The DCC - November 3, 2019

[void_nothing]

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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• 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.
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Notes of the Day

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Congratulations to Flatline - but no November scores yet as I am sadly mobileposting this.

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DCC Scoreboard

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RattingRots 6 (+6)
Rithaniel 3 (+3)
bravelion83 2 (+2)
slimytrout 2 (+2)
Koopa 2 (+2)
void_nothing 1 (+1)
Henlock 1 (+1)
netn10 0 (+0)

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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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

[bravelion83]

Votes: slimytrout, RattingRots

Honorable mentions (and a letter to my superior in the Legion)

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Dear Captain Henlock,
rest assured that I'm not betraying or abandoning the Legion in any way. You know my passion and my loyalty, I'd never do that. But part of passion is sincerity, and I have to say that this new recruit doesn't really strike me as fit for the Legion. I honestly might see them better in the Izzet League... Their first ability is really something we just don't do. Their other ability might maybe make sense on another world, and I'm specifically thinking of Theros, but not here on Ravnica. What? What's Theros? One of those other worlds. Remember Gideon, the man that led our war against those bluish zombies invading our city, and that some time ago was an ally of the Legion speaking directly with Guildmaster Aurelia? Well, now he's dead, unfortunately, but before that I've had the chance to talk to him and he told me that other worlds exist and that the one he was born on is called Theros. He told me a lot about that place. And that's where I think this recruit would belong. But for now, I think I'll give them an honorable mention. After all, they're not that bad at what they do. I just wish that "what they do" was more in line with our own ideals as the Boros Legion.
Kind regards,
—Soldier Leo

void_nothing - Mostly, I like how elegant the sequence 1/1 2/3 4/4 is.

Kolaghan's Scout 1R
Creature — Goblin Scout (U)
Dash 1R (You may cast this spell for its dash cost. If you do, it gains haste, and it's returned from the battlefield to its owner's hand at the beginning of the next end step.)
Cycling 1R (1R, Discard this card: Draw a card.)
Kolaghan runs freely in the sky. Those that are fast enough to follow her live. Those that aren't become Atarka's next dinner.
3/1

[Koopa]

Votes: rithaniel, slimytrout

Antler Crash 2G
Sorcery (U)
Choose one -

• Create a 3/3 green Elk creature token.
• Target Elk you control deals damage equal to it's power to target creature or planeswalker.

[netn10]

Votes: bravelion83, RattingRots

So all colors can get 1/1 haste for 1 with two upsides...

Gingerbread Santry 2
Artifact Creature - Food Golem (Common)
Vigilance
1, T: You gain 1 life.
2, T, Sacrifice Gingerbread Santry: You gain 3 life.
The ingredients are vanilla, love and salt.
1/3

[RattingRots]

netn10, Henlock

Oak Elemental 2GG
Creature - Elemental (U)
Whenever another creature enters the battlefield under your control, put a +1/+1 counter on it.
4/4

[slimytrout]

Koopa, rithaniel

Dack, Master Misdirector 2UR
Legendary Planeswalker - Dack (MR)
+1 - Goad target creature. (Until your next turn, that creature attacks each combat if able and attacks a player other than you if able.)
+1 - Until your next turn, spells that target you or a permanent you control cost 2 more to cast.
-5 - Gain control of target artifact or tapped creature.
5

[Gateways7]

Henlock, bravelion

Contravene 1UU
Instant (uncommon)
Solitary (Before you start the game, you may reveal your library. If there are no nonbasic cards with the same name, you're solitary for the rest of the game.)
If you're solitary, Contravene costs 1 less to cast.
Counter target spell.

Contravene

[Rithaniel]

Votes: RattingRots, Henlock

Gem of Memories
Artifact U
When Gem of Memories enters the battlefield, exile your graveyard.
: Put a card exiled with Gem of Memories into your graveyard.
, Sacrifice Gem of Memories: Put a card exiled with Gem of Memories into your hand.

[Henlock]

RattingRots, Koopa

Planar Trap 1ww
Instant (u)
Choose one -
- Exile target creature that's attacking you.
- Destroy all creatures attacking a Planeswalker of your choice.

[void_nothing]

Votes: netn10, Henlock

Disperse in Dust 2W
Instant (C)
Choose one -
• Exile target artifact.
• Exile target creature, then return it to the battlefield under its owner's control.

[FoilSquared]

Votes: Koopa, bravelion83

Tenth District Revolutionary 2W
Creature - Human Rogue (C)
Vigilance
Smuggle 2 (When this card is put into a graveyard from anywhere, you may exile it with two +1/+1 counters. Whenever a creature you control that shares a color with this deals damage to a player while this is exiled, you may move a +1/+1 counter from this onto that creature.)
2/2