New Challenge Every Day - February 12th: Cryptids

[void_nothing]

Today's Challenge:
Cryptids

.::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. In case of a further tie, the IIW of the earlier poster will be used.

.::Scoring::.

JovialJovian 27 (+6)
void_nothing 25 (+4)
dyd 22 (+1)
Ink-Treader 20 (+2)
netn10 19 (+1)
OneAndOnly 12
Riria 10 (+0)
Daylit 6 (+2)
FoilSquared 5

.::Note of the Day::.

.::Yesterday's Submissions::.
Rune or Rune matters

votes: Daylit, void_nothing

Forge Transcriber 1W
Creature - Dwarf Artificer
1W, T: Create a token that's a copy of target Rune and attach it to target equipment you control that doesn't have a Rune with the same name as the target Rune attached to it.
2/2

IIW: Folklore

Votes: JovialJovian, netn10

Ghosting Rune 2ww
Enchantment — Aura Rune
Flash
Enchant permanent
Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt to and dealt by enchanted creature.
As long as enchanted permanent is an Equipment, it has "Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt to and dealt by equipped creature".
"More like «be-die in the 'cleave», amirite?"

IIW: stash

Votes: JovialJovian, void_nothing

Littjara Rune GU
Enchantment - Aura (Rare)
Enchant permanent
When Littjara Rune enters the battlefield, draw a card.
2: Until end of turn, enchanted creature or equipment becomes a copy of target permanent with the same type as enchanted permanent.

IIW: Twist on fortell.

Votes: JovialJovian, void_nothing

Rune of Multiplicity RUG
Enchantment - Aura (R)
Enchant permanent
As long as enchanted permanent is a creature, if it would deal damage, it deals twice that much damage instead.
As long as enchanted permanent is a vehicle, it gets +1/+1 and its crew cost is 1.
As long as enchanted permanent is a Rune, double all text on it.

IIW: Exchange between typed artifacts

(If I play in the DCC I might try this as well, it's very similar.)

Votes: JovialJovian, void_nothing

Rune of Peace 2W
Enchantment — Aura Rune (U)
Enchant permanent
When Rune of Peace enters the battlefield, draw a card.
As long as enchanted permanent is a creature, it gets +2/+2 and can't attack.
As long as enchanted permanent is an Equipment, it has "Equipped creature gets +2/+2" and "Equipped creature can't attack."

IIW: Modal DFC

Votes: Daylit, JovialJovian

Realmtravel Shield 3
Artifact - Equipment (R)
Enchantment spells you cast cost 1 less to cast.
Aura spells you cast that target equipped creature and Realmtravel Shield cost an additional 1 less to cast.
Equipped creature gets +2/+2 for each Rune attached to it and Realmtravel Shield.
Equip 3

IIW: Elders

Vote: JovialJovian, Ink-Treader

Rune of Dexterity 1W
Enchantment - Aura Rune (U)
Enchant permanent
When ~ enters the battlefield, draw a card.
As long as enchanted permanent is a creature, spells you cast and abilities you activate that target enchanted creature cost 1 less.
As long as enchanted permanent is an equipment, its activated abilities cost 1 less to activate.

IIW: Create 1/1 flying creature token

dyd ink-terader

[dyd]

Votes: JovialJovian, netn10

Mothman 2bb
Legendary Creature - Human Insect
Flash
Flying
When another creature enters the battlefield, if Mothman entered the battlefield this turn and was cast, that creature's controller sacrifices it.
Foretell 2b
2/2

IIW: ocean

[bravelion83]

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I thought Cryptids were things like Worms and such in real Magic, not what I've discovered them to be when I read the linked Wikipedia page, so thanks to void_nothing for posting that link. Otherwise, my mind would have been taken in a completely different and wrong way. And I only knew about five of those monsters in that huge list. Let's go with one I didn't know before but that immediately caught my attention. I thought about making it a Viashino, but a Lizard Man being a Lizard Human just feels right to me.

Votes: JovialJovian, dyd

Lizard Man of the Swamp 1BR
Legendary Creature — Lizard Human (R)
Morph 1BR (You may cast this card face down as a 2/2 creature for 3. Turn it face up any time for its morph cost.)
Foretell 2BR (During your turn, you may pay 2 and exile this card from your hand face down. Cast it on a later turn for its foretell cost.)
Whenever Lizard Man of the Swamp enters the battlefield or is turned face up, if it was morphed, manifested, or foretold, destroy up to one target artifact, up to one target creature, and up to one target land.
3/3

IIW: Wizards (the creature type)

EDIT: responses (because there is not a discussion thread for this) @JovialJovian @void_nothing

responses to JovialJovian and void_nothing

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I guess I assumed most people knew what cryptids were from the popularity of Bigfoot.

I knew some of them but didn't know they had a collective name. And anyway, here in Italy only the Loch Ness monster and the yeti are very well known. All the others I knew were from other sources: the chupacabra from Magic itself (if it weren't for Ravenous Chupacabra in RIX I wouldn't know what a chupacabra is), the Kraken too (I know it became famous thanks to some movies, though don't ask me what those movies are, I'm not a movie fan. I mostly know what a Kraken is thanks to Theros), or even LoadingReadyRun (them mentioning Bigfoot and Ogopogo in some streams, I had heard of Bigfoot before but not Ogopogo, and from what I got from them I thought that Bigfoot and the Ogopogo were the same thing. I guess they aren't.) Now that I think of it, I think playing GTA, the original San Andreas from early 2000s with the hidden Bigfoot in the country near Mount Chilliad at the southwest of the map might have been the first time I heard of Bigfoot ever. All of this just to show you how different the American and European pop cultures are. I've seen it multiple times by now.

@bravelion83 You may have thought of annelids.

Yes, probably. I was remembering the first half of the name and not the second. That's very probably it.

[Riria]

Votes: JovialJovian, dyd

Nesting Thunderbird 3RW
Creature - Bird Elemental (MR)
Flying, first strike
If an instant or sorcery you control would deal damage to a single target, it deals that much damage to up to two targets instead.
At the beginning of your end step, if Nesting Thunderbird neither entered the battlefield nor attacked this turn, create a white 0/1 Thunderbird Egg creature token. It has "At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice this creature and create a token that's a copy of Nesting Thunderbird."
3/3

IIW: Army in a can

[JovialJovian]

votes: bravelion83, netn10
I guess I assumed most people knew what cryptids were from the popularity of Bigfoot. Thanks for the reference, void_nothing, though that list is not fully comprehensive.
Case in point:

Hodag of the Rhineland 3BG
Legendary Snow Creature - Beast
Deathtouch
SS: Hodag of the Rhineland gains Trample or Indestructible until end of turn. Activate this ability no more than once each turn.
6/6

IIW: Peanuts

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@void_nothing Bah, that's just because Hodag has been "officially" debunked.

[void_nothing]

@bravelion83 You may have thought of annelids.

Thanks for the reference, void_nothing, though that list is not fully comprehensive.
Case in point:

That would be because hodags fall under Fearsome Critters, so saith Wiki.

[netn10]

Votes: JovialJovian, Riria

Call the Cryptids 4BUG
Sorcery (Rare)
Reveal your hand and library. Put any number of creature cards you didn't revealed this way from outside the game onto the battlefield tapped.
You won't believe it until it's too late.

IIW: Card advantage in white.

[void_nothing]

Votes: JovialJovian, netn10

Elusive Yeti GG
Snow Creature - Yeti (R)
When Elusive Yeti enters the battlefield and at the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice Elusive Yeti unless you return another creature you control to its owner's hand.
Elusive Yeti can't be blocked by creatures with power 2 or less.
3S: Return Elusive Yeti to its owner's hand. If you do, scry 2. You can't cast spells named Elusive Yeti this turn.
3/3

IIW: Heraldry

[kwanyeegor-ii]

riria daylit