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[chetoos]

Any panda cards, anthropomorphic, or otherwise. Just go with whatever you want.

[OneAndOnly]

Piebald Bear - (W/B)
Creature - Panda (Not Bear) {R}
Affinity for Plants (Each Plant you control reduces this card's cost by 1.)
T: Exile Piebald Bear.
2/1
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If I Win: Fish

[Sporegorger_Dragon]

Panda that Eats[,] Shoots[,] and Leaves

Creature - Bear [Warrior] (R)
Cleave 3{G}
[Vigilance, trample, haste]
[When this creature enters the battlefield, it deals 2 damage to any target and you gain 2 life.]
[At the beginning of your end step, return this creature to your hand unless you pay {2}.]
4/3


IIW: Fish

[chetoos]

Busy day today, judging early tomorrow

[chetoos]

No shades of grey with this judgement, it's all in black and white!

Piebald Bear - (W/B)
Creature - Panda (Not Bear) {R}
Affinity for Plants (Each Plant you control reduces this card's cost by 1.)
T: Exile Piebald Bear.
2/1
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If I Win: Fish

Well, you copied sporegorger's IIW, but the card is not very interesting. Besides, Pandas are true bears.

Panda that Eats[,] Shoots[,] and Leaves

Creature - Bear [Warrior] (R)
Cleave 3{G}
[Vigilance, trample, haste]
[When this creature enters the battlefield, it deals 2 damage to any target and you gain 2 life.]
[At the beginning of your end step, return this creature to your hand unless you pay {2}.]
4/3


IIW: Fish

Now this I like. A correct typing, and a grammar lesson all in one? It's amazing! I also love the very creative use of cleave in this instance.

Winner: @Sporegorger_Dragon
Next: Fish

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Po, oafish server 1WB
Legendary Creature - Panda Citizen
When Po enters the battlefield or attacks, create a food token.
Whenever you sacrifice a food, target creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.
Sacrifice 3 food: Transform Po, Oafish Server
1/4
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Po, Dragon Warrior
Legendary Creature - Panda Monk Warrior
Po deals combat damage equal to its toughness, rather than its power
Whenever Po attacks, create a food token.
Whenever you sacrifice a food, put a +1/+1 counter on target creature.
2/6

[wonderful]

Professor Fish 1U
Legendary Creature - Fish Advisor (R)
Whenever you discard an Instant or Sorcery card, exile it.
U, Tap another untapped creature you control: Draw a card then discard a card.
3U, T: You may cast a card exiled by Professor Fish without paying its mana cost.
1/3

iiw: never saw it coming

[OneAndOnly]

Nucular Fish-ion -- XUUR
Sorcery {R}
Create X 1/1 blue Fish creature tokens with "This creature can't be blocked".
Creatures you control gain haste until end of turn.
Whenever a creature you control deals combat damage to an opponent this turn, choose one -- Draw a card; or create a 1/1 blue Fish creature token with "This creature can't be blocked."

If I Win: Roots

[chetoos]

Coelacanth Skeleton 2UB
Creature - Fish Skeleton
skulk, first strike
You may cast Coelacanth skeleton from your graveyard.
If this creature would die, exile it instead.
When this creature attacks and isn't blocked, transform it.
1/5
//
Coelacanth, Living Fossil (Color Indicator Blue)
Creature - Fish
Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, draw a card.
At the beginning of your end step, if you drew three or more cards this turn, create a 1/1 blue and black fish skeleton creature token with "This creature can't be blocked."
3/3

IIW: "It belongs in a museum!"

[Sporegorger_Dragon]

*pulled from the river half-drowned after attempting to join the salmon on the upstream migration*

Right, let's go!

Professor Fish 1U
Legendary Creature - Fish Advisor (R)
Whenever you discard an Instant or Sorcery card, exile it.
U, Tap another untapped creature you control: Draw a card then discard a card.
3U, T: You may cast a card exiled by Professor Fish without paying its mana cost.
1/3

iiw: never saw it coming

Huh, I like the overall idea, but this seems a little too powerful; we do have lots of high-cost sorceries/instants that are game-winning.

Nucular Fish-ion -- XUUR
Sorcery {R}
Create X 1/1 blue Fish creature tokens with "This creature can't be blocked".
Creatures you control gain haste until end of turn.
Whenever a creature you control deals combat damage to an opponent this turn, choose one -- Draw a card; or create a 1/1 blue Fish creature token with "This creature can't be blocked."

If I Win: Roots

Speaking of which. This is an interesting one, since you can still cast with X=0 and still get some sort of effect, also applies to casting it for free. That's an interesting direction for X spells to take.

Coelacanth Skeleton 2UB
Creature - Fish Skeleton
skulk, first strike
You may cast Coelacanth skeleton from your graveyard.
If this creature would die, exile it instead.
When this creature attacks and isn't blocked, transform it.
1/5
//
Coelacanth, Living Fossil (Color Indicator Blue)
Creature - Fish
Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, draw a card.
At the beginning of your end step, if you drew three or more cards this turn, create a 1/1 blue and black fish skeleton creature token with "This creature can't be blocked."
3/3

IIW: "It belongs in a museum!"

Ah, the coelcanth! I assume this is referencing the discovery of the living coelacanth.

The front side has an interesting set of abilities; usually the exile clause would be on the back side, to prevent it from being perpetually recast from the graveyard. I understand though that the point is to make an interesting play pattern, because otherwise there's little incentive to transform when you can simply recast it as a blocker, whereas as-worded it encourages attacking since successfully transforming it means you get to recast from the graveyard if it dies later.


Winner: chetoos
Next: "It belongs in a museum!"

[chetoos]

Ah, the coelcanth! I assume this is referencing the discovery of the living coelacanth.

The front side has an interesting set of abilities; usually the exile clause would be on the back side, to prevent it from being perpetually recast from the graveyard. I understand though that the point is to make an interesting play pattern, because otherwise there's little incentive to transform when you can simply recast it as a blocker, whereas as-worded it encourages attacking since successfully transforming it means you get to recast from the graveyard if it dies later.

Right on all fronts, from the reference, to the subtle gameplay loops I'm trying to encourage here. Initially, I gave it first strike and wither, but that seemed too good.

Alternate IIW: Subtype Case

[Phyrexian Editor]

Preservation Decree w
Enchantment - Aura {U}
Enchant noncreature permanent
When Preservation Decree enters the battlefield, draw a card.
Enchanted permanent has indestructible and can't be tapped except to activate mana abilities.
"The lawmages and dryads would render the entire city sterile, conserved. 'Safe'." -Vor Golozar

IIW: A new twist on stealing.

[OneAndOnly]

Elegant Replica -- 3
Legendary Artifact {R}
You may cast artifact cards in your hand as though they were copies of artifact cards in the graveyard with the same mana value. (For example, you may cast an artifact card in your hand with mana value 5 as a copy of an artifact card in the graveyard with mana value 5.)
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If I Win: Lumberjacks

[lookingupanddown]

Case of the Missing Artworks 2WW
Enchantment - Case
When Case of the Missing Artworks enters the battlefield, sacrifice all noncreature historic permanents you control.
To solve — You control four or more noncreature historic permanents. (If unsolved, solve at the beginning of your end step.)
Solved — At the beginning of your end step, you gain life equal to twice the number of noncreature historic permanents you control. If you gain at least 10 life this way, create a Treasure token.

IIW: an artwork worth stealing

[chetoos]

We already got Lara, when are we getting my boy Henry Jones Jr on a card?

Preservation Decree w
Enchantment - Aura {U}
Enchant noncreature permanent
When Preservation Decree enters the battlefield, draw a card.
Enchanted permanent has indestructible and can't be tapped except to activate mana abilities.
"The lawmages and dryads would render the entire city sterile, conserved. 'Safe'." -Vor Golozar

IIW: A new twist on stealing.

I was gonna read up on the rules for attacking until I saw "noncreature"... ok, fair. A very direct method of keeping something safe, more the put it in the museum than the thing that belongs in it, but still nice.

Elegant Replica -- 3
Legendary Artifact {R}
You may cast artifact cards in your hand as though they were copies of artifact cards in the graveyard with the same mana value. (For example, you may cast an artifact card in your hand with mana value 5 as a copy of an artifact card in the graveyard with mana value 5.)
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If I Win: Lumberjacks

Finally making Mishra, Artificer Prodigy work in EDH! I like it, lol.

Case of the Missing Artworks 2WW
Enchantment - Case
When Case of the Missing Artworks enters the battlefield, sacrifice all noncreature historic permanents you control.
To solve — You control four or more noncreature historic permanents. (If unsolved, solve at the beginning of your end step.)
Solved — At the beginning of your end step, you gain life equal to twice the number of noncreature historic permanents you control. If you gain at least 10 life this way, create a Treasure token.

IIW: an artwork worth stealing

While I'm ok with losing treasures, I'm not sure if losing a potentially large chunk of my mana base is worth the reward at the end. Maybe instead of making a treasure, you can return a noncreature historic permanent card from your yard if you gained enough life?

Winner: Oneandonly
Next: Lumberjacks

[chetoos]

Compton's Cookoff 2GU
Enchantment - Saga
Whenever one or more lore counters are placed on this saga, create that many food tokens and that many 0/1 white goat creature tokens.
Non-goat creatures can't attack as long as you control a goat.
| - Grulovian Drowned Egg - Tap target creature and put a stun counter on it.
|| - Strawberry Jam Croque Madame - Put a +1/+1 counter on target creature you control
||| - Lumberstack - Create a 1/1 green insect creature token with flying and deathtouch, then create a number of those tokens equal to the number of goats you control.

IIW: Mechanics from MKM

[chetoos]

Ok, someone else has to enter here. I really don't wanna win a default victory with this entry. I intentionally only made it tangentially related to the prompt to lose points.

[Sporegorger_Dragon]

Orgg Lumberjack
4{B}{R}
Creature - Orgg Warrior (U)
Haste
Whenever Orgg Lumberjack attacks, you may sacrifice it. If you do, destroy target Forest or nonbasic land.
5/5
They had to stop using orggs because too many of them were killed by the tree falling on them.

IIW: Lizard

[OneAndOnly]

I am going to give this contest 48 more years before judging.

[spacemonaut]

I'll submit one in that window too.

[Ulka]

Lumberjack Fantasies {R/G}
Kindred Instant - Lumberjack
Until end of turn target creature gain "T, Sacrifice a Forest: Add three mana in any combination of R and/or G." and becomes a Lumberjack in addition to its other types.
"Jhoira often seems to be daydreaming during classes on natural magics. I wonder what she is dreaming about. —Barrin, progress report


IIW: Not so Dramatic Returns

[chetoos]

Lumberjack Fantasies {R/G}
Tribal Instant - Lumberjack
Until end of turn target creature gain "T, Sacrifice a Forest: Add three mana in any combination of R and/or G." and becomes a Lumberjack in addition to its other types.
"Jhoira often seems to be daydreaming during classes on natural magics. I wonder what she is dreaming about. —Barrin, progress report


IIW: Not so Dramatic Returns

Tribal is no longer a type, it's been replaced with Kindred

[Ulka]

Lumberjack Fantasies {R/G}
Tribal Instant - Lumberjack
Until end of turn target creature gain "T, Sacrifice a Forest: Add three mana in any combination of R and/or G." and becomes a Lumberjack in addition to its other types.
"Jhoira often seems to be daydreaming during classes on natural magics. I wonder what she is dreaming about. —Barrin, progress report


IIW: Not so Dramatic Returns

Tribal is no longer a type, it's been replaced with Kindred

Thanks I forgot they changed that.

[spacemonaut]

Garenbrig Woodsman 2RG
Creature — Human Ranger (R)
Protection from wolves
Whenever Garenbrig Woodsman deals combat damage to a permanent or player, add that much mana in any combination of and/or . Until end of turn, you don't lose this mana as steps and phases end.
: Garenbrig Woodsman gains first strike until end of turn.
3/3


IIW: A faction overlap with Fungus or Skeletons, like Xavier Sal, Infested Captain

[chetoos]

@Megiddo if we don't get a judgement by tomorrow night, can you judge?

[OneAndOnly]

I am going to give this contest 48 more years before judging.

I'll submit one in that window too.

I'm going to keep to this timeline. Please understand if takes time to offer in- depth critiques, which i anticipate to take about 28 years or so .... so, seeya in 2100!