January CCL, Round 4: Journey

[Raptorchan]

CCL January Round 4

"Journey"


Open the Omenpaths by Eric Deschamps

Welcome to the Card Creation League! Top 4 players from rounds 1-3 can participate in this round.

Theme

This is Planar month of CCL. This month, we'll focus on unexplored parts of Dominia aka known (or less known) multiverse.

Challenge

Design a non-modal DFC transforming creature card featuring the same creature on both faces that starts on one plane on the front face and ends up being on another plane on the back face.

Clarifications

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• Your creature has a transform ability on the front side.
• Two card faces represent the same creature but can have different P/T and have different abilities.
• One creature per card face, 2 total.
• Make sure to include a rarity.

This round is for top 4 players from rounds 1-3. Your submissions are due Sunday, February 4th, 23:59 EST.

Players
@void_nothing
@AnotherAlias
@slimytrout
@Ink-Treader

Schedule

• Round 1 — Open to Everyone (January 3 - 9)
• Round 2 — Open to Everyone (January 10 - 16)
• Rounds 1 and 2 Critiques (Due January 18)
• Top 6 — Open to top 6 finishers (January 19 - 24)
• Top 6 Critiques (Due January 30)
• Top 4 — Open to top 4 finishers (January 31-February 04)
• Top 4 Critiques (Due February 09)
• Final (February 10-14, winner determined by public poll February 15-21)

[slimytrout]

Fblthp, Disoriented U
Legendary Creature — Homunculus (R)
When Fblthp, Disoriented enters the battlefield, reveal the top card of your library. If it's a land card, put it into your hand and return Fblthp to its owner's hand. Otherwise, you may put that card into your graveyard.
2UB, Exile three other nonland cards from your graveyard: Return Fblthp from your graveyard to the battlefield transformed. Activate only as a sorcery.
1/1
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Fblthp, Disinterred
({u/b}) Legendary Creature — Zombie Homunculus (R)
When Fblthp, Disinterred enters the battlefield, put up to one target creature on top of its owner's library.
Whenever another creature enters the battlefield from your graveyard, target player mills three cards.
If Fblthp would die, exile it instead.
Something about the puny, one-eyed corpse reminded Gisa of her brother.
2/2

[Ink-Treader]

Slapdash Mechanic 1UR
Creature - Goblin Artificer (R)
Whenever Slapdash Mechanic becomes tapped for the first time each turn, create a Treasure token.
Whenever Slapdash Mechanic crews a Vehicle, put an ambition counter on Slapdash Mechanic. Then if there are three or more ambition mechanics on Slapdash Mechanic, transform it.
Ravnica's narrow streets never could satisfy her need for speed...
2/2
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Stormgear Pilot
{U/R} Creature - Goblin Pilot
Remove an ambition counter from Stormgear Pilot: Target Vehicle becomes a creature in addition to its other types until end of turn.
Whenever a Vehicle you control becomes a creature, it gets +2/+1 and gains haste and hexproof until end of turn.
...and it's dubious whether the streets of Ghirapur can either.

[AnotherAlias]

Thorvus, Immersturm Assailant
Legendary Creature — Demon Berserker (M)
Flying, trample
At the beginning of your end step, if sources you controlled dealt 15 or more damage this turn, transform Thorvus, Immersturm Assailant.
When Thorvus, Immersturm Assailant enters the battlefield, discard your hand, then draw three cards.
To the denizens of Immersturm, omenpaths only mean new places to raid.
5/5

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Thorvus, Warstorm Raider
Legendary Creature — Demon Berserker (M)
Flying, trample
Ward—Pay 3 life.
Whenever another creature enters the battlefield under your control, it deals damage equal to its power to any target.
As Thorvus stepped through the omenpath from Immersturm, he came out into another Immersturm. This time, however, the Immersturm that raged on overhead was not the one of Kaldheim, but the one of Valla.
7/7

[void_nothing]

Syr Faren of Garenbrig 1G
Legendary Creature - Human Knight (R)
Whenever Syr Faren attacks, it gets +1/+1 until end of turn for each permanent with an Adventure you control.
At end of combat on your turn, if Syr Faren attacked alone this combat, you may pay 1GWU. If you do, transform it.
2/2
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Paladin Faren of the Reliquary
●●● Legendary Creature - Human Knight (R)
Lifelink, trample
Exalted
Whenever a creature you control attacks alone, if it has an Adventure, you may cast a copy of that Adventure without paying its mana cost. Otherwise, you may return a card with mana value equal to or less than that creature's power from your graveyard to your hand.
4/4

[Raptorchan]

You have three days to evaluate each other and post top 3.

[void_nothing]

Critiques

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slimytrout - Aww, Fblthp can't die! Fortunately the back face comes with a built-in way to reverse that. Both faces are a bit - let's say fiddly? Low-impact? Not that I'd expect a Fblthp card to be super high-impact. The clause that rewards creatures ETBing from the graveyard comes off as a little odd/random.

Ink-Treader - No p/t on the back face here - I feel like it should be high given the fact that transforming takes a specific outside type of card and at least three turns. Either way, Stormgear Pilot's abilities look strong with cheap Vehicles with high crew costs, and I'd like to see a combo in the vein of Hammer-Aid.

AnotherAlias - I LOVE the reference to the lore that Kaldheim's Immersturm is actually a broken-off piece of Valla's. Nice tie back to Warstorm Surge and the back face is suitably scary.

Top 3

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1. AnotherAlias
2. Ink-Treader
3. slimytrout

[slimytrout]

Ink-Treader

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Missing a p/t on the back. The treasure production is a bit random, but the vehicle theme is fun if very hard to trigger -- seems like Magda, Brazen Outlaw is mostly better at the things this wants to do.

AnotherAlias

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I find it a little weird to theme a card around WotC's retcons, but I do really like the transform condition. The backside is actually a bit weak for the difficulty -- it's almost exactly a beefed up Terror of the Peaks.

void_nothing

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There's only one aspect of this that I dislike, which is the somewhat confusing "if... otherwise" on the back face -- if it has an adventure, you get to cast it but no option to bring something back, otherwise you get to bring something back. I just think it could be cleaner. But otherwise this is a really cool card.

T3

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1. void_nothing
2. Ink-Treader
3. AnotherAlias

[Ink-Treader]

void_nothing

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A knight of Eldraine going to Bant in Alara makes a lot of sense. The backside is a little weird, as one would generally want to attack with the 4/4 lifelink and trample, but it encourages you to instead take a swing with something that has an Adventure. Kind of amusing with Realm-Cloaked Giant, if you can keep Syr Faren alive through that (though that's also just Novablast Wurm with extra steps, but I digress.)

AnotherAlias

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Curious bit of lore; didn't know that Valla was originally connected to Kaldheim. Very solid front side. The transform condition is a bit tricky, though it helps that this can survive smaller damage based wipes.

slimytrout

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Curious end for the lost homunculus, but the flavor text is amusing. Kind of a weird little value engine.

Top 3

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1. void_nothing
2. AnotherAlias
3. slimytrout