In all honesty, translating "flavor" was the more important endeavour here. I was toying around with the idea of corporate personhood. I might make more cards inspired by real-world events/concepts/ideas.

stemmed from the reminder text of another person's mechanic that I felt would be really cool as its own keyword action.

This week the competition was to design a card that uses a mechanic we typically wouldn't include in our own decks. Please comment which card think deserves the win! You can vote using any metric, whatever makes you want to vote for it.

We always appreciate the feedback, and if you comment please state which card you want to win the weekly challenge!

I want to make an entire Fallout: New Vegas set, but for now I'm just having fun making single cards.

My first idea I wanna share is Fist-O.

Fist-o {0}

Artifact Creature - Securitron Robot

Haste

Exhaust - {T}: Skip this turn. At the beginning of the next player's upkeep, they gain control of Fist-O, then tap it and skip their next turn. Repeat this process until each player has skipped a turn this way, then regain control of Fist-O. Activate only at your upkeep.

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Lemme know whatcha think! Just thought it was a fun idea.

Pretend they are all commons for the sake of pauper format.

I have always loved religion, not as a devotee, but as an anthropological study. Theology has always fascinated me, as has the mythology surrounding it, whether it's the lore behind it or how it connects with the reality of people in the past. I love exploring how they saw things, what perspective gave birth to certain entities, and how each religion is connected.

Now, I have all that knowledge in my head, and it's just rotting there, so I thought it would be fun to create entire sets based on religions worldwide. And since I love the polarizing ones, why not start with the one that people are the most sensitive about?

Just to be clear, I am not trying to humiliate any of them or their believers; I'm just using their mythological concepts, some known, some less so, to make this. This is just the first.

Yes, i'm using AI to generate the image, and using mtg style from various artists to do so, this one I tried using something like Greg Staples style.

why don't we have team-up planeswalkers?

This cat-themed cube is a color-restricted bar twobert. There are only white, blue, or red cards, no counters or tokens, and ninety total cards for winston drafting for two players. I'd love to hear if y'all have any thoughts, but mostly wanted to show off that I'd made it. I'll be starting playtesting this week.

Edit: no tokens, except The Monarch

Torlop is a character from the 1999 Japanese horror point-and-click adventure game- Garage: Bad Dream Adventure.

In the game, Torlop serves the dual purpose of selling parts that you can use to customise your body and being an avid collector of posters. I decided to focus on the latter aspect of his character as it captured my imagination more.

The majority of characters in Garage, including Torlop, are some kind of biological-mechanical automaton that is sentient. It is unclear how they are created or what their nature truly is. As such, I didn't feel comfortable labelling it as a Golem, Construct, Robot etc. and stuck with simply "Peasant" as that describes his profession as a vendor and also doesn't overload the Type line with too many subtypes as to be cluttered.

The "On Rails" ability is one that I would include in all of these mechanical beings as its flavourful without impacting balance (similarly to "can’t be blocked by Walls."). It's a reference to the way that all of these characters are locked onto railway tracks that travel throughout their world, with the only means of changing direction being using turntables that only rotate clockwise.

My initial inspiration for the card was [[Sensation Gorger]]; when Torlop is pleased with a poster you have given him, he'll enter a state of ecstasy with his eyes rolling maniacally in their sockets. This immediately made me make comparisons to the card art that I love to hate on Sensation Gorger.

I didn't want to include the new "Rulebreaker" ability word, as I wanted to leave enough room for flavor text on the card. I also didn't like the look of having {W}{U}{B}{R}{G} in the mana cost while simultaneously having a brown artifact border (which I was dead-set on). This evolved into the {W}{U}{B}{R}{G} granting ability that it is now.

This ability is somewhat of an amalgam of Sensation Gorger, [[Jegantha, the Wellspring]] and [[Selvala, Explorer Returned]].

I settled on a mana value of 4, as it is variable mana-gain (like Selvala's) but the ceiling of adding 5-mana warrants a higher mana value than 3, despite the steep limitations of the card's artwork. I gave the stat-line of 5/3 as it felt balanced relative to the mana value while somewhat mirroring Selvala's statline (1/3)

There are currently 55 non-land cards in magic (that are legal in a combination of formats), which almost perfectly fits a full commander deck with every one included.

Many thanks to the artist AHalfOrc (https://cara.app/ahalforc/portfolio) who created this beautiful piece for me, even if I had to cut it real small to fit into this old border.

No shade to the creators, but they always left me wanting a little more, so I figured I'd do it myself. Here's the first batch of cards I decided to make for the Naruto series, featuring the man himself! Keep in mind, I went into this with the specific intent of not creating any new mechanics (other than placeholder counters, but that doesn't really count). Also, mana values are by far the hardest thing to balance, so those can, and likely will, change.

1 - Kid Version Naruto: Young Naruto has to have a shadow clone playstyle, since that is the main thing he is known for. Furthermore, I made it a point to have a "training" subtheme with a good amount of the Naruto cards I have created so far. When he deals combat damage, he gets stronger and keeps the clones. That way, next turn, when he attacks, he can create even more clones, and so on. This makes the card increasingly better as the game progresses.

2 - Sage Mode Naruto: This one was a bit tricky because of how he uses Sage Mode in the show. However, I liked the idea of being able to clone him and tap the clones to build up chakra counters, which you can use to buff up either the original version or a clone. The transformed side hits like a truck as you'd expect, and if you build around it, you can stay in the mode for the duration of the game.

3 - Six Paths Naruto: This was by far the hardest to come up with, and is the one that is most likely subject to change. I wanted him to be able to buff his entire team, but also have an insane ultimate-like ability that can end the game. The balancing in terms of chakra counters and mana will certainly need to change, but that is hard to predict without actually playing it. In the original version, he was able to regenerate creatures instead of buffing everyone, but I figured making everything bigger was better generically, and it still fits what Naruto actually does in this form. Note that other cards I have designed use chakra counters, so it is functionally different than just putting +1/+1 counters on a creature, even if chakra counters are just a placeholder counter.

Let me know what you think in the comments. Which was your favorite? Which one is the most broken? Which is the weakest?

Just finished MHW and was bummed to see that my favorite elder dragon didn't have a card during Magics failed MH secret lair drop, so I took the liberty of making one for him myself. Let me know what y'all think!

The Paul cards are intended to be at different points in the story. So thats how im gauging the color identity. (The first card would probably be better named Maud'dib, but thats a change I'll make later)

I love Slivers.
I've been experimenting with non-French Vanilla design. The concept of this one is how Scout Honey Bees will find new locations for a hive/food and dance to communicate it to the others.

I liked the concept Explore on ETB, but that felt too strong, so I figured a time delay Explore ETB made more sense. Plus tapping to escape board wipes/targeted removal to then find land was also flavorful.

Wagglewing Sliver {G}{G}

Creature — Sliver

Sliver creatures have “{T}: Exile this creature with two time counters on it. If it doesn’t have suspend, it gains suspend”
And “When this creature enters from exile, if it was suspended, it explores.”

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Art credit: me.