New Challenge Every Day - June 20th: Manaliths

[void_nothing]

Today's Challenge:
Manaliths

.::To Enter::.
In a single post:

• Name exactly two other players to vote for their entries for the previous challenge. (In the event that there are two or fewer entries that you are allowed to vote for, you may vote for only one.)

• Make a card that fits the current challenge.

• Include an "If I Win" (IIW) for tomorrow's challenge if you win.

Each day we use the challenge of the previous day's winner. In the case of a tie, we'll use the IIW of the tied player who has least overall points. In case of a further tie, the IIW of the earlier poster will be used.

.::Scoring::.

slimytrout 54 (+4)
JovialJovian 52 (+2)
void_nothing 34
netn10 34 (+2)
bravelion83 31 (+4)
dyd 29 (+4)
haywire 13
Pygyzy 13
Venedrex 4

.::Note of the Day::.

.::Yesterday's Submissions::.
Pencils

Votes: netn10, bravelion83

Copying Pencil u
Artifact
Flash
When ~ enters the battlefield, you may pay 2u. If you do, copy target instant or sorcery spell. You may choose new targets for it.
2, t: Change the text of target spell or permanent by replacing all instances of one color word with another or one basic land type with another.

IIW: two dogs

Votes: dyd, slimytrout

Prolific Scribe U
Creature - Human Wizard (Rare)
3: Create a Pencil token and a Page token. (They're artifacts with no abilities.)
T, Sacrifice a Pencil: Imprint an instant or sorcery card from your hand onto a Page you control.
Pages you control have "3, T, Sacrifice this permanent: Cast each spell imprinted within it."
1/1

IIW: Modern playable card with outlast and/or cipher.

Votes: netn10, slimytrout

Writing Implement 2U
Artifact — Equipment (U)
Whenever equipped creature deals combat damage to a player, you may look at the top X cards of your library, where X is the amount of combat damage dealt by equipped creature this combat. Put one of those cards into your hand and the rest on the bottom in a random order.
Equip 2
With a feather and a bottle of ink, or even a single pencil, history can be written.

IIW: druids

votes: bravelion83, dyd

Pencil Rain XUR
Instant (R)
Improvise (Each artifact you tap after activating mana abilities pays for 1.)
Pencil Rain deals X damage divided as you choose among up to X targets.
For each permanent damaged this way, that permanent's controller investigates.
For each player damaged this way, that player investigates.

IIW: Onomatopoeia (words that sound like the sound they describe)

votes: JovialJovian, bravelion83

Pencil Trick
Instant — (U)
As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice an artifact.
Destroy target creature or planeswalker an opponent controls.

IIW: Dota 2 heroes.

Dyd, slimytrout

Sketch 1WB
Enchantment - Sketch (Un-U)
When Sketch enters the battlefield, target nonland permanent loses all characteristics, and can't gain them, for as long as this card is on the battlefield. (It has no name, type, subtype, supertype, art, color, border, text box, set symbol, collector number, artist credit, power, or toughness.)
"Ya, I saw 'em. They looked just like that."

Iiw: Art

dyd, bravelion83

Self-Writing Stylus 1U
Artifact (R)
3U, T: Learn. (You may reveal a Lesson card you own from outside the game and put it into your hand, or discard a card to draw a card.)
2, Exile an instant or sorcery card with mana value X from your graveyard: Self-Writing Stylus becomes an X/X Construct creature until end of turn.

IIW: Unusual alternate costs

Votes: slimytrout, JovialJovian

[Venedrex]

Votes: netn10, bravelion83

Relic of the Pious
Artifact — (U)
: Add .
: Add . Activate this ability only if your devotion to white is greater than five.

IIW: Theros

[dyd]

Votes: netn10, slimytrout

Phyrexian Manalith
Artifact
( can be paid with either 1 or 2 life.)
t: Add one mana of any color. Spend this mana only to cast a Phyrexian creature spell.

IIW: ashes

[bravelion83]

Votes: Venedrex, slimytrout

Obelisk of Knowledge 3
Artifact (U)
T: Add one mana of any color.
Threshold — 1, Sacrifice Obelisk of Knowledge: Draw a card. If there are seven or more cards in your graveyard, draw two cards instead.

IIW: morph, manifest and/or foretell

[netn10]

Votes: slimytrout, dyd

Similith 3
Artifact (Common)
Graft 2
T: Add G or U.
The Simic Combine doesn't need to wonder what if stones could talk.

IIW: Vehicle with new crew ability.

[Pygyzy]

Dyd, netn10

Man-o'-Lith 2U
Tribal Artifact - Jellyfish (U)
T, Return a creature you own to your hand: Add 2U. Spend this mana only to cast Jellyfish spells.

Iiw: Anthropomorphic Farm Animals

[JovialJovian]

votes: netn10, slimytrout

Dropstone Hedron
Artifact Land (U)
Dropstone Hedron enters the battlefield tapped.
T: Add one mana of any color.
3, Reveal Dropstone Hedron from your hand: Put Dropstone Hedron onto the battlefield.

IIW: Onomatopoeia (words that sound like the sound they describe)

[slimytrout]

Venedrex, netn10

Chainstone 1GW
Artifact (R)
When Chainstone enters the battlefield, exile target creature until Chainstone leaves the battlefield.
T: Add one mana of any of the exiled card's colors.
The Commune believes that labor is the ultimate redemption.

IIW: Planeswalker with 2 or fewer appearances

[void_nothing]

Votes: netn10, slimytrout

Bloodsoaked Idol 4
Artifact (R)
Hexproof
T, Pay 1 life: Add one mana of any color.
T, Pay 4 life, Sacrifice two nontoken creatures: Add four mana in any combination of colors.

IIW: Uncommon signpost legends