scarbo wrote: ↑3 years ago
Renege
Instant (R)
Counter target spell.
Flashback
uu
Cycling
1u
Very good start. High synergy between the keywords, you can use this to draw a card and then have a counterspell available, both things a control deck wants. Your opponent will see it coming when you have this in your graveyard though, but I like that. It's like an additional hidden cost. Having no mana cost means you won't be able to counter two spells with one card, which is good. I also love how elegant this card is, it does so much with only five words. Very good candidate for my first place, let's see the others.
netn10 wrote: ↑3 years ago
Lore of the Ancients 8
Instant (Common)
Draw two cards, then return up to two target cards from your graveyard to your hand.
"The Eldrazi's heart still pulses beneath Zendikar's soil, forever changing the course of the land. I will reveal the heart once again."
- The Pilgrim's Decree
This is a four-for-one. Ok, it costs a lot of mana, rightly, but it's still a lot, and it's common. I'm not sure how much I like seeing this at common. The effect also screams "green-blue" to me, not colorless, though it's certainly not a break. The flavor is good, but the mechanics might be a little too pushed, especially at common. Minor note: just like the type line, the flavor text attribution wants an em dash with no spaces right afterwards.
MonoRedMage wrote: ↑3 years ago
Refinement of Flame
(Red) Sorcery {R}
If a source you control would deal damage to a permanent or player, you may shuffle Refinement of Flame from your graveyard into your library. If you do, that source deals double that damage instead and the damage can't be prevented.
Cycling
2RR
Reinforce 1 -
3RR
I've had to read this multiple times to understand the point of the card, having multiple means to put it into your graveyard and use it from there for the main effect. Now I've got it, but I don't really like that there are two ways of discarding this that kinda fight each other. What do you prefer, a card or a +1/+1 counter? Beware, you can't have both! You have to choose! I think a card is the correct answer most of the times, and it's the keyword that costs less. I would have probably reversed the costs. I think a card is worth more than a +1/+1 counter, and I don't like the tension that this creates between the keywords. Minor note: I think you have to place the "instead" before: "...into your library instead. If you do, that source deals double that damage and the damage can't be prevented." At least, this is how I would have worded this, but unfortunately I'm not a real MTG editor. (I'd really like to be...)
Daylit wrote: ↑3 years ago
Dustbloom Processor 2C
Creature - Eldrazi Processor (U)
Kicker
G or Put a card an opponent owns from exile into their graveyard
When this creature enters the battlefield, if it was kicked, you may sacrifice a land. If you do, search your library for up to two land cards named "Wastes", put them onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle your library.
3/2
Ok so, long story short, if I kick this I get to search two Wastes at the cost of a land and a processed card or a green mana. I still get up only one land, which is good. I like the colored kicker on a colorless card as a way to avoid the "any deck can play this" problem, but then you put a way to go around that colored cost right away! Ok, it still require you to find a way to exile a card of your opponent's, but you can play this card fully in every deck. I would have liked this more with just the colored kicker. Of course, it couldn't have been a Processor then, but flavor is easier to adjust than mechanics. Minor notes: the word "put" should not have been capitalized, and you should have used the card's name instead of "this creature".
Henlock wrote: ↑3 years ago
Cowmeleon
Creature - Ox Lizard (
)(u)
Whenever this creature mutates, it becomes of the color of your choice until end of turn.
Mutate
0
2/2
First, the name made me laugh. I mean it in a good way. It's a very good pun, with the appropriate creature types. Here it's correct to use "this creature" instead of the card's name, as we saw in Ikoria. This can go under another creature, in which case that creature gets the ability technically. A card that you can only use to mutate is a good choice for the challenge. I would have probably done it if I had thought of that. Serious candidate for my top 3.
RaikouRider wrote: ↑3 years ago
Pact of the Psion 0
{
U/
B} Instant {R}
Exile the top twenty cards from your library face down, then draw three cards.
At the beginning of your next upkeep, pay
3UB. If you can't, you lose the game.
Here, this is one thing I have pondered myself for this challenge: make a new Pact, in the sense of the cycle from Future Sight. This isn't what I would have probably come up with, at a glance, but let's read it better... Twenty?!? That's a lot of cards to essentially mill to exile... And the reward is drawing three cards. Ok, free Recall at a huge cost. I see it, but it sounds dangerous to me. Ok, you still have to pay five mana next turn, but... I don't know. One is too high, and I can't understand if it's the number of milled cards, or that of drawn cards. It's like I hear a dissonance, but I don't understand from where it comes. Overall I'm not a fan of this card, but I like the idea of making a new Pact.
slimytrout wrote: ↑3 years ago
Glimmering Runestone
Artifact (U)
Foretell
0
T: Add one mana of any color.
Vartuld brushed the snow off the stone, and realized that he had seen it before -- in his own dreams.
Oh, here it is! The third card for my top 3. I really like this. Foretell is a good way to use no mana cost. It's essentially a pseudo-land and I really like this idea. The only thing I don't like is that everyone and every color can play this, but in the color pie, only red and green have mana ramp. It's still true that in Ixalan, Treasures were also blue and black, in Pirate colors (Grixis). That's the only remark I have about this card.