Godfather: 3 You know your way around classiness, but you're not really showing it well.Juancu wrote: ↑2 years agoGetaway Car
Artifact - Vehicle (U)
Attacking creatures you control have first strike.
Whenever Getaway Car becomes a creature, remove from combat up to 3 target creatures you control.
Crew 1
2/3
Grand Theft Auroch
Artifact - Vehicle (R)
Any player may crew Grand Theft Auroch. If Grand Theft Auroch would become a creature this way, instead that player creates a tapped 2/3 green Auroch creature token. Then, if a player controls four or more Aurochs, sacrifice Grand Theft Auroch.
Crew 4
Scarface: 1 Not really violent a lot in here.
Goodfellas: 5 Lots of crime going on here, one card named after a crime.
Total: 9
Godfather: 5 These cards ooze class, high profile families. I love it. Chef's kiss.Sporegorger_Dragon wrote: ↑2 years agoI haven't the slightest idea of what I'm doing.
Garcazzio, Botanist of Tragedies
Legendary Creature - Elder Demon (M)
If a creature dying causes a triggered ability of a permanent you control to trigger, that ability triggers an additional time.
, Exile an instant or sorcery card from your graveyard: Create a green 0/1 green Plant creature token with "When this creature dies, copy the exiled card. You may cast the copy without paying its mana cost."
4/7
The gardens of La Famiglia Garcazzio yield the most potent compounds; everything from ecstasy and euphoria to dreamless sleep and sudden death.
Garcazzio theme: Death triggers
Konvali, Politician of Privilege
Legendary Creature - Elder Demon (M)
Flying, trample, protection from enchantments
Diplomatic Immunity -Konvali, Politician of Privilege is not affected by effects of non-Aura enchantments that don't target it.
7/5
Everyone knows that La Famiglia Konvali are untouchable; they have done everything to insure that they are truly above the law.
Konvali theme: Detrimental Enchantments and breaking their symmetry
Dirgencia, Death's Medicine
Legendary Creature - Elder Demon (M)
Deathtouch, lifelink
When Dirgencia, Death's Medicine enters the battlefield, each other player loses 4 life and you gain that much life.
, Pay 13 life: Return Dirgencia from your graveyard to the battlefield tapped.
6/6
La Famiglia Dirgencia are the most skilled of doctors that practice the most advanced of medicine, but only for the wealthy. They harvest health from the poor and sell it to the rich.
Dirgencia theme: Lifegain
IIW: Puns
Scarface: 4 Lots of implied Violence, especially in the death trigger plants
Goodfellas: 5 Each family has their own style of crimes that they do, so we're really in deep.
Total: 14 Gonna be hard to beat.
Godfather: 2 Not a lot of class going on with the copsCythare wrote: ↑2 years agoGumshoe 3000
Artifact Creature — Construct Advisor (R)
Vigilance
Whenever a permanent an opponent controls commits a crime, investigate. This ability only triggers once each turn. (Crewing vehicles, attacking players, and dealing lethal damage to other permanents are crimes.)
2/2
IIW: A construct replacement
Scarface: 3 Vigilance is good for committing violence, and cops in Mafia movies are usually dirty.
Goodfellas: 5 Referencing crimes in the rules text is very good, and I like what you batched to define it, though crewing a vehicle is usually a prelude to attacking.
Total: 10
Very interesting arrangement here, I like the melody, but since Streets is an Art Deco, I feel like if we'd have any music references in the set, it'd be Jazz. These cards also don't really fall into the mafia theme, so I can't really give them a numeric score on that scale, so I'll just say E♯Juancu wrote: ↑2 years agoMyglol Cultist
Creature - Human Cultist (C)
Profane Strike (You may have this creature deal damage as if it had double strike. If you do, its first strike also damages you.)
2/2
Veirhilda, Song of Spring
Legendary Creature - Human Avatar (M)
Leitmotif - Create a 1/1 green Plant creature token. (You may play a creature's leitmotif as an Instant - Music, as it enters, attacks, or dies.)
2/3
Ogre Contralto
Creature - Ogre Warrior (U)
Ogre Contralto has +1/+1 and Trample if it's Act 3.
Narrative (Any player may pay as a sorcery to advance the game to Act 2, or if it's Act 2, pay to advance to Act 3. A player that advances the game draws a card if they control a permanent with narrative.)
2/1
Flavor: Operas in New Capenna have ritualistic undertones. Actors are part singers, part shamans, part gladiators. As they reenact history, they channel the spirits of the past, for a performance that truly energizes the audience. The "Narrative" protects the players, but in occasion, a function ends in tragedy if a player takes on a role beyond their means. Still, they are revered in success or failure, for the Narrative keeps the spirits sated and trapped in history. Angels and demons are happy to keep dormant the old rivals of the past.
iiw: not this again!
This block of cards tells a story, I love it!Mergatroid_Jones wrote: ↑2 years agoSo Kaera, the Monopolist
Legendary Creature- Demon Advisor (R)
Flash, Ward
Contract-- Don't cast any spells other than artifact and creature spells.
As long as you haven't broken So Kaera's contract, artifact and creature spells you cast cost less to cast, and when an opponent casts an artifact or creature spell, counter that spell unless its controller pays .
"Kaera Company Purchases Nine Major Districts. Does So Kaera Own Your Home?" - Nyra Nyles, New Capenna Gazette
3/3
Gazahal District
Land- Swamp (R)
Gazahal District enters the battlefield tapped unless you pay .
(: Add .)
, Pay 1 life: Add or .
"Poison Smog from Alchemical Dumpage Transforms Gazahal Grandmother Into Vicious Ooze-- Currently at Large" - Nyra Nyles, New Capenna Gazette
IIW: Replace a card in a standard legal set with another card in the same slot. (Same or similar mana value, rarity, colors, card type, and role in draft)more cards you don't have to judgeShowHideCorrupt Enforcer
Creature- Human Soldier (C)
Vigilance
Contract-- Don't attack with two or more creatures.
As long as you haven't broken Corrupt Enforcer's contract, when it deals combat damage to a player, you may search your library for a Plains, reveal it, put it into your hand, and shuffle your library.
"I'm afraid this deed's no good. It's not stamped. You don't own anything unless the deed's stamped. Now I happen to have a stamp, but I'm really not supposed to use it..."
2/2
Nyra Nyles, Daring Reporter
Legendary Creature- Human Scout (R)
When an opponent casts a spell, investigate if that player has already cast a spell this turn.
When an opponent draws one or more cards, investigate if that player has already drawn a card this turn.
Sacrifice 3 clues: Draw a card. Then tap up to three target artifacts, creatures, and/or planeswalkers. They don't untap during their controllers' next untap steps and can't activate loyalty abilities while tapped in this way.
2/2
Neighborhood Watch
Creature- Human Citizen (C)
Contract-- Don't control any other creatures with power 3 or greater.
As long as you haven't broken Neighborhood Watch's contract, it gets +1/+1.
Until the enforcers arrive, you've got us.
1/2
Purchase the Soul
Instant (C)
As an additional cost to cast Purchase the Soul, sacrifice a creature.
Create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token.
Draw a card.
"We're always in the market to buy."
Audacious Bribe
Sorcery (C)
Gain control of target creature with mana value X or less until end of turn. Untap that creature. It gains haste until end of turn.
"Sorry madame enforcer. I was distracted by this heavy bag of silver."
Sensationalism
Enchantment (M)
You may pay an additional as you cast a spell. If you do, copy that spell twice. (A copy of a permanent spell becomes a token)
"Untold Devastation! Inept Technocrat Destroyed by Own Hubris as Apocalyptic Inventions Rampage the Streets!" -Nyra Nyles, New Capenna Gazette
Godfather: 4 You're really not showing a lot of the mafia side of things, aside from the first card. I do like the contract mechanic, making someone an offer they can't refuse.
Scarface: 3 Not a lot of direct violence in here. Lots of threats, coercion, which is why you don't get lower.
Goodfellas: 5 Definitely a lot of crimes going on in this block of cards, topping off with serious libel on the part of Nyra Nyles. I resent the fact that the poor technocrat had any hubris.
Total: 12
Godfather: 2 You want to protect the family name, but not a lot of class otherwise.NinjaCaterpie wrote: ↑2 years agoCover Up
Instant (U)
Destroy target creature or planeswalker.
Cover Up costs less to cast if an opponent controls a Clue.
IIW: Make a card for your IIW.
Scarface: 5 Murder, very violent. They obviously had to meet your little friend.
Goodfellas: 4 Murder is a crime, and you want to cover up crimes.
Total: 11 I don't really get the clue discount here, but it definitely makes it constructed playable.
And you also missed my favorite Nixilis pun: Mob Nixilis.Megiddo wrote: ↑2 years agoDon Nixilis
Legendary Planeswalker - Nixilis {M}
Whenever an opponent draws their first card each turn, that player loses 1 life.
[+2]: Each player sacrifices a creature. Each player who sacrificed a creature this way draws a card.
[-2]: Target player sacrifices a creature. If they can't, you draw a card.
[-6]: You get an emblem with "Whenever an opponent draws their first card each turn, that player loses 1 life."
{3}
I gave up halfway through. may revisit.
IIW: Wild speculation about The Brothers' War
Godfather: 5 Especially if he's in the key art suit, just dripping with class
Scarface: 5 You've got to keep up on your protection money.
Goodfellas: 4 It's just one guy committing the crimes, but he is efficient at them.
Total: 14 The scoring system does expose some issues with itself here, where a very uninteresting card, especially that ultimate that's just the same static ability as the walker again, so you're losing all ties here.
Godfather: 1 No class herelookingupanddown wrote: ↑2 years agoSandrock Borough
Land - Swamp Mountain Forest
(: Add , , or .)
Sandrock Borough enters the battlefield tapped.
Cycling
Sandrock was built on a sunscorched mountain range, broken apart by the occasional marsh in the lowlands and the sparse treeline of the highlands.
Sale of Contraband
Enchantment
Whenever a creature you control deals combat damage to a player, draw a card.
: Tap target creature you don't control. It doesn't untap during its controller's next untap step. Create a tapped Treasure token.
IIW: ally-color partners (regular partner, not partner with)
Scarface: 2 I guess contraband implies violence could happen
Goodfellas: 4 Contraband selling is definitely a crime, and I agree that we should get the other half of the tricycle lands in SNC, but it doesn't have the go over the top crime that other cards have.
Total: 7
HM: Anyone with a score over 10
Winner: Sporegorger_Dragon for his mafia family heads. I think it's more likely the families are Shards than wedges, but still excellent designs.
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