#crucibleofcustoms

For this week’s challenge, featuring an Dryad in a tranquil forest, I restricted everyone’s designs by restricting the numbers: Throughout the entire card, each submission could only use one number, though it could use the number multiple times. Thankfully, we did not end up with anyone who tried to be funny and chose “1″ and submitted an 11/11. We saw tons of interesting designs within the restrictions but only one (er, three) can be the winner(s)!

Originally, I was going to award one bonus point to my favorite of each number, but that would be, like, ten categories, and I just didn’t want to do that much work. So, today, we have three bonus points to hand out!

Category 1: My favorite card designed around an odd number.

This category’s winner chose the number 3, and instead of going with a creature, it went with a sorcery. Then, it found the interesting things that Green could do that revolved around the number three, and mashed them all into one crazy card of do-a-lot-of-nothing. But, I found it to be pretty cool, and couldn’t help but smile as I read it (and researched all the effects to see if it was properly costed (it was)). This category’s winner is...

Dryad’s Remembrance by @noyan-dar! Congratulations, you will receive one bonus point.

Category 2: My favorite card designed around an even number.

It may seem odd to go for an even card that’s also a sorcery, but I loved the call-out to another Magic card (even if it doesn’t actually draw two cards). It revolved around the number 2, a popular decision this week. This category’s winner is...

Consult the Leaves by @magicarasa! Congratulations, you will receive one bonus point.

Category 3: My overall favorite card for the week.

Usually when I turn on my laptop Friday night of each week, I catch myself rolling my eyes at the last-minute entries. And there’s not a problem with the later entries: they’re within the deadline, so it’s all good. I just can’t help but go “ugh, I have more things to do before I can do other things.”

This Friday, however, I was pleasantly surprised to find an incredibly interesting tutoring card that had a unique condition: it could tutor up any land, as long as one with the same name wasn’t already on the battlefield. That kind of a utility card was super interesting to me, and my mind went straight to trying to figure out what kinds of lands I would want to include in a deck with it. And when a custom card gets me thinking about deck building that much, I can be pretty sure it’s a winner. This category’s winner is...

Walker of Expanses by @crucibleofcustoms! Congratulations, you will receive one point, and your card will be added to the CFAC Hall of Fame!

We’ll go with just literal numbers have to be the same “a” and “an” and their ilk are fair game for all designs :)