The DCC - September 8, 2019

[void_nothing]

The DCC: 09/08/19

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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Notes of the Day

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Sorry for the delay.

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DCC Scoreboard

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bravelion83 20 (+4)
Sagharri 20 (+4)
emily 18 (+2)
void_nothing 16 (+0)
RattingRots 14 (+2)
Rithaniel 14 (+1)
slimytrout 14 (+4)
shukkets 11 (+4)
Henlock 7
Ink-Treader 7 (+4)
netn10 6 (+0)
Krishnath 6 (+1)
Legend 6 (+4)
marioguy3 4 (+0)
kwanyeegor-ii 2

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bravelion83, emily

Sylvan Pioneer 1G
Creature - Elf Druid (C)
When ~ enters the battlefield choose one:
-Put a land card from your hand onto the battlefield.
-Search your library for a basic land card, reveal it and put it into your hand.
1/1

Legend, Rattingrots

Agrarian Reform 1g
Sorcery (r)
kicker w
Search your library for a forest card and put it into the battlefield tapped. Then, if a player controls more lands than you and Agrarian Reform was kicked, search your library for a land card and put in onto the battlefield tapped.
Shuffle your library.

Votes: slimytrout, shukkets

Jealous Partner 2B
Creature — Human (U)
Soulbond (You may pair this creature with another unpaired creature when either enters the battlefield. They remain paired for as long as you control both of them.)
2B: Jealous Partner and the creature it's paired with each gain indestructible until end of turn.
"He's mine! Don't you dare do anything to him! Or to me, by the way."
2/2

Votes: shukkets, Legend

Notes

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A few notes on a couple of cards from yesterday:

marioguy3: Curse of Increasing Decay basically makes planeswalkers unplayable for the targeted player. But perhaps that was what you intended?

Rithaniel: Kloam is broken. A nearly free Hymn to Tourach on all your opponents on the first turn basically guarantees that you'll win since you get to choose what to get rid of from your hand, while your opponents don't. It would quickly get banned in all formats it would ever matter in.

void_nothing: While I appreciate love for the old poison givers, that spell is way undercosted considering just how easy it is for black to generate mana thanks to certain lands. In some formats you could easily get 20+ tokens with that CC. And that is not even accounting for things like Urzatron decks.

Now that I've gotten that off my chest, on to today's card!

Inexhaustible Resources G
Enchantment (Rare)
Whenever a you play a land, you may search your library for a basic land, reveal it, and put it into your hand. Then shuffle your library.

Votes: Ink-Treader, Sagharri

Emerald Field Scout 1W
Creature - Elf Scout C
w: Return Emerald Field Scout to its owner's hand.
w, Discard Emerald Field Scout: Return target creature you control to its owner's hand
2/2

legend, krishnath

Cabal City Pits
Plane – Dominaria
Whenever a creature is dealt damage, put a +1/+1 counter on it.
Whenever you roll (chaos), target creature you control fights another target creature.

vote: shukkets and Sagharri

Gattan, Eldritch Visionary UB
Legendary Creature - Zombie Wizard (R)
Whenever a player has an amount of cards in their library less than or equal to the amount of life less than their starting life total they have, they lose the game.
2, Put the top two cards of your library into your graveyard: Target creature gains lifelink and "When this creature deals combat damage to a player, that player puts that many cards from the top of their library into their graveyard."
2/2

Votes: bravelion83, Ink-Treader

Kolaghan's Lightning 1R
Tribal Enchantment - Dragon Aura (C)
Enchant creature
Flash
1R: Enchanted creature gets +1/+0 until end of turn.

Votes: slimytrout, Sagharri

Sparktongue Wyvern {U/R}{U/R}{U/R}
Creature — Drake (R)
Flying, haste
Adamant — When Sparktongue Wyvern enters the battlefield, if at least three blue mana was spent to cast it, draw a card. If at least three red mana was spent to cast it, it deals 2 damage to any target. (Do both if at least three mana of both colors was spent.)
2/2

Votes: RattingRots, Ink-Treader

Broken Reflection 1UB
Creature - Shapeshifter (R)
You may have Clone enter the battlefield as a copy of any creature on the battlefield except it enters the battlefield with -1/-1 counter on it.
0/0

Votes: Rithaniel, bravelion83

Honor-Bounded Ones WBG
Creature - Spirit (Rare)
Flying
At the beginning of your end step, if you control a Plains, a Swamp and a Forest, you may return Honor-Bounded Ones from your graveyard to the battlefield.
"Death can't separate our fathers and mothers from us."
- Dersha, Abzan Spiritcaller
3/3

Votes: slimytrout, emily

Manipulate Filigree U
Instant (C)
Counter target artifact spell or target spell that targets an artifact.
Plainscycling 2

[RattingRots]

emily, Sagharri

HM: netn10 (modern allstar right there )

Master Wrangler 2W
Creature - Human Cowboy (U)
1W, : Untap target attacking creature and remove it from combat.
0/3

[bravelion83]

Votes: Rithaniel, shukkets

Very brief comments on those two cards and honorable mentions

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• Rithaniel: it feels very strange to see a nongreen Elf, but I do like the card mechanically, and the idea of monowhite Elves makes me curious about how you would flavor them.
• shukkets: even though I do understand why they don't use it anymore, I have never had big problems with the Tribal card type personally.

Honorable mentions
• Sagharri: "You may have Clone etb..."? I guess it's a typo, like the lack of the article "a" before "-1/-1 counter". I really like the idea though, it's one of those cards that makes me go like: "Wait, this doesn't exist yet? Seriously?"
• Other honorable mentions: netn10, void_nothing.

Loot the Corpse 2BB
Instant (C)
Destroy target creature.
Investigate. (Create a colorless Clue artifact token with "2, Sacrifice this artifact: Draw a card.")
"Alright, my employer has been satisfied. Now let's see what this one had with themselves..."
—Zomart, mercenary assassin

[slimytrout]

henlock, shukkets

The upcoming return to Theros got me thinking about what a Roman-inspired set would look like, so the next few days worth of cards all spring from that:

Wary Centurion 2W
Creature – Ainok Soldier (U)
Legion – Whenever Wary Centurion attacks with at least one other Soldier, untap all attacking Soldiers. They get +1/+1 until end of turn.
"Keep your nostrils open. They could come from anywhere."
2/3

[Krishnath]

Votes: void_nothing, shukkets

Notes

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Tough one today. So many good cards.

Ink-Treader: I think I understand what the card does, if a player has less cards in their library than the difference between their starting life-total and their current life total they lose the game, if their current life total is less than their starting life total, right?. But damn if it isn't hard to grok at a first look at the card. I still like the card a lot, it's very interesting, reasonably costed, and entirely in color.

Anyway, on to today's entry

Vainglorious Bastard WB
Creature - Human Noble (Rare)
First strike
Whenever you cast a spell, you may pay 1. If you do, each opponent loses 1 life, and you gain life equal to the life lost.
2/1

Notes on the card

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It is the classical meaning of the word "Bastard". A noble person born out of wedlock.

[Rithaniel]

Votes: netn10, void_nothing

Comments/Replies

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• To bravelion83: I was originally going to add some flavor text to the card, but my attention was occupied elsewhere. The idea was essentially that of wood elves/high elves, with high elves living in the Emerald Fields and wood elves being the more traditional type of elves. To define them more than that, though, you would need a little backstory. First one that comes to mind is that a long time ago all of the elves were united in trying to preserve nature. Some sought to become conservationist and others sought to spread their message. These two factions eventually grew apart, with the conservationists becoming the woods elves and the message-spreaders becoming the high elves, who are now more concerned with inter-nation politics.
• Ink-Treader: You could have worded it as "Whenever a player's life total plus the number of cards in their library is less than or equal to their starting life total, they lose the game," which might make it easier to grok upon initial reading.
• shukkets: Reminds me of Ghitu Firebreathing. Also, I wish WotC would do more with Tribal. There is a lot of stuff to explore in it.

Xodhreh's Querier
Creature - Eldrazi Drone U
Kicker
If Xodhreh's Querier was kicked, it enters the battlefield with a +1/+1 counter on it.
: Tap target permanent. If Xodhreh's Querier has a +1/+1 counter on it, that permanent doesn't untap during its controller's next untap step.
Xodhreh seeks to understand the world before it, as any other child would.
3/2

[Ink-Treader]

vote: bravelion83 and Rithaniel

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Rithaniel: That's definitely better wording. I appreciate it.

Sequestered Existence WW
Enchantment - Aura (R)
Enchant player
Enchanted player and permanents they control have protection from enchanted player. This effect doesn't remove Sequestered Existence.
What good is it to have a thing if you can't hold it?

[shukkets]

Votes: slimeytrout, bravelion83

Pathokinesis URR
Instant (R)
Attacking creatures get -2/-0 until end of turn.
Each attacking creature deals 2 damage to their controller.

[emily]

Votes: slimytrout, void_nothing

Mutaflux Weird 1UR
Creature — Weird (U)
0: Mutaflux Weird becomes your choice of a 2/2 with flying, a 3/1 with haste, or a 4/5 with defender. Then it loses this ability. (This effect lasts indefinitely.)
3/3

[Sagharri]

Votes: netn10, shukkets

Improvised Weapon 2
Artifact - Equipment (U)
Equipped creature gets +2/+1.
Whenever an artifact is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, you may return Improvised Weapon from your graveyard to your hand.
Equip 1
One man's trash is another man's bane.

[netn10]

Votes: RattingRot, void_nothing

Dusk and Down, Duel Swords 4
Legendary Artifact - Equipment (Mythic)
Equipped creature has deathtouch and lifelink.
wb: Equipped creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.
wb: Equipped creature gains indestructible until end of turn.
Equip 2

[void_nothing]

Votes: Henlock, Rithaniel

Liege of Traitors 1WB
Creature - Skeleton Knight (R)
Whenever a nontoken creature dies, create a 1/1 black Skeleton Knight creature token with first strike.
1WB: Target creature gets your choice of +2/+1 or +1/+2 until end of turn. That creature gains lifelink until end of turn if it's a Skeleton. Untap that creature if it's a Knight.
2/2