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What's Not in a Name?
There's one thing that almost every legendary creature has in common. Well, besides being legendary and creatures. It's that they have a proper given name. Names like Heliod, Akroma, Gerrard, Polukranos. But there's two legends that come to mind that violate this. The Gitrog Monster and Questing Beast.
(I am currently struggling to insert the images, so here's links to their pages instead.)
These two legends have names that break the naming convention, being legends without a "name". My challenge is you is to make more legends like this.
Prizes'll be pretty standard. Honorable mentions get one favorite. Third place gets a favorite and a choice of honorable mention. Second place gets two favorites and a chose of honorable mention. First place gets three favorites and a choice of honorable mention.
So what am I looking for in these cards, beyond being an unnamed legend?
1. Artist credit. This is a huge deal. Remember to credit your artists, they put a lot of work into their pieces.
2. Creative naming. I'm aware I don't leave a lot of room here thanks to the nature of this challenge, but if you think you can get creative, go for it.
3. Solid design. I'm looking for cards that are balanced (not overpowered or underpowered), don't break the color pie, don't do anything like go infinite on their own, and have at least close to proper syntax. Please note that I'm not looking for EDH designs, just legends. If you want to design something that works as a commander, more power to you, but it's certainly not something I'll be checking.
4. New cards, made on or after March 24th. I won't be allowing old cards for this. And I will be checking.
5. A maximum of four submissions per person, and you can only win once.
The final date for submissions will be the last day of April, the 30th. Ideally I'll have it judged within a week afterwards.
Hopefully you have fun smithing, I was thinking this could be at least interesting.
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So I guess I'm asking what you consider qualifying names since the way legends are named now is done specifically to make them known to be unique. They are all names, titles, or names and titles, or a few that are names and descriptions.
The only outlier is Valakut, which isn't legendary for mechanical reasons despite being the only Valakut out there.
https://mtgcardsmith.com/view/the-thought-spore
For instance, an old card of mine: https://mtgcardsmith.com/view/bursthead
It's Bursthead. That's what it's called. It's not Franklin, the Bursthead, nor is it a bursthead, or even the Bursthead, because like Questing Beast there's nothing else like it to warrant further distinction.
To be fair, a lot of non-legendaries also have similar naming conventions. Dread, Nightmare, Anger, Wonder, Filth, etc. are all unique(?) entities named after concepts, but none of them are legendary. I guess I'm just confused is all.
"Name(comma) Title"
it has to be just a name or title.
I could be wrong though.
My 2nd entry: I think this works.
https://mtgcardsmith.com/view/kami-of-darkest-deeps
https://mtgcardsmith.com/view/kami-of-swirling-dunes
https://mtgcardsmith.com/view/kami-of-hellish-stone
https://mtgcardsmith.com/view/kami-of-elder-skies
https://mtgcardsmith.com/view/kami-of-peaceful-lives
Number 3. Enjoy!
https://mtgcardsmith.com/view/the-green-knight-9
Still haven't figured out how to reduce the size.
Still am not sure if I have the cost right, maybe it should be less?
https://mtgcardsmith.com/view/it-forgotten
Here's my first entry. May need some tweaks, as I think it might be a little Over or under powered.
https://mtgcardsmith.com/view/the-dingus