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No need to reanimate for the purposes of Challenge # 052. If your opponent can't respond to the triggers, this card will create a continuous loop, forcing the game into a draw. If your opponent wins game one, expect him to try to combo out draws for the rest of the match.
With a card that can deanimate and a way to reanimate at instant speed, this is infinitely large!
I made Growthtalker, but I don't really know that it fits this challenge. This is a hard challenge for me, because I'm not that strong of a player, and I don't necessarily understand all the formats as well as a designer should.
For Challenge # 052.
Because I forgot they exist. :)
Scornful Egotist into big things.
Hm. Priest of Urabrask/Gix? Bogardan Hellkite? You ideally want a cheap create you can get on the battlefield for less than its full cost, and then transmute than into 4+ broken ETB abilities..?
It's good with evoke. Pay
for Shriekmaw, add 
and turn it into a Mulldrifter. Or vice versa.
It makes things that you've snuck in via Sneak Attack permanent, but that doesn't usually mean much worse than Sneak Attack on a huge fatty anyway. It lets you circumvent death triggers on things like Mimic Vat or Splinter Twin. It gives you a lot of ETB triggers with Nantuko Tracer, but nothing broken there... hmm...
I find it interesting that people have been nominating Cathars' Crusade for this in the real world. The typical line is "It'll see no tournament play, but it'll be crushingly good around kitchen tables for ever".
Absolutely terrifying with any pump. Groundswell is a 1-hit kill (well, you know what I mean). As Mirran Crusader / Phyrexian Crusader demonstrate, infect is kinda already effectively double strike. That makes this something like quadruple strike, which is... well, a 5-mana 1/1 is the place to put it if you're printing it at all. But I'm not sure if it should be printed at all.
I like this a lot as well, but yes, it could probably be 4 mana. I fear development might up the activation cost to about
though.
Also, y no watermark?
Thragtusk?
Breaks pretty damn badly with undying creatures; though it's not infinite it may be nasty enough.
LOL. Yeah, that seems good. Normally sacrificing a creature of comparable cost is a decent brake, but I agree this is probably broken.
I'm not sure exactly what I'd do with it; you presumably want something with a very powerful ETB ability, and possibly generates mana or recurses into library from graveyard?
I nominate Porcelain Legionnaire. Massively warping in any environment with a ground-stall, equipment, pump spells or deathtouch enablers. It's just soooo cheap!
Uh, yeah. I'll have a real think about this later.
I'm starting with Evolutionary Branch. I'm not sure how innocuous it looks. It could, in theory, be an uncommon... but really, it's in rare territory.
For Challenge # 052. Normally, I like to hang back and see what other people come up with, then come forward. But this bugger jumped in my head and I couldn't help but think "Evil Mark Rosewater sure loves his engine cards...".
I have a specific, and nasty use for this in mind. But I wonder if someone can break this worse than me...
You are Evil Mark Rosewater. Mark Rosewater is ill one day and you sneak into the office with the aim of creating as much chaos as possible. You can probably sneak one new card into the file without anyone noticing.
It should appear as innocuous as possible, but potentially warp at least one format. Bonus points for:
You can make some assumptions about what else is in the format, eg. "powerful equipment" or "good mana fixing" etc, or design for a recent standard environment. You can propose an extra card for it to combo with if both are simple.
It's up to you what's broken, whether that's "immediately bannable" or "annoyingly repetitive". Umezawa's Jitte (ridiculously too good). Artifact lands (a good idea, but revealed the brokenness of the rest of affinity). Stoneforge + Batterskull or Swords + Squadron Hawk (each reasonably at the top end, but too good together).
Plausibly. I like the idea of a large gun that throws island-fish around, though.
It's probably overcosted.
Hmm. A cursory search shows that double strike and infect weren't put together in SOM. The first strike/infect combination is quite tasty on its own.
I think if this were any cheaper then there would be problems, but I can see this here.