The DCC - May 17th, 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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I'm living with my 24-year-old nephew right now, and he drank almost all of my rum today, after getting home already drunk. I am having my first bout of "adult dealing with unruly child" anger.

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DCC Scoreboard

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Rithaniel 53 (+3)
void_nothing 45 (+6)
RattingRots 43 (+2)
bravelion83 38 (+2)
netn10 37 (+2)
Riria 15 (+1)
wren 1

Votes: Riria, netn10 (That's fun. I dislike the idea of "tokens that are copies of specific cards" in general, but this is very fun)

HM - wren (This is a land that taps for 2 mana, which is a very hard sell, but I like the idea of the card, in general.)

Random Musings

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You know, most of my "pet planes" don't have names. I've given names to two planes. There's the one with Vhedrasa and Borugorugoron and Nova Yeht, which I didn't remember the name of until I looked it up: Arera. The other is Harriskane, the "life boat plane" from a past multiverse. But all my other planes are unnamed. I don't even think I could explain them in simple sentences. Maybe I should name a few and boil them down to their basic ideas:
Harriskane: A world of hallways and doors, harboring impossible secrets.
Arera: A hidden plane, with an eternal conflict going on inside that, if lost, could spell the end of reality.
Nadani: Fantasy North America with cripplingly corrupt factions in power.
Evendresch: Neolithic Fantasy Land with tri-wedge factions that all care about colorless mana.

Ferocity of the Juth
Sorcery U
Choose one—

• Target creature gains haste and first strike until end of turn.
• Untap and gain control of target creature with haste until end of turn.
• Target creature with first strike gains double strike until end of turn.

Entwine (Choose all if you pay the entwine cost. can be paid with either or .)

Votes: void_nothing, RattingRots

HM: Riria, Wren

Rithaniel

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I loved reading about your planes. You know, I have a table with 13 named ones (you all have heard about some of them at one point or another, but not all of them yet) and 4 more still unnamed ones, 17 total, and not a single one is even remotely similar to any of yours. Between the two of us we have more than twenty potential new original planes. This goes to show how much design space is still left in Magic, at least in ideas for new planes.

Rebirth Ritual 2GW
Sorcery (U)
Return target permanent card from your graveyard to your hand. You gain 2 life.
Tradition — If there are three or more cards that share a card type with Rebirth Ritual in your graveyard, return that card to the battlefield instead.
A child being born is always considered a happy event. An ancestor being reborn even more so.

Votes: void_nothing, Rithaniel

Prosperity Dancer
Creature - Human Citizen (Common)
When Prosperity Dancer enters the battlefield, each player discards a card, draws a card, then creates a treasure token.
"May Jetmir's smile shine upon you."
2/2

void_nothing, bravelion83

Flamewing Feeder BBRR
Creature - Phoenix Vampire (R)
Flying, Lifelink, Haste
At the beginning of your end step, if a creature you controlled died this turn, put a +1/+1 counter on ~.
RB, Sacrifice two creatures: Return ~ from your graveyard to the battlefield. Activate this ability only any time you could cast a sorcery.
2/2

Votes: void_nothing, RattingRots

Unfocused Beam R
Sorcery (R)
Territory 4 (This spell can't be cast unless you control 4 or more lands.)
Unfocused Beam deals X damage to any target, where X is 5 minus the number of spells cast this turn.

Votes: bravelion83, Rithaniel

Contagious Evolution 1WUBRG
Enchantment - Aura (M)
Enchant Creature
At the beginning of your end step, put a lifelink, flying, menace, first strike or trample counter on enchanted creature.
Enchanted creature has "At the beginning of your end step, move a counter from this creature to another target creature you control."

Votes: Rithaniel, netn10

Stormkill 1BB
Instant (R)
Your opponents can't gain life this turn.
Destroy target non-Avatar, non-Elemental creature. If that creature would die this turn, exile it instead.
B, Pay 3 life, Exile Stormkill from your graveyard: The next black instant or sorcery spell you cast this turn costs 3 less to cast.

[bravelion83]

Votes: Riria, void_nothing

Evil Reflection 2UB
Sorcery (R)
Exile target creature an opponent controls. Then, for each other player, copy that card and that player may cast the copy. Players may spend mana as though it were mana of any type to cast those spells.

[netn10]

Votes: RattingRots, Rithaniel (I went for maximum flavor... and headache lol)

Kerunai Storyteller WB or 2U
Creature - Fox Wizard (Uncommon)
When Kerunai Storyteller enters the battlefield, exile target creature card from a graveyard. Create a token that's a copy of it, then sacrifice it.
The echoes of lost stories reverberate through her, as she dances between realms, embodying the transient nature of existence itself. "Their stories won't be forgotten, if only for a brief moment."
2/2

[Riria]

Votes: bravelion83, Rithaniel (It feels undercosted, but making it cost 1 more feels like too much. Which is exactly the kind of design my inner Melvin-Spike likes.)

Sudden Stop 3B
Instant (U)
This spell costs 1W to cast if its target has haste or entered the battlefield this turn.
Destroy target creature.
"Let their own momentum do half the work."
—How to Fight Superheroes, Vol. 12

[Wren]

Votes: bravelion83, RattingRots

Arcave, King of Viklausia 2RRWB
Legendary Creature - Tiefling Noble Warlock (M)
Haste
When Arcave is dealt damage by a creature, Arcave, King of Viklausia deals that much damage to that creature.
{10}WB: Arcave gains indestructable until end of turn. This ability costs X less to cast, where X is equal to your devotion to red, white and black.
"Get out of my court at once! Our tactics may be brutal, but they are effective. I will not change my ways."
6/4

[void_nothing]

Votes: netn10, RattingRots

Ebonshell Cicada 1G
Creature - Insect (U)
1B, Pay 2 life: Ebonshell Cicada gains flying until end of turn.
When Ebonshell Cicada dies, create a 0/3 black and green Insect Skeleton creature token.
3/1

[Rithaniel]

Votes: bravelion83, netn10

Dhone and Thrikke
Legendary Creature - Elephant Spider M
: Dhone an Thrikke gets +3/+3 and gains vigilance until end of turn. Activate only once each turn.
: Target creature gets -3/-0 until end of turn, then you draw cards and gain life equal to its power. Activate only once each turn.
: Target creature gets -0/-3 until end of turn, then deals damage to target player equal to its toughness. Activate only once each turn.
4/4

[RattingRots]

Rithaniel, bravelion83 (although I'm not sure if the 2 life still takes effect if you fulfill Tradition)

Haven of Generosity
Land (R)
T: Each player adds one mana of a color of their choice.

[kwanyeegor-ii]

bravelion83 riria