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CardName: Challenge # 168 Cost: Type: Challenge Pow/Tgh: / Rules Text: Wizards said the cycle of Inscriptions is incomplete because they couldn't find a good design for the red or white ones. Let's prove them wrong. Flavour Text: Set/Rarity: Multiverse Design Challenge None

Challenge # 168
 
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Wizards said the cycle of Inscriptions is incomplete because they couldn't find a good design for the red or white ones. Let's prove them wrong.
Updated on 30 Oct 2022 by Alex

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2020-12-07 00:15:24: Alex created and commented on the card Challenge # 168

Zendikar Resurgent contains one notoriously incomplete cycle. (Well, two, but the rest of the Pathways are apparently coming in Kaldheim.) Inscription of Abundance, Inscription of Insight and Inscription of Ruin apparently did have red and white siblings, but R&D couldn't find designs they're happy with. Your challenge is: Design a red or white card to complete the cycle.

A good entry will:

  • Be an instant or sorcery with a choice of three effects with a kicker cost to let you choose any number instead.
  • Have all three of the effects feel roughly equal in value, so the cost of the unkicked version looks appropriate for each of its modes.
  • Ideally not duplicate any of the effects on the three printed members of the cycle.
  • Ideally have a connection between the three effects. Note that Inscription of Abundance and Inscription of Insight do this well - the kicked version has the later effects powered up by the earlier effects - but Inscription of Ruin really doesn't. Ideally we'd manage better than Inscription of Ruin here.
  • Have effects that fit on the plane of Zendikar and in the set Zendikar Resurgent. So no -1/-1 counters or bushido.

This is probably quite hard, given that Maro said WotC R&D couldn't come up with anything satisfying. But there's more of us than of them, so maybe we can find something they missed :)

Created Inscription of Perfidy because I don't know how to follow instructions. ;p

Jack made Inscription of Immolation because deranged minds think alike. ;)

Also Inscription of Desolation which isn't quite right either but includes some more introspection on what approaches I might take

I created Inscription of Devotion as a white one.

And Inscription of Ingenuity, a red card with some trickster-y ideas

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