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chetoos wrote: ↑

2 years ago

I probably should have used skull raid wording. ""If less than 2 nonland cards..."

Entry:
One who hunts monsters 1W
Creature - Human Warrior
First Strike
Whenever a non-human creature an opponent controls dies, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature. Then, you may pay XBB, where X is 5 minus the number of +1/+1 counters on this creature. If you do, transform this creature and remove all +1/+1 counters on it.
"I will protect my town from the monsters that plague it."
2/2
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Monstrous Hunter (Color indicator: Black)
Creature - Human Assassin
Deathtouch
Whenever one or more creatures die, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature. This ability only triggers twice each turn.
2B, Sacrifice one other creature: Destroy target creature. Activate this ability only any time you could cast a sorcery.
"Even if I have to kill them all to do it."
3/3

IIW: Psychonauts

Interesting card; interesting flavour. Though I feel the payoff (of swapping a potentially 7/7 into a bone splinters on a stick) isn't quite there. It probably could have gotten away with not dropping the counters.

Ulka wrote: ↑

2 years ago

huh it never posted my post for the last challenge.... and this is why I don't post via mobile.

Anyway on to this current challenge:

Starving Cannibal BR
Creature - Human (U)
Whenever another Human creature dies, create a food.
Whenever you sacrifice a food, transform Starving Cannibal.
The bitter cold of winter had taken everything from Igor but his hunger
1/1

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The Wendigo
Legendary Snow Creature - Beast Horror
First Strike, Shroud
The Wendigo must attack each turn if able.
Whenever a creature dealt combat damage by The Wendigo dies, create a food and put a +1/+1 counter on The Wendigo.
For feasting on its own kind, the Wendigo is cursed to never be satiated
5/5


IIW: Innistrad: Monster of the Week

Horrible. I love it. Immaculate flavour (I feel like that's the wrong word to use here...). You definitely hit all the beats, though it might be a bit too easy to transform into a massive first-striking beast.

Krishnath wrote: ↑

2 years ago

With a challenge like this, you have to ask yourself, what is a monster? A dragon is quite clearly a monster, but so is a war criminal. Something to think about.

But here's a classic from the early days of magic, but in a new form.

The Baron 2UBR
Legendary Creature - Vampire Noble
Flying, Ward - Sacrifice a creature and pay 2 life.
Whenever a creature dies in a turn in which a vampire you control dealt damage to it, put a +1/+1 counter on that vampire and on The Baron.
T, Tap five untapped vampire creatures you control: Gain control of target creature, it becomes a blacck vampire in addition to its other colors and types.
5/5

I honestly like this version better than the one we got in CL.

IIW: Let's go on an adventure (as in the card type).

This is a very cool and flavourful lord effect, though I feel like it should also / alternatively have had the iconic player drain. The second ability being a worse Captivating Vampire is a bit sad. Tapping itself prevents you from activating it multiple times a turn, which I feel is part of the fantasy. I also don't know enough about big S to know if he would flavourfully fit into Grixis - he always struck me as very mono-black. The card doesn't really need the extra colours either.

chetoos wrote: ↑

2 years ago

special 24 hour since last post bonus entry:
Hulking Lungfish 4UB
Creature - Fish Mutant
When Hulking Lungfish enters the battlefield, exile target creature an opponent controls until Hulking Lungfish leaves the battlefield
xub: put a creature card with mana value X exiled by Hulking Lungfish into its owner's graveyard. Create an x/x colorless construct artifact creature token\
4/6

IIW: Psychonauts!

Neato, more of that Gelatinous Cube tech. Flavour works solid here, though I don't see where the clone copy comes from in the wiki (might be tied to the bigger Psychonauts plot but I haven't played it)

Cythare wrote: ↑

2 years ago

Fury of the Alpha 2RG
Sorcery (R)
Target creature you control fights target creature you don't control. Then, if the creature you control dealt excess damage, choose one:
• Put a number of +1/+1 counters on the creature you control equal to the excess damage dealt.
• Remove all damage marked on the creature you don't control and gain control of it if its mana value is less than or equal to the excess damage dealt.

I don't want to chime too much into the colour pie discussions, but I think this flavourfully fits as an extension of Threaten effects and does have some mild precedence in Opportunistic Dragon. It's a strong bend in terms of stretching an ability that already exists in the colour, but it's somewhat excusable based on how hard it is to execute. It probably could have gone with some kind of temporary-but-long threaten duration though.

Tell you what it definitely IS a bend of though - the challenge. This isn't a monster or a hunter, just vaguely monster-adjacent (and could easily fit in a world with just normal animals, or even have Surrak Dragonclaw on the art)

Sporegorger_Dragon wrote: ↑

2 years ago

Golos, Who Must Not Return
5
Legendary Creature - Horror
When Golos, Who Must Not Return enters the battlefield, sacrifice all lands you control.
wubrg: Adapt 5
5/5


IIW: Massive color pie break (ie red lifegain)

lol. Atrocious.

Ulka wrote: ↑

2 years ago

I need to make its partner:

Worldfire Returned
Suspend 9 - R
Worldfire can not be cast unless a time counter was removed from it this turn.
Exile all permanents. Exile all cards from all hands and graveyards. Each player's life total becomes 1.

I believed the social contract and robust pre-challenge discussions would have kept Worldfire out of custom card challenges in which it doesn't belong.

I was wrong.

For this reason, Worldfire is banned in Standard NinjaCaterpie challenges.

spacemonaut wrote: ↑

2 years ago

Village Champion 1W
Creature — Human Coward (U)
First strike
If it's neither day nor night, it becomes day as Village Champion enters the battlefield.
As long as it's day, Village Champion gets +3/+0.
"I'll show those fiends who's boss!"
0/3


IIW: a really awful kitchen. just the worst

Cute, but doesn't really sound like he hunts much :^)

lookingupanddown wrote: ↑

2 years ago

Noble Paladin 2WW
Creature - Human Knight (Rare)
First strike
1W, : Destroy target creature with power 4 or greater. If there are five or more creatures in a graveyard, transform Noble Paladin. Otherwise, exile it. Return it to the battlefield tapped at the beginning of the next end step. instead.
"I fight so those who cannot defend themselves can sleep at night, knowing they are safe. I fight monsters because no one else has to."
3/2
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Imperious Blackguard
⬤ Creature - Human Knight Horror (Rare)
Menace
: Destroy target creature. You lose 1 life.
Whenever a creature dies, put a +1/+1 counter on Imperious Blackguard.
"I fight so I may sow fear in those who do not already fear me. I fight monsters because I am the greatest of them all."
4/4

IIW: creature type Dreadnought

Another one! He who fights monsters becoming a monster. It's good. I feel like repeatable destruction on a pretty decent stick (which can dodge removal by blinking at the same time?) is potentially quite solid. I feel like that blink ability doesn't do what you wanted it to.