General Custom Cards: The Lab

[Onderzeeboot]

Shopped it up!



Art fits nicely with the concept, there's (brackish?) water, trees, mountains. The flavor text tickles me as well, because nature hides... in your opponent's hand. Ha! Right, tooting my own horn here. Anyway, I see no reason not to try this out in my ULD when drafting at the end of this month. I run 2 Ghost Quarter and 2 Tectonic Edge, but they hardly ever get picked up. Though Ghost Quarter was the play that prevented me from killing my opponent's Knight of the Reliquary last time! Anyway, this should allow your opponent to not be mana or color screwed, but still gives aggro decks the initiative because that fourth mana will take a turn longer to assemble!

 

[Chriskool]

That actually sounds like a lofty compromise between Wasteland and Ghost Quarter!

Inspiration courtesy of the manafixing thread! Interested in hearing how it plays.

Alternatively (if it sucks), the land could go on top of library instead of hand.

 

[Chris Taylor]

I missed "hand" btw

 

[Onderzeeboot]

Inspiration courtesy of the manafixing thread! Interested in hearing how it plays.

Alternatively (if it sucks), the land could go on top of library instead of hand.

Yeah, I'll keep you guys posted. The draft is on the 29th. Hope they'll get picked in the ULD so I can give some useful feedback!

 

[sigh]

I think that is a perfectly designed card. Still card advantage for the opponent, but not nearly as meh as Ghost Quarter. The idea of putting it on the top of the library would make it a 1 for 1, but I like it as is.

 

[Ferritovore]

Why does blue have all the fun? Everyone gets to have fun!








Quick Thinking [float="right"]Fetch Land [/float]
instant[float="right"]instant[/float]
Draw 3, put 2 back.[float="right"]Search deck for a forest, island, plains, swamp, or mountain.[/float]
[float="right"]Put it in your hand then shuffle.[/float]

...................................​

Send to Heaven [float="right"]Loot Junk [/float]
instant[float="right"]instant[/float]
Exile target creature you control, then choose one:[float="right"]Put 2 cards from hand on the top of your library,[/float]
* return that card to the battlefield under your control.[float="right"]then draw 3 cards from the bottom of it.[/float]
* shuffle that card into your deck, then draw a card.


No good idea for a black one. Probably a weak tutor? Maybe it only tutors cards that say "sacrifice" on them?

Edit: I regret my formatting experiment

 

[Ferritovore]

 

[safra]

Nice Guay art

 

[Chris Taylor]

So if I'm reading that right, this is dismember, but instead of -5/-5, it's destroy target nonland permanent?
I don't think it works, since you declare targets and then pay costs, so it'd target "nothing", and you wouldn't be able to switch it's target because it was already on the stack. Probably works better as a pile of different kicker costs.

 

[Ferritovore]

Yeah it's probably several kinds of illegal, but I liked the plain language for the bear token Lucre made, so the card follows the "does what you think it does" rules, not the MtG comprehensive rules.

Just was thinkin about a swiss-army-backup-plan way to deal with the Story Circle vs RDW that someone was talking about.

 

[Eric Chan]

...i forgot what thread i was in and legitimately thought that was a RoboRosewater card

 

[safra]

...i forgot what thread i was in and legitimately thought that was a RoboRosewater card

i thought it was from whymtgcardsmith(no offense)

 

[Eric Chan]

I just visited that site now, and legitimately can't tell if those cards are human or robot made.

 

[James Stevenson]

At least it works with counters

 

[Jason Waddell]

At least it works with counters

Has forum inbreeding gone too far?

 

[Ferritovore]

Okay hahaha, yes it's maybe not the greatest card, I'm throwing ideas at your faces to see what sticks. I have a lot to learn.

I'm far more excited / interested in feedback on the phyrexian-mana cards that allow non-blue decks to participate in the Brainstorm mini-game that people on here love so much. Any thoughts on those?

My basic train of thought right now is that, there are some effects which are so rich with cool decisions (quick thinking / fetch land), that they should be phyrexianized so that everyone can play with them. Or that there are GRBS enchantments like Citadel Siege and maybe it would be cool if any deck had the option to pay 4 life 1 mana and a card to ensure that the evil nasty GRBS gets destroyeded. But yeah Ploom is a little hokey.

 

[Aston]

Ploom would probably work best as a Who/Where/What/Why/How style card. It might be possible with kicker? Is the intention that you can pay more than one of the costs? It looks like it isn't.

 

[Meltyman]

http://imgur.com/gallery/aW3KO

Christmas cards !

 

[Chris Taylor]

This guy really understands what christmas is all about

 

[Onderzeeboot]

Shopped it up!

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^ The Wasteland custom that puts a basic into the victim's hand.

Some test games against the AI convinced me to add these to the main cube. They play really well. One opponent was aggroing me out, and I had a plan devised for the next few turns that involved sequencing out a nonbasic on turn 2, which promptly got destroyed on his turn 3. Suddenly my Languish took a turn longer, but I still got the chance to cast it! Brilliant! No feel bads, just a puzzle of "ok, now how am I going to survive until I can cast the sweeper?"

I removed Cursed Scroll, two Wayfarer's Baubles (the last "mana rocks" under three mana), and an AEther Searcher. Think I should keep Ghost Quarter and Tectonic Edge in my ULD?

 

[Jason Waddell]

Mind Grinder
Creature - Human Wizard
At the start of each opponent's upkeep, that player puts the top X cards of his or her library into his or her graveyard, where X is your devotion to blue.
1/5

Grinder???!?

 

[Onderzeeboot]

Grinder???!?

Mind Grinding is the new Platonic Love!

 

[anotak]

okay okay okay okay okay what if, get this

Reclaimed Territories
Conspiracy
After the utility land draft, reveal ~ and put every remaining card from the utility land draft into your sideboard.

 

[Onderzeeboot]

okay okay okay okay okay what if, get this

Reclaimed Territories
Conspiracy
After the utility land draft, reveal ~ and put every remaining card from the utility land draft into your sideboard.

That doesn't seem overpowered at all when you can't get 8 people together for the draft and have to make do with 4!

 

[anotak]

hey you know thats part of the skill of evaluating when to pick it

or something