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Land Commanders - Contest (Closed for judging!)
Greetings, and welcome to Land Commanders! In this contest, each participant designs up to three Legendary Lands with Home subtype and/or up to three Legendary Creatures with my brand new "Choose a Home" mechanic, inspired by "Choose a Background" and Backgrounds of Commander Legends: Battle for Baldur's Gate! Since one of my cards that use this mechanic got featured recently, I decided to host this contest earlier than I had originally planned. If you looked for an excuse to create more land cards on your profile, then look no further!
Choose a Home (You can have a Home as a second commander.)
The cards will be judged in two categories: Lands and Creatures. Both categories will have 1st, 2nd, and 3rd placing winners.
Criteria
Presentation, art selection, templating, spelling, balance, creativity and flavor.
Rules:
1. Each entry must either be a Legendary Creature (or a legendary noncreature, nonland permanent that can become a creature) with "Choose a Home" mechanic OR a Legendary Land with Home subtype.
2. Each Cardsmith is allowed to submit up to 6 entries in total (up to 3 entries to either category).
3. No old cards (even if you somehow had made cards with "Choose a Home" mechanic or "Home" subtype before this contest).
4. Cards can be edited and switched out before the due date.
5. No joke cards, but humor can be involved.
6. Credit the artist of the artwork you use (even if it was AI generated).
7. Post a link to your card with your entry (if it's made on Mtgcardsmith).
Prizes of both categories:
1st Place
- 3 favorites of your choice.
- 1 month of Premium Subscription (to you or to another Cardsmith of your choice.)
2nd Place
- 2 favorites of your choice.
3rd Place
- 1 favorite of your choice.
The winners and honorable mention(s) will have their entries favorited by me. The top three winning entries of both categories will also get a -TROPHY- and added to the -HALL OF FAME-!
The contest will be closed for judging in two weeks, on 4th of November, 23:59 EEST. The judging will take a few days at least.
Present your commander and their homeland!
Choose a Home (You can have a Home as a second commander.)
The cards will be judged in two categories: Lands and Creatures. Both categories will have 1st, 2nd, and 3rd placing winners.
Criteria
Presentation, art selection, templating, spelling, balance, creativity and flavor.
Rules:
1. Each entry must either be a Legendary Creature (or a legendary noncreature, nonland permanent that can become a creature) with "Choose a Home" mechanic OR a Legendary Land with Home subtype.
2. Each Cardsmith is allowed to submit up to 6 entries in total (up to 3 entries to either category).
3. No old cards (even if you somehow had made cards with "Choose a Home" mechanic or "Home" subtype before this contest).
4. Cards can be edited and switched out before the due date.
5. No joke cards, but humor can be involved.
6. Credit the artist of the artwork you use (even if it was AI generated).
7. Post a link to your card with your entry (if it's made on Mtgcardsmith).
Prizes of both categories:
1st Place
- 3 favorites of your choice.
- 1 month of Premium Subscription (to you or to another Cardsmith of your choice.)
2nd Place
- 2 favorites of your choice.
3rd Place
- 1 favorite of your choice.
The winners and honorable mention(s) will have their entries favorited by me. The top three winning entries of both categories will also get a -TROPHY- and added to the -HALL OF FAME-!
The contest will be closed for judging in two weeks, on 4th of November, 23:59 EEST. The judging will take a few days at least.
Present your commander and their homeland!
This discussion has been closed.
Comments
First one for the commanders with ''Choose a Home'' (EDIT: it's actually a re-uploaded and corrected version from the one I've posted there earlier and from the one I've got uploaded on MTGCardsmith, since I worded it with ''Choose Home'' instead of the correct form which is ''Choose a Home''):
https://mtgcardsmith.com/view/the-groundbreaker-1
A second one (EDIT: Same as for the previous entry):
https://mtgcardsmith.com/view/rimko-vigorous-cultivator
And a third (I had to cut the reminder texts on the MTGCardsmith's version of this card, so here's a post of the complete version including reminder texts for both Partner and Choose a Home):
https://mtgcardsmith.com/view/the-majordomo
Then, here's a first Home land card (that's mainly meant to be paired with ''The Groundbreaker'' but of course it's up to the imagination of the players deckbuiling around a commander with Choose a Home):
https://mtgcardsmith.com/view/ancient-goldmine
A second Home land card (meant to be paired with Rimko / EDIT: I don't know if it's meaningful in any way to speak about that, but I actually changed this card a bit as you could probably see from the version posted on MTGCardsmith by switching the mana it produces to colorless. I think it makes more sense this way, otherwise it could produce itself the green mana that is recquired to pay for the cost of its triggered ability. Also, looking at Blighted Woodland, I thought this would be more adequate. I didn't want to delete and remake it on MTGcardsmith, hence why this is another MSE template.):
https://mtgcardsmith.com/view/cultivators-cradle
And a third one exploring something a bit different:
https://mtgcardsmith.com/view/grand-festival
(EDIT: Just a little note to say that I just remarked that the ability was worded as ''Choose a Home'' and not ''Choose Home,'' my bad. I'll probably reupload corrected versions of those cards soon, when I'll get the time for doing it. / I've reuploaded corrected version.)
A bonus Home card, that I don't enter for the contest as in the end, after thinking about it a bit more, I don't think it's balanced to have Homes with producing multiple colored mana and granting access to multiple color identities (well, that's a personal opinion though):
And here are some other bonus cards, since I had a blast thinking about cards revolving around this mechanic! They don't count as entries, of course, but I'd still like to post them out there.
Another two-colored card idea and the Home that is meant to paired with it:
@TemurGideon - I can't accept your entries because of rules 6. and 7.
6. Credit the artist of the artwork you use (even if it was AI generated).
7. Post a link to your card with your entry (if it's made on Mtgcardsmith).
The first was illustrated by Yeon-Jung Kim, whose ArtStation I'm linking below.
https://www.artstation.com/artwork/0aGkV
The second is a stock photo taken by Artem Kniaz. (I'm still a little unsure about these but multiple sites say he has the copyright and that he upload it, so it's either the most complete plagiarism or it's actually his.
Here is the image on Dreamstime as well as Kniaz's page from the site.
Additionally, here is the image on iStockPhoto, a branch of Getty Images, who also credits Artem as the photographer.
2. Each Cardsmith is allowed to submit up to 6 entries in total (up to 3 entries to either category).
Which means that you're allowed to enter 3 cards max for the Land category and 3 cards max for the Creature category.
https://mtgcardsmith.com/view/mileena-nights-confidant?list=user
Here's the second pair:
https://mtgcardsmith.com/view/ishkuntu-hinook-pilgrims
https://mtgcardsmith.com/view/the-fortuna-grand-theatre
Set1:
Links, respectively:
https://mtgcardsmith.com/view/bjarnog-oldmother-of-the-fens?list=user
https://mtgcardsmith.com/view/bjarnogs-roaming-hut?list=user
Set 2:
Links, respectively:
https://mtgcardsmith.com/view/lilbeth-visionary-tinkerer?list=user
https://mtgcardsmith.com/view/adunas-the-aerial-alcazar?list=user
Set 3:
Links, respectively:
https://mtgcardsmith.com/view/subject-001-1?list=user
https://mtgcardsmith.com/view/site-001?list=user
I'm feeing ambitious so I might make a few more dragons revolving around the theme, but this is what came to mind. I think the land might be a bit broken because it is basically a tribal triome with little to no downsides.
- (District 58)
Minor corrections to the functionality of Mecha Initiative Reborn. CS card still has flaws.
Also, for future reference, Triomes tap for one mana of one of three colors, not three mana, one of each color.
Links:
https://mtgcardsmith.com/view/dan-holt-crowd-reader
https://mtgcardsmith.com/view/holt-detective-agency
Second set:
Links:
https://mtgcardsmith.com/view/infestation-of-mylis-keep
https://mtgcardsmith.com/view/ruins-of-mylis-keep
https://mtgcardsmith.com/view/loreweavers-spire
https://mtgcardsmith.com/view/mystic-foundry-tyrgan
Additional costs are found all over the place, including commander tax itself.
(All links embedded)
My first entry for both
https://mtgcardsmith.com/view/the-omniscape
https://mtgcardsmith.com/view/nora-depravitys-herald
https://mtgcardsmith.com/view/vault-of-pandemonium
Edit: Here's TheBiggestBrainMindSculptor's, a.k.a. James Bell's entries. They couldn't post them here, so I'll do it in their stead. Easier to judge all entries when they're in the same place!