The DCC - March 7th, 2023

[bravelion83]

Welcome to the DCC!
If you have any questions or comments, feel free to post in the DCC Discussion Thread.

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How To Play

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How does this card-making game work? It's simple! Whenever your card receives a vote, you receive [1] point for the month. If your card ends up with the most votes for that day, you will receive [2] additional points for the month. In the event of a tie, each person who tied receives [1] additional point. At the end of each month, the person with the most points on the scoreboard wins that month, then the scoreboard is cleared for the next month. You can participate in as many or as few days as you want in any month.

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Rules

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• Each day you may post any card you want. On the next day all of the posted cards will be put into the thread as long as your card didn't get disqualified - see the next point for more details. If you post more than one card in a DCC thread, only the first card you post will be taken.
• When you vote, you need to make exactly two votes for two different people. Vote for the cards that are listed in the first post, not other cards being posted in the thread. If you notice that you've only voted for one person, include your second vote in a post, even if you're not submitting a card.
• If you want to change your vote for any reason, post that change in the day's thread (you can include it with your card if you want). Changed votes in the discussion thread will be ignored.
• Voting for only one person, for three or more people, or for yourself will earn you an asterisk by your name in the monthly leaderboard. So will failing to vote if you've posted a card. (We're not going to do anything about people who don't vote or post cards; that would be kind of silly.) This indicates that you're on probation for the next 21 days. If you're on probation and you make another improper vote, your card will be disqualified. Repeated disqualification is grounds for warnings and/or infractions for not following the game rules, so please don't do it.
• Voting for everything in the poll will be grounds for a lifetime ban from the DCC. Don't do it. It just wastes the thread creators' time.
• If you wish to post a render, please use the hyperlink option when posting your card and make the card name the image link. Renders are usually large enough to clog up the list, so submit a text-formed card and (optionally) a link in the name to the render.
• This thread is just for your card submission. Take your questions/comments to our discussion thread. If it's a question, comment, or complaint about probation, PM void_nothing and/or the month's DCC organizer.
• When posting make sure that:
  • You have included all of the previous day's entries.
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(An easy way to post the new thread is to hit the multiquote button on every post in the previous day's thread, then click Post Reply. Select everything in this post, copy it, and then paste it into the first post for a new thread. You'll have to clean up a few small things, like quote tags around the opening post and the previous day's cards.)

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Notes of the Day

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DCC Scoreboard

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netn10 16 (+2)
Riria 14 (+2)
void_nothing 14 (+3)
bravelion83 13 (+1)
RattingRots 12 (+6)
marioguy3 10 (+2)
wizyard 9 (+2)
Rithaniel 8 (+3)
kwanyeegor-ii 4
Levin 2 (+1)
WhiteBorderStoneRain 2 (+2)

Levin's probation has ended.

Votes: RattingRots, marioguy3

To be extra clear: this is NOT a card from the custom set that's associated with my story, but it could have been if I had thought of it as I was making the set. It could easily be in a return to that plane. Anyway, as I've said, please treat him well. He and his family mean a lot to me.

Lavko's Recruitment 1UR
Enchantment — Aura (U)
Enchant creature you control
Enchanted creature has haste and "Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature and draw a card."
Reload 2 (You may cast this card from your graveyard by removing two +1/+1 counters from among creatures you control in addition to paying its other costs. Exile it if it would leave the battlefield.)
"Passion, zeal, competence, control under pressure... You've got all the perfect skills to be an excellent 'fighter, recruit!"
—Lavko Kratich, Chief Firefighter

RattingRots, WhiteBorderStoneRain

Thoughtshifter 2u
Creature - Shapeshifter (R)
When Thoughtshifter enters the battlefield, exile any number of permanent cards from your hand, then draw that many cards.
Thoughtshifter has all activated abilities of cards exiled with it.
2/2

Votes: Riria, bravelion83

Wizardly Manufacturer
Creature - Wizard (Uncommon)
Whenever you untap one or more creatures for the first time each turn, create a 2/2 blue Drake creature token with flying.
, : Untap another target permanent.
1/3

mario, rith
Azlanoth, the Ascension – 3{2/c}{2/w}{2/u}{2/b}{2/r}{2/g}
Legendary Creature – God (M)
As you cast ~, you may pay x. If you do, exile up to X target cards from a graveyards.
~ has all abilities of permanent cards exiled by cards named ~
You may cast instant and sorcery spells exiled by cards named ~, and the first spell you cast this way each turn costs 0 instead.
When ~ leaves the battlefield, return all cards exiled by cards named ~ to their owners' graveyards. For each card put into a graveyard this way, each player gains 1 life.
3: Target player exiles a card from their hand or graveyard.
6: Exile target permanent. If it wasn't a land, add cc.
10/10

Votes: Rithaniel, void_nothing

Ace in the Hole R
Sorcery (Rare)
Deck of Cards (This card requires a standard deck of four suites, each with thirteen cards from ace to king. If you would and could draw from your main deck, you may draw from the standard deck instead.)
Discard an Ace card. If you do, draw three cards.

Votes: void_nothing, RattingRots (this is the kind of card which I vote for because, while it's not anything special, it's so minimalistic and obvious a design space that it genuinely surprises me it hasn't been printed yet. In other words, sometimes 0/3 creativity is an upside.)

Iomedae's Endorsement 1WW
Instant (R)
Return to the battlefield all creature cards in your graveyard that were put there from the battlefield this turn. Those that dealt combat damage this turn enter with an additional +1/+1 counter.
You should, generally speaking, do things that are uncomplicatedly Good. But there is a time and place when ends justify the means.

Votes: wizyard, Levin

Glistening Kiss

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Enchantment — Saga

I: Each opponent mills thirty cards. You draw three cards.

II: Each opponents puts a planeswalker card from their graveyard onto the battlefield. Then you put all planeswalker cards from all graveyards onto the battlefield under your control.

III: Each opponent who controls a planeswalker gets 9 poison counters.

Jace sighed, moving closer. Vraska leaned in to meet him, and their lips met, one last kiss shared in the shadow of the end. "For the glory of Phyrexia," she purred.

Votes: WhiteBorderStoneRain, Rithaniel

Cell of Breathstealers 3BBB
Creature - NIghtstalker (R)
Haste
Cell of Breathstealers can't be blocked except by three or more creatures.
When Cell of Breathstealers dies, each player loses 3 life and you create three 2/1 black Nightstalker creature tokens.
6/3

Riria (though I'm not a huge fan of the psuedotargetted sac effect to be honest), void_nothing

HM: Rithaniel

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This is an interesting idea in a few ways but I think it's a pretty big issue that even after it becomes a demon, you can still keep necro-ing which seems very strong at least in some situations as well as a bit too much of an incentive to just use it as a necro effect.

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Votes: void_nothing, RattingRots (this is the kind of card which I vote for because, while it's not anything special, it's so minimalistic and obvious a design space that it genuinely surprises me it hasn't been printed yet. In other words, sometimes 0/3 creativity is an upside.)

Very much appreciated. The goal with a lot of my card designs is to hit that zone so glad when the cards work for people (at least hypothetically).

That being said today's submission is going to be literally my least favorite effect people do in custom card designs (and might just break the rules).

Aether Emulator 2
Artifact Creature (R)
Abilities that would trigger when a spell is cast instead trigger when a spell resolves.
2/1

Votes: netn10, wizyard

Kethid, Who Regretted
Legendary Creature - Elf R
: Target creature you control fights another target creature. Then, if a creature died this way, Kethid loses this ability and becomes an Elf Druid with base power and toughness 0/7.
: If Kethid is a Druid, create a 0/2 blue Spirit creature token with "Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt to this creature." Then, if you control five or more of those tokens, Kethid becomes an Elf God with indestructible.
, Sacrifice Kethid: You may cast a card from your hand without paying its mana cost. Activate this ability only if Kethid is a God.
3/3

netn10 rattingrots

[bravelion83]

Votes: wizyard, marioguy3

Dominator of the Old Seas 3GU
Creature — Shark (R)
Vigilance
1U: Target creature an opponent controls gets -1/-0 until end of turn.
1G, T: Dominator of the Old Seas fights target creature you don't control. Activate only as a sorcery.
It doesn't need any reasons to be a predator, it's simply in its nature.
4/4

[marioguy3]

Votes: wizyard, void_nothing

Goblin Handcrafter
Creature - Goblin (Uncommon)
Haste
Whenever you scry, create a 1/1 red Goblin token.
2/1

[Riria]

Votes: wizyard, Rithaniel

RattingRots

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Flavorwise, it just felt like Makima would be the kind of character who couldn't be stopped by things like hexproof or Ward. But yes, in hindsight, "sacrifice an X of your choice" does read inelegantly.

Forbiddance 1RW
Enchantment (R)
Casterbound - Cleric (As an additional cost to cast this spell, tap a creature you control of the required creature type. That creature is the caster.)
Whenever the caster leaves the battlefield, sacrifice Forbiddance.
If a creature would enter the battlefield and it wasn't cast, exile it instead.
Whenever a creature enters the battlefield, if it doesn't share any colors with the caster, Forbiddance deals 3 damage to it.

Rules note: Casterbound double-checks for a caster on resolution. If the creature tapped for the Casterbound cost leaves the battlefield or gets its creature types somehow changed while the spell with Casterbound is on the stack, the spell fails to resolve.

[wizyard]

WhiteBorderStoneRain, Rithaniel

Force Strobe 3UuU
Enchantment (R)
Whenever a player casts a spell, counter that spell unless the last spell they cast was countered.

[Levin]

yard, ria
Torrent of Spears – 3rw
Instant (r)
~ deals 1 damage to up to two target creatures. Create a Equipment artifact token named Summoned Spear with "Equipped creature gains +1/+1" and equip 1.
Storm

[RattingRots]

Riria, wizyard

HM: bravelion83 (I'd want a way to track returned cards with that mechanic, also I think this particular card has the issue that you often just won't want to use the reload half)

Trance Stone 2
Artifact (R)
1, Sacrifice ~: Draw a card.
5, Sacrifice ~: Target opponent reveals their hand. Choose an instant or sorcery spell card from their hand or an activated ability of a permanent they control. You may cast that spell or activate that ability without paying its costs.

[netn10]

Votes: wizyard, Rithaniel

Curse of Unbinding 3BB
Sorcery (Rare)
Destroy all enchantments target opponent controls. For each enchantment destroyed this way, sting their controller. (To sting a player, create a black enchantment aura - curse with "enchant player" and "At the beginning of enchanted player's upkeep, they lose 1 life", then attach it to that player.)

[MonoRedMage]

Votes - netn10, WhiteBorderStoneRain

[Rithaniel]

Votes: bravelion83 (The "Exile it if it would leave the battlefield" part needs clarification, because, as currently worded, it does this regardless of if you cast it from your hand or your graveyard), wizyard

Olivine Amulet
Artifact U
, Sacrifice Olivine Amulet: Put target card in a graveyard into its owners library, just beneath the top three cards of that library. Then that player mills X cards.
"It might be worthless, but I still want to keep it. It reminds me of someone I once knew."

[void_nothing]

Votes: bravelion83, wizyard

Fabrication Dynamo 1G
Artifact (R)
As an additional cost to cast a creature spell, you may pay 2. If you do, that creature enters the battlefield with fabricate 1. (Separate instances of fabricate trigger separately.)
G, T: Until end of turn, if you would create one or more Servo tokens, create twice that many of those tokens instead.
4, T: Servos you control get +2/+2 and gain trample and haste until end of turn.