Mystery Box Challenges

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  • CrimsonFoxCrimsonFox
    In my opinion, both sound pretty cool. 
  • ShadowReignShadowReign
    I'm gonna say Mystery Box Saga.
  • jpastorjpastor
    Though unconventional, I do think @cadstar369 wins the Rougarou duel vs @Potato13, but I'm going to say barely, because I like both entries! I think the tiebreaker, if there was an actual need for one, would have been simplicity. Potato's Rougarou does quite a few things. The main thing about a rougarou was captured by both cardsmiths: That it can be a beastly thing. 

    The pump ability is a nice touch for cadstar's entry, and while I do like the Beastly Craving card, I just feel like the actual Rougarou card was a bit on the non-beastly side of things. So, thematically speaking, cadstar wins this category.

    Final thoughts here though are that both cards are pretty solid. They both look like magic cards. I do like the Ward ability on Potato's entry, but not a huge fan of the transformation effect that the werewolf offers for the second ability. It just feels like it ended in a whomp whomp whomp moment with me. 

    Rougarou is a beastly creature, perhaps arguably Green as well. I feel like the overall picture I was looking for was captured by cadstar's efforts. 

    Hope you enjoyed this little spew of review material. Thanks for dueling!
  • jpastorjpastor

    Mystery Boxes

    @cadstar369
    Your mystery box contains:
    • A Mystery Challenge: Create an uncommon artifact that costs 5.
    @Jadefire
    Your mystery box contains:
    • Prize 55 - Legacy Community: Community Prizes Volume 1.
    • Prize 71 - Cardsmiths Aggravate Humanity: A White cards against humanity challenge. Solo, Duel, Mohspit, Draft.
    • Prize 93 - Most Popular: You and target cardsmith duel with your most popular cards.
    • A Mystery Challenge: Create a Zubera creature card.
    • A Mystery Challenge: Create a Sorcery card with two "If" clauses.
    • A Mystery Challenge: Create a common with BlueBlue mana cost.
    @ShadowReign
    Your mystery box contains:
    • Premium Prize 18 - A Broadcast Feature: An entire discord/twitch stream dedicated to you.
    • A Mystery Challenge: Create a burn spell with an additional cost to cast it.
    @Potato13
    Your mystery box contains:
    • A Mystery Challenge: Create a monoblack creature with flying and a set symbol from an Eldrazi set. 
  • CrimsonFoxCrimsonFox
    @jpastor do I just continue making cards until I get through the dungeon?
  • hileandrhileandr
    I vote for the Lab
  • JadefireJadefire
    I'll vote for the lab.
  • ShadowReignShadowReign
    • A Mystery Challenge: Create a burn spell with an additional cost to cast it.

    I'm gonna activate a prize:
    Prize 69 - Face Card: You may duel jpastor.
    I'll take another Mystery Box please.
  • Potato13Potato13
    edited June 2022
    For a monoblack creature with flying and a set symbol from an Eldrazi set (Battle For Zendikar), here's Tunnler Bat. I tried to really capitalize on Awaken and its lack of appearance on creatures, while tying into the +1/+1 counter themes that black usually has in Zendikar sets.
     
    I'd like another mystery box, please.
  • jpastorjpastor
    @CrimsonFox
    Yep!
  • jpastorjpastor
    @Jadefire, would you be so kind to toss me and @ShadowReign a duel challenge!?
  • jpastorjpastor
    @ShadowReign
    Your mystery box contain:
    • Prize 33 - Musical Chairs: A draft for creating a card themed after a song.
    • A Mystery Challenge: Create a Goblin Knight with double strike.
    @Potato13
    Your mystery box contain:
    • A Mystery Challenge: Create a Human Spellshaper creature card.
  • Potato13Potato13
    Oooh, a Spellshaper. I tried putting a relatively interesting spin on it this time around, trying to replicate Devil's Play as closely as possible on a card.


    Another box, please.
  • jpastorjpastor
    @Potato13
    Your mystery box contains:
    • A Mystery Challenge: Create a Planeswalker with a +10 loyalty ability.
  • ShelkoShelko
    I've been lurking around this topic a bit recently, and I wanted to enter quite some times but each of those times I always ended up forgotting it haha. That's quite an amazing concept to challenge cardsmiths to confront to new ideas, and it's a very impressive work of diversity and research on card design. All that to thank you @jpastor for this very nice initiative I missed for a long time by not looking at the forums, and to say I'd like to open a mystery box when you have the time for it!
  • jpastorjpastor
    @Shelko
    Words of kindness! Thank you! Welcome in! Your mystery box contains:
    • A Mystery Challenge: Create a land card with an activated ability that costs snow mana to activate.
  • ShelkoShelko
    edited June 2022
    Thanks a lot @jpastor! :)

    And here you go for:
    • A Mystery Challenge: Create a land card with an activated ability that costs snow mana to activate (and that makes the battlefield all snowy).


    A little edit to add along another version of Rimeleaf Grove as I finally thought the cost to pay for having it enter untapped felt a bit weird.



    And for the reference, here's a visual of Rimefeather Owl:



    Ice counters is based on Rimefeather Owl, but I slightly modified them in order to have those work a bit like Mathas' bounty counters or shield counters that carry on a particular ability that's not explicit like it is with vanilla keyword ability counters such as flying counters.

    I'd gladly open another box, please!
  • Potato13Potato13
    A planeswalker with a +10 loyalty ability? Well, here's my attempt. The general balance around the +10 is that it has a condition added onto it and can't lead to the ultimate the turn after it upticks, making decks like Tron have to put effort into it, or run it as a tech card against stuff like Murktide Regent.



    Another mystery box, please.
  • Potato13Potato13
    @jpastor , and while I'm at it, I'd like to activate 
    • Prize 91 - Futuresight: When you activate this, the next batch of mystery boxes will be duels and moshpits.
  • jpastorjpastor
    @Shelko vs @Potato13

    @Shelko
    Your mystery box contains:
    • Prize 12 - Corwinnn's Cache: You can cash this prize in any time you'd like to activate a special mode that will be Squirreltopia-themed. When you do, choose solo challenge, duel (1-vs-1), moshpit (3+), or Draft.
    • A Mystery Challenge: Create a Human Knight with an appetite for destruction.
    @Potato13
    Your mystery box contains:

  • cadstar369cadstar369
    edited June 2022
    A Mystery Challenge: Create an uncommon artifact that costs 5.
    Memory Dredger

    I’d like to trade in my Deathstone for a Ruby, then crack the Ruby for a Premium Legacy Prize, choosing the Jadefire Special.

    One Mystery Box with 2 difficult challenges please. ?
  • JadefireJadefire
    @jpastor @ShadowReign here's your duel challenge.
    Duel Challenge: Create a modal card with modes that each interact with a different card type.
  • JadefireJadefire
    edited June 2022
    @jpastor Wait a minute, Prize 66 has already been established to be Angelstone:
    https://forums.mtgcardsmith.com/discussion/comment/223167#Comment_223167

    Is it a Premium Legacy Prize now?
    https://forums.mtgcardsmith.com/discussion/comment/224181#Comment_224181
  • jpastorjpastor
    @Jadefire
    Prize 66 has always been Legacy Premium. In the case of cadstar's prize, the variant to prize 66 was also a random selection of which volume 1 prize the legacy would yield. Angelstone is a Volume 1 premium prize, which is considered a Legacy prize in Volume 2. :smile:
  • jpastorjpastor
    @cadstar369
    golly you're good at this game, yet you already have many prizes which you do not use :wink:

    • Premium Prize 13 - Mystery Crate: You gain prestige benefits the remainder of the deadline upon activating this.
    • Prize 77 - Legacy Negotiation: Choose one.
    • Prize 26 - Listerine: Add a song or movie to one the mystery box lists. (Spotify | Letterbox'd)
    • Prize 48 - Glyph of Cadstar: Create a new prize. It will forever be Volume 2, Prize 48.
    • Prize 70 - Snake: Activating this modifier turns the remainder of the deadline into story building, where each cardsmith's mystery box entry will include a 1-2 sentence continuation of a shared story.
    Your mystery box contains:
    • Prize 57 - Crossbones: Activate crossbones before a deadline ends. The winner of that deadline gets an invitational qualification.
    • A Mystery Challenge: Create a Legendary Enchantment Creature with 3 different artwork variants. (Post all 3 entries.)
    • A Mystery Challenge: Create a Legendary male creature with a, generally, female name.
  • ShelkoShelko
    edited June 2022
    • A Mystery Challenge: Create a Human Knight with an appetite for destruction.


    I'd like to open a new mystery box, please!
  • JadefireJadefire
    Thanks @jpastor, I'll note the correction.
  • jpastorjpastor
    @Shelko - that's some small font
    Your mystery box contains:
    • Prize 50 - Copycat: You may submit a card for any mystery challenge on this page instead of a card for the mystery challenge in this mystery box.
    • A Mystery Challenge: Create a Human Cleric creature card with a set symbol from 10th edition or earlier.
  • cadstar369cadstar369
    A few of my prizes are unused because I know Shady Deal exists. A couple others are sitting around because I forget to activate them around the beginning of a deadline.

    For Prize 26 – Listerine, please add MirrorMask to the Letterbox'd playlist. I'll also snag a Mood Ring for my Legacy Negotiation and activate it.

    Prize 48 – Glyph of Cadstar transforms into [Prize 48 – Magic Mirror: Activate this to get a copy of the first prize another cardsmith earns from opening a Mystery Box.]

    Inventory
    • Premium Prize 66 - Legacy Premium: Angelstone (This deadline's winner will receive a premium prize. Activate any time before a deadline ends.)
    • Prize 36 - Herbal Supplements: You may exchange X prizes in your inventory for 2X favorites.
    • Prize 62 - Zombies (Event)
    • Prize 52 - Quest Journal (Gambit, Duel, Moshpit, Draft - Go on your own adventure of 3-5 cards, equipped with a shSave Draftort story along with it. 2-3 sentences per card.) [Activate any time.]
    • Prize 47 - Improvised Advisements: Solo Challenge, Duel, Mode, Modifier - Mystery Challenges are hand crafted for each cardsmith.
    • Premium Prize 13 - Mystery Crate: You gain prestige benefits the remainder of the deadline upon activating this.
    • Prize 77 - Legacy Negotiation: Choose one.
    • Prize 26 - Listerine: Add a song or movie to one the mystery box lists. (Spotify | Letterbox'd)
    • Prize 48 - Glyph of Cadstar: Create a new prize. It will forever be Volume 2, Prize 48.
    • Prize 70 - Snake: Activating this modifier turns the remainder of the deadline into story building, where each cardsmith's mystery box entry will include a 1-2 sentence continuation of a shared story.
    • Prize 57 - Crossbones: Activate crossbones before a deadline ends. The winner of that deadline gets an invitational qualification.
  • ShelkoShelko
    edited June 2022
    I am not sure if I'm using this correctly, but I'd like to activate the prize 50 I've just earned:
    • Prize 50 - Copycat: You may submit a card for any mystery challenge on this page instead of a card for the mystery challenge in this mystery box.
    To change the following challenge:
    • A Mystery Challenge: Create a Human Cleric creature card with a set symbol from 10th edition or earlier.
    Into this challenge that figures on top of this page: 
    • A Mystery Challenge: Create a Zubera creature card.
    It inspired me to create a little cycle of uncommon bicolored Zubera Spirits.

    (Sorry for the edits!)

    I'll take another mystery box, please!
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