2W
Creature- Human Were Coyote Mercenary [common]
First strike
At the beginning of your end step, if you haven't cast a spell from your hand this turn and this creature doesn't have a double strike counter on it, put a double strike counter on it.
2/2
Silver-Web Spinner
2B
Creature- Human Were Spider [uncommon]
Deathtouch
Exhaust- 1B, Sacrifice another creature: Put a reach counter on this creature. Destroy up to one target creature. (Activate each exhaust ability only once.)
2/3
Rampaging Werehydra
1GG
Creature- Human Were Hydra [rare]
Vigilance
If this creature would be dealt damage, instead prevent that damage and put that many +1/+1 counters on it.
At the beginning of your end step, if damage that would be dealt to this creature wasn't prevented this turn, remove all +1/+1 counters from it.
1/1
Blightsteel Reactor's by elartwyne
Blightsteel Forge's by Aaron Nakahara
Card transcriptions below
Blightsteel Axe
1B
Artifact- Equipment [uncommon]
Indestructible
Equipped creature gets +2/+0 and has infect. (That creature deals damage to creatures in the form of -1/-1 counters and to players in the form of poison counters.)
Equip 3 (3: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)
Blightsteel Reactor
4UU
Artifact [rare]
Indestructible
When this artifact enters, each opponent who isn't poisoned gets a poison counter.
At the beginning of your upkeep, proliferate. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players with counters on them, then give each another counter of each kind already there.)
Blightsteel Forge
9
Artifact
Indestructible
Artifact creatures you control have indestructible and infect. (They deal damage to creatures in the form of -1/-1 counters and to players in the form of poison counters.)
Those few deemed worthy of blightsteel anointment are hardened in the forge’s fires over blissful, agonizing months.
Mischief Mask 1U
Artifact- Equipment [rare]
When this Equipment enters, create a 1/1 white Cat Spirit creature token and attach this Equipment to it.
Whenever equipped creature deals combat damage to a player, until your next turn, whenever that player casts their first noncreature spell each turn, counter that spell.
Equip 1UU
Lagoon Lurker 4UU
Creature- Merfolk Horror [uncommon]
When this creature enters, target player mills thirteen cards.
4/4
In the dark Morkrut waters, shadows pass right under boats with passengers none the wiser until too late.
3U
Creature- Bird Mutant [uncommon]
Flying
When this creature enters, create a Mutagen token. (It's an artifact with "1, T, Sacrifice this artifact: Put a +1/+1 counter on target creature. Activate only as a sorcery.")
Creatures you control with counters on them have flying.
2/3
Simic Infiltrationist
GU
Creature- Merfolk Insect Rogue [uncommon]
Flying
Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, create a Mutagen token. (It's an artifact with "1, T, Sacrifice this artifact: Put a +1/+1 counter on target creature. Activate only as a sorcery.")
2, Remove a +1/+1 counter from this creature: Draw a card.
2/2
Watermark- Simic
TNT Cannon 2RR
Artifact [rare]
At the beginning of your first main phase, you may sacrifice an artifact. If you do, add RR.
5, T: This artifact deals damage to any target equal to the amount of A spent to activate this ability. (A is mana from an artifact source.)
2BB
Sorcery [rare]
Exile target creature card from a graveyard. Create a token that's a copy of it, except it's a 4/4 black Zombie.
The Scarab God can call to duty any great warrior that lies buried under Amonkhet's sands.
Professor Liliana Vess
1BB
Legendary Creature- Human Warlock [rare]
Lifelink
Whenever you attack with one or more Zombies, each opponent discards a card.
Infusion - When Liliana enters and at the beginning of your end step, Liliana becomes prepared if you gained life this turn.
3/2
//
Eternalize (see above)
Blex, Oil Feaster 1GG
Legendary Creature- Phyrexian Pest [rare]
Pests, Mites, Bats, Insects, Snakes, and Spiders you control have toxic 1. (A player dealt combat damage by a creature with toxic also gets poison counters equal to that creature’s total toxic value.)
Infusion — At the beginning of your end step, you may pay H/BH/B if you gained life this turn. If you do, create a 1/1 colorless Phyrexian Mite artifact creature token with toxic 1 and “This creature can’t block.” (H/B can be paid with either B or 2 life.)
3/3
My sapphic heart heals. When Magic the Gathering debuted their new plane Strixhaven, there was a cute card in which two students from rival schools met up in secret. Adorable, right?
Well, the new set called Secrets of Strixhaven is releasing and...
Mad Mother Moira 3BG
Legendary Creature- Hag [rare]
Ward- Discard a card
Mad Mother Moira's power is equal to the number of lands you control.
Whenever a land card is put into an opponent's graveyard from their hand or library, put it onto the battlefield under your control with a Forest counter on it. (It's a Forest in addition to its other types.)
*/4
Which prepared spells could be printed as new cards?
While the cards the prepare old existing spells are getting more attention, a number of them prepare cards that don't yet exist as independent spells. I wanted to examine which ones *could* exist independently in the future.
Printable
Restore Relic: This is my absolute number one pick for most printable prepared spell. It’s interesting and powerful, but not so powerful as to be out of line. We’ve seen 3W sorcery to reanimate an artifact, and 3W sorcery to reanimate a creature, with a small amount of upside even. Getting both on the same card is very good upside, but this one a) exiles the original and b) also pushes you into red. I think the latter is particularly interesting, because it limits the decks that can use this, and in a way that pushes for a new kind of deck. Usually, a reanimator deck wants to be black. The red-white or red-white black one this encourages seems like exactly the kind of deck that’s good to encourage.
Striking Palette: I debated between too strong and just barely okay; we’ve gotten this effect at 2 cmc with multiple upsides (instant, flashback), so 1 cmc seems plausible. I settled on the latter, comparing to the new card Flashback for a similar effect at 1 mana- I wouldn’t have thought that was printable as-is either. You’d think teetering on the edge would push it further down the rankings, but part of a card’s printability is if it’s even worth doing so. This card, if it is okay, is splashy and exciting, and definitely worth doing so if it is within-bounds which puts it ahead of a lot of others that don’t have that splash factor. It’s also just a very clean version of the effect.
Run the Play: Yeah this is just fully believable as a printable card. I’m kinda shocked this *isn’t* a card from the Tidus final fantasy deck; the flavor, colors, and mechanics all line up perfectly.
Craft with Pride: I could see Strike it Rich without flashback getting printed in a standard set. Wouldn’t be the strongest card out there, but it’s strong enough, and can do potentially interesting things being only 1 mana; it’s the kind of acceleration red doesn’t get a ton of.
Vandal’s Edit: The biggest strike against this card is that it just doesn’t feel like the white is doing much for it. But I don’t think that’s that big of a strike; they print multicolored cards that are more one color than another sometimes. And the balance hits the sweet spot of being good enough that it’s worth printing.
Oracle’s Gift: A bit odd in blue and not green, but not much odder as a stand-alone than it is here. And the balance seems about right.
Twofold Intent: Maybe a touch on the weak side, but not by a large margin. Any obvious power-up to this card- making it instant, making it cheaper would definitely be too good. I do think generally, if they want an effect like this, they'd want it at instant speed (balanced appropriately) but I don't think it's that out of the question.
All Aboard: The non-Pilot clause would look odd outside of the context of this card, but otherwise this is perfectly on rate.
Pack a Punch: The rate is pretty close to right for a common or uncommon. The biggest strike is just that “mill a card” is gonna be an odd and mostly worthless line of text on a red-white card in most environments.
Maybe Printable
Maestro’s Gift: It’s probably about a mana more expensive than an effect like this should be, but it’s believable. And interesting enough to bump it up a little.
Pest Friend: It wouldn’t be a very good card, but it’s not so ridiculously under the line that I couldn’t see it in a set with the right synergies. (That set very likely being a future strixhaven set.)
Rejoinder: A bit of an odd effect for white, usually “tap or untap” is relegated to blue, but it’s not that weird cause white can do each of these individually, and it’s no weirder as a stand alone card than it is here. Probably a bit on the weak side as a sorcery, but not unbelievably so.
Turn Stones: It’s not so unprintably weak that it seems impossible, but it has a lot of odd quirks. It needs to be in a multiplayer environment, but is just not all that good in commander; it’d do better in something like a multiplayer draft environment. But even then, it’s a multicolored card that’s hard to justify above common and most draft environments don’t want multicolored commons, and the pests and lifegain triggers make it an odd fit flavorfully and mechanically for green-black in most non-Strixhaven environments. I could see it if the stars aligned and there was a perfect spot for it, but I just don’t know what that would be.
Too weak
Scrollboost: At sorcery speed, this just doesn’t do the kinds of things they like a combat trick to do I think.
Bloodletting: It’s just hard to imagine this being worth it when it’s not stapled to a creature. Compare to shock. Admittedly, black is a bit worse at this than red, but not this much worse.
Wild Idea: This is just a good bit too much mana.
Aqueous Aria: A five mana 3/3 flier is just way too weak in this day and age.
Have a Bite: A 1 mana sorcery to do more than place a single counter and gain a single life.
Awaken the Ages: 6 mana sorcery for two 2/2s. Yuck.
Venomous Words: If this were instant, I could see it. It’d still be a tad weak, but not that much so. As a sorcery, it just doesn’t do the things a combat trick like this should be doing.
Deep Sight: You could print this for just G and it’d still not see any play.
Forum’s Favor: Compare to fleeting flight. You can just get so, so much more out of a combat trick than this.
Vibrant Idea: Divination doesn't even cut it these days.
Heroic Stanza: I wasn’t big on a 1 mana version of this with upside, this is way too weak.
Too strong
Bind to Life: I think there’s a bit of room for more power in this effect than existing examples, but not this much power. Only having a single green pip doesn’t help anything. Maybe a modern horizons set could do it.
Rocket Volley: We don’t even get 3 mana land destruction these days, 2 mana would be crazy good.
im very giddy right now cause I came up with basically increment a couple years ago. (cares about mana value, instead of mana spent, but otherwise the same)
1 W/B
Enchantment [common]
When this enchantment enters, draw a card.
W, Sacrifice this enchantment: You gain 4 life.
1B, Sacrifice this enchantment: Return target creature or kindred card from your graveyard to your hand.
Firelight Glyph
1 R/W
Enchantment [common]
When this enchantment enters, draw a card.
1R, Sacrifice this enchantment: Creatures you control get +1/+0 and gain haste until end of turn.
2W, Sacrifice this enchantment: Create two 1/1 colorless Shapeshifter creature tokens with changeling. (They're every creature type.)
Fortunehunter's Glyph
1 R/G
Enchantment [common]
When this enchantment enters, draw a card.
1R, Sacrifice this enchantment: Create two Treasure tokens.
G, Sacrifice this enchantment: Target creature can't be blocked each combat this turn if able.
Leafdew Glyph
1 G/U
Enchantment [common]
When this enchantment enters, draw a card.
2G, Sacrifice this enchantment: Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.
U, Sacrifice this enchantment: Target creature can't be blocked this turn.
Rainshadow Glyph
1 U/B
Enchantment [common]
When this enchantment enters, draw a card.
2U, Sacrifice this enchantment: Draw a card.
1B, Sacrifice this enchantment: Target player loses 3 life.
Zimone's Division 5UU
Sorcery [rare]
Converge - Choose target creature you control. For each color of mana spent to cast this spell, create a token that's a copy of that creature except it's that color.
"'Me' isn't enough."
Pterrorize XXRW
Sorcery [rare]
Create X 2/2 red and white Dinosaur creature tokens with flying and haste. Pterrorize deals twice X damage to each creature without flying.
Lavabrink's walls can only hold back so much.
Soul of Velis Vale 2 G/U G/U
Legendary Creature- Shapeshifter [rare]
Changeling (This card is every creature type.)
Whenever you cast a Shapeshifter spell, copy it.
4/4
Its nature is no more constant or understandable than its appearance.
Oona's Final Aurora 1B
Enchantment- Saga
(As this Saga enters and after you draw, add a lore counter. Sacrifice after IV.)
I, II | Create a 1/1 colorless Shapeshifter creature token with changeling.
III, IV | You may blight 1. If you do, draw a card. (To blight 1, put a -1/-1 counter on a creature you control.)
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