The DCC - July 20th, 2023

[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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DCC Scoreboard

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Raptorchan 52 (+1)
void_nothing 49 (+2)
RattingRots 47 (+7)
bravelion83 46 (+1)
Riria 40 (+2)
Rithaniel 40 (+3)
netn10 38 (+2)
Komandon 18
AnotherAlias 11
marioguy3 6 (+0)

Rithaniel's probation: 3 days left.

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Votes: bravelion83, RattingRots

Dungeon Cook 1g
Creature — Dwarf Rogue (C)
1, t: Exile target creature card from a graveyard. If you do, create a Food token. (It's an artifact with "2, t, Sacrifice this artifact: You gain 3 life.")
"Don't ask."
"But... "‬‎
"Don't."
1/3

Votes: Riria, netn10

HM: Raptorchan

explanation

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There is an ambiguity in the wording. The "if it's a creature" applies only to planeswalkers or to everything that comes before it (as I think it should)? If you can destroy any artifact, any enchantment, any land, or an animated planeswalker (like any version of Gideon), it's not in pie, as it allows black to destroy artifacts and also to destroy enchantments at a better rate than green or white. It would also be universal land destruction at one mana and I don't even want to think about it. Yes, I get that part is meant to apply to everything in the list, and it makes total sense in pie as you're just destroying a creature that happens to have additional card types, but I can see it being read in the other way, maybe by malicious players who want to exploit their superior knowledge of templating by trying to destroy their opponent's land that they played on their turn one. Of course if you do something like that intentionally, it's cheating, not just in spirit but also in Magic rules.

How to avoid that ambiguity? Potential alternative templates:

• "Destroy target artifact creature, enchantment creature, land creature, or planeswalker creature."

• "Choose target artifact, enchantment, land, or planeswalker. Destroy the chosen permanent if it's a creature." (This is the one I would probably choose out of all in this list as it's the closest one in functionality: the check to see if it's a creature still only happens on resolution and targeting also works in the same way.)

• "Destroy target creature if it's also an artifact, an enchantment, a land, or a planeswalker."

• "Destroy target non-battle creature." (I would avoid this, but I'm just brainstorming and spitting out ideas.)

• Make it modal:
"Choose one —
• Destroy target artifact creature.
• Destroy target enchantment creature.
• Destroy target land creature.
• Destroy target planeswalker creature."

• Like the last one but with the restriction spelled out before the modes:
"Choose one. This spell can't target noncreature permanents.
• Destroy target artifact.
• Destroy target enchantment.
• Destroy target land.
• Destroy target planeswalker."

Focused Stingbear 1GU
Creature — Bear Mutant (R)
Trample
Whenever Focused Stingbear attacks, you may choose target creature defending player controls. If you do, that creature blocks Focused Stingbear this combat if able and other creatures that player controls can't block Focused Stingbear this combat if able.
Whenever a creature dealt combat damage by Focused Stingbear this turn dies, put a +1/+1 counter on Focused Stingbear.
2/2

Votes: RattingRots, Rithaniel

Court's Resolve 3W
Instant (Rare)
Put a shield counter on each nonland permanent you control.
Cycling GU
Whenever you cycle Court's Resolve, put a shield counter on target nonland permanent you control.

RIria, void_nothing

The Battle of Malakir 1B
Legendary Battle - Encounter (R)
(Any player may attack an encounter. When it's defeated, its owner sacrifices it.)
When ~ enters the battlefield, each player creates a 2/2 black Vampire creature token.
At the beginning of each player's end step, that player sacrifices a creature that didn't enter the battlefield or attack The Battle of Malakir this turn.
10

Votes: Raptorchan, netn10

Misfortune Sliver 2UBRG
Creature - Nightmare Sliver (R)
Slivers you control have "Whenever this creature enters or leaves the battlefield, target non-Sliver creature gets -4/-4 until end of turn and you gain 4 life" and "This creature can't be blocked except by four or more creatures."
4/4

Votes: RattingRots, Rithaniel

Rocks Fall B
Sorcery (R)
Destroy all creatures with 1 toughness.
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Fuse
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Everyone Dies 3BB
Sorcery (R)
This spell costs 1 less to cast for each creature that died this turn.
Destroy all creatures.

Votes: void_nothing, RattingRots

Siresa Justice
Sorcery U
Siresa Justice deals 2 damage to target creature. If was spent to cast this spells, it deals 4 damage instead. Then you gain life equal to the amount of damage done this way if was spent to cast this spell.
"So, we had two merchants bickering over who got to sell what. So we just confiscated their stuff and kicked them out of town. No more fighting."
—Siresa Thug

rattingrots rithaniel

[bravelion83]

Votes: Raptorchan, netn10

Branched Ambush 2GG
Enchantment (R)
Land creatures you control get +1/+1.
Whenever a land creature you control attacks, put a +1/+1 counter on it.
Landfall — Whenever a land enters the battlefield under your control, it becomes a 0/0 green Treefolk creature with haste in addition to its other types for as long as you control Branched Ambush.

[Raptorchan]

Votes: bravelion83, RattingRots

Bathysmal Kraken {10}uuu
Creature - Kraken (R)
Hexproof, trample
You may reveal Bathysmal Kraken as you draw it. If you do, you may cast it without paying its mana cost if it's the first time you reveal it after activating an ability of a card named Bathysmal Kraken from your hand.
U, Reveal Bathysmal Kraken from your hand: Put it into your library thirteenth from the top.
13/13

[RattingRots]

Raptorchan, netn10

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Riria: I could be wrong but I'm fairly sure that this doesn't work the way it seems like you want it, where the first spell can give you a discount on the second. Aftermath might be a better way to make this effect work.

Teferi's Prism 4
Artifact (R)
When ~ enters the battlefield or leaves the battlefield, reverse the turn order.
At the beginning of each player's upkeep, each other player draws a card.

[void_nothing]

Votes: Raptorchan, netn10

Flowstone Moggs 1RR
Creature - Goblin Mutant (U)
Trample
1R, Sacrifice Flowstone Moggs: Target creature gets +3/-3 until end of turn.
Volrath never could stop tinkering with his already-twisted servants.
3/3

[Rithaniel]

Votes: bravelion83, RattingRots

Irenneka Proclivity
Sorcery U
Gain control of target permanent if it's an artifact or if it's an enchantment and was spent to cast this spell. If it's a creature, it gains haste. At the beginning of the next end step, that permanent's owner gains control of it unless was spent to cast this spell.
"You say you own these tools, but you clearly don't understand them. How can you say that you own them?"
—Irenneka Creator

[netn10]

Votes: Rithaniel, RattingRots

Prepare the Grains WW
Enchantment (Rare)
Whenever a land enters the battlefield tapped, put a stun counter on it.
Whenever a stun counter is removed from a land, its controller draws a card.

[Riria]

Votes: Raptorchan, netn10

Gains from Trade 1WU
Enchantment (R)
Whenever you gain 4 or more life from a single source, draw a card.
At the beginning of your end step, gain life equal to half the mana you spent this turn.