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Week 3 Results
Winning card: Tie between Baby Myr & Razorclaw Devastator
Breakdown of votes:- Baby Myr (3) & Razorclaw Devastator (3)
- Echoform Prodigy (1)
@AboveAndAbout's and @MemoryHead's prize for first place = 1 favorite for every card that received favorites last week (=3 of your choice each)Judging Leaderboard
Week 4 - The Four Toadies
https://mtgcardsmith.com/view/ritualistic-survivor
https://mtgcardsmith.com/view/vankin-pack-master
https://mtgcardsmith.com/view/aetheric-hedron
https://mtgcardsmith.com/view/sinister-sabatour
Week 4 Results
Winning card: Aetheric Hedron by @TheDukeOfPork
Breakdown of votes:- Aetheric Hedron by @TheDukeOfPork (4)
- Ritualistic Survivor by @AboveAndAbout (2)
- Vankin, Pack Master & Sinister Saboteur (1)
@TheDukeOfPork your prize for 1st place = 2 favorites of my choiceJudging Leaderboard
Week 5 - The "Four"
Week 5 Results
Winning cards: Tie Between by Trial by Fire by @Jadefire & Speak to the Machine by @feralitator
Breakdown of votes:Judging Leaderboard
Week 6 - Lucky 7
https://www.mtgcardsmith.com/view/sanguine-mox
https://mtgcardsmith.com/view/brutal-hydra?list=user
https://mtgcardsmith.com/view/ashnod-bound-to-unlife#
https://mtgcardsmith.com/view/caught-in-action
https://mtgcardsmith.com/view/hide-the-evidence-1
https://mtgcardsmith.com/view/archon-of-compleation?list=user
https://mtgcardsmith.com/view/sylviel-of-mind-rot-grove
Random and Anonymous Feedback from Week 5
...Trial by Fire and Speak to the Machine, both of which seem like good ideas. They both have flaws, though. Trial has a wide selection of minor wording errors (and, while it's a very minor aesthetic thing, lacks the red-white-multicolor border). Speak to the Machine is visually perfect but for a single missing capital letter on "Vehicle", but is incredibly underpowered. As a rule, I could see that effect without the crewing clause and with a small additional upside at common. It's been done before, after all, with a good recent example being Wings of the Cosmos. Rare with a relatively demanding clause certainly isn't the correct place for the card.I think I'll vote for Trial by Fire. It definitely needs some wording work, but it's (relatively) balance-stable until you start using it to cheat a load of planeswalker counters on the cheap, which I suspect is the main balance point to fear. Whatever, it probably isn't too bad. Anyway, yeah. Vote goes to Trial by Fire. I'm also just going to do a pair of rewording suggestions for the heck of it.
No, just kidding, up to "So those two are out." That really spiked me.
I would go with the first suggested wording because this isn't a situation of having no choice but to work with an extremely limited space like in a saga, and the explicit wording precludes nonsensical scenarios like putting loyalty counters on a creature. As for the reminder text, I think the precedence from cards like Siegehorn Ceratops and Hungering Hydra is (It must survive the damage to get the counters.) so I'll update it to that. Good catch of those mistakes.
Put a +1/+1 counter on a targeted permanent for each 1 damage dealt this way to a creature or two loyalty counters for each 1 damage dealt this way to a planeswalker.