Hammer of Blogardan

[imakethecard]

Trying something pretty ambitious.

Is this self-explanatory? If so, what do you think it does?

That aside, is it good design?

[abelzumi]

I love this, but I have concerns.

Hm… So, are those five counters, five toughness? It’s kind of hard to tell exactly how one “completes” a quest. Would new players grok that you have to deal five damage to it to “complete” it? Functionally, what makes this kind of card different from a Zendikar “quest” that could be worded similarly?

Overall, it’s ambitious and really hard to tell if it would work well. I really don’t know from the outset. 

[hammerofblogardan]

I tried something similar with “Challenges” in a custom Planechase set: https://hammerofblogardan.tumblr.com/post/149758437165/fourth-set-of-ten-planes-from-my-current-work-in

[magicjudge]

I am at 7 life and have a Death's Shadow in play (it's 6/6 right now). My opponent attacks me with a 7/7 and a 2/2. I block the 7/7 with the Death's Shadow and let the 2/2 through so it deals damage to me. What happens to the Shadow? What happens to the 7/7 creature?

When combat damage is dealt in this situation, Death’s Shadow deals 6 damae to the 7/7, the 7/7 deals 7 damage to Death’s Shadow, and the 2/2 deals 2 damage to you. 

Immediately after combat damage is dealt, your life total is 5, which makes Death’s Shadow now an 8/8. When state-based actions are checked, nothing happens because no creature has lethal damage marked on it. Death’s shadow has 7 damage marked on it, but has 8 toughness, and the 7/7 has 6 damage marked on it.

Death’s Shadow only deals 6 damage here because you don’t lose life from the 2/2 until after Death’s Shadow has already assigned and dealt its combat damage, and its power was 6 at that time.

[imakethecard]

This is a weird one. Hope it makes sense.

Usually this will be worse than useless, but in the right situation it can be amazingly strong.

[hammerofblogardan]

I agree with the assessment, but worth just for the name.

And if you can pull some shenanigans with mass deathtouch, or Grave Pact effect, or Cauldron of Souls, it could still be impressively powerful. 

[commandtower-solring-go-deactiv]

And here they are.

shout out to @rosebuncat, @transsucy @animar-smol-of-elephants and @island-delver-go

[island-delver-go]

Remind me to bring a box of Good n Plenty. I’ll ramp in B all day

[hammerofblogardan]

I’m playing Mono-green Lunchtime and bringing a cart full of Sabra

[imakethecard]

Just 4 mana to have an endless stream of 7/7s attack your enemies.

Unfortunately, you get attacked too. In fact, you get attacked first.

[kynaios-and-tiro-of-meletis]

do u think its nalanced?

[imakethecard]

I think so. I can’t think of a good way to break it, anyway.

[hammerofblogardan]

Good closer for prison decks that can abuse the symmetry, but I wouldn’t call it broken at all The name is fantastic, too. The more I think about it, the more I love this card.

[imakethecard]

Craterhoof Behemoth feels out of place on Innistrad. I think this is more fitting.

[hammerofblogardan]

infinite with doubling season

[follower-of-liliana]

Lorwyn Fever

@flavoracle for some reason I woke up 2 hours earlier than usual and I just can’t stop designing cards  for Lorwyn/Shadowmoor. Should I call a doctor or something?

@bizarre-trader Is this a good business strategy? 4 goats seem more useful than a cloaked emo boy,

The world needs more green faeries

@goblintinkering @askkrenko a gobbo card. I picture a million young goblins running around excited and in the background, an elderly goblin chilling, enjoying the few moments of peace and quiet until the gobbos return :p

[hammerofblogardan]

These are really excellent. Now I want to do a Return to Lorwyn design.

[mtgfanset]

Outline

Probably should have posted this before the exploratory design post but here we go. This is a project started by @magicarasa in an attempt to work with the setup of the disparate and virtually autonomous people here of the custom Magic card community in order to collaborate on a fan set with the objective of “publishing” it by the end of 2017.

This is incredibly open to the Magic community in general, even if you’ve never designed a custom Magic card in your life. Throw in your two cents, tell everyone else what you’d want to see, submit a one-off design in the hopes it makes it in later. OR write paragraphs long flora and fauna concepts, draw fan art, design a mechanic and a handful of cards to showcase it. This is very much a group effort and my goal is only to arbitrate and move it along to completion and hopefully what will be a fun set that’s both well-designed and well-developed.

Below the cut I’ve got a rough outline of how I expect the process to go (it could change quite a bit–I’ve never done anything like this before) and some links to potentially helpful websites.

Keep reading

[oldtumblhurgoyf]

Ever wanted to be part of a fan set? Here’s your chance!

Check out the Exploratory Design post–that’s the first step in the process.

[magicarasa]

!!!

[hammerofblogardan]

Interested in working on this. 

[imakethecard]

Black anti-ETB tech. Hope the wording works.

[hammerofblogardan]

Should definitely be 1UB

[tonric]

One-off design of the day, very top down recently :)

[magicarasa]

Interesting sort of effect. Definitely something that would be cool to see and something I could absolutely see Wizards printing.

It’s costed appropriately for a one-time exile but I’m not sure this is appropriate for “mass” “removal” even if it is symmetric.

[hammerofblogardan]

Anti Show & Tell tech, buys a turn vs Splinter Twin even on the draw, and incidentally hoses Martial Coup. It’s got my vote. 

[thetasteoffire]

@flavoracle

Took the designs I liked the most from your little experiment today and mocked them up. Designers have been attributed.

[hammerofblogardan]

Fourth set of ten planes from my current work in progress, The Great Chase. The intent is to create a draft environment for multiplayer, similar to Conspiracy, but with the emphasis on four-person Planechase games after the draft. Each drafter will receive a ten plane pack of random planar-deck cards in addition to their three packs, which will combine to form a communal planar deck in their following games. The Great Chase also introduces a new card type specific to Planechase - Challenges. Challenges are incorporated into the planar deck, are present while a plane is out, and have an effect while incomplete, a condition for completion, and a reward for the first player that completes them. Certain cards will care about completed challenges, as well as the challenge being its own reward.Stay tuned for more planes, as well as standard cards from the accompanying draft set.

[hammerofblogardan]

Third set of ten planes from my current work in progress, The Great Chase. The intent is to create a draft environment for multiplayer, similar to Conspiracy, but with the emphasis on four-person Planechase games after the draft. Each drafter will receive a ten plane pack of random planar-deck cards in addition to their three packs, which will combine to form a communal planar deck in their following games. The Great Chase also introduces a new card type specific to Planechase - Challenges. Challenges are incorporated into the planar deck, are present while a plane is out, and have an effect while incomplete, a condition for completion, and a reward for the first player that completes them. Certain cards will care about completed challenges, as well as the challenge being its own reward.Stay tuned for more planes, as well as standard cards from the accompanying draft set.

[hammerofblogardan]

Second set of ten planes from my current work in progress, The Great Chase. The intent is to create a draft environment for multiplayer, similar to Conspiracy, but with the emphasis on four-person Planechase games after the draft. Each drafter will receive a ten plane pack of random planar-deck cards in addition to their three packs, which will combine to form a communal planar deck in their following games. The Great Chase also introduces a new card type specific to Planechase - Challenges. Challenges are incorporated into the planar deck, are present while a plane is out, and have an effect while incomplete, a condition for completion, and a reward for the first player that completes them. Certain cards will care about completed challenges, as well as the challenge being its own reward.Stay tuned for more planes, as well as standard cards from the accompanying draft set.

[hammerofblogardan]

First set of ten planes from my current work in progress, The Great Chase. The intent is to create a draft environment for multiplayer, similar to Conspiracy, but with the emphasis on four-person Planechase games after the draft. Each drafter will receive a ten plane pack of random planar-deck cards in addition to their three packs, which will combine to form a communal planar deck in their following games.

The Great Chase also introduces a new card type specific to Planechase - Challenges. Challenges are incorporated into the planar deck, are present while a plane is out, and have an effect while incomplete, a condition for completion, and a reward for the first player that completes them. Certain cards will care about completed challenges, as well as the challenge being its own reward.

Stay tuned for more planes, as well as standard cards from the accompanying draft set.

[remakingmagic]

A cute clone design for a -1/-1 counter set

[hammerofblogardan]

"Why are you?”

“I’m you but weaker. And possibly with more synergy.” 

[imakethecard]

I don’t like the wording, I don’t like the name, and I’m not sure about the balance.

Still, I don’t want to give up on this one.

[hammerofblogardan]

“ Whenever one or more creatures attack, if you are the defending player, those creatures’ controller sacrifices one of those creatures.”