#additional cost

In order to fully control the magic of others, first you must have the backing of the dragons to secure your magic. New life can only be birthed if the old life is stripped away, revealing the perfection of flesh underneath. The ultimate suffering can be used to cause those around you to feel the same sensations, the same hopelessness, and the same power. Clicking the links above, you can see the flavor and mechanical connections for this week. Here’s a Gatherer search for the same wording, and you might have guessed by now...

Design a card with a flavorful additional cost. The card can be of any type and any rarity. The card must have “As an additional cost to cast this spell” somewhere in its wording. 

You are designing this to be opened in a standard-legal/draftable set.

The Cost of Victory ~

Congratulations to @machine-elf-paladin, @nine-effing-hells and @gollumni for winning this week’s contest!

@machine-elf-paladin - Shred History is my pick for a nicely flavorful card among the many submitted. This card isn’t a Disperse, but it’s got a little more of a boost with the tucking ability, and I think that makes it certainly more interesting. You get rid of your history, simply enough, then take a piece of your opponent’s history and remove it for a moment - but it is inevitable, after all. It’s almost futile, oddly. Interesting... But I like how this card feels and plays. Tucking needs restrictions, and this card makes it worthwhile.

@nine-effing-hells - Damnable Warlockry is one hell of a name, and I like how this card plays mechanically. You can adjust the X to your highest level, probably your life, and you can use your life to make your board/hand adjust without having to worry about everything being exact. It’s effectively an upgraded Bonds of Agony, but at rare and in today’s environment, I think that the self-interest flavor lean and the general “up to” upgrade makes it worthwhile.

@gollumni - Clumsy Squire made me laugh. You have to let your commander by the wayside to make it happen, but holy crap, destroying everyone else’s commander because your only specialty is killing main characters? What a meta card. I think it might be a little too powerful, but only because commander exists. Maybe restricting it to a sorcery and maybe even having to sacrifice it... I think that despite the small necessary tweaks, this is a card that reminds all of us of an earlier, much sillier time in Magic. And I like that.

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Cost Entries pt. 2 ~

@mardu-lesbian -  Emeria’s Imperative

So, you talked some about Emrakul moon things. I kind of remember that part in the Eldritch Moon story. Looking at this card, I’m just left scratching my head. First ability: this doesn’t feel like an additional cost, partially because you don’t actually “pay” anything and secondly because it affects all players. Second ability: what? Why would you ever do this? At mythic, for seven mana? Third ability: Odd, but okay, sure, whatever, it is what it is. In the end, I’m left just...not understanding this card. It feels like it’s trying to meet me halfway, but halfway to another planet, in another solar system, where they’re playing a different card game.

@mistershinyobject - When Gods Flee

When DO Gods flee? Look, I think you were maybe on the right track - but “sacrifice a God” is a power play that you could have used much more effectively here. The wording all around just feels a little awkward, and the flavor text doesn’t really add much. Why is this modal, exactly? Mechanically I think that, again, it’s on the right track. For two mana... Hm. Phenax would like a word with you about all this. I don’t know, I just feel there was something you were trying to bring together, and I’m left underwhelmed on both fronts.

@reaperfromtheabyss - Adventurous Prankster

Great concept! But the big part about this card that makes me pause is that this really, really should have been an ETB ability. It’s not like she only could come out when there were creatures on an adventure or on the battlefield - she could be summoned whenever, and then part of her personality/ability/flavor is that she can disperse things to make them “get lost.” 

This isn’t just with your card - I feel that actually a majority of cards in this contest fell into this trap, where “if I do then, then this happens” takes mechanical precedent over “I NEED to do X in order to do Y.” I’m rambling at this point, but I hope that something comes across here. Oh, last point: I really don’t like Sabotage as a keyword. As an ability, yes, keyword, no.

@scienceshaman - rat kind’s tithe

Good card. I suggest working on capitalization and whatnot. This card probably could have been at least a runner-up with polished presentation. Frankly, as-is I still enjoy it. Maybe call this one a retroactive runner-up. You don’t have to even have MSE, although it helps. What I’m curious about is... Hm, should it have “additional” or is just the extra draw there good? Maybe it should have “Then” before all of these. Like, “Draw a card. Then, if X, draw a card. Then, if X, draw a card.” There’s no precedent for it so I’m curious! Also, what rarity? I assume uncommon but drawing three cards for three mana in black might necessitate this being a rare.

@snugz - True Despair

“...all cards from your graveyard,” I believe. But yeah, I grok. For seven mana, I don’t want my opponent getting anything, period. I don’t feel the “trueness” is complete if your opponent gets one last chance to cast something, y’know? Now I’m also curious about that second ability, if “this way” as it relates to the additional cost is how the templating works, or if “this way” can only refers to things in its paragraph. “For each nonland card type exiled with this spell, X.” I dunno with these new precedents. 

@starch255 - Juliet Capulet.

Firstly, English major represent, the flavor’s funny/resonant, so let’s get that on the table. See my commentary for Reaper’s stuff, because this really could have been an ETB ability. Mechanically, for the rest of it, I kinda like having the bouncing effects for these two creatures, and it makes for some difficult and funny combat. “1W: Exile this” looks really, really awkward. Maybe if it sacrificed for an effect?

@suitsongirls - Dromoka’s Protection

So Safe Passage, for WW instead of 2W, at rare, that requires a dragon to as effective? I’d’ve liked a greater benefit. Flavor B+. Good callback to the Dragon mechanic, which I enjoyed.

@thatnewcarsmeli - Infinite Possibilities

“...exile ALL CARDS from your library.” The second ability can just shuffle them back into the library (see Mind Sculptor ult.). The last ability... are you talking about cards exiled with Infinite Possibilities? You need to specify where you’re choosing these cards from. There should be a sentence break between the “cards” and “you,” and there doesn’t need to be a comma after “gain.” I don’t know if that’s workable in the rules. Lastly, this is a five-mana Emrakul tutor with protective backup in the form of pitch-spells, so that’s something to consider. Oh, wait, or Laboratory Maniac too.

@tmstage - Solar Ignition

I’m on board for this card with everything except “exile a legendary creature or planeswalker you control.” Pitching your hand, sure. Getting your stuff into protective morph shells, awesome. I’d make it seven, but w/e. Board wipe, nice. But why that specific exile? I dunno, I’m not seeing that specific flavor. Also, the “if” clause should be part of the additional cost, I feel, because of the “this way.” I need to emphasize: this is a creative, fascinating, powerful card. Just needs a little polish!

@wpandp - Harmonic Entropy

I know what you’re getting at, but this card is still a break. Not a flavor bend, a break. One of red’s underlying weaknesses is the inability to destroy target enchantments. And if I’m running a mono-red deck, I’ll play this, pitch a hybrid card, and go about my merry way. I really can’t bridge this gap with you.

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Additional Runners-Up ~

@dont-wanna-wanga - I think that Inevitable Triumph is a really cool card. I feel that the “additional cost” is great flavorfully, but is kind of weird on a mechanical side once you consider that if you’re topdecking and you cast it, you’re revealing zero cards. Well, maybe that is the flavor - your “magnificent plan” is that nothing is happening. I don’t know, I still like the card and I think it’s an aggressive enough uncommon. On par with Murder and a little more unique.

@dovin-baan - Wishes are difficult to gauge power-level-wise, and man, Equivalent Exchange is not making my job any easier. Cheap but narrow, intuitive but limiting. I’mma pass this one off to the masses, frankly. Is it too narrow to be good enough? Is it broken in some decks? Discuss!

@fractured-infinity - Now, Become the Swarm is a bomb and a half. In a U/B draw control shell, a la Shadows over Innistrad-ish, this is almost a turn five win. Which is concerning, but man, the concept! It really might have to be six mana. For wording help, the “For every three” needs to be written, not numeric, and attached to the additional cost clause. The token-making should have “black” lowercase, a comma after “flying,” and maybe “Create ... for each card in your graveyard” instead. Cool shindig!

@lesbian-verdeloth - When you submitted Face Reality, there were two strikes against you. Firstly, there’s no rarity. Which is a problem. I’ll assume this is uncommon, then. Secondly, there’s no flavor text. And there’s a helluva lot of room for flavor text on this card. (And that “three” needs to be written.) Luckily, the name plus the ability plus the shell that this card would go in is fantastic enough to warrant it being included as a runner-up. Just keep in mind some presentation for the next contest.

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Go nuts, folks.

For my example design this week, I chose to make a pretty pushed but flavorful red card with consequences and actions. By letting go of your sanity (hand), you are able to release yourself without consequence (uncounterable) and clear the field for your ultimate plan (removal/damage). The RRR balances the power, and having to have three cards to discard might be powerful but it gives you the opportunity to get that second ability to happen. I feel that this card shouldn’t hit players and I stand by that. You are demonstrating your method rather than attacking someone.

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