Yoshry, Arena Groundskeeper 1GU Legendary Creature — Merfolk Druid (R) Vigilance Yoshry, Arena Groundskeeper enters the battlefield with a +1/+1 counter on it for each color among permanents your team controls. T , Remove a +1/+1 counter from Yoshry: Target player draws a card. "Like the compe...

Love to see the increased participation this month -- I can drop out to judge if that would be helpful.

Bane of Despots 2WW Creature — Spirit Rebel (C) Dethrone (Whenever this creature attacks the player with the most life or tied for most life, put a +1/+1 counter on it.) Whenever you put a +1/+1 counter on Bane of Despots, it gains flying and indestructible until end of turn. "I cannot rest un...

bravelion83 I am also curious about what the level of strictness is on subchallenge 1, since as haywire so aptly demonstrated above there are always going to be corner cases. Does the card I submitted satisfy it? It generally can't be solved on the turn it's played, but obviously the existence of c...

Case of the Blank Pages 1UR Enchantment — Case (R) As long as this Case entered the battlefield this turn, if an ability you control would trigger, instead you draw a card, then discard a card. To solve — You drew three or more cards this turn. (If unsolved, solve at the beginning of your end step....

Sorry for the tardiness. You definitely don't need to apologize -- you're ahead of the deadline, so you'd be within your rights to keep editing until 11:58. the reason I rather not get into online in public. Just so you know for the future, there's no requirement to provide a reason when asking for...

Duplicitous Duplication 1UR Sorcery (R) Suspect target creature you don't control. For each creature suspected this way, create a token that's a copy of it, except it has haste and "At the beginning of the end step, exile this permanent." Overload 4UURR (You may cast this spell for its ov...

bravelion83 I understand what you're saying here, but I think it goes against the text of the subchallenge as it currently stands: usually worded as "suspect target/a creature an opponent controls" Obviously the "target creature" part is clear enough, but if you allow the suspec...

Lady Alysane Mormont 1G Legendary Creature — Human Noble (U) Vigilance Noble Heir (Whenever another Noble you control dies, you may exile it. Lady Alysane Mormont gets +1/+1 for each card exiled this way and has their activated abilities.) 1G, T : Target creature gets +X/+0 until end of turn, where...

Persistent Mossdog 2BG Creature — Plant Dog (R) Whenever Persistent Mossdog attacks, you may sacrifice a nonland permanent or discard a nonland card. If you do, double Persistent Mossdog's power until end of turn. At the beginning of your upkeep, if Persistent Mossdog is in your graveyard, collect ...

I have to be honest, bravelion83 , I think that Subchallenge 1 requires considerably more rules knowledge than it is appropriate to ask of competitors, especially since it is only round 2 and not the finals. I have been trying to write a post to help people understand the difference between a cost, ...

Milge, Graverobber 2BR Legendary Creature — Imp (R) Flying, haste Whenever Milge, Graverobber attacks, exile all creature cards from all opponents' graveyards face down. Create a Treasure token. Whenever Milge, Graverobber deals combat damage to a player, choose a card at random exiled with Milge, ...

Rangers of the Watch 1WB Creature — Human Soldier Ranger (R) Squad— 1 , Exile a non-Soldier creature you control or a non-Soldier creature card from your graveyard. (As an additional cost to cast this spell, you may pay its squad cost any number of times. When this creature enters the battlefield, ...

One thing that I will note is that when I've run the contest in the recent past with only two judges, I have cut from ~10->8->4->2 rather than ~10->8->6->3, which I think has two advantages: 1) it increases the stakes of round 2 since it feels more likely that you will get eliminated, and 2) it decr...

Robert's Rebellion 1RW Enchantment — Saga (R) (As this Saga enters and after your draw step, add a lore counter. Sacrifice after III.) I — For each opponent, choose up to one target creature that player controls. For as long as Robert's Rebellion remains on the battlefield, gain control of those cr...

Missing a p/t on the back. The treasure production is a bit random, but the vehicle theme is fun if very hard to trigger -- seems like Magda, Brazen Outlaw is mostly better at the things this wants to do. I find it a little weird to theme a card around WotC's retcons, but I do really like the trans...

Ned Stark 2WW Legendary Creature — Human Noble (R) Hand of the King — You may look at the top card of your library any time. You may cast legendary spells from the top of your library. Lord of Winterfell — Whenever Ned Stark or another legendary creature enters the battlefield under your control, t...

Fblthp, Disoriented U Legendary Creature — Homunculus (R) When Fblthp, Disoriented enters the battlefield, reveal the top card of your library. If it's a land card, put it into your hand and return Fblthp to its owner's hand. Otherwise, you may put that card into your graveyard. 2UB , Exile three o...

I am not going to speak for other contest hosts, or cast aspersions on their choices (again, I think a lot of this can be settled with a poll after the month is complete), but I don't want people to think that mind games are necessary. When I have hosted I have always set challenges and subchallenge...

I think folks are maybe mistaking what is meant by "type" in this challenge? Both of the above entries fit the challenge because they're creatures on both faces, but I believe they don't need to share creature types if you don't want them to. Rakdos Raid 2{b/r} Battle — Skirmish (U) (As a ...

I mean, it's a really fun idea, but the effects are going to be on so little of the time that it almost feels like trinket text. In total those three planes make up almost 10% of existing planes, but mostly that's Dominaria -- Kaldheim has two planes and Tarkir only has 1 out of 139 printed. There ...

I think that while this request might seem reasonable on its face, it's actually like asking for a list that says "which abilities are appealing to Timmies?" Could a person write up such a list? Given enough time, probably. Would there be differences of opinion on that list? Definitely. Ex...

Do you have any advice for how to stay enthused all the way through making a custom set? I can't be the only one who has started a project while the ideas feel fun and exciting, designed the mechanics and some splashy rares or signpost uncommons, and then kinda sputtered out as the full scope of des...

1. Mystical is overdoing it, instead, I'd just allow Lesson on non-spells, end of changes. If that is not a minor change, I don't know what is. 2. If we can't make cards that require CR changes, are new mechanics entirely banned in MCC? I don't like where this is heading. 1. I guess we're just goin...