General Custom Cards: The Lab
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That's not how I tap my cards
girls......we all put our bras on one leg at a time......why are we fighting??????
here are 10 cards I designed recently which I think are strong designs. thanks
here are 10 cards I designed recently which I think are strong designs. thanks
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Taiger is stupid and I hope you're proud of yourself.
Wait, how are you supposed to do it? I've tried rotating them 90 degrees, but they keep falling over whenever I do.
Wait, how are you supposed to do it? I've tried rotating them 90 degrees, but they keep falling over whenever I do.
Chris Taylor
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Personally I put my cards into play rotated 180 degrees so my opponent can read them and then misplay because I didn't read them
Personally I'd remove the "kind of" from the flavor text of End of the Jeskai
It should, but this way you don't get the "Mountain Lion" part
EDIT: also yeah, "Lion" is not a creature type, but it is way funnier this way
Just researched a bit.
For some reason the regions are called 'Mountain Forests' but the animal is called 'Forest Mountain Lions'. Kind of weird. That's why I got it mixed up. I wanted the Mountain Forest to go together like this.. to match the region. But the animal is named like Safra's perfect design.
For some reason the regions are called 'Mountain Forests' but the animal is called 'Forest Mountain Lions'. Kind of weird. That's why I got it mixed up. I wanted the Mountain Forest to go together like this.. to match the region. But the animal is named like Safra's perfect design.
To be fair, it also isn't Velrun's.
Mountain lion as a term covers both the cougar and the puma. As a native speaker, "forest mountain lion" sounds really artificial, and wouldn't refer to a type of mountain lion - "[PLACE NAME] Mountain" is a common construction, so I'd read that as "lion from a place called Forest Mountain" before I'd read it as "mountain lion from a forest". The only thing that actually comes up if I look up "forest mountain lion" is a folk-rock musician named Forest Mountain Lion, which breaks down as first name Forest, last name Mountain Lion.
The joke behind the card is that Tiger and Taiga sound really similar, and that it breaks normal Magic formatting in order to have "Mountain Lion" in the typeline. I wouldn't read into it much more than that.
Playing with Flurry, though this one's nothing new, just souped up Jori En, Ruin Diver
I don't run 3 color cards though...
I don't run 3 color cards though...
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I also like the mono blue.
Flash goes on the first line.
Flying on the second line. Both abilities are on their own.
I would let it exile target spell when it enters.
And let it exile target artifact, instant, sorcery or Wizard from your graveyard when it attacks.
The ability that mentions that you may cast the cards doesn’t actually use the word spell. It calls them cards instead. This is important because they are not spells when they are in exile.
The choose one doesn’t look very good I think. It’s a small nerf to not let it exile from graveyard when it enters but you can add artifact and Wizard for some flavor which will buff it.
Looks like the current oracle standard is to use the word spell unless you're targeting a card in exile/graveyard.
Edit: ohh, but that's different, cause mine says "spells exiled" not "spells from exile".
You must be correct then
Honestly I am not sure right now. Usually I am good with this stuff but I have not been following syntax for a few years now so I might have fallen behind.
Just thinking about 1999 - 2000
i love these!
And, with a cube that has a lot of stuff in this era of borders, scorcher seems VERY strong.
imo its death damage could be static, to reduce complexity; or the base p/t could be 1/3 or 0/4 and it'd still be super!
the egg seems like quite a lot of work to build a Dark Ritual the hard way, maybe it could simply target a (creature?) card in a graveyard, to give it another use case!
Yes yes yes
I want to be able to do broken things if I can assemble the puzzle. Not always have access to broken things even if I screw up because all the pieces are put together in the same card.
And I want the same for my opponents.
Great points about Scorcher. The more I think about this card the more I think it's a little crazy that he can kill an opponent at 9 life. My favorite solution is just to set his death damage to a flat 2.
As for the Egg, I really like the change to targeting any graveyard. Picture this: T2, cycle Slipstream Eel, T3, Unseemly Egg, exile the Eel, pay 3 life, get 5UU, cast Vizzerdrix. T3 Vizzerdrix!? Opponent scoops.
I've been experimenting with some "middle school" customs recently. If I can get enough of them going I might try to make a little 180 cube out of them. There are things in modern design that I think can be easily "timeshifted" back to this era, like hybrid mana or Menace. But the main thing is trying to create these two-card synergies. I think a lot of older Magic cards kind of failed in this goal because the individual cards in an A-B synergy were absolutely awful in a vacuum. But now the pendulum has swung too far in the other direction, and there's no need to find synergies anymore. You just jam Sheoldred, the Apocalypse and pass. Even when Tarmogoyf was king of Modern, you could discuss whether it was worth running a couple Tarfires in your deck.
Anyway, all this came about because I built a bar cube where none of the cards use counters, none are DFCs, and there is only one type of token available (the humble Eldrazi Spawn). Searching through a bunch of cards that eschew these design technologies really got my juices flowing. MY JUICES!