Site News CFB Store Credit Contest: Design a Cube Card
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Onderzeeboot
Ecstatic Orb
Are we supposed to submit an entirely new card or can we use existing designs we already cube with?
Uh... I don't really care. Whatever is most fun for you. I don't usually spend much time looking at custom cards, so it'll probably be new to me.
I'm not a creator and I probably won't be submitting anything for this contest (since I won the last one, got to give the rest of you guys a chance 
). This did however bring back a memory of a card I got to design for my friends 'coin cube'. I won the inaugural sealed event with the cube (we only had 4 players and this was before all these modified versions of drafting for less than 8 players existed).
I wanted there to be a two drop for red to rival Snapcaster/Bob/Tarmogoyf etc. as Young Pyromancer and Abbot of Keral Keep existed to fill this void.
I submitted my card. The owner of the cube changed the templating a little and decided to merge my face with the art to forever cement me in the cube.
Let me introduce to you my crowning custom card achievement:
I did mention I was a terrible designer, right?
). This did however bring back a memory of a card I got to design for my friends 'coin cube'. I won the inaugural sealed event with the cube (we only had 4 players and this was before all these modified versions of drafting for less than 8 players existed).I wanted there to be a two drop for red to rival Snapcaster/Bob/Tarmogoyf etc. as Young Pyromancer and Abbot of Keral Keep existed to fill this void.
I submitted my card. The owner of the cube changed the templating a little and decided to merge my face with the art to forever cement me in the cube.
Let me introduce to you my crowning custom card achievement:
I did mention I was a terrible designer, right?
Onderzeeboot
Ecstatic Orb
That would have been a pretty swell card at or though!
or though!
Chris Taylor
Contributor
Here is my entry, it works best in my cube or other tribal oriented cubes.
It's conspiracy on Juzám Djinn. I'm still pushing this tribal thing, I have like +25 captainlike creatures plus small interactions everywhere, it would be a bomb in my cube. At best for you guys Goblin matron becomes a real tutor, riptide laboratory works on everything, everything buffs champion of the parish, splicers buff everything, Xathrid Necromancer makes zombie humans. It has kind of good sequencing with most of those cards, it is big and aggressive, requires some buildaround to max out, sometimes has immediate effect on the board. You could make an army of horses on a 5/5 body.
It's conspiracy on Juzám Djinn. I'm still pushing this tribal thing, I have like +25 captainlike creatures plus small interactions everywhere, it would be a bomb in my cube. At best for you guys Goblin matron becomes a real tutor, riptide laboratory works on everything, everything buffs champion of the parish, splicers buff everything, Xathrid Necromancer makes zombie humans. It has kind of good sequencing with most of those cards, it is big and aggressive, requires some buildaround to max out, sometimes has immediate effect on the board. You could make an army of horses on a 5/5 body.
<CARDNAME> doesn't match the card name.
Chris Taylor
Contributor
in MSE? the text CARDNAME in all caps should match the name if the card has a name, and you can insert that by hitting the tilde (~) key (Shift `) IIRC
Yeah, I noticed that right after I posted it. Here's a new version. (Cardsmith doesn't have a good template for Constellation; it automatically thinks anything in italics is flavor text.)
Here's my submission:
Eidolon of Blossoms just doesn't cut it at my power level, at least not enough to be an exciting card. I dislike the Shroud on Argothian Enchantress and the other options (shifting one of the 3-cc Enchantresses down to be a two-drop was considered and rejected, keeping them at three mana doesn't let the Enchantress player curve into one of the many 3-cc Enchantments available to them) weren't very appealing so I went into custom design space. Elvish Visionary is another good card I'd love to find room for, so the Constellation trigger appears instead of the Enchantress one (plays better with counterspells anyway). The Yixlid Jailer ability is to promote on-board development: while it nonbos with a couple other enchantments or green cards it doesn't really work out that way in practice. It also serves to diversify 'graveyard green' and 'enchantress green' as competing draft priorities for card advantage.
Eidolon of Blossoms just doesn't cut it at my power level, at least not enough to be an exciting card. I dislike the Shroud on Argothian Enchantress and the other options (shifting one of the 3-cc Enchantresses down to be a two-drop was considered and rejected, keeping them at three mana doesn't let the Enchantress player curve into one of the many 3-cc Enchantments available to them) weren't very appealing so I went into custom design space. Elvish Visionary is another good card I'd love to find room for, so the Constellation trigger appears instead of the Enchantress one (plays better with counterspells anyway). The Yixlid Jailer ability is to promote on-board development: while it nonbos with a couple other enchantments or green cards it doesn't really work out that way in practice. It also serves to diversify 'graveyard green' and 'enchantress green' as competing draft priorities for card advantage.
Hey, it's Ground Seal! I used to love that card back in the day. Super sideboard tech against Control Slaver & Worldgorger Combo in Vintage.
I Brainstormed a lot of variants for this, but
Chris Taylor
Contributor
I Brainstormed a lot of variants for this, butmost were pretty fucking bustedthis design felt the cleanest.
I mean, when your baseline is easier to case cabal therapy that draws you cards and doesn't require a creature to flashback
Like is this thing for the vintage cube?
This is why I don't do customs
Have no Fear!
Inception
Sorcery
Shuffle a Totem token into your opponent's deck that reads, "You may think this is a real game, but this is a Shahrazad game. You simply don't remember starting it. Shahrazad is banned in like every format, so this game doesn't matter. Concede immediately and join me in the real game."
Here's my first submission:
(with apologies to Wild Guess for the flavour text)
E: Sorry, should read "sacrifice another creature"
This is the final draft of my submission. There's a lot I want to speak about regarding vorthos, mechanics, applications, etc, but I risk tampering with your initial impressions, which I take would be integral in your grading and oh my gosh I am such a chatty Cathy today.
*Edit:
Mortal Landscape is a design based on Zendikar mechanics. It synergizes best with aristocrat-like strategies, but has wider applications. It's worded intentionally to stack exponentially with each isolated death trigger which will eventually snowball into a win-con. Per its name, animated lands become susceptible to creature and artifact removal which can be turned onto the opponent. It's a land that doesn't produce mana which may present a tempo(...? Do we still consider this tempo?) tradeoff of developing mana versus getting the ball rolling. Flavor-wise, its meant to depict a post-Elspeth Theros where the poleis have turned against Heliod and have begun to erect stone idols around the cities ala Akroan Colossus: a sort of Theros vs Nyx set-up. But subtly. Mortal landscape. Get it? 'Cause the "mortals" have taken domain over the land.
