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[Mergatroid_Jones]

Mundane Vineyard
Land (U)
T: Add C
At the beginning of your upkeep, put a harvest counter on Mundane Vineyard, then if there are 3 or more harvest counters on it, remove them all and create a food token.
Sacrifice 3 foods: Gain 1 life and draw a card.


IIW: Another sunny day in New Phyrexia.

[OneAndOnly]

I find non-mechanical / suggestive challenges are a better prompt than very specific Magic IIWs. I completely tune out when things roll around to "base a card off of a background character from a pre-Mending novel."

[Ulka]

Izbunch, Grapeshooter 2R
Legendary Creature - Goblin Archer
At the end of your turn, Izbunch deals damage to any target equal to the number of spells cast this turn.
1/2

IIW: Fun Legendary Goblins

[spacemonaut]

Wave of Ephemerance 2ww
Sorcery (R)
Choose one —
• Exile up to three target creatures. Return them to the battlefield at the beginning of the next end step.
• Destroy all creatures.
Entwine 2W


IIW: The forge

[Cythare]

Orzhov Anesthetist 1W
Creature — Human Cleric (U)
When Orzhov Anesthetist enters the battlefield, choose one —
• Tap target creature.
• Destroy target creature if it's tapped.
Entwine B
2/1

IIW: "If mana produced by a snow permanent was used to cast this spell"

[Megiddo]

i can't think of anything good for this challenge.

...

bah, it wasn't a good challenge anyway.

[Lorn Asbord Schutta]

Fermented Grapes
Artifact - Food (U)
, : You lose 3 life. When you do, destroy target tapped creature.
, : You gain 3 life. When you do, exile target creature, then return it to the battlefield tapped.
Vinegar or wine? You never know before opening the barrel.

IIW: Profession you hate the most as a creature in Ravnica.

[Ulka]

Sundried Bounty WG
Enchantment (R)
At the beginning of your upkeep, put a dried counter on each food token you control then create a food token.
Food with a dried counter on it have " Whenever this card is sacrificed, put a +1/+1 counter on target creature."

IIW: Oozes

[Togs]

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Through the Grapevine 1U
Sorcery (C)
Target creature can't be blocked this turn. Whenever it deals combat damage to a player this turn, that player reveals their hand.

IIW: Vines

Starting off my (amazing) challenge with a banger. I like when cards take the simple route, and you pulled off a top-down and mechanically unique design without even having to go above common.

Cythea, Vineyard of the Gods 1(g/w)g
Legendary Enchantment- Aura (M)
Flash
Enchant forest, plains, or legendary land you control.
At the beginning of each player's precombat main phase, that player adds GW.
When enchanted land is tapped for mana, add G or w and gain 1 life.
8GW: Put a +1/+1 counter on each creature you control.

IIW: Based on one of these randoms: Reach Through Mists, Young Pyromancer, Druid of the Cowl, or Treasure Hunter.

In contrast, I can't help but feel that this bad boy is overly complex. That's a lot of abilities and the card is probably pretty strong, but doesn't interest me much sorry.

Grapeshot (not Time Spiral one)
Instant (R)
Storm
Gain control of a single snack opponent has until end of turn. Until end of turn, whenever you eat snack you don't own, its owner gains 3 life.

IIW: White foxes or white cats

Interesting angle, is red actually allowed to give its opponents life as a downside? As a meme card it's fine but as an un-card it's probably not very much fun to actually play, though I suspect you weren't expecting me to judge this seriously.

Ciarra Valley Grapes -- 1GG
Enchantment - Aura
Enchant land
At the beginning of your end step, create a token copy of Ciarra Valley Grapes enchanting target land an opponent controls.
Double all mana enchanted land adds.
2, Sacrifice Ciarra Valley Grapes: You gain 3 life.
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IIW: Broken cards

Oh, do the doubling triggers infinitely stack on themselves if you can enchant the same land multiple times ? If so then there are some fun political things you can do with this card. This is actually fairly neat as far as symmetrical ramp cards go.

Grapes of Wrath of God 4ww
Sorcery (R)
Destroy all creatures. Create a Food token for each creature destroyed this way.
"You got a God. Don't make no difference if you don' know what he looks like."
― John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath

IIW: Thief as a creature type. Bonus points if your card includes an ability word or keyword ability that would only be seen on Thieves.

Simple and clean, nice.

Hedonic Feeding 2GW
Art depicts a man, a la hedonism bot from futurama, eating grapes held by an off-screen servant
Sorcery (Rare)
Choose 1

• Create X food tokens, where X is the highest cmc among creatures you control.
• Target creature gets +X/+X until end of turn, where X is the number of food you control.

Entwine 1GW

IIW: Top down nintendo set.

I preferred this card back when the first option made a fixed 3 food tokens instead. It reminded me of a certain other design which, since it was made by me, is objectively perfect. I got you give you kudos though, for proving that great minds really do think alike.

Mundane Vineyard
Land (U)
T: Add C
At the beginning of your upkeep, put a harvest counter on Mundane Vineyard, then if there are 3 or more harvest counters on it, remove them all and create a food token.
Sacrifice 3 foods: Gain 1 life and draw a card.


IIW: Another sunny day in New Phyrexia.

I'm sadly not a fan of sacrificing food tokens for alternate costs, if I make food I want to be able to "eat" them, otherwise they may as well be something else.

Izbunch, Grapeshooter 2R
Legendary Creature - Goblin Archer
At the end of your turn, Izbunch deals damage to any target equal to the number of spells cast this turn.
1/2

IIW: Fun Legendary Goblins

Grapeshot every turn! Very cool actually, I think this version of the effect is legitimately viable for non-degenerate storm combo decks so it's not as binary as the original grapeshot, so kudos for that.

Wave of Ephemerance 2ww
Sorcery (R)
Choose one —
• Exile up to three target creatures. Return them to the battlefield at the beginning of the next end step.
• Destroy all creatures.
Entwine 2W


IIW: The forge

Very clean entwine card, good job.

Orzhov Anesthetist 1W
Creature — Human Cleric (U)
When Orzhov Anesthetist enters the battlefield, choose one —
• Tap target creature.
• Destroy target creature if it's tapped.
Entwine B
2/1

IIW: "If mana produced by a snow permanent was used to cast this spell"

Oh I bet you think you're real clever over there big boy. Well you are.

Fermented Grapes
Artifact - Food (U)
, : You lose 3 life. When you do, destroy target tapped creature.
, : You gain 3 life. When you do, exile target creature, then return it to the battlefield tapped.
Vinegar or wine? You never know before opening the barrel.

IIW: Profession you hate the most as a creature in Ravnica.

Is the flavor that the wine makes the creature pass out drunk, and the vinegar just straight up kills them ? Alright alright, I can get behind this. I think it's clever how you expanded on the standard food ability into this card instead of tacking it on in the end like it's usually done.

Sundried Bounty WG
Enchantment (R)
At the beginning of your upkeep, put a dried counter on each food token you control then create a food token.
Food with a dried counter on it have " Whenever this card is sacrificed, put a +1/+1 counter on target creature."

IIW: Oozes

Ayy this is the proper way to do food tokens imo, no need to sacrifice for additional effects, just add additional effects to the normal sacrifice ability.

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I was honestly surprised by the number of good entries this challenge, so it was hard to pick a favorite. But in the end I'm going to go with my first instinct.

Winner: Cythare !

HMs: OneAndONly, Ulka, Lorn

Next Challenge: Vines

[NinjaCaterpie]

Vineyard Avenger 1GG
Creature - Elf Warrior (U)
Flash
Vineyard Avenger enters the battlefield with two +1/+1 counters if a land you control was put into a graveyard from the battlefield this turn.
"Some vines can venge themselves. The rest have me."
3/2

IIW: Staves

[OneAndOnly]

Tick Tock -- 1U
Instant
Byte -- Every six seconds until the end of turn, you may cast a copy of this spell.
Tap target creature.
"Mesmerizing!" - u/CantStopWatching
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IIW: Anything that's not related to food of any sort

[Ulka]

Assassin Vine 1BG
Creature - Plant Assassin (R)
Reach
At the beginning of your end step, each player sacrifices a tapped creature they control.
: Each attacking creature doesn't untap during its controller's next untap step.
0/4

IIW: Oozes

[Flatline]

Blightvine Thicket bg
Creature — Plant Wall (U)
Defender
Whenever Blightvine Thicket blocks a creature, that creature's controller gets a poison counter, then proliferate. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there.)
"I don't think that's poison ivy."
0/3

IIW: Thief as a creature type. Bonus points if your card has an ability word or keyword ability that would be seen only on Thieves.

[Mergatroid_Jones]

Canopy Creeper G
Creature- Plant (U)
Reach
At the beginning of your upkeep, put a growth counter on Canopy Creeper
Canopy Creeper gets +0/+1 for each growth counter on it.
Remove 3 growth counters from Canopy Creeper: Add G.
0/2

IIW: Based on one of these randoms: Myr Battlesphere, Yarok's Wavecrasher, Trained Orgg, or Shadowmage Infiltrator.

[Sporegorger_Dragon]

Vine-Swinging Monkey
2g
Creature - Monkey (U)
As long as you control a Plant with reach, Vine-Swinging Monkey has reach and can't be blocked except by creatures with flying or reach.
2/1
>>>>>>>>
Dangling Lianas
g
Sorcery - Adventure
Create a 0/1 green Plant creature token with defender and reach.


IIW: Green Plant creature token with 0 power.

[mellifluoresce]

What About Nascar?
Sorcery (U)
Return target Vehicle card from your graveyard to the battlefield. It becomes an artifact creature and gains haste until end of turn. Sacrifice it at the beginning of the next end step.

IIW: Toy Story

[Cythare]

Alrighty, let's keep this moving before things grow out of control.

Vineyard Avenger 1GG
Creature - Elf Warrior (U)
Flash
Vineyard Avenger enters the battlefield with two +1/+1 counters if a land you control was put into a graveyard from the battlefield this turn.
"Some vines can venge themselves. The rest have me."
3/2

IIW: Staves

This seems quite strong, especially with fetchlands available. The ability to farily consistently have a 5/4 flash on turn 3 seems extremely strong, although I expect that in limited, it would probably be fine? Its two modes are definitely wildly different.

Tick Tock -- 1U
Instant
Byte -- Every six seconds until the end of turn, you may cast a copy of this spell.
Tap target creature.
"Mesmerizing!" - u/CantStopWatching
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IIW: Anything that's not related to food of any sort

Even for an un-card, temporal-based mechanics seem not-great. I don't expect this would make it through development, although it's a cute card.

Assassin Vine 1BG
Creature - Plant Assassin (R)
Reach
At the beginning of your end step, each player sacrifices a tapped creature they control.
: Each attacking creature doesn't untap during its controller's next untap step.
0/4

IIW: Oozes

This feels like it could also include white somehow, but is fine in Golgari. I'm not sure quite how I feel about this - it's definitely a unique set of abilities, but it punishes things at an odd time for me.

Blightvine Thicket bg
Creature — Plant Wall (U)
Defender
Whenever Blightvine Thicket blocks a creature, that creature's controller gets a poison counter, then proliferate. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there.)
"I don't think that's poison ivy."
0/3

IIW: Thief as a creature type. Bonus points if your card has an ability word or keyword ability that would be seen only on Thieves.

I really don't like the idea of defensive poison as an archetype. I'd prefer that this give the creature a -1/-1 counter or proliferate (but not both). I would expect that just leads to board stalls in a more feel-bad way than usual.

Canopy Creeper G
Creature- Plant (U)
Reach
At the beginning of your upkeep, put a growth counter on Canopy Creeper
Canopy Creeper gets +0/+1 for each growth counter on it.
Remove 3 growth counters from Canopy Creeper: Add G.
0/2

IIW: Based on one of these randoms: Myr Battlesphere, Yarok's Wavecrasher, Trained Orgg, or Shadowmage Infiltrator.

I think this is probably too slow - I'd prefer that you only have to remove two growth counters, or that it be common - but otherwise is a fine and unassuming uncommon.

Vine-Swinging Monkey
2g
Creature - Monkey (U)
As long as you control a Plant with reach, Vine-Swinging Monkey has reach and can't be blocked except by creatures with flying or reach.
2/1
>>>>>>>>
Dangling Lianas
g
Sorcery - Adventure
Create a 0/1 green Plant creature token with defender and reach.


IIW: Green Plant creature token with 0 power.

I like the flavor here! I kinda wish that the monkey didn't require that the Plant had reach for backwards compatability purposes, but it's internally cohesive, and seems like a reasonable uncommon.

What About Nascar?
Sorcery (U)
Return target Vehicle card from your graveyard to the battlefield. It becomes an artifact creature and gains haste until end of turn. Sacrifice it at the beginning of the next end step.

IIW: Toy Story

VROOM VROOM CRASH CRASH BOOM BOOM

HMs: Ulka, Mergatroid_Jones
Winner: Sporegorger_Dragon
Next: Green Plant creature tokens with 0 power.

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Made these cards while judging was happening, don't want to have them forgotten.

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The man at the store said this is what you wanted when you asked for vines.

Road Work Ahead 1R
Sorcery
Creatures without flying that have power 2 or less can't block this turn.
"I sure hope it does."


And they were roommates 1R
Sorcery
Choose target creature. If you control a creature with the same power as that creature, gain control of that creature until end of turn. Untap that creature, it gains haste.
"Oh my god, they were roommates."


Destructive Acrobat 2R
Creature - Human Rogue
This creature can't be blocked by creatures with power 2 or less.
When this creature enters the battlefield, destroy target artifact.
"Back at it again at Krispy Kreme."
2/2

From Live Free or Zendikar
Nissa, Zendikar's Avenger 1GG
Legendary Planeswalker - Nissa
Landfall - Whenever a land enters the battlefield under your control, create a 0/1 green plant creature token
+1: Look at the top 3 cards of your library. You may reveal a land from among them and put it into your hand. Put the rest of the cards on the bottom of your library in a random order.
-2: Return target creature or land card in your graveyard with converted mana cost less than or equal to the number of lands you control to your hand.
-4: Put a +1/+1 counter on each creature you control.
3


IIW: Nintendo top down world.

[Flatline]

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Blightvine Thicket bg
Creature — Plant Wall (U)
Defender
Whenever Blightvine Thicket blocks a creature, that creature's controller gets a poison counter, then proliferate. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there.)
"I don't think that's poison ivy."
0/3

I really don't like the idea of defensive poison as an archetype. I'd prefer that this give the creature a -1/-1 counter or proliferate (but not both). I would expect that just leads to board stalls in a more feel-bad way than usual.

It always makes me feel good when my thoughts about a card I submitted line up perfectly with the judge's. Even when the result is a bad one.

Snoop D-O Double G 1gu
Legendary Creature - Human Dog (R)
When Snoop enters the battlefield, create two 0/1 green Plant creature tokens.
1, t: Create a 0/1 green Plant creature token.
Sacrifice a Plant: Target creature you control gains flying until end of turn.
"I got something that'll make you fly fo' shizzle."
3/3

[OneAndOnly]

Eladamri's Orchard -- 2GG
Enchantment
At the end of each turn, for each land, create a green Enchantment - Aura token attached to it named Seed Pod with "Enchant land" and "When this land is tapped for mana, sacrifice Seed Pod."
2, Sacrifice a Seed Pod: Create a 0/2 green Creature - Plant token. Any player may play this ability.
XGG, Sacrifice X Seed Pods: Create an X/X green Creature - Plant Elemental token with trample.
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IIW: Rigorous science

[Megiddo]

Evergrowing Ivy 1GG
Creature — Plant {R}
When Evergrowing Ivy enters the battlefield, create a 0/1 green Plant creature token.
Whenever Evergrowing Ivy would be dealt damage, prevent that damage and create a 0/1 green Plant creature token.
At the beginning of your end step, if you control no other Plants, sacrifice Evergrowing Ivy.
0/1

IIW: JAM SESSION—each person riffs on something from the previous entry; start with this card.

[Ulka]

Animated Herbologist 2G
Creature - Human Shaman (U)
Whenever Animated Herbalists enters the battlefield or blocks, create a 0/1 green Plant creature token.
Animated Herbologist gets +1/+1 for each Plant creature you control.
"Their constant yammering has willed their plants to life."
1/1

IIW: Oozes

[Mergatroid_Jones]

Chlorophyllic Edict 1G
Instant (C)
Target player sacrifices a creature or artifact and creates a 0/1 green plant creature token.

IIW: Based off one of the following randoms: Choking Sands, Nezumi Graverobber, Sands of Delirium, or Gaseous Form.

[NinjaCaterpie]

Hoardsome Horticulturalist 1GW
Creature - Human Shaman (R)
Players can't cast creature spells if they control four or more creatures.
Whenever a land enters the battlefield under your control, each player creates a 0/1 green Plant creature token.
"Oh, I know there's no room, but I just can't bear parting with any of them!"
1/2

IIW: Fish

[Sporegorger_Dragon]

HMs: Ulka, Mergatroid_Jones
Winner: Sporegorger_Dragon
Next: Green Plant creature tokens with 0 power.

Thank you, it's an honor to be chosen as a Nexus Flamingo winner!

I'm afraid I can't give the same sort of in-depth analysis as the other judges, so my judgement is going to be a bit more arbitrary, going more for overall feel of the card as a cohesive and flavorful whole.

Have fun!