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Hello smiths! This post consists of two challanges both centered around card types. You can choose one, you can choose both and submit cards until you run out of ideas!
Challange 1) Create a card that utilises a custom card type or a supertype created by you. I'm specificaly looking for new designs, but if you have already created something of this sort, you can use it to make a new card.
Challange 2) Create a card that combines two card types or a card type with a supertype in a way never seen before. Enchantment Lands, Snow Planeswalkers, Sorcery Creatures - go wild! (but be reasonable in your wildness)
A little reminder on the existing:
Card types: Land, Creature, Artifact, Enchantment, Instant, Sorcery, Planeswalker
Supertypes: Basic, Legendary, Snow, Tribal (and some others that you won't see in a normal game)
I'll probably award something here and there when I feel like it. Please try to make the cards balanced and pretty.
Happy smithing!
Challange 1) Create a card that utilises a custom card type or a supertype created by you. I'm specificaly looking for new designs, but if you have already created something of this sort, you can use it to make a new card.
Challange 2) Create a card that combines two card types or a card type with a supertype in a way never seen before. Enchantment Lands, Snow Planeswalkers, Sorcery Creatures - go wild! (but be reasonable in your wildness)
A little reminder on the existing:
Card types: Land, Creature, Artifact, Enchantment, Instant, Sorcery, Planeswalker
Supertypes: Basic, Legendary, Snow, Tribal (and some others that you won't see in a normal game)
I'll probably award something here and there when I feel like it. Please try to make the cards balanced and pretty.
Happy smithing!
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https://mtgcardsmith.com/view/sacred-woods
https://mtgcardsmith.com/view/children-of-the-kami
The idea is that factions could be drafted/played like the conspiracy card type, but only one could be utilised each game by a player. Originally I had it limit deckbuilding to only faction members, with this iteration I've removed that to make it possible to use in a limited environment. I figure uncommons/rares/mythics in this environment could have 2/3/4 subtypes in their faction.
Some extended rules copied across from an older iteration that still apply:
-A faction card's abilities take effect and can be activated while in the command zone, similar to an emblem or conspiracy.
-If an effect of a spell or permanent you control would refer to one or more of your faction members, it refers to all of them instead. For example, Goblin Chieftain has "Other Goblin creatures you control get +1/+1 and have haste." With Gorefang Clan, this would now mean "Other Orc, Goblin, Ogre, and Troll creatures you control get +1/+1 and have haste."
-The effect of a Faction card does not alter the subtypes of creature cards in your deck, it only alters effects of spells and abilities you control.
-This effect does not apply when determining the characteristics of a token you create. For example, when you activate Krenko, Mob Boss to "Create X 1/1 red Goblin creature tokens, where X is the number of Goblins you control." you would create only red Goblin creature tokens, not Orc/Goblin/Ogre/Troll abominations of nature. You do however, create X equal to the number of faction members you control, not just counting Goblins.
So with Children of the Kami, Monk and Spirit creatures gain Soulshift 2. Soulshift (on any creature) would now allow you to return target Monk, Spirit, or Arcane card with CMC N or less from your graveyard to your hand.
http://https//mtgcardsmith.com/view/forgotten-forest
Or make something matter when it really should not. I made a card type for casual play that lets you fix some common sense theme or art things.
For instance, when Kalidesh first came out I watched a game and saw a vehicle crewed by a vehicle crewed by a vehicle and thought:
I made a few of them: some apply similar simple logic to things like equipment, create their own new tribe (witch) or supertypes that are intuitively pretty easy to distinguish. (Undead). A few example cards using rules that care about what the art is are there too.
https://mtgcardsmith.com/user/mmm3creator/sets/57320
Two Problems:
1) There is some very good environment at out there..that shows an empty room with nothing happening. There is no creature. You can hardly make a spell of it. It is soo small to be a land.
2) We love contraptions! but having a separate contraption deck and the extra space for them and cranking can be a PITA.
Solution: Abodes
An Abode represents a permanent magical construction that gives some game benefit. They are all inherently dual natured. They can be used as a Contraption in a Contraption deck, Alternatively, in any non-Contraption zone it is treated as a spell.
An Abode assembled from a Contraption deck operates as a contraption.
An Abode cast as a spell produces an artifact that enters the battlefield and attaches to a land. A land type may be specified (Forest) - in which it can only attach to a forest. Or a mana color (Blue) - in which case it can only attach to a land that can produce that color mana. If a land leaves play, any attached abode is destroyed.
Today I finally hammered together a proof on concept card, and I'm not quite sure I have it dialed in. I made one version complete with Abode rules reminder text, another without. In general, they will have to be without as the reminder text takes up too much room for much else to be said.
So:
Or the more aesthetically pleasing:
Versions as of this posting at:
https://mtgcardsmith.com/view/alchemists-lab-3
https://mtgcardsmith.com/view/alchemists-lab-4
While this one is an artifact, it is conceptually possible to have one that is an Enchantment - Aura with Enchant Land in it's spell from as well.
So Snow. Remember that pace with the gas leak the Soviets decided to set on fire, but it exploded and is still burning 40 years later? Snow's polar opposite, burning lands, and permanent, and burn counters. The latter are just like snow counters,; the two counters negate each other or remove the opposite status from a permanent.
So some cards, the land (reminder text removed for subsequent versions):
Yes, these lands can cause you old-fashioned mana burn.
A creature:
This one makes the "Snow" dichotomy clear.
And something that cares how much is burning
(as snow things often care about how many snow
things there are):
So far, have only made a few cards in one set, so there is a lor of conceptual space left for it to use
Viking 2 - BrannadaLeid :
https://mtgcardsmith.com/user/mmm3creator2/sets/56967
Must rest fevered brain and seek nourishment now...
I'm also introducing "motes", which are kinda like cosmic treasures. They are very powerful, and cards should not create them lightly.
For Challenge #2, here's a Sorcery Creature. Its controller chooses at resolution if it will resolve as a Sorcery (and thus go to the graveyard) or as a permanent. The Sorcery effect is actually a triggered ability when the card is put into a graveyard from the stack (implying that it resolved as a Sorcery, or was countered).
PS: "Tribal" is actually a Type, not a Supertype. Yes, it's silly. No, I can't explain why.
That last bit is incompatible with creature spells: "302.2. When a creature spell resolves, its controller puts it onto the battlefield under their control."
Basically, I made a rule so that the player decides which zone to put the card in at resolution (if this were a real rule, it would likely be placed at 300.2c or something, and maybe look like this: "300.2c. When a spell with more than one type resolves, if those types would cause the card to be put into multiple different zones, its controller chooses which zone to put it in.")
It is both a Sorcery spell and a Creature spell in all zones except the battlefield, for the purposes of cards like Remove Soul, Worldly Tutor, Archaeomancer, etc. But I couldn't word the Sorcery effect like a regular spell, because then it would happen whether or not the card entered the battlefield by resolving as a creature. And I couldn't make it an "on cast" trigger for the same reason. So, I made the Sorcery effect a trigger that only happens when the card entered the graveyard from the stack, as this would only occur if the spell's controller chose to let it resolve as a Sorcery (or if the spell was countered, but in hindsight I could have accounted for that in the trigger: "When Spectral Assistant is put into your graveyard from the stack, if it wasn't countered, ..."). This does open up the possibility of someone being able to Stifle the trigger.
Admittedly, it's a bit of a stretch. I think in real M:tG, if they wanted to do this, they'd just make an alternate casting cost like Bestow or Mutate, and the card would change its resolution behavior depending on which cost was paid. It was a fun mental exercise, though, so thanks for the challenge.
https://mtgcardsmith.com/view/primeval-whispers-1?list=user
Embody (cost) (You may cast this spell for its embody cost. If you do, put it onto the battlefield after it resolves instead of your graveyard and it becomes an Elemental creature.)
I know it would need some fixing (I said it's old), but its a smilar concept
.
It represents the moment when Dakkon Blackblade travelled into prehistory of a distant plane. As Sarkhan Vol did, but not one thousands years, tens of thousands.
Set is looking to have a before the rise of man tale. A tough-guy world fill of heroes and villains cut along the likes of Elrick, Conan, Red Sonja, John Carter, Atlantis before the fall. Where humans have not yet risen from the most primitive state, He'll fit right in.
More to the point of the discussion, it's an example how to nab a little something already on Cardsmith that WotC hasn't snatched up ads do something all your own with it. A new type can be something pretty subtle but in a way is still all your own.
That one at the bottom is the starting loyalty.
Accidentally added new Subtype "Factory", not type or supertype.
https://mtgcardsmith.com/view/talexis-factory