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[KoolKoal]

Goblin Hooker-Looker Booker-Cooker
Creature - Goblin Player Advisor (U)
At the beginning of your upkeep, if you have more points than an opponent, draw a card. Otherwise, discard a card.
When Goblin Hooker-Looker Booker-Cooker deals combat damage to an opponent, you get 2 points.
One goblin playing the lead scoring position, setting the gambling odds, and officiating the game is pretty common in the goblin leagues.
2/1

IIW: Legendary Creature - Elder {non-dragon animal type}

[Mergatroid_Jones]

This is a great design but I get how you managed to make the typo - after all the G and U keys are not far apart :crossarms:

I have no absolutely no idea what you mean.

Disciplined Scholar 1U
Creature- Human (C)
Vigilance
"4:53-4:54-- Appreciate the complexities of life.
4:55-4:57-- Third daily dental hygienic regimen."
1/3

IIW: Mono-black pillowfort

[frogchild]

Izzet Sport Stars
Creature - Goblin Human Warrior
When Izzet Sport Stars enters the battlefield, put a flying counter on target creature you control.
Creatures you control with flying have prowess.
Sometimes the bookworms deserve a win, no matter the means necessary
3/3

IIW: ravnica college

[Sporegorger_Dragon]

Sir Fitzroy Maplecourt
2ur
Legendary Creature - Human Elf Warlock Barbarian
ur: Goad target creature. It gets +3/+0 and gains haste until your next turn.
Whenever Sir Fitzroy Maplecourt attacks, if he's goaded, choose 1, 2, or 4 at random. Mill that many cards, then exile cards from the top of your library until you exile an instant or sorcery card. You may cast it without paying its mana cost. Put the exiled cards on the bottom of your library in a random order.
2/4

(Adventure Zone reference; despite both his "title" and appearance he really is a Barbarian, who multi-classes into Sorcerer later.)

IIW: Nepenthes Pitcher-Plant

[Ulka]

Tome ThumperWU
Creature - Human Cleric
Tap an untapped book you control: Tome Thumper gains hexproof until the end of turn.
As long as you control any books, Tome Thumper has Lifelink and gets +2/+2.
2/2

This would require all books to get an artifact subtype similar to food.

IIW: Cephalids reimagined

[Cythare]

So, if this wasn't obvious, this is the counter-challenge to my previous challenge. I'm sitting at my desk staring at a foot and a half of snow that we got yesterday, so I'm not as excited to do the flavorful judging this time.

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Book Jockey 3U
Creature- Human Knight(C)
Haste
When Book Jockey deals combat damage to a player, draw a card.
"Books are the gateway to a world of imagination!" -- Gnud, Orcish Librarian
1/4

IIW: Turtles

Haste is very much not a blue ability. This needs to be multicolor (or green, as void_nothing noted), especially at common. Bonded Fetch does not count as precedent. I also liked the flavor text as an orcish librarian and was disappointed the creature was neither an orc nor a librarian.

Scribner, Sage of Secrets -- 1UU
Legendary Creature - Wizard
As long as you have three or more foretold cards in exile, Scribner, Sage of Secrets has hexproof.
: Scry 1. If you have three or more foretold cards in exile, you may draw a card.
1/1
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IIW: Amnesia

This is fine, although I'm not sure how good it is. I have no idea what rarity this is supposed to be, and that's important to properly gauge its abilities. Three foretold cards also feels like a lot to have at once.

Ok, I came up with something.

Thought Golem 3UU
Artifact Creature - Golem (R)
When Thought Golem enters the battlefield, draw a card.
Thought Golem gets +1/+1 for each card in your hand.
If you have four or more cards in hand, Thought Golem has hexproof.
If you have seven or more cards in hand, Thought Golem is indestructible.
"A full mind is considerably more dangerous than an empty one"
0/1

IIW: Superheroes and supervillains.

Hexproof and indestructible should never innately be available to the same permanent card. Make it like...flying at 4 and then one of these at 7 (probably hexproof) and then I'd be on board.

Salfir, the Librarian 2UUU
Legendary Creature — Human Advisor (M)
Prowess
Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell for the first time in a turn, you may search your hand, graveyard and/or library for any number of cards with the same name as that spell. You may cast them without paying their mana cost. If you searched your library this way, shuffle it.
"I seeked, as you, a library made of endless shelves; limitless books that would lead me to eternal knowledge. And what I found on my path? A mirror."
2/2

IIW: ooparts

This seems hilarious and honestly I'm most excited about using this with counterspells so that your opponent's card is really, really being Negated. I'm not sure how balanced it is with prowess, but it is otherwise a vanilla 2/2 mythic for 2UUU, so it at least would show up acceptably infrequently in Limited.

Bookatog 1R
Creature - Atog (C)
Sacrifice a Saga: Bookatog gets +2/+2 until end of turn.
1/2
On Dominaria, a scavenger. On Theros, also a scavenger.

IIW: Jook Bocks

Exquisite.

Brasal, Knowledge Hoarder 1UG
Legendary Creature - Troll Shaman (M)
At the beginning of your upkeep, if you have more cards in hand than each opponent, put a +1/+1 counter on Brasal, Knowledge Hoarder and it gains unblockable until end of turn.
1, Discard a card: Brasal gains hexproof until end of turn.
3/4

IIW: high cmc blue/green instants and sorceries

"gains unblockable" isn't current terminology but I am assuming that you are trying to re-keyword it here. I am a fan of the new wave of "thing gains hexproof/indestructible, you have to tap it", which also feels distinctly appropriate for a troll given how regeneration shields work, but this is still fine on its own. The tension between growing and protecting itself is cool.

Goblin Hooker-Looker Booker-Cooker
Creature - Goblin Player Advisor (U)
At the beginning of your upkeep, if you have more points than an opponent, draw a card. Otherwise, discard a card.
When Goblin Hooker-Looker Booker-Cooker deals combat damage to an opponent, you get 2 points.
One goblin playing the lead scoring position, setting the gambling odds, and officiating the game is pretty common in the goblin leagues.
2/1

IIW: Legendary Creature - Elder {non-dragon animal type}

I'm not sure how to assess "points" with a single (presumably un-) card. This seems cool but I need more info!

This is a great design but I get how you managed to make the typo - after all the G and U keys are not far apart :crossarms:

I have no absolutely no idea what you mean.

Disciplined Scholar 1U
Creature- Human (C)
Vigilance
"4:53-4:54-- Appreciate the complexities of life.
4:55-4:57-- Third daily dental hygienic regimen."
1/3

IIW: Mono-black pillowfort

I'm not clear why you're entering another blue common card that has a keyword that blue doesn't even have tertiary access to. If there's a mechanical or flavorful reason for it, more context needs to be provided.

Izzet Sport Stars
Creature - Goblin Human Warrior
When Izzet Sport Stars enters the battlefield, put a flying counter on target creature you control.
Creatures you control with flying have prowess.
Sometimes the bookworms deserve a win, no matter the means necessary
3/3

IIW: ravnica college

I don't know what rarity this is supposed to be. My guess is uncommon, but I'm unsure enough that I can't award this the win even though I really like it.

Sir Fitzroy Maplecourt
2ur
Legendary Creature - Human Elf Warlock Barbarian
ur: Goad target creature. It gets +3/+0 and gains haste until your next turn.
Whenever Sir Fitzroy Maplecourt attacks, if he's goaded, choose 1, 2, or 4 at random. Mill that many cards, then exile cards from the top of your library until you exile an instant or sorcery card. You may cast it without paying its mana cost. Put the exiled cards on the bottom of your library in a random order.
2/4

(Adventure Zone reference; despite both his "title" and appearance he really is a Barbarian, who multi-classes into Sorcerer later.)

IIW: Nepenthes Pitcher-Plant

Goading your own creatures is kind of a weird default use case. I like that it's a thing you can technically do, but this makes it sort of run on rails. I also have absolutely no idea what rarity you are envisioning this at (although I'd put it at mythic).

Tome ThumperWU
Creature - Human Cleric
Tap an untapped book you control: Tome Thumper gains hexproof until the end of turn.
As long as you control any books, Tome Thumper has Lifelink and gets +2/+2.
2/2

This would require all books to get an artifact subtype similar to food.

IIW: Cephalids reimagined

I like the idea of books as a subtype. Is this an uncommon or a rare?

HMs: frogchild, Togs, avatarz
Winner: NinjaCaterpie
Next: high cmc blue/green instants and sorceries

[Mergatroid_Jones]

The first color pie bend was for realz. The second time was just joshing.

Itlimoc's Glorious Rise GG
Instant (M)
Draw 3 cards.
Until end of turn, you may cast creature spells without paying their mana costs as though they had flash.

IIW: Shakespeare the Gathering

[avatarz]

Restitute 3GGUU
Instant (R)
Counter target spell. If you do, you gain X life, draw X cards, create X 0/1 green Plant creature tokens, then put X +1/+1 counters on each creature you control. At the beginning of your next main phase, add X mana in any combination of colors, where X is the converted mana cost of the spell countered this way.

IIW: ooparts

[OneAndOnly]

I don't generally put rarities on cards on the boards, since they're not found in boosters or packs.
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Rhizoplast Blessing -- 3GGU
Sorcery {U}
{Simic watermark}
Put three +1/+1 counters on target creature. Then, adjust the number of +1/+1 counters on each creature you control with a counter on it so they all have the greatest number of +1/+1 counters.
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A little wordy! You'd use this to put three +1/+1 counters on a creature, and then your Spike Feeder and Simic Initiate would bump up to three counters each, too. Or drop it on your Cytospawn Shambler for bomby fun times!
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IIW: Flaming skulls

[Cythare]

I don't generally put rarities on cards on the boards, since they're not found in boosters or packs.

I get the sentiment, but when trying to compare designs from multiple people to choose a winner, having a sense of the intended rarity helps figure out if the design as a whole is reasonable (even though in theory it might change during development). If there's a card that I like that has a rarity displayed and another that I like that doesn't, I'll always give the nod to the more complete picture.

Grapple 4G
Sorcery (U)
Target creature you control deals damage equal to its power to target creature you don't control.
//
Understand 3GU
Instant (U)
Aftermath (Cast this spell only from your graveyard. Then exile it.)
Draw three cards. If you control each creature with the greatest power, create two Shard tokens. (They're enchantments with "2, Sacrifice this enchantment: Scry 1, then draw a card.")


IIW: Craven knights

[Megiddo]

Gone Fishing 1U
Instant {R}
Look at the top four cards of your library. You may reveal a blue card from among them and put it into your hand. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in any order.

//MDFC//

Huge Catch 2GG
Sorcery {R}
You may put a blue creature card from your hand onto the battlefield.

IIW: the tides

[Krishnath]

Fair point about the hexproof/indestructability, however since it was an on/off threshold mechanic dependent on the players handsize, I thought I could bend the unwritten rules a little.

Oh, well, better luck next time I guess.

Call Forth the Deep Ones 8GGUU
Sorcery (R)
Search your library for up to six Kraken, Leviathan, Octopus, and/or Squid creature cards with different names and put them onto the battlefield. Then shuffle your library.

IIW: Superheroes and Supervillains.

[KoolKoal]

Call Forth the Deep Ones

This made me do a search and discover that wizards still hasn't made a card called Release the Kraken.

They're really slacking...

[Krishnath]

Call Forth the Deep Ones

This made me do a search and discover that wizards still hasn't made a card called Release the Kraken.

They're really slacking...

They're saving it for Theros 4: Thassa's Revenge.

[Ulka]

Lurker in the Depths 9UU
Sorcery (R)
Lurker in the Depths costs 1 less for each Cephalid, Kraken, Leviathan, Octopus, Horror, or Serpent in your graveyard.
Return a Cephalid, Kraken, Leviathan, Octopus, Horror, or Serpent from your graveyard to the battlefield and then return each creature with a lower converted mana cost.

I know this is on a similar length the entry above but its a card I've had sitting for over a year.

IIW: Cephalids as Mindflayers

[frogchild]

Oops I should have put a rarity, it was intended to be uncommon

Simic Steroids
Sorcery (R)
Simic Steroids costs less to cast, where X is the number of +1/+1 counters among creatures you control.
Choose any number of creatures with +1/+1 counters on them. Double those counters.
There's a reason the Simic don't play sport

Iiw: ravnica college

[Cythare]

New idea for Un-Sets: MDFCs with different rarities on each side that mix and match!

Milliner's Revenge 1U
Instant (U)
Counter target spell with no hats in its art.
//
High Fashion 4UUU
Sorcery (M)
Choose a nontoken permanent you control, then create X tokens that are copies of it, where X is the number of hats in its art. Repeat this process for each other nontoken permanent you control.

IIW: Mix-and-match Un-DFCs.

[Ulka]

@Cythare you're a mad lad

[OneAndOnly]

Does creating a token copy of a card copy its art? I'm not certain this question has ever been answered.

In fact, I'm not certain it's ever even been asked....

[Cythare]

Does creating a token copy of a card copy its art? I'm not certain this question has ever been answered.

In fact, I'm not certain it's ever even been asked....

Based on how MODO and Arena render it, I'm going to say the silver-border answer is probably yes. Also, thank you for helping me realize that this will just keep creating tokens and draw the game based on the original wording.

[avatarz]

New idea for Un-Sets: MDFCs with different rarities on each side that mix and match!

so, we can find this both in the uncommon and the mythic slots? :O It would be fun, maybe at a much lower rate than a normal uncommon would be!

[Cythare]

New idea for Un-Sets: MDFCs with different rarities on each side that mix and match!

so, we can find this both in the uncommon and the mythic slots? :O

It would appear in a dedicated DFC slot, but the rarity of the front half and the back half are independent of each other. So sometimes you'd get this combo, but other times you might get Milliner's Revenge with another uncommon back face, or possibly luck into a DFC that is mythic on both sides!

[avatarz]

New idea for Un-Sets: MDFCs with different rarities on each side that mix and match!

so, we can find this both in the uncommon and the mythic slots? :O

It would appear in a dedicated DFC slot, but the rarity of the front half and the back half are independent of each other. So sometimes you'd get this combo, but other times you might get Milliner's Revenge with another uncommon back face, or possibly luck into a DFC that is mythic on both sides!

Oooh! Randomized DFCs? This is fun.

[chetoos]

Ghalta's Rampage 8GGG
Sorcery (R)
This spell costs X less to cast, where X is the total power among creatures you control.
Target creature you control deals damage equal to its power, divided as you choose, among any number of creatures your opponents control.

Nezahal's Surfacing 8UUU
Sorcery (R)
This spell costs X less to cast, where X is the number of cards in your hand.
Choose target creature you control. Until end of turn, that creature gains "this creature gets +1/+0 for each card in your hand." and "whenever a creature enters the battlefield under your control, draw a card."

IIW: Signature spells for a legendary creature you want to have a spell.

[Megiddo]

wizards: "how can we monetize our print run errors?"