The DCC - May 23rd, 2023

[Rithaniel]

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.
  • You update the leaderboard with the previous day's scores.

(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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I put together a numerical integrator to analyze random 4-body problems. It is really slow.

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DCC Scoreboard

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Rithaniel 69 (+2)
bravelion83 60 (+6)
void_nothing 59 (+1)
RattingRots 53 (+3)
netn10 51
Riria 32 (+2)
wren 6

Votes: RattingRots, Riria

Flock Migration 2GU
Sorcery (U)
Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.
Domain — Create X 1/1 blue Bird creature tokens with flying, where X is the number of basic land types among lands you control.

Votes: void_nothing, Rithaniel

Promised Land GW
Sorcery (R)
As an additional cost to cast this spell, exile a creature you control.
The exiled creature gains "At the beginning of your upkeep, if this is exiled, exile the top card of your library. If it's a land card, put it onto the battlefield, return this to the battlefield, and put a lifelink and a double strike counter on it."
The journey is long and arduous, but at its end lies apotheosis.

Votes: Riria (all my favourite things in one place), bravelion83

Hellemental 3BR
Creature - Elemental Demon (C)
When Hellemental enters the battlefield, destroy target creature, then deal 2 damage to its controller.
Sometimes being surrounded by hell worshippers isn't good as a nation.
4/4

Votes: RattingRots, bravelion83

Luluth Colony-Trooper gu or 2w
Creature - Insect Soldier (Common)
Flying
Ward 2 and the controller of Luluth Colony-Trooper draws a card.
"A colony that safeguards knowledge, not a queen. Their wings bear the weight of discovery, soaring through the boundless skies in search of hidden truths. Their synchronized movements form an intricate dance, a testament to their collective intellect. In their tireless pursuit of wisdom, the Luluth have become living conduits of the Iqutana's will."
- "My Journey to Iquatana", Author Unknown
2/2

Votes: bravelion83 (that flavor is everything), Rithaniel

Primal Amalgam W
Creature - Phyrexian (U)
Primal Amalgam enters the battlefield with four oil counters on it.
3{R/P}: Target Phyrexian you control gains haste until end of turn. Until end of turn, Primal Amalgam has base power equal to the number of oil counters on it, gains trample, and becomes a Goat in addition to its other types.
3{G/P}: Untap target Phyrexian you control. Until end of turn, Primal Amalgam has base power equal to the number of oil counters on it, gains reach, and becomes a Spider in addition to its other types.
0/4

Votes: bravelion83 (I like the idea of "could produce this kind of mana" as an identifier), RattingRots

Curious Wanderer
Creature - Illusion Spirit R
Flying
Curious Wanderer can't block.
Sacrifice Curious Wanderer: It deals 2 damage to any target.
At the beginning of your upkeep, exile Curious Wanderer unless you pay . Return it to the battlefield at the beginning of your next upkeep.
"Damn ball of light! Just lingering around, never doing anything unless someone forces you to!"
—Hendin, Provincial Lightbinder
2/1

[bravelion83]

Votes: void_nothing, Rithaniel

Siren's Song 3WU
Enchantment — Aura (U)
Enchant creature
You control enchanted creature.
When Siren's Song enters the battlefield, you and enchanted creature's owner each draw a card.

[Rithaniel]

Votes: Riria, netn10 (I still don't know what the frame for these cards would look like)

A bit about Nadani

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So, Nadani is one of my named planes. I described it as "fantasy North America with cripplingly corrupt factions in power," previously. Today, I'd like to give it a little bit more description.

So, the plane's aesthetic is modeled after the American and Canadian regions, with technology fitting for the period ranging from the 1920s to the 1970s. Elves drive through dry, dirt roads in newly polished cars, clouds being kicked up behind them as they ride past towering pine trees. Devils in business suits meet in a clearing in the middle of a wheat field, the scene only lit by their headlights. Barges float down a vast river, kithkin in sleepy, poor towns near the river's edge looking on. A traveling orc salesperson peddles their wares from the back of a sedan in the city square of dust-coated mountain town. Humans in an isolated community keep their eyes on any traveler they don't recognize.

In the history of Nadani, at some point, the blue/black faction managed to figure out how to manipulate the natural order of things to better themselves, and used this to take over the world. As stuff shook out, they ended up with a city, Kakano, at the mouth of the plane's largest river. All trade had to go through them, and the faction used this power to break apart it's two major rivals: The Idaro and the Jumeri.

The green/white Idaro took their defeat in stride, and became something new: A mercenary band that still held to antiquated ideas of how the world should work. They survive through their collective bond with each other, and by learning to be selfish, taking things from people when they can identify that others in the Idaro faction need help. Meanwhile the white/blue Jumeri turned to rebellion, becoming angry at this new world order. They became dissidents and luddites, fighting against their Kakano lords and insisting the old rules be reinstated, no matter how futile their efforts might be.

The black/red Siresa, meanwhile, were a key part of the turmoil when Kakano was rising to power. Once just a smalltime group of ruffians and thugs, Kakano established them into a form of law-enforcement, placating them with wealth and indulgence, provided that they enforced the new laws of the land. Now, they try to bump heads with Kakano from time to time, thinking of themselves as a mafia manipulating the politics of Nadani, even though Kakano is the force truly in control.

Last, the blue faction, the Irenneka, managed to grow during the turmoil, but didn't really realize what was happening until Kakano was already in control. In the new order of Nadani, new innovations were impossible, unless Kakano approved them, meaning only if they improved Kakano's position. The Irenneka saw the flaw in this, and, since they still wanted to create and innovate, turned towards destructive tendencies, making ties with unaffiliated naturalists and anarchists across the plane, and seeking to disrupt the hold of Kakano.

Mechanically, the most unifying idea for Nadani cards is "tri-color wedges that you can play with fewer than three colors, but for which you get more benefits if you play them with all three colors."

Engraved Revolver
Artifact - Equipment U
As long as equipped creature is red, it gets +1/+1 and has ": This creature deals 1 damage to target creature or planeswalker."
As long as equipped creature is white, it gets +1/+1 and has vigilance.
As long as equipped creature is black, it gets +1/+1 and has deathtouch.
Equip
"Yeah, and a phoenix-bone handle. It's got my papi's name on it and everything."
—Siresa Enforcer

[Riria]

Votes: bravelion83, void_nothing

Fiery Fervor 1R
Sorcery (R)
Add WWW.
If this mana is spent to cast a creature spell, that creature gains haste and trample until end of turn.

[RattingRots]

bravelion83, RIthaniel (debated a bit on if this is too good, I might just have it sac unless you pay the upkeep but very fun idea either way)

HM: netn10 (but it definitely can't be a common)

Mirthful Poultergeist 1BB
Creature - Spirit (R)
Whenever ~ enters the battlefield or attacks, exile target card from a graveyard
As long as a creature with flying is exiled with ~, creatures your opponents control can't have flying. The same is true for first strike, double strike, deathtouch, haste, hexproof, indestructible, lifelink, menace, reach, trample, and vigilance.
3/3

[netn10]

Votes: Riria, Rithaniel (I would love to see a professional graphic designer tackle this)

Crushing Results 2CC or 4UU
Instant (Uncommon)
Devoid
Until end of turn, target creature becomes a colorless Eldrazi with base power and toughness 8/8 and gains annihilator 2.
"The Eldrazi made me feel small. Maybe I should thank them after all."
- Urula, Tentacles Alchemist

[void_nothing]

Votes: netn10, Rithaniel

Conqueror's Right 4W
Instant (C)
Choose one -
• Destroy target tapped creature.
• You gain 2 life for each tapped creature on the battlefield.
Death or clemency - whichever is chosen, it will be announced by the same voice and given by the same hand.