Gateways7: Eldritch Discord – You might be aware that I like the ability copying part
. I'm not totally sure why this is legendary, or why it's red (other than that the inspiration seems to be
Vaevictis Asmadi, the Dire, but he gets to be red cuz he's a dragon). Render art is pretty dope though.
Ink-Treader: Drawn from Dread – This kinda reminds me of
Recurring Nightmare, in that it's a repeatable reanimation effect that's very difficult to interact with. In fact, it might even be more difficult, since countering it doesn't do much, so you basically need graveyard hate. Obviously, the Horror/Nightmare restriction, the temporary tokens, and the unearth exile clause make the card a lot weaker, so good job making it not busted, but I still think it would have been better to beef up the effect and just add a self-exile clause if it's cast from the graveyard, a la flashback. Without that clause, it definitely shouldn't be uncommon.
netn10: Silencing Presence – Cool card, but I think it might lead to a lot of confusion. You can't respond to spells in time to make the cast trigger go off, but I have the feeling people might go "Oh, I have 3 Eldrazi and they cast a 4-drop, so I'll just make a token to counter it." I do like that it lets you adjust the number so you can cast your own spells. In fact, I think an Eldrazi-sacrifice ability (perhaps with a corresponding increase in CMC) might have made it appeal even more to both Johnnys and Spikes, and probably would have gotten it into my T3.
Raptorchan: Stitcher's Duty – Another fun card. My one complaint is that the way it works doesn't feel entirely zombie-like to me. Like, why is a zombie card only filling up your graveyard with lands? Compare it to, say,
Cellar Door, which cares about creatures getting put in graveyards, which is typical zombie flavor. But I otherwise like it a lot.
barbecube: Merciless Banquet – Strong card, makes combat math really hard for your opponent, especially if you have any vampires. Fairly flavorful just with name and abilities, but would have loved some juicy flavor text.
spacemonaut: Fright Knight – I like the card a lot, feels very flavorful and fun. However, it seems like you (and maybe some of the other judges?) missed that the challenge explicitly called for a
noncreature card, so I'm afraid I can't consider your submission, which otherwise would have easily been in my T3.
kwanyeegor-ii: Growth-Imbued Farmtools – Bit of an awkward name. Interesting card, but I don't necessarily think that these abilities should really be in colorless, even if they're probably within color pie. Also, is so expensive that you'd only play it if you were doing something really busted.
1: Raptorchan
2: Ink-Treader
3: barbecube