January CCL, Finals: Innovative Tactics

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CCL January Finals

"Innovative Tactics"


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Spectral Rider, taken from Pinterest, by Igor Kieryluk and Wizards of the Coast
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 Evasion Month here in the CCL. We will go through any number of abilities that make creatures harder to block.

Challenge
For each color, design a monocolored creature card of that color with a different existing keyworded evasion ability that fewer than twenty monocolored creature cards of that color have.
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  • A keyword is an evasion ability if it either restricts what creatures are able to block a creature, imposes a penalty for blocking the creature, or allows it to circumvent being blocked to reduce the defending player's life total. In other words, I am being loose with the definition - you may make designs with trample or afflict, for example.
  • Abilities cannot be repeated. All forms of protection and landwalk are valid choices, but as general categories can only be used once: You can't make a blue creature with protection from black and a red creature with protection from green or a red plainswalker and a white forestwalker.
  • For example, menace is a valid choice for blue: Only Wind Spirit, out of all monoblue creatures, inherently has menace. (To save you the trouble, yes, there are unfortunately more than 20 green creatures with flying.)
  • Make sure to include a rarity.
Contestants:
@slimytrout
@Subject16
@netn10
Your submissions are tentatively due Tuesday, February 7th, 23:59 EST.
Schedule
  • Round 1 — Open to Everyone (January 1st-8th)
  • Round 2 — Open to Everyone (January 9th-15th)
  • Rounds 1 and 2 Critiques (Due January 17th)
  • Top 4 — Open to top 4 finishers (January 22nd–26th)
  • Top 4 Critiques (Due January 28th)
  • Final (January-February, winner determined by public poll)
Please note: For this month we will continue asking first and second round contestants to evaluate seven other contestants during the critique and top 3 period, in order to increase the total number of evaluations each contestant gets.
Psst, check the second page of Custom Card Contests & Games! Because of the daily contests, a lot of games fall down to there.

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Post by Subject16 » 1 year ago

I had to make life difficult for myself and make it a pseudo-cycle haha

Persistent Patriarch 3W
Creature — Spirit Advisor (R)
Menace
Haunt (When this creature dies, exile it haunting target creature.)
When the creature Persistent Patriarch haunts dies, you may exile that card. If you do return Persistent Patriarch from exile to it's owner's hand.
"Bah. Another disappointment."
3/3

Rimewater Weird U
Creature — Weird (U)
Skulk
Replicate 1U (When you cast this spell, copy it for each time you paid its replicate cost. A copy of a permanent spell becomes a token.)
Whenever Rimewater Weird deals combat damage to a player, you may sacrifice it. If you do, draw a card.
1/1

Dinrova Agent 1BB
Creature — Human Assassin (R)
Protection from permanents with bounty counters on them.
Whenever you Surveil, put a bounty counter on target creature an opponent controls.
Whenever Dinrova Agent deals combat damage to a player, exile each creature they control with a bounty counter on them.
3/1

Legion Commander 2RR
Creature — Minotaur Soldier (R)
Intimidate
When Legion Commander enters the battlefield, you may exile a creature card from your hand. If you do, draw two cards.
Batallion — Whenever Legion Commander and at least two other creatures attack, you may put the exiled card onto the battlefield tapped and attacking.
5/3

Izoni's Envoy 1GG
Creature — Insect (R)
Nonbasic landwalk
As long as a Plains card is in your graveyard, each land you control is a Plains in addition to their other types. The same is true for Islands, Swamps, Mountains, Forests, and Gates.
Dredge 3 (If you would draw a card, you may mill three cards instead. If you do, return this card from your graveyard to your hand.)
3/2

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Brimma Spellsbane WW
Legendary Creature - Human Warrior (R)
Protection from instants, sorceries, and Wizards
Whenever an opponent casts an instant, sorcery, or Wizard spell with mana value greater than Brimma Spellsbane's power, put a +1/+1 counter on Brimma and draw a card.
2/2

Onctatum, Gitaxian Watcher 1UU
Legendary Creature - Phyrexian Eye (R)
Locuswalk
At the beginning of your upkeep, put a Locus counter on target land you don't control. Surveil X, where X is the number of Locuses on the battlefield.
3/2

Strangletail, Nezumi Assassin 2BB
Legendary Creature - Rat Rogue (R)
Skulk
1B, Discard a card, Mill a card: Until end of turn, Strangletail gets +1/+0 for each creature card in your graveyard.
At the beginning of your end step, if Strangletail's power is ten or greater, return up to one target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield
0/5

Pyros, Living Firestorm 3RR
Legendary Creature - Elemental (R)
Intimidate, haste
Whenever Pyros, Living Firestorm attacks, it deals 4 damage to up to one target creature. If a creature dealt damage this way would die this turn, instead exile that card and its controller creates a 1/1 black Skeleton creature token.
4/4

Bilemaw, Noxious Beast 2GG
Legendary Creature - Beast (R)
Menace, deathtouch
Whenever Bilemaw, Noxious Beast deals combat damage to a player, you may put a creature card from your hand onto the battlefield.
4/4
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Post by void_nothing » 1 year ago

Just pinging @netn10 to enter and @slimytrout to finish your entry - would it be possible for every finalist to have their finalized entry by 23:59 Eastern US time tomorrow?
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Face in the Crowd W
Creature - Citizen (Rare)
Skulk
Whenever Face in the Crowd deals combat damage to a player, you may have it become a creature that player controls, except it's a 1/1.
1/1

Two-Headed Marrow 2U
Creature - Merfolk Mutant (Uncommon)
Menace
Two-Headed Marrow counts as two creatures for spells and effects that count the number of creatures you control.
2/2

Yori, Bringer of the Curse 3B
Legendary Creature - Vampire Noble (Mythic)
Lifelink, protection from nonvampire creatures and players.
T: Yori deals 1 damage to any target. Creatures and players dealt damage this way becomes vampires in addition to their other types.
At the beginning of each player's end step, if it's daytime, Yori deals 1 damage to each vampire.
3/3

Urbrask's Architect 1R
Creature - Phyrexian Artificer (Rare)
Spherewalk
At the beginning of your upkeep, search your library for a Sphere, put it onto the battlefield tapped under target player's control, then shuffle. Put a "at the beginning of your upkeep, you get a poison counter" counter on it.
2/1

Bulling Spriggan 2G
Creature - Goblin Warrior (Common)
Intimidate
Bulling Spriggan can't be blocked by Cowards.
2/2

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Post by void_nothing » 1 year ago

Alright, thanks for finalizing entries everyone - putting the poll up now.
Psst, check the second page of Custom Card Contests & Games! Because of the daily contests, a lot of games fall down to there.

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Important Facts: Colorless is not a color, Wastes is not a land type, Changeling is not a creature type

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