CardName: Challenge # 116
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Type: Challenge - Alara
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Rules Text: Make a common or uncommon Alara mini cycle for Bant or
Grixis.
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Set/Rarity: Multiverse Design Challenge Common
Challenge # 116
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Challenge – Alara
Make a common or uncommon Alara mini cycle for Bant or Grixis.
In Shards of Alara, there were five shard mini cycles... but three of those were in Naya, and none in Bant or Grixis. Your challenge is to create a common or uncommon minicycle with a member in each of the three colors for the shard you choose.
People seem to prefer Bant to Grixis. So do I, but since there were two Bant cycles here already, I thought I ought to give Grixis a go. What themes did Grixis have? There was unearth, but beyond that? Lots and lots of death, dead things, and dry bones. Lovely. Based on that guidance I came up with Bone Implosion, Bone Scrying and Bone Scour.
I thought about a power-matters cycle for Bant, since exalted tends to temporarily combine several small creatures into one larger one, but apparently that was the Soul's Majesty cycle for Naya. Nevermind :)
Late to the party, as usual. I added Bone of Contention, Skull of Doubt and Nails of Need, since Grixis needed the bump. I liked Jack's idea with adding Unearth to enchantments, but, like many people, I thought they felt too close to Flashback sorceries. Equipment, however, seemed to interact far better with Unearth, so I did that. Grixis non-multi-colored equipment is cheating a little, I know. But let's pretend you didn't notice that, okay? :)
In Shards of Alara, there were five shard mini cycles... but three of those were in Naya, and none in Bant or Grixis. Your challenge is to create a common or uncommon minicycle with a member in each of the three colors for the shard you choose.
typo
Would you mind linking to the cycles? The only one I can think of offhand is Dispeller's Capsule + Courier's Capsule + Executioner's Capsule.
I made a simple creature cycle for Bant. Sigiled Wardbreaker, Sigiled Steelbreaker, and Sigiled Strategist.
@L2i0n0k7 the link goes directly to the section that lists them, but I can add them if you really want.
Oh, for some reason I didn't even notice it was a link. We're okay then.
I made Roadside Commerce, Beneficent Commerce, and Forbidden Commerce, but I'm not really sure the flavor is there.
People seem to prefer Bant to Grixis. So do I, but since there were two Bant cycles here already, I thought I ought to give Grixis a go. What themes did Grixis have? There was unearth, but beyond that? Lots and lots of death, dead things, and dry bones. Lovely. Based on that guidance I came up with Bone Implosion, Bone Scrying and Bone Scour.
Bant is just easier for me, I think. I like your cycle, Alex.
For Grixis, three unearth-enchantments Unearthly Fire Unearthly Knowledge and Unearthly Unbinding
I thought about a power-matters cycle for Bant, since exalted tends to temporarily combine several small creatures into one larger one, but apparently that was the Soul's Majesty cycle for Naya. Nevermind :)
Mini-cycle for Bant with exalted++, Sigilier of Awe, Sigilier of Valor and Sigilier of Heraldry
Late to the party, as usual. I added Bone of Contention, Skull of Doubt and Nails of Need, since Grixis needed the bump. I liked Jack's idea with adding Unearth to enchantments, but, like many people, I thought they felt too close to Flashback sorceries. Equipment, however, seemed to interact far better with Unearth, so I did that. Grixis non-multi-colored equipment is cheating a little, I know. But let's pretend you didn't notice that, okay? :)