The DCC - February 19th, 2024

[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.
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Notes of the Day

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Time to get started on another week.

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DCC Scoreboard

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RattingRots 52 (+2)
wizyard 50
Rithaniel 41 (+5)
void_nothing 41 (+5)
bravelion83 37 (+5)
OneAndOnly 36 (+3)
netn10 32 (+2)
Caspernicus 29 (+1)
marioguy3 19
archemediesx 2

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Votes: bravelion83, void_nothing
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General Krom Torridge -- 2RR
Legendary Creature - Human Soldier {R}
Double strike
When General Krom Torridge enters the battlefield, you may choose a battle you are not protecting. General Krom Torridge gets +1/+1 for each remaining defense of that battle.
3/3

Votes: Rithaniel, void_nothing

RattingRots

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Don't forget to give the card itself delve!

Caspernicus

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Don't forget to give the card itself power and toughness!

netn10

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When False Lead dies, if it was face-down, draw two cards.

This ability doesn't work as probably intended. Currently, "dies" is only for creatures and planeswalkers, even if I agree with you that it should be used with any permanent. But that's not the problem. What doesn't make this work is the fact that a leaves-the-battlefield triggered ability, such as a death trigger like this, looks back in time to determine whether it should trigger, and when it looks back in time it sees a face-down creature with no abilities, including this one, so it doesn't see the ability being there on the face-doen permanent as it last was on the battlefield, so it doesn't trigger at all, regardless of the intervening if clause. To have this ability work as intended you need something that doesn't look back in time, like "from anywhere". If you write it like this:

When False Lead is put into your graveyard from anywhere, if it was face-down, draw two cards.

then it can trigger (depending on whether the intervening if is true or not), because "from anywhere" specifically doesn't look back in time despite still being a leaves-the-battlefield triggered ability. It's not functionally identical (for example it would theoretically count milling as well, which the original wording doesn't) but it's the closest I can think of to a triggered ability that can work as clearly intended here. By the way, the intervening if is checking for "face down", which is a status of a permanent, and permanents exists only on the battlefield, so the intervening if is only true, allowing the ability to trigger, if it's put from the battlefield to the graveyard, not from any other zone, where the status is nonexisting and thus undefined, so the intervening if is false in that case and the ability doesn't trigger anyway. Essentially, "from anywhere", which is necessary for the ability to not look back in time and not even trigger, is not really from anywhere, but only from the battlefield, and the intervening if takes care of excluding all other possible cases. So milling would NOT actually work, and that's why I said "theoretically" above, nor would anything else but the permanent dying, as intended. You need to say "from anywhere" and let the intervening if exclude the unwanted cases. It wouldn't be intuitive at all, because "from anywhere" is not actually from anywhere, only from the battlefield, and most players wouldn't understand why it needs to say "from anywhere" to work. I think this is why they haven't done something like this yet in real Magic.

Alarming Suspicion 2B
Enchantment — Aura (U)
Enchant creature
When Alarming Suspicion enters the battlefield, suspect enchanted creature. (It has menace and can't block.)
Whenever enchanted creature deals combat damage to a player, you may pay 1 life. If you do, draw a card.

Votes: bravelion83, void_nothing

Home Run Pitch
Sorcery (Rare)
Home Run Pitch can't be countered.
You draw 2 cards, you lose 2 life, put two +1/+1 counters on each creature you control, return up to two creature cards from your graveyard to your hand, and Home Run Pitch deals 2 damage to any target.

OneAndOnly, netn10

HM: Caspernicus (you did it again :p)

Channel the Oaks (2/g)(2/g)(2/g)
Instant (R)
Delve
Only green cards may be used to delve ~.
Put 3 +1/+1 counters on target creature.

Votes: bravelion83, OneAndOnly

Votes: Rithaniel, bravelion83

Yeniffer's Troubled Childhood 1U
Enchantment Aura - Saga Origin (Mythic)
(As this Saga enters and after your draw step, add a lore counter. Origins stay on the battlefield instead of being sacrificed after the last chapter resolves.)
Enchant legendary creature you control
I - Tap enchanted creature and put a stun counter on it.
II - Target opponent gains control of enchanted creature. This doesn't remove Yeniffer's Troubled Childhood.
III - Gain control of enchanted creature. Put a Wizard counter on it.
III+ - Enchanted creature has vigilance, prowess for each lore counter on this Origin and has "T: Draw a card for each two lore counters on this Origin."

Votes: OneAndOnly, RattingRots

Pit of the Guardian
Land - Island Swamp R
(: Add or .)
Pit of the Guardian enters the battlefield tapped.
: Until end of turn, Pit of the Guardian becomes a 2/6 white Golem artifact creature with vigilance and indestructible. It's still a land.

Votes: Rithaniel, netn10

Egoh, the Facestealer 2ur
Legendary Planeswalker — Egoh (M)
Grandeur — Discard another card named Egoh, the Facestealer: Deal X damage to each of up to two targets, where X is Egoh, the Facestealer's loyalty.
+1 : Target creature gets -3/-0 until your next turn. Its name becomes Egoh, Faceshifted as long as it remains on the battlefield.
-1 : Reveal a creature or planeswalker card in your hand. It's name becomes Egoh, the Facestealer until end of turn.
-6 : Gain control of all permanents named Egoh, Faceshifted. Then, if there are three or more creature or planeswalker cards in your graveyard, deal 6 damage to each other creature.
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Votes: Caspernicus, Rithaniel

Feed on Conflict 1B
Instant (U)
Choose one -
• Attacking and blocking creatures your opponents control get -1/-1 until end of turn.
• Until end of turn, whenever a creature an opponent controls dies, you gain 2 life.
Entwine 1W

void_nothing, RattingRots

[OneAndOnly]

Votes: RattingRots, netn10
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Seeg Spire Gauntlets
Artifact Land - Equipment {R}
T: Add R. Activate this ability only if a creature you attacked, blocked, or dealt damage this turn.
Equipped creature gets +2/+2 and has haste and first strike as long as another creature you control attacked, blocked, or dealt damage this turn.
Reconfigure 1RR

[wizyard]

Rithaniel, netn10

Shifting Allegiance r
Enchantment (U)
Enchant creature
Enchanted creature has haste and can't be sacrificed.
Landfall - Whenever a land enters the battlefield under your control, you may pay 1R. If you do, untap enchanted creature. Gain control of it until end of turn.

[netn10]

Votes: void_nothing, bravelion83

@bravelion83 : Thanks for the extensive explanation. I do wonder how this could be neatly worded.

Leyline of the Gamblers
Enchantment (Rare)
If Leyline of the Gamblers is in your opening hand, you may begin the game with it on the battlefield.
If a player would draw a card, that player discard a card instead. When they do, they exile the top two cards of thier library. Until end of turn, they may play these cards. If they can't discard a card, they put the bottom card of their library into their hand.

[RattingRots]

OneAndOnly, Caspernicus

Heart of the Mountain (2/R)(2/R)(2/R)
Artifact (R)
Delve
Only red cards may be used to delve ~.
Sacrifice ~: Add RRR.

[Caspernicus]

Votes: void_nothing, OneAndOnly

Mechanoid Trooper
Artifact Creature — Construct (R)
Prototype {R}{W}{W} 2/0 (You may cast this spell with different mana cost, color, and size. It keeps its abilities and types.)
Squad , where is equal to Mechanoid Trooper's power.
Artifact creatures you control get +1/+1.
3/3

[marioguy3]

Votes: Caspernicus, bravelion83

Embellished Sunglasses
Artifact (Rare)
Each player plays with their hand revealed.
At the beginning of your upkeep, choose an opponent. You and that player each draw cards equal to the number of creature cards in that player's hand.

[void_nothing]

Votes: netn10, Caspernicus

Silent Wayfarer W
Creature - Spirit Nomad (R)
Ward 2
At the beginning of your end step, if you didn't play a land this turn, put a journey counter on Silent Wayfarer.
Remove a journey counter from Silent Wayfarer: You may put a land card from your hand onto the battlefield.
1/1

[bravelion83]

Votes:
Rithaniel (you might have inspired for a three-colored land cycle that I needed for one of my future sets in my huge plan, I will not copy this one as this is yours, but seeing it did gave me a potentially good idea)
RattingRots (I wanted to vote for at least one in the cycle, as I really like the idea for the cycle, and today looks like a good day to do so. Only thing: the number of counters is always expressed as a number word and not a numeral, it should be "Put three +1/+1 counters...")

@netn10 I replied to you in the discussion thread.

Struggle of Champions 2RG
Sorcery (U)
Target creature you control gets +1/+0 until end of turn for each other creature you control, then it fights target creature you don't control. Then draw cards equal to the number of creatures who died during the fight.

[archemediesx]

Votes: RattingRots , Rithaniel

[Rithaniel]

Votes: OneAndOnly, void_nothing

Riddle of Choices
Instant R
Choose target creature. Each player other than that creature's controller creates a token that's a copy of it.
"See what you could have been, had you chosen a different walk in life."
—Ankianda, the Temptress