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Challenger's Contest 2: An Unsanitary Quest
Welcome back ladies and pigmen, to the second Challenger's Contest! This week, the theme is sewers! That's right, sewers. I want you to make cards that could only be found in the deepest, dankest sewers in the multiverse. Contest ends next Friday, March 15th.
To participate, just leave a comment with the link to up to three of your custom MTGCardsmith cards (@EternalWolf88 won 3rd place in the last Challenger's Contest, and so can enter four). You can change your entries, whichever three cards are the most recent from you in the comments section will be the ones up for judging.
The criteria for entries are as follows:
-Must be something that could be found in the untapped depths of an ancient sewer! That's it boys, I know you can do it.
-Must be a card you created on or after 3/8/2019.
-Must not be a joke card (it can be humorous, but try to make a card you could actually see printed in a non-unset.)
-Must credit the artist.
Cards will be judged based on:
-Creativity
-Flavor
-Balancing
-Wording
-Templating
-Art choice
Simple enough, right? Now here are the prizes for you scrangy scragglers.
Prize support:
1st Place: A favorite on the winning card, plus a favorite on 4 cards of their choice! Can be your own or someone else's. Two esteemed entries in the first Champion's Challenge invitational challenge.
2nd Place: A favorite on the winning card, plus a favorite on 3 cards of their choice! At least one must be someone else's (show some love). An esteemed entry in the first Champion's Challenge invitational challenge.
3rd Place: A favorite on the winning card, plus a favorite on 1 card of their choice. An extra entry in the next week's Challenger's Contest.
And now it's time for you cringey crafters to get your hands dirty, and delve deeper into the sewer! I look forward to seeing what you all have to offer!
-N_B
To participate, just leave a comment with the link to up to three of your custom MTGCardsmith cards (@EternalWolf88 won 3rd place in the last Challenger's Contest, and so can enter four). You can change your entries, whichever three cards are the most recent from you in the comments section will be the ones up for judging.
The criteria for entries are as follows:
-Must be something that could be found in the untapped depths of an ancient sewer! That's it boys, I know you can do it.
-Must be a card you created on or after 3/8/2019.
-Must not be a joke card (it can be humorous, but try to make a card you could actually see printed in a non-unset.)
-Must credit the artist.
Cards will be judged based on:
-Creativity
-Flavor
-Balancing
-Wording
-Templating
-Art choice
Simple enough, right? Now here are the prizes for you scrangy scragglers.
Prize support:
1st Place: A favorite on the winning card, plus a favorite on 4 cards of their choice! Can be your own or someone else's. Two esteemed entries in the first Champion's Challenge invitational challenge.
2nd Place: A favorite on the winning card, plus a favorite on 3 cards of their choice! At least one must be someone else's (show some love). An esteemed entry in the first Champion's Challenge invitational challenge.
3rd Place: A favorite on the winning card, plus a favorite on 1 card of their choice. An extra entry in the next week's Challenger's Contest.
And now it's time for you cringey crafters to get your hands dirty, and delve deeper into the sewer! I look forward to seeing what you all have to offer!
-N_B
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Comments
https://mtgcardsmith.com/view/grasp-of-rot
...a disease that spreads to all, infecting and filling everyone with despair?
https://mtgcardsmith.com/view/dark-sewer
@KingWatherton I believe the wording would be
'{1}, {T}: Add {B/G}{B/G}. Put a sewer counter on Dark Sewer.
Whenever you tap Dark Sewer for mana, you lose life equal to the number of sewer counters on it.'
https://mtgcardsmith.com/view/overgrown-pests
https://mtgcardsmith.com/view/drider-of-the-forgotten
https://mtgcardsmith.com/view/xolnathab-underground-crypt
If you're wondering how deep sewers must go in order for there to be an entire underground tomb, lemme just say it gets preeeeetty deep.
Not everything that finds its way to the sewer remains there for long.
And:
https://mtgcardsmith.com/view/colossus-of-rot
And:
https://mtgcardsmith.com/view/devouring-darkness
Transforms into:
https://mtgcardsmith.com/view/it-that-feeds
Or catch a horrible disease...
Or a fate worse than death...
https://mtgcardsmith.com/view/sadistic-guide
Shout out to the amazing choice of art and tasty flavor texts that everyone came up with! There were also a bunch of cool designs that made the inner Magic player in me (basically 95% of my insides) smile, even though my mouth is more of an outer part.
Anyways, no one really cares what I say, so here are the winners:
The esteemed 1st Place goes to @darthampersand with Grasp of Rot!
https://mtgcardsmith.com/view/grasp-of-rot
I love the slow death effect here. And yes, the card is slow. Painfully slow. But that's just the thing. The effect has potential to stay there the entire game with some counter shenanigans, so the slowness can work in its own favor. And the ability that on-color opponents can activate as well as the owner adds just a twinge of chaos that butters my biscuits.
2nd Place goes to @EternalWolf88 and their Colossus of Rot!
https://mtgcardsmith.com/view/colossus-of-rot
I wonder if ampersand and E-Wolf colluded, because putting Grasp of Rot on the Colossus of Ditto would be funny, and the names are 66% the same. Anyhow, this card supports longevity in another way, making the payoff better the longer you wait. Sludging through the sewers, searching in vain (mostly) for anything of value seems even more flavorfully perfect than putting rot in the name.
3rd Place is taken by the San, the Jaya Ballard, the @Sanjaya666, with Gelatinous Tide!
https://mtgcardsmith.com/view/gelatinous-tide
I put medicinal gel in my nose the other day, and it was gross. Almost as gross as this gel! I like that it is a tribal card that relies completely on actual creature cards of the tribe. Without them, this card is nothing! Well, it's a decent sac outlet, but so is Greater Good. What Greater Good is not is a card pushing an unsupported, but actually rather large and utility-packed tribe.
So there ya have it. I'm not doing a contest this week, as I have real life stuff to deal with. I'm moving, and assuming all goes well, I should be able to run another contest next week at some point. I thank you all for participating, I love to see all the things you guys come up with! It's simply fun. The winners can DM me the cards they'd like favorited! Shasta la Vista flavored water.
@Corwinnn This discussion is closed like an unopened can of Shasta brand sewer water.
-N_B