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[NinjaCaterpie]

Ziatora's Collectors 2BR
Creature - Wolf Warrior (U)
Menace
At the beginning of your upkeep, create a Treasure artifact token unless an opponent pays 2 life.
"Time to pay up."
3/2

IIW: Backlash; boycotts; angry mobs; riots.

[Ulka]

Moon's Witnesses 1G
Creature - Wolf Cleric
Whenever another creature enters the battlefield, gain 1 life.
"Hello, have you you embraced of our lord and savior, the Moon, into your life?
1/2

IIW: Draft Matters Cards

[wonderful]

Sidesmile Capo
Creature - Wolf Soldier (U)
, Pay 1 life: Sidesmile Capo gets +2/+2 until end of turn. Activate only once each turn.
2/2
"You get us the payment, and we'll make sure nothing unfortunate happens to your kneecaps."

iiw: music in magic

[chetoos]

Judging tonight! I'm packing my house, so get your entries in while I'm busy packing everything up.

[lookingupanddown]

Collector's Hounds 2WW
Creature - Dog
Extort
Whenever Collector's Hounds becomes the target of a spell or ability an opponent controls, you may draw a card.
"I've trained them to stand their ground and howl no matter what gets thrown at them, or if they get bribed. I actually encourage it. If the spell or object is of value, I could count it towards the payment of their debt."
—Kazmir, debt collector
3/3

IIW: ally-color partners (regular partner, not partner with)

[spacemonaut]

Arrival of the Wicked Wolf XGGG
(art: the wicked wolf blowing a gale that's tearing a castle apart.)
Sorcery (R)
Destroy up to X target artifacts and/or enchantments. You may search your library for a Wolf creature card with mana value X or less, reveal it, and put it onto the battlefield tapped.


IIW: the gym

[Juancu]

Suffering Vector GB
Creature - Human Werewolf (R)
When Suffering Vector enters the battlefield or transforms into Suffering Vector, put a moon token on target creature (it's a -1/-1 counter during day, and a +1/+1 counter during night.)
Daybound
1/3
--
Spreading Plaguefur
Creature - Werewolf
Trample
Whenever Spreading Plaguefur attacks, double its power until end of turn.
Nightbound
1/3

IIW: what if magic had a Mind stat in creatures from the start

[Ulka]

Abyssal Gate Hound 1BR
Creature - Demon Wolf Horror (M)
Haste, Menace
Whenever Abyssal Gate Hound attacks, each player discards a card at random.
Threshold - As long as you have 7 or more cards in your graveyard, whenever a player discards a card, Abyssal Gate Hound gets +1/+0 until end of turn.
Madness - 2BR
2/2

IIW: Draft Matters Cards

[OneAndOnly]

The Predators Gather On the Lonely Moor -- BRG
Enchantment - Saga
I -- Create your choice of a 2/2 red Wolf creature token with haste, and 3/1 green Wolf creature token with trample, or a 4/1 black Zombie Wolf creature token with decayed.
II -- Populate
III -- Choose one: Populate, or target creature can't block this turn, or each creature must block target creature this turn if able.
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If I Win: Your favorite song lyric as flavor text

[chetoos]

Quick and dirty judging, I don't have too much time tonight after everything that happened today.

Wow, Sunny Day was supposed to cost W -- something must've happened when I edited it.
,
Wolves at the Door -- 4G
Enchantmnent - Curse
Enchant player
Whenever a player could attack enchanted player, that player creates a 2/2 green Wolf creature attacking enchanted player.
.
If I Win: Cards that reference other cards by name

A very literal interpretation, though not bad.

Intelligence Culling B
Instant {U}
Destroy target creature with more than one creature type.

IIW: reincarnation

I like this one, both for the cards that it hits that it really shouldn't and the cards that it doesn't hit that it really should That said, this really should be 1B cost, like Go for the Throat. I also like calling back to the origins of the prompt.

I'll take the phrase metaphorically.

Crumbling Safety 1R
Enchantment (Commander Rare)
Crumbling Safetey enters the battlefield with 3 shelter counters on it.
At the beginning of your upkeep remove a shelter counter from Crumbling Safety.
Your opponents can't block with more creatures than Crumbling Safety has shelter counters.

IIW: Yellow is the sixth color.

This feels like a great card to use fading on, otherwise it's way too strong.

Ziatora's Collectors 2BR
Creature - Wolf Warrior (U)
Menace
At the beginning of your upkeep, create a Treasure artifact token unless an opponent pays 2 life.
"Time to pay up."
3/2

IIW: Backlash; boycotts; angry mobs; riots.

You know, aside from the obvious werewolves, I don't think we've seen sentient wolves on any plane. Yeah, Capenna has lots of various sentient races, but still no upright wolves, as far as I know.

Moon's Witnesses 1G
Creature - Wolf Cleric
Whenever another creature enters the battlefield, gain 1 life.
"Hello, have you you embraced of our lord and savior, the Moon, into your life?
1/2

IIW: Draft Matters Cards

I'm ok with more soul sisters, not bad.

Sidesmile Capo
Creature - Wolf Soldier (U)
, Pay 1 life: Sidesmile Capo gets +2/+2 until end of turn. Activate only once each turn.
2/2
"You get us the payment, and we'll make sure nothing unfortunate happens to your kneecaps."

iiw: music in magic

Again, sentient wolves on Capenna, not bad. Very good black bear. Honestly, probably too good.

Collector's Hounds 2WW
Creature - Dog
Extort
Whenever Collector's Hounds becomes the target of a spell or ability an opponent controls, you may draw a card.
"I've trained them to stand their ground and howl no matter what gets thrown at them, or if they get bribed. I actually encourage it. If the spell or object is of value, I could count it towards the payment of their debt."
—Kazmir, debt collector
3/3

IIW: ally-color partners (regular partner, not partner with)

How do the dogs owe debt?

Arrival of the Wicked Wolf XGGG
(art: the wicked wolf blowing a gale that's tearing a castle apart.)
Sorcery (R)
Destroy up to X target artifacts and/or enchantments. You may search your library for a Wolf creature card with mana value X or less, reveal it, and put it onto the battlefield tapped.


IIW: the gym

Chord of Calling and By Force had a baby, and it's not bad.

Suffering Vector GB
Creature - Human Werewolf (R)
When Suffering Vector enters the battlefield or transforms into Suffering Vector, put a moon token on target creature (it's a -1/-1 counter during day, and a +1/+1 counter during night.)
Daybound
1/3
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Spreading Plaguefur
Creature - Werewolf
Trample
Whenever Spreading Plaguefur attacks, double its power until end of turn.
Nightbound
1/3

IIW: what if magic had a Mind stat in creatures from the start

Nice, using the day/night cycle for interesting mechanics, I like it.

Abyssal Gate Hound 1BR
Creature - Demon Wolf Horror (M)
Haste, Menace
Whenever Abyssal Gate Hound attacks, each player discards a card at random.
Threshold - As long as you have 7 or more cards in your graveyard, whenever a player discards a card, Abyssal Gate Hound gets +1/+0 until end of turn.
Madness - 2BR
2/2

IIW: Draft Matters Cards

I feel like this card should have hellbent instead of threshold, but that's just me.

The Predators Gather On the Lonely Moor -- BRG
Enchantment - Saga
I -- Create your choice of a 2/2 red Wolf creature token with haste, and 3/1 green Wolf creature token with trample, or a 4/1 black Zombie Wolf creature token with decayed.
II -- Populate
III -- Choose one: Populate, or target creature can't block this turn, or each creature must block target creature this turn if able.
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If I Win: Your favorite song lyric as flavor text

This card is just my prompt again, but with a thesaurus thrown in!

Winner: @OneAndOnly for the jund saga there, mostly because, again, not a lot of time to judge and all the cards were really good.
Next: Your favorite song lyric as flavor text.

[Sporegorger_Dragon]

Dreamless Sleep
{U}{B}{B}
Instant (R)
Exile target spell, creature, or planeswalker.
You will bring joy to the Nowhere King
When he sees the light leaving your eyes.


IIW: Black moth

[Mergatroid_Jones]

Covered in Hair 1U
Enchantment- Aura (U)
Enchant nonland permanent
As long as it's not attacking or blocking, enchanted permanent is a 4/4 green Beast Illusion. (If a noncreature permanent is attacking or blocking, remove it from combat.)
"You've got a monster in your parasol." --Pir

In Calico R
Enchantment- Aura (C)
Enchant creature
When In Calico enters the battlefield, or when enchanted creature deals combat damage to a player, you may discard a card. If you do, draw a card.
Enchanted creature gets +1/+1.
"I'll tell you all my secrets, but I lie about my past." --Dack

Your Only Friend R
Enchantment- Aura Curse (R)
Enchant Player
At the beginning of enchanted player's upkeep, if that player doesn't control a Devil, they create a 1/1 red Devil creature token with "this creature can't block" and "At the beginning of your end step, this creature deals 2 damage to you unless you sacrifice another permanent."
"I'm a little glowing friend, but really I'm not actually your friend."

I Reign with my Left Hand
Sorcery (R)
Return target creature card from an opponent's graveyard to the battlefield, under your control.
"I'm lord of the darkness"
///////////{Modal DFC}\\\\\\\\\\\\\
I Rule with my Right
Enchantment (R)
Creatures you control get +1/+1
"I'm Queen of the night" -Coffin Queen

My Husband's a Werewolf 1GG
Enchantment- Saga (R)
I: Destroy target creature. Its owner creates a 3/3 green Werewolf creature token with trample.
II: Target Wolf or Werewolf creature fights another target creature you don't control.
III: Gain control of all Wolf and Werewolf creature tokens.

What a cheat, there's no flavor text!

IIW: Sweet commons

[chetoos]

Renegade Dragster 1BR
Creature - Human Pilot
Vehicles you control have "Ward - Pay 2 life or discard a card."
This creature crews Vehicles as though its power were 1 greater.
Fire up the willing engines, responding with a roar. Tires spitting gravel, he commits his weekly crime.
3/3


Dreams of redemption 2WU
Instant
Look at the top 4 cards of your library. put two of those cards into your hand, and the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order. You gain 1 life for each card in your hand.
Escape to realms beyond the night
Dream – can't you show me the light


Weight of years 1WB
Enchantment - Aura
Enchant creature
Enchanted creature gets -1/-1 can't attack or activate its activated abilities.
When the dragons grow too mighty
To slay with pen or sword
I grow weary of the battle
And the storm I walk toward


Aether Sky Storm 3RR
Sorcery
You get , then you may spend any amount of . Aether Sky Storm deals X damage to each creature, and creatures you control get +x/+0 until end of turn, where X is the amount of energy you spent.
Invisible airwaves
Crackle with life
Bright antennae bristle
With the energy


IIW: Clockwork Angels

[Megiddo]

looks like nobody listens to music here...

@OneAndOnly maybe judge?

[OneAndOnly]

Dreamless Sleep
{U}{B}{B}
Instant (R)
Exile target spell, creature, or planeswalker.
You will bring joy to the Nowhere King
When he sees the light leaving your eyes.

IIW: Black moth

It's almost a universal solution; it misses lands, and requires bounce to hit artifacts and enchantments. But that's a pretty low cost for what's a permanent solution to most other threats, so it should cost a little more.

The lyrics suggest dying moreso than exile, and I don't really see the "joy." What would this card look like if you played up that aspect? It makes me wonder if another bit of lyric from the same song might have been more appropriate ("Hush now, hide, all you little ones"?)

Covered in Hair 1U
Enchantment- Aura (U)
Enchant nonland permanent
As long as it's not attacking or blocking, enchanted permanent is a 4/4 green Beast Illusion. (If a noncreature permanent is attacking or blocking, remove it from combat.)
"You've got a monster in your parasol." --Pir

In Calico R
Enchantment- Aura (C)
Enchant creature
When In Calico enters the battlefield, or when enchanted creature deals combat damage to a player, you may discard a card. If you do, draw a card.
Enchanted creature gets +1/+1.
"I'll tell you all my secrets, but I lie about my past." --Dack

Your Only Friend R
Enchantment- Aura Curse (R)
Enchant Player
At the beginning of enchanted player's upkeep, if that player doesn't control a Devil, they create a 1/1 red Devil creature token with "this creature can't block" and "At the beginning of your end step, this creature deals 2 damage to you unless you sacrifice another permanent."
"I'm a little glowing friend, but really I'm not actually your friend."

I Reign with my Left Hand
Sorcery (R)
Return target creature card from an opponent's graveyard to the battlefield, under your control.
"I'm lord of the darkness"
///////////{Modal DFC}\\\\\\\\\\\\\
I Rule with my Right
Enchantment (R)
Creatures you control get +1/+1
"I'm Queen of the night" -Coffin Queen

My Husband's a Werewolf 1GG
Enchantment- Saga (R)
I: Destroy target creature. Its owner creates a 3/3 green Werewolf creature token with trample.
II: Target Wolf or Werewolf creature fights another target creature you don't control.
III: Gain control of all Wolf and Werewolf creature tokens.

What a cheat, there's no flavor text!

IIW: Sweet commons

Queens of the Stone Age -- Great read on the card; I like that it's an oblique reference to the flavor text, rather than straight on.

I have no idea how In Calico relates to Dack Fayden, but that's my fault for not caring so much for Magic lore.

TMBG -- What a dark read on an otherwise positive lyric

Hey Violet -- A nice pair of effects, with quite a bit of tension as to which mode to play.

Should we consider card names flavor text? It's often the first bit of "fluff" players discover, and even a series of cards with interlinked names but no flavor text can still help set the milieu, or even tell a story.

Renegade Dragster 1BR
Creature - Human Pilot
Vehicles you control have "Ward - Pay 2 life or discard a card."
This creature crews Vehicles as though its power were 1 greater.
Fire up the willing engines, responding with a roar. Tires spitting gravel, he commits his weekly crime.
3/3


Dreams of redemption 2WU
Instant
Look at the top 4 cards of your library. put two of those cards into your hand, and the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order. You gain 1 life for each card in your hand.
Escape to realms beyond the night
Dream – can't you show me the light


Weight of years 1WB
Enchantment - Aura
Enchant creature
Enchanted creature gets -1/-1 can't attack or activate its activated abilities.
When the dragons grow too mighty
To slay with pen or sword
I grow weary of the battle
And the storm I walk toward


Aether Sky Storm 3RR
Sorcery
You get , then you may spend any amount of . Aether Sky Storm deals X damage to each creature, and creatures you control get +x/+0 until end of turn, where X is the amount of energy you spent.
Invisible airwaves
Crackle with life
Bright antennae bristle
With the energy


IIW: Clockwork Angels

Rush for me is one of those bands that my older brothers always liked, but I never quite got into -- so I know them more by reputation than direct involvement. They're Canadian, right?

All the cards show a nice relationship between the song/flavor text and the rules text. Other than the first, they all have an enjoyable tension, There are some minor wording issues that deserve to be addressed to clean the cards up.

So, the winner is 2112, just narrowly beating out Frank's Wild Years and the Plantaurs.

Next: Clockwork Angels

[Krishnath]

Clockwork Seraph 6
Artifact Creature - Angel (M)
Flying, vigilance
Modular 4 (This creature enters the battlefield with four +1/+1 counters on it. When it dies, you may put its +1/+1 counters on target artifact creature.)
T: Put a +1/+1 counter on Clockwork Seraph.
Remove four +1/+1 counters from among artifact creatures you control: Return Clockwork Seraph from your graveyard to the battlefield tapped.
0/0

IIW: Ravnica in Winter.

[Juancu]

Elysian Music Box 4
Artifact (R)
1, T: Choose target creature. If you spent W to pay for this ability, put a lifelink counter on that creature. The same is true for U and flying; G and trample; R and menace; and b and deathtouch. Activate only as a sorcery.
Whenever a creature you control dies, for each kind of counter on that creature that's not on Elysian Music Box, you may put a counter of that kind on Elysian Music Box. Then you may transform Elysian Music Box.
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Dancing Seraph
Artifact Creature - Angel Construct (R)
Dancing Seraph has power and toughness equal to the number of counters on it.
*/*

IIW: tied to a new emote on Arena

[spacemonaut]

Wind-Up Seraph 2
Artifact Creature — Angel Construct (U)
Flying
Wind-Up Seraph can't attack or block unless it has three or more charge counters on it.
, Tap an untapped creature you control: Put a charge counter on Wind-Up Seraph.
4/4


IIW: the gym

[OneAndOnly]

Scroll-Gear Cherubim -- 5
Artifact Creature - Angel Construct
Flying, ward 1
+1/+1 counters and -1/-1 counters on Scroll-Gear Cherubim don't remove each other.
WW, T: Gain three life. Put a +1/+1 counter on Scroll-Gear Cherubim.
BB, Pay three life: Untap Scroll-Gear Cherubim. Put a -1/-1 counter on Scroll-Gear Cherubim.
WWWWBBBB. Sacrifice Scroll-Gear Cherubim: Gain life equal to the number of counters on Scroll-Gear Cherubim. Each opponent loses an equal amount of life.
4/4
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If I Win: Fading, Vanishing and ... ?

[Mergatroid_Jones]

Angel Factory 4
Artifact (R)
T: Put a manufacture counter on Angel Factory
5,T: Put two manufacture counters on angel factory
1, Remove three manufacture counters from Angel Factory: Create a 0/0 colorless artifact Angel creature token 3 +1/+1 counters. It has flying and clockwork. (When it attacks or blocks, remove a +1/+1 counter from it at the end of combat.)

IIW: One word card names

[Megiddo]

today i learned that Ascendant Spirit becomes an angel

[chetoos]

Judging tomorrow night, I'd love to see some more entries before then.

[Mergatroid_Jones]

Angelic Clocktower
Land
T: Add C. Put a manufacture counter on Angelic Clocktower.
T, Remove 5 manufacture counters from Angelic Cloctower:Create a 0/0 colorless artifact Angel creature token with five +1/+1 counters. It has flying and clockwork. (When it attacks or blocks, remove a +1/+1 counter from it at the end of combat.)

IIW: The coming Ixalan set

[Juancu]

Springblade Angel 5
Creature - Angel Construct (R)
Flying
Crystalline power (use the greatest base power among this creature's components.)
Whenever Springblade Angel enters the battlefield or attacks, wind it up (look at the top 2 cards from your library, and merge one under this creature face down as a gear. Pay the mana cost of a creature or artifact gear any time to turn it face up.)
⓶/4

Sharp Cog 1
Artifact - Equipment (C)
Autofold - Equipped creature [or this creature] has +2/+1.
Equip 2

[lookingupanddown]

Seraph Simulacrum 2W
Artifact Creature - Angel Construct
Flying
Whenever another Angel deals combat damage to a player, put a +1/+1 counter on Seraph Simulacrum.
At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice Seraph Simulacrum unless you pay W.
Three angels descended upon the ruins the Elgaud Grounds, attempting to re-establish the protection of the church. To their surprise, a fourth awoke from the many discarded contraptions left behind.
2/2

IIW: ally-color partners (regular partner, not partner with)