General Custom Cards: The Lab

[Velrun]

Those also only give 1 card for delve/Delirium/threshold,where mine could give 2(3 for the surveil 2 version.)

Not relevant.

The requirement is to fuel delve and not fuel it as much as possible.

I will agree that they do not fuel Young Pyromancer so I guess your 2 mana version is a bit stronger than the 0 mana versions. But it also costs 2 more mana. However you are 100 % correct and I do not think anymore that I can find a 0 mana card to will trigger all of the requirements.

I think people will get a shock when they try it out. They will believe they have some efficient filtering in their deck but realize how costly it is to be 1 card down. All comparable cards replace themselves cheaper. The scry and surveil lands are already a card when they are played to the battlefield as a land. Cards like Preordain draws immediately and therefore have value.

 

[Velrun]

Five spells that explain - as interpellated through gameplay! - what happened to the Antepassion clans. For more on this please see my notes in my cube thread or the RipLab discord server. The idea is that these are solid roleplayers that are, situationally and in the early game, evocative role-playing pieces that tell my greater 'passion of tarkir' story, so they have to make it into decks; so that they make compelling early plays and stories.

thoughts?

PS the Temur one is just Legolas's Quick Reflexes but counterable and with Sharzad flavour text, but it's still evocative, right?

Overall I like them. They are evocative and cool.

With all thy hybrid mana they are super easy to cast. They can even be cast in monocolor decks. Is that on purpose?

I think the Sultai one is too strong. It will often kill two creatures for one card.

Annan should have the uncounterable on top.

 

[spicewitch]

Killer art choices as usual. The abzan one trips me out, as if my eye can't find the right zoom/focus setting.

Jeskai's union of flavor text and rules text and physical action is amazing ludonarratively. It's like a robinhood arrow-splitting-own-arrow slam dunk.

Being able to cast the Threaten for BB feels wrong to me, r/b r/w would feel better.
But I assume there's something thematically going on here, where you want the three defeated clans to all be castable for BB?

Love the cardframes.

 

[Onderzeeboot]

Five spells that explain - as interpellated through gameplay! - what happened to the Antepassion clans. For more on this please see my notes in my cube thread or the RipLab discord server. The idea is that these are solid roleplayers that are, situationally and in the early game, evocative role-playing pieces that tell my greater 'passion of tarkir' story, so they have to make it into decks; so that they make compelling early plays and stories.

thoughts?

PS the Temur one is just Legolas's Quick Reflexes but counterable and with Sharzad flavour text, but it's still evocative, right?

You uploaded Temur Endurance instead of End of the Temur Some of these feel a bit out of pie for certain hybrid cost choices (e.g. WG to have an opponent exile a card from their hand), but they all seem nice. End of the Mardu feels the most narrow, as it needs your opponent to attack with two creatures, preferably of similar size, to force a trade.

I agree with Velrun that the Sultai one is way too cheap. That card will always kill two creatures for only two mana.

 

[TheLameSauce]

My Un set cube needed a boost to augment/host so I made a few cards to flesh it out a bit.

 

[StrionicAdventurer]

Hey y'all. I was in the middle of uploading my custom cube to CubeArtisan, but now the site is apparently down. I liked using it because it allowed me to change card names and typelines, and directly link Imgur pics. The cube file was really starting to shape up, and I'm kind of bummed out that I can't keep working on it.

Are there any other cube curation sites with a "CubeCobra-like" interface, but with the added ability to change the names of cards in the list?

 

[Onderzeeboot]

Hey y'all. I was in the middle of uploading my custom cube to CubeArtisan, but now the site is apparently down. I liked using it because it allowed me to change card names and typelines, and directly link Imgur pics. The cube file was really starting to shape up, and I'm kind of bummed out that I can't keep working on it.

Are there any other cube curation sites with a "CubeCobra-like" interface, but with the added ability to change the names of cards in the list?

CubeArtisan will be back online. No ETA, but the problem is known. Unfortunately, the owner’s time is occupied by things beyond her control at the moment. Once those things solve themselves, she’ll get the site back up and running. Another person had already volunteered to help out, so next time this happens the private matters of one person won’t be a bottleneck anymore for keeping the site up and running.

 

[StrionicAdventurer]

CubeArtisan will be back online.

That's great to hear! I hope the owner has good luck getting her personal stuff under control. It's such a niche-within-a-niche site, I thought maybe the operator just lost interest or didn't want to keep paying for upkeep.

 

[Chris Taylor]

Some more stuff I've made recently to try and cut down on the number of bespoke tokens in my cube:

Knightshifted The Wandering Emperor, one of my favorite planeswalker designs of all time but also basically alone in making 2/2 samurai (other than Experimental Synthesizer, technically. Most people don't use that ability too often.)
Loreheads don't@ me, this is fine, my cube already contains a ton of alt history anyways, and you're always a little boxed in when making a planeswalker.


Germshifted Skyclave Apparition. There's not a ton of ways to make an X/X, and there's fewer still that I run, but this works. I'm almost 100% sure there's better more evocative art for this out there somewhere, but this works for now.


Spiritshifted Sanguine Evangelist, for all your makes and buffs tokens needs.

Also a version of tribal flames that actually has "any target" on it.
I'm unsure which other burn spells I'm running right now which are different to their oracle text, but I'd love to at some point be able to confidently say everything plays as printed.

I don't love any of the arts for spell pierce at present, and its fast becoming my favorite one mana protect-a-threat spell due to the increased flexibility ahead of stuff like emerge unscathed or slip out the back. These cards are already often niche picks, I think being able to deploy them offensively is important.

 

[Chris Taylor]

@Chris Taylor

Do you have any more frame-altered stable cards you’d like to share? Maybe in Custom Thread.

So, do you mean stable as in not changing that much or was this autocorrect on staple?
IE more cards like the fang Snapcaster?

https://imgur.com/a/1wn1sYe

26 images is a touch more than I can post here at once but here's some alter's I've done

 

[Velrun]

So, do you mean stable as in not changing that much or was this autocorrect on staple?

More like brain fart

 

[Chris Taylor]

Okay SO you can make single sided battles!
After talking about it on train's podcast this week, my cube group started brainstorming ideas for single sided battles, since I don't like double sided battles for lots of reasons*

Card Conjurer just has this, and though I don't love the MDFC indicator this does just kinda work
Sieges have the inherrent rules text of "When this is defeated, exile it then cast it transformed" which if there is no backside, stays in exile IIRC
So you do need a different subtype in order for this to go to the graveyard (which is where I'd want it, personally)
Also just pretend this can't bolt itself on ETB, pretend I did this right

There is also an MSE template for high res, single sided battles:

Which can be found here (There's a few downloads in that link, but one of them is for battles)
If you want traditional magic frames for your battles (but lower res exports, check this reddit thread here.

So having gotten past the like, mental barrier that was making the first one, now I can think about these as a real card type that I did want more of, so a friend of mine spitballed this:

Which I kinda like!

In general I don't really need red cards for this, as both CIV () and Delirium () don't involve red, so I'm probably not adding Smash and Grab, but some blue or green battles would be a nice addition.

*In short: printing MDFCs is janky, reading them in packs is janky which is more of an issue when they're custom, real easy for the design to balloon to questing beast levels, etc etc

 

[Onderzeeboot]

*In short: printing MDFCs is janky, reading them in packs is janky which is more of an issue when they're custom, real easy for the design to balloon to questing beast levels, etc etc

You know, one of my main cube projects last year was to phase out all DFCs and replace the ones I really liked by custom SFCs, so I feel you!

 

[Velrun]

That template looks sweet. Especially in red in my opinion.

 

[Phone]

I love this green battle. It looks so much cleaner than a normal battle. It's easy to track and grok. I may try and run this. But I'll try using your template.

 

[Chris Taylor]

You know, one of my main cube projects last year was to phase out all DFCs and replace the ones I really liked by custom SFCs, so I feel you!

I don't mind the ones with lands on the back because shuffling is actually a worse solution IMO
but yeah if there's an actual card on the back I am hesitant.

 

[Onderzeeboot]

I don't mind the ones with lands on the back because shuffling is actually a worse solution IMO
but yeah if there's an actual card on the back I am hesitant.

I ran proxies that showed both sides of the DFC for a while, with the actual DFC in a clear sleeve in the token box. It worked, but I grew tired of having to go the extra mile to make DFC's logistically playable. The lands are less egregious on the information visibility part, but even those aren't perfect.



All of these have a mono blue land on the back, and they all enter the battlefield in different ways.

 

[LadyMapi]

You know what frame didn't need all that logistical waffling?

 

[Chris Taylor]

I mean it didn't have that specific problem, that's for sure

 

[Velrun]

Ah yes, the most hated card frame ever according to Wizards. Micro pictures. Questing amount of text. You still have to flip the card to read the card. Doesn’t look like a creature because p/t is hiding from it’s normal spot. What rarity is it? What set is it from? You’ll find the logo if you search long enough for it.

 

[ravnic]

I liked the flip cards. Would take them over dfcs in a draft format every day.

 

[alvoi]

I liked the flip cards. Would take them over dfcs in a draft format every day.

i agree, they are way easier to utilize from a logistic point of view, both for drafting and for playing (i hate removing cards from sleeves)

but dfcs look cooler

 

[Velrun]

Have you guys played with flip cards with a bunch of new players?

Guaranteed what’s going to happen is the same that happened two decades ago: Some of them will accidentally read the text that is viewed their way as the current text and make playing mistakes. It’s signaling the wrong board state to new players.

 

[alvoi]

Have you guys played with flip cards with a bunch of new players?

Wait wait, we can play with the cards?! I like to look at them, never heard of any other way to enjoy this game