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Mana M0nger's Wild Strike Creature Challenge
Hello everyone and welcome to my first ever MTG forum challenge!
I challenge you the MTG community, to create a custom creature card to the best of your abilities using a keyword I made call Wild Strike. Wild Strike (When this creature deals combat damage, you may flip a coin. If you win the flip, deal damage equal to this creatures power to target creature chosen at random.) You will have roughly 17 days to complete this challenge, starting today and ending Sept 26th.
The rules for this challenge are very simple. you are allowed to post one entry into the challenge, NO exceptions. If you happen to make a mistake on your entry, please leave a comment on the card in question, asking for a re-submission. I will allow one re due on your entry and will discount any other previous cards you have entered. Your entry must be a creature card of any color of your choosing with the Wild strike keyword attached to it. You may add as many additional keywords, abilities or mechanics as you see fit.
For this challenge I'm not looking for over complicated or long winded mechanics on your creatures, but cards that are flavorful and compliment the Wild Strike keyword. If you can make your creature cards possess all of these qualities and follow the rules above, I will be sure to take notice. I will judge the entries at the end of the contest date and announce to top 3 winners along with 3 honorable mentions on the 27th roughly around 8:00am PST. Please note, the number of winners and honorable mentions may change depending on the number of entries in this challenge.
Good luck, and have fun!
I have provided two examples below for referencing.
Screaming Skull Warbringer:
http://mtgcardsmith.com/view/screaming-skull-warbringer?list=set&set=1386
Orcish Ransacker
http://mtgcardsmith.com/view/orcish-ransacker?list=set&set=1381
I challenge you the MTG community, to create a custom creature card to the best of your abilities using a keyword I made call Wild Strike. Wild Strike (When this creature deals combat damage, you may flip a coin. If you win the flip, deal damage equal to this creatures power to target creature chosen at random.) You will have roughly 17 days to complete this challenge, starting today and ending Sept 26th.
The rules for this challenge are very simple. you are allowed to post one entry into the challenge, NO exceptions. If you happen to make a mistake on your entry, please leave a comment on the card in question, asking for a re-submission. I will allow one re due on your entry and will discount any other previous cards you have entered. Your entry must be a creature card of any color of your choosing with the Wild strike keyword attached to it. You may add as many additional keywords, abilities or mechanics as you see fit.
For this challenge I'm not looking for over complicated or long winded mechanics on your creatures, but cards that are flavorful and compliment the Wild Strike keyword. If you can make your creature cards possess all of these qualities and follow the rules above, I will be sure to take notice. I will judge the entries at the end of the contest date and announce to top 3 winners along with 3 honorable mentions on the 27th roughly around 8:00am PST. Please note, the number of winners and honorable mentions may change depending on the number of entries in this challenge.
Good luck, and have fun!
I have provided two examples below for referencing.
Screaming Skull Warbringer:
http://mtgcardsmith.com/view/screaming-skull-warbringer?list=set&set=1386
Orcish Ransacker
http://mtgcardsmith.com/view/orcish-ransacker?list=set&set=1381
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Comments
http://mtgcardsmith.com/view/student-of-infernum-blades
http://mtgcardsmith.com/view/wereboar-1?list=user
There is some neat lore in the comments fyi
http://mtgcardsmith.com/view/wildfire-berserker
http://mtgcardsmith.com/view/orcish-siege-infantry-1
In any case, here it is: http://mtgcardsmith.com/view/sabrewolf
I'll redo my card.. this is a placeholder.
http://mtgcardsmith.com/user/Tomigon/sets/1706
I meant for the ability to be very chaotic and unpredictable with a high risk and reward aspect. You may activate it any time when you deal combat damage to have a chance to destroy an opponents creature, but you also run the risk of destroying your own creatures since the target is chosen at random. So you have to be careful when to activate it as you could end up killing your own creatures if your opponent has none. In regard of it targeting a protected creature, it would negate the ability that turn it was used since the creature would have protection and can't be targeted.
Creatures with protection... hexproof/shroud can't be targeted. So current wording is against the MtG rule. Simple way to fix this problem is just like the way Nok_ did. Replacing "target" with "a".
Example. 1 With current wording
My red creature triggers wild strike, the text says choose a creature and it becomes target. But if some of the creatures on the battlefield had pro-red(it can't be targeted by red spells or abilities), how can we choose a target at random from among all creatures?
Example. 2 With new wording,
My red creature triggers wild strike, it can choose a pro-red creature, but damage is prevented.
I got inspiration for the keyword ability from the card Goblin Test Pilot so I based the wording and rulings off the card when I was creating the keyword.
http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=368964
Thank you for letting me know your concerns.
I saw your link and there is a comment that says
"To choose a target at random, all possible legal targets (including creatures and players) must have an equal chance of being chosen. There are many ways to do this, including assigning each possible legal target a number and rolling a die."
So ignore my earlier comment. Sorry!
As for everyone else, keep those entries coming. There's still plenty of time to get your submissions in before the 26th!
http://mtgcardsmith.com/view/rikka-flash-of-light
I will begin judging the cards and announce the winners Sunday. Further entries are now closed off.
--Winners-----------
1st Place - @seaspray4TF3 - Rikka, Flash of Light - http://mtgcardsmith.com/view/rikka-flash-of-light
This is a really great card you have made. The flavour text in this card is awesome and it fits the wild strike theme. This is a very risky card for you and your opponent but makes it seem like a very fun card you could play. Gold star for you on this one seaspray4TF3
2nd place - @Tomigon - Wereboar - http://mtgcardsmith.com/view/wereboar-6?list=set&set=1706
When I looked at this card I was very confused for the first few moments with its activated ability but I love the fact you made it so you can control the wild strike damage to some degree. The theme of the card is awesome and screams flavour, nice work on this one Tomigon!
3nd Place @Corwinnn - Raving Berserker - http://mtgcardsmith.com/view/raving-berserker-2
A Manly barbarian who's purpose in life is to beat the snot out of your opponents, I like it! While this has very simple abilities for a red card, I love the artwork choice and this card has a lot of flavour behind it. This barbarian is ready to punch some skulls in.
--Honourable mentions-----------
@MrRansom - Longshot Tracker - http://mtgcardsmith.com/view/longshot-tracker?list=user
@Xenthori - Orcish Siege Infantry - http://mtgcardsmith.com/view/orcish-siege-infantry-1
@Him - Marax, the Raging Twin - http://mtgcardsmith.com/view/marax-the-raging-twin?list=set&set=1557
http://mtgcardsmith.com/view/trophy-41?list=set&set=2076
Tomigon's 2nd place trophy
http://mtgcardsmith.com/view/trophy-42?list=set&set=2076
Corwinnn's 3rd place trophy
http://mtgcardsmith.com/view/trophy-43?list=set&set=2076