Mystery Box Challenges

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  • CrimsonFoxCrimsonFox
    A Mystery Challenge: Create a Sith/Darkside character with the hatred ability
  • JadefireJadefire
    @AboveAndAbout @CrimsonFox You can go back to the event post and pick a duel to participate in as many times as you want whenever you finish creating a card for your current duel.
    https://forums.mtgcardsmith.com/discussion/comment/220372#Comment_220372
  • CrimsonFoxCrimsonFox
    Ohhhh, okay, thanks @Jadefire!

  • CrimsonFoxCrimsonFox
    I'll enter the Rampaging Baloth Duel please!
  • CrimsonFoxCrimsonFox
    Rampaging Baloth Duel Entry

  • CrimsonFoxCrimsonFox
    edited January 2022
    Ohh, oops. I haven't been officially entered yet. Does my entry still count? ?
  • cadstar369cadstar369
    edited January 2022
    @CrimsonFox your entry still counts; the main duel post is updated whenever jpastor gets around to it (basically). I believe both myself and Jadefire are currently in a similar situation where we have entries posted without our names noted in the main post. 
  • CrimsonFoxCrimsonFox
    Cool, thanks. 
  • CrimsonFoxCrimsonFox
    I'll do the If I Had a Dragon Duel, please
  • JadefireJadefire
    @CrimsonFox Yeah, just claim a duel and it'll be timestamped in the discussion.  You may also want to read back a few comments just in case a duel spot has been taken and it hasn't been updated on the main post yet.
  • CrimsonFoxCrimsonFox
    Okay, thanks @Jadefire
  • CrimsonFoxCrimsonFox
    If I Had a Dragon Duel entry

  • CrimsonFoxCrimsonFox
    Another win for you, I think @cadstar369!
  • jpastorjpastor
    @Jadefire wins Sparky's Gambit Duel vs @cadstar369
    @Jadefire wins the Involuntary Manslaughter duel vs @cadstar369
    @cadstar369 wins the If I Had a Dragon duel vs @CrimsonFox

  • jpastorjpastor
    edited January 2022
    @AboveAndAbout
    @CrimsonFox
    Your mystery boxes contain:

    Draft Duels

    Enter your name into one at a time. Must submit a card for your duel challenge before entering into another. Once both spots have been filled, nobody can enter that duel.


    Smokescreen Duel
    [Cardsmith] vs [Cardsmith]
    • A Mystery Challenge: Create an Ox creature with a self-preservation ability. (Shroud, return to hand, regenerate, or custom abilities along these lines are considered self-preservation abilities.)

    Involuntary Manslaughter Duel
    [@cadstar369] vs [@Jadefire]
    • Winner gets Prize 97 - Lucky Rabbit Foot
    • A Mystery Challenge: Create a Phyrexian or Horror creature card with CMC 8.

    Here's Johnny Duel
    [@Jadefire] vs [Cardsmith]
    • Winner gets Prize 99 - Ancient Gem
    • A Mystery Challenge: Create a Sliver creature with a quote from a guy named Johnny in its flavor text.

    Ringer on the Way Duel
    [@CrimsonFox] vs [Cardsmith]
    • A Mystery Challenge: Create a Sith/Darkside character with the hatred ability -or- a Jedi/Lightside character with the love ability. [Hatred - Whenever a player loses life from a source other than combat damage, ___.] [Love - Whenever a player gains life from a source other than combat damage, ___.]

    Slap-Me-Silly Duel
    [@cadstar369] vs [@CrimsonFox]
    • Winner gets Prize 91 - Dark Matter Crystal
    • A Mystery Challenge: Create a 1-mana enchantment that gets a counter at the beginning of your upkeep.

    Oh No! He's Back! Duel
    [@cadstar369] vs [Cardsmith]
    • A Mystery Challenge: Create a creature with P/T greater than its mana cost that can return to the battlefield from your graveyard.

    Creative Contemplation Duel
    [Cardsmith] vs [Cardsmith]
    • A Mystery Challenge: Create a Legendary Artifact with no subtypes that has a triggered ability.

    Armageddon Duel
    [@Jadefire] vs [@cadstar369]
    • Winner gets Prize 65 [NEW!] - Chimes
    • A Mystery Challenge: Create a win-con creature with multikicker.

    Kick-Ass MOFO Duel
    [Cardsmith] vs [Cardsmith]
    • A Mystery Challenge: Create a noncreature card with a really cool creature in the artwork.

    Rampaging Baloth Duel
    [@CrimsonFox] vs [@Jadefire]
    • Winner gets Prize 2 - Slaps
    • A Mystery Challenge: Create a green and white Baloth creature card.

    Sunny Delight Duel
    [@Jadefire] vs [@cadstar369]
    • Winner gets Prize 58 [NEW!] - Dueling Boots
    • A Mystery Challenge: Create a monoblack card with a sun in the artwork.

    King's Armchair Duel
    [Cardsmith] vs [Cardsmith]
    • A Mystery Challenge: Create a rare or mythic rare land that can add two or more different types of mana and enters the battlefield untapped.

    If I Had a Dragon Duel
    [@cadstar369] vs [@CrimsonFox]
    • A Mystery Challenge: Create a Dragon creature that focuses on weakness.

    Kids, We Have a Problem Duel
    [@cadstar369] vs [Cardsmith]
    • A Mystery Challenge: Create a card that only mills.

    Houston, We Have Ignition Duel
    [Cardsmith] vs [Cardsmith]
    • A Mystery Challenge: Create a creature card that makes you roll dice when it enters the battlefield.

    Countdown to Ultimatum Duel
    [@Jadefire] vs [Cardsmith]
    • Winner gets Prize 43 - Two Cookies
    • A Mystery Challenge: Create a colored artifact creature that's P/T reduces over time.

    Peek-a-boo Challenge Duel
    [Cardsmith] vs [Cardsmith]
    • Winner gets Prize 54 - Build-a-box Draft & First Pick
    • A Mystery Challenge: Create a creature with the custom supertype & type "Summon Hero" that can be revealed, exiled, or played from your hand without casting it.

    Warrior Cat's Scratchy Temptations Duel
    [Cardsmith] vs [Cardsmith]
    • Winner gets Prize 48 - Lotto Ticket Scratch-off
    • A Mystery Challenge: Create a Cat Warrior with madness.

    The Bonus Onus Duel (Choose this box only if you've defeated 3 different cardsmiths in this event.)
    [Cardsmith] vs [Cardsmith]
    • Winner gets Premium Prize 12 - Featured Card for February
    • A Mystery Challenge: Create a creature with a triggered ability that removes its ability to assign combat damage this turn.

    The Waxing Gibbous Duel
    [@cadstar369] vs [Cardsmith]
    • A Mystery Challenge: Create an enchantment that puts a card on top of your library.

    Archer Thompson? Who is That? Duel
    [Cardsmith] vs [Cardsmith]
    • Winner gets Prize 40 - Gearhulk Apparatus
    • A Mystery Challenge: Create an enchantment with Archer Thompson in its name.

    23rd Infantry Duel
    [Cardsmith] vs [Cardsmith]
    • A Mystery Challenge: Create a one-mana Human creature with flash.

    Jason Statham vs Jason Borne Duel
    [Cardsmith] vs [Cardsmith]
    • A Mystery Challenge: Create an instant kill spell.

    Copyright Claim Duel
    [Cardsmith] vs [Cardsmith]
    • A Mystery Challenge: Create an Variable Colorless spell with which you can only spend ___ mana on X.

    Sparky's Bandit Duel
    [@Jadefire] vs [@cadstar369]
    • Winner gets Prize 95 [NEW!] - Golden Key
    • A Mystery Challenge: Create an Enchantment that can destroy permanents.


  • CrimsonFoxCrimsonFox
    @cadstar369, congrats, I knew you'd win! My struggle is balancing power with cmc. I make my cards a bit over the top. Well done on another great card.  :)
  • cadstar369cadstar369
    Thanks @CrimsonFox; I'm apparently cursed with being unable to defeat Jadefire though. :sweat_smile:

    You may find value posting over in this thread to get some feedback on your cards (since people don't use the comment sections very often anymore).
  • cadstar369cadstar369
    Waxing Gibbous duel entry:
    Quest for Infernal Knowledge

    I'll participate in the Armageddon Duel. 

    Personal Prize Inventory
    • Prize 79 – A Reshuffle (A single reshuffle.)
    • Prize 68 - Limited Art (Modifier) - Cash this in anytime.
    • Prize 88 - Adventure
    • Prize 40 - Gearhulk Apparatus - Choose Solo Challenge, Duel, Moshpit, or Modifier (Mechanix)
    • Prize 2 - Slaps (1-3 entries of your choice)
    • Premium Prize 87 - Wildcard (Any non-premium prize of your choice.)
    • Prize 71 - Wagon Wheel (Pre-Mystery Box challenge, duel, or moshpit - activate any time.)
    • Prize 32 – Spider Silk: Receive your next Spellweb with up to 6 colors of your choice. (x4)
    • Prize 91 - Dark Matter Crystal
  • CrimsonFoxCrimsonFox
    @cadstar369 thanks for the advice! Best of luck beating Jadefire! 
  • cadstar369cadstar369
    Armageddon duel entry:
    Baron Blazerain

    I'll participate in the Sunny Delight Duel. 
  • JadefireJadefire
    @CrimsonFox No luck necessary, cadstar369 makes good cards.  I just happen to blow my good ideas in the beginning but there are many more duels left to settle.  Wait for the conservation of ninjutsu to kick in.

    Good duels @cadstar369, the 8 MV horror one could've gone either way.  Not sure if Baron Blazerain is an intentional nod to Firestorm but that was one of my favourite cards from back in the day.
  • cadstar369cadstar369
    @Jadefire you’re exactly right about Baron Blazerain and Firestorm. I started by looking at Comet Storm for inspiration, but stumbled upon Firestorm and decided that was a cooler and more manageable effect.
  • JadefireJadefire
    @cadstar369 Nice job!  I'm a fan of X^2-type scaling effects.  Speaking of Mirage block callbacks...

    A Mystery Challenge: Create a Cat Warrior with madness.
    https://mtgcardsmith.com/view/purraj-the-blood-song

    The concept of the card is a remake of Purraj of Urborg featuring a blend of abilities from the original Purraj and Song of Blood, which references her in flavour text and art and is tied to her through the story. Instead of a milling effect, discard seemed more appropriate and non-chaotic for a black card.  The flanking is just another tie back to her origins in Mirage and gives a reason to cast her at sorcery-speed rather than always doing it mid-combat.

    I'll do the Rampaging Baloth duel next. 
  • CrimsonFoxCrimsonFox
    Uh oh, time to get thrashed by Jadefire  :D
  • JadefireJadefire
    @CrimsonFox Don't sell your entry short, wins can come from unexpected places.  Half of all my losses last season in the Cardsmith League came from the cardsmith who ended up at the bottom of the rankings, but they were undefeated against me.  Since you chose an underrated mechanic to build your card around, I'll choose somewhat of an obscure mechanic for mine for fun.

    You've got a solid entry, I never would've thought to give a Baloth flying so originality points there and it's very reasonably costed for what it does.  One thing that I'll point out is that Baloths only exist by name in Magic.  There's no Baloth creature type, they're all Beasts.
  • jpastorjpastor
    @Jadefire wins the Armageddon duel vs @cadstar369
  • cadstar369cadstar369
    Sunny Delight duel entry:
    Weeping Eclipse

    I'll participate in the Oh No! He's Back! Duel. 
  • CrimsonFoxCrimsonFox
    @Jadefire thanks for that, and thanks for pointing out the creature type thingy!
  • cadstar369cadstar369
    Oh No! He's Back! duel entry:
    Echoes of War

    I'll grab a spot in the Kids, We Have a Problem Duel.
  • JadefireJadefire
    I'm sure it was another close one @cadstar369.  Perhaps it came down to our individual readings of the challenge.  I interpreted win-con as a card that can singlehandedly win you the game against a single opponent with as few constraints as possible, so I made Mindwrack Inquisitor a "just add mana" card.  As long as you can produce 23 {c} and 15 {b}, you can take someone from seven cards in hand to zero and make them lose 21 life.  As powerful as Baron Blazerain is, its abilitiy is limited by the number of available targets on the battlefield.  It's a great board wipe but in a 1-on-1 match, it's much harder to one-shot your opponent, even with infinite mana.  I guess that wasn't your goal as you stated you made the card for commander and having 19 other targets in a multiplayer game is actually reasonable.
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