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2013-09-30 18:16:50: Circeus edited Wielder of Melancholy:

forgot the tilde

2013-09-30 18:16:34: Circeus created and commented on the card Wielder of Melancholy

2013-09-29 22:04:26: Jack V edited the details page All challenges

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2013-09-29 20:28:04: Alex commented on Aether Tidemaster

2013-09-29 02:31:28: Link commented on Aether Tidemaster

Fill your hand with Squee, Goblin Nabobs, and play with Chandra, the Firebrand and Chandra's Phoenix, then have some fun with this. Wee.

2013-09-28 17:04:27: Alex edited Aether Tidemaster:

match Aether Tide's {x} cost

2013-09-28 17:03:58: Alex commented on Aether Tidemaster

Oh, yes, to mirror Aether Tide this should indeed cost {1} per activation.

My suspicion was that this could be occasionally powerful, but it's not the kind of thing you can do very often.

2013-09-28 16:29:10: Alex commented on Challenge # 088

While it's true that the guild design needs to start with flavour and goals, most mechanics can be given a few different choices of flavour. This challenge isn't the approach that would be used in designing an actual guild set, but it's nonetheless an interesting challenge.

It's also really quite hard to find a mechanic that encourages two colours rather than three or more colours. That's one of the hardest parts of this challenge.

2013-09-28 15:50:54: amuseum commented on Challenge # 088

most of these are too direct with color interaction or too narrow. but those are not 'guild' mechanics. a guild starts with a strong flavor and purpose. thats what drives the theme of the guild. not because it needs a certain color mana or because the card happens to be a certain color. thats more invasion or shadowmoor style multicolor, but not ravnica guilds (bad design like radiant notwithstanding.)

2013-09-28 15:17:19: amuseum commented on Aether Tidemaster

Spike power alone

yea Lotus cobra

2013-09-28 09:25:33: jmgariepy commented on Aether Tidemaster

I do wonder if a card can be Mythic worthy on sheer Spike power alone?

Also, adding {1} to the activation probably wouldn't hurt the power level too much, and keeps it a little closer to Aether Tide?

2013-09-28 06:28:57: Link commented on Aether Tidemaster

You know, this could potentially be very powerful.

2013-09-27 10:11:34: Alex created and commented on the card Aether Tidemaster

2013-09-27 09:14:20: Vitenka commented on The Nothing

Assuming my deck is 4 of this, and otherwise one-drops and about 15% land; mulligan till I get this and a land (since why not?) I'm gonna get a 2/1 on T2... I guess it's not completely dominating, but it's a scary thing to do. I like it.

2013-09-27 07:51:56: Jack V commented on The Nothing

You still need some way to play land, though, though it's a very good start to a game. Yeah, good question. And good name :)

2013-09-27 07:50:24: Jack V commented on Apocalypse Dragon

@Alex, jmg thanks.

Oops, All mine tend to be 5/5 as a default "fatty" size. I'm not sure what works best, I think 5/5 to appeal to the generally good things deck, rather than 4/4 which would be a bit anaemic for 7 mana, or 6/6 which would be trying a bit too hard to be good.

2013-09-27 07:48:16: Jack V edited Apocalypse Dragon:

Added p/t

2013-09-27 01:02:54: Link commented on The Nothing

In Reanimator with Unburial Rites and Griselbrand already in my hand? Heck yes.

2013-09-27 01:00:02: Alex commented on The Nothing

Heeeee. Nice.

Would you cast this on turn one?

2013-09-27 00:57:23: jmgariepy commented on Challenge # 089

Added The Nothing and Teleporting Mynx. Also, I tried to use Aether Tide and make it an X/X creature... but that wasn't good enough for mythic. I toyed with it for a while... but making the initial card less terrible seemed to be a no-no for the challenge, and adding more and more stuff to mitigate the terrible cost of playing this creature just chunked up the card in a way that shouldn't happen on Mythics. I'm sure it's possible to get Aether Tide fully formed, plus an X/X creature, plus something else... but I couldn't see my way through the problem in a reasonable amount of time.

Though, now that I think of it, maybe I should have made the base creature a 1/2? Still rough, though. It's hard to imagine this card being a Mythic:

{1} {u}
Creature
As an additional cost to cast ~, discard a creature card.
When ~ enters the battlefield, return target creature to its owner's hand.
2/3

Sure, you could expect to get a decent 3/4 and 4/5 version out of this card... but eventually, you're going to hit an upper cap to the amount of creatures you can discard. And none of those creatures sound appetizing...

2013-09-27 00:56:45: jmgariepy commented on Teleporting Mynx

For Challenge # 089, and based on Teleport. I'm really not sure how UUU cards should be costed at Mythic, since I don't think Wizards has really broached that problem. Mostly, though, I just tried to imagine where this card would end up being too good, if placed in a mono-blue deck. 4/2 kind of does it for me. Note: I gave this guy some odd timing on purpose. You can play him at the end of your opponents turn to make a creature unblockable during your turn... including the Mynx itself.

2013-09-27 00:55:09: jmgariepy edited Teleporting Mynx

2013-09-27 00:53:16: jmgariepy created the card Teleporting Mynx

2013-09-27 00:35:29: jmgariepy commented on The Nothing

For Challenge # 089. I wanted to see what happened when you took a card that was almost always a drawback, and added a creature to it. One With Nothing fit the bill nicely.

2013-09-27 00:34:29: jmgariepy created the card The Nothing

2013-09-27 00:31:18: jmgariepy commented on Apocalypse Dragon

P/T Jack? I know it's kind of irrelevant for the challenge, but I still find it interesting what people think should be the correct p/t for this dragon.

2013-09-26 23:56:41: Alex commented on Apocalypse Dragon

Yeah, I think is quite a nice approach to the challenge. Pelakka Wurm and Arctic Wolves are the only other fatties I can see with a single cantrip stapled onto them; I guess Wizards tend to reckon the card you're drawing ought to have a chance of being more exciting than the card you played :)

This is very good actually. For one more mana on Volcanic Dragon you get +1/+1, a cantrip, and a Lightning Bolt. It's 3-for-1 card advantage and it's hasty to boot. 7 mana is a bit much for constructed, but this would make a lot of casual players very happy.

2013-09-26 22:47:23: Jack V created and commented on the card Striking Vampire

2013-09-26 22:40:09: Jack V commented on Challenge # 089

Apocalypse Dragon based on Ember Shot.

Wow, some of those <1 rating cards are still pretty bad even with a free dragon. Cantrip direct damage, yes, I'd expect that to be expensive, but at 7 mana it's really too late. I guess nowadays red doesn't normally get card draw directly at all, but still.

ETA: Also Striking Vampire based on Assassin's Strike.