Magica Rasa

@natew000 A turn-1 discard spell that doesn’t look at the opponents entire hand. Needs to be at least somewhat playable in 1v1 formats.

Brain Dicer feels like a pretty fair card. Competitive players wouldn’t like the randomness, but it serves a nice role of being pretty good on turn 1 and being much better when they’re down to 2-4 cards in hand.

I’ll Show You Mine looks like it would play as a straight Thoughtseize in most games, with the downside changed from losing 2 life to revealing your hand. I think it’s overpowered.

Thought Slice also feels like a very good card, but more situational. Death’s Shadow decks would latch onto this as a way to pay any amount of life with Thoughtseize upside. You definitely don’t want to full price cast this and reveal a bunch of Lightning Bolts.

I love Solomon’s Baby. I can’t see any logic flaw that can be exploited — it seems like it works even at 2 cards in hand, and of course at 1.

Excision is underpowered. You never want to pay 3+ mana to choose one card. Maybe if it had delve?

I find it interesting that all of these involve revealing some number of cards. I’ve been trying to figure out a good punisher mechanic to make it work with no reveals, and it’s tough. Here are some of my thoughts.

Punisher Discard B

Sorcery

Target opponent discards a card, then loses 3 life or life equal to that card’s MV, whichever is smaller.

Random Discard B

Sorcery

Target opponent discards a card at random, then all players lose life equal to its MV.

Curse Discard B

Enchantment - Aura Curse

Enchant player.

When Curse Discard enters the battlefield, enchanted player exiles a card from their hand.

Punisher Discard definitely shows how hard a spot this is to get right, but it feels like this is close. Drop a big card you can’t cast early anyway and lose 3 life. Drop a land you don’t think you need and lose nothing. Then again that might put the wrong emphasis on dropping a land for some players, I’m not sure.

Actually a lot of that goes for Curse Discard as well–while putting the opposite emphasis on what you discard which I think might be the right way to go to avoid a newer player dropping a land they really should have kept. Plus that’s a novel and cool idea that feels so much like a curse. It’s delightful.

Random Discard is the miss for me. Mind Knives, Mind Shatter, and Mind Twist are the closest comparisons I see, admittedly without any downside, all putting randomly discarding one card at at least 2 mana. And my issue here is turn 1 random discard could hit a land that player was counting on and effectively knock them out of the game. And then the punisher bit doesn’t even matter since a land’s MV is 0. I’d look at addressing that specifically. Maybe if it hits a land that player puts the land back into their hand? Or they can set aside any number of lands first (obviously they’d have to reveal those) and then randomly discard from the rest?

Oh yeah, I interpreted the prompt to mean some of the cards can be seen, just not the whole hand. I do like the sort of mental games when you get to reveal cards to choose from. Like is there any way I can misrepresent my strategy with what I show you right now?

I’ll Show You Mine was inspired by the specific ask that got this ball rolling, mainly the idea that if that player doesn’t like revealing their hand to Duress, maybe it’s an appropriate constraint for the person casting it. But yeah, it’s not really much of a cost.

I never considered Death’s Shadow with regard to Thought Slice. Not sure, but if it needs a fix it could be switched to you may pay up to 6 life or something like that. It also can be used to turn on Fateful hour turn 1. ;p

Excision with Delve is probably a good spot. Or even just drop the X bit and say you can exile cards from the graveyard as an additional cost to see more cards.

@natew000​ A creature that is not removed by Wrath of God (destroy all creatures), Toxic Deluge (all creatures get -X/-X until end of turn), or Descend Upon the Sinful (exile all creatures).

I think this is the prompt design that’s gone through the most stages so far and it’s still not quite there. First iteration had indestructible for Wrath, fixed toughness to one plus the life total of the player with the most life for Deluge (and that still wouldn’t work always), and… nothing for Descend.

The next few iterations were all about figuring out how to deal with Descend and in doing that I realized it was going to be pretty wordy and that I could wrap fixes for the other two cards into it. I also decided while I’m at it to embrace the spirit I think the prompt was getting at and make it so targeted removal and paying for costs (like saccing a creature) still worked for this, while mass bounce would not. If we aren’t concerned about that we can cut some words and the effect becomes more powerful.

Phasing wasn’t a solution I wanted to turn to but the -X/-X effects cause issues that resulted in me opting for Omega to phase out. Presuming the -X/-X effect ends then you don’t have to worry about Omega constantly looking at state based effects and trying to figure out what to do. But if the effect hasn’t ended then Omega pops in for a moment and phases back out until the end of the following turn.

@natew000​ A creature that is not removed by Wrath of God (destroy all creatures), Toxic Deluge (all creatures get -X/-X until end of turn), or Descend Upon the Sinful (exile all creatures).

I think this is the prompt design that’s gone through the most stages so far and it’s still not quite there. First iteration had indestructible for Wrath, fixed toughness to one plus the life total of the player with the most life for Deluge (and that still wouldn’t work always), and… nothing for Descend.

The next few iterations were all about figuring out how to deal with Descend and in doing that I realized it was going to be pretty wordy and that I could wrap fixes for the other two cards into it. I also decided while I’m at it to embrace the spirit I think the prompt was getting at and make it so targeted removal and paying for costs (like saccing a creature) still worked for this, while mass bounce would not. If we aren’t concerned about that we can cut some words and the effect becomes more powerful.

Phasing wasn’t a solution I wanted to turn to but the -X/-X effects cause issues that resulted in me opting for Omega to phase out. Presuming the -X/-X effect ends then you don’t have to worry about Omega constantly looking at state based effects and trying to figure out what to do. But if the effect hasn’t ended then Omega pops in for a moment and phases back out until the end of the following turn.

@natew000​ A creature that is not removed by Wrath of God (destroy all creatures), Toxic Deluge (all creatures get -X/-X until end of turn), or Descend Upon the Sinful (exile all creatures).

I think this is the prompt design that’s gone through the most stages so far and it’s still not quite there. First iteration had indestructible for Wrath, fixed toughness to one plus the life total of the player with the most life for Deluge (and that still wouldn’t work always), and… nothing for Descend.

The next few iterations were all about figuring out how to deal with Descend and in doing that I realized it was going to be pretty wordy and that I could wrap fixes for the other two cards into it. I also decided while I’m at it to embrace the spirit I think the prompt was getting at and make it so targeted removal and paying for costs (like saccing a creature) still worked for this, while mass bounce would not. If we aren’t concerned about that we can cut some words and the effect becomes more powerful.

Phasing wasn’t a solution I wanted to turn to but the -X/-X effects cause issues that resulted in me opting for Omega to phase out. Presuming the -X/-X effect ends then you don’t have to worry about Omega constantly looking at state based effects and trying to figure out what to do. But if the effect hasn’t ended then Omega pops in for a moment and phases back out until the end of the following turn.

@shadowknight1224​ A non-creature red card that explores a positive emotion, bonus points if the mechanic reinforces the theme!

Here’s the first design. I feel like this one’s hitting close to where I want it, but for me there’s just some sort of disconnect for me. It’s not quite desire exactly. Sort of envy? Maybe it works better for you. But yeah, basic idea is you want what your opponent’s got. The fact that they get to copy it is more a balance thing than anything else.

Also, if one of your In Love creatures dies, the remaining In Love creature still jumps around from player to player. Maybe heartbreak results in wanderlust?

1. yeah, I think that was the cleanest and shortest bit of text to accomplish that though. The first trigger to resolve is all that matters though. Maybe a little confusing, but I’m not sure the game has a great way to handle situations like this.

@natew000​ A creature that is not removed by Wrath of God (destroy all creatures), Toxic Deluge (all creatures get -X/-X until end of turn), or Descend Upon the Sinful (exile all creatures).

I think this is the prompt design that’s gone through the most stages so far and it’s still not quite there. First iteration had indestructible for Wrath, fixed toughness to one plus the life total of the player with the most life for Deluge (and that still wouldn’t work always), and… nothing for Descend.

The next few iterations were all about figuring out how to deal with Descend and in doing that I realized it was going to be pretty wordy and that I could wrap fixes for the other two cards into it. I also decided while I’m at it to embrace the spirit I think the prompt was getting at and make it so targeted removal and paying for costs (like saccing a creature) still worked for this, while mass bounce would not. If we aren’t concerned about that we can cut some words and the effect becomes more powerful.

Phasing wasn’t a solution I wanted to turn to but the -X/-X effects cause issues that resulted in me opting for Omega to phase out. Presuming the -X/-X effect ends then you don’t have to worry about Omega constantly looking at state based effects and trying to figure out what to do. But if the effect hasn’t ended then Omega pops in for a moment and phases back out until the end of the following turn.

Norin did come to mind, but not the bit about twaeking it to care about untargeted stuff. That’s a pretty solid spot for this idea I think.

@shadowknight1224​ A non-creature red card that explores a positive emotion, bonus points if the mechanic reinforces the theme!

Here’s the first design. I feel like this one’s hitting close to where I want it, but for me there’s just some sort of disconnect for me. It’s not quite desire exactly. Sort of envy? Maybe it works better for you. But yeah, basic idea is you want what your opponent’s got. The fact that they get to copy it is more a balance thing than anything else.

@dimestoretajic​ A card based on an MCU character or element.

So you get two for the price of one. Cosplayer is the first idea that came to mind for me, but that isn’t anything specific to MCU necessarily. That and it’s basically just a modified Spark Double. I like it, but it does feel a little like already tread ground.