General Custom Cards: The Lab

[Maldar]

There’s some interesting twists for sure

What’s a random card named Tempest Dragon? It sure sounds like some Shandalar wording right there.

I sort of went with an approach inspired by Knight of the Kitchen Sink. This card has the same name but with different abilities.

Examples of Tempest Dragons:

Yeah... I should have also noted that I hate the way this is worded. Make it like "Add a random card from the Dragon Spellbook to your hand" or something.

Using spellbook is a better way indeed. However I don't really like it flavor wise because a spellbook sounds like something a Wizard uses. The Dragons come from the Tarkir's Dragon storms (or Tempests as they is called).

Dragon Tempests

Tarkir has a unique, "dracometeorological" ecosystem. Dragons are born from Ugin's elemental storms, known as dragon tempests, which spawned different broods of dragons in accordance to terrain, each with their own motives and breath weapons.

I could word it like this: "Add a random card from the Dragon Tempest to your hand." Then I could also give the Dragons different names.

Also I would like you to know (just in case you missed it) that from a lore perspective your cards come off as being from the old Tarkir. You know the one before Sarkhan’s time travel shenanigans.

In our new timeline there was no longer any war between humans cities and the dragons. It is just pure dragon domination. So no sieges for instance.

Again, just in case you didn’t know.
And there is nothing wrong with having cards from the erased timeline either way!

Wouldn't my 'set' fit in the new/alternate timeline where the Dragons take over the Khans? As described below?

Alternate timeline

A remnant of Ugin's spirit was able to transport Sarkhan back in time to prevent the dragon's death during the duel with his brother. When Sarkhan traveled back in time, he saved Ugin after his battle with Bolas. Ugin was preserved in a hedron cocoon as he regained his strength. During this time, the dragon tempests grew in intensity, with the dragons growing more numerous and powerful and eventually overtaking the clans in an event known as the "Khanfall". In the aftermath, the word "Khan" was abolished among all Clans and five dragonlords and their broods rose to dominate the humanoid races, forming new clans over the remains of the old, though knowledge of the clans still exists in the new timeline.[8] These new clans continued to clash with each other over territorial disputes.

 

[Maldar]

Yushhh

The normal draft cube!

The constructed play version ^,..,^

Wow you have great cards in your cube! They are awesome! I will definitely add some to my cube!

These I really like:
Seed of Desire
Ancestral Journey
Dance of the Efreet
Overdrive Automaton
Call to War
Veil of Eos
Wizard of Runes
Foilfeather Goose
Curse-Eater
Skinshifter Shaman

I could see adding Harvest Moon Beast as a Dragon to my cube.

Gilded Wyrm is a cool way to do madness

Why did you use multikicker on Deep Dragger instead of it costing XU?

 

[Lily]

I could see adding Harvest Moon Beast as a Dragon to my cube.

The card has been very powerful in my environment without any real type synergies,
so if u also add Dragon synergies you'll have a very strong card! ^,..,^

Gilded Wyrm is a cool way to do madness

Thanku!
I am happy that Wizards now also made a card that has the creature side be able to cast the adventure side, makes me feel affirmed in that design

Why did you use multikicker on Deep Dragger instead of it costing XU?

I wanted it to be very blue intensive, and the kicker just felt the most natural at the time

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Ah also!!
My Occult Effigy was directly inspired by your Connecting the Clues cube ^,..,^

 

[Onderzeeboot]

The lack of white celebration cards turned out to be temporary!



Also replacing the Pathways because I'm getting rid of DFC's. I was trying to come up with a design that fixes well without encouraging five color goodness.

(And yes, this looks weird, but it is the official color scheme to use on these.)

 

[Erik Twice]

Davelle looks strong, but it's a fantastic design.

 

[Mown]

You don't have to abide by official color schemes if it hurts readability, I've heard a lot of complaints about how difficult it is to parse the triomes.

Also this is rather pedantic and I'm also esl so I could be wrong, but I think the word "longing" implies a yearning for a change in the status quo. I don't know if you can be longing for something not to happen.

 

[Onderzeeboot]

You don't have to abide by official color schemes if it hurts readability, I've heard a lot of complaints about how difficult it is to parse the triomes.

My main gripe with the Murkuring Bosk color scheme is how the colored title and type bars look in a golden frame. Ugly I don't have any qualms about the triomes myself. Incidentally, I used the colors for nonlands, so I'll have to redo these anyways. Maybe I can play around with them a bit. Which of these do you guys and gals prefer? (A. (the first one) is the official color scheme.)

A.

B.

C.
D.

Also this is rather pedantic and I'm also esl so I could be wrong, but I think the word "longing" implies a yearning for a change in the status quo. I don't know if you can be longing for something not to happen.

I'm also esl, but as far as I know (and can find online), longing just means wanting something very much, or a "strong, persistent desire or craving, especially for something unattainable or distant". In this case she is expected to come down again (when the play/scene, and thus her part as the butterfly, ends). Not coming down is that something unattainable, because it is inevitable that the play will end, and she will be lowered back down onto the stage. I do appreciate nuances like this though, so if a native speaker agrees with you, I'ld love for them to speak up!

 

[blacksmithy]

My main gripe with the Murkuring Bosk color scheme is how the colored title and type bars look in a golden frame. Ugly I don't have any qualms about the triomes myself. Incidentally, I used the colors for nonlands, so I'll have to redo these anyways. Maybe I can play around with them a bit. Which of these do you guys and gals prefer? (A. (the first one) is the official color scheme.)

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I'm also esl, but as far as I know (and can find online), longing just means wanting something very much, or a "strong, persistent desire or craving, especially for something unattainable or distant". In this case she is expected to come down again (when the play/scene, and thus her part as the butterfly, ends). Not coming down is that something unattainable, because it is inevitable that the play will end, and she will be lowered back down onto the stage. I do appreciate nuances like this though, so if a native speaker agrees with you, I'ld love for them to speak up!

D

 

[gaytransmulldrifter]

I think "longing"/"longed" is not like, entirely incorrect in this context, but it does have a connotation of "pining for something in the absence of that something". Maybe something like "and she dreamed of never coming down again".

 

[Humpty_Dumpty]

English English speaker here, and it does seem odd to long for something that cannot be definitively achieved: no matter how long she soars, she might descend at any moment. Perhaps “she hoped to ascend forever”.

 

[Onderzeeboot]

I might do "She soared on the cheers of the jubilant crowd. Oh, to never come down again."

 

[Brad]

I've heard a lot of complaints about how difficult it is to parse the triomes.

I'm going with these for my proxies:

https://imgur.com/a/WTrYmdC

For the Onder lands, I like A for being official or C for looking nice. You could also cut the basic land type and go with the gold frame.

 

[Onderzeeboot]

For the Onder lands, I like A for being official or C for looking nice. You could also cut the basic land type and go with the gold frame.

Since B is my favorite one, and that means I got four different answers, I'll just stick with the official color scheme and be consistent with what people expect XD

For Davelle, I realized I forgot the Legendary supertype. Unfortunately there's no room for more text there, so meet Consummate Artist!

 

[Velrun]

D

Has multicolored frame
Has mostly blue
Also has green and black in text box

Perfect

 

[Zoss]

The lack of white celebration cards turned out to be temporary!

Claiming the title of resident opera buff, I think it's a travesty that you don't have anything from Madama Butterfly in consideration for the flavor text (yes, it's problematic; most opera are). Might I suggest:

"Oh! how many fixed eyes are attentive.
How many looks the sky laughs!
Ah! Sweet night!"

?

 

[Onderzeeboot]

Claiming the title of resident opera buff, I think it's a travesty that you don't have anything from Madama Butterfly in consideration for the flavor text (yes, it's problematic; most opera are). Might I suggest:

"Oh! how many fixed eyes are attentive.
How many looks the sky laughs!
Ah! Sweet night!"

?

I love your suggestion, but I don't want to quote earthly sources

PS. I would have totally quoted Da Vinci otherwise: "Once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return."

 

[Zoss]

Another excellent choice! I'm shocked that they never used that one for Ornithopter, tbh.

 

[Onderzeeboot]

I'm pumping up the number of customs in my cube again, apparently.

 

[Mown]

Crawl is pretty cool.
The Grimoire feels a bit too "gamey" to me, like it's just a creature so connive makes sense, and it could probably just be an artifact that looted on etb and play identical in most games. I'm not really invested in the body, so the decision point of connive is not about the +1/+1 counter and instead what I want to hit the graveyard.

 

[Onderzeeboot]

Crawl is pretty cool.
The Grimoire feels a bit too "gamey" to me, like it's just a creature so connive makes sense, and it could probably just be an artifact that looted on etb and play identical in most games. I'm not really invested in the body, so the decision point of connive is not about the +1/+1 counter and instead what I want to hit the graveyard.

True, but I'm trying to get more connive in my cube, so that's why I specifically made it a creature.

I find this one hard to gauge. How strong is this?

What's a fair equip cost here?

 

[Zoss]

Tbh I don't think I'd ever equip that, I'm just playing it as a cantrip that hopefully gains me life later in the game. Plus it's going to force you to reshuffle your graveyard in what is presumably a graveyard deck. It's a cool set of ideas, but I think it's two cards in a trenchcoat and neither are an equipment right now.

 

[Onderzeeboot]

Tbh I don't think I'd ever equip that, I'm just playing it as a cantrip that hopefully gains me life later in the game. Plus it's going to force you to reshuffle your graveyard in what is presumably a graveyard deck. It's a cool set of ideas, but I think it's two cards in a trenchcoat and neither are an equipment right now.

You only get something back from your graveyard (i.e. cantrip) if you sacrifice Genesis Staff. So equipping it gives you more mill instances, and thus more life and more potential targets for when you do eventually sacrifice it.

 

[Velrun]

@Onderzeeboot
Your AI created arts are killer fine !

 

[Zoss]

You only get something back from your graveyard (i.e. cantrip) if you sacrifice Genesis Staff. So equipping it gives you more mill instances, and thus more life and more potential targets for when you do eventually sacrifice it.

Sure, but that's expensive. At baseline, this is Raise Dead + mill 3 with "Kicker : mill 3 every turn a creature you control attacks." I think I'm taking the base mode >95% of the time because that kicker ability is so marginal.

Plus equipment's whole schtick is buffing the creature that holds it and this doesn't do that at all. If it had "creature gets +2/+2," it'd have some cool tension. Like I said, this is a really cool idea, I think you just need to tweak a few knobs! And as Velrun said, you really do a great job with guiding AI art.

 

[Onderzeeboot]

Sure, but that's expensive. At baseline, this is Raise Dead + mill 3 with "Kicker : mill 3 every turn a creature you control attacks." I think I'm taking the base mode >95% of the time because that kicker ability is so marginal.

Plus equipment's whole schtick is buffing the creature that holds it and this doesn't do that at all. If it had "creature gets +2/+2," it'd have some cool tension. Like I said, this is a really cool idea, I think you just need to tweak a few knobs! And as Velrun said, you really do a great job with guiding AI art.

Ok, I want this to be a cantrip, but I don't want to feel the equipment part... tacked on. I did a pretty big redesign to make room for a different idea. No more life gain, and no more sacrificing the staff to cantrip. Instead you are now incentivized to equip for a repeat trigger, and you get a dash of green indestructibility.



PS. I potentially want to put this at for my cube, because I don't really do card selection at 1 mv.


This looks very dangerous as a way to push a lot of damage through? Maybe I should lower this to 2 damage?