proper version of this with a picture), but I believe it fits the challenge. I see Zec'rzt as being a Lhurgoyf Planeswalker from Lorwyn. Don't know why, that just seems to fit.
If you think this doesn't meet the challenge, then repeat. If so, then make a Commander that this card would go into the 99 for.
March 16, 2025 3:42 a.m. Edited.
TypicalTimmy says... #22
So it does "technically fit", except MTG Design doesn't allow a 5th field so the static is put into the +2 due to formatting limitations.
Artwork is from Polygoyf because I couldn't find anything better. But it's not suitable for Planeswalker artwork so shrug?
See above for the challenge
March 16, 2025 11:26 a.m.
TheoryCrafter says... #23
Shigshuu, Mardu Explorer
Legendary Creature- Human Scout
Haste, First Strike
Whenever ~ enters or attacks you may pay 3 life. If you do, search your library for a mountain, plains or swamp and put it on the battlefield tapped. Then shuffle your library.
5/2
Create a legendary Sliver that makes it difficult for you to win the game using the keyword soup strategy.
March 16, 2025 1:44 p.m.
TypicalTimmy says... #24
The Defiant One
Legendary Creature - Sliver
Slivers you control have defender.
Whenever a nontoken Sliver you control enters the battlefield, flip three coins. For each heads, create a token copy of it. For each tails, sacrifice a Sliver.
Refusing to leave it's brood, this Queen amassed a gestation of millions without anyone realizing the horror that would unleash upon her demise...
10/10
Yeah we're gonna need a Sliver Planeswalker now. Remember, all legendary Sliver are WUBRG in casting.
March 16, 2025 1:56 p.m.
Sliverguy420 says... #25
Sliver God
legendary planeswalker -sliver
slivers you control have hexproof.
+2: put a +1/+1 counter on each sliver you control.
0: look at the top card of your library. if it's a sliver, you may reveal it and put it onto the battlefield.
-2: destroy target non-sliver permanent.
-10: slivers you control gain +4/+4 and haste, double strike, vigilance, trample, lifelink, deathtouch, and annihilator 1 until the end of your next turn.
6
create an Ugin creature card.
March 16, 2025 2:18 p.m.
Ugin, the Mystic
Legendary Creature - Spirit Dragon
Flying, vigilance
Whenever Ugin, the Mystic deals damage to a creature, you may pay . If you do, that creature's controller shuffles it into their library.
, : Ugin deals 2 damage to any target.
9/9
Create a 2- or 3-color sliver.
March 16, 2025 5:21 p.m.
Sliverguy420 says... #27
Primeval Sliver
creature- sliver
sliver creatures you control get +1/+1 and lifelink
2/2
create a planeswalker that supports dragon tribal.
March 16, 2025 6:33 p.m.
TypicalTimmy says... #28
Sarkhan, The Dragon Tempest
Legendary Planeswalker - Sarkhan
During your turn, Sarkhan is a 5/5 red dragon creature with flying. Combat damage during your turn doesn't remove loyalty.
+2 Target dragon you control gets +1/+1 and gains haste until end of turn.
-3 The next dragon spell you cast this turn costs less.
-10 Draw ten cards and add . Copy each dragon spell you cast until end of turn. They enter as tokens.
5
Wild
March 16, 2025 7:58 p.m.
TheoryCrafter says... #29
Mardu Ambush
Battle- Raid
Flash
When ~ enters, Creatures you control have Afflict 3, First Strike and Haste until end of turn.
If all creatures you control attacked and weren't blocked you get a food token, gold token, a treasure token for each creature who dealt damage this turn. Then exile ~. Otherwise, return ~ to your hand at the end of your turn.
Create a card for a theoretical Innistrad 4 that has one of the following story themes:
-People arrive from the fabled other continent—and not even Runo Stromkirk could anticipate what arrives.
-Olivia Voldaren and Drana forge an alliance with Baron Sengir.
-Liesa and Sigarda work together to stop a cult from forcing people through Duskmourn's doors.
March 16, 2025 8:53 p.m.
Rincewind23 says... #30
Just checking, but you do know Drana is from Zendikar right? Did she enter Innistrad via Omenpaths?
March 17, 2025 2:42 a.m.
seshiro_of_the_orochi says... #31
I'll combine options 2 and 3. The remaining archangels form their alliance and find themselves quite underwhelmed by Winter's pathetic intents, but very impressed by Valgavoth's mighty pull. Thus, after bitchslapping Winter, they reach for the vampire ladies, who, by chance have just been contacted by Sengir, who very much doesn't like being pushed and pulled around by the elder demon. As a result, the three vampires join the archangels in their plan to take down Valgavoth.
Profane Congregation
Legendary Sorcery
This spell costs less to cast for each legendary creature you control.
This spell can't be countered.
Destroy any number of target creatures and/or planeswalkers. Then, target player sacrifices all creatures and planeswalkers they control.
The archangels prepared to convince their mortal enemies of their plan. Little did they know how gladly the Baron would take their offer.
Create another card for the hypothetical Innistrad 4.
March 17, 2025 2:50 a.m. Edited.
seshiro_of_the_orochi says... #32
Btw, how is Profane Congregation not an existing card name already?
March 17, 2025 2:55 a.m.
TheoryCrafter says... #33
seshiro_of_the_orochi, they've probably haven't got around to doing it yet.
Rincewind23, yes Drana travelled through the Omenpaths as did Baron Sengir...or did he??? >:D The general idea is that with Nicole Bolas, The Phyrexians and the Eldrazi all contained for the foreseeable future, there are still plenty of MTG villains that can still be used. If a guy like Baron Sengir, without a spark, can beat 2 Oldwalkers it stands to believe he can turn into a big bad.
With all the Justifiable complaints that unfinished storylines tend to get rendered moot before they are resolved, sometimes it opens up opportunities to show the consequences of Planeswalkers' actions long after they can do nothing to fix it.
Uncanny Calling
Image: Runo Stromkirk and three other vampires stand at the edge of a cliff, witnessing mysterious people, their forms covered by robes walking onto shore. In the distance is a fleet of ships.
Legendary Enchantment
Whenever a blue spell creates a creature or a blue spell triggers an ability that creates a creature, it becomes a 2/2 blue and black Merfolk Vampire Cleric creature with "All Cephalid, Crab, Fish, Homarid, Lobster, Kraken, Octopus, Merfolk, Leviathan, Serpent, Squid and Trilobite spells cost less to cast".
Runo Stromkirk stood pondering, at a loss as to why the creatures of the deep allowed these strangers to step foot on these shores.
Happy St.Patrick's Day, so Choose One:
-Create a Leprechaun that dies if a gold token with a cauldron counter on it is destroyed. It must be of the elf creature type.
-Create a Land that is rainbow themed. It must create gold tokens
-Create a card based on St. Patrick. It must do more than be snake hate.
-Create a saga based on either the Irish Potato Famine or The Troubles.
March 17, 2025 10:54 a.m.
As a side note, seshiro_of_the_orochi a new art for Sign in Blood would be great for that card as a reprint with new art. I digress.
Demonic Procession
Enchantment
At the beginning of each upkeep, create a 1/1 white and black Cleric creature token with Lifelink.
Demon spells you cast gain Devour X, where X is its mana value.
"Valgavoth's faithful came upon a tear, an Omenpath. To them, it was yet another prominence of their lord. To Valgavoth, it was but a fence to a field of sheep, ready for slaughter."
Ninja'd. Well.
Padraic, Coilscourge
Legendary Creature — Human Cleric
Vigilance
When Padraic, Coilscourge enters the battlefield, exile all Snake creatures and cards from all graveyards.
Opponents can’t cast Snake spells.
Whenever a Snake enters the battlefield under an opponent’s control, you may pay 2 life. If you do, exile that creature.
"He raised his crook, the serpents fled, No coil nor fang did dare be shed. With whispered prayer and steady hand, He drove them far from hearth and land."
1/3
Continue with more cards from this Innistrad 4 set!
March 17, 2025 11 a.m. Edited.
TypicalTimmy says... #35
Odric, Fighting Hunger
Legendary Creature - Human Vampire Soldier
Vigilance, haste
Ward - Pay life equal to his power
Whenever Odric deals combat damage, you lose that much life.
+1/+1 counters may only be put on Odric by him dealing combat damage.
Whenever Odric deals combat damage, put that many +1/+1 counters on him.
Remove ten +1/+1 counters: Transform Odric.
3/6
Odric, Fighting Demons
Legendary Creature - Human Soldier
Deathtouch, double strike, hexproof, indestructible, lifelink, menace, reach, trample, vigilance.
After investigating the massacre of New Hanweir Meld, Elspeth tracked down the entity who's insatiable hunger knew no mortal bounds. What she found wasn't a monster, but a man trapped within...
2/2
So he deals 3 damage, you lose 3 life and he gets 3x +1/+1 counters.
He's now a 6/9
He deals 6, you lose 6 (total of 9), and he gets 6x +1/+1 counters
He's now a 12/15
He deals 12, you lose 12 (total of 21) and he gets 12x +1/+1 counters
He's now a 24/27
He has 21x +1/+1 counters. You remove 10.
He transforms as a 2/2 but he has 11x +1/+1 counters remaining. He is a 13/13
He swings, with double strike, Landing 26 damage and gaining you back 26 life, putting you 5 ahead of what you've lost.
If he was unblocked not blocked insufficiently, that's lethal commander damage
- I love how this design means you've lost 21 life to your own commander. You won't die from commander damage because it wasn't combat it was life loss, but I do love that hidden value. And at 21 lost life, if he connects just one more time you die to his insatiable hunger which I also love. Not to mention the harmony of a 3/3/3 and a 6/6/6 for Innistrad, followed by a 13/13 creature.
I had "Human" added to his typeline to show that deep down inside and within him, somewhere, is the essence of Humanity fighting to break free.
Continue with Innistrad 4
March 17, 2025 11:55 a.m. Edited.
hiddengibbons says... #36
Avacyn, Angel of Death
Legendary Creature - Angel
~ can’t be a commander.
Spells and abilities you control can’t be countered.
Creatures you control have indestructible.
If you control a creature named Griselbrand, Demon of Hope; whenever a creature you control dies, you may draw x cards where x is that creature’s converted mana cost.
Flying, Vigilance.
7/7
I imagine that Avacyn and Griselbrand get involved for some reason. Avacyn becomes a little bit evil and Griselbrand becomes a little bit good. Create “Griselbrand, Demon of Hope” that interacts with Avacyn if you control both.
March 18, 2025 3:37 a.m.
StarRushford says... #37
Griselbrand, Demon of Hope
Legendary Creature - Demon
~ can’t be a commander.
When you gain life, each opponent loses 1 life.
You can't gain life as a result of an opponent losing life (it works)
If you control a creature named Avacyn, Angel of Death, when a card is put into the graveyard, gain 1 life.
, Sacrifice a permanent: Gain 3 life.
Flying, lifelink
7/7
Question: I'm making my own TCG, where would be a good place to get feedback on it? most of the other sites are blocked bc school chromebook.
Make an Elder that hasn't been made before.
March 18, 2025 11:15 a.m.
Crow_Umbra says... #38
Rikki, First to Scavenge
Legendary Creature - Elder Raccoon
Menace, trample
Whenever one or more other creatures you control deal combat damage to a player, you may exile up to one creature from that player's graveyard. If you do, return that card to the battlefield tapped under your control. It’s a Junk artifact with “, Exile the top card of your library. You may play that card this turn. Activate only as a sorcery,” and it loses all other card types
Whenever an artifact is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, you may pay . If you do, create a 2/1 red and green raccoon creature token. It gains haste until end of turn.
3/4
Edit: I definitely thought about giving Rikki a Varolz, the Scar-Striped Scavenge anthem to creatures in your own graveyard, but it looked too wordy. I opted for the token creation instead.
Create another Elder for a creature type that hasn't received one yet.
March 18, 2025 11:57 a.m. Edited.
TypicalTimmy says... #39
The Great Wall of Sentia
Legendary Artifact Creature - Elder Wall
Reach, defender
Your deck may contain any number of cards named The Great Wall of Sentia.
The legend rule does not apply to The Great Wall of Sentia.
The Great Wall of Sentia get +0/+2 for each creature you control named The Great Wall of Sentia.
For thousands of years it stood, against hundreds of battles, spanning dozens of nations.
2/4
Idk lol
Wild
March 18, 2025 12:07 p.m.
DungeonMimic1993 says... #41
Make a mono Red legendary that is all about control
March 18, 2025 12:35 p.m.
Crow_Umbra says... #42
I don't think your card image posted DungeonMimic1993.
March 18, 2025 12:56 p.m.
LunchBox1211 says... #43
Cifru-Moda, the Boundless
Legendary Creature - Dragon Wizard
Flying, haste.
Whenever a spell you don't control is dealt damage equal to or greater than its mana value, that spell is countered.
Whenever a source you control would deal non-combat damage, you may instead have it deal that much damage to target spell on the stack.
,: ~ Deals 3 damage to any target.
2/4
I think that's an interesting take on mono-red control.
Go back to your first ever prompt, and do that.
March 18, 2025 2:17 p.m.
Crow_Umbra says... #46
Also, LunchBox1211, could you clarify a bit on your prompt?
March 18, 2025 2:27 p.m.
Rincewind23 says... #47
I believe they mean that whoever takes up the challenge should find their first post on this forum, and do the challenge from that. Correct me if I'm wrong.
March 18, 2025 2:45 p.m.
Rincewind23 says... #48
My post was to do either Katara, Sokka, Ang or Momo.
Momo, Loyal Lemur
Creature - Monkey
Flying When ~ deals combat damage to an opponent, create a Treasure Token or draw a card.
1/1
New Hunger Games book releases today, so do a character from that franchise OR wild if you are not familiar.
March 18, 2025 2:53 p.m.
StarRushford says... #49
Katniss, Master Archeress (red for chaos/rebellion, green for nature)
Legendary Creature - Human Archer
Reach, first strike, haste
{1}, {t}: Do X damage to any target, where X is ~'s power.
When ~ kills a creature, put a +1/+1 counter on ~.
4/3
March 18, 2025 3:35 p.m.
Rincewind23 says... #50
StarRushford I believe you forgot to add a challenge.
TypicalTimmy says... #1
I see decadence and peace counters, but no mention of what peace counters are used for?
March 14, 2025 7:44 p.m.