New Blight Ability Contest! **Circuit Challenge - Season 3**

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• jazipa

  July 2017

  Okay then... (@Brainifyer) Maybe... No. There isn't a way to word it.
• jazipa

  July 2017

  @Brainifyer
• syntheticreign

  July 2017

  @jazipa
  You can have it say when it deals damage, that would mean if it has an effect that does damage it will blight the creature, as well as combat damage and "fight" effects.
• jazipa

  July 2017

  I want the ability to work when the creature would be put into a fight (through a spell or otherwise) and when it is blocked or blocks. The problem with this is that I don't want you to be able to return a creature with blight from combat, but still blight the creature that blocked it. I also want the ability to not require damage.
• Monstrumonium

  July 2017 edited July 2017

  @jazipa
  
  Wording is very important in Magic The Gathering, particularly on printed cards and mechanics. When fight is used in magic, it means and only means when the keyword is used and the creatures simultaneously deal damage to each other equal to their power.
  
  But based on your answer, you would have properly answered: "(b)cd". And then the reminder text would be along the lines of (Whenever this creature fights, becomes blocked by, or blocks a creature, that creature becomes blighted and gains blight.)
• jazipa

  July 2017

  @Monstrumonium But what is somebody blocks with a creature with Blight, and then returns it to their hand? The creature it blocked shouldn't become blighted, in that case.
• Monstrumonium

  July 2017 edited July 2017

  @jazipa At that point, you would have to compromise that near redundent aspect. Flavorfully, you could just justify it by the creature still spreading the infection but not staying around long enough in the combat to deal any considerable damage. Especially since creatures that can't deal damage still get the opportunity to spread it. Such as freakin stone walls. At some point, you have to sacrifice optimal flavor for straight-to-the-point mechanics and realisticness.
• jazipa

  July 2017

  Alright... Here's an idea. "Blight (At the beginning of each end step, each creature this creature fought, blocked or was blocked by gains blight and becomes blighted.)"
• Beeswax

  July 2017

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  (Mary Mallon is better known as Typhoid Mary, a cook who was an asymptomatic carrier for typhoid fever and therefore unknowingly infected dozens of people).
• Monstrumonium

  July 2017

  @jazipa With that method, if the creature with blight dies from combat (and out of combat too, before the end step), it wouldn't be on the battlefield by the end step to have that ability trigger, therefore not spreading the blight unless it survives until the end step. (See Krovikan Vampire's rulings for reference)
• Decaldor

  July 2017

  First entry:
  
• Brainifyer

  July 2017

  
  
  Second entry
• Monstrumonium

  July 2017

  My entries for the contest
  
  
  
• jazipa

  July 2017

  @Monstrumonium I dunno what I'll do
  
• jazipa

  July 2017 edited July 2017

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• Jyagaimasu

  July 2017

  damage or combat damage though?
  In my opinion, if a source deals non-combat damage, it can still spread the infection.
• jazipa

  July 2017

  Please check first comment for new blight reminder text.
• modnation675

  July 2017 edited July 2017

  Here's the recent update to the reminder text.
  
  Blight (Whenever a creature with blight fights, blocks or becomes blocked by another creature, that creature becomes blighted and gains blight.)
  
  Future updates will be posted below and updated on this comment in addition to the main post.
  Reference: Main Post
• saveria201

  July 2017

  Desolate Return
  https://mtgcardsmith.com/view/desolate-return
• Death_Methods

  July 2017

  
• Faiths_Guide

  July 2017 edited July 2017

  First:
  
• Stormtide

  July 2017 edited July 2017

  
• Jyagaimasu

  July 2017

  
• Gelectrode

  July 2017

  No real idea what the real storyline behind Jodah is, but I like his name! Assume this version is from a separate time stream (another Phyrexia???)
  
  
• Death_Methods

  July 2017

  
• jazipa

  July 2017

  I will judge all entries in two days, so enter all cards by then!
  
• Jyagaimasu

  July 2017

  Second entry:
  
  
• jazipa

  July 2017

  @Brainifyer is the winner with Gedred, Plague Warlock! https://mtgcardsmith.com/view/gedred-plague-warlock
  
  @Jyagaimasu is the runner-up with Blighted Outcast! https://mtgcardsmith.com/view/blighted-outcast
  
  @Jyagaimasu gets an honourable mention for Catacomb Slug! https://mtgcardsmith.com/view/catacomb-slug-1
  
  @Stormtide gets an honourable mention for Carrier Corpse! https://mtgcardsmith.com/view/carrier-corpse
  
  @Monstrumonium gets an honourable mention for Bloodmad Inciter! https://mtgcardsmith.com/view/bloodmad-inciter
  
  The cards made by @Beeswax would've have had a place in the final winnings, but they're cards were deleted...
  
• Corwinnn

  July 2017

  Congrats to ALL the winners!
  Circuit Points will be distributed in just a few minutes!
  @jazipa - Thanks for hosting this fun challenge, and don't worry about @Beeswax... he's the unofficial winner of every challenge he enters!
  XD
• Brainifyer

  July 2017

  Congrats to all participants!