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NinjaCaterpie wrote: ↑

4 years ago

Bridge Lurker 1RG
Creature - Troll (R)
Morph 2RG
When Bridge Lurker is turned face up, it gains first strike until end of turn.
Whenever a creature dealt damage by Bridge Lurker this turn dies, put a +1/+1 counter on Bridge Lurker.
3/3

IIW: Tower defense

Morph on a troll is a great fit that I'm surprised hasn't happened yet (I guess trolls didn't fit with the setting for Onslaught or Tarkir). I wish the ability it had was a little more interesting though, maybe letting it morph back down (to hide back in its hidey hole) or something, cus as is the rate you're getting on either half of this card isn't that special and feels really unexciting for a rare, especially a multicolour one; this would feel better at uncommon, maybe with slightly tweaked numbers.

Flatline wrote: ↑

4 years ago

Weary Traveler b
Sorcery — Adventure (U)
Create a 1/1 white Human creature token.
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Toll Bridge Troll 3b
Creature — Troll (U)
Menace
When Toll Bridge Troll enters the battlefield, each player sacrifices a creature.
3/2

IIW: Non-token food.

The rate on this feels real pushed. Compare to Slum Reaper; menace I'd say is better than an extra power, and if you had 1 mana to spare at any point in the turns coming up to casting the troll its just a 4 mana edict strapped to a decent body with no downside. Upping the adventure's cost by 1 would both make it more fair and force the caster to make an interesting choice of whether or not they want to lose some tempo casting a 2 mana 1/1 or lose some value when it comes time to pay the troll. I do like the flavour though, and the package as a whole is solid.

wonderful wrote: ↑

4 years ago

Hungering Troll 2BG
Creature - Troll Zombie (R)
Hungering Troll enters the battlefield with a +1/+1 counter on it for each creature that died this turn.
BG, Sacrifice two creatures: Return Hungering Troll from your graveyard to the battlefield tapped.
2/2

iiw: treefolk

So there were 2 things I was looking for for this challenge: references to the 1990 classic masterpiece of a film Troll 2, or mechanics or abilities that could go on a troll to represent their sturdiness now that regenerate has been phased out (Wotc has made some new troll mechanics, I just wanted to see some more). This seems like it could be both (intentional or not), and the card itself seems balanced, interesting, fun, and unique, so this wins (though this is like the second time you and I have passed the judge torch between one another ...).

Cythare wrote: ↑

4 years ago

Let the Peat Drop 2BB
Sorcery (U)
Create two Foods, then target creature gets -X/-X until end of turn, where X is the number of Foods you control.
Whenever one or more creatures die this turn, create a black Troll creature token with "This creature's power and toughness are each equal to the number of Foods you control."

IIW: A preview card for Theros: Beyond Death that could appear in Signature Spellbook: Kiora.

If I'm understanding that delayed trigger correctly, for the rest of the turn that you cast this after literally any creature dies, including the tokens that can continuously be made of its own trigger, you'll make another troll, so this + any sac outlet = infinite death triggers and sac abilities. And if you sac your food, you don't even need a sac outlet, the troll token will have 0 toughness and instantly die and re-trigger the token chain. Even if you slap nontoken in there, getting food + removal + a bunch of tokens from killing off creatures seems busto.

mellifluoresce wrote: ↑

4 years ago

Controll Magic 5UUB
Enchantment - Aura (M)
Enchant public zone
You control enchanted zone. (You make all decisions for and control all permanents and cards in the enchanted zone.)

IIW: Get trolled

I can't tell if that IIW is flavour text or not. Considering you just always enchant the battlefield and your opponent can never attack or block with any creatures or activate planeswalkers or cast any non-instant spells, this is crazy busted and unfun if you ever get to cast it, but you probably knew that. :eyes:

Cardz5000 wrote: ↑

4 years ago

Stoneskin Troll

2GG

Creature - Troll

Slumbering 2 (This enters tapped with two slumber counters on it. As long as it has a slumber counter on it, it's a land and not a creature.)
Trample
At the beginning of your upkeep remove a slumber counter from Stoneskin Troll.
G, T: Put two slumber counters on Stoneskin Troll.
T: Add G.

6/6

IIW: Cowards, Peasants, Warlocks, and Nobles.

Slumbering seems like a lot of card text for what is mostly a downside mechanic that's fiddly and not all that interesting or impactful. I like Arixmethes a lot, but he's a lot less special and cool when there's 10+ versions of him. It's fun that it can go turn itself to stone to dodge removal, but the problem is needing to tap it do so; you want to be attacking with your 6/6 trampler, not blocking, so half the time that text just isn't doing much . And you can't remove the tap or else its just too efficient and the card is just unkillable. Maybe removing the tap and increasing the cost of activation to 3+ mana would make it an ability that is both fair and usable, but I'd rather just have a simpler execution of this concept.

avatarz wrote: ↑

4 years ago

Roof Smasher 2BG
Creature — Troll (U)
Trample
Whenever ~ deals combat damage to a player, that player discards a card at random. If a creature card is discarded this way, create a Food token.
4/3

IIW: Cards designed by Ken Nagle

I'm not the biggest fan of random discard, especially repeatable ones, as it removes player agency and can turn some games into coinflips, but the flavour of the ability is solid and your opponent would probably never give you a food token if it wasn't random anyways. Though I'm a little lost on the name: is that a reference to the movie? It's been a while since I watched it.

SecondBestFriend wrote: ↑

4 years ago

Double Decker Bologna Sandwich 0
Artifact- Food
2,T, Sacrifice Double Decker Bologna Sandwich: Gain 3 life.
2,T, Sacrifice Double Decker Bologna Sandwich: Destroy target Goblin or Vegetarian creature.

IIW: Glitz and glam

I'm half-tempted to give you the win for being the only entrant to actually directly reference the name of the challenge, but this looks both like a joke entry, which is fine, and a narrow hate card, which I detest. Still, A+.

Winner: wonderful!
Honourable Mentions: Flatline, NinjaCaterpine
Honourable Honourable Mention: SecondBestFriend

NEXT CHALLENGE: treefolk

Just Ice for All 1g
Sorcery (U)
Each player may search their library for a Snow land and put it onto the battlefield tapped. Each player that does shuffles their library.

Myr Pittance w
Instant (C)
Put a +1/+1 counter on target Myr creature you control. Untap it.

Sacrifice Fly 2b
Creature — Insect (C)
Flying
When ~ enters the battlefield, each player sacrifices a creature.
2/1

One Knight Stand gw
Instant (U)
Cast ~ only during an opponent's turn.
Tap all creatures you control, then untap target Knight you control. That creature gets +10/+10 and gains reach until end of turn.

Ally Gater 1g
Creature — Human Ally (U)
Whenever another Ally or a Gate enters the battlefield under your control, put a +1/+1 counter on ~.
1/2