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"Keyword Tribal" Contest [JUDGED + REVIEW FOR EACH ENTRY]
Hello everyone =D
For this short two-weeks contest, I'm challenging you to make a very rare type of cards, a "Keyword Tribal" card. What this means it that you must create a card that care about a specific keyword ability. Here are two examples from real-life Magic:
Here are the detailed rules of the contest:
- Your entry must care about others cards having one or more specific keyword abilities.
- It can be any keyword, it doesn't have to be evergreen.
- It can be any colour, rarity, mana cost and can use any other mechanic you'd like.
- Each participant can design up to five entries.
- You can change and/or remove your entries before the deadline.
- The contest ends on Sat 03/03/2018, two weeks after its start.
The winners will get the following prizes:
- 1st place: 5 favourites of your choice
- 2nd place: 3 favourites of your choice
- 3rd place: 1 favourite of your choice
I hope we'll see some original designs, it's not an easy challenge but I'm sure it can be an interesting one
Good luck everyone!
P.S: WHAT IS A KEYWORD ABILITY?
Just a quick reminder, keyword abilities replace rules text (e.g. Flying, Deathtouch, Ascend, Embalm, Fabricate, etc.) . They MUST NOT BE CONFUSED with ability words (e.g. Raid, Revolt, Delirium, Landfall, etc.) because a card "with Landfall" doesn't exist for the game. You can find a list of keyword abilities and more explanations on how to distinguish them from ability words here: https://mtg.gamepedia.com/Keyword_ability
For this short two-weeks contest, I'm challenging you to make a very rare type of cards, a "Keyword Tribal" card. What this means it that you must create a card that care about a specific keyword ability. Here are two examples from real-life Magic:
Here are the detailed rules of the contest:
- Your entry must care about others cards having one or more specific keyword abilities.
- It can be any keyword, it doesn't have to be evergreen.
- It can be any colour, rarity, mana cost and can use any other mechanic you'd like.
- Each participant can design up to five entries.
- You can change and/or remove your entries before the deadline.
- The contest ends on Sat 03/03/2018, two weeks after its start.
The winners will get the following prizes:
- 1st place: 5 favourites of your choice
- 2nd place: 3 favourites of your choice
- 3rd place: 1 favourite of your choice
I hope we'll see some original designs, it's not an easy challenge but I'm sure it can be an interesting one
Good luck everyone!P.S: WHAT IS A KEYWORD ABILITY?
Just a quick reminder, keyword abilities replace rules text (e.g. Flying, Deathtouch, Ascend, Embalm, Fabricate, etc.) . They MUST NOT BE CONFUSED with ability words (e.g. Raid, Revolt, Delirium, Landfall, etc.) because a card "with Landfall" doesn't exist for the game. You can find a list of keyword abilities and more explanations on how to distinguish them from ability words here: https://mtg.gamepedia.com/Keyword_ability
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Nothing to do with the band of the same name! It just felt like an appropriate name...
Is that really keyword tribal, or is it keyword giving?
I'll try to explain better what the challenge is:
The card must CHECK if other cards have a specific keywords. This means:
- "Other Frog creatures you control get +1/+1 and have hexproof" doesn't qualify because it doesn't check if other cards have the keywords hexproof. It doesn't incentivize you to play more cards with hexproof.
- "Whenever a creature with hexproof enter the battlefield under your control, prevent all combat damage that other creatures would deal this turn" would have qualified for instance ^^
So yes, @Platypusburger's card is an excellent example of what the challenge wants you to do. His/her card gets better if you have other creatures with prowess.
@sorinjace That one works!
https://mtgcardsmith.com/view/consume-continuity
https://mtgcardsmith.com/view/infiltration-leader
I knew the skulk tribal card couldn't just give +1/+1 (because that's a nonbo), so I came up with this. Works best with deathtouch (Rancid Rats) or card draw (Wharf Infiltrator or Skeleton Key). There are also skulk-granting cards (Skeleton Key and, more importantly, Behind the Scenes, which matches the colour identity and has all-round synergy with this), so this could be a decent build around.