The DCC - November 13, 2019

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Notes of the Day



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DCC Scoreboard



RattingRots 27 (+2)
bravelion83 25 (+0)
Rithaniel 24 (+3)
Koopa 22
netn10 22 (+6)
void_nothing 22 (+3)
slimytrout 20 (+2)
Gateways7 19 (+3)
Sagharri 16
Henlock 14
kwanyeegor-ii 3
FoilSquared 3
Legend 1
marioguy3 0 (+0)



bravelion83 wrote:
4 years ago
I should be higher than Koopa in the standings. Mostly pointing this out because I'm actually tied for first place, and it doesn't happen to me too often in the DCC!

Votes: void_nothing, Gateways7
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netn10 - I like this card a lot, but it immediately reminded me too much of Bloom Tender. It's still a perfect show of how red and green are supposed to produce mana in different ways. The Tender is repeatable, mana dork-style, this is one-shot. That difference makes both of them the proper color despite literally sharing the same words of rules text. As a 100% Mel, I approve. But there were other cards I liked better today.
slimytrout - Another card that I like but that reminded me too much of an existing card, in this case Frogify, from the most recent set. Here too, I think that card is the actual inspiration for yours, but it still feels a bit too similar to me.
Hunt for Knowledge 2GU
Sorcery (R)
Target creature you control gets +2/+2 until end of turn, then it fights target creature you don't control. If the creature you don't control dies during the fight, you draw cards equal to that creature's power.
"There is only one way to learn everything about a species' inner anatomy. Luckily, hunters provide us with a lot of material to study..."
—Professor Okral, medicine scientist

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For the series "Leo needs to learn to play outside the box".

In this case, dying "during a fight" is where I'm trying to push the boundaries. Currently, there are zero cards with that wording (I've made my research), and the CR would have to be adjusted to support it (I don't think it would be too hard), but I totally think it makes intuitive sense. Just remember that the combat phase doesn't count as a "fight".

I actually designed this yesterday, before my long post in the MCC discussion thread a few hours ago, so that wasn't my inspiration. But I'm pointing this out because I talk about this (this point, not this card) in that post.

Do you want to know my actual inspiration? This is a top-down card designed starting from the card name. A band I like a lot, a serious candidate for my favorite one ever after Linkin Park, is Lagwagon. I've only randomly discovered yesterday that they had a new album come out just last month, and obviously I immediately... Let's say "found a way" to get it. The album is called "Railer", and I really like it. In fact, I'm listening to it in loop as I'm writing this. There are three songs from that album that are clearly just above the rest for me. They're called "Parable", "The suffering", and "Pray for them". But my absolute favorite among those is probably "The suffering". That song is inspired by a speech by Bertrand Russell. And in the 2017/18 school year I taught in a school entitled to him! Look sometimes the coincidences... That speech is read during the very long intro of the song. It goes like this:
The world is full of magical things, patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.
Those who have never known the deep intimacy and the intense companionship of mutual love have missed the best thing that life has to give.
Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and the unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.
This speech touches my heart and moves me every time I listen to it, because those are all words that I could have said. The first several times I listened to it yesterday I actually cried. Now I'm slowly getting used to it, but it still hits me every time. And those three are also the passions that govern my own life. Let's give Magic colors to them:
"The longing for love" is clearly R.
"The search for knowledge" is obviously U.
"The unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind" is maybe the less clear of the three, but I absolutely think it's W.
As I realized that, I've understood that it's not by chance that those words speak to me in a particular way. Those are also the colors that I consider myself as a real person. White if mono, Boros as a pair, and Jeskai as a three-color combination.

So, in "The suffering" there is this one minute and a half intro, then the song starts for real (by chance, I happen to be listening to that song right now in the loop as I'm writing this paragraph). The whole lyrics are built on that speech. There are two choruses:
Want for contact, need for insight
The unbearable pity for the suffering

Want connection, hunt for knowledge
The unbearable lacking for the suffering
One of the many times I listened to it yesterday, thinking about cards to design for the DCC, in the moment of that second chorus I had this thought: "Hunt for knowledge" would be a very good name for a Magic card! What could it do? And from there, this card was born in a few minutes. I might also design cards for the other two "passions" that govern Russell's life and mine. I haven't designed them yet, but look for them in the next days.
Henlock wrote:
4 years ago
ratting Rots, netn10
wizyard wrote:
4 years ago
Rithaniel, netn10

Lore of Alara 2U
Sorcery (C)
Draw two cards.
Shardheart - If there are exactly three colors among permanents you control and cards in your graveyard, draw three cards instead.
RattingRots wrote:
4 years ago
slimytrout, netn10 (it's a color bend but I think it's acceptable)

Cast Aspersions 2BB
Sorcery (R)
Target opponent reveals their hand. You choose up to two nonland cards from it. That player discards those cards, then draws a card for each card discarded this way.
slimytrout wrote:
4 years ago
Gateways7, void_nothing (although I think it should have less toughness -- probably too powerful if it doesn't die to bolt)

Time Foretold 4UU
Sorcery (MR)
You may reveal Time Foretold from your opening hand and shuffle it into your library. If you do, spells named Time Foretold cost you 4 less to cast for the rest of the game.
Take an extra turn after this one.
netn10 wrote:
4 years ago
Votes: RattingRotes, marioguy3

Enlightening Bolt UR
Instant (Uncommon)
Enlightening Bolt deals 3 damage to any target.
Draw a card.
Rithaniel wrote:
4 years ago
Votes: Gateways7, void_nothing

Army of Lightning 2RWB
Sorcery R
Create five 1/1 white Soldier creature tokens. Creatures you control gain flying, first strike, lifelink, and haste until end of turn.
He stood alone. Then, with a flash of indomitable light, he stood with an army at his back.
void_nothing wrote:
4 years ago
Votes: slimytrout, Rithaniel

Glow of the Horizon 2GG
Enchantment - Aura (R)
Enchant land
Enchanted land has "T: Search your library for a land card, reveal it, and put it into your hand. Then shuffle your library."
Gateways7 wrote:
4 years ago
netn10, rithaniel

Heart of the Isles WURG
Legendary Enchantment (mythic)
When Heart of the Isles enters the battlefield, if you cast it from your hand, take an extra turn after this one.
During extra turns, creatures you control have first strike, trample, and haste.

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Post by bravelion83 » 4 years ago

Votes: netn10, wizyard

Longing for Love 1RR
Enchantment — Aura (R)
Enchant an unpaired creature you control
Enchanted creature has soulbond.
When Longing for Love enters the battlefield, you may pair enchanted creature with another unpaired creature you control.
Whenever enchanted creature or the creature it's paired with becomes the target of a spell or ability with a single target, if that spell or ability could target the other creature, copy it. The copy targets the other creature.
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See yesterday's card (Hunt for Knowledge) for inspiration.

If you don't want to go back, I'll repeat it here: it's the song "The Suffering" by Lagwagon, from their latest album "Railer", that just came out last month. The song is built around a speech by Bertrand Russell where he talks about the three passions that have governed his life, and I feel like they also govern my own life.

This is the second passion of Bertrand Russell's life (and mine). Hunt for Knowledge (yesterday's card) was the first.

This is a cycle of four cards: the three passions of Russell (and mine) plus a fourth card that puts them all together. I've already designed all four of them. This is card 2/4 in the cycle.

In each of the four cards I'm intentionally trying to push the boundaries in different ways. If you've read my posts in the MCC discussion thread, I'm trying to learn to do what Icarii (and others, but in that thread I was talking with him) usually do. I'm a person that naturally always plays in his comfort zone. I have to learn to venture out of it, and this four-card cycle is my current attempt.

Today I'm trying a new use for soulbond. The fact that the last ability also triggers from your opponents (not just you) targeting either creature is totally intentional. It's meant as the risk of playing this card. There's no room in the M15 frame for either soulbond's reminder text, or flavor text, which would be:
"Don't worry, darling. We're in this together!"
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Post by Henlock » 4 years ago

netn10, Rithaniel

Minister of Tides uu
Creature - Merfolk Cleric (r)
Whenever a basic island enters the battlefield under your control, add , spend this mana only to cast Merfolk spells.
2/2
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Post by RattingRots » 4 years ago

I like almost all of these conceptually, but a lot are a bit too overpowered IMO. I might try to comment on some more if I get time.

Votes: slimytrout, Gateways7 (EDIT: Thought about this some more and I don't think it's OP)

Educated Guess 1UU
Sorcery (C)
Return up to one target instant card from your graveyard to your hand.
Draw a card.

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netn10- basically echoing slimytrout. This card is ridiculously strong. I think it's probably too good even at 1UR.

Rithaniel- I think five soldiers is too many at this cost. The flexibility of being able to just use this to end the game if your opponent is at low life or you have other creatures, and also gets to just make 5 tokens for five and put you way ahead inn the life total race in all other cases (which is likely above rate even just for that scenario).

wizyard- This is costed fine. I think the ability requiring exactly 3 colors could create some frustrating situations. I get trying to specifically reward three color strategies for shards, but I think the tradeoff is probably too steep.
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Post by slimytrout » 4 years ago

wizyard, gateways7

hm: netn10. I love the name, but the card is busted as hell. Absurd with snapcaster in basically all formats. Think about how much stronger Electrolyze is than Twin Bolt, and then picture a card that's that about much stronger than Lightning Bolt.

Scrapyard Shaman 2R
Creature – Goblin Shaman (R)
Nonland cards in your hand have cycling 3.
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Post by marioguy3 » 4 years ago

Votes: wizyard, Rithaniel

Polar Vortex
Legendary Enchantment (Mythic Rare)
Shroud
Lands don't untap during each player's untap step. Whenever a land you control becomes tapped for mana, it taps for colorless instead.
Activated abilities of artifacts you control can't be activated.
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Post by netn10 » 4 years ago

Votes: Rithaniel, void_nothing

By The Book 3WU
Instant (Rare)
Return all creatures to their owners' hands. Players can't cast creature spells this turn.
Addendum — If you cast this spell during your main phase, instead return all creatures your opponents controls to their owners' hand. You opponents can't cast creature spells until your next turn.
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Post by Gateways7 » 4 years ago

wiyzard, Rithaniel

Qann, Ancient Primality UBRG
Legendary Creature - Elemental (mythic)
Trample
During each of your turns, you may play up to one multicolored card from your graveyard.
Whenever a multicolored creature you control dies, draw a card.
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Post by Rithaniel » 4 years ago

Votes: bravelion83, slimytrout

Winds of Death 1wbg
Sorcery R
Each player chooses a card in their graveyard. Exile all cards not selected this way from that your opponent's graveyards. Each other player returns the card they selected to their hand.
"Winds are difficult to read. A breeze might be a soul leaving this coil to join the afterlife, or it might be a soul seeking a new body."
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Post by void_nothing » 4 years ago

Votes: Rithaniel, Gateways7

Damning Voice 3BB
Instant (C)
Exile target enchantment, planeswalker, or Angel you don't control. Its controller loses 1 life.
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Post by wizyard » 4 years ago

Gateways7, RattingRots

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