The bottom card of the planar deck is not public information, so you have to make it public information - and not just optionally like you suggest. All players at all times need to know the card type of all cards that you check, not just if one player decides to check. You are mixing pronouns. The t...

All you really need is five additional cards of french vanilla creatures with the ability in question - sleeved separately from the deck, then shuffle and pick one. Actually I'd consider preparing just that. Multiple copies for each keyword, so you can use the additional ones as reminders. If you wa...

The idea was that your opponent gets to choose between giving you a white-ish efficient weenie (2/2 for one) or a more black-ish evasive dude (1/1 unblockable). Since you cannot decide which you get, you get the worst of the two colors, so hybrid. I actually expected the unblockable creature in blac...

That use of partner with is clever. It feels black-red rather than black-green though.

Card of the Day 2019-08-18: >

Morph-Manifest-Flicker-Thing 3ug ? Enchantment If a face-down creature you control would be turned face up, you may instead exile it. For as long as they remain exiled, you may play cards exiled with ~ without paying their mana cost. Basically, it lets you cast your face down non-creatures and also...

Rootgrasp came from the Colourshift game and the challenge was Inquisition of Kozilek but mono-green, so I kind of went with the concept of discard being essentially pre-emptive destruction and went for a kind of Beast Within but in the hand approach. When it comes to game thread cards I'm happy to...

I see. Imagine I ask like this for each aspect of my card and the host responds "yeah, judges cannot reduce your points for that". Does that mean that I have guaranteed 25 points after that? I prefer to not live in a world like this, so bravelion's stance seems very reasonable for me. Any ...

Ngasama is a world of labyrinths - mighty wizards here like to build massive stone mazes full of monsters and deadly traps to make sure greedy adventurers won't take their treasures. However, the robberies happen surprisingly often - which makes other wizards to try even harder to protect their tre...

Yeah, the card was created as part of a whole batch of Ravnica-themed cards. I don't know whether the term warren is in usage on Ravnica though. Anyway that informed the choice of token. The whole batch of cards was adjusted towards the powerful end of the curve more often than not. Card of the Day ...

When I made the same batch words (at least undead and sea monster) I also could rely on precedence by Wizards of the Coast provided in Undead Slayer and Whelming Wave . More semi-official batch words once considered by them are mage (Cleric, Druid, Shaman and Wizard) and fighter (Knight, Soldier and...

Be aware that I'm not guaranteeing your judge (whoever it will be) will give you 2/2 in Main Challenge, they might say "it's a bend" and make a little deduction there. The whole point of asking for for clarification is to get an official stance and remove uncertainty for both judges and p...

Black and red differentiate themselves from each other in several ways e. g. -N/-N vs. direct damage to creatures, life loss vs. direct damage to players and "can't block" vs. "attacks each combat if able" etc. Nevertheless on hybrid cards such effectively similar abilities often...

Ngasama is a world of labyrinths - mighty wizards here like to build massive stone mazes full of monsters and deadly traps to make sure greedy adventurers won't take their treasures. However, the robberies happen surprisingly often - which makes other wizards to try even harder to protect their tre...

Dwarven Tank 3 Artifact — Vehicle (U) Indestructible Crew 4 (Tap any number of creatures you control with total power 4 or more: This Vehicle becomes an artifact creature until end of turn.) Only creatures with power 2 or less can crew Dwarven Tank. Horse power? Well, not exactly... 6/4 Dwarven Tan...

Neat. I suppose, I'll have to add Commune with the Troops to Commune with the Depths and Commune with the Dead. : )

Troops are an interesting not obvious choice, but I could see it. I'm not a fan of all the activated abilities.

Ngasama is a world of labyrinths - mighty wizards here like to build massive stone mazes full of monsters and deadly traps to make sure greedy adventurers won't take their treasures. However, the robberies happen surprisingly often - which makes other wizards to try even harder to protect their tre...

Card of the Day 2019-08-15: >

Some good discussion, let me add my perspective on it by elaborating on how I figured this card is appropriate to hybrid. From my point of view hybrid effects are allowed to do things if for each color it is something that the color could do, but less. We often see this applied by taking away option...

The context is indeed giving rebound to Azorius themed as persistence of the law or from an outsiders perspective the annoying repetitiveness of of bureaucracy. At some point I surmised that an Azorius spell mechanic would make instants and sorceries more "lasting" and enchantment-like and...

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Card of the Day 2019-08-13: >

Scepter of Prosperity seems like it would incite inaction - not a play pattern you want to encourage.

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Card of the Day 2019-08-11: > Boundless Desire UBRG Sorcery (R) As an additional cost to cast ~ discard X cards and pay X life. Put X +1/+1 counters on target creature, then draw a number of cards equal to that creatures power. You continue to reach for the stars, but I won't rest until I have reac...

Why do these exile to transform? The creatures that flip into planeswalkers did so, because that's an easy and flavorful hack to get loyalty counters on them. Here simply transforming seems like the correct choice. The Vault could just untap or not have the tap symbol in the mana cost. For similar r...