February CCL, Top 8: Enemies from the Eternities

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CCL February Top 8/Round 3

"Enemies from the Eternities"


Not of This World, taken from pucatrade.com, by Izzy and Wizards of the Coast

Welcome to the Card Creation League! Everyone is free to participate in either or both of the first two rounds. Come join us!

Theme

It's Classic Zendikar month in the CCL - a new Zendikar set will be released much later this year, which most everyone is excited for but which we know nothing (save for the name Zendikar Rising) about yet. So this month will be about the already established history and lore of Zendikar.

Challenge

Design two of the following: an Eldrazi Drone, an Eldrazi Processor, a legendary Eldrazi, and an Eldrazi with converted mana cost 7 or higher.

Clarifications

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• You can design cards that fit more than one of these requirements. Just make sure to note on each card which one it counts for.
• You can design creature or tribal cards.
• Make sure to include a rarity.

Contestants:
@jamblock
@slimytrout
@spacemonaut
@Ink-Treader
@Subject16
@netn10
@Henlock
@RaikouRider

Your submissions are due Friday, February 21st, 23:59 EST.

Schedule

• Round 1 — Open to Everyone (February 1st–7th)
• Round 2 — Open to Everyone (February 8th–14th)
• Rounds 1 and 2 Critiques (Due February 17th)
• Top 8 — Open to top 8 finishers (February 18th–21st)
• Top 8 Critiques (Due February 23rd)
• Top 4 — Open to top 4 finishers (February 24th–27th)
• Top 4 Critiques (Due February 29th)
• Final (March, winner determined by public poll)

[netn10]

An Eldrazi Drone

Feeder of Emptiness CCC
Creature - Eldrazi Drone (Rare)
You can't cast colored spells or artifacts.
Whenever you cast a spell, create three 1/1 colorless Eldrazi Scion creature tokens. They have "Sacrifice this creature: Add C".
4/4

An Eldrazi with converted mana cost 7 or higher.

Distorter of Perceptions 8
Creature - Eldrazi (Rare)
At the end of each turn, simultaneously untap all tapped creatures and tap all untapped creatures.
At the beginning of each player's upkeep step, that player puts the cards in their hand on the bottom of their library in any order, then draws that many cards.
To understand the Eldrazi, one must forget all meanings of "understanding".
8/8

[jamblock]

A Processor:

Consecrated Processor 4UU
Creature - Eldrazi Processor (R)
Devoid
Whenever an opponent draws a card, you may put a card that player owns from exile into their graveyard. If you do, you draw two cards.
6/6

An expensive one:

It That Consumes 7C
Legendary Creature - Eldrazi (R)
Trample
Whenever It That Consumes attacks, exile the top four cards of defending player's library. You may play those cards as long as they're exiled and you may spend colorless mana as though it were mana of any type to cast them.
8/8

[slimytrout]

All-Consumer 1B
Creature - Eldrazi Drone (U)
Devoid (This card has no color.)
Whenever All-Consumer deals damage to a creature, exile that creature.
When All-Consumer dies, exile all cards from target player's graveyard.
Ulamog's spawn hunger even in death.
1/2

Scream of the Ashmouth 8
Creature - Eldrazi Devil (R)
Emerge 5RR (You may cast this spell by sacrificing a creature and paying the emerge cost reduced by that creature's converted mana cost.)
When you cast this spell, creatures can't block this turn.
Double strike, haste
3/4

[Subject16]

An Eldrazi Processor

Emrakul's Harbinger 4R
Creature — Eldrazi Processor (Uncommon)
Devoid (This card has no color.)
Haste
When Emrakul's Harbinger enters the battlefield, you may put a card an opponent owns from exile into that player's graveyard. If you do, gain control of target creature until end of turn. Untap that creature. It gains haste until end of turn.
4/2


An Eldrazi with CMC 7 or greater

Sire of Starvation 6WW
Creature — Eldrazi (Mythic Rare)
Devoid
Vigilance
When you cast Envoy of Starvation, each player chooses an artifact, a creature, an enchantment, and a planeswalker from among the nonland permanents they control, then exiles the rest.
7/9

[RaikouRider]

Eldrazi CMC >= 7:

Whitewash 9
Tribal Sorcery - Eldrazi {M}
Exile all creatures, then create two 1/1 colorless Eldrazi Scion creature tokens for each nontoken creature exiled this way. They have "Sacrifice this creature: Add C."

Eldrazi Processor:

World Tromper X
Creature - Eldrazi Processor {R}
Spend only C to cast World Tromper.
As an additional cost to cast World Tromper, put X cards your opponents own from exile into their owners' graveyards.
Trample, hexproof from colored
World Tromper enters the battlefield with twice X +1/+1 counters on it.
0/0

[Ink-Treader]

Eldrazi Drone

Memoryplucker 1B
Creature - Eldrazi Drone (R)
Devoid (This card has no color.)
If an opponent would search their library, they reveal their library to you first. Choose a card revealed this way and exile it. When you exile a nonland card this way, create a 1/1 colorless Eldrazi Scion token. It has It has "Sacrifice this creature: Add C." (Then that opponent finishes searching their library.)
2/2

Eldrazi Processor

Emrakul's Formshaper 2CC
Creature - Eldrazi Processor (U)
Eldrazi you control get +1/+1.
T, Put X cards your opponents own from exile into their owner's graveyards: Put reshape counters on X target creatures. Those creatures are Eldrazi Scions in addition to their other types and have "Sacrifice this creature: Add C."
3/4

[Henlock]

Legion of Appendages 1wr
Creature - Eldrazi Drone (u)
When Legion of Appendanges attackes, create a colorless 1/1 Eldrazi Scion creature token with 'Sacrifice this creature: Add ." that's tapped and attacking.
Legion of Appendages gets +1/+0 for each attacking Eldrazi.
2/3

Limb of Ulamog g
Creature - Eldrazi Processor (r)
Devoid
Ingest
Trample
, Put one card an opponent owns from exile into its owner's graveyard: Put a +1/+1 counter on Limb of Ulamog.
1/1

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Round is closed! I think you all know what to do: Critique and provide a top 3 for every other contestant in the round.

[Ink-Treader]

jamblock

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Processor: A more balanced Consecrated Sphinx eh? Seems fine.
CMC 7+: That's quite powerful. Doesn't seem too out of hand with Etali, Primal Storm in mind.

slimytrout

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Drone: You know, I'm kind of surprised we didn't get any exiletouch Eldrazi. Seems fine.
CMC 7+: I like this. It's all but guaranteed to swing in a least once, and feels balanced at either cost.

Subject16

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Processor: Solid card.
CMC 7+: It's certainly flashy, but I don't know if it has to be mythic, although being a cast trigger does mean you'll often come out ahead in creatures, assuming you have a least one to begin with.

netn10

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Drone: That's quite a drawback, but also quite an upside. I wonder if it might be too good where it's intended.
CMC 7+: Certainly interesting, especially in multiplayer. Seems fine.

Henlock

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Drone: Seems fine. Maybe it could lose a point of toughness, or at least not count itself for the power boost.
Processor: Reminiscent of Scavenging Ooze. Trades off utility to get trample and a way to force its growth.

RaikouRider

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CMC 7+: A tribal card makes for an interesting answer to the challenge. I think getting two Scions per creature might be a bit much, depending on how one compares this to Plague Wind
Processor: That's one hell of a payoff. It has a lot of restrictions on its casting though. I wonder if it needs to mana restriction

Top 3

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1. slimytrout
2. Subject16
3. Henlock

[slimytrout]

netn10

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Feeder of Emptiness: This would be absolutely nuts in Eldrazi Tron, which produces tons of C and already runs a bunch of colorless spells. Definitely hard to run in other decks, but I would worry about a repeat of Eldrazi Winter.
Distorter of Perceptions: First ability could cleaner by just being "untap all tapped creatures and tap all other creatures." Would be a huge pain in multiplayer as creatures keep going back and forth every turn. Flavor text would probably not fit on the card and also I don't really get it.

jamblock

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Consecrated Processor: Fun reference to Consecrated Sphinx but way more balanced (just a 6-mana 6/6 unless you're exiling). Probably would have been more reasonable if it was a flyer as well (and had less power).
It That Consumes: Big flavor fail being legendary – not sure if it was a mistake, as nothing about this card says legendary. But otherwise quite fun.

Subject16

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Emrakul's Harbinger: Pretty clean and straightforward. Nothing revolutionary, but perfectly fine.
Sire of Starvation: This is basically just an Eldrazi version of Cataclysmic Gearhulk (the biggest difference being cast vs. ETB trigger). Not that I can't imagine that card being printed, but in the MCC it would get a 0.5/3 for uniqueness.

RaikouRider

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Whitewash: We could get into the semantics of whether a Tribal Eldrazi spell counts as "an Eldrazi" but it doesn't really seem worth it. Regardless, not really a fan of the name, which feels very un-Eldrazi, but otherwise a perfectly fine card.
World Tromper: Again, a pretty un-Eldrazi name. A pretty unusual card, which is very strong once you can cast it for X=3 or greater, but requires a good amount of setup. Hexproof from colored is fun, even if it's usually going to be pretty close to hexproof.

Ink-Treader

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Memoryplucker: Not sure why there isn't a space or a hyphen in that name. Kind of an odd card, since it doesn't actually lobotomize them, but rather just gets one copy, so usually won't affect searches except in true toolbox decks. Also, why the nonland restriction? Do you need an incentive not to thin your opponent's deck of lands?
Emrakul's Formshaper: A bit of a weird lord, which expects you to be playing it in a deck full of other non-Eldrazi. Also, probably not supposed to be pumping itself (otherwise it's definitely too strong at uncommon), but the current text would do so.

Henlock

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Legion of Appendages: Classic r/w limited uncommon, but Eldrazified. I like it.
Limb of Ulamog: Funnily enough, very similar to Longtusk Cub (and very likely a bit weaker), if you think about it. Given that comparison, not totally sure if this needs to be rare especially given the cost to activate the ability.

1. jamblock
2. Henlock
3. RaikouRider

[jamblock]

Whoops, definitely forgot to remove legendary…
Anyway:

critiques

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netn10: The drone, to me, has the issue that you're only going to play it if you're building around it but then if you ARE building around it it's busto! The Distorter is a real confusion creator (in a fun way) and I dig it though I might hate to play with against/it in a real game.
slimy: So it has exile-deathtouch, which is interesting, and the death trigger is interesting too. It weirdly feels a little too good at cost but only a LITTLE. It begs to be given the ability to ping. The expensive one is good, too, though I worry that it might just be too easily game-ending on an early turn when emerged in a red deck. Hard to know!
Subject16: The processor is a clean simple design, and I don't have a ton else to say about it. The Sire/Envoy is interesting. Based on cataclysmic gearhulk I don't question the effect existing, and the cost here is probably right, since it leaves you advantaged by a permanent.
Raikou: Whitewash is a hell of a card, potentially wiping the board and leaving yourself a giant token army and/or the means to play out your hand, but it does cost 9. Still, a dangerous set to effects. The tromper processor is a fun design. I think that maybe, since the exile requirement is already steep, it didn't need the only-colorless-mana requirement, and might have been better just costing XC.
Ink-Treader: That drone is some intense anti-tutor tech, and interesting in that it doesn't shut down tutoring in non-singleton formats, it just makes it at a disadvantage. I do wonder though if for being a rare the effect isn't a little narrow all on its own. The formshaper is interesting. The fact that is does multiple at once makes it feel like it should be ETB/cast, not repeatable, but it still works.
Henlock: The Legion not being devoid is bothersome to me, but I like the effect otherwise. The limb is a pretty interesting one too. I'm skeptical about it being rare given that without a bunch of setup you're gonna just have a weird 1/1 with trample.

Top 3:
1. Subject16
2. slimytrout
3. RaikouRider

[void_nothing]

Extending critiques until midnight EST tonight.

[Subject16]

Crits may come later, I'll post a top 3 anyway:

1) Slimytrout
2) Henlock
3) Ink-Treader

[Henlock]

Just top 3, sorry

1. slimytrout
2. netn10
3. jamblock

[void_nothing]

And the top 4 are:
slimytrout
Subject16
Henlock
jamblock

Round to come shortly.