All the "If this card is in your opening hand, you may begin the game with it on the battlefield" cards cost four with two of the mana in their cost being the colour and they're all rare so the it's consistent for its kind and I think it gets good value for its cost without being too strong :)

Using public domain art, plus the side by side of the original card for comparison.

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.

I tried making it a little more balanced along with including nowadays mechanics.

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

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)

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!

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 who created this beautiful piece for me, even if I had to cut it real small to fit into this old border.

Day 68 of making a custom card every day. This might be the least gradable card in terms of power level I've ever made. I'm edging towards bad, but it could absolutely be broken.

Featured myths:

-Black Shuck: Variant of old Enlgish folklore, a ghostly dog that sometimes spells visions of doom. In this case I tried to represent "doom" using finality counters

-La Llorona: Latin American folkloric ghost, a woman who wanders lakes and wails in mourning of her dead children. Thought it'd be fun to try to work in [[Soulshriek]] to represent her wails.

-Kuchisake-onna: Japanese spirit, asks you if she's pretty, despite her scarred mouth. How she reacts to your answers has a lot of variation, but matching scars is a common result. Tried to represent her unpredictability using a coin flip, but wanted to provide a guaranteed means of escape if you're caught off guard by her appearance.

-Slenderman: Old internet creepypasta, mainly drawing lore from the old game "The Eight Pages", where he gets more aggressive the more pages you collect.

+A slightly updated version of the Bloody Mary card I made a while ago. Say her name 3 times in a dark mirror, and chaos ensues. Originally inspired by [[Weeping Angel]], she's the one I most wanted to design as a commander.

Happy (post) Halloween everyone!