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Welcome to the Card Creation League! Everyone is free to participate in either or both of the first two rounds. Come join us!

Theme

It's October, and we all know what that means in both Custom Card Contests and out in the real world: Are you ready to get spooked? This month will be tribal themed, around the creepiest creature types Magic has to offer.

Challenge Schedule

• Round 1 — Open to Everyone (September 30th-October 7th)
• Round 2 — Open to Everyone (October 8th–14th)
• Rounds 1 and 2 Critiques (Due October 16th)
• Top 8 — Open to top 8 finishers (October 17th–20th)
• Top 8 Critiques (Due October 22nd)
• Top 4 — Open to top 4 finishers (Ocrober 23rd–26th)
• Top 4 Critiques (Due October 28th)
• Final (End of month, winner determined by public poll)

Ilystra of the Scarlet Order 2WB
Legendary Creature - Vampire (rare)
Lifelink, deathtouch
Whenever another creature with lifelink enters the battlefield under your control, put a +1/+1 counter on it and you gain 2 life.
Whenever another creature with deathtouch enters the battlefield under your control, you draw a card and you lose 2 life.
3/2

Dracolich 4BBB
Creature - Dragon Skeleton (Mythic)
Flying, menace
When Dracolich dies, put Dracolich into it's owner's library third from the top.
BB: Dracolich gets +1/+1 until end of turn.
5/5


Edit: Fixed wording.

Edit 2: Forgot power/toughness, fixed now. I blame the Migraine I had when I posted it.

Subtle Shade 1B
Creature - Shade (U)
1B: Subtle Shade gets +1/+1 until end of turn.
Whenever Subtle Shade deals combat damage to a player, that player sacrifices a creature.
It seems like just a harmless shadow on the wall, until you turn away...
0/3

Stensian Lich 1BBR
Creature - Zombie Wizard (Rare)
You may cast Zombie cards from your graveyard.
Whenever another Zombie enters the battlefield from your graveyard, it gets +1/+0 and gains haste until end of turn. Exile it at the beginning of the next end step.
"Sure, fire kills 'em quicker, but they're bound to do a lot more damage than the regular way, trust me."
-Rem Karolus, the Slayer
2/4

Ruthless Lymphsucker BG
Creature — Vampire (R)
2BG, T: Remove all counters from target permanent an opponent controls. Put that many +1/+1 counters on Ruthless Lymphsucker.
On the plane of Makwag, vampires don't feed on blood but on lymph. That means that humans aren't their only food source, but also all kinds of plants and animals. They're still able to feed on humans occasionally though... After all, humans also have lymph in addition to blood!
2/2

Cyclopean Mass (Rare)
4bb
Creature - Zombie Elemental
8/4
Trample
Whenever Cyclopean Mass deals combat damage to a player, target land that player controls becomes a Swamp until Cyclopean Mass leaves the battlefield. When Cyclopean Mass dies, exile it.

Krishnath wrote: ↑

4 years ago

Dracolich 4BBB
Creature - Dragon Skeleton (Mythic)
Flying, menace
When Dracolich dies, put Dracolich into it's owner's library third from the top.
BB: Dracolich gets +1/+1 until end of turn.

Edit: Fixed wording.

Power and Toughness?

Barabar, Human Bloodseeker
Legendary Creature - Zombie Skeleton
Other black creatures you control get +1/+0 and gain lifelink.
Other red creatures you control get +1/+0 and gain first strike.
Whenever Barabar, Human Bloodseeker deals damage to a human, destroy that creature, then create a 2/2 black zombie creature token.
4/2

Cow31337Killer wrote: ↑

4 years ago

Power and Toughness?

It's supposed to be a 5/5, I had a migraine when I posted it, so I just forgot. I just fixed it. Thanks.

Thoughts Cleanser 1WW
Creature - Specter (Rare)
Flying
Whenever Thoughts Cleanser deals combat damage to a player, that player exiles two cards from their hand. At the end of that player's next turn, that player return the exiled cards to their hand.
The clerics of Ashenmoth willingly submit their minds to it in hope to be pure.
2/2

Spooky Visitor 3{u/b}
Creature - Zombie (U)
Spooky Visitor can't be blocked by creatures controlled by enchanted players.
You have to learn the difference between being cursed, being damned and being doomed.
3/3

Crooked Sommelier bb
Creature — Vampire (R)
When Crooked Sommelier enters the battlefield, target opponent gains control of it.
At the beginning of your upkeep, if you don't own Crooked Sommelier, put a +1/+1 counter on it.
Damage dealt by Crooked Sommelier also causes its owner to gain that much life.
3/3

Fresh Cadaver 1B
Creature - Zombie (U)
Fresh Cadaver is a Skeleton as long as there is a -1/-1 counter on it.
1B, put a -1/-1 counter on Fresh Cadaver: Create a Food token.
"I only need the skeleton. Don't let the meat go to waste."
2/2

Ufurutehp IV, Sovereign of Eternity 1ww
Legendary Creature - Zombie Noble (m)
White creature cards in your graveyard with converted mana cost 2 or less have "Eternalize 3ww.".
Eternalize 3ww.
As long as this creature is a token and Ufurutehp IV is your commander, combat damage dealt by this creature counts as commander damage dealt by Ufurutehp IV.
1/3

Malam, the Gravelord 3BB
Legendary Creature — Skeleton Giant (M)
Menace
Malam, the Gravelord enters the battlefield with a +1/+1 counter for each creature card in your graveyard.
Whenever another nontoken creature you control dies, put a +1/+1 counter on Malam.
When Malam dies, create a number of 1/1 black Skeleton creature tokens equal to its power. Then exile Malam from your graveyard.
0/0

Steward of the Cycle 1BG
Creature - Zombie Druid (R)
If a permanent would be put into your graveyard from the battlefield, you may exile it instead. If you do, you may search your library for a card with the same name as that permanent, reveal it, and put it into your hand. Then, shuffle your library.
"As empires rise and fall, so too does life blossom and decay, ever onwards."
2/3

Civic Wraith 2BB
Creature--Wraith (Uncommon)
Nonbasic landwalk
Whenever Civic Wraith deals combat damage to a player, that player may sacrifice a nonbasic land. If they don't, they lose life equal to the number of nonbasic lands they control and you gain that much life.
2/3

Graveyard Shade 1BB
Creature-Shade R
B: Graveyard Shade gets +1/+1 until end of turn
When Graveyard Shade dies, you may return target creature with converted mana cost less than Graveyard Shade's power from your graveyard to play. If you do, exile Graveyard Shade.
1/4

The round is closed. Please critique and make a top 3 of the six contestants on this list below you, looping to the top as necessary.

Gateways7
Cardz5000
Krishnath
slimytrout
Subject16
bravelion83
Legend
marioguy3
netn10
Raptorchan
barbecube
Jimmy Groove
Henlock
spacemonaut
Ink-Treader
kwanyeegor-ii
BeneTleilax

Subject16: Stensian Lich - Liliana, Untouched by Death's -3 meets Kragma Warcaller -- fun concept. Unfortunately, I think it would be very confusing to players, since I believe it wouldn't actually work as intended: when you cast the zombies from your graveyard, they go on the stack, so they're not actually entering from the graveyard. Only things like Prized Amalgam would trigger the second ability.

bravelion83: Ruthless Lymphsucker - The flavor text is a bit overlong and forced -- the card ends up almost having microtext because it has six lines of flavor. The concept itself is quite interesting though, even if I suspect it would lead to unfun play patterns: if it's a set with +1/+1 counter themes (as I imagine it would be if this card were included), then players wouldn't want to play their cool cards into this for fear of having the counters stolen.

Legend: Cyclopean Mass - Unusual formatting, but nbd. Really not sure I understand the flavor though. It's a Zombie Elemental, which makes me think that it's some kind of giant collection of dead matter -- but it's cyclopean, so it's got one giant eye? Also why isn't it a Cyclops? And why does it make things into swamps? As for the card itself, it's definitely unusual and has some memory issues (should probably employ counters of some kind to make it easier to track the affected lands), but otherwise works.

EDIT: Flavor explained - wasn't familiar enough with the older cards to get the reference. Still think the card is a bit confusing though, both because of the lack of counters and because of the ambiguity in the final sentence.

marioguy3: Barabar, Human Bloodseeker - Name is kinda confusing: is he a human himself (but then why is he a zombie skeleton?) or is he seeking human blood (probably this one, but that's not really how English works)? Otherwise fine, although a little on the weak side and needs a rarity.

netn10: Thoughts Cleanser - Yeah, white can't do this. It could prevent the player from casting those two spells until end of turn, but it can't exile them - hand interaction is nowhere close to it's color pie. In fact, only black could do this, which is why all specters so far have been black.

Raptorchan: Spooky Visitor - Love it. Definitely a card that's either amazing or unplayable depending on whether you have curses in your deck, but the flavor is great.

1: Raptorchan
2: bravelion83
3: marioguy3

Time for Critiques and comments. Alrighty then.
Votes:

#1: Legend
#2: netn10
#3: Subject16