Make the craziest, functional card possible.

Emeraldragon17 · September 2016

Title says it all, make the most insane cards you can that can still work within the basic rules of magic. many rules can be altered and broken, but you must be able to play with the card on the field for at least one round or more. (your turn, then to your opponent and back at least once after the card has been played.)

Examples:

Yes, this is unreasonable but that's what this will be all about.

Corwinnn · September 2016

Time
http://mtgcardsmith.com/view/time-2?list=user

Biblio2 · September 2016

http://mtgcardsmith.com/view/the-black-adder?list=set&set=1027
http://mtgcardsmith.com/view/zapp-brannigan-2?list=set&set=1027
http://mtgcardsmith.com/view/pied-piper-of-hamelin?list=set&set=1028
http://mtgcardsmith.com/view/rip-van-winkle-2?list=set&set=1028

TrippleBoggey3 · September 2016

Nothing's crazier than Banding!

http://mtgcardsmith.com/view/bands-of-the-mardu

Emeraldragon17 · September 2016

@Corwinnn Huh, very interesting take on extra turns. I'm sure if that was a real card it would make a cool combo commander.

@Biblio2 Cool stuff, and quite well balanced.

@TrippleBoggey3 I agree Banding is quite the rules headache, but not quite the level of craziness I'm looking for. I'm thinking more cards that wizards would never print because of the level of complexity they add to the game.

Faiths_Guide · September 2016

Emeraldragon17 · September 2016

@Faiths_guide ooh, yeah that's more what I was talking about. I might take a shot at making my own version on reality splicer if you don't mind. It'll be a different card entirely of course.

Emeraldragon17 · September 2016

Beeswax · September 2016

Corwinnn · September 2016

PhDJamesauce · September 2016

Boom. Free summons on five cards for the cast of 6 mana.
http://mtgcardsmith.com/view/arcana-influx?list=user

Emeraldragon17 · September 2016

@PhDJamesauce yeah, that's pretty crazy, but the formatting is rough. Consider this for text.

Arcana Influx {7} (6 is a bit too easy)

Each player reveals the top 5 cards of their library.

All creatures revealed may be cast without paying their mana costs.

All instants, without the word counter in their card text, may be cast without paying their mana cost.

All sorceries revealed this way may be cast for {2} less.

Put all other cards revealed this way into their owners hands.

All in all, it works, but requires a lot more text then you probably thought. also, any reason why you left out enchantments, and only made sorceries cost less?

Emeraldragon17 · September 2016

PhDJamesauce · September 2016

@Emeraldragon17 I recently just got into Magic so basically my wording is rough. I completely forgot about enchantments. For some reason, I thought of sorceries as a bit broken rules-wise if the opponents also casts sorceries the turn you casted Arcana Instant which is also a sorcery. The best way now that I think about it is making Sorceries revealed via Arcana Influx free but only during their turn.

Another thing, there is not "may" in the statements. I intended Arcana Influx as an instant frenzy of summons that is not optional, disregarding Sorceries.

PhDJamesauce · September 2016

http://mtgcardsmith.com/view/luz-the-equilibrium?list=user

Faiths_Guide · September 2016

Emeraldragon17 · September 2016

@PhDJamesauce Right, so then it could be worded like this.

Arcana Influx {7}

Each player reveals the top 5 cards of their library.
Starting with you, you cast an artifact, creature, enchantment, or instant card without the word counter in its text without paying its mana cost, then the player to your left may do the same in order until all cards able to be cast are cast.
Put all lands that were revealed this way onto the battlefield
Exile all sorceries revealed this way, their owners may cast them from exile without paying its mana cost, but only during his or her turn.
Put all other cards not put onto the field or cast into their owners hands.

It's a big block of text yes, but it shortens the amount of chaos aside from how the board will change. Either way it's definitely going to be complicated, there's no way to get around that. All aside I think that's as close to perfect as you're going to get.

Also, I think you may want to put some color to the card, it's a very complicated ability that i think would fit best in either blue, or red. You could also make it phyrexian mana so you dont have to have the colors to cast it, just the life.