The Best of the Best

spookoopsspookoops
edited November 2020 in Just for Fun Contests
Hello all, it's been quite a while since I've done any sort of challenge. Time to step up my game.

This will be simple and easy, I'm looking for a single card that represents your favorite color and play style. I would also like a quick blurb as to why you enjoy the color and/or play style.

Rules are simple:

1: Mono-colored card
2: Can be of any card type.
3: Explain why it's your favorite color/style.
4: Old cards are just fine.
5: Only one single card to represent yourself.

Prizes:

All who enter will get their card auto-liked, plus an extra card of my choice.

Top 3 of my liking will also get 3 likes of your choice.

ETC...

I will doing judging after the end of the month.

Happy Smithing
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  • CorwinnnCorwinnn
    edited November 2020
    Wow, this is hard! I like a lot of different decks and colors and styles, but one of my favorites is Control. The color that best embodies control is Blue, and since there isn't a first place this is just for fun, I'm just gonna drop this here...

    The Dot
  • FireKing661FireKing661
    edited November 2020
    You are right, @Corwinnn. This is real hard. There are so many different play styles I like! But of all of them, I have to pick the explosiveness of Red Burn and Chaos. I love the color red, and it is easily my favorite color. The card following this blurb is a card I would put in every single red deck I have (save perhaps my spellslinger deck).
    Balefire Genesis
  • FireKing661FireKing661
    I love what wizards has been doing to red in the latest sets, and all the damage and speed cards it has got (like Fiery Emancipation) are right up my alley.
  • CorwinnnCorwinnn
    edited November 2020
    @FireKing661 - I love red too! It makes me giggle when I use red AND blue for permission decks! Also, I added a link to your card so people can favorite it if they so choose.
  • spookoopsspookoops
    @Corwinnn, @FireKing661, thanks for the entries. For me, I thought the idea was pretty easy. I know what like and play it, a lot. Mono-black control, for me, the perfect card already exists; Hypnotic Specter...
  • FireKing661FireKing661
    @Corwinnn, @spookoops, thanks for all the support! Thanks for adding my link too. And you are right, @Corwinnn, there is nothing better than shutting down a creature with card like The Dot, and then using a Balefire Genesis to plop out a Terror of the Peaks!
  • KorandAngelsKorandAngels
    So, I like a few different strategies. but my favourive effect is the card Dragonlord Dromoka (Hail Dromoka). (2nd favourite being exile.) My stratergy and playstyle is mono-white lifegain/aggro commander. But since there is already too much evil control, take this, a flavourful, beautiful piece of my new Colonisers faction:

    https://mtgcardsmith.com/view/new-arashin
    (Also, I had to make that card. The art is too perfectly... Dromoka for me to not. Plants growing on a huge desert citadel, with towers and such in the right places.)

  • FireKing661FireKing661
    @KorandAngels awesome card!
  • TenebrisNemoTenebrisNemo
    Iezabel of the Blood Council

    Black is easily my favorite color. It has some of the most elegant designs and it gets things done in the way I want them to. Almost every deck I use has black in it, it's my comfort zone in the color pie.
  • RandomFandomRandomFandom
    edited November 2020


    White/red, modern go wide. It doesn’t always win, and it’s admittedly not the best deck, but it’s the most fun for me to play. I really like the feeling of, “And now I’m going to attack you with 21 Soldiers.”

    [edited to attach the link]
  • RandomFandomRandomFandom
    @KorandAngels You play lifegain? I used to have a green/white lifegain deck that was really good at keeping you alive, but the game would drag on and on, and it wouldn’t be fun to play. Eventually I abandoned the deck for not being aggressive enough.
  • KorandAngelsKorandAngels
    Felidar sovereign
    Serra Ascendant
  • RandomFandomRandomFandom
    @KorandAngels Yes, I did run Felidar Sovereign, but I didn’t realize Serra Ascendant was a thing. Cool!
  • MemoryHeadMemoryHead


    My color favoritism tends to be a bit weird, but black comes out on top for being able to do a lot of different things and having a superb capacity for messing with people in strange ways. You'd think that'd make it blue, but apparently not.

    Since I've also got a bias towards weirdly unique effects, this fits me in another sense as well.
  • feralitatorferalitator
    Picking a single color was hard for me, as I started playing magic around the Return to Ravnica block, so I liked both red and black equally, even the deck that I primarily use today is a red and black deck that focuses on resurrecting dragons. However, I picked black for the primary reason that I love reusing dead creatures and cheating out big creatures from the graveyard, for usually less mana.

    I know that my favorite color being black probably isn't best represented on a black artifact and that the weapons mechanic was inspired by a red card, Form of the Dinosaur, but the idea is that the player attacks a weak creature while wielding the scythe, killing it and stealing its soul in order to resurrect a powerful beast, which I think still feels like black down to its core. 
  • CorwinnnCorwinnn
    @feralitator - I love reanimator decks too!

    How do you determine durability?
  • MemoryHeadMemoryHead
    @Corwinnn I suspect that base "durability" is defined by the number in the toughness box. Tracking it might prove a little iffy, though perhaps the intent is that it enters with that many "durability counters" or something? Of course, that's just guessing.


    @feralitator Purely out of interest, is this based off of the concept of weapons in Hearthstone? They seem very similar. For the sake of providing something useful along with the annoying question, the artist seems to be Seamus Heffernan.
  • bronxbronx
    edited November 2020
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    I choose this one because it is a nice and simple card, also for the laffs.
  • feralitatorferalitator
    MemoryHead I was inspired a little by hearthstone weapons for how the mechanics would work. But my main goal was to give players more interaction than just casting spells. I mean, planeswalkers like Gideon in the lore seems more focused on combat than actually casting spells, so why can't players?

    Corwinnn Just like MemoryHead said, Durability is determined by the toughness. I was thinking that each time you attack, it damages the durability, removing a durability counter from it.
  • bronxbronx
    Got it, thanks.
  • CorwinnnCorwinnn
    @feralitator - I also suspected as much, but didn't want to assume anything.

    @bronx - That particular card you posted above is considered on this site to be a hate symbol (I don't in any way think that was your intention) It used to be okay, but some people took it and turned it into part of their hate symbolism, and since we want people to feel like they are safe here, we have banned it.
  • ChoyBoiChoyBoi
    Spellsmith
    My favorite color is white. I'm not exactly sure why, but I love it as a concept, with all the variation that can come out of it. 
  • Dr_NecrofeelyaDr_Necrofeelya
    edited November 2020



    Personally I flip flop between black and blue and black and white, so I decided to just go black. I really like the cards which "creates" big monsters. although Urugoth, Liberated is definitely more black/white than straight black, but oh well :3

  • spookoopsspookoops
    Bump, two more weeks
  • spookoopsspookoops
    @Corwinnn @FireKing661 @KorandAngels @TenebrisNemo @RandomFandom @MemoryHead @feralitator @ChoyBoi @Dr_Necrofeelya , I thank you all for entering my contest of great importance, lol. I am feeling generous, and it being the holiday season, you will all get Three faves on cards of your choosing. So, please post links to three cards you would like to have faved, or you can defer to me...

    Happy Holidays
  • ChoyBoiChoyBoi
    @spookoops
    Thank you for hosting this contest! Pick any three you want. Happy Holidays!
  • MemoryHeadMemoryHead
    @spookoops I'll leave the choice of what to favorite up to you. Thanks for the contest, and it isn't the holidays yet bah humbug eh whatever.
  • feralitatorferalitator
    spookoops Just like ChoyBoi and MemoryHead, pick whichever ones you like. I'd rather see what people actually like, rather than forcing someone to like my cards. Happy Holidays!
  • TenebrisNemoTenebrisNemo
    @spookoops - Thank you for hosting. Favorite these three cards of mine, please:
    https://mtgcardsmith.com/view/nuka-fable-symphonist
    https://mtgcardsmith.com/view/feasting-demon-1
    https://mtgcardsmith.com/view/aristodemos-race-ravager
  • FireKing661FireKing661
    @spookoops Thanks! This contest was great! Anyway here are my cards:
    https://mtgcardsmith.com/view/disma-mistress-of-mischief
    https://mtgcardsmith.com/view/banished-through-time
    https://mtgcardsmith.com/view/against-all-odds-38
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