The DCC - December 6th, 2022

[bravelion83]

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.
• When you vote, you need to make exactly two votes for two different people. Vote for the cards that are listed in the first post, not other cards being posted in the thread. If you notice that you've only voted for one person, include your second vote in a post, even if you're not submitting a card.
• If you want to change your vote for any reason, post that change in the day's thread (you can include it with your card if you want). Changed votes in the discussion thread will be ignored.
• 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.
• Voting for everything in the poll will be grounds for a lifetime ban from the DCC. Don't do it. It just wastes the thread creators' time.
• If you wish to post a render, please use the hyperlink option when posting your card and make the card name the image link. Renders are usually large enough to clog up the list, so submit a text-formed card and (optionally) a link in the name to the render.
• This thread is just for your card submission. Take your questions/comments to our discussion thread. If it's a question, comment, or complaint about probation, PM void_nothing and/or the month's DCC organizer.
• When posting make sure that:
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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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Notes of the Day

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Thanks for the votes!

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DCC Scoreboard

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Surging Chaos 22 (+4)
bravelion83 16 (+6)
Ink-Treader 13 (+6)
Rithaniel 10 (+4)
netn10 9 (+1)
void_nothing 8
RattingRots 5 (+2)
marioguy3 3
OneAndOnly 3
wizyard 3 (+1)
emily 2

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Votes: Rithaniel, Ink-Treader

HM: Pretty much everybody else. So many cards I liked today, it's been so hard to only choose two...

@RattingRots Thanks for the feedback, but rewind was born from the reverse order idea (that's also where the name of the mechanic comes from), and there are things to be done with it that don't require targeting at all. I've got several cards with this mechanic planned for the next few days, so I'll get to show some designs without targets, like, you know, the one that already happened to be planned for today...

Feral Ambush 3BB
Instant (U)
Rewind 2G (You may cast this spell for its rewind cost. If you do, perform the listed actions in reverse order while resolving this spell. This is not a modal spell.)
• Put two -1/-1 counters on each creature that entered the battlefield this turn.
• Create a 4/4 green Beast creature token.

netn10, Ink-Treader

Recklessness 3R
Creature - Elemental Incarnation (R)
Haste
Whenever you attack with all creatures you control able to do so, create a 3/1 red Elemental creature token that's tapped and attacking.
1/3

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Prudence 3W
Creature - Elemental Incarnation (R)
Defender
Whenever you attack with all creatures you control able to do so, create two 1/1 white Elemental creature tokens with vigilance.
2/2

Persistence 3G
Creature - Elemental Incarnation (R)
Whenever you attack with all creatures you control able to do so, put a +1/+1 counter on each creature you control.
1/1

Malevolence 3B
Creature - Elemental Incarnation (R)
Deathtouch
Whenever you attack with all creatures you control able to do so, attacking creatures get +1/+0 and gain menace until end of turn.
1/3

Intelligence 3U
Creature - Elemental Incarnation (R)
Flying
Whenever you attack with all creatures you control able to do so, untap all attacking creatures and tap up to one target creature defending player controls.
3/1

Votes: bravelion83, RattingRotes

Fast Charge
Sorcery (Uncommon)
Create three tapped Powerstone tokens. At the beginning of your next turn's end step, sacrifice them.

bravelion83, SurgingChaos

Unwieldy Hammer 2
Artifact - Equipment (U)
Equip 2
When Unwieldy Hammer becomes attached to a creature, put a boost counter on that creature. (Permanents with boost counters on them have "Remove a boost counter from this permanent: Untap it.")
Equipped creature gets +2/+2 and doesn't untap during your untap step.

Votes: Rithaniel, Ink-Treader.
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I'd probably design this as a version of kicker that lets you choose the order the modes can be chosen in. I've found them easier to parse as a split card -- ie, MM: X, then Y //// NN: Y, then X. The "targets must be the same" is a little confusing as to its language and necessity.

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Hoard the Wealth -- 2B
Instant {U}
Create a Treasure token.
Treasure can't be created this turn.

Vote: bravelion83, Surging Chaos

Vexatious Litigation 1U
Instant (U)
Counter target spell unless its controller pays 1.
Discard a card: Return Vexatious Litigation from your graveyard to your hand. Activate only as a sorcery.
By Mr. Russo's fifth dispute with Ms. Nisk, even the Azorius arbiter was rolling her eyes.

Votes: Surging Chaos, Rithaniel

Enigmatic Apparition
Creature — Spirit (R)
Flying
Ward—Pay 3 life.
When Enigmatic Apparition is put into your graveyard from the battlefield, put it into your library third from the top.
Envision (You may cast this spell for it's envision cost whenever you look at or reveal this card as the result of a spell or ability you control.) (Timing restrictions do not apply).
4/3

Votes: Ink-Treader, Rithaniel

Sparkster Wizard
Creature - Elemental Wizard (Uncommon)
First strike
Whenever an opponent rolls the planar die for the first time each turn, create a 3/1 red Elemental creature token. Sacrifice it at the beginning of your next end step.
3/3

Votes: bravelion83, Ink-Treader

Six Feet Under B
Instant (R)
Search your library for a card with disturb, embalm, encore, escape, eternalize, flashback, or unearth, put it into your graveyard, then shuffle.
"Think of this tomb as a shortcut to your true potential."
-- Braids

Votes: Surging Chaos, RattingRots

Phyrexian Eradication 4B
Sorcery (U)
Destroy target nonbasic land, planeswalker, or legendary creature.
Create a 3/3 colorless Phyrexian Wurm artifact creature token with deathtouch.
"They stand in the way of my vision. Call upon the wurmcoil." - Sheoldred

wizyard bravellion83

[marioguy3]

Votes: wizyard, void_nothing

Mushroom Kingdom
Plane
Whenever you cast a spell, put a +1/+1 counter on up to one target creature you control.
: Until end of turn, whenever you cast a spell, put three +1/+1 counters on target creature you control and you draw a card.

[bravelion83]

Votes: Ink-Treader, void_nothing

OneAndOnly

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Rewind went through multiple iterations. At one point it was indeed a kicker variant. At another it has also been a split card mechanic essentially working like fuse but with a cost and when you paid that cost you performed the instructions on the right half before those on the left one. In the end I found problems in all those executions and none of them satisfied me. But rewind went indeed through both stages in its development. In its final form I'm finding that it's quite hard to design for, but it also forces you to find designs you might have never thought of otherwise. Essentially, it forces me to try to think outside the box, which is exactly why reason why I made it. In fact, I even referenced that in the flavor text of the very first rewind card I submitted a few days ago, the one that was meant to interact with enrage. It's a complicated mechanic with a complicated history. I honestly didn't expect anything out of it, actually I expected that in the end it would have caused me to lose points in the standings, but apparently you all do like it so far and I can assure you that it's absolutely fulfilling the purpose it has been designed for: forcing myself to venture outside my comfort zone. It's certainly a very serious candidate for the weirdest mechanic I've ever created.

Burning Spite WUB
Sorcery (R)
Rewind 2RR (You may cast this spell for its rewind cost. If you do, all targets must be the same and you perform the listed actions in reverse order while resolving this spell. This is not a modal spell.)
• Choose a number between 0 and 3. Each player discards that many cards, then draws cards equal to the number of cards they discarded this way plus one.
• Target creature gets +X/-X until end of turn, where X is is the number of cards in its controller's hand.
• Target creature you control gains double strike until end of turn.

[OneAndOnly]

Votes: wizyard, Ink-Treader
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Close the Palace Gates - 1W
Instant {U}
Create a 1/1 white Soldier creature token.
Creature tokens can't be created this turn.

[netn10]

Votes: Surging Chaos, bravelion83

Elesh's Slippery Tongue 1W
Creature - Phyrexian Advisor Cleric (Rare)
Whenever an opponent cast a spell, draw a card and you get two poison counters.
"'Pour honey in one's ear?' I've got a better idea."
1/1

[Ink-Treader]

Vote: Venedrex, void_nothing

Vigorblast R
Instant (U)
As an additional cost to cast Vigorblast, you may remove up to five counters from among permanents you control.
Vigorblast deals damage equal to the number of counters removed to cast it to any target.
Reinforce 5 — 5RR (5RR, Discard this card: Put five +1/+1 counters on target creature.)

[Rithaniel]

Votes: OneAndOnly, Venedrex

Burn Away
Instant U
Remove all counters from creatures except for -1/-1 counters.
"The infection is deeper than I expected. I'll need to increase the heat."
—Kagta Pyrologist

[Surging Chaos]

Votes: Venedrex, OneAndOnly

Krasis Calamity
Instant (U)
Creatures you control gain daunt until end of turn if G was spent to cast this spell. (A creature with daunt can't be blocked by creatures with power 2 or less.)
Creatures your opponents control get -2/-0 and lose all abilities until end of turn if U was spent cast this spell. (Do both if GU was spent to cast this spell.)

[void_nothing]

Votes: wizyard, Surging Chaos

Silence of Dawn 1W
Instant (U)
Choose one -
• All artifacts and enchantments phase out.
• Until end of turn, you may spend white mana as though it were mana of any color. Nonwhite spells cost 1 more to cast this turn.

[kwanyeegor-ii]

netn10 venedrex

[RattingRots]

wizyard, OneAndOnly

Tip the Scales 1UB
Sorcery (R)
Exile two target permanents with mana value 1 or greater.
If two permanents controlled by the same player are exiled this way, that player takes an extra turn after this one.