The DCC - November 17, 2019

[void_nothing]

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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• Each day you may post any card you want. On the next day all of the posted cards will be put into the thread as long as your card didn't get disqualified - see the next point for more details. If you post more than one card in a DCC thread, only the first card you post will be taken.
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Notes of the Day

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Hope everyone's weekend has started off well.

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DCC Scoreboard

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slimytrout 38 (+4)
Rithaniel 37 (+3)
RattingRots 37 (+1)
Gateways7 29
netn10 29 (+2)
bravelion83 27 (+0)
void_nothing 26 (+1)
Koopa 22
Henlock 21 (+1)
Sagharri 16
wizyard 12 (+9)
kwanyeegor-ii 3
FoilSquared 3
Legend 1
marioguy3 1 (+1)

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Votes: Rithaniel, netn10

Arcanyst's Vial 1
Artifact
This artifact enters the battlefield tapped and with a charge counter on it.
At the beginning of your upkeep, put a charge counter on it.
T, Sacrifice Arcanyst's Vial: Search your library for a sorcery or instant card with converted mana cost equal to or less than the number of charge counters on Arcanyst's Vial. Put that card in your hand and shuffle your library.
X, Sacrifice Arcanyst's Vial: Look at the top X cards of your library. You may put one of them in your hand with a converted mana cost equal to or less than X. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in any order. You may remove a charge counter on Arcanyst's Vial to pay for 1 for this ability.
(Note: Since I live in a different timezone, please don't hit me hard because I broke the rules of the thread in some way)

RattingRots, slimytrout

Juzef Bah, Spirit Dancer 3WW
Planeswalker - Juzef (R)
Juzef Bah, Spirit Dancer's starting loyalty is equal to your life total.
<+1>: Gain 1 life.
<-5>: Your life total becomes equal to the number loyalty counters on Juzef.
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Votes: wizyard, netn10

Honorable mention

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Rithaniel - As usual with cards from your new Eldrazi set, context is the key to understand this card. And I do like this. You're just unlucky this time that there are two cards much more elegant than this in a vacuum, and I wanted to vote for those. If I could cast a third vote, you would be it.

Adanto's Tower W
Artifact (U)
Intensify 1W (You may pay an additional 1W as you activate any of this permanent's activated abilities.)
2W, T: Create a 1/1 white Vampire creature token with lifelink. If this ability was intensified, create two of those tokens instead.
"Everybody at their places! I can see an enemy army advancing towards us from up here! Prepare defenses!"
—Gorina, Adanto Sentinel

Notes

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As promised, I'm back to my comfort zone. New experiments will certainly follow, but not for some time. I need a little time to recover from my huge trip far out of it. In the meantime, I'll do something that should be well within my natural space: taking something existing and twisting it slightly. So, I've thought about this ability, and for a few days I'll explore its design space. This is something I should be able to do well.

Yes, obviously the idea for intensify is making kicker but for activated abilities. It works exactly like kicker, you can only pay the additional cost once, etc... Everything is like kicker, only it applies to all the activated abilities that the permanent with intensify has. I have other examples coming in the next days, involving permanents with more than one activated ability, off-color costs, and such. But for today, I've chosen to start with the base case.

Votes: wizyard, Rithaniel

Simic Mindbreaker 1U
Creature - Merfolk Octopus Mutant (Common)
Linked (Whenever you activate an ability of a linked creature, you may activate an ability of another linked creature you control.)
T: Target player puts the top two cards of their library into their graveyard.
0/1

wizyard, Henlock

Into the Wild 2GG
Instant (U)
Destroy up to one target artifact.
Destroy up to one target enchantment.
Put two +1/+1 counters on up to one target creature.

marioguy3, wizyard

Mutinous Mate B
Creature – Human Pirate (U)
Menace
When Mutinous Mate enters the battlefield, you become the monarch, then each opponent creates a 1/1 black Pirate creature token with menace.

wizyard, silmeytrout

Ajaní's Tacticsw
Sorcery (u)
Put a +1/+1 counter on targrt creature, then gain 1 life and create a white 1/1 Soldier creature token.

Votes: slimytrout, void_nothing

Disconsonant Aberration
Creature - Horror U
When Disconsonant Aberration enters the battlefield, create two 1/1 black Rat creature tokens.
, Sacrifice a creature: Disconsonant Aberration gains hexproof until end of turn.
, Sacrifice a creature: Disconsonant Aberration gains first strike until end of turn.
"No matter how many times I come at it, it twists away, always in a different manner."
—Inquisitor Werji
3/2

wiyzard, slimytrout

Reflected into a Thousand Mirrors W
Enchantment - Aura (rare)
Enchant artifact
When Reflected into a Thousand Mirrors enters the battlefield, exile target creature until enchanted artifact leaves the battlefield.
The mirror shattered, and her soul followed suit.

Votes: wizyard, Rithaniel

Catch Unawares 1U
Enchantment - Aura (R)
Enchant artifact or creature you don't control
As long as enchanted permanent is tapped, spells you cast cost 1 less to cast and spells its controller casts cost 1 more to cast.

[netn10]

Votes: RattingRots, Henlock

Vile Strike BRG
Instant (Common)
Target creature gains first strike and deathtouch until end of turn.
Draw a card.
The goblin drew the poison from his nose, and the rest was history.

[slimytrout]

void_nothing, gateways7

Laris, the Blessed 3GW
Legendary Creature – Cat Monk (R)
When Laris, the Blessed enters the battlefield, create a white Aura enchantment token and attach it to Laris. The token has enchant creature and totem armor.
Laris has lifelink and vigilance as long as it's enchanted.
4/4

[folding_music]

votes: netn10, slimytrout

Natural Easel
Land (R)
: Add .
1, : Add one mana of any color.
Spells with Converge and Sunburst resolve as if they had been played with an additional color of mana.

[kwanyeegor-ii]

bravelion83 rithaniel

Dread Mummies 5BB
Creature--Zombie (Uncommon)
Flash, Deathtouch
Dread Mummies can't be blocked except by four or more creatures
4/8

[Henlock]

RattingRots, Gateways7

Inch Away w
Instant (u)
Untap target creature and temove it from combat. Counter all apells and abilities targetting that creature.
Draw a card.

[Rithaniel]

Votes: wizyard, bravelion83

Yosina, Hall of Time
Legendary Land R
: Add and put a charge counter on Yosina, Hall of Time.
, Remove three charge counters from Yosina: Add one mana of any color and you gain 3 life.
Yosina is a slow place. Decades may pass wherein the walls are gray and devoid of life. For the patient, though, eventually they will see it's true splendor.

[RattingRots]

bravelion83, netn10

crapskidoo - Welcome! Nothing wrong with your post. Don't worry about when you post, as long as you post on the most recent thread you should be fine. If you accidentally do post in a previous day's thread, you're not going to be banned or put on probation.

Cabal Researcher 1BB
Creature - Human Wizard
Haste
, Sacrifice a creature: If it's your main phase, target player discards a card.
1/1
"Continue the trials!"

[void_nothing]

Votes: netn10, RattingRots

Seafloor Eruption 1R
Instant (U)
Choose one -
• Add URR.
• Seafloor Eruption deals 4 damage to target Merfolk, Kraken, Leviathan, Octopus, Serpent, or Kiora.

[wizyard]

henlock, netn10 (think it needs to say 'without paying its activation cost')