September MCC Round 1
Happy bargain!
As is tradition by now, this month we will celebrate the latest set, in this case Wilds of Eldraine, by exploring its mechanics and themes, as usual in this kind of MCC months.
(*sings*) Happy bargain to me! Happy barthain to me! Happy birthayn to Leo! Happy birthday to me! (*stops singing*)
Later this month (on the 29th if you care), it will be my own birthday. Just like the bolded word, our lives slowly change, and each birthday is one more step up in the endless stairs of time. In my own case, this will be my fortieth one. I'm becoming old. What for most people is a celebration, one's birthday, is quickly becoming a burden to me. What a bargain would it be if a potion bringing you back something like twenty years existed, I would pay any price for it…
Main Challenge - Design a card with bargain and/or celebration.
Subchallenge 1 - Your card uses Food tokens.
Subchallenge 2 - Your card is an instant or a nonland permanent with flash. In other words, your card is playable at "instant speed".
• The card must have bargain or celebration itself. Granting them does NOT count.
• The card can have both bargain and celebration, but it doesn't have to. Only having either one of them is enough.
Subchallenge 1
• Creating, sacrificing, exiling them, literally everything counts as long as your card manipulates Food tokens somehow.
bravelion83 wrote: ↑9 months agoI'd say no, it doesn't count. It's not an active use of the token, or something you do to that token. In the clarifications I wrote that you need to "manipulate" the Food token. What I was picturing as I wrote that sentence is a tabletop game where you're physically taking the token in hand to do something with it. "As long as you control a Food" doesn't require you to take the token physically in your hand and do something with it, the token just needs to sit there, untouched by your fingers. So no, that doesn't count. You have to actively do something with/to the Food token. Adding this to the clarifications.
bravelion83 wrote: ↑9 months ago@Komandon Turning a non-Food into a Food does NOT count as you're not "using" the Food, you're using something else, likely a spell or ability, to turn something into a Food.
At the contrary, turning a Food into something else DOES count. You're doing something actively involving the Food, and that's the whole point of the Subchallenge.
For example, animating one or more Food token(s), aka turning them into creatures, DOES count. The reverse (turning a creature into a Food) would NOT.
Hope this helps. Adding this to the clarifications.
Subchallenge 2
• Your card must meet either one out of two requirements:
1 - being an instant, which means actually having the card type "instant" on its type line, or
2 - being a nonland permanent that has the flash keyword, allowing it to be cast at any time you could cast an instant.
• Artifact, battle, creature, enchantment, and planeswalker are the five nonland permanent card types. If you choose the option of a nonland permanent with flash, your card must have at least one of those card types on its type line.
• The card can have multiple card types.
• It should be obvious why I'm not allowing a land with flash. The short answer is it doesn't work in the rules, ot at least not in the way most people would expect it to work.
• We all know that there is no actual concept of "speed" in Magic, but we all also know what it means.
If you have any questions, feel free to post them in the MCC discussion thread.
DEADLINES
Design deadline: Friday, September 8th 2023 at 23:59 Eastern Time
Judging deadline: Tuesday, September 12th 2023 at 23:59 Eastern Time
RUBRIC
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[b]Design[/b]
[b](X/3) Appeal[/b] - Do the different player psychographics (Timmy/Johhny/Spike) have a use for the card?
[b](X/3) Elegance[/b] - Is the card easily understandable at a glance? Do all the flavor and mechanics combined as a whole make sense?
[b]Development[/b]
[b](X/3) Viability[/b] - How well does the card fit into the color wheel? Does it break or bend the rules of the game? Is it the appropriate rarity?
[b](X/3) Balance[/b] - Does the card have a power level appropriate for contemporary constructed/limited environments without breaking them? Does it play well in casual and multiplayer formats? Does it create or fit into a deck/archetype? Does it create an oppressive environment?
[b]Creativity[/b]
[b](X/3) Uniqueness[/b] - Has a card like this ever been printed before? Does it use new mechanics, ideas, or design space? Does it combine old ideas in a new way? Overall, does it feel "fresh"?
[b](X/3) Flavor[/b] - Does the name seem realistic for a card? Does the flavor text sound professional? Do all the flavor elements synch together to please Vorthos players?
[b]Polish[/b]
[b](X/3) Quality[/b] - Points deducted for incorrect spelling, grammar, and templating.
[b](X/2) Main Challenge (*)[/b] - Was the main challenge satisfied? Was it approached in a unique or interesting way? Does the card fit the intent of the challenge?
[b](X/2) Subchallenges[/b] - One point awarded per satisfied subchallenge condition.
[b]Total: X/25[/b]
*An entry with 0 points here is subject to disqualification.
JUDGES
bravelion83
void_nothing
We might or might not need more judges. If you're interested, sign up in the judge signup thread.
PLAYERS
Everyone can enter this round. Just reply to this thread posting a card that meets the Main Challenge and any number (that includes zero) of Subchallenges. Future rounds will only be open to those who advance. Come join us!
A reminder to everyone:
In the MCC, putting rarity on cards is mandatory! If you don't put a rarity on your card, expect huge deductions in both Viability AND Quality.
Please check out the MCC Guidelines and FAQ if you have the will and time. Link in my signature. Among the many things you can find there are a detailed explanation of the rubric (section 6.2) and the recommended card formatting (section 4) that you should use to format your text cards. Expect deductions in Quality otherwise.
BRACKETS
Top 4 from each bracket will advance to Round 2.
Judge: bravelion83
Freyleyes
haywire
Komandon
marioguy3
Raptorchan
slimytrout
Judge: void_nothing
AnotherAlias
KB52665
kwanyeegor-ii
netn10
Rithaniel