Mystery Box Challenges

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  • Potato13Potato13
    I was asked to create a rare mono-blue instant with two different frames, in addition to a legendary creature named Seymour Butts. Here's my submissions:



    I'd like another box, please
  • stijnhommesstijnhommes
    Let's see what shakes out. Can I have a box please?
  • JadefireJadefire
    @12SidedGuy
    Your mystery box contains:
    • A Mystery Challenge: Create a card fit for a weenie deck featuring a grouping of creatures.
    @Potato13
    Your mystery box contains:
    • Prize 28 - Raincheck
    • A Mystery Challenge: Create a permanent that can grant more than one extra turn.
    @stijnhommes
    Your mystery box contains:
    • Prize 47 - Raincheck
    • A Mystery Challenge: Create a headless creature.
  • cadstar369cadstar369
    Mystery Challenge: Create another Legendary Szadek permanent of any type.
    Mystery Challenge: Create a card that's Unholy.
    Szadek Vengeful Soul Unholy Soultaker

    One Mystery Box with three challenges please.

    Inventory
    • Prize 36 - Herbal Supplements: You may exchange X prizes in your inventory for 2X favorites.
    • Prize 52 - Quest Journal (Gambit, Duel, Moshpit, Draft - Go on your own adventure of 3-5 cards, equipped with a short story along with it. 2-3 sentences per card.) [Activate any time.]
    • 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 40 - Rain Check Tournament: A deadline of 32 entries and rain check prizes, followed by single elimination brackets with the entries. Activate any time.
    • Prize 65 - A friendly game of...: Challenge jpastor to your choice of a checkers, chess, or scrabble game on a free app. If you win the match, you get the mystery box avatar and a newly discovered prize.
    • Prize 14 - Fireworks: A favorite on all cards judged in your next cardsmith league match that win. [Cash this in any time to activate it - before judging takes place.]
  • jpastorjpastor

    ...and the deadline has arrived...

  • jpastorjpastor

    ...and the winners are...

    1st Place

     by @Potato13

    2nd Place

    Manaborn Spawning by @Scaccogaming ;

    3rd Place 

    Unholy Soultaker by @cadstar369
  • jpastorjpastor

    It's time to be more transparent and share the winning cards with you.


    "If you conceal your thoughts in fear of what others will think about them, you might as well not even think at all." - Cowboy Cthulhu
  • stijnhommesstijnhommes 
    Mystery Challenge: Create a headless creature.
    For a moment I wonder if it would be possible to draw inspiration from Doctor Who, but I decided to stick to more "realistic" Magic lore.



    Can I have another mystery box please?

    Inventory:

    Prize 47 - Raincheck

  • jpastorjpastor
    Go wild with your imagination here - i'd love to see Dr. Who stuff.. just not an excessive amount cuz it's Dr. Who
  • stijnhommesstijnhommes
    @jpastor Of course, doing a Doctor Who card runs into trademark issues and problems finding suitable artwork...
  • jpastorjpastor
    @Potato13 You've just earned an X (X = An Invitation to the Mystery Box Invitational in October.)
  • jpastorjpastor

    Rain Checks


    @Potato13 ;
    • Prize 7 - Enter the Dungeon: You may enter the dungeon at any time.
    @stijnhommes
    • Prize 3 - Glyph of Hileandr (Reroll): Cash this in any time to replace one of your mystery challenges with a new one.
    @cadstar369
    Your mystery box contains:
    • Prize 17 - Eyemask: X favorites, where X is the number of cards you've favorited since the start of this deadline (X=Damn, I have no idea what i was thinking when i made this prize. How can I tell? Honesty counts here, between 2:00PM and 11:59PM your time on 7/22, how many cards have you faved?)
    • Prize 60 - Scribing Device: Activate this to drastically change the judging criteria for the deadline.
    • A Mystery Challenge: Create a monoblue Zombie with prowess.
    • A Mystery Challenge: Create a Human creature that rolls a six-sided die.
    • A Mystery Challenge: Create a monogreen creature with no appendages that has power/toughness */*.
  • jpastorjpastor
    edited July 2022
    @stijnhommes
    Your mystery box contains:
    • A Mystery Challenge: Create an artifact with a guild-clan in its name.
  • JadefireJadefire
    A Mystery Challenge: Create a card with soldiers in the artwork.
    https://mtgcardsmith.com/view/zealous-vanguard


    I'll activate my Prize 93 - Most Popular@Potato13.  I'll also activate my Prize 11 - Cadstar's Keychain.

    Can I get another mystery box with three challenges, two medium and one hard?
  • cadstar369cadstar369
    For my Eyemask, X=2. Would have been 0 if I hadn't participated in the Inactive League judging. :sweat_smile:
  • jpastorjpastor
    X = number of favorites you have favorited, not that have been favorited in your collection.

    @cadstar369

  • cadstar369cadstar369
    edited July 2022
    Right; I hadn’t favorited anything in days before yesterday. Ended up wandering over to the front page ’cause I was wondering whether Chilling Starlight was getting any attention after asking you to favorite it, saw Asilda & Lorespire Archive and faved those two.
  • jpastorjpastor
    @cadstar369
    AHAH I gotcha - two faves coming your way - your choice!
  • cadstar369cadstar369
    I’ll send the Eyemask favorites over to these two cards:
    https://mtgcardsmith.com/view/shardwing-blizzard-1?list=set&set=66540
  • stijnhommesstijnhommes
    edited July 2022
    @jpastor Is there some sort of master list that explains how each prize works and exactly how rainchecks work?

    My latest mystery box challenge was: Create an artifact with a guild-clan in its name.

    I present Rakdos Forge. It was inspired by the flavor text on Greater Forgeling, the Rakdos Riteknife and one of my favorite guilds.

     


    After the original submission, I managed to create some AI assisted artwork and I was able to install some fonts on my system to get my card editor to fix italics and spacing and such. Below I also post the new card with the improved formatting.

  • cadstar369cadstar369
    edited July 2022

    @stijnhommes

    The Mystery Box website has explanations for all discovered prizes: https://mystery-boxes.webs.com/apps/blog/


    Rainchecks are used when any prestiged Mystery Boxer (currently myself, Jadefire, and Corwinnn) give out one or more mystery boxes in jpastor’s place and don’t know one or more prizes someone earns. Jpastor will then reveal what the actual prize for the associated number is at a later date.

  • stijnhommesstijnhommes
    Thanks for the explanation. I had no clue there was a website.
  • jpastorjpastor
    @stijnhommes
    yeah it's a really crappy website that serves solely as a place I can list my prizes without taking up loads of space on the forums... so i don't really post the link until it's necessary haha 
  • stijnhommesstijnhommes
    edited July 2022
    @jpastor Can I please have another box?

    Inventory:
    Prize 3 - Glyph of Hileandr (Reroll): Cash this in any time to replace one of your mystery challenges with a new one.


  • Potato13Potato13
    My current mystery box is to "Create a permanent that can grant more than one extra turn.", so, here's a strange build-around card. While game-winning, the requirements for the curve and amount of turns you need to spend paying mana for little benefit make it difficult to complete.


    y'know what, entering the dungeon sounds fun. I'll enter the dungeon with Prize 7.
  • cadstar369cadstar369
    Mystery Challenge: Create a Human creature that rolls a six-sided die.
    Mindripper Adept

    If judging hasn't yet happened today, I'd like to crack my Fireworks.

    Inventory
    • Prize 36 - Herbal Supplements: You may exchange X prizes in your inventory for 2X favorites.
    • Prize 52 - Quest Journal (Gambit, Duel, Moshpit, Draft - Go on your own adventure of 3-5 cards, equipped with a short story along with it. 2-3 sentences per card.) [Activate any time.]
    • 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 40 - Rain Check Tournament: A deadline of 32 entries and rain check prizes, followed by single elimination brackets with the entries. Activate any time.
    • Prize 65 - A friendly game of...: Challenge jpastor to your choice of a checkers, chess, or scrabble game on a free app. If you win the match, you get the mystery box avatar and a newly discovered prize.
    • Prize 14 - Fireworks: A favorite on all cards judged in your next cardsmith league match that win. [Cash this in any time to activate it - before judging takes place.]
    • Prize 60 - Scribing Device: Activate this to drastically change the judging criteria for the deadline.
  • JadefireJadefire

    Encounter: A sleek vehicle whizzes past you as you are walking alone at night on the streets of a city. Create 5 cards indicating what happens next.

    Chapter 1 – https://forums.mtgcardsmith.com/discussion/comment/222968#Comment_222968

    Chapter 2 – https://forums.mtgcardsmith.com/discussion/comment/223504#Comment_223504

    Chapter 3 – https://forums.mtgcardsmith.com/discussion/comment/224753#Comment_224753

    Chapter 4: With the fighting intensifying, you slink back between the buildings so as to not be mistaken for someone with a stake in the outcome.  The authorities begin taking the upper hand in the scuffle as the bandits are subdued one at a time.  Suddenly, a bang echoes in the distance and one of the officers falls to the ground.  A second shot rings out and another officer goes down.  It seems the bandits have called in backup who’s now clearing the way for their getaway. Create a creature that can deal noncombat damage.

    https://mtgcardsmith.com/view/colton-kain-the-wild-scorpion


    @jpastor Any progress on my prize activations and mystery box?
    https://forums.mtgcardsmith.com/discussion/comment/224793#Comment_224793
  • jpastorjpastor
    hi @Jadefire
    trying to catch up on these
    anything after this post is on the to do list https://forums.mtgcardsmith.com/discussion/comment/224790/#Comment_224790

  • hileandrhileandr
    edited July 2022
    A Mystery Challenge: Create a colored artifact with the reminder text:  (Snow can be paid with one mana from a snow source.)



    Another, please!
  • JadefireJadefire
    @jpastor No worries, just wanted to make sure the request wasn't missed.
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