Mystery Box Challenges

jpastorjpastor
in Contests and Challenges

How to join at any time:

  • Ask for a Mystery Box and continue endlessly at your own pace

  • Each box includes:

    1. A 50/50 shot at a prize (use, collect, trade, gift, or ignore)

    2. A prompt to submit a card (anything you’ve made—or make one new)
This discussion is one giant Mystery Box that you open upon joining. You'll be discovering what's inside forever.

[Established April 12, 2018]
[Reestablished April 12, 2025]
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  • SpellPiper2213SpellPiper2213
    Could I get a Mystery Box?
  • jpastorjpastor
    @SpellPiper2213 - Welcome back! Your mystery box contains:
    • A Snapshot of Your Stats: 13 prizes earned + 16 entries posted + 2 match points = 31 mystery points total
    • Milestone Reward (10 points): Vault Access (You can now ask to enter the Vault instead of requesting a box to receive additional options.)
    • Milestone Reward (25 points): Craft a perk. (Create your own custom perk. It can be anything you want to customize your mystery box experience.)
    • Prize 199 - Mermaid Pearls: Allows you to duplicate any mystery challenge from this post for double rewards upon completion.
    • A Mystery Challenge: Submit any old or new creature card that has a cascading effect like Reef Worm. [Duplicate this challenge by submitting an additional card for it to double the prize in this box?]
  • JadefireJadefire
    Can I get a mystery box?
  • jpastorjpastor
    edited April 15
    @Jadefire - Welcome! Your mystery box contains:
    • A Snapshot of Your Stats: 234 prizes earned + 348 entries + 307 match points = 889 total
    • Milestone Reward (10 points): Vault access (you can now ask to enter the Vault instead of requesting a box for additional options.)
    • Milestone Reward (100, 200, 300, 400, 500, 600, 700, 800 points): 8 additional perk slots (You now have 11 total perk slots. Craft 11 perks at your discretion. These can be anything you'd like to customize your mystery box experience.)
    • Prize 282 - VHS: Target player's next card submission must be with black and white artwork.
    • A Mystery Challenge: Create a mono-red burn card that deals more damage to a creature if that creature ...
  • jpastorjpastor

    Prize List & Vault Key List

    There are currently 291 prizes on the Mystery Box Prize List. There are currently 38 keys hidden inside the Vault. (Keys unlock doors inside the Vault.)
  • CorwinnnCorwinnn
    I too, wish to have a mystery box that I will complete in less than 100 pages time... 
  • jpastorjpastor
    @Corwinnn Welcome! Your mystery box contains:
    • A Snapshot of Your Stats: 77 prizes + 167 entries + 108 match points = 352 total points
    • Milestone Reward (10 points): Vault access (You may now request to enter the Vault any time instead of requesting a Box.)
    • Milestone Reward (100, 200, 300 points): 3 additional perk slots (You now have 6 perk slots. Create 6 perks at your leisure to customize your mystery box experience.)
    •  Prize 179 - Dragon's Hoard: 1 favorite of my choice. 
    • A Mystery Challenge: Submit any old or new mono white preservation enchantment.
  • RanshiRanshi
    edited April 16
    @jpastor, it's been a while. 

    I'd love to participate but am currently detaching myself from the website of Cardsmith on account of the Owner's behaviors and policies.

    If I can still play, submitting designs made locally using MSE, I'd like a box! (Hopefully I'm notified when you respond, I haven't been getting emails from notifications I should be lately...)
  • jpastorjpastor
    @Ranshi Welcome back! Happy to accept any old or new cards you've made from any platform for this. JK, you actually have to make the cards from scratch on pvc plastic or else it doesn't count. Ok that was a jk too. Your mystery box contains:
    • A Snapshot of Your Stats: 73 prizes earned + 129 entries posted + 29 match points = 231 total points
    • Milestone Reward (10 points): You can not access the Vault for a more in-depth experience.
    • Milestone Reward (100, 200 points): 2 additional perk slots unlocked = 5 total perk slots (At your will, create 5 perks to customize your mystery box experience in any way you like.)
    • Lightstone Torch: Keep this in case you ever encounter a Troll. (Yeah I have no idea what the hell I was thinking when I made this prize. We'll figure this one out later.)
    • A Mystery Challenge: Submit any old or new doomed creature.
  • RanshiRanshi
    @jpastor, just to clarify, do you mean doomed as in the art implies the creature will die, or that it has "Doomed" in the name such as Doomed Necromancer, or something else entirely?
  • CorwinnnCorwinnn
    @Ranshi... I believe that bit might be open to interpretation... What do you want it to mean?

    Like the Lightstone Torch... That troll could be the classic creature, or someone trolling you in a thread... open to interpretation!



    Could even be this guy!
  • jpastorjpastor
    @Ranshi - as always - open to interpretation. the mystery shall never be fully revealed
  • CorwinnnCorwinnn
    HUZZAH!
  • CorwinnnCorwinnn
    @jpastor

    I'm gonna go with this one... So peaceful!



    I will ask for another box in the near future, as I must contemplate this on...
    The Tree of Woah

    *formerly known as the tree of woe


  • RanshiRanshi
    Noted. I’ll try and get it made sometime today or tomorrow.
  • JadefireJadefire
    edited April 21
    A Mystery Challenge: Create a mono-red burn card that deals more damage to a creature if that creature ...
    https://mtgcardsmith.com/view/kindled-imagination


    Let's try entering the vault and see what that's all about.
  • RanshiRanshi
    @jpastor, here's my submission for a doomed creature! May I have another box?


  • jpastorjpastor
    @Jadefire in the Vault, you find:
    • A Key to the Battle Chamber - 2 vs Villain [You may choose to enter.]
    • or Craft a Box [By choosing one or more of the following.]
    • Prize Options: [No Prize] or [Prize 182 - Phoenix Ashes: Stop 2 cards from being judged.]
    • Challenge Options: [Submit any old or new Gatecrash flying creature] or [Submit any old or new creature with mana cost {w}{w}]
    @Ranshi your mystery box contains:
    • A Mystery Challenge: Submit any old or new card that creates Dinosaur tokens.
    • Prize 74 - Mendicant Sustentation Apparatus 🔧 Restore 1 card that's been destroyed from any deadline. (It will be counted this deadline.)
  • JadefireJadefire
    I'll enter the Battle Chamber.
  • RanshiRanshi
    @jpastor, it would seem you've upset her... Here's my card that creates a dinosaur token! Can I have another box?


  • jpastorjpastor
    @Jadefire in 2 vs Villain you may invite another player to help. You're up against The Predator. Your mystery box contains:
    • Prize 97 - Assassin's Armor: You get 2 favorites and 3 bonus prize points.
    • A Mystery Challenge: Submit any old or new creature card to defeat Predator. Your ally may submit any old or new card of any type to help.
    @Ranshi your mystery box contains:
    • A Mystery Challenge: Submit any old or new Human Soldier card with a quote from someone other than the creature.
  • Mellow_MCMellow_MC
    Can I have a box
  • kaoz42kaoz42
    Can I have a mystery box please?
  • jpastorjpastor
    @Mellow_MC your mystery box contains:
    • A Snapshot of Your Stats: 5 prizes earned + 5 entries posted = 10 total points
    • Milestone Reward (10 points): Vault access gained (You can now request to enter the Vault instead of requesting a mystery box.)
    • A Mystery Challenge: Submit any old or new monogreen spirit creature.
    @kaoz42 your mystery box contains:
    • A Snapshot of Your Stats: 16 prizes earned + 37 entries posted + 22 match points = 75 total points.
    • Milestone Reward (10 points): Vault access gained (You can now request to enter the Vault instead of requesting a mystery box.)
    • Milestone Reward (25, 50, 75): Craft 3 perks. (Anything you'd like to customize your experience.)
    • Prize 81 - Master Corwinnn's Sonic Resonation Implants 🎧: In your mystery boxes the remainder of the deadline, you'll have an additional mystery challenge option to create a card themed after a given song or song of choice, a clip, or lyrics. These are optional and can be completed in addition to your normal mystery challenge.
    • A Mystery Challenge: Submit any old or new evoke creature.
    • Optional Mystery Challenge: Submit any old or new card themed after a song by Dream Theater or Tool.
  • JadefireJadefire
    edited April 25
    A Mystery Challenge: Submit any old or new creature card to defeat Predator. Your ally may submit any old or new card of any type to help.
    https://mtgcardsmith.com/view/altair-processions-exalted


    I'll invite @Corwinnn to submit a creature to take on Predator too.

    I'm going to redeem my Assassin's Armor.  The two favourites can go on any of the cards in this collection: https://mtgcardsmith.com/user/jadefire_wsn/cards

    I'll enter the Vault again.
  • CorwinnnCorwinnn
    Here is my creature to take on Predator too

  • SpellPiper2213SpellPiper2213
    Glowering Beholder

    Here's my Mystery Booster entry.

    @jpastor can I enter the Vault?
  • Mellow_MCMellow_MC

  • Mellow_MCMellow_MC
    Mystery Challenge: Submit any old or new mono green spirit creature.
  • jpastorjpastor
    @Jadefire @Corwinnn - 

    Verdict: ✅ Yes, they beat The Predator

    From both a flavor and mechanical perspective, Altair and Green Kamatayan are very solid. They represent strategy, synergy, and lethal misdirection—everything that beats a solo hunter.

    @Jadefire in the Vault, you find:

    • No Keys. Craft your box instead:
    • Prize Options: [No prize] [Prize 173 - Sphinx Riddles: You can submit two entries per mystery challenge the rest of this deadline.] [Prize 291 - Shmugs: 3 Hugs + 1 favorite of 1 choice + 1 of your choice.]
    • Challenge Options: Submit any old or new [blue sorcery that creates an X/X token] [sacrificial artifact creature] [Legendary WUB creature]
    @Spellpiper2213 in the Vault, you find:
    • A Key to the Saga Wing (Planechase)
    • A Key to the Virtual Mystery World Room (Lazy River)
    • or the mystery box below:
    The Mystery Box contains:
    • A Mystery Challenge: Submit any old or new B creature that transforms into a W creature or W creature that transforms into a B creature.
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