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Lend White a Helping Hand **Circuit Challenge**
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5th Place: @sorinjace with Another Chance
This card has some templating issues (“put there by an opponent” doesn’t actually work AND the card should specify that you can only target cards you own) but the spirit of the card represents a slight expansion of white's color pie (similar cards: Second Sunrise and Faith's Reward) and an interesting innovation (Exile). I think this card feels white and would play reasonably despite some of its technical flaws. Nice job! You get 1/4 CP and 1 fave!
4th Place: @Faiths_Guide with Timeless Angel
This card expands white’s color pie ever so slightly by allowing white to return both artifacts and creatures to hand. White can already do both of these things but usually with restrictions and I think that it is reasonable to give white a less restricted version of permanent recursion. To top it off, this is a well designed and balanced card that is aggressively costed to enable the trigger ability. You get 1/4 CP and 2 faves.
3rd Place: @Fallen_Lord_Vulganos with Serra Lightbringer
This card expands white’s use of the graveyard through creature recursion. I like that the ability restricts casting creatures to your turn and to white creatures but I think that another restriction like “On each of your turns, you may cast a creature card from your graveyard with CMC less than or equal to the amount of life you gained this turn.” and give the creature lifelink. This would feel a bit more white as the card reads like a black card save for the white rider on the ability. Overall though, this card is nicely costed and would play well into the late game. Nice job! You get 1/2 CP and 3 faves.
2nd Place: @sanjaya666 with Divine Ascension
This card innovates by combining white’s penchant for life gain with Omniscience. I think as is I would like this to cost 9-10 mana as your life total will rarely be lower than 5 where the ability because meaningfully different from omniscience. Like the previous card, I would see lowering the cost to 6 or 7 and restricting free casting to only spells with CMC less than the life you gained this turn to make it more of a build around. still, this card plays into a cool space and gives white the combo potential that it usually lacks as well as a powerful enchantment to cheat into play. You get 3/4 CP and 4 faves.
1st Place: @EternalWolf88 with Angel of the Silver Legion
White can currently create tokens but not token copies. I love this card as an original foray into what white cloning would look like. I like how this can only copy itself and returns itself to hand, requiring either an additional mana investment and/or another turn before more copies are made. The rate on the card is about right too and all of this card’s mechanics play into white themes (fliers/tokens/go wide). Great job, well-deserving of the top spot. You get 1 CP and 5 faves.
Thanks for the contest as feedback! Feedback on my other submissions would be nice too, can I PM?
Congrats other @Winners!
Link: https://mtgcardsmith.com/user/Fallen_Lord_Vulganos/cards
I see what you mean by specifying cards you own, but for 'put there' what should that be then? I'm off to edit this a small bit til I hear back from you bnew.
Ya, as long as faiths's card is placed higher than mine in this contest, that's gg anyway.
Ya, @Fallen_Lord_Vulganos winning twice was strange...
@sorinjace Faves have been distributed! The problem is that "put there by an opponent" doesn't have any rules meaning. I get that you mean if a card was exiled/destroyed by an opponent's creature or an opponent's spell, but the actual rules text to write that out is extremely long.
congrats!
Winning two places in one contest happens. My issue is that one person can submit more cards than contest's limit by using alt accounts, and that can take away chances from other participants to get circuit points. For example, if I wanted no one to get points, I could use 10 accounts, submit 30 cards and won all of 1-5th places. It gives me only 1 point(that's the rule @Corwinnn has decided), but other participants can get 0 point. I think there should be new rules to prevent that. This is not the first time I raise this issue, but always slips right through @Corwinnn's ears.
@sorinjace
"put there by an opponent" does have rules meaning, when it comes to returning cards from exile, because exile is always player's action. I'm not sure, but this is how I would word that card;
"Choose one —
• Choose target card you own in exile that was put there by an opponent this turn, and return it to your hand.
• Choose target card in your graveyard that was put there this turn. If it wasn't sacrificed or discarded, return it to your hand."
That's exactly what I meant. I also think that the judge was only going to consider one card from a unique smith for placement, which would've made it impossible to place twice.
I don't think we need to wait the result to be changed. (It doesn't change the winners of season 4 anyway.) The problem is that no one said we can't use alt accounts to submit more than 3 cards.
Agreed.