MTG Cardsmith Community Forums
[RESULTS] The HALF-Great Designer Search 3 — Challenge 2: You Might As Well Tribal
This discussion has been closed.
Howdy, Stranger!
It looks like you're new here. If you want to get involved, click one of these buttons!
It looks like you're new here. If you want to get involved, click one of these buttons!
Comments
That came out of nowhere! You didn't even tell us which existing card would receive errata. XD
Gift of Completion was designed to demonstrate the phyrexian's toxicity. At common, toxicity is best portrayed as deathtouch. This card functions as a playable combat trick on any creature and as an above average trick that can always destroy a creature without risking yours.
Predatory Sporemaw was designed to demonstrate the Phyrexian's virulence. Trample synergizes with its proliferate ability. I chose to use proliferate as it is really the glue that holds the Phyrexians together mechanically and represents them as a disease. In limited, this card is good on its own but shines when you can support it with other Phyrexian creatures, particularly if you curve out.
Obelisk of Repurposing was designed to demonstrate the Phyrexian's adaptability. The phyrexians are more than willing to convert their resources to another form that better suits their aims to adapt to whatever threat or goal is at hand. This card can proliferate multiple time with only a small opportunity cost. The fact that this can synergize with chump blocking ups it’s power level a good bit as well as it’s functional complexity.
Deathseeker was designed to represent the Phyrexian's unrelenting nature. It keeps coming back as long as you have other expendable phyrexians for it to cannibalise, and it comes back stronger each time. I was careful to not use +1/+1 counters and to reference poison counters on this card as Phyrexian’s are more likely to use -1/-1 counters and both would never appear in the same set. Similarly, Phyrexians are strongly associated with infect which uses poison counters so this has natural synergy in an environment with infect.
Stellar submission! Really cool designs. Only disappointment is that you used Scourge Servant artwork.
Thanks a lot! The source I got that art from didn’t label it as an existing Mtg card and I had never seen that card before. Thanks for the heads up!
Haha, you didn't lie when you told me no one would ever take your creature type anyways XD Do you have a card you would errata to Geisha? I know there are a bunch of possible options from Kamigawa.
Always happy to help!
Needed a reliable sac outlet.
Found a brilliant quote for Fulminator-pede.
Black and green options for up to once per turn.
Yeah I'm supposed to design for a standard legal set, but I still wanted a "Centimmander"
This guy has some hidden flavor text that can only be found on his card page!
Centipedes are really fun and I've a only scratched the surface.
They make great red creatures and artifact creatures too (and I found some cool art)!
Why I picked the colours I did?
Red - Wyvern Fury
Blue - Cunning Hunter
Black - Wyverns think only of themselves.
Theme of the tribe? Wyverns are natural born hunters and thus often have the ability to directly fight other creatures OR benefit from combat between two creatures (blocking or direct fighting)
Wyverns also can work in packs (Some creatures will benefit from having other Wyverns on the battlefield) but anyone else trying to benefit from them (Like the equipment I've shown) will have a drawback to it.
@ningyounk, I have a question about the spell. Does it have to be a tribal spell / specifically beneficial to that creature type or can it simply align flavorfully with it while being generically useful?
If not too late, I'd like to claim Viking, and errata the below cards:
I don't think you can be too late to enter, only too late to submit (but you're still before the deadline).
Also, I think there are many creatures that could have errata to Viking, but I'm not sold on the Looter or the Conscripts as being good choices. The Berserker does seem like a good one however.
I do still want to stick with a U/R tribe for the sailing warriors trope, and here are my entries:
I think your submissions are quite good, definitely hitting on the viking vibe.
The reason that Marauding Looter doesn't fit, IMO, is mostly an art thing. Both Pirates and Vikings are fond of marauding and looting, to be sure, but Marauding Looter is quite obviously a Pirate and not a Viking when taking artwork into account. For this reason it is extremely unlikely that it would have errata.
Zealous Conscripts, similarly, is not garbed in anything like convincing Viking regalia.
I am providing recommendations in the comment sections.
Specify bird and viking creatures. With tribal things, there are some instances where things could get hairy.
I checked the original challenge to make sure, and all cards care specifically about the chosen creature type. So, in the spirit of the original challenge, all cards must care mechanically about the creature type you chose, they cannot simply be the creature type, and they cannot simply be a flavour treatment on a spell that mechanically doesn't care about that specific creature type.
@LuckyLooter
You're not too late
Two, I specified combat damage and only creatures are capable of dealing combat damage.
@ningyounk, *whining tone* Pleeeeaaaaase!
Sorry
No, for this challenge it's not required to order the cards from best to worst. You can do it if you want to, though I'd suggest presenting them in the order that makes your tribe look the most exciting ^^