The DCC - November 14, 2019

[void_nothing]

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How To Play

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Rules

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Notes of the Day

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Weekend can't come soon enough.

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DCC Scoreboard

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Rithaniel 31 (+7)
RattingRots 27 (+0)
bravelion83 26 (+1)
netn10 24 (+2)
void_nothing 23 (+1)
Koopa 22
slimytrout 22 (+2)
Gateways7 22 (+3)
Sagharri 16
Henlock 14
wizyard 3 (+3)
kwanyeegor-ii 3
FoilSquared 3
Legend 1
marioguy3 0

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Votes: netn10, wizyard

Longing for Love 1RR
Enchantment — Aura (R)
Enchant an unpaired creature you control
Enchanted creature has soulbond.
When Longing for Love enters the battlefield, you may pair enchanted creature with another unpaired creature you control.
Whenever enchanted creature or the creature it's paired with becomes the target of a spell or ability with a single target, if that spell or ability could target the other creature, copy it. The copy targets the other creature.

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See yesterday's card (Hunt for Knowledge) for inspiration.

If you don't want to go back, I'll repeat it here: it's the song "The Suffering" by Lagwagon, from their latest album "Railer", that just came out last month. The song is built around a speech by Bertrand Russell where he talks about the three passions that have governed his life, and I feel like they also govern my own life.

This is the second passion of Bertrand Russell's life (and mine). Hunt for Knowledge (yesterday's card) was the first.

This is a cycle of four cards: the three passions of Russell (and mine) plus a fourth card that puts them all together. I've already designed all four of them. This is card 2/4 in the cycle.

In each of the four cards I'm intentionally trying to push the boundaries in different ways. If you've read my posts in the MCC discussion thread, I'm trying to learn to do what Icarii (and others, but in that thread I was talking with him) usually do. I'm a person that naturally always plays in his comfort zone. I have to learn to venture out of it, and this four-card cycle is my current attempt.

Today I'm trying a new use for soulbond. The fact that the last ability also triggers from your opponents (not just you) targeting either creature is totally intentional. It's meant as the risk of playing this card. There's no room in the M15 frame for either soulbond's reminder text, or flavor text, which would be:
"Don't worry, darling. We're in this together!"

netn10, Rithaniel

Minister of Tides uu
Creature - Merfolk Cleric (r)
Whenever a basic island enters the battlefield under your control, add , spend this mana only to cast Merfolk spells.
2/2

I like almost all of these conceptually, but a lot are a bit too overpowered IMO. I might try to comment on some more if I get time.

Votes: slimytrout, Gateways7 (EDIT: Thought about this some more and I don't think it's OP)

Educated Guess 1UU
Sorcery (C)
Return up to one target instant card from your graveyard to your hand.
Draw a card.

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netn10- basically echoing slimytrout. This card is ridiculously strong. I think it's probably too good even at 1UR.

Rithaniel- I think five soldiers is too many at this cost. The flexibility of being able to just use this to end the game if your opponent is at low life or you have other creatures, and also gets to just make 5 tokens for five and put you way ahead inn the life total race in all other cases (which is likely above rate even just for that scenario).

wizyard- This is costed fine. I think the ability requiring exactly 3 colors could create some frustrating situations. I get trying to specifically reward three color strategies for shards, but I think the tradeoff is probably too steep.

wizyard, gateways7

hm: netn10. I love the name, but the card is busted as hell. Absurd with snapcaster in basically all formats. Think about how much stronger Electrolyze is than Twin Bolt, and then picture a card that's that about much stronger than Lightning Bolt.

Scrapyard Shaman 2R
Creature – Goblin Shaman (R)
Nonland cards in your hand have cycling 3.
"Trash, garbage, rubbish… SHINY!"
2/2

Votes: wizyard, Rithaniel

Polar Vortex
Legendary Enchantment (Mythic Rare)
Shroud
Lands don't untap during each player's untap step. Whenever a land you control becomes tapped for mana, it taps for colorless instead.
Activated abilities of artifacts you control can't be activated.

Votes: Rithaniel, void_nothing

By The Book 3WU
Instant (Rare)
Return all creatures to their owners' hands. Players can't cast creature spells this turn.
Addendum — If you cast this spell during your main phase, instead return all creatures your opponents controls to their owners' hand. You opponents can't cast creature spells until your next turn.
The law is always fair, but its consequences aren't.

wiyzard, Rithaniel

Qann, Ancient Primality UBRG
Legendary Creature - Elemental (mythic)
Trample
During each of your turns, you may play up to one multicolored card from your graveyard.
Whenever a multicolored creature you control dies, draw a card.
4/4

Render!

Votes: bravelion83, slimytrout

Winds of Death 1wbg
Sorcery R
Each player chooses a card in their graveyard. Exile all cards not selected this way from that your opponent's graveyards. Each other player returns the card they selected to their hand.
"Winds are difficult to read. A breeze might be a soul leaving this coil to join the afterlife, or it might be a soul seeking a new body."
—Yuasha, Skara soothsayer

Votes: Rithaniel, Gateways7

Damning Voice 3BB
Instant (C)
Exile target enchantment, planeswalker, or Angel you don't control. Its controller loses 1 life.
"Mourning alone is agony. That is why I punish you: So I have your tears for company." - Caligina, fallen archangel

[bravelion83]

Votes:
slimytrout (I love both the mechanics and the flavor!)
RattingRots (I've had to check that this card doesn't actually exist. I don't usually do that in the DCC. The fact that I had to do it here must mean it's good and definitely worthy of my vote)

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netn10 (I really like the card, but the little details caused me to vote for the other two. "Addendum" should be in italics, and "your opponents controls" is a clear typo.)

Unbearable Pity WB
Instant (R)
You lose half your life, rounded up. Creatures you control that are blocking or blocked get +X/+X until end of turn, where X is the life you lost this turn.
"I wish I could solve by myself all the problems of the world, hunger, poverty, wars, you name them... but I can't! Why do I wish? Because if all other people are happy, I am happy too, and I want to be happy! All I can do is just trying, but it's really just too much for a single being."
—Jeff Lionheart

Notes

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See past cards (Hunt for Knowledge and Longing for Love) for inspiration.

If you don't want to go back, I'll repeat it here: it's the song "The Suffering" by Lagwagon, from their latest album "Railer", that just came out last month. The song is built around a speech by Bertrand Russell where he talks about the three passions that have governed his life, and I feel like they also govern my own life.

This is the third passion of Bertrand Russell's life (and mine). Hunt for Knowledge and Longing for Love were the first two.

This is a cycle of four cards: the three passions of Russell (and mine) plus a fourth card that puts them all together. By yesterday, I had already designed all four of them. This is card 3/4 in the cycle. Last one tomorrow.

In each of the four cards I'm intentionally trying to push the boundaries in different ways. If you've read my posts in the MCC discussion thread, I'm trying to learn to do what Icarii (and others, but in that thread I was talking with him) usually do. I'm a person that naturally always plays in his comfort zone. I have to learn to venture out of it, and this four-card cycle is my current attempt.

Today's card is the closest to traditional Magic of the four. I wanted it to cost two mana and be WB (you'll see tomorrow why). I felt like being WB fit the concept very well. This is pity for mankind, thus making mandink stronger thanks to your pity and care for it. It's mankind in Russell's quote, but all your creatures and not just Humans here for simplicity of play. And it's unbearable, it makes you suffer (which it actually does, I can testimony this), and what's one of the ways to show suffering in Magic? Life loss, which by the way should also help for balance. And I wanted to be splashy, and "lose half your life" should definitely be. Also, I say "blocking or blocked" because I don't want this to play like: turn 1, cast any random unblockable creature (probably something like a 1/1 with flying), turn 2 cast this and get the creature unblocked, dealing combat damage equal to ten plus the creature's base power, so probably 11 or 12 damage by turn two. I didn't want that, so I restricted this to work only when the creatures are involved in combat with other creatures. The phrase "blocking or blocked" also gives very few results on Gatherer, so apparently that's kinda pushing the boundaries too.

This is, like all four cards in the cycle, a top-down card designed from the name. I don't feel safe about it, like the other cards of the cycle. And that's exactly why I'm posting these cards in these days. I'm trying to see what happens when I willingly get out of my comfort zone. In two days I'll definitely be back to "into the box" territory, but first I want to see how this experiment goes.

You will have to wait for my next custom story and set, if I'll ever make them public, to meet Jeff again. But in the meantime, enjoy him trying to save the world but obviously not being able to. As a character, he would totally like to be able to save the world. Not being able to do it is definitely unbearable to him. And let's also put this in: Jeff is Naya in colors. This is a black card with flavor text from a nonblack character, but a flavor text that still totally feels WB to me while also fitting Jeff's character quite well.

[marioguy3]

Votes: Gateways7, slimytrout

Antarctica
Legendary Land - Continent (Mythic Rare)
, Pay 3 life: Add one mana of any color.
Whenever a creature attacks you, if that creature's controller has more life than their starting life total, that creature doesn't untap during its controller's next untap step

[wizyard]

Henlock, bravelion83

[mention]bravelion83[/mention] that doesn't work within the rules, see Dream Leash for formating. since it says 'enchant unpaired' if it pairs with something at any point it'll fall right off

[Henlock]

slimytrout, Gateways7

Arbitrary Taxation w
Enchantment (r)
As Arbitrary Taxation enters the battlefield, name a card other than a basic land.
Whenever an opponent plays a card with the chosen name, draw a card.

[netn10]

Votes: Henlock, slimytrout

Hallowed Light4WW
Creature - Avatar (Rare)
Mirrored 4BB (You may cast the other face of this card for 4BB)
At the beginning of your upkeep, each player draws a card.
Hallowed Light's power and toughness are each equal to the number of cards in the hand of the opponent with the most cards in hand.
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Hollowed Darkness 4BB
Creature - Avatar (Rare)
Mirrored 4WW (You may cast the other face of this card for 4WW)
At the beginning of your upkeep, you draw a card and you lose 1 life.
Hallowed Light's power and toughness are each equal to the number of cards in your hand.
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[slimytrout]

henlock, rattingrots

Replicating Helm 2
Artifact – Equipment (U)
Equipped creature gets +1/+0 and has vigilance.
Whenever equipped creature dies, create a token that's a copy of Replicating Helm.
Equip 2

[Gateways7]

slimytrout, voidnothing

Ravage of Anguish 1B
Instant (uncommon)
Morbid — If a creature died this turn, destroy target creature.
Parting is such sweet sorrow.

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[Rithaniel]

Votes: slimytrout, void_nothing

Revised Wording

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I screwed up the wording on yesterday's card. So I decide to redo it entirely:

"For each player, that player chooses a card in their graveyard. Then, if that player is an opponent, exile all other cards from that graveyard. Otherwise, that player returns that card to their hand."

Crack in the Mind
Sorcery R
Target player may pay any amount of life. Then that player puts the top X cards of their library into their graveyard, where X is their life total.
The Cult of Jia specializes in forcing people to make impossible decisions.

[RattingRots]

netn10, Gateways7

Develop 2G
Instant (U)
Draw a card.
You may put a permanent card with converted mana cost 2 or less from your hand onto the battlefield.

[void_nothing]

Votes: netn10, Gateways7

Shrieking Battering Ram R
Creature - Spirit Juggernaut (R)
As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a Skeleton or pay 5.
Shrieking Battering Ram attacks each combat if able.
When Shrieking Battering Ram dies, target player sacrifices a nonbasic land.
6/1