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Open handed contest
So I discovered a card recently which allowed you to reveal it from your opening hand.
Here's the ones WOTC has.
http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Search/Default.aspx?name=+[opening]+[hand]||type=+[opening]+[hand]||subtype=+[opening]+[hand]||text=+[opening]+[hand]
So here's the contest. Create a card which uses "revealing from your opening hand." or "Begin with it on the battlefield." or something new to do with the beginning of the game.
(Be creative)
Rules
- No joke cards, un cards etc
- No swearing, nudity etc
- Max 3 entries
- Max 1 old card.
- If you edit a card or wish to remove an entries please remove your link.
-Judging in bout a month or two.
Rewards (if low entries this will be edited. Don't be alarmed)
1st - Follow + 3 faves.
2nd - Follow + 2 faves.
3rd - Follow + 1 fave.
HM (if any) Fave entered card.
Here's the ones WOTC has.
http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Search/Default.aspx?name=+[opening]+[hand]||type=+[opening]+[hand]||subtype=+[opening]+[hand]||text=+[opening]+[hand]
So here's the contest. Create a card which uses "revealing from your opening hand." or "Begin with it on the battlefield." or something new to do with the beginning of the game.
(Be creative)
Rules
- No joke cards, un cards etc
- No swearing, nudity etc
- Max 3 entries
- Max 1 old card.
- If you edit a card or wish to remove an entries please remove your link.
-Judging in bout a month or two.
Rewards (if low entries this will be edited. Don't be alarmed)
1st - Follow + 3 faves.
2nd - Follow + 2 faves.
3rd - Follow + 1 fave.
HM (if any) Fave entered card.
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Decided to go with an actually playable expensive burn spell.
Is it okay to make something that you can put on the battlefield rather than just reveal from your hand? The contest description says "revealing from your opening hand" but the linked examples include stuff like Gemstone Caverns and the Leylines so just wanted to double check.
http://mtgcardsmith.com/view/suit-of-flight
http://mtgcardsmith.com/view/leyline-of-the-silver-moon
Balanced?
Entry 2: Red Chaosing.
Entry 3: The Eternal Witness of Discard
Many times over I'm afraid.
Good. Still it doesn't feel broken, right?
Alright. But don't all the 'open handed' cards in WoTC also broken?
When you remove that flaw like you did with your card, it gets fundamentally broken, because that is how flawless free things work in mtg.
And btw, I am pretty sure that if you reveal multiple of those, you get the etb draw a card effect multiple times, aka you get free divinations or free ancestral recalls, and that is utterly broken.
And, here comes the third thing that makes your card broken, and to illustrate my point, let's take another card for example, Gitaxian probe (U(phyrexian) sorcery "Look qt target players hand. Draw a card") which essentially allowed people to play 56 card decks, since that cycled for pretty much free. And gitaxian probe is now banned from modern. Your card would allow people to play 10 card decks, 20 card decks etc, since your card just eternally cycles into other cards, and would probably enable turn 1 kills, which is really problematic for any contructed format.
Your card is interesting, but really broken.
Haha yeah, that thought was also flashed in my mind before.
Nevermind. I actually wanted to give it some mana cost so that it would be less broken but I thought it wouldn't be necessary. Regardless, thanks for the feedback tho.