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For Challenge # 067
With apologies to John Betjeman and to Slough, who was objecting to the industrialisation of Slough, and to Slough, which has since laboured under a stereotype of being somewhere awful.
ROFL! Sure.
Design one or more magic cards based on real-world places or events.
It should be a normal magic card, except that the flavour is based on something from the real world, and even if it's named for a specific event, it doesn't have to be legendary.
Don't restrict yourself to places being represented by lands: places best represented by static effects may be enchantments, and by repeated effects may be artefacts, or might be best described by a spell as "going to X" or "building X", etc.
Kindles have a glitches where they get stuck opening a page you visited once, and right now, it's this page for me. My dwarves in Dienoct are (r)(w)(u), so maybe I'm just used to that color combination, but it seems okay to me.
Very specific, indeed. 4 of them already have flying...
Gatecrash, however, gave me 2 more to work with. And I heard evolve works well with Dandan, so we're good. ;)
Amusingly, it looks like there are only 19 Fish in the entirety of Magic; it'd be a very specific deck :)
Spearmonger
Challenge # 066
It'd certainly also do pretty well as a
anti-Boros card :)
If I was to guess, I would probably say that, back in 2000, Wizards thought this made a great green ability because green likes to make giant creatures with trample and swing with them. The most common (non-combo) green-white decks from when this card was being designed often included Serra Angel, Erhnam Djinn and constantly wiping the board. You can see how this card would make sense with those sorts of decks.
This was before MaRo headed up his big color-pie rewrite, and before a time when cards needed a reason to sit within the philosophy of their colors. Green is all about making creatures, and this restricts what you can do with creatures. Today, people would argue that makes this not very green. In 2000, that wasn't as much a concern. This effect worked well within the confines of green, and hadn't been worked into any other color. That's what made it green to them.
I do think this could still be a green effect, but not with the flavor Dueling Grounds gave it (or Logjam Duelist for that matter). It's got to be obvious that primacy is involved - the idea that biggest is best, and that we should only be attacking with our biggest creature. The art should show a king of the jungle, with other creatures cowing before it.
It sure doesn't have to be green, though. Funny thing is that this card would look fine to me if it cost
: the white provides the attacking restriction, while the red provides the blocking restriction.
and replace First Strike with Exalted and you have a great Bant card.
Would the current pie put it in green though? If I were designing this from scratch, I think I'd make it
. Or just plain 
.
Giggle! Fantastically opposed to Selesnya, yes :) (This was most recently Silent Arbiter, I think.)
Logjam Duelist
For Challenge # 066. Oh, hai there Selesneya. You looked sad, so I made you a card based on a classic Green-White card Dueling Ground. Enjoy!
It is kind of funny, no? This would be a more powerful spell if the line "If
was spent..." was removed. In fact, I'd like to see a cycle of cards that operated like that, where paying one color granted no effect, and that was sometimes the better option.
What you're searching for is Mycosynth Lattice, perhaps.
Gruul might do the second ability, conceivably, but I think only Simic has done it so far, unless I'm missing something.
Mmmm, my only gold dwarves were
. Blue dwarves were particularly hard to come up with; I just went the mer route.