New Challenge Every Day - January 21st: Return to Alara

[Subject16]

Today's Challenge:
Return to Alara

.::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::.

Subject16 39 (4)
JovialJovian 37 (3)
Ink-Treader 34 (0)
Henlock 33 (2)
dyd 33 (3)
Guardman 31 (2)
Gateways7 30 (2)
void_nothing 28 (1)
netn10 26 (1)
BeneTleilax 7 (0)
Raptorchan 5 (0)
wizyard 3 (0)
Flatline 2 (2)

.::Note of the Day::.

.::Yesterday's Submissions::.
Dogs

dyd, voidnothing

Batallion Hound 2w
Creature - Hound (u)
; Search your library for a card named Batallion Hound and put it onto the battlefield.
; Shuffle Batallion Hound into its owner's library.
2/2

IIW something delicious

dyd, Subject16

Go Fetch R
Sorcery (uncommon)
Go Fetch deals 1 damage to target creature.
Tap an untapped Hound creature you control: Return Go Fetch from your graveyard to your hand.
"Good boy!"

IIW: Cards that have abilities in your library

Votes: JovialJovian, Subject16

Chaosjaw Cerberus 3RR
Creature - Hound (R)
First strike, haste
Whenever Chaosjaw Cerberus attacks, choose three target creatures at random. Each of them gets +3/+0 until end of turn. (Do so only if there are at least three creatures to target.)
3/6

IIW: Peasants

Votes: Henlock, Subject16

Best Friend gw
Creature - Hound
Soulbond (You may pair this creature with another unpaired creature when either enters the battlefield. They remain paired for as long as you control both of them.)
As long as ~ is paired with another creature, that creature has indestructible and can't be blocked by more than one creature.
The one friend that never proves ungrateful or treacherous,

IIW: change the text... by replacing...

Vote: Guardman and Subject16

Cadaver-Dog 1BB
Creature - Zombie Hound (U)
When Cadaver-Dog enters the battlefield, return target Zombie creature card from your graveyard to your hand.
Whenever another Zombie enters the battlefield under your control, untap it. It gains haste until end of turn.
"I was thinking to myself how convenient it would be if there was a dog that could herd zombies... so I raised one!"
-Gisa, ghoulcaller

IIW: A feud

Votes: Guardman, Gateways7

Adorable Pup 1W
Creature - Hound
T: Prevent all damage target Human would deal this turn.
0/1

IIW: Squirrels

Votes: JovialJovian, Henlock

Release the Hounds 2R
Sorcery (Uncommon)
Create a 1/1 green Hound creature token with haste for each creature you don't control.

IIW: Mono blue aggro or mono green control.

netn10, Gateways7

Silverpaw Retreiver 1W
Creature — Hound (Uncommon)
Flash
T: Return Silverpaw Retreiver and target permanent you own to their owner's hands.
"Fetch!"
3/1

IIW: The face of Commander 2020.

Votes: dyd and JovialJovian

Loyal Guard Dog 1w
Creature - Hound
When Loyal Guard Dog enters the battlefield choose a non-Hound permanent you control. As long as Loyal Guard Dog is on the battlefield, that permanent is indestructible.
2/1

IIW: A Wurm

[Gateways7]

Ink-Treader, Subject16

Naya Brutalist RGW
Creature - Human Warrior (uncommon)
Whenever a gargantuan creature enters the battlefield under your control, Naya Brutalist deals 1 damage to each opponent, then you gain 1 life. (Creatures with combined power and toughness 7 or greater are gargantuan.)
4/3

IIW: Counters that aren't +1/+1 or -1/-1.

[JovialJovian]

Votes: netn10, Gateways7

Jenara, Bane of Conquerors GWU
Legendary Creature - Angel
Flying
Protection from creatures with greater power than ~.
Whenever one or more creatures attack you and/or planeswalkers you control, put a +1/+1 counter on ~.
"Bant shall remain inviolate!"
2/2

IIW: Movie monsters, the sequel!

[RattingRots]

Subject16, Guardman

Trained Ceradon 3GW
Creature - Beast (C)
Exalted (Whenever a creature you control attacks alone, that creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.)
~ may block an additional creature each combat.
2/5

IIW: Shakespeare reference

[Ink-Treader]

Vote: void_nothing and Guardman

Lulling Pulse 3UUU
Sorcery (R)
Improvise
Tap each artifact and creature target player controls. Those permanents don't untap during their controller's next untap step.
Sharuum realized that if Esper was to survive, it would need to suppress the other shards, lest another evil like Malfegor rise again.

IIW: A wipe, board or otherwise

[dyd]

Votes: JovialJovian, Ink-Treader

Filigree Sphinx 4wub
Artifact Creature - Sphinx
Flying
Salvage 5 (If this permanent would be destroyed, you may instead sacrifice any number of other artifacts with total converted mana cost 5 or greater. If you do, tap it and it gains indestructible until end of turn. Otherwise, it is destroyed.)
As long as there is etherium, there is perfection.
5/5

IIW: three-color God

[void_nothing]

Votes: Henlock, Ink-Treader

Vithian Archaeologist 2UR
Creature - Human Wizard (U)
When Vithian Archaeologist enters the battlefield, choose target card with flashback you own in your graveyard or exile. Return it to your hand if it's in your graveyard and put it into your graveyard if it's in exile.
Whenever you cast a spell from your graveyard or a permanent enters the battlefield from your graveyard, create a tapped 2/2 black Zombie creature token.
To avoid undeath, some human holdouts became Makhdahyndar's vassals.
1/4

IIW: Business is booming

[Guardman]

Votes: Gateways7 and Ink-Treader

Grixian Undeath ubr
Enchantment
Whenever a creature enters the battlefield, if it entered from your graveyard or you cast it from your graveyard, create a token that's a copy of that creature. It gains haste. Exile it at the beginning of the next end step.

IIW: Gideon: Back from Death!

[netn10]

Votes: Henlock, Gateways7

Salvage WUB
Sorcery (Rare)
Return target artifact card from your graveyard to the battlefield.
Fuse
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Salivate BRG
Sorcery (Rare)
Sacrifice any number of creatures. Put two +1/+1 counters on target creature for each creature sacrificed this way.
Fuse

IIW: Twist on split cards.

[Henlock]

Jovialjovian, netn10

Lakeside Vineyard
Land (r)
: Add
, Add , , or , play this ability if you control three or less lands.

[Subject16]

Guardman, Ink-Treader (Should have been "Cadaver-ador")

Yidris, Agent of Chaos 1GUR
Legendary Creature — Ogre Wizard (Rare)
Trample
Whenever Yidris, Agent of Chaos deals combat damage to a player, exile cards from the top of your library until you exile a nonland card that costs X or less, where X is the amount of damage dealt this way. You may cast it without paying its mana cost. Put the exiled cards on the bottom of your library in a random order.
"Energy from the nexus cascades through all Alara, and I am its conduit."
5/4

IIW: Food tokens