The DCC - May 6th, 2023

[Rithaniel]

Welcome to the DCC!
If you have any questions or comments, feel free to post in the DCC Discussion Thread.

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How To Play

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How does this card-making game work? It's simple! Whenever your card receives a vote, you receive [1] point for the month. If your card ends up with the most votes for that day, you will receive [2] additional points for the month. In the event of a tie, each person who tied receives [1] additional point. At the end of each month, the person with the most points on the scoreboard wins that month, then the scoreboard is cleared for the next month. You can participate in as many or as few days as you want in any month.

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Rules

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• Each day you may post any card you want. On the next day all of the posted cards will be put into the thread as long as your card didn't get disqualified - see the next point for more details. If you post more than one card in a DCC thread, only the first card you post will be taken.
• When you vote, you need to make exactly two votes for two different people. Vote for the cards that are listed in the first post, not other cards being posted in the thread. If you notice that you've only voted for one person, include your second vote in a post, even if you're not submitting a card.
• If you want to change your vote for any reason, post that change in the day's thread (you can include it with your card if you want). Changed votes in the discussion thread will be ignored.
• Voting for only one person, for three or more people, or for yourself will earn you an asterisk by your name in the monthly leaderboard. So will failing to vote if you've posted a card. (We're not going to do anything about people who don't vote or post cards; that would be kind of silly.) This indicates that you're on probation for the next 21 days. If you're on probation and you make another improper vote, your card will be disqualified. Repeated disqualification is grounds for warnings and/or infractions for not following the game rules, so please don't do it.
• Voting for everything in the poll will be grounds for a lifetime ban from the DCC. Don't do it. It just wastes the thread creators' time.
• If you wish to post a render, please use the hyperlink option when posting your card and make the card name the image link. Renders are usually large enough to clog up the list, so submit a text-formed card and (optionally) a link in the name to the render.
• This thread is just for your card submission. Take your questions/comments to our discussion thread. If it's a question, comment, or complaint about probation, PM void_nothing and/or the month's DCC organizer.
• When posting make sure that:
  • You have included all of the previous day's entries.
  • You update the leaderboard with the previous day's scores.

(An easy way to post the new thread is to hit the multiquote button on every post in the previous day's thread, then click Post Reply. Select everything in this post, copy it, and then paste it into the first post for a new thread. You'll have to clean up a few small things, like quote tags around the opening post and the previous day's cards.)

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Notes of the Day

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The semester is done. Now begins the break before Summer.

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DCC Scoreboard

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void_nothing 16 (+1)
Rithaniel 11 (+2)
bravelion83 9 (+2)
netn10 8 (+1)
RattingRots 6 (+1)
Riria 6 (+5)

Votes: Rithaniel, void_nothing

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Riria - This card just doesn't work in the current rules for several reasons. First, extort is not an activated ability, so you can't say "activate extort". It's a triggered ability that requires an optional payment (see rule 702.101 as of MOM), so it would need a much more complicated wording to work as clearly intended. Maybe a way would be to say "rather than pay the extort cost for spells you control" and then define the "extort cost" in the CR as the optional cost in the triggered ability. Anyway, I see no easy way to have it work under current rules that is also elegant enough to be printed on an actual card. Second, the other ability is also at the very least worded wrongly. I'm not even sure the game can recognize that a spell has a specific line of text (which should have X in mana tags by the way), and the last part is ambiguous: is one more payment (of what?) required or they cost 1 more to cast? In the latter case, the one that I just used would be the correct wording: "Spells ... cost 1 more to cast."

RattingRots - Here too the templating is wrong, in particular the use of the word "copy", that has a specific meaning in Magic. Also, you don't "make additional choices", you "choose additional modes". So, in the end, the first line should have read "Choose one. For each card named Gathering Flames in your graveyard, you may choose an additional mode."

Trainee's Kick W{U/R}
Enchantment — Aura (U)
Flash
Enchant creature
Enchanted creature gets +2/-2.
When Trainee's Kick is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, you gain 2 life and draw a card.
"Each new technique you learn is more knowledge to you and more hurt to your enemies."
—Yan Zun, Jeskai trainer

Votes: RattingRots, Riria

The Right Tool W
Sorcery (Common)
Choose equipment or aura. Reveal cards from the top of your library until you reveal a card of the chosen kind. Put that card into your hand and the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.

bravelion83, Riria (wording needs to be cleaned up but I'm not sure what the cleanest way to do that is, nice idea either way)

Gathering Storm 1U
Instant (C)
Choose X, where X is 1 plus the number of cards named ~ in your graveyard --
-Return target creature to its owner's hand.
-Return target artifact to its owner's hand.
-Return target enchantment to its owner's hand.
-Return target spell to its owner's hand.

Votes: Riria (although there are definitely wording issues I like idea), Rithaniel

A single presentation on... a topic I haven't even heard of... seems simple enough. You got this!

Leysapper Goo 4R
Creature - Ooze (R)
Trample
When Leysapper Goo enters the battlefield, choose target land. Put a +1/+1 counter on Leysapper Goo for each land on the battlefield that shares a land type with that land (including itself). Then destroy that land.
0/1

Votes: bravelion83, netn10

Nelade, Jumeri High Arbiter
Legendary Creature - Human Advisor R
Vigilance
Whenever you draw a card for the first time each turn, you may discard two cards. When you do, draw three cards.
At end of combat, you may pay . When you do, each player who controls a creature that attacked or blocked this turn draws a card.
"I understand your anger, but do not let it drive you."
2/6

[bravelion83]

Votes: netn10, RattingRots (yes, this wording also works)

Soul's Engineer 3GU
Creature — Merfolk Shaman (R)
When Soul's Engineer enters the battlefield, create a 1/1 blue Merfolk creature token.
1{G/U}, T, Sacrifice another Merfolk: Create a 2/2 green Bear creature token.
2{G/U}, T, Sacrifice a Bear: Create a 3/3 green Rhino creature token with trample.
3{G/U}, T, Sacrifice a Rhino: Create a 4/4 blue Elemental creature token with flying and trample.
3/3

[Rithaniel]

Votes: bravelion83 (this is probably one of my favorite mana combinations), void_nothing

Figuring out how some combinations of hybrid mana symbols should be ordered is tricky.

Elthreod, Burning Marrow
Legendary Creature - Skeleton Soldier M
Lifelink
Elthreod can't be blocked as long as you control both an Island and a Swamp.
Elthreod has double strike as long as you control both a Mountain and a Plains.
Whenever Elthreod deals combat damage to a player, it deals that much damage to each creature and planeswalker that player controls.
2/5

[netn10]

Votes: bravelion83, Rithaniel

Vizkopa Takeover 2WW
Enchantment (Mythic)
When Vizkopa Takeover enters the battlefield, each player creates six treasures.
Players can't activate mana abilities of nontreasure permanents.
At the beginning of each end step, if any player doesn't control any treasure, sacrifice Vizkopa Takeover and each of that player's opponent draws three cards.

[RattingRots]

netn10, void_nothing

Gathering Might W
Instant (C)
Choose X, where X is 1 plus the number of cards named ~ in your graveyard --
-Put a +1/+1 counter on target creature
-Put a +1/+1 counter on target artifact
-Put a +1/+1 counter on target enchantment
-Put a +1/+1 counter on target land

[void_nothing]

Votes: RattingRots, Rithaniel

Gravechained Highwayman 2B
Creature - Zombie Giant Rogue (C)
Trample
When Gravechained Highwayman enters the battlefield, sacrifice a nonenchantment permanent.
3/4