#magicarasa

First up, I’ll legit be disappointed if Kaldheim doesn’t reference the viking concept of dying in battle in some way.

This is basically a Morbid variant and easily one of the best custom mechanics I’ve ever designed. It also seems like such low hanging fruit to me for a viking top down set.

Second, this one is based on a recent leaked card. I’m not showing the potential leak, but if you don’t want any ideas about what it might be, don’t look under the read more.

Time for my final mechanic in this set, Meditate.

Meditate

Meditate is a mechanic that I designed along with @magicarasa, and is an alteration and more open version of prowess. Instead of just giving a creature +1/+1, it does all sorts of different things.

When making this mechanic, i first started of trying to figure out a White/Red mechanic, when magicarasa suggested that i do something along the lines of “Offend - Whenever a player casts a noncreature spell, [effect].” (I then ended up finding a White/Red mechanic so I decided to possibly put this in U/R.) The mechanic seemed neat enough and the flavor was pretty cool (when your opponent does stuff you get offended and so you do stuff to get them back), the only problem was that it discouraged playing cards, and while one or two cards that do that is okay in a set, having a whole mechanic which discourage players from playing any noncreature spells didn’t really seem like the thing that the set wanted to be doing. I then changed the mechanic too “Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, [effect]”, and then magicarasa came up with the name Meditate.

Art by Sephiroth-Art, ReFiend and Videovida.

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!

CFAC #30 was filled with interesting submissions that tried to work around the seven-line-text limit, and the competition was fierce. However, after much deliberation, I’ve come to a personal consensus on this week’s CardsFromArt Challenge, and I’ve figured out this week’s winners. Let’s take a look!

Category 1: Favorite card that used only one line of text (32 chars or less)

Okay, so, this category wasn’t hard to figure out, because there was only one entry! This was a pretty restrictive challenge, but it let me push the envelope to see how deep the average contestant was willing to go: and the answer was, not this far. This category’s winner is...

Clipped-Wing Crow by @thekillershrub​! Congratulations, you’ll receive one bonus point.

Category 2: Favorite non-Human creature

Here is where the decisions became difficult. All of the entries basically boiled down to birds and faeries (as expected). In the end, the bird side won out. This category’s winner is....

Witchhunter’s Raven by @noyan-dar​! The card may be a bit aggressively costed, but it felt appropriate for the colors and appropriate for the artwork, and is a good card overall. Congratulations, you’ll receive one point!

Category 3: Favorite non-creature spell

This category was pretty open, and I received submissions that matched it for pretty much each applicable card type. In the end, I went with a submission that was a cool twist on a classic design. This category’s winner is...

Fragile Wish by @amtgplayer​! I like the twist on the classic wish, and that it was pretty appropriately costed for such a unique effect. Congratulations, you will receive one point!

Finally, the overall winner

This card jumped out at me for being a cool design that was likely to play differently whenever you play it, puts some control in the opponent’s hands with a high chance for punishment, without being as bad as the usual “punisher” cards. This week’s overall winner is...

The Raven Man’s Lantern by @magicarasa​! Congratulations; you’ll receive one point, and your card will be added to the CFAC Hall of Fame!

Another afternoon, another round of submissions! If you want to get in on the CFAC action, there are still a few days left to enter! Check out the challenge’s information here!

Today, we’ve got a bevy of lords and removal spells, along with a single enchantment that branches outside of the obvious Black/White options. Follow the jump to take a look!

Art by Conor Burke

Playing around with @magicarasa‘s Good Death mechanic.

One issue occurred to me as I made these. I’d like to push the death triggers now that sac outlets don’t work with them, but...you can still use sac outlets if you just attack first.