Most of those cards would warp Standard around them. I know you wanted to make some good cards for White, but still, each new card has to be considered in each format. There is a reason why there are no functional reprints of Lightning Bolt , they would break older formats, Standard would not care. ...

I should be more precise: Explore doesn't ramp/accelerate you if you hold no lands after it cantrips. If you decide to keep the token ramp in Red, I highly recommend a healthy dose of token destroying effects to go with it.

Is Moon Landing not more like a color shifted Explore than Rampant Growth ? (For the record, the mechanic is in development.) Explore puts a land you already have in your hand onto the battlefield. It does nothing if you don't have lands in your hand. Rampant Growth and Moon Landing get you a land ...

I assumed it doesn't work like a regular land. If it does, then yes, your wording is fine. However, the whole effect is a colorshifted Rampant Growth (too strong already by modern standards) on steroids. Not only you get a land of any type regardless of what you included in your deck, but you also g...

What is a land token? You should provide a reminder text for such a not-so-obvious mechanic.

Valakut, the Smoldering Wonder Legendary Land (R) Valakut, the Smoldering Wonder enters the battlefield tapped. T : Add R . Mountainfall — R, T : Valakut, the Smoldering Wonder deals 1 damage to any target. Activate this ability only if a Mountain entered the battlefield under your control this turn.

Sign me up

1. bravelion83 - great flavor and an interesting balanced effect 2. Icari - same as above, maybe the first strike wasn't needed 3. netn10 - simple, flavorfull, mostly balanced (4/4 flying for 4 is already good, and the effect is very strong) HM slimytrout - the random effect is way too swingy for a ...

Khudal from Tarkir Khudal, the Souleater 3GUB Legendary Creature — Cat Demon (M) Whenever a creature card is put into a graveyard from anywhere, exile it and put a +1/+1 counter on Khudal, the Souleater. GUB : Khudal, the Souleater becomes a copy of target creature card in exile exiled with Khudal u...

Mana accumulator effect I've personally tried to design many times. Exiling a land from your graveyard seems like a hoop big enough to have to jump through to do this. Good. Despite seemingly weird costs the card is overall pretty solid. I would expect an incubator to produce something, not transfo...

I failed this round, I intentionally didn't design a modern card... But you guys did great! While the card itself is solid, I just don't see those mechanics blending together well enough. The flavor text doesn't actually provide anything about Subira... Really cool effect that unfortunately ends up ...

Thanks, nonetheless, your designs were pretty great this month, [mention]Ink-Treader[/mention]

Jhardir, Zhalfirin Champion 1WW Legendary Creature — Human (R) Flanking (Whenever a creature without flanking blocks this creature, the blocking creature gets -1/-1 until end of turn.) 1W : Jhardir, Zhalfirin Champion gains flanking until end of turn. (Each instance of flanking triggers separately....

Roaring Defiance 1G Enchantment — Aura (C) Enchant Beast creature Vanishing 3 (This Aura enters the battlefield with three time counters on it. At the beginning of your upkeep, remove a time counter from it. When the last is removed, sacrifice it.) Enchanted creature gets +X/+X, where X is the numb...

Phyrexian Transfigurator 1
Artifact (U)
{gp}, T: Add one mana of any color.
"It is of utmost importance to harvest even the most insignificant products, as even those can prove useful in the grand process of compleation."
—Phyrexian progress notes

Bonefire Guardian 4B
Creature — Skeleton (C)
Haste
2R: Bonefire Guardian deals 1 damage to each creature blocking it.
"Not 'bonfire', you dimwit! These things burn!"
—Syr Randal, the Bold
4/1

[mention]void_nothing[/mention] For the finals, may we provide the "How it helps the deck" section as I did?

Deck: Jeskai Angels feat. Feather, the Redeemed from Ixalan-Guilds of Ravnica Standard Angelic Spelldancer URW Creature — Angel (R) Flying, vigilance Tap two untapped Angels you control: Change the target of target spell with a single target unless that spell's controller pays 2 . There's nothing a...

[mention]void_nothing[/mention] Was there a mistake with the November finals?
Ink-Treader: 2x Top1
Me: 1x Top1 + 1x Top2
Subject16: 2x Top2

[mention]void_nothing[/mention] What about November finals?

[mention]Subject16[/mention] [mention]Gateways7[/mention] crits?

Stealing the template ;) The Draw: Top-down design with mediocre balance and flavor. Powerful on it's own, as it's likely to be a 5 for 1... 2 creatures, + 3 cards + 2 lootings. Pretty sick for 4 mana. Also, I'd expect that having Eldrazi blood would give the Skaab some destructive properties instea...

Just to make it clear, having a hard setup is only what I'd do.
An enough of a solution would be just to include a rarity in each challenge, so we don't have Rares vs Commons to compare. I would love to design more commons, but then I'd likely lose Appeal points.

I believe there's plenty of space for innovation at common, it just isn't as easy to use that space as it is with rares, where anything works.

I'd like to bring something up for discussion. Problem: Rares are the most common designs. Reason: Cards of higher rarity are more exciting, choosing a lower rarity than required means handicapping yourself. Proposed solution: Make MCC challenges always require a particular rarity. I'd personally go...