New Challenge Every Day - August 18th: Bonds

[starjake]

Welcome to New Challenge Every Day!

Today's Challenge:
Bonds (the dual-guild "Bond of _____" cards from War of the Spark)

.::To Enter::.
In a single post:

• Name exactly two other players to vote for their entries for the previous challenge. (In the event that there are two or less entries that you are allowed to vote for, you may vote for only one.)

• Make a card that fits the current challenge.

• Include an "If I Win" (IIW) for tomorrow's challenge if you win.

Each day we use the challenge of the previous day's winner. In the case of a tie, we'll use the IIW of the tied player who has least overall points.

.::Scoring::.
Votes you receive each day go to your points for the duration of the contest (currently planned to end on Sat Aug 31, at which time the points will reset for the next month). The top overall scorer(s) at the end of this period will be the winner(s).

Raptorchan: 16 (2)
slimytrout: 14 (5)
starjake: 11 (7)
Subject16: 11 (4)
Henlock: 10 (1)
void_nothing: 9 (2)
Legend: 9 (0)
folding_music: 8 (1)
Krishnath: 7 (0)
kwanyeegor-ii: 5 (0)
ForestsCarl: 0 (0)
BOVINE: 0 (0)

.::Note of the Day::.
Not sure if everyone loving Strategist of the Meek means it's a good card or obscenely overpowered...

Also, (thanks to void_nothing for showing this) apparently the most official wording for "shuffle your graveyard" is "reorder your graveyard at random", as indicated by the oracle text for Search for Survivors. There are no oracle texts I could find saying "shuffle your graveyard" that didn't involve shuffling it into your library. I've updated everyone's verbiage appropriately. Not sure why Wizards would bother with verbiage like that, but they're the boss I guess.

.::Yesterday's Submissions::.
Graveyard Shuffling

Tomb Tiller
Artifact (U)
, , Put the top two cards of your library into your graveyard: Reorder your graveyard at random, then return the top card of your graveyard to your hand.

IIW: Casting cost with two or more different hybrid mana costs

Janimedes, Proctor of Renewal
Legendary Creature - Human Wizard (M)
At the beginning of your upkeep, you may shuffle a permanent card from your graveyard into your library, then reveal the top card of your library. If that card has the same name as the card that was shuffled into your library this way, put it onto the battlefield. Otherwise, put it into your hand.
2/2

IIW: Flying support without flying

Tombclasp
Sorcery (R)
Reorder your graveyard at random, then exile the top four cards. Your opponent chooses one of those cards. Add that card to your hand, then your opponent loses X life, where X is the total converted mana cost of the other cards exiled this way.
(honorary Weatherlight watermark)

IIW: Jewelry

Restore Runes
Instant (R)
Multikicker (You may pay an additional any number of times as you cast this spell.)
Cast this spell only if three or more enchantment cards are in your graveyard.
Shuffle all enchantment cards in your graveyard into a facedown pile, then reveal the top card of that pile and put it into your hand. Repeat this process once for each time this spell was kicked. Exile the remaining cards.

IIW: Bringing Buyback Back

Plundered Histories
Sorcery
Reorder target opponent's graveyard at random. Exile X cards from it face down, then that player shuffles their graveyard into their library. For as long as those cards remain exiled, you may look at them, you may play them, and you may spend mana as though it were mana of any type to cast them.
"The past belongs to me."

IIW: Entwine/Escalate

Warden of the Tombs
Creature - Spirit (R)
Flash, flying
If a card would be moved from a graveyard to any zone other than the library, its owner shuffles that card into their library instead.
"I guard the buried, and I will not allow their rest to be disturbed."
1/3

IIW: "You win the game"/"Target player loses the game"

Qarsi Smuggler
Creature - Naga Rogue
Qarsi Smuggler has hexproof in all zones.
Whenever Qarsi Smuggler is put into your graveyard from your library, you may shuffle it and up to one other target card from your graveyard into your library.
2/4

IIW: Three colored three mana cards.

Graveyard Rioter
Creature - Goblin (R)
Whenever Graveyard Rioter deals combat damage to a player, you may discard a card. If you do, reorder that player's graveyard at random, Until end of turn, you may play the top card of that graveyard, and you may cast it without paying its mana cost.
1/1

IIW: A new keyword mechanic for Selesnya (since Convoke was repeated).

Shaman of Cycles
Creature - Human Shaman (R)
If a player would draw a card while no cards are in their library, that player shuffles their graveyard and all cards they own in exile into their library instead.
2/2

IIW A new Hatebear

Series of Hallucinations
Sorcery (R)
Shuffle your graveyard into your library. Each opponent discards a card for each card shuffled into your library this way.

IIW: legends

Makhdahyndar, the Grisly Chance
Legendary Creature - Zombie Wizard (R)
Flying
, Discard a card: Exile target card from a graveyard.
, : Shuffle your library and reorder your graveyard at random, then reveal the top card of your library and choose a card in your graveyard at random. If they're both nonland cards that share a card type, you may cast them without paying their mana costs and repeat this process. Otherwise, creatures you control get +2/+0 until end of turn.
His name means "He For Whom the Stars Align."
3/1

IIW: Alaran shard-flavored legends

Editor's note: Thanks for telling us what it means. Now tell us how to pronounce it @_@

[Cardz5000]

please don't edit my cards: hexproof only functions on the battlefield, even though cards still have hexproof when they aren't on the battlefield, they can still be targeted in the graveyard. Qarsi Smuggler needed the specific wording I used to give it a Underworld Cerberus type effect for itself.

[starjake]

Well, something needs to be different, because how you had it worded before made it sound like the "in any zone" clause applied to the spells and abilities your opponents control, not to Qarsi Smuggler.

How about "Qarsi Smuggler can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control (even if this card isn't on the battlefield).", similar to the oracle text for Mistform Ultimus?

[void_nothing]

You don't need to take it upon yourself to reword contestants' cards. In fact, you really should not do that at all - if someone makes a wording error or typo or formats their cards in a way that you don't, then you should still let it stand.

[slimytrout]

Cardz5000 (was about to append a note saying I didn't know exactly what "hexproof in all zones" would mean in practice but I still liked the idea enough to vote for it), Subject16

Bond of Vitality 2G
Instant
Target creature you control gets +X/+X until end of turn, where X is the number of creatures you control. It fights target creature you don't control.
"The clans might not appreciate jasmine-infused herbal tea, but they certainly appreciate the power of nature."

IIW: multicolor sagas

[Raptorchan]

Votes: Legend, Krishnath

Bond of Utility ww
Sorcery (U)
As an additional cost to cast Bond of Utility, sacrifice any number of creatures. Creatures you control get +1/+1 for each creature sacrificed this way.
"We may have different views on what to do with our allies, but we can agree that having them is always helping."

IIW: More counters on permanents

[Krishnath]

Votes: slimytrout, Henlock

Bond of Compatriots
2GW
Instant (Rare)
Buyback 3GW
Creatures you control get +1/+3 and gain banding and vigilance until end of turn.

(Banding is secondary in green, and vigilance is shared among them.)

IIW: Non-red dragons

[Subject16]

I second/third the editing point. If our wording is off that's on us. Feel free to point it out before the next day if you want, but if you make changes without permission you may be making the card function differently without knowing.

Votes: starjake, Henlock

Bond of Destruction 4R
Sorcery (Uncommon)
Destroy up to two target artifacts and/or lands.
Whether it's an experiment gone wrong or a violent act against civilization, goblins love a good explosion.

IIW: Ninjas

[folding_music]

votes: Raptorchan, Krishnath

Bond of Excruciation, 4BB
Sorcery (U)
All creatures get +2/-2 until end of turn. Whenever a creature dies this turn, its controller loses one life and you gain one life.
"Well, at least we agree on the whip. Why don't you use it on me first?" - Judith

IIW: storage counters

[Henlock]

Bond of Restoration 3w
Sorcery (u)
Return target enchantment card from your graveyard to the battlefield. Each player puts three cards from his or her graveyard in the bottom of his or her ibrary in any order.

IIW: A new hatebear

[kwanyeegor-ii]

raptorchan voidnothing

Bond of Feints 3R
Sorcery (Uncommon)
Gain control of target equipment and attach it to target creature you control. Until end of turn, that creature gains "Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, exile that many cards from the top of your library and you may play those cards until the end of your next turn"
"At times like these tricks should be employed in the theater and in battle"

iiw serf tokens

Henlock dont forget to vote!!