The DCC - December 21st, 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.
• 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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DCC Scroreboard

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Ink-Treader 70 (+3)
void_nothing 56 (+6)
Rithaniel 51 (+1)
netn10 38 (+2)
bravelion83 30
Ann O'maly 1

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Votes: netn10 (many thanks), void_nothing (that card name is essentially what I'm doing right now...)

Vote: Rithaniel, void_nothing

Baleful Oak 3G
Enchantment Creature - Treefolk Curse (C)
Imprecation (Sacrifice this: Add this creature's colored mana cost. Spend this mana only on spells that target an opponent and/or permanents an opponent controls.)
Reach
Whenever Baleful Oak's imprecation is spent, put three +1/+1 counters on target land. It becomes a 0/0 Elemental creature. It's still a land.
2/4

Votes: Ink-Treader, void_nothing

New Moon on the Horizon U
Sorcery (Common)
Create a 1/1 white Human Werewolf creature token with daybound that transforms into a 3/3 green Werewolf with nightbound.
Flashback - Tap three untapped Werewolves you control. It becomes night.

Votes: Ink-Treader, void_nothing

Against Light
Sorcery R
For each creature an opponent owns that left the battlefield this turn, gain control of target creature that player controls until end of turn. Untap that creature. It gains haste until end of turn.

Votes: Ink-Treader, netn10

Lazotep Sluice 6
Artifact (R)
1, T: Target player mills two cards. You create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token. Put a brick counter on Lazotep Sluice.
T: Target player mills five cards. You create a 5/5 white Zombie Dragon creature token with flying and haste. Activate only if Lazotep Sluice has three or more brick counters on it.

[bravelion83]

I've just posted updates on my personal situation in the discussion thread, feel free to check out my post there.

Votes: Ink-Treader, void_nothing

What happens when you try to mix a mechanic from one set with the flavor of the next one?

Crime Scene Investigation XXW
Enchantment (R)
When Crime Scene Investigation enters the battlefield, scry X.
Craft with an artifact, a creature, and a land 3W (3W, Exile this enchantment, Exile the three from among permanents you control and/or cards in your graveyard: Return this card transformed under its owner's control. Craft only as a sorcery.)

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Incriminating Evidence
({R/W}) Artifact
When Incriminating Evidence enters the battlefield, exile target permanent an opponent controls that shares a card type with an exiled card used to craft Incriminating Evidence until Incriminating Evidence leaves the battlefield.
At the beginning of your end step, you may pay R. If you do, Incriminating Evidence deals 2 damage to the exiled card's owner.
"The fingerprints on this weapon, found on the crime scene, prove without doubts that the suspect is indeed guilty."

[netn10]

Votes: Rithaniel, void_nothing

Never Trust a Shadow GW
Instant (Uncommon)
You gain hexproof until end of turn.
Creatures you control gains instructible and hexproof until end of turn.
Flashback - Tap three untapped green and/or white creatures you control.
"We'll leave the investigations to you. We believe in treating the cause, not the symptoms."
- Emmara Tandris, to Aurelia

[Rithaniel]

Votes: Ink-Treader, netn10

Against Reason
Sorcery R
Each player discards their hand and creates X artifact tokens named Penance Totem, where X is the number of cards they discarded this way. Then each player creates a 3/3 red and white Advisor creature token with defender, indestructible, and "If you would draw a card, you may skip that draw and sacrifice an artifact named Penance Totem. If you don't, you lose life equal to the number of artifacts you control named Penance Totem."

[Ink-Treader]

Vote: netn10, void_nothing

Vanishing Thorn 1C
Artifact - Equipment (U)
Equipped creature gets +1/+0 and has first strike and "Whenever this creature deals combat damage, you may have it phase out."
2U, Sacrifice Vanishing Thorn: Return target spell to its owner's hand.
Equip 2

[void_nothing]

Votes: Ink-Treader, netn10

Liliana's Fourfold Bargain 3B
Enchantment - Saga (R)
I - Surveil 2. You lose 1 life.
II - Draw two cards. You lose 2 life.
III - You may put a legendary artifact or legendary Demon card from your hand or graveyard onto the battlefield. You lose 3 life.
IV - Permanents you control gain lifelink until end of turn. You lose 4 life.