The DCC - September 15, 2019

[void_nothing]

Welcome to the DCC!
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How To Play

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How does this card-making game work? It's simple! Whenever your card receives a vote, you receive [1] point for the month. If your card ends up with the most votes for that day, you will receive [2] additional points for the month. In the event of a tie, each person who tied receives [1] additional point. At the end of each month, the person with the most points on the scoreboard wins that month, then the scoreboard is cleared for the next month. You can participate in as many or as few days as you want in any month.

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Rules

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• Each day you may post any card you want. On the next day all of the posted cards will be put into the thread as long as your card didn't get disqualified - see the next point for more details. If you post more than one card in a DCC thread, only the first card you post will be taken.
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Notes of the Day

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Hopefully getting about 10 hours of sleep.

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DCC Scoreboard

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Sagharri 43 (+2)
bravelion83 39 (+0)
emily 36 (+4)
slimytrout 35 (+3)
netn10 30 (+9)
RattingRots 29 (+0)
void_nothing 26 (+1)
Rithaniel 25 (+2)
shukkets 22 (+0)
Henlock 13
Ink-Treader 12
Krishnath 11 (+0)
Legend 6
marioguy3 4
kwanyeegor-ii 2

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Extremely good submissions today.

slimytrout, netn10

hms

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almost everyone:

bravelion83 (I think this works better as a keyword, and with a shorter period of time)

Also Krishnath, Rithaniel, Sagharri, emily

Gang Up XB
Instant (U)
Collective 1B (You may play this card for its collective cost. If you do, the value of X is determined by the number of creatures you control)
Target creature gets -X/-X until end of turn.

Votes: slimytrout, netn10

Honorable mentions

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emily, Sagharri

RattingRots

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Yes, I had considered various other options: making its own keyword, just using vanishing, and/or increasing the mana cost to 4W. But that card is supposed to come from one of my custom sets, private for now, and in that set both the mechanic being written out and the specific number being four make a lot of sense. Of course, you just couldn't know this, and it's hard to explain without saying more about that set and the story it's meant to tell. Maybe one day I will. I don't know.

As for your card for today, that's a neat idea, but unfortunately it doesn't work in the rules. Snow mana is not a type of mana you can add to your mana pool, it's just defined as "mana from a snow permanent".

If an effect would add mana represented by one or more snow mana symbols to a player's mana pool, that much colorless mana is added to that player's mana pool.

So that card is functionally the same as "Add CCC."

Honor the Ancestors 2G
Sorcery (U)
Return target card from your graveyard to your hand.
Jump-start (You may cast this card from your graveyard by discarding a card in addition to paying its other costs. Then exile this card.)
"Making mistakes of your own isn't a problem, but repeating ones that have already been made by your ancestors is. Honor their memory by learning from their experiences."

Note: "Target" prevents you from returning the card you discarded to jump-start.

Votes: netn10, Sagharri,

Demon Charm 1B
Instant (Common)
Choose one —
• Create a 0/1 black Serf creature token.
• Target Demon creature you control gets +2/+0 and gains menace until end of turn.
• Each player loses 2 life.

Votes: emily, netn10

Shadow of Appeasement
Creature - Spirit R
Flying
, Sacrifice two nontoken creatures: Creatures can't attack this turn.
"When I was alive, I fought against death. I was selfish. Now that I've crossed the barrier, I see what I did not then: Sacrifice is more necessary than we admit."
2/2

rithaniel, netn10

Fleeting Loyalties 4UU
Enchantment – Aura (M)
Enchant creature
You control enchanted creature
Exile Fleeting Loyalties: Take an extra turn after this one. Activate this ability only any time you could cast a sorcery.
In one second of hesitation, a lifetime can pass.

Votes: emily, void_nothing

Mortality 3BBB
Creature - Incarnation (R)
Deathtouch
All creatures lose indestructible and can't gain indestructible.
For as long as Mortality is on the battlefield or in your graveyard, non-Incarnation creature cards in all graveyards lose all abilities and can't leave their owner's graveyards.
6/6

Votes: slimytrout, emily

Mirran's Last Cause 4RW
Enchantment (Rare)
At the beginning of your upkeep, put a +1/+1 counter on each creature you control and a charge counter on each artifact you control.
Tap three untapped creatures and/or artifacts you control: Proliferate.
"We are the water that will separate the phyrexian oil from the innocent."

Votes: Rithaniel, netn10

Sanguine Chaplain 2WB
Creature — Vampire Cleric (R)
Lifelink
Other Vampire creatures you control get +1/+1 and have lifelink.
2WB, T: Sanguine Chaplain deals damage equal to its power to target creature. That creature becomes a Vampire in addition to its other types.
1/4

Votes: emily, netn10

Bajoko the Inane
Legendary Creature - Clown (Mythic Rare)
You may reveal Bajoko the Inane from your opening hand. If you do, each player loses 1 life, exiles a card at random from their hand, then draws a card at the beginning of your first upkeep.
Menace
4/4

Votes: Rithaniel, Sagharri

Mortus Agent 3B
Creature - Skeleton Assassin (R)
T: Destroy target creature with converted mana cost 3 or less.
1U: Return Mortus Agent to its owner's hand.
2/1

[bravelion83]

Votes: Rithaniel, slimytrout (both cards are elegant and mechanically interesting, to me at least, but I especially love their flavor)

Honorable mentions

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Lots of cards I liked today. A lot of the following HMs would just be regular votes most other days.
RattingRots, Krishnath, shukkets, netn10, emily

Surveillance Camera {U/B}{U/B}
Artifact (R)
U, T: Scry 2.
B, T: Surveil 2. (Look at the top two cards of your library, then put any number of them into your graveyard and the rest on top of your library in any order.)
"It shows you what's happening at present somewhere, but just pull a switch and it will show you the future. The Azorius commissioned it as a tool for their precognitive mages, but I think our guild can use it too. Lots of good blackmail material..."
—Vylez, Dimir inventor

[Krishnath]

Votes: emily, shukkets,

Blazeridge Geyser 1R
Instant (Common)
Domain — Blazeridge Geyser deals 1 damage to target creature for each basic land type among lands you control.

[Sagharri]

Votes: shukkets, Rithaniel

Grand Crusade RRWW
Tribal Sorcery - Knight (R)
Grand Crusade deals 3 damage to each non-Knight creature. Tap each creature dealt damage this way.
Unity - If you control three or more Knights, then destroy each non-Knight creature instead.

[RattingRots]

netn10, slimytrout

HM: bravelion83 (but I would personally make this card a bit more expensive or restrictive because it has some abusable modes now)

Mad Sandwalla 1R
Creature - Lizard (C)
Whenever you discard a card, ~ gets +1/+1 until end of turn.
1/2

EDIT: Changed votes after correctly reading cards.

[slimytrout]

rattingrots (love the card), rithaniel

RattingRots

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Happy to continue this in the discussion thread if you still disagree, but I think the "only any time you could activate a sorcery" rider makes this card much less busted. With that rider, it's very hard to engineer a situation where you get full value out of the creature *and* get to take an extra turn with it. Sacrificing it, attacking into blockers with it, having a removal spell pointed at it: all of those would lead to you losing the enchantment because you can't activate the ability in time. Obviously it's powerful, but so are many 6-mana mythics, and, from a constructed perspective, I think this card is actually substantially weaker than my cascade submission from a few days ago (and that card made you exile your hand!). In fact, this card isn't even strictly better than a 6-mana Time Warp, since it can be fizzled by your opponent's sacrifice or bounce.

Ancestral Delusions
Sorcery
Madness 1U (If you discard this card, discard it into exile. When you do, cast it for its madness cost or put it into your graveyard.)
Target player draws two cards.
"I found him in the pasture, raving about a towering city with enormous skyships and grand cathedrals."

[Rithaniel]

Votes: RattingRots, shukkets (might be worded as "can't have indestructible," judging from the wording on Arcane Lighthouse)

Atavistic Serpent
Creature - Snake R
As an additional cost to cast Atavistic Serpent, exile a Forest card from your hand.
Protection from blue and from black
: Atavistic Serpent gets +2/+2 until end of turn. Activate this ability only once each turn.
The old beasts of Ulurd are greedy and territorial. If they aren't given their own space to prowl, they will thrash and rebel until either they have their own space, or they die.
2/2

[shukkets]

Votes: rattingrots, marioguy3

Qartiz Engineer 2(u/r)
Creature - Human Artificer (U)
T: Put a +1/+1 counter on tatget artifact creature.
2/2

[netn10]

Votes: Krishnath, shukkets

Easily Intimidated B
Enchantment - Aura (Rare)
Enchant creature
Whenever enchanted creature is dealt damage, the controller of that source of damage gains control of enchanted creature.
Blood is the most common and yet the most expensive commodity in Grixis.

[emily]

Votes: RattingRots, shukkets

Reprogram 2RG
Instant (R)
Destroy target noncreature artifact. Create a colorless artifact creature token with power and toughness equal to the destroyed artifact's converted mana cost.
"I can even make it dance!"

[void_nothing]

Votes: RattingRots, marioguy3

Dual Recruitment 5UU
Enchantment - Aura (R)
Enchant creature
Whenever Dual Recruitment becomes attached to a creature, create a token that's a copy of that creature.
You control enchanted creature.