New Challenge Every Day - September 29th: Mono-Blue Instant with Deathtouch and/or Lifelink

[starjake]

Welcome to New Challenge Every Day!

Today's Challenge:
Mono-Blue Instant with Deathtouch and/or Lifelink

.::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.

.::Scoring::.
Votes you receive each day go to your points for the duration of the month. The top overall scorer(s) at the end of the month will be the winner(s).

Subject16: 66 (1)
Ink-Treader: 49 (3)
void_nothing: 38 (2)
netn10: 37 (5)
Zemoo 27 (0)
Krishnath: 26 (1)
starjake: 17 (0)
Henlock: 14 (0)
kwanyeegor-ii: 7 (0)
Cow31337Killer: 2 (0)
Legend: 1 (0)
kateodonnell: 1 (0)

.::Note of the Day::.


.::Yesterday's Submissions::.
Strengthen a lesser deck archetype

Votes: netn10, Ink-Treader

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It's time for Sui-black to make a comeback.

Crazed Flesh Reaver 2
Artifact Creature - Horror (rare)
Haste
4/4


IIW: Rare creature types (less than 10 creatures with the type, check gatherer if you aren't sure, Changelings don't count).

netn10 , void

Monogreen Stompy

Baneswolf (Rare)
2g
Creature - Wolf
4/2
Flash
Baneswolf can't be countered, discarded, or sacrificed.
When Baneswolf enters the battlefield, you may have it fight target creature or planeswalker.

Votes: Subject16, Krishnath

U/R Tempo based aggro

Monk of Ice and Fire UR
Creature - Elemental Monk (Mythic)
Prowess
Instant and sorcery cards in your hand are split cards named Ice and Fire, and they cost 1U for "Tap target permanent and draw a card" and 1R for "Fire deals 2 damage divided as you choose among one or two targets."
2/2

IIW: Mono blue instant with deathtouch and/or lifelink.

Ink-Treader, Netn10

Flyers

Second Wind WW
Enchantment (Rare)
Whenever a nontoken creature you control with flying attacks, you may pay W. If you do, create a 1/1 white Bird creature token with flying that's tapped and attacking.
Whenever a nontoken creature you control with flying dies, you may pay 1W. If you do, return it to your hand.
Never assume the flock is far away.

IIW: Giants

Vote: netn10 and void_nothing

Eh... Not a challenge I'm too knowledgeable about, but Enchantress isn't a top tier strategy as far as I know.

Starlight Loom 1GW
Legendary Artifact Enchantment (R)
Whenever an enchantment you control leaves the battlefield, you may reveal cards from the top of your library until you reveal an enchantment card. Put that card in your hand and the rest of the revealed cards on the bottom of your library in a random order.
T: Add one mana of any color. Spend this mana only to cast enchantment spells or to activate abilities of enchantments.

IIW: nonblack Shades

Votes: Ink-Treader, netn10

Auras

Gaea's Grant 3GG
Enchantment - Aura (R)
Flash
Enchant creature
Enchanted creature gets +3/+3 and has trample and vigilance.
Creatures you control other than enchanted creature get +0/+1 and have hexproof.
If truly needed even mortals can serve as maro.

IIW: The last set of a block

[Ink-Treader]

Vote: Subject16 and void_nothing

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Can't say I'm a fan of this challenge. There's a reason no instant or sorcery innately has lifelink or deathtouch.

[JovialJovian]

vote: Krishnath, Ink-Treader

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This prompt feels like a bit of a troll to me, straight up asking for a pie break

Psionic Feedback UU
Instant
If you've cast a white spell this turn, ~ and target creature gain lifelink until end of turn.
If you've cast a black spell this turn, ~ and target creature gain deathtouch until end of turn.
If you've cast a red spell this turn, ~ deals 3 damage to any target.
If you've cast a green spell this turn, untap up to two target lands.
Draw a card.

IIW: Multicolored Leviathans.

[Subject16]

Legend, Void_Nothing

Prophet's Epiphany 3U
Instant (U)
Scry 2, then draw two cards. Clerics you control gain lifelink until end of turn.
All at once, the viziers of Abreden all shared the same vision.

IIW: Fighting multiple creatures.

[dyd]

Vote: void_nothing, Subject16


Brilliant Diversion xu
Instant (Uncommon)
Deathtouch, Lifelink
Counter target spell unless its controller pays x.
If you spent at least four colors of mana to cast this spell, it deals X damage to any target.

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Curiously, I'm very intrigued by the restrictions of this challenge, instead

My solution to preserve the color pie is:
- always give the spell deathtouch and lifelink , since they have no effect if you use 3 or less colors.
- If you use 4 or 5, then you are spending B or G, so deathtouch is ok
- and you are spending W or B for lifelink
- and you are spending R for direct damage or B for life drain / destroy creature

IIW: off-color adventures

[Krishnath]

Vote: Ink-Treader, void_nothing

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I loathe pie breaks, and a blue spell with deathtouch or lifelink is a MAJOR pie break. Bends I can live with, and exploring new space, but pure breaks, like monoblue with deathtouch and lifelink, yeah. I do not like. I am not touching this one with a ten foot pole.

[netn10]

Restriction breeds creativity... but I admit my challenge might be too much.

Pact of the Psions 0
Instant (Rare)
Pact of the Psions is blue.
Deathtouch, Lifelink
Mind Break deals 4 damage to any target. If a creature died this way, target creature you control becomes a copy of that creature.
At the beginning of your next upkeep, pay wubrg. If you don't, you lose the game.

IIW: Mono blue creature with riot.

[kwanyeegor-ii]

krishnath voidnothing

Serum-Flood Threat 4UU
Instant (Rare)
Deathtouch
Until end of turn, all players have "1, Exile the top card of your library: Prevent the next 1 damage that would be dealt to you or a permanent you control this turn." Whenever damage is prevented in this way, you draw that many cards. Serum-Flood Threat deals 5 damage as you choose divided among any number of targets.
Unctus brewed a potent batch and then overstrained the tanks

IIW: no mana cost spells

[Legend]

Krishnath , netn10

Aether Dart (Common)
u
Instant
Tap target creature. If you control a red permanent, this spell deals 2 damage to that creature. If you control a green permanent, this spell has deathtouch.

IIW: a card that costs c

[Krishnath]

Restriction breeds creativity... but I admit my challenge might be too much.

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There is a difference between restriction and encouraging blatant color pie violations.

Also, please don't forget to vote.

[void_nothing]

I would suggest simply not entering contests like this if you don't like the challenge. Please don't clog up the thread discussing whether you think the challenge is bad.

Votes: netn10, Subject16

Transmogrify to Dreamstate 3U
Instant (R)
Lifelink, deathtouch
Until end of turn, if a nontoken creature would die, instead its owner returns it to their hand and creates a token that's a copy of it, if a player would gain life, instead that player untaps that many artifacts, creatures, and/or lands they control and adds that much C, and if a player would be dealt damage, instead that player taps that many untapped artifacts, creatures, and/or lands they control and they don't untap during that player's next untap step. Transmogrify to Dreamstate deals 2 damage to target nontoken creature or player.

IIW: Riff on world enchantments