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To go with Tivadar the Fallen
See Challenge # 160. A shoutback to The Dark/Time Spiral. Tivadar's Crusade, Tivadar of Thorn.
Thank you! I really love having concepts to design for.
Jack V, you're always so prolific on my challenges of this style, and I never feel like I'm thankful enough or like I've given you enough feedback. So, thanks. It makes the work I put into them worthwhile.
Blood Guildmage
I'm not sure this really works, but I was going for, if Eldrazi invade ravnica, will we have FIFTEEN guilds? :)
See Challenge # 161.
Ajani's Partisan a six-card R W G cycle.
See Challenge # 161.
The idea is a cycle of six creatures across W, R and G, each referring to the next in the cycle, so they're useful if you can match two or three of them, but they go gigantic if you can ever get all six.
That's clearly a cycle because the abilities tessellate like that. I picked abilities that could go on small simple creatures because creatures is what we have the most of so we can most easily spend a few on this cycle. And I picked Ajani semi-arbitrarily because he seemed the most appropriate for a variety of small creatures.
I wasn't sure if it should be temporary or permanent boost. Or if it should be an attack trigger (so it doesn't go infinite) or a spell trigger (so it's harder to trigger, but chains better).
I thought about doing that, and probably would have tried a cycle if I didn't have too much on my plate right now to work it out. The obvious choice, to me, is to base everything on the Planeswalker. "Chandra's Firebearer", "Chandra's Coffeemaker", "Chandra's Craving For More Sprinkles" ect., ect..
Since this is a soft cycle, the trick is to make all of this stuff interelate in some way. One big glorious machine, if you will.
My first idea was a cycle with one card for each card type -- one creature, one enchantment, one artifact, one land, one planeswalker, and one instant/sorcery. No idea how you'd tie it together though.
I guess you could do two overlapping cycles, say one of "W+another" and one "B+another" and the WB one counts for both?
Ah, thank you. That first one does indeed seem questionable. I can obviously do a 6+ card cycle if I'm allowed to randomly add an extra green one :)
But the overlapping cycles is interesting, I wonder if there's any other interesting ways of doing overlapping cycles (ideally without a rarity cycle).
Invasion block's 7-card cycle was Enlistment Officer (
), Tidal Courier (
), Grave Defiler (
), Goblin Ringleader (
), Sylvan Messenger (
), Brass Herald (
), plus Kavu Howler as an extra 
. The first five were the most characteristic creature types for each colour at the time (and would mostly go on 2 years later to be amongst the main creature types for Onslaught block, the first tribal block); then Brass Herald is a "pick-your-own" lord, the forerunner to Adaptive Automaton and Metallic Mimic; and then they randomly decided Kavu should get the same effect since they were the new creature type for the block.
Odyssey block had the interesting Dreams "cycle" (double-cycle?) in Torment. It was a horizontal cycle at rare and a vertical cycle in black, overlapping in Insidious Dreams. It looks like Insidious Dreams was "more" affiliated with the black vertical cycle than the rare horizontal cycle because the other four rares cost CC where all the black ones only cost a single
. But I think it is a legitimate example of a 7-card cycle.
The neat thing about this challenge is there are more options the longer those OSes are developed! Diseased Newt
See Challenge # 039.
And Library Warden, part of an imagined cycle with one for each zone. "Stack warden" and at least one other would need to be named something else of course :)
See Challenge # 161.
Metal Servant and Wood Servant to add to the Fire Servant, Earth Servant, Water Servant and Air Servant cycle, bringing it up to six.
Although maybe it would be better to mix traditions even more and have metal servant and spirit servant both in W to keep up the "two per colour" pattern.
See Challenge # 161.
See Challenge # 161.
They are probably saving it; since it sounds like it could be a keyword.
Cost adjustment. Also, how has WotC not used this as a real card name yet?
I just recently made Spell Harvest for a different challenge, which works here, but I also made Flurry! Slightly more snow mana than the other one.
See Challenge # 038.
See Challenge # 023.