Origin of Entries
@arashisann - The Leaf Crown is a callback to Lorwyn and the elves, and a beautiful design. I think the wording can be shortened/minorly revised: “At the beginning of your upkeep, look at the top card of your library. If it shares a creature type with equipped creature, you may cast it without paying its mana cost.” Revealing is only necessary when a card is going from one hidden zone to another hidden zone, usually library to hand/exile. I like this card a lot. Not a huge fan of its GG activation, but considering the shift to colored artifacts, I may be in the wrong.
@greensunzenith - I had to look up where Blastwind Hellkite would have come from. Was it the Onslaught block? Regardless, this design. I like the idea of a blue/white deck being able to play this mono-red card, as well as red players being able to cast this from the hand as necessary. The bird tribal aspect is odd for me, but nothing is out of color. The more I think about it, the more I like this card. My only hesitation is the narrowness of bird tribal, and that’s from my own personal lack of experience. Nothing wrong with this card at all, really. Would this have been printed then? I doubt it, but stranger things have happened.
@i-am-the-one-who-wololoes - Earth Rummager is powerful. Giving things in your graveyard flashback is remarkably strong, all things considered, which is why I’m hesitant to see this as an uncommon. Snapcaster Mage is the most obvious comparison, although the lower cost, the flash, and the ability to hit instants is massively powerful compared to this. Getting the potential to double-Thoughtseize again with graveyard strategies is nasty. In general, three criticisms: at uncommon, this effect might be too powerful in competitive play. And I feel that the wording can be shortened, but I’m not 100% sure how. Thirdly, this card could have gone without flavor text, considering how crunched the abilities are. Still, what a concept. Stone Rain ahoy!
@mistershinyobject - I want to love Firemane Conscriptor. As it stands, I do! But it raises a massive red flag for me - or, well, a red and white flag. Does Boros get creature copying? I know mono-red does, and I know blue obviously does. Can this color combo get that? I simply don’t know, and it’s bothering me a lot. I think this card could play super well. I think this would be a windmill slam in any limited environment. I might have wanted it to be slightly more aggressive P/T wise, but that’s a minor quibble compared to the copying question. I’m not saying this card is bad, because it’s not at ALL. I’m just in a quandary. Someone call R&D, please?
@ozthearistocrat - Eye of Precognition has a good concept bogged down by some baggage. The XX cost on top of the mana cost looks clunky and plays even more so. For five mana, you get a rock that lets you Forecast at instant speed - the wording prevents it from being additional, which I feel was your intention. I would rather this card have been just a rock that let you Forecast instantly, without any other craziness. Also, this card doesn’t need legendary status - there’s no issue with having multiples of that at one time.
@reaperfromtheabyss - Nayan God Expedition feels fun! Couple of wording quibbles. The “of” in the first ability doesn’t need to be there, and the second ability should have “five” instead of 5, and read “Search your library for a creature card and put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle your library.” Boom, done. Power-wise, this feels like something that Standard players would love and Limited players would go nuts with before realizing that getting five 5-power creatures is HARD. I think in eternal formats there are easier ways to cheat out Emrakul, so it’s not broken there. Commander, too... Watch out, folks. Heh heh heh.
@revalista209 - I know that Worship the Infection should be six mana for how powerful this ability is, but I’m just so disappointed that is has to be. It’s not you, it’s infect. There’s nothing mechanically wrong with this card. Flavor-wise, well, I can see the argument for how “worship makes you more powerful,” but the process of worship feels like an action rather than an augmentation as Auras as supposed to be. What is the attached creature GETTING, rather than DOING? “Blessing of the Infection” could work for a name change, or something along those lines. Still, nothing mechanically wrong. Maybe five mana? Jeez, that still feels insanely good. I dunno.
@snugz - Kavu Exemplar is perfectly fine. Doesn’t cause any problems, feels appropriate, feels in-set, powerful enough for rare. It might not tickle my cockles, but there’s nothing that needs to be fixed. A windmill slam into a draft deck, and a windmill slam into the binder to sit until someone makes Kavu tribal.
@tmstage - Oh, I am so glad this card is last. Accordance of Angels is a blessing. I bring it up here because of its amazing abilities, and the latter question that the third ability brings: can Magic reference multiple cards of the same character? I am unsure but excited. The possibilities are staggering! Niv-Mizzet tribal! Triple Akroma madness! Now, the problem: “Archangel Avacyn.” The name doesn’t begin with Avacyn. You’d control the character, but the last ability wouldn’t trigger. Maybe ‘with “Avacyn” in its name’ for that last ability? But still, I don’t know if that’s something that Magic wants to do. It could work! It could totally work! I think that in terms of pushing the boundaries, this will most likely be seen in the future with Planeswalker card types. We’ve already seen things with “if you control a ______ Planeswalker, then ~.” LEgendary creatures don’t get the same treatment. Come one, like - “IF YOU CONTROL A CREATURE WITH DRAGONLORD IN ITS NAME, THEN ~” would be RADICAL.
Thank you all for your entries! New contest tomorrow.
