this design is perfect imo
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this design is perfect imo
Yeah I agree!
I am soooo tempted to run it even though I have moved away from regular custom cards. Such a gem! I also remember your description, which went something like this: "Here the choice is actually difficult to make because giving up a planeswalker is much more of a threat-loss than giving up most other card types." The quote is not a direct quote but just my memory. I just love that!
I am soooo tempted to run it even though I have moved away from regular custom cards. Such a gem! I also remember your description, which went something like this: "Here the choice is actually difficult to make because giving up a planeswalker is much more of a threat-loss than giving up most other card types." The quote is not a direct quote but just my memory. I just love that!
Chris Taylor
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Always glad to hear the kind words, but the design is actually Lucas Childs.
I was running actual wrench mind for a while and he suggested the edit
I was running actual wrench mind for a while and he suggested the edit
Onderzeeboot
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I still get a bit sad whenever I'm browsing old threads for some inspiration and come across one of his posts. Rest in peace 
Does this card seem too good? I'm trying to make a "stop yourself from decking" card for dredge that's playable in any deck. However, I don't know if this is how I should be executing the design.
Hey guys, I want to complete the Amonkhet Bicycle lands as kinda customs for my cube. I currently use the ones Ondee made, and they're sweet, but I want them to look like they're from Amonkhet too. So maybe you guys have some artworks that could be a fit for an enemy dual land and look as amonkhet-ish as possible?
Fun google image hunt.
UG: https://www.artstation.com/artwork/klnNd
BG: https://www.reddit.com/r/ImaginaryLandscapes/comments/aylr1c/oasis_by_ricardo_lima/
UR: https://www.artstation.com/artwork/red-canyon-3553434c-abb3-429d-b2c0-cc0a8adf0825
RW: https://www.deviantart.com/patheagames/art/Desert-Waterfall-Concept-331124735
WB: https://twitter.com/ScheierJason/status/1213175824385376257/photo/1
afaict these sources each provide the artist credit in question. Not sure how to directly embed images, (first post after a long-time lurking)
Onderzeeboot
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Holy shit, those are incredible! I love the UG and BG choices in particular!
Does this card seem too good? I'm trying to make a "stop yourself from decking" card for dredge that's playable in any deck. However, I don't know if this is how I should be executing the design.
I'd say the question you ask here is whether a 0 mana 3/3 trample is going to be better than the average card in your deck, and the answer is most of the time going to be "yes". It also pops off huge with instant speed card draw, especially X spells - if you have Sphinx's Rev/Blue Sun's Zenith etc in your cube you have to be extremely cautious with this sort of effect.
Onderzeeboot
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You could always reword it with: "The first time you would draw a card during your draw step, ..."
Always lead with the best ones right? I did some digging to try to find your original customs so I could try to match desert-ish art to the previous card titles but couldn't find them, unfortunately.
To keep with the "From Amonkhet" Flavor, May I suggest these card titles:
UG: Lush Oasis
BG: Fetid Grove / Overgrown Boneyard (Fetid Grove more closely matches AKH cycle, but Overgrown Boneyard is just so close to Overgrown Tomb I can't not suggest it)
RU: Lonely Cascade (Cataract is a nice word too and matches AKH Cascading Cataracts, I'd probably pick the upper part of the art for the card)
RW: Windswept Escarpment / Windswept Mesa (I'm partial to Escarpment but Mesa probably reads better)
WB: Isolated Canyon / Isolated Pass / Isolated Ravine (etc) (Isolated Chapel is W/B, and this is clearly some kind of rock cut, not sure which term flows best. Canyon ties in with Canyon Slough though.
RU is probably the one I'm least happy with, since I'm not sure Amonkhet really had mountains (all of the basic mountain art is monument structures of various levels of decay at sunset.) I would've loved something like https://dribbble.com/shots/5707985-The-Temple-of-Thoth but with a red and blue palette instead of a blue-green one, but didn't find it.
Onderzeeboot
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Kirk Quilaquil (a.k.a. Ninjatic, https://www.deviantart.com/ninjatic/gallery): https://www.deviantart.com/ninjatic/art/Valley-Of-A-Thousand-Suns-433456387
But I also like these:
Tuomas Korpi: https://payload.cargocollective.com/1/23/738583/12531519/Leviathan_final_TuomasKorpi_1000.jpg
Nele-Diel: https://www.deviantart.com/nele-diel/art/Desert-Realm-844031252
Nele-Diel: https://www.deviantart.com/nele-diel/art/Castle-of-the-Sun-453431048
Nele-Diel: https://www.deviantart.com/nele-diel/art/Arrival-623841147
Nele-Diel: https://www.deviantart.com/nele-diel/art/Golden-Gate-627266018
Sergey Glushakov: https://www.deviantart.com/dinodrawing/art/Canyon-in-the-desert-630821791
But I also like these:
Tuomas Korpi: https://payload.cargocollective.com/1/23/738583/12531519/Leviathan_final_TuomasKorpi_1000.jpg
Nele-Diel: https://www.deviantart.com/nele-diel/art/Desert-Realm-844031252
Nele-Diel: https://www.deviantart.com/nele-diel/art/Castle-of-the-Sun-453431048
Nele-Diel: https://www.deviantart.com/nele-diel/art/Arrival-623841147
Nele-Diel: https://www.deviantart.com/nele-diel/art/Golden-Gate-627266018
Sergey Glushakov: https://www.deviantart.com/dinodrawing/art/Canyon-in-the-desert-630821791
What if you had to pay
That would be much more balanced, and in fact is very close to an existing card Words of Wilding which is far from broken, so it's probably fine.
As requested
Wording is not Oracle, but matches the wording as of Amonkhet. These are full size at 300dpi (they're actually just under, you'll want to add some padding if you're printing at home.)
Is it cheating to use official promotional art that didn't make it onto a card?
Wording is not Oracle, but matches the wording as of Amonkhet. These are full size at 300dpi (they're actually just under, you'll want to add some padding if you're printing at home.)
Is it cheating to use official promotional art that didn't make it onto a card?
Chris Taylor
Contributor
You know, I run those, but mine look way worse
I'ma steal those
I'ma steal those
Onderzeeboot
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Nope. I did that for Esper Triome in my cube, and I used art from one of the Planechase plans for my Naya Triome
What program did you use to make these proxies?
it’s in the credits line, I used the website mtg.design it isn’t as powerful as magic set editor but it works fine if you don’t want or need special frames. For cropping and scaling the art I used gimp.
I wouldn’t normally have used the original set logo but since Ravnics request was for enemy bicycles that looked like they were from Amonkhet I figured, why not go all the way. (Same reason I didn’t stick to oracle wording)
edit: one of the nice things about it is the resulting cards get hosted on the web so I didn’t need to reupload the images anywhere once I had finished them.
also that Naya Triome looks awesome and I’d never have guessed that was planechase art!
I do this all the time
Thank you very much!The Isolated Pass stands out a little bit because the person is so clearly visible which is odd for a land. If the setting is suppose to take place during the Amonkhet block then I believe it is also a bit odd for lore reasons.
I would update the wording.
Good job!
Hah, I finished a first run befoe you answered, and I think it is funny how similar we've been in thinking with names and depiction. Here is my first attempt:
Anyway, I am probably replacing some of my artworks with the ones you suggested. WB and BG for sure, pondering about the other 3.
I actually really like your white black. Nice call out to
in the name and the art is very evocative too.
in the name and the art is very evocative too.
While we're on a land cycle kick, has anyone done the missing four of this cycle yet?
edit: also would these be too good if we sharpied plains/forest on them? (I guess to be oracle correct the wording would need to change on the tap effect to be city of brass 'whenever this is tapped' instead of a cost.)
edit: also would these be too good if we sharpied plains/forest on them? (I guess to be oracle correct the wording would need to change on the tap effect to be city of brass 'whenever this is tapped' instead of a cost.)
Onderzeeboot
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While we're on a land cycle kick, has anyone done the missing four of this cycle yet?
edit: also would these be too good if we sharpied plains/forest on them? (I guess to be oracle correct the wording would need to change on the tap effect to be city of brass 'whenever this is tapped' instead of a cost.)
I've only done the
one.