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@Vitenka: The blue iconic race is sphinxes, yes, but that's for big rare flagship cards. The blue characteristic race is merfolk. That said, I don't think the first
2/2 was a Goblin (I think it might have been a Dwarf), though the first 
2/2 was indeed a Zombie (Walking Corpse).
But I agree it is hard to make a merfolk iconic and cool. I think Jack's Polar Bear is hard to argue with.
I'm taking my inspiration from Runeclaw Bear. Magic wanted to make Grizzly Bear more magicky. I also like the idea of the vanilla just being fauna rather than humanoid.
My original thought was an octopus, then [a] shark. I like both Twister Moray and Bristling Walrus. I guess let's add in a ray (it still gets the fish creature type). Now we need something magicky. Gleam, glow (do I have the rhyme from Tangled in my head?), what and where? The moon is generally seen as mystical and (in the real world) affects the tides. Lunar seems that could work.
Lunar Ray
Creature- Fish
Bristling Walrus. Creature - Pinniped.
We're overdue for some sea mammals. Big seals, Walruses, etc which can walk too are more useful for magic than dolphins or otters, so I stole a collective term for them.
I also like sphinx cub tho
Twister Moray. Creature - Fish.
Independent Schooner. Creature - Pirate.
Polar bear. Creature - Bear.
Hmm. Blue iconics are sphinx and merfolk.
Well - merfolk are just about always small. And, well, Coral Merfolk.
Feels wrong to just flat-out obsolete that without even the courteasy of going via a rare first.
So, riddle-kitties. 2/2 is kiiinda small for a sphinx; and every sphinx has lots of words. I guess we could do a sphinx-kitten. ... cub? Child, anyway. Flavour talking about how it's not learned stuff because it hasn't grown up, being ironic on its unusually large size? I like the idea - but every single blue sphinx flies. So that's out.
My next suggestion would be the ifrit. Where I learn that scryfall is suddenly giving me results in German for those. Because, uh, why not? As good a reason as any to ignore.
... Huh. I'm stumped. Completely hornswaggled. Phoning in that this is a sphinx cub, lying flat on its back with its wings gone all askew; nomming on a teddy bear. Flavour text something like "When is a bear bearable? When you grow up a little more, dear."
One of these days, Wizards is going to break the taboo and make a blue Grizzly Bears. Bolas knows the power level of creatures has increased enough.
But that card is going to need a name that's both iconic and cool. I'll let you figure out the rest.
Sometimes the winner is chosen via vote around here. It makes my job easier when that happens. Instead of picking apart why this one urn makes multiple Phoenixes, I shrug and just say 'people like it, so it must be the true.' ;)
Congratulations Alex! For the tenuous sake of balance, I dropped the phoenixes to 3/3s, since flying adds a lot. But that's where most phoenix's power and toughness tends to settle anyways. Also reduced the cost of the urn to
because why not. I figure it isn't worth penalizing a player for going the sacrifice route over the discard route.
(((NTC #019))) in a few days!
Oh yeah, Phoenix Urn is spot on :)
Name: Lover's Automaton
Token type: red artifact construct creature with menace.
Yeah, Alex is right.
The card is Phoenix Urn, and it creates a 4/4 red Phoenix with flying.
Vial of dreams. Blue illusion creature token.
I overdid this one :) If I was treating it like a real competition I'd force myself to choose the most appropriate suggestion even if it wasn't the one I loved the most.
But I wanted to get in one relating to memories
Discarded poppet. Colourless scarecrow artifact creature token called "vengeful tatterhead".
Basilisk egg. Green Basilisk token.
Folklore talks about egg being incubated by a toad or cockerel, but I think there's other stories about it being buried.
Dragon's teeth. Colourless skeleton warrior token. Straight out of mythology, bury the teeth, get skeletal warriors :)
I don't think they want to print a rare that doesn't do anything, but making it do something normal 'overcosted' isn't good either. I'll leave that to r&d :)
True. I tried to keep the cost tight because I didn't want it to look useless. But
was just too cheap. I normally don't alter anything on a card after posted, but I want to keep this card looking reasonable. So I upped the activation to 
.
If you think the card is still broken, presume the card has yet to be tested, and the costs will be played with, but this is bizarro R&D where we decide names first.
I want to phone this in - it's obviously a madness enabler. I therefore declare that its name is Baggy Trousers
This week in Name That Card, we have a card that does nothing on the battlefield, and returns to your hand when you activate it from your graveyard. It's either terrible or broken. Have at it!
They came from all the way back in Fallen Empires; so yes, many many thrulls.
Yeah, there are a lot of thrulls. Mostly on Ravnica these days, actually
Sorry I couldn't make it this time or last time, I think the creature type I'm thinking of is those guys from Sarpadia? i think they were called thrulls? i dont know if that ever become a creature type, though...
Added flavor text:
"Occasionally, I forget and wring the pipsqueak's neck. I can still feel the bruises from last week."
--Lim-Dûl, the Necromancer