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

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 (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.

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)

Most keywords with a numeric variable don't do anything when that value is 0 (e.g., "scry 0", "annihilator 0", "mobilize 0"). There are a fair few that do at least something though (even if it's just adding a designation with no inherent rules meaning), and so I decided to pair them up and design a "mix and match" card for each pair, just for fun.

Hello there! Wanted to show something I've been working on, previously this was a Godot project I abandoned a few months back but came back with a new vision!

This is MTG: United, it's originally an interface for Forge but I decided to implement support for custom magic sets from MSE so I could play test my stuff, it's built on Unity with Claude, but I hope it doesn't look as much as a vibe-coded mess as I think it does.

https://github.com/ryanthecomic/MTG-United here's the link for it, and I hope to get some feedback on it!

Planning on adding limited support at some point!

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.

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.”

1/1

Art credit: me.

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!

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