Winner is the Judge #10 : Balance the Origin
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1) The judge cannot participate in the current contest or the next contest (This is to prevent the same people from winning all the time).
2) This contest will last exactly two weeks.
3) Each person may enter only one card for this challenge.
4) Only enter if you are willing to host the next challenge (in case you win).
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Hey guys, I'll be hosting the next "Winner is the Judge"-challenge and I'll try a concept from Magic Origins for this challenge.
You know how in Magic Origins WotC created some balanced hommages to a few legacy/vintage/modern staples?
i.e.
Honored Hierarch - Noble Hierarch
Day's Undoing - Timetwister
Evolutionary Leap - Survival of the Fittest
etc....
I'd like you to do the same. Pick a renwon staple from any eternal format and create a new balanced "Reincarnation" of the card. If you're not that into these formats, just ask, and I can post a few cards to use.
Judging focus will be on how it's related to the original card (Flavour, Effect) and of course how balanced it is (so it could be printed for standard i.e.)
Every cool entry will of course get a favorite
Have fun.
1) The judge cannot participate in the current contest or the next contest (This is to prevent the same people from winning all the time).
2) This contest will last exactly two weeks.
3) Each person may enter only one card for this challenge.
4) Only enter if you are willing to host the next challenge (in case you win).
________________________________________________________________________________________________
Hey guys, I'll be hosting the next "Winner is the Judge"-challenge and I'll try a concept from Magic Origins for this challenge.
You know how in Magic Origins WotC created some balanced hommages to a few legacy/vintage/modern staples?
i.e.
Honored Hierarch - Noble Hierarch
Day's Undoing - Timetwister
Evolutionary Leap - Survival of the Fittest
etc....
I'd like you to do the same. Pick a renwon staple from any eternal format and create a new balanced "Reincarnation" of the card. If you're not that into these formats, just ask, and I can post a few cards to use.
Judging focus will be on how it's related to the original card (Flavour, Effect) and of course how balanced it is (so it could be printed for standard i.e.)
Every cool entry will of course get a favorite
Have fun.
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Show and Tell
http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=5697
Brainstorm
http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=405842
Entomb
http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=175840
Blood Moon
http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=98467
Tarmogoyf
http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=144980
Natural Order
http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=3671
Humility
http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=397614
Batterskull
http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=247788
and of course all the fetches, moxes, dual lands etc.
Based on Splinter Twin. It has an activation cost of one red, so it cannot go infinite nearly as easily. However, to still make it good, I lowered the cost to 1RR. This is something I could see getting printed.
He's asking you to remake an old, but powerful/vastly played magic card from Modern, Legacy or Vintage, I.e. Black Lotus, Show and Tell, Taiga
@koover
Glimpse of Nature "fix" (I'm aware elves technically broke it and not itself, but myea): http://mtgcardsmith.com/view/vision-of-nature?list=user
no functional reprints, it should differ from the original, so that it's more balanced, so falvourful successor with a lower power level would be a great description I guess
@seanabit
sorry if it's not that clear...look at Timetwister and Day's Undoing and compare these two, I think then it's pretty clear what I want you to do (cause the balancing of WotC is clearly visible)
Timetwister
http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=132
Day's Undoing
http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=398652
http://mtgcardsmith.com/view/sanguine-scrying
Remake of ancestral recall, could still be quite powerful in the right deck though.
Remake of "Force of Will"
http://mtgcardsmith.com/view/grey-lotus
http://mtgcardsmith.com/view/focus-into-being
of course you can, as long as it resembles (in this case) eslpeth's original abilities
thanks I get it now
http://mtgcardsmith.com/view/kimry-master-tinkerer
Remake of natural order.
http://mtgcardsmith.com/view/gravediggers-refrain
Black Lotus remake
Remake of Grapeshot
http://mtgcardsmith.com/view/sparksphere
Remake of Brainstorm.
Ancestral Storm
http://mtgcardsmith.com/view/ancestral-storm-2
(See my card comments.)
http://mtgcardsmith.com/view/ancestral-storm-4
"Reincarnation" of...
Demonic Tutor: http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=demonic+tutor
http://mtgcardsmith.com/view/guidance-of-the-reaper
http://royalroadl.com/fiction/403
Maybe it could be balanced in other ways, but this hinder it's uses as a combo filtering tool.