DCC - November 2, 2019

[Flatline]

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.
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• 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.
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Notes of the Day

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Sorry I'm late. It's Friday. Thanks to everyone for the congrats, and the votes this month. I'll be back in December. Ho! Ho! Ho!

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DCC Scoreboard

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Flatline 97 (+4)
slimytrout 89 (+0)
RattingRots 76 (+3)
void_nothing 72 (+2)
netn10 63 (+1)
Rithaniel 61 (+1)
bravelion83 54 (+0)
wizyard 48
Sagharri 34
Krishnath 19
Henlock 18
FoilSquared 15
folding_music 7 (+7)
Blydden 3
marioguy3 3
kwanyeegor-ii 3
Legend 1

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Psst... I don't take over until the (thread for the) 3rd.

Votes: netn10, RattingRots

Shield of Nations 2WW
Creature - Giant (M)
W: The next time a source of your choice would deal damage to you this turn, it deals that much damage to target creature with toughness 4 or greater you control instead.
3/4
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Generation of Heroes 3WW
Sorcery - Adventure (M)
Put two +1/+1 counters on each creature you control.

Votes: RattingRots, void_nothing

Congrats to Flatline for another victory! Wait, I forgot: today is the last day of voting for October. Winner is announced tomorrow.

Crushing Might
Instant U
Choose target spell. Then create a 4/4 green Beast creature token unless that spell's controller exiles it.
It's difficult to focus on casting a spell when there's seven tons of angry beast coming down on top of you.

Votes:
Flatline (Yes, congratulations indeed! You just make it look so easy...)
folding_music (I had never thought about using transform as a drawback before. I really like it.)

slimytrout

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(Man, I'm a bit overloaded on CCC&G this evening: Oct. CCL finals submission → Nov. MCC round posted → DCC submission. I need to take a break, 'cuz my head is starting to hurt.)

Nah, I've been there multiple times. You'll be just fine!

Gift of Saint Traft 2WU
Instant (R)
Cast this spell only during combat and only if a creature you control is attacking.
Create a 4/4 white Angel creature token with flying and hexproof that's tapped and attacking. Exile that token at end of combat.
Flashback 5WU (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Geist of Saint Traft for reference.

flatline (congrats! I know it's not over quite yet, but definitely seems like I'm going to come up a little short), folding_music

bravelion83

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Oh yeah, I didn't mean a long break. I literally just meant that I was getting a headache from all the time staring at a screen and coming up with cards, and I needed to go do something else for a bit (in this case, drink and play board games).

Vitatog 1BG
Creature - Atog (U)
Pay 3 life: Vitatog gets +1/+1 until end of turn.
Remove a +1/+1 counter from a creature you control: Vitatog gets +1/+1 until end of turn.
1/2

Votes:
foldingmusic
flatline

United We Stand WWWWW
Enchantment (MR)
Creatures you control get +1/+1 for each creature you control.
Stand as one. Hold the line.

Votes: void_nothing, folding_music

Eternal Struggle R
Enchantment - Aure (Uncommon)
Enchant creature
At the beginning of your upkeep, enchanted creature fights itself (It deals damage to itself twice.)

RattingRots, folding music

Saulma, the Ungrateful 3b
Legendary Planeswalker - Saulma (u)
When Saulma, the Ungrateful enters the battlefield, target opponent gains control of it.
Whenever a counter is removed from Saulma, you lose 1 life.
When Saulma dies, you lose 5 life.
+1: Each player draws a card.
//3

Flatline, Rithaniel (IMO this should also be uncommon BTW)

Shimmering Maze 2
Artifact (U)
When ~ enters the battlefield, draw a card.
Sacrifice ~: Tap target creature.

[bravelion83]

Votes: Koopa, RattingRots

Honorable mention

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netn10 - I was so close to voting for this card, I love it, but the tiebreaker were the details, as usual. In this case, a typo ("Aure" instead of "Aura") and a name that reminds me more of the Eternals from Amonkhet invading Ravnica than anything else, and in fact this was the inspiration for my card for today. If this card were called "Inner Struggle" I would have probably voted for this, despite the typo.

slimytrout

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I don't drink anything but water, and I specifically don't like anything with alcohol. I've tasted some alcoholic beverages of various kinds a few times in my adult life, and I've liked none of them, not because I couldn't stand them (I've never got drunk, not even once in 36 years of life. Instead, I've had to help a few past friends who got drunk in more than one occasion), but just because I really don't like the taste of it, and I immediately feel its taste even in small doses. So I just don't drink alcohol: I don't have to taste something I don't like, and I only gain in health.

Now, board games are a whole other matter... I'm a big fan of most of them, even though I only watch videos and streaming, like LoadingReadyRun's AFKs and Long Games, because I don't have a playgroup to play them with.

Anyway, whatever you like, I'm glad to see it worked, as you're back! Also because a whole month of work together awaits us in the MCC...

Eternal Invader XBB
Creature — Zombie Warrior (R)
When Eternal Invader enters the battlefield, amass X. (Put X +1/+1 counters on an Army you control. If you don't control one, create a 0/0 black Zombie Army creature token first.)
Eternalize XXBB (XXBB, Exile this card from your graveyard: Create a token that's a copy of it, except it's a 4/4 black Zombie Warrior with no mana cost. Eternalize only as a sorcery.)
2/2

Important rules update (relevant in general, and also in particular for this card)

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Yes, it works, and here's the reason why.
Very relevant news for everybody, as it was a point I often used to bring up as an MCC judge and now, thanks to Gadwick, the Wizened forcing a CR update, it has changed:
Now if there is an X in a mana cost, the value of X DOES get passed to a triggered ability or replacement effect of the permanent. While many might think that this has always been the case, it has actually always been the contrary until ELD (in fact I've penalized so many cards as an MCC judge for this through the years, now I won't anymore), with Polukranos, World Eater being a specific exception only working because of how the CR entry for monstrosity has been written. Now it's no longer an exception, but it's true in general.

Relevant rules material

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https://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/a ... 2019-09-27

107.3K
Chamber Sentry got 107.3j to clarify an object with X in its cost and in an unrelated activated ability. Now Gadwick, the Wizened gets a new 107.3k rule to clarify that its triggered ability looks at the value X that comes from the spell it was, not the permanent it is.

107.3k If an object's enters-the-battlefield triggered ability or replacement effect refers to X, and the spell that became that object as it resolved had a value of X chosen for any of its costs, the value of X for that ability is the same as the value of X for that spell, although the value of X for that permanent is 0. This is an exception to rule 107.3h.

107.3h Normally, all instances of X on an object have the same value at any given time.

[netn10]

Votes: void_nothing, bravelion83

I'm trying an old-new drawback today.

Tolarian Sanctum
Land (Mythic)
If Tolarian Sanctum enters the battlefield during your first, second, or third turns of the game, exile it instead.
T: Add U for each artifact you control.

[slimytrout]

Rithaniel, RattingRots

Stromkirk Glutton 1R
Creature – Vampire Berserker (R)
Double Strike
Whenever Stromkirk Glutton deals combat damage to a player, discard a card, then draw a card. If you discard a Vampire card this way, put a +1/+1 counter on Stromkirk Glutton.
"Oh, just one more bite…"
1/2

[Rithaniel]

Votes: slimytrout, Koopa

Malean Drake 1ur
Creature - Drake C
Flying
Brilliance — When Malean Drake enters the battlefield, if you control a permanent with more colors than Malean Drake, Malean Drake deals 3 damage to target creature.
"The Malean is a small breed, an adult being no larger than a human child. Yet they are responsible for more than three quarters of drake-related damages.
—Zeste Walber, zoologist
2/1

[Koopa]

Votes: Rithaniel and slimytrout

Gordo, Diabolic Chef UBG
Legendary Creature - Human Peasant (R)
Foods you control are 1/1 colorless Golem creatures that are still artifacts.
Whenever a Food you control dies, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.
1G, T: Create a Food token.
It's time for some devil's food
3/3

[RattingRots]

Rithaniel, Bravelion83

HM: Henlock

Swirling Estuary
Land (C)
~ enters the battlefield tapped.
When ~ enters the battlefield, put the top card of your library in your graveyard.
T: Add U or B.

[Henlock]

RattingRots, Koopa

Boros Battlemage wr
Creature - Human Soldier Wizard (u)
You may look at the top card of your library.
You may cast the top card of your library if it targets a creature you control.
2/2

[void_nothing]

Votes: Henlock, RattingRots

Wicked Summons BBBR
Instant (R)
As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature and a land.
Create a 1/1 black Imp creature token with flying and lifelink, a 2/3 red Devil creature token, and a 4/4 black Demon creature token with flying.