New Challenge Every Day - January 8th: Video Game Inspiration

[Subject16]

Today's Challenge:
Video Game Inspiration

.::To Enter::.
In a single post:

• Name exactly two other players to vote for their entries for the previous challenge. (In the event that there are two or fewer entries that you are allowed to vote for, you may vote for only one.)

• Make a card that fits the current challenge.

• Include an "If I Win" (IIW) for tomorrow's challenge if you win.

Each day we use the challenge of the previous day's winner. In the case of a tie, we'll use the IIW of the tied player who has least overall points.

.::Scoring::.

Guardman 13 (3)
dyd 13 (5)
Henlock 7 (0)
Gateways7 7 (6)
JovialJovian 7 (1)
void_nothing 7 (2)
Ink-Treader 6 (1)
Subject16 6 (1)
netn10 6 (3)

.::Note of the Day::.
Eleven entries today! There's just something about crossing planes to really get creative ideas flowing.

.::Yesterday's Submissions::.
Phyrexians invading a known plane

Votes: void_nothing, netn10

Oilosaurus 5(bp)(gp)
Creature - Dinosaur
Infect
Enrage - Whenever ~ is dealt damage, each opponent gets a poison counter.
5/5

IIW: players can't win or lose

dyd, Guardman

Compleated Paladin 2{wp}
Creature - Human Knight (common)
Adamant — If at least three white mana was spent to cast this spell, Compleated Paladin enters the battlefield with a +1/+1 counter on it.
"Gone are the old king and queen. I serve our new ruler Elesh Norn, and I do it with every fiber of my being."
3/2

IIW: Non-green land ramp.

netn10, Subject16

Thoughtweft Plague 3B
Enchantment (R)
Whenever a creature is destroyed, its controller sacrifices a creature that shares a creature type with that creature.

iiw: noncreature, nonartifact tokens

Vote: Gateways7 and dyd

Valiant Decoy 1GW
Creature - Human Scout (R)
Exalted
Marked - If Valiant Decoy has a counter on it, while an opponent is choosing targets as part of casting a spell they control or activating an ability they control, that player must choose a creature with a counter on it if able.
"It's already too late for us. You must press on, for the good of all Alara."
1/4

IIW: The skies

Votes: Gateways7, dyd

Infection of Alara 2BG
Sorcery (Rare)
Domain — Target player gets a poison counter for each basic land type among lands you control.
The praetors soon found Alara, and each of them took a shard to themselves.

IIW: Old and new graveyard mechanics on the same card.

Votes: Gateways7, netn10

Porcelain Bushi 2w
Creature - Samurai (U)
Infect, bushido 1
2{wp}{wp}: Porcelain Bushi gains first strike until end of turn.
Now he serves a new, much greater daimyo.
3/1

IIW: Split cards

Votes: void_nothing and Gateways7

Kami of the Glistening Oil
Creature - Spirit
Lifelink
At the beginning of each end step, if you paid life this turn, put a +1/+1 counter on Kami of the Glistening Oil.
0/2
The oil the invader's brought bubbled and shook, and a new kami was born.

IIW: Repeatable token maker

Gateways7, Guardman

Possessed Wagon 3
Artifact - Vehicle (u)
Crew 1
Possessed Wagon cannot be blocked by more than one creature.
Whenever a creature crews Possessed Wagon, sacrifice that creature.
6/4

Votes: Gateways7, dyd

Scalelord of the Orthodoxy 5GW
Creature - Dragon
Flying
Outlast 1BB
Whenever one or more +1/+1 counters are placed on ~, target opponent gets a poison counter.
4/6

IIW: What is it like when worlds collide?

Votes: Ink-Treader, dyd

Bandaged Negator 2W
Creature - Zombie Horror (R)
Trample
Whenever a source deals damage to Bandaged Negator, that source's controller returns up to one nonland permanent card with converted mana cost equal to or less than the amount of damage dealt from their graveyard to the battlefield.
As Naktamun fought back, the Oil took on its virtues. Soon it would learn of the Hekma.
5/5

IIW: Old-school creatures

Gaurdman, JovialJovian

Elesh Norn, Ascended 3
Legendary Enchantment Creature — God (Mythic)
Indestructible
As long as your devotion to phyrexia is less than seven, Elesh Norn isn't a creature. (Each in the mana costs and/or watermarks of permanents you control counts towards your devotion to phyrexia.)
Whenever you cast an artifact or enchantment spell, put a +1/+1 counter on each creature you control.
1WW: Create a 2/2 white Cleric creature token.
4/7

IIW: Three mechanics on one card.

[dyd]

Votes: Gateways7, wizyard

Puck-Scared Manigold g
Creature - Human Werewolf Rogue
~ can't attack as long as an opponent controls a Spirit.
Whenever ~ deals combat damage to a player, create a Food token.
2, Sacrifice two Foods: Transform ~.
1/1
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Pack Mangler gw
Creature - Werewolf
Deathtouch, Indestructible
"Inky, Pinky, Blinky and Clyde:
all are dead now in the wild"
4/1

IIW: a new batching term (like historic for Saga + artifact + legendary)

[Ink-Treader]

Vote: Gateways7 and Guardman

Toadstool Brew G
Enchantment - Aura (U)
Enchant creature
Enchanted creature gets +3/+3
When enchanted creature is dealt damage, remove all damage from it and sacrifice Toadstool Brew.
1, Sacrifice a Food: Return Toadstool Brew from your graveyard to the battlefield attached to a creature.

IIW: Auras

[wizyard]

Subject16, Henlock

[Subject16]

netn10, JovialJovian

Pompous Merchant 2W
Creature — Human Citizen (U)
Lifelink
When Pompous Merchant enters the battlefield, goad target creature an opponent controls.
"Do you get to the Cloud District very often? Oh, what am I saying, of course you don't."
2/3

IIW: Replacement Effects on creatures

[netn10]

Votes: wizyard, JoviaJovian

Triforce of Wisdom 4U
Legendary Artifact (Rare)
T: Draw two cards.
As long as you control Triforce of Power and Triforce of Courage, you can't lose the game and your opponents can't win the game.

IIW: White-Red Graveyard Mechanic

[Guardman]

Votes: Gateways7 and Subject16

Mega Man, Robot Master 4
Legendary Artifact Creature - Construct
Whenever a creature dealt damage by Mega Man this turn dies, exile it instead. Mega Man has the activated abilities of all permanents exiled this way.
You may spend mana as though it were mana of any type to activate Mega Man's abilities.
X2, : Mega Man deals X damage to target creature.
2/3

IIW: Pokemon Double-Faced Cards (Transforming indicates the Pokemon evolved)

[JovialJovian]

Votes: wizyard, Guardman

Heir of the Dragonsoul WUB
Legendary Creature - Human Dragon
Level up - Sacrifice a Dragon.
3/3
Lvl 1-2 T: Return target creature to its owner's hand if it's tapped, otherwise tap it.
4/4
Lvl 3+ Vigilance, T: Destroy target permanent.
6/6

IIW: A good boi

[Gateways7]

Ink-Treader, Guardman

Catch 'Em All UG
Enchantment (rare)
Whenever a nontoken creature enters the battlefield under your control, if it doesn't share a name with a creature that you control or in your graveyard, put a collection counter on Catch 'Em All, then scry 1.
Remove 50 collection counters from Catch 'Em All and sacrifice it: You win the game.

IIW: White card draw or ramp.

[Henlock]

dyd, Gateways7

Sword of Alucard 1
Artifact - Equipment (u)
Equipped creature has lifelink and first strike.
Equip 1, pay 2 life.

IIW: A blue land dinosaur

[void_nothing]

Votes: Ink-Treader, Raptorchan

Monster Hunt GW
Enchantment (R)
2, Tap an untapped creature you control: Tap target creature and put a loot counter on Monster Hunt. If that creature has power 4 or greater, it doesn't untap during its controller's next untap step and put an additional loot counter on Monster Hunt.
Remove three loot counters from Monster Hunt: Choose one -
• Draw a card.
• You gain 5 life.
• You may put an Equipment card from your hand onto the battlefield.

IIW: Drakes that define the creature type's mechanical identity