The DCC - September 16, 2019

[void_nothing]

Welcome to the DCC!
If you have any questions or comments, feel free to post in the DCC Discussion Thread.

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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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Shin splints.

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DCC Scoreboard

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Sagharri 43
bravelion83 39 (+0)
slimytrout 37 (+2)
emily 37 (+1)
RattingRots 35 (+6)
netn10 31 (+1)
Rithaniel 28 (+3)
shukkets 28 (+6)
void_nothing 26 (+0)
Henlock 13
Ink-Treader 12
Krishnath 12 (+1)
Legend 6
marioguy3 6 (+2)
kwanyeegor-ii 2

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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

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.

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.

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.

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."

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

Votes: rattingrots, marioguy3

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

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.

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!"

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.

[slimytrout]

void_nothing, emily

Demanding Pitmaster 2G
Creature – Human Rogue (R)
At the beginning of your upkeep, target creature with the greatest converted mana cost among creatures you control fights target creature with the greatest converted mana cost among creatures you don't control.
"I think he has a fighting chance."
2/3

[RattingRots]

slimytrout, emily

HM: netn10 (I realize this has some symmetry and costs multiple cards most of the time, but I do think it's still overpowered for a player that has a plan for how to use it)

Soul Sucker 2B
Creature - Vampire (U)
Flying
Whenever ~ deals combat damage to a player, you draw cards and lose life equal to the damage dealt.
1/1

[bravelion83]

Votes: Krishnath, slimytrout

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shukkets (A typo: "tatget")

Scary Change 3UB
Enchantment — Aura (R)
Enchant creature
Enchanted creature has base power and toughness 5/5 and has flying, menace, and "Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, draw a card."
"Afraid of changes? I'll lift you of the burden of your fears. I will bring out your inner monster..."
—Ashiok

[marioguy3]

Votes: bravelion83, shukkets

Once Forgotten Goblin
Creature - Goblin (Uncommon)
Of Memory (You may exile this card from your hand. Whenever you cast a goblin spell, if Once Forgotten Goblin is in exile, put a retrieval counter on Once Forgotten Goblin. Then if there are three or more retrieval counters on Once Forgotten Goblin, remove all counters from Once Forgotten Goblin, then put Once Forgotten Goblin onto the battlefield.)
Haste
2/2

[Krishnath]

Votes: slimytrout, bravelion83

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Tough one today. Lots of good cards

I was going to post a green card today, but when inspiration strikes like a bolt from the heavens, you've got to heed it.

Explorer's Morion 1{B/G}
Artifact - Equipment (Rare)
Whenever the equipped creature attacks, it explores. (Reveal the top card of your library. Put that card into your hand if it's a land. Otherwise, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature, then put the card back or put it into your graveyard.)
Equip 2

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For anyone wondering, a Morion is a type of helmet used by the Spanish military during the renaissance. Most famously by the conquistadors.

[Rithaniel]

Votes: bravelion83, netn10

Shredding Forms 1WB
Instant R
Until end of turn, damage is dealt to creatures in the form of -1/-1 counters, and whenever a creature is dealt damage this turn, it's controller puts that many 1/1 colorless Bird creature tokens with flying onto the battlefield.
"Let them twist and lament and wish for an end to the conflict, so that they might rest. Yet let no rest come to them."
—Curse of the Cruel Ones

[Sagharri]

Votes: slimytrout, Rithaniel

Headless Goliath 1BB
Creature - Zombie Giant (U)
You may sacrifice two Zombies rather than pay Headless Goliath's mana cost.
Headless Goliath can't attack or block alone.
One more stitch would keep its head.
5/5

[shukkets]

Votes: slimytrout, netn10

The Gourmand's Supremacy 5BG
Sorcery
Exile all non-Elder creatures. For each creature exiled this way, create a Food token.

[emily]

Votes: slimytrout, netn10

Pull into the Abyss 3B
Instant (C)
As an additional cost to cast Pull into the Abyss, exile a creature card from your graveyard.
Target creature gets -X/-X until end of turn, where X is the exiled card's power.
"To the last I grapple with thee; from hell's heart I stab at thee; for hate's sake I spit my last breath at thee." — Herman Melville, Moby-Dick

[netn10]

Votes: emily, void_nothing

Ever-Changing Licid 1
Creature - Licid (Uncommon)
Changeling
Ever-Changing Licid is all colors.
2: Transform Ever-Changing Licid and attach it to target creature.
1/1
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Ever-Changing Identity
Tribal Enchantment - Aura Licid (Uncommon)
Enchant creature
Changeling
Enchanted creature has all creature types and is all colors.
2: Unattach Ever-Changing Identity and transform it.

[void_nothing]

Votes: Sagharri, shukkets

Shellminder Patroness 3RW
Creature - Dragon (R)
Flash
Flying, menace
Whenever a creature you control blocks, it gets your choice of +2/+0 or +0/+2 until end of turn. If that creature is a Dragon or Egg, it gets your choice of +7/+0 or +0/+7 until end of turn instead.
4/3