LHunter’s Commander Tournament

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• Mantis172

  July 19

  
  My entry - sorry for low quality as card view page wasn't letting me right click. image should still be clickable though. i'll try to submit a background based on the artstation page here: https://www.artstation.com/artwork/XnarQL 
• Jadefire

  July 19

  https://mtgcardsmith.com/view/consummate-researcher
  
  
• Mantis172

  July 20

  
• LHunter

  July 20

  Erm, sorry to interrupt, but you have to have a commander to have a background.
• LHunter

  July 20

  And the background and commander are supposed to work together.
• Mantis172

  July 20

  I've already submitted a commander with Choose a Background. they aren't synergistic, but I might remake my entry later. just putting them in for now.
• Jadefire

  July 20

  The commander is on its way.  The idea for the Background came first.
• LHunter

  July 20

  Ok, thank you! I will post soon with an example, and remember: judging starts in exactly 2 weeks!
• Jadefire

  July 22

  https://mtgcardsmith.com/view/annika-anguished-legacy
  
  
  The interaction between Annika and Consummate Researcher shouldn't be hard to discern.
• kaoz42

  August 21

  Oh well, might as well try something Bloomburrow-y.
  
  https://mtgcardsmith.com/view/atarnos-bestower-of-boons
  Sorry that it's so huge; mtgcardsmith's new HDness seems to make things MTG Design size.
• LvB

  August 21 edited August 21

  Did anyone say we need a Snaildrazi Commander ?

  

  https://mtgcardsmith.com/view/snaildramog-slimer-of-worlds
  

  
  
• LHunter

  August 21

  💀💀💀 i knew the second i saw @LvB comment on this it was gonna be a snail.
• LvB

  August 21

  No its not a snail, its a SNAILDRAZI!
  

  Snaildrazi are colorless very powerful creatures from another dimension that sometimes have antennae or tentacles or are slimy ! They are so powerful, that their true look would drive everyone insane, thats why they project avatars of themself out of their dimension into our world that look similar to creatures native to the world they visit!
  
• LHunter

  August 22

  Jesus, @LvB, where do they live, the blind snailternities?! Sounds like you have quite the amount of lore. I’d love to see a set of this or storyline, if you don’t already have one…
• LHunter

  August 22

  Okay, so judging will happen tomorrow. We have 4 participants, which is my minimum. Season 2 of LHunter’s Mechanics Tournament starts soon. Ready up and get ready for more mechanics and a winner for this tournament. Now is your chance to shine, @LvB, @kaoz42, @Mantis172 and @Jadefire!
• TheDarkKnight1234567

  August 23

  @LHunter
  
  Sorry to be that guy, but is it to late to submit a card? If not, here's my entry:
  
  
  
  This just so happens to be my second time in a row making a borderless, colorless card. 
• LHunter

  August 23

  Very cool design, but I fail to see why this is mythic rarity…
• jpastor

  August 25

  
  @LHunter - May I jump in with Grixis squidly artifacts?
• LHunter

  August 25

  Judging has been postponed until we have one more entry.
• Lurisauri

  August 25

  That entry would be mine...
  
  
  
  https://mtgcardsmith.com/view/vorath-herald-of-compleation 
  
• LHunter

  August 25

  There’s a little issue with that, @Lurisauri… if you sacrifice a larger artifact with mana 4 or greater, he can go infinite and win instantly. Considering he’s a 5 mana commander (or 3, depending on how you look at it), you could easily fill the deck with a couple rampy things like dark ritual, land tax, archaeomancer’s map, etc. and some 4 mana artifacts, and it would be an easy win. You won’t get any points deducted, I just want to point that out.
• Lurisauri

  August 25

  yeah i think overshot the mark a bit, i was aware that if you have infinite mana you win straight away. maybe the costs to play him should be 4wb instead of 3wb and that you need to tap him to sacrifice an artifact but I will keep that in mind next time when I'm designing a commander
• LHunter

  August 25 edited August 25

  @Lurisauri: the best way to balance him in my opinion is to make him tap when sacing an artifact. Did you ai generate that image?
  
  Oh shiz I missed some of that text. I would say he is balanced how he is. Infinite mana isn’t too hard to get, but there are commanders or cards in general that can win much easier. Think impact tremors+squee the immortal+food chain, exquisite blood+sanguine blood or phyrexian alter+gravecrawler+impact tremors. I know a lot off the top of my head. There’s also scute swarm, an absolute nightmare of a card. I once saw a guy who was actually counting the scutes, and he was in the 11 billion range when I walked away.
• Lurisauri

  August 25 edited August 25

  yes that picture is ai generated 
• LHunter

  August 25

  I’m totally calling it out for drawing similarities from Alien: Romulus.
• Lurisauri

  August 25

  actually the ai art is a re-creation of a real art (that I forgot to mention in the artist line, sorry) so it has nothing to do with alien: romulus although there might be some similarities
• LHunter

  August 25

  Yeah there’s a lot of scenes that look like that in Alien: Romulus, @Lurisauri. Many hallways look very similar to that.
• LvB

  August 25 edited August 25

  i would like to replace my Snaildrazi Commander with this:

  

  https://mtgcardsmith.com/view/sliver-river
  

  
  
• LHunter

  August 25

  🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️
  @LvB, you always have the best ideas, but also the worst ideas.
• LHunter

  August 25

  @LvB, @Lurisauri, @jpastor, @TheDarkKnight1234567, @Jadefire, @kaoz42, @Mantis172:

  
  

  We need one more competitor, ladies and gentlemen. If no one enters in the next 3 days, I will throw my ring into the hat with a commander almost guaranteed to lose. If you have any questions, I have mentioned everyone in this comment so you will be notified. Please, if you have any questions about judging or matchmaking, ask.