MTGNexus

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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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• 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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• 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.
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(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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Let's put together oxidation and reduction. When we do, we obtain a redox reaction. This is why oxidation and reduction are called semireactions, they are each half of a full redox reaction. In the semireactions electrons appear, as we've seen in the last days, but in a full redox they don't. Electrons are also balanced according to Lavoisier: there must be as many in the reagents as in the products, or if you prefer, as many electrons must be lost in the oxidation as many are acquired in the reduction, that's equivalent. Let's make an example.
Copper (Cu) can have oxidation numbers 0, +1, +2. Let's take +2 and bring it to zero (reduction):
Cu²⁺ + 2 e^- → Cu (copper goes from +2 to zero)
Zinc (Zn) can only have 0 and +2. Let's write the oxidation:
Zn → Zn²⁺ + 2 e^- (zinc passes from zero to +2)
Let's put together the two semireactions and simplify the electrons, like you could do with two mathematical equations. We get:
Cu²⁺ + Zn → Cu + Zn²⁺
This is a redox reaction. Copper undergoes reduction and zinc oxidation, or if you prefer, copper acquires electrons and zinc loses electrons. But wait, are those electrons the same? Yes, they are. So we could say that zinc gives its electrons to copper, and we'd be correct. This doesn't matter if we do the reaction with two metal electrodes in a single solution, but is there a way to separate physically the two semireactions so that I could take advantage of the electron transfer to, say, generate electricity? Yes, it's possible, and it's actually quite easy to do. Obviously I haven't chosen this example at random, I wanted to get to this point. This is called the Daniell cell, the second example of electric battery after that of Alessandro Volta (another Italian by the way). Daniell realized that he could separate the two semireactions by creating a closed electrical circuit between two containers, one containing a copper electrode immersed in a solution containing Cu²⁺ and the other a zinc electrode in a solution of Zn²⁺. Again, these two containers are physically separated. There is a so-called "salt bridge" that connects the two liquid solutions, and the two metal electrodes are connected with a cable. If we do this, the electrons will flow from the zinc electrode to the copper one within the cable, so we will have generated electricity in the cable that we can use for whatever purpose. This is the main use of redox reactions: generate electricity, and this is just the beginning of a whole branch of chemistry, electrochemistry, that for now we won't explore. I will have other months to host in the future...

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bravelion83 wrote: ↑

2 years ago

Votes: emily, saltyplumsoda (it should be "becomes attached to a creature" though)

Mysterious Plant 2G
Creature — Plant Mutant (R)
Graft 2 (This creature enters the battlefield with two +1/+1 counters on it. Whenever another creature enters the battlefield, you may move a +1/+1 counter from this creature onto it.)
Mutate 1G (If you cast this spell for its mutate cost, put it over or under target non-Human creature you own. They mutate into the creature on top plus all abilities from under it.)
Whenever this creature mutates, proliferate. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there.)
0/0

netn10 wrote: ↑

2 years ago

Votes: bravelion83, emily

Wilt-Leaf Bane B
Instant (Uncommon)
Destroy target green or white enchantment you don't control.
Draw a card.
"We protect all beauty, yet I'm not sure we should protect destruction even if has its beauty in it".
Talara, Wilt-Leaf Leader

emily wrote: ↑

2 years ago

Votes: folding_music, kwanyeegor-ii (I like that this returns a land you own instead of control, works nicely with Yavimaya Dryad)

Dars Gostok, Firefist Captain 2{R/W}{R/W}
Legendary Creature — Human Soldier (R)
Double strike
1{R/W}: Dars Gostok, Firefist Captain gets +1/+0 until end of turn.
Battalion — Whenever Dars Gostok and at least two other creatures attack, you may have target creature block Dars Gostok this turn if able. If you do, no other creatures can block Dars Gostok this turn.
2/4

folding_music wrote: ↑

2 years ago

votes: void_nothing, kwanyeegor-ii

Streamlining Knife
Mono Artifact (R)
: Remove an ability from target spell you control.
Diving for pearls of elegance mostly just leaves you with a bunch of dead clams.

void_nothing wrote: ↑

2 years ago

Votes: netn10, emily

Bacslor, the Great Suchosphinx X3UU
Legendary Creature - Crocodile Sphinx (R)
Flying
When Bacslor enters the battlefield, search your library for up to X Sphinx cards with different names, reveal those cards, and put them into your hand, then shuffle your library.
3UU, Return another creature you control to its owner's hand: Create a token that's a copy of that creature.
4/2

kwanyeegor-ii wrote: ↑

2 years ago

folding_music emily

saltyplumsoda wrote: ↑

2 years ago

bravelion83, emily

Recursive Ooze 1G
Creature - Ooze (R)
When Recursive Ooze dies, if it wasn't sacrificed, create a token that's a copy of it.
2/2

Votes: netn10, emily

Arcbound Hydra XG
Artifact Creature — Hydra (R)
Arcbound Hydra enters the battlefield with X +1/+1 counters on it.
Graft (Whenever another creature enters the battlefield, you may move a +1/+1 counter from this creature onto it.)
Modular (When this creature dies, you may put its +1/+1 counters on target artifact creature.)
0/0

Votes: bravelion83, emily

Goblin Sanguimancer BR
Creature - Goblin Warlock (Common)
Spells you cast cost 1 less to cast as long as an opponent lost life this turn.
The Rakdos trade in blood and give laughter in return.
2/2

votes: void_nothing, saltyplumsoda

Malga Phlegmtooth rr
Legendary Creature - Orc (R)
First strike, haste
At the beginning of your upkeep, flip a coin. Target opponent calls heads or tails. If they call the coin correctly, creatures they control gain menace until the beginning of your next turn. Otherwise, creatures you control gain menace until the beginning of your next turn.
"Instill in your men a healthy sense of respect. Then scare it out of them."
2/1

Votes: bravelion83, saltyplumsoda

Miregrove Mountain
Land — Mountain (U)
(T: Add R.)
Miregrove Mountain enters the battlefield tapped unless you reveal a black or green card from your hand.
T, Pay 1 life: Add B or G.

Votes: emily, folding_music

Raugrin Sandstorm 2WW
Instant (R)
For each creature you control, put your choice of a +1/+1 counter or a first strike counter on that creature.
Cycling 2