Ink-Treader: Drafar, the Ensouler -- Hmm, I like the concept of the card, but it's not very elegant. For example, the fact that the creature card is exiled as a cost but the land being returned is targeted would probably confuse people. Personally, I think it would have been better if it just "scavenged" onto a land that you already controlled, so that you could shorten the text and maybe avoid some nasty rules interactions that could crop up. (I don't know for sure that there would be any, but there's never been a clone stapled to a land before so I could definitely imagine there being some.) Also, you definitely didn't have room for that flavor text -- it's dangerously close to microtext even without it.
P.S.: The reference to
Death's Shadow was very much intentional, hence the name.
barbecube: Anezka, Dimir PR Agent -- The concept is a really fun one, but there are a couple things I don't love about the card itself. First off, I think the name is a bit silly -- obviously it' s supposed to be tongue-in-cheek but nothing in the card really reinforced the humor (or I just missed it). Second, the mismatch of the abilities is a bit unsatisfying: the Vampire one is pretty weak, and only benefits from flash in unusual circumstances, while the Illusion one is very strong and absolutely needs flash to do anything. I do like the decision to make it a cast trigger, so that Anezka herself (or himself or themselves) doesn't trigger either ability, so props for that.
Raptorchan: Kotchun, Gallery Lich -- Huh. Definitely the most unique card of the bunch. I'm not sure of any obvious ways to truly break it, because you have to pick which instances to switch before the spell or ability resolves, so you can't decide to turn your
Impulse into a super-
Ponder once you've seen the cards. However, I'm fairly sure it doesn't currently work within the rules, for two reasons. First, every other example of a
"change the text" card ever printed has done so as an instant or an activated ability, not as a triggered ability, and it's not clear how Kotchun would interact with things like paying costs (would you be able to exile the bottom ten cards of your library to
Arc-Slogger, for example?) Second, and more importantly, all the other cards (even the
Uncard) have specifically defined types of words that they're changing (color words, number words, creature types) as opposed to just two words that can be switched. Could you animate
Treebottom Village instead of
Treetop Village, and if so, what on earth would that mean? I don't doubt that these issues could be fixed with some judicious editing of
CR 612, but it would definitely require some work. Also, not sure what the second ability is for exactly, but it's quite strong.
1. Raptorchan
2. barbecube
3. Ink-Treader
Went in order of elegance and innovation, rather than which was the best gameplay idea. But I think all of the ideas this round have strengths (and a few weaknesses) so it was a really tough decision.