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This is the thread where I'll be keeping miscellaneous designs. To start, let's look at some random designs from here and there. I picked some weird ones!

Finally got around to posting this after you chose the name, eh?

Conjurer's Sleight is a cool idea, though confusing. Associated? I could definitely see something like it being printed, though "enchant card in a graveyard" might push it into MH2 rather than a Standard set.

Namelessness is cool. Lack of identity or individualism is probably the best fit for a colorless incarnation. Fairly strong at first glance, though there would likely be enough artifact creatures or colorless ones in general that it wouldn't be too oppressive for limited.

Aetherform is a cool white riff on Murmuring Mystic. Quite strong, but I'm a big fan!

I wasn't sure how to handle Conjurer's Sleight because it can affect tokens, but those don't have cards on them. Thus the odd wording.

Conjurer's Sleight - Not sure what to make of this card. It does seem fun, but for one thing it might need B in the cost. If you just made this affect nontoken creatures you could clean up a couple problems.

Namelessness - Interesting and hardly overpowered, I think. A card that's primarily a hoser feels like odd space for a classic-style Incarnation.

Iquati Aetherform - This is really strong for a three-mana uncommon; if enchantment creatures were a set theme I would be very wary of this in Limited as it could easily take over games.

Conjurer's Sleight revised:


I've been experimenting with this mechanic, Glory:

barbecube wrote: ↑

4 years ago

I've been experimenting with this mechanic, Glory:

Kingfisher Knight

2WU

Creature — Human Knight

Glory 2 (This creature is glorious and gets +2/+2 as long as it's enchanted, equipped, or was a target this turn.)
As long as Kingfisher Knight is glorious, it has flying and first strike.

2/2

AND I WON'T GIVE IN, I WON'T GIVE IN
TILL I'M VICTORIOUS

Ahem. Yeah, I like the mechanic quite a lot! Reminds me of renown and heroic.

Dig Into Inspiration - Looks good at first glance but in practice might do... unintended things. Will probably get you lots of lands, for example. Was this a Demonlord Belzenlok riff?

It wasn't consciously related, but I might have had that card in my head; I just wanted to develop some new flavors of card draw.

Here's a set of PW deck cards I made for a design contest going on at the Custom Magic Discord:

Those look fun and reasonable enough, if a bit similar to the Angrath RIX ones. My favorite of these is always the PW-tribal uncommon and that body with those abilities is a good enough payoff.

I should make custom PW deck cards myself.

The next set of challenge cards shows off a mechanic, flourish.

Hey, alright, that's pretty flavorful. Fabricate-style modal mechanics are something I like. I would have to assume that this is for a set titled "Rebuilding of Amonkhet" or similar. As more proof of concept I'd like to see the designs that you no doubt actually have, that say something like "Fields you control have [some tap ability]."

I don't actually have those, because I'm trying to create a compromise for the land-token haters. If I were to do them, they'd probably look like this...

Here's a new take on white removal.

That's interesting, particularly at common. "Shared names" theme for Limited, y/n?

Definitely doable, [mention]void_nothing[/mention]. We've seen it a few times in canon sets as a minor theme (Pack Mastiff in M20, for example), though one great custom example of it, imo, would be Tales of Old Jiangshi, a set in Magic Set Editor Modern by Timespiraled/Snapdrachen.

TOJ has a lot of good ideas on ways to execute the theme if it's something you'd be interested in, like its Practiced mechanic. Well worth giving a look.