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Huh. I guess that is undeniably a decagon, yes. I always imagine regular polyhedra by default :)
And I love this cycle! :)
Added Triangle of Hatred: White, Square of Dominance: Black, Octagon of Subservience: Green and Decagon of Rage: Blue to go with Circle of Protection: Red. I was having a hard time, at first, coming up with four different abilities that could pwn each color and cost only
... but then I realized that circles only have one line. And Triangles have 
, and Squares have 
, etc..
For Challenge # 130, a cycle with Circle of Protection: Red.
Since Blue went straight to 8, we needed to end red big. I didn't want white to wriggle out of this by requiring a blue permanent, so I went after any deck that could theoretically use blue. Guess this makes an odd side-board against City of Brass et al..
Also, it would be silly if Circle of Protection: Red could stop this, so the damage can't be prevented.
For Challenge # 130, a cycle with Circle of Protection: Red.
That's a jump, from Square to Octagon. I thought about making this a
activation for a Heptagon, but I figured blue would preferred octagons instead.
Also, yes, the artwork is a throw rug. Sometimes you just can't find artwork of a blue octagon, and you're welcome.
For Challenge # 130, a cycle with Circle of Protection: Red. I made these cards in ever increasing number of sides for geometric shapes following the star in enemy order (W, B, G, U, R). So I ended up with a Green square, which feels kind of weird. Works well with Fight, though, since it feels a bit like an arena.
For Challenge # 130, a cycle with Circle of Protection: Red. Trying to get the numbers to work right was tricky here. -2/-1 UEOT is both startlingly strong, and rather weak, oddly.
oops, forgot haste
I figured getting to cast a full Rise from the Grave every turn couldn't be fair at 1 mana, even though it's pretty hard to break the symmetry (if you cast this on your turn then the opponent gets first pick from all graveyards). So I toned it down to Crypt Champion-style restricted-reanimation.
One-sided, this costs 5: Dominus of Fealty. I'm hoping that making it symmetrical allows the cost to be this low, but it probably doesn't. Like Magus of the Crypt, I could restrict the CMC / power of the target creature in order to let this stay a one-drop.
Rolling random until I got a card in a cycle, I got Magus of the Vineyard. Hmm, yes, that works. It was a in a cycle of "print a creature with the same cost and abilities as an enchantment on the Reserve List" (Eladamri's Vineyard; Magus of the Moat, Magus of the Future, Magus of the Abyss, Magus of the Moon). But taken out of that context it could easily be in a cycle of, say, "group hug 1-drop rare creatures".
Took me a while to come up with some suitable group-hug effects for the other colours, but I ended up with Magus of the Aerie, Magus of the Pools, Magus of the Crypt, and Magus of the Back Room.
Created for Challenge # 130 as a new cyclemate for Magus of the Vineyard.
Created for Challenge # 130 as a new cyclemate for Magus of the Vineyard.
Created for Challenge # 130 as a new cyclemate for Magus of the Vineyard.
Created for Challenge # 130 as a new cyclemate for Magus of the Vineyard.
Hee, no - I didn't mean to spoil them, just pointing out that it had already been done with them, but that's no reason not to do it again! That sounds awesome, do it! :)
A pity Alex spoiled the Circle of Protections. I was thinking of doing "Triangle of Hatred: White" and "Octagon of Subservience: Green". But I guess the Circles were probably too obvious a choice. Time to roll up my mental sleeves and get weirder.
And several other challenges (though not on multiverse?) for "take an existing cycle, and replace one element of it".
Anyway, this is a great idea.
Ooh. So pluck a card out of its cycle, and design a different cycle around it.
I guess that's happened once or twice in the past. Leyline of the Void was the only reprinted Leyline, with four new compatriots in M11. Disciple of Grace was originally paired with Disciple of Law but was reprinted paired with Disciple of Malice. Circle of Protection: Red and Black were part of the original tight cycle in Alpha, but then represented white in the two colour-hoser cycles in Eighth and Ninth Editions. And there's the lovely example of a 5-card cycle which consistent of 4 functional reprints and one card that wasn't.
Amusingly, this is kind of the opposite of Challenge # 023.
Vol-tron, Savior of Tarkir isn't a planeswalker card, but close enough?
That's the way the Comp Rules would have you do it at the moment. But I think if Wizards were actually going to print a card like this, or especially more than one, they'd make the exception for "&" or the word "and". They already do this on French cards, as I mentioned on Kiora & Garruk, Behemoth Hunters.