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[Sporegorger_Dragon]

Let's get Jungle Patrol off the Reserved List:

Jungle Scouting Party
3{G}
Creature - Naga Scout (U)
Jungle Scouting Party has vigilance as long as you control a Wall.
1{G}, T: Create a 0/1 green Plant Wall creature token with defender named Bulwark.
Sacrifice a token named Bulwark: Add one mana of any color.
2/4

Before anyone asks, the green Wall tokens named Wood produced by Jungle Patrol do not have the Plant creature type because they've been cut down to become Wood.

However, the Bulwark token is made from living plants grown into a barrier.


Orchid of the Jungle's Heart
5
Artifact (R)
Orchid of the Jungle's Heart enters the battlefield tapped.
T: Add three mana in any combination of colors.
Not as potent as the lotus, but more versatile.


Bonus from my archival thread:
Jungle Encroachment
1{G}
Enchantment Aura (U)
Enchant land
Whenever enchanted land is tapped for mana, its controller adds an additional mana of any color.
5{G}, Sacrifice Jungle Encroachment: Create two 0/2 green Plant creature tokens with reach and defender. Activate this ability only on your turn.


IIW: Blue sea creature

[Krishnath]

Winner: Krisnath, for combining both prompts into one very interesting card. Terrible in limited, but I can't wait to play my sticker superfriends list (Even if most ability stickers work better on creatures)

Thank you. My first entry was the first thing I thought off. Why isn't child tribal a thing in Unsets? It really should be a thing in Unsets, because it would be hilarious. My second entry came about because the more I thought about it, the more it made sense for the astrotorium to have a hotel that caters specifically to planeswalkers, and the more I thought about a hotel that caters specifically to planeswalkers, the more hilarious it got. It still makes me giggle every time I think about it.

[Megiddo]

Welcome to Flamingo
We've got forum games
We've got anything you want
As long as it's forum games

I'm adding this to the OP since I dropped the little money quote on the way over to Nexus.

[chetoos]

Llanowar welcoming party 2gg
Creature - elf warrior
: llanowar welcoming party fights target creature that entered the battlefield this turn.
Whenever a creature dealt damage by llanowar welcoming party this turn dies, put a +1/+1 counter on LWP. Then, if there are 3 or more +1/+1 counters on LWP, draw a card.
"all my years, that's the warmest greeting ive seen from Llanowar. Spears and all." Teferi, unstuck in time
3/3

Iiw: universes beyond star trek (bonus points for ds9)

[Mergatroid_Jones]

Jungle
Basic Tropical Land- Forest (C)
(T: Add G.)

IIW: Uhh, Tropical is the opposite of snow I guess.

[Juancu]

Attack Through the Jungle GG
Enchantment (Acorn)
If you would attack, you may Forest-Attack instead (To Forest-Attack, number each creature that could attack. Under each forest you control, hide a different number or a blank, then forests you control are attacking. After blockers are declared, reveal the hidden numbers, and the corresponding creatures become the actual attackers. Use each declared block if legal.)

IIW: dastardly

[spacemonaut]

Smothering Vines GGG
Creature — Plant Wall (U)
Defender
Whenever Smothering Vines dies, if it was dealt combat damage dealt this turn, create two tokens that are copies of it.
As long as you control five or more Plant and/or Saproling creatures, Smothering Vines may attack as though it didn't have defender.
"Captain, do you think we should really be cutting these down? The trees seem to be getting ... angrier, somehow."
1/1

IIW: JUSTICE WILL BE DONE

[Megiddo]

@Krishnath might be time to judge

[Mergatroid_Jones]

George of the Jungle 2G
Legendary Creature- Human
Trample
When George of the Jungle attacks, defending player may tap an untapped forest they control to remove George from combat.
Watch out for that tree!
4/4

IIW: Uhh... random tribal buffs.

[CunningGabe]

Go For The... G
Sorcery
Choose one:
* Jungle - Search your library for a Forest card, reveal it, and put it into your hand.
* Jugular - Target creature you control fights target creature you don't control.
* Juggler - Destroy target Performer if it is an artifact creature.

IIW: Choose 3

[Krishnath]

@Krishnath might be time to judge

Indeed it is.

Sorry for my short absence, but there were things that needed to be dealt with that took priority.

Edit:

Welcoming Jungle
Land (R)
Welcoming Jungle enters the battlefield tapped unless an opponent controls a nonbasic land.
T: Add G. If this mana is spent to cast a creature spell with mana value 4 or greater, it enters the battlefield with an additional +1/+1 counter on it.


IIW: It's 2016. They've decided to remove Emrakul from the upcoming Shadows Over Innistrad set due to Battle For Zendikar's unpopularity in testing. Something has to replace Emrakul on Innistrad.

An interesting card, but one has to wonder, why would something that is welcoming make things bigger and scarier?

Three Jungle Baloths out of five.

Let's get Jungle Patrol off the Reserved List:

Jungle Scouting Party
3{G}
Creature - Naga Scout (U)
Jungle Scouting Party has vigilance as long as you control a Wall.
1{G}, T: Create a 0/1 green Plant Wall creature token with defender named Bulwark.
Sacrifice a token named Bulwark: Add one mana of any color.
2/4

Before anyone asks, the green Wall tokens named Wood produced by Jungle Patrol do not have the Plant creature type because they've been cut down to become Wood.

However, the Bulwark token is made from living plants grown into a barrier.


Orchid of the Jungle's Heart
5
Artifact (R)
Orchid of the Jungle's Heart enters the battlefield tapped.
T: Add three mana in any combination of colors.
Not as potent as the lotus, but more versatile.


Bonus from my archival thread:
Jungle Encroachment
1{G}
Enchantment Aura (U)
Enchant land
Whenever enchanted land is tapped for mana, its controller adds an additional mana of any color.
5{G}, Sacrifice Jungle Encroachment: Create two 0/2 green Plant creature tokens with reach and defender. Activate this ability only on your turn.


IIW: Blue sea creature

I like the Scouting Party, it's a good remake of a rarely played card from Mirage block. And a slightly more playable one. In before plant tribal.
The Orchid is a technically better Gilded Lotus, and Gilded Lotus is *good*.
However, the real standout is Jungle Encroachment. It could easily be a common, and I could see it in a token heavy set, or even as a niche common in another set. maybe with a tweaked name that alludes to a jungle area in said realm, such as Mwonvuli Encroachement or some such.

Four Vine Trellises out of five.

Llanowar welcoming party 2gg
Creature - elf warrior
: llanowar welcoming party fights target creature that entered the battlefield this turn.
Whenever a creature dealt damage by llanowar welcoming party this turn dies, put a +1/+1 counter on LWP. Then, if there are 3 or more +1/+1 counters on LWP, draw a card.
"all my years, that's the warmest greeting ive seen from Llanowar. Spears and all." Teferi, unstuck in time
3/3

Iiw: universes beyond star trek (bonus points for ds9)

Silly @chetoos, Llanowar isn't a jungle.

One confused jungle elf out of five.

Jungle
Basic Tropical Land- Forest (C)
(T: Add G.)

IIW: Uhh, Tropical is the opposite of snow I guess.

An interesting concept that seem natural, but without any example cards that make use of tropical mana, it is as hard to judge as a snow land in a vacuum.

Two Canopy Howler Monkeys out of Five.

Attack Through the Jungle GG
Enchantment (Acorn)
If you would attack, you may Forest-Attack instead (To Forest-Attack, number each creature that could attack. Under each forest you control, hide a different number or a blank, then forests you control are attacking. After blockers are declared, reveal the hidden numbers, and the corresponding creatures become the actual attackers. Use each declared block if legal.)

IIW: dastardly

Weird, but I like it. Feels more woodland acorny than jungly acorny though.

Three lost squirrels out of five.

Smothering Vines GGG
Creature — Plant Wall (U)
Defender
Whenever Smothering Vines dies, if it was dealt combat damage dealt this turn, create two tokens that are copies of it.
As long as you control five or more Plant and/or Saproling creatures, Smothering Vines may attack as though it didn't have defender.
"Captain, do you think we should really be cutting these down? The trees seem to be getting ... angrier, somehow."
1/1

IIW: JUSTICE WILL BE DONE

Eh, seems kinda overpowered for an uncommon. It can really quickly get out of hand with plant tribal. I do like it though.

Three Kudzu out of Five.

George of the Jungle 2G
Legendary Creature- Human
Trample
When George of the Jungle attacks, defending player may tap an untapped forest they control to remove George from combat.
Watch out for that tree!
4/4

IIW: Uhh... random tribal buffs.

Good reference. Almost as jungly as Tarzan.

Four great apes out of five.

Go For The... G
Sorcery
Choose one:
* Jungle - Search your library for a Forest card, reveal it, and put it into your hand.
* Jugular - Target creature you control fights target creature you don't control.
* Juggler - Destroy target Performer if it is an artifact creature.

IIW: Choose 3

Feels undercosted, but for making me giggle, it gets....

... three confused monkeys in clown makeup out of five.

HM: @Mergatroid_Jones for George of the Jungle.

And the winner is @Sporegorger_Dragon for tickling my Mirage nostalgia, giving us a better Gilded Lotus that somehow still feels balanced, and an awesome enchantment that feels really like you're in the jungle, the mighty jungle.

Only complaint was the lack of sleeping lions.

Next: Blue Sea Creature.

[Ulka]

Blue Finned Tuna 3UU
Creature - Fish
Haste, Trample
"One of the Apex creatures of the seas of Terra, the speed and might of the fish is astounding. - Volo
4/6

IIW: Planeswalkers visit Earth and name the plane Terra

[CunningGabe]

Mail-Order Sea Monkeys
(U) Sorcery
(Spells without mana costs can't be cast.)
Suspend 5 - XU
Create X+5 blue 1/1 Fish Monkey creature tokens.
Expect 4-6 weeks for delivery.
(I know, that really ought to be a white spell, but let me have my fun...)

Manglerfish 3UB
Creature - Nightmare Fish
Manglerfish deals damage to creatures in the form of -1/-1 counters.
4/5

Power Word: Krill 2UB
Instant
Destroy target creature. Create X blue 0/1 Fish creature tokens, where X is that creature's mana value.

Skullclam 1U
Artifact Creature - Equipment Fish
Whenever Skullclam or equipped creature dies, draw a card.
Reconfigure 1
1/1

IIW: School

[Juancu]

Laquad's Obsession 1UB
Enchantment - Saga
I - Create Laquad, a 1/4 blue Human legendary creature token with "Whenever this creature attacks, scry 2."
II, III - Scry 2
IV - Reveal the top card of your library. If it's a blue Whale, put it in the battlefield. It gains hexproof and "At the beginning of your combat step, each player sacrifices a human."

IIW: dastardly

[OneAndOnly]

Island-Fish Jasconi-WHAT?!
Land Creature - Island Fish
You can't play Island-Fish Jasconi-WHAT??! unless an opponent controls three or more Islands.
If Island-Fish Jasconi-WHAAT?!!! would become untapped, you may pay UUU. If you don't, Island-Fish Jasconi-WHAAAT???! becomes tapped instead.
Island-Fish Jasconi-WHHHHAAAAAAATTTT?????!!!!!! can't attack unless an opponent control an Island.
Trample.
8/8
.
Next: Hamster wheels

[Mergatroid_Jones]

Teeming School U
Creature- Fish (C)
2: Teeming School can't be blocked this turn.
Sacrifice Teeming School: the next Fish, Shark, Leviathan, Octopus, or Serpent spell you cast costs 2U less to cast.
1/2

Psi Turtle 1U
Creature- Turtle (U)
Defender, Flash
When Psi Turtle blocks a creature with power 5 or greater, draw a card.
They hatch knowing the full cycle and length of their lives.
1/5

Unseen Octopus 2U
Creature- Octopus (U)
Flash
Kicker 2G
U: Return Hidden Octopus to its owner's hand.
When Unseen Octopus enters the battlefield, it fights target creature an opponent controls if it was kicked.
2/3

Giant Blowfish 3U
Creature- Fish (U)
When Giant Blowfish blocks, or when it becomes blocked or targeted, it gets +4/+4 until end of turn, and can't be the the target of further spells or effects this turn. Tap it and remove it from combat.
4/4

Invading Starfish 2UUU
Creature- Starfish (R)
Flying
When Invading Starfish dies, you may pay Xu to create X 1/1 blue Starfish creature tokens with flying. X cannot be greater than 5.
5/5

Benthic Hydra 4UU
Creature- Hydra (R)
Benthic Hydra enters the battlefield with a +1/+1 counter on it for each Island on the battlefield.
You may choose not to untap Benthic Hydra during your untap step.
T: Tap target creature with power no greater than Benthic Hydra's power. It doesn't untap during its controller's untap step as long as Benthic Hydra remains tapped.
0/0

Starlit Septopus 6U
Enchantment Creature- Octopus (U)
When Starlit Septopus enters the battlefield, draw 2 cards.
Kiora's methods are not completely without subtlety.
4/7

Cephalo-Thing 6UU
Creature- Octopus (U)
When Cephalo-Thing enters the battlefield, create 8 1/1 blue Tentacle creature tokens.
When Cephalo-Thing leaves the battlefield, sacrifice 8 Tentacles.
0/8

Grynmohirra the Covetous 6UUU
Legendary Creature- Leviathan
When Grynmohirra enters the battlefield, gain control of up to one target artifact, up to one target enchantment, and up to one target creature.
6/6

IIW: Counting to three

[Sporegorger_Dragon]

The Orchid is a technically better Gilded Lotus

The orchid enters the battlefield tapped, unlike Gilded Lotus. Compare Timeless Lotus, which produces more mana, but is restricted to 5-color decks in Commander.

Hence, "not as potent as the lotus, but more versatile."

Thanks for the win!

[Krishnath]

The Orchid is a technically better Gilded Lotus

The orchid enters the battlefield tapped, unlike Gilded Lotus. Compare Timeless Lotus, which produces more mana, but is restricted to 5-color decks in Commander.

Hence, "not as potent as the lotus, but more versatile."

Thanks for the win!

While it enters tapped, it produces any combination of colors instead of is limited to three mana of one color. Thus the technically stronger. It is a lot more versatile than Gilded Lotus, which makes it stronger.

[spacemonaut]

Gunpowder Shrimp URW
Creature — Fish Warrior (R)
Flash
First strike
If Gunpowder Shrimp would deal combat damage to a creature or planeswalker, instead it deals that much damage plus the number of colors that permanent is.
The Brazen Coalition take both lessons and fractured bones from them back to tavern brawls.
2/3


IIW: Cards for an Atraxa deck

[void_nothing]

Starlit Septopus 6U
Enchantment Creature- Octopus (U)
When Starlit Septopus enters the battlefield, draw 2 cards.
Kiora's methods are not completely without subtlety.
4/7

BEWARE THE MIGHTY SEPTOPUS HE'S SUCH A DANDY GUY

LIVES ON TOP OF A SUBMARINE AND HE'S ALWAYS EATING PIE

[chetoos]

Despondent Merfolk 1U
Creature - Merfolk Warrior
This creature can't attack or block unless you've drawn 2 or more cards this turn.
Nothing could fill the hole in his heart, even as the fighting kept trying to poke new ones.
3/4

IIW: universes beyond star trek (bonus points for ds9)

[Ulka]

Old One's Corrupter 2U
Creature - Cephalid Shaman
When Old One's Corrupter enters the battlefield, add an amount of B equal to your devotion to blue.
it only takes one Devoted to the Great Old Ones to corrupt the many, like a drop of ink in a pool of water.
2/2

IIW; CEPHALIDS in the theme of Great old ones and or Horrors of the deep

[CunningGabe]

Turn Up The Bass 2R
Sorcery
Turn Up The Bass deals 2 damage to each creature without flying.
/////
Turn Up The Bass G
Instant
Target Fish gains +3/+3 and trample until end of turn.

Red Herring 1{U/R}{U/R}
Creature - Fish
Flash
When Red Herring enters the battlefield, change the target of target spell to Red Herring.
2/2

Spawning Salmon 3U
Creature - Fish
Spawning Salmon can't attack during your turn.
When an opponent attacks you, if Spawning Salmon is untapped, you may tap Spawning Salmon. If you do, Spawning Salmon is attacking the player who is attacking you. That player declares blockers after you do.
Whenever Spawning Salmon deals combat damage to a player, create a token copy of it.
2/3

IIW: School

[OneAndOnly]

Sea-Spanning Serpent -- 4UU
Creature - Serpent
Islandwalk
When Sea-Spanning Serpent enters the battlefield, for each player, target land that player controls becomes an Island until Sea-Spanning Serpent leaves the battlefield.
Whenever Sea-Spanning Serpent deals combat damage to a player, tap all Islands that player controls.
5/5

[Sporegorger_Dragon]

Gotta make it quick, sorry!

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Blue Finned Tuna 3UU
Creature - Fish
Haste, Trample
"One of the Apex creatures of the seas of Terra, the speed and might of the fish is astounding. - Volo
4/6

IIW: Planeswalkers visit Earth and name the plane Terra

Good fish, but the abilities...

Mail-Order Sea Monkeys
(U) Sorcery
(Spells without mana costs can't be cast.)
Suspend 5 - XU
Create X+5 blue 1/1 Fish Monkey creature tokens.
Expect 4-6 weeks for delivery.
(I know, that really ought to be a white spell, but let me have my fun...)

Manglerfish 3UB
Creature - Nightmare Fish
Manglerfish deals damage to creatures in the form of -1/-1 counters.
4/5

Power Word: Krill 2UB
Instant
Destroy target creature. Create X blue 0/1 Fish creature tokens, where X is that creature's mana value.

Skullclam 1U
Artifact Creature - Equipment Fish
Whenever Skullclam or equipped creature dies, draw a card.
Reconfigure 1
1/1

IIW: School

I like the Sea Monkeys, but you're right on that. Out of these, Skullclam is my favorite, but you should've given it Clam type.

Laquad's Obsession 1UB
Enchantment - Saga
I - Create Laquad, a 1/4 blue Human legendary creature token with "Whenever this creature attacks, scry 2."
II, III - Scry 2
IV - Reveal the top card of your library. If it's a blue Whale, put it in the battlefield. It gains hexproof and "At the beginning of your combat step, each player sacrifices a human."

IIW: dastardly

Moby Dick reference I see.

Island-Fish Jasconi-WHAT?!
Land Creature - Island Fish
You can't play Island-Fish Jasconi-WHAT??! unless an opponent controls three or more Islands.
If Island-Fish Jasconi-WHAAT?!!! would become untapped, you may pay UUU. If you don't, Island-Fish Jasconi-WHAAAT???! becomes tapped instead.
Island-Fish Jasconi-WHHHHAAAAAAATTTT?????!!!!!! can't attack unless an opponent control an Island.
Trample.
8/8
.
Next: Hamster wheels

I really don't get this one, sorry.

Teeming School U
Creature- Fish (C)
2: Teeming School can't be blocked this turn.
Sacrifice Teeming School: the next Fish, Shark, Leviathan, Octopus, or Serpent spell you cast costs 2U less to cast.
1/2

Psi Turtle 1U
Creature- Turtle (U)
Defender, Flash
When Psi Turtle blocks a creature with power 5 or greater, draw a card.
They hatch knowing the full cycle and length of their lives.
1/5

Unseen Octopus 2U
Creature- Octopus (U)
Flash
Kicker 2G
U: Return Hidden Octopus to its owner's hand.
When Unseen Octopus enters the battlefield, it fights target creature an opponent controls if it was kicked.
2/3

Giant Blowfish 3U
Creature- Fish (U)
When Giant Blowfish blocks, or when it becomes blocked or targeted, it gets +4/+4 until end of turn, and can't be the the target of further spells or effects this turn. Tap it and remove it from combat.
4/4

Invading Starfish 2UUU
Creature- Starfish (R)
Flying
When Invading Starfish dies, you may pay Xu to create X 1/1 blue Starfish creature tokens with flying. X cannot be greater than 5.
5/5

Benthic Hydra 4UU
Creature- Hydra (R)
Benthic Hydra enters the battlefield with a +1/+1 counter on it for each Island on the battlefield.
You may choose not to untap Benthic Hydra during your untap step.
T: Tap target creature with power no greater than Benthic Hydra's power. It doesn't untap during its controller's untap step as long as Benthic Hydra remains tapped.
0/0

Starlit Septopus 6U
Enchantment Creature- Octopus (U)
When Starlit Septopus enters the battlefield, draw 2 cards.
Kiora's methods are not completely without subtlety.
4/7

Cephalo-Thing 6UU
Creature- Octopus (U)
When Cephalo-Thing enters the battlefield, create 8 1/1 blue Tentacle creature tokens.
When Cephalo-Thing leaves the battlefield, sacrifice 8 Tentacles.
0/8

Grynmohirra the Covetous 6UUU
Legendary Creature- Leviathan
When Grynmohirra enters the battlefield, gain control of up to one target artifact, up to one target enchantment, and up to one target creature.
6/6

IIW: Counting to three

All interesting, but my favorite is the blowfish. A Septopus is indeed a thing, though...

Gunpowder Shrimp URW
Creature — Fish Warrior (R)
Flash
First strike
If Gunpowder Shrimp would deal combat damage to a creature or planeswalker, instead it deals that much damage plus the number of colors that permanent is.
The Brazen Coalition take both lessons and fractured bones from them back to tavern brawls.
2/3


IIW: Cards for an Atraxa deck

Pistol shrimp!

Despondent Merfolk 1U
Creature - Merfolk Warrior
This creature can't attack or block unless you've drawn 2 or more cards this turn.
Nothing could fill the hole in his heart, even as the fighting kept trying to poke new ones.
3/4

IIW: universes beyond star trek (bonus points for ds9)

Well, that's a blue fatty with a drawback if I ever saw one.

Old One's Corrupter 2U
Creature - Cephalid Shaman
When Old One's Corrupter enters the battlefield, add an amount of B equal to your devotion to blue.
it only takes one Devoted to the Great Old Ones to corrupt the many, like a drop of ink in a pool of water.
2/2

IIW; CEPHALIDS in the theme of Great old ones and or Horrors of the deep

You again
This is indeed an interesting direction to take.

Turn Up The Bass 2R
Sorcery
Turn Up The Bass deals 2 damage to each creature without flying.
/////
Turn Up The Bass G
Instant
Target Fish gains +3/+3 and trample until end of turn.

Red Herring 1{U/R}{U/R}
Creature - Fish
Flash
When Red Herring enters the battlefield, change the target of target spell to Red Herring.
2/2

Spawning Salmon 3U
Creature - Fish
Spawning Salmon can't attack during your turn.
When an opponent attacks you, if Spawning Salmon is untapped, you may tap Spawning Salmon. If you do, Spawning Salmon is attacking the player who is attacking you. That player declares blockers after you do.
Whenever Spawning Salmon deals combat damage to a player, create a token copy of it.
2/3

IIW: School

Of these, Red Herring is my favorite.

Sea-Spanning Serpent -- 4UU
Creature - Serpent
Islandwalk
When Sea-Spanning Serpent enters the battlefield, for each player, target land that player controls becomes an Island until Sea-Spanning Serpent leaves the battlefield.
Whenever Sea-Spanning Serpent deals combat damage to a player, tap all Islands that player controls.
5/5

Hmmm, interesting, might be a bit too harsh for blue players...

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HM:
Mergatroid_Jones

Winner:
spacemonaut

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