General [Contest] A Good Omen!

[TrainmasterGT]

Hello everyone! It's time for the First Official Cube Engineers Custom Card Design Contest!

Prompt:
Design a custom creature card, preferably a Dragon, with an Omen.

Full Regulations:
–The card must be a Creature and have an Omen, either Instant or Sorcery.
–The card does not need to have a render with art, but should contain all relevant mana costs, card types, spell names, text, power, and toughness.
–While the card does not need to be a dragon, cards featuring dragons will be favored.
–All submissions should be posted on the Riptidelab Forum thread or sent to TrainmasterGT on Discord. Forum thread submissions are preferred.
–Limit one submission per person.

For Renders:
–Please do not use AI art.
–Please credit the artist. If no artist accreditation can be found, include a link to the source page.
–You can use the standard Adventure frame if your card design program of choice does not have the Omen frame yet.
–Please include the Omen reminder text if there is room on your render.

Judging:
The winner will be selected by the following panel of Judges:
@TrainmasterGT
@safra
@Chris Taylor

Deadline: May 28th, 2025

The contest winner will receive a special prize (roughly $10-$20 USD in value), to be announced at a later date!

 

[Luckylooter]

Hello Trainmaster! My entry is inspired by some speculation I read during spoiler season: "I hope there's a red Dragon that encourages Dragon typal in standard, I want to run it like I used to when DTK came out." The only Red dragon that kind of does so is Stormscale Scion, and the rare Omen "cycle" is only in Blue, Black, and Green! So my entry seeks to flesh out that Omen cycle by including an entry in Dragons' primary color.

The design itself is meant to evoke the Dragonstorm decks that were popular around Time Spiral, a little nod to the past some older players associate with Tarkir Dragonstorm's name. The Omen fuels the titular spell while also putting a target for it back into the library, and the creature side functions as a haste lord for Dragons that you Storm out, or ramp out with mana dorks, Treasures, Rituals, or most appropriately in TDM draft: Dragonstorm Globe. Thanks for reading!

 

[tachyzoite]

I made an account just for this! Here is my entry:



One of my beefs with the new Omens is that they don't seem to be telling a cohesive story. Sometimes the Omen and the Dragon have symmetry or related effects, but most seem like an afterthought. This is in contrast to the Adventure mechanic which tells a linear story. I think this feels jarring to me and is an immediate point of comparison due to the card frame. Mechanically they occupy a different space and their flavor could further highlight that.

Adventures leads to their main card. You can cast either side, but maximizing the card's value means casting Adventure into its main card. Each side of an Adventure card is usually weaker than if that effect was its own card as you can get both effects for one card. Omens are shuffled into your deck after cast so an Omen's main card may never materialize. You are reliant on drawing it again to get that payoff which means individual effects can be stronger. I think this could be a great flavor success. With this card, I was hoping to design a Dragon side that would benefit from multiple Omens. Each repeated Omen is a sign that the Dragon is coming and that Dragon's effect is more pronounced with more Omens cast. The other plus side is that Dragon Egg already exists as a card and token.

 

[TabbuneBot]

Harbinger of the Feast
Creature - Dragon
As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature.
Flying, Haste

5/5
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Dragon Feeders
Sorcery - Omen

Create two 1/1 red Goblin creature tokens. (Then shuffle this card into its owner's library)

 

[henrizzlebear]

Thank you for running this contest. My submission is targeting an uncommon signpost power level, with the open ended "Devour Tokens" giving it potential in lower power cube environments.

As I see it, the flavor of Dragon cards having Omens attached to them is that the Omens are signs that the dragon is nearby: broken branches, scorched earth, missing livestock. This is translated mechanically to shuffling the card back in after casting the Omen; you are showing your opponent that this dragon is in the area, and that they should watch out.