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Traumaturgy - 2UU
Enchantment - Aura
Enchant Creature
When enchanted creature deals damage to another creature, instead put that many untap counters on it. (Creatures with an untap counter cannot attack, block, or use activated abilities. It can be removed at any time by paying 1.)
When enchanted creature deals damage to a player, instead that player discards that many cards.

The Revolution Will Not Be Tropeable

*Enchanted creature deals damage to other creatures in the form of untap counters. (A creatures with an untap counter on it cannot attack or block, and its activated abilities can't be activated. An untap counter can be removed from a creature at any time by paying 1.)
Whenever enchanted creature would deal damage to a player, instead that player discards that many cards.

I kinda like it, although I dunno about the name. :/ Something like paralysis counters or something, or lethargy?

edited 18th Jun '15 7:34:55 PM by Knowlessman

i care but i'm restless, i'm here but i'm really gone, i'm wrong and i'm sorry, baby

Freed, the Matchless General - WWWWW
Legendary Creature - Human Soldier
~ cannot be the target of instant or sorcery spells.
You may skip your draw step. If you do, search your library for a Warrior or Soldier creature card and add it to your hand, then shuffle your library.
5/4
"Be they barbarians or battalions, any who live by the sword and are willing to die by the sword are welcome in my ranks. We're going to need them."
- Freed, speech to his legion

edited 18th Jun '15 8:54:17 PM by kagescorpionakki

What is so amusing about this? Why do you take lives? How can you forget?

Freed, the Brave Wanderer (1WW)

Legendary Creature - Human Soldier

2/2

1W, T, Exile a white creature card from your graveyard: Destroy target with a higher power than this creature.

“Not a promise, not an oath, or a malediction or a curse. Inevitable." - Taylor Hebert

Elf Ball 1WG
Enchantment
2W: Target creature you control dances with target creature. If one of those creatures is an elf, gain 3 life. (When a creature dances, tap that creature and any creature that dances with it.)

''The eternal question of reality, it still stands today.''

I'm not happy with "untap" counters either, since some of the things they prevent don't actually require tapping, but it seems to me that "this creature is strictly passive until you pay mana to remove this counter" is a tool with a lot of possibilities, and should be named something that wouldn't force it to take the same flavour every time (like -1/-1 and +1/+1 counters aren't called "infect counters" or "module counters").

Mana counters, maybe? Or lock counters? Null counters?

Also: as worded now, you could block a high-power Traumaturgied creature with a 1/1 that would then just sit around uselessly on the battlefield for the rest of the game, or alternatively discard your entire hand. The obvious choice clutters the board. :P Maybe a creature with mana counters equal to or greater than its CMC dies or bounces as a state-based action?

The Revolution Will Not Be Tropeable

Anti-conformism 1(U/B)(U/R)(B/G)(R/G)
Legendary Enchantment
All permanents are legendary.
The Legend Rule does not apply.
Creatures can attack or block regardless of whether or not they are untapped.
Whenever a card is exiled or put into a graveyard from anywhere, that card's owner may shuffle it into his or her library.

Motherfuckers, always trying to write in present tense and giving up on the first page...

i care but i'm restless, i'm here but i'm really gone, i'm wrong and i'm sorry, baby

You forgot "Abilities of permanents that requires it to be tapped may no longer have to be tapped."

I'm reading this because it's interesting. I think. Whiskey, Tango, Foxtrot, over.

Nah. Figured far enough was far enough. If I was gonna mess with activated abilities, I'd have to mess with detainment and stuff, and that was just a can of worms too big and specific to deal with.

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Wait For It - U
Instant
Target permanent becomes Legendary until end of turn.
Buyback - Return a Legendary permanent you control to its owner's hand
-DARY

What is so amusing about this? Why do you take lives? How can you forget?

...I dunt get it. :/ That's basically just a self-bounce spell that infinite chains itself.

It'd make an interesting Prowess engine. If you suddenly decide you need a fatty real bad, just bounce all your lands. It pretty much goes wombo with ETB effects, though; Bolas knows what havoc you could wreak with that.

I am pretty sure there's a punchline to it that I'm missing, though.

Making one permanent legendary doesn't make other permanents with the same name legendary, and I'm pretty sure the Legend rule only applies per player now anyway.
...And probably was always a state-based action.

edited 19th Jun '15 11:16:40 PM by Knowlessman

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Lag Singularity 10
Sorcery
State-based actions are triggered effects. (This effect does not end.)
Exile Lag Singularity.

i care but i'm restless, i'm here but i'm really gone, i'm wrong and i'm sorry, baby

It's colorless? Hmm. Fluffwise, I could see it being connected to the way that It That Betrays keeps its victims from dying.

*looks up It That Betrays* ...How so? Also, I kind of expected something called It That Betrays to have, y'know, some kind of drawback. Its victims betray, but It doesn't, as far as I can tell.

Also, it's mainly colorless because I didn't know what colors, if any, to give it anyway. :/ I'm not even sure what color would benefit from it most.

Comment on him on Gatherer just made my night:

Man, I wish comments on Gatherer hadn't been disabled like two blocks ago. :/

edited 20th Jun '15 12:07:57 AM by Knowlessman

i care but i'm restless, i'm here but i'm really gone, i'm wrong and i'm sorry, baby

Because a lot of the things that kill you happen as a result of state-based effects - having lethal damage posted on you, or having a toughness of 0 or lower, that kind of thing. This spell can create situations where that doesn't immediately kill you, just like having that arrow through his head isn't killing the poor guy in the card illustration.

It'd only be a loose thematic link, really.

And you're not the only person to think that about It That Betrays.

The name, I think is solid; plenty of cards have built-in bite-you-in-the-ass effects that you just either work around or enjoy when it makes the game go batshit (mostly with red).

The thing is that Its name has no real link to what it does; even if it gives you Phage or the Persecutor, It hasn't Betrayed you; It just Did a Derp.

EDIT: Also, I'm kinda waiting for someone to find a batshit wombo combo that makes Lag Singularity eat the game and shit out cotton candy and livers. I'm too lazy to look for one myself, but surely fucking with such an integral rule of the game fucks up something.

edited 20th Jun '15 1:16:35 AM by Knowlessman

i care but i'm restless, i'm here but i'm really gone, i'm wrong and i'm sorry, baby

After a few games against annoying control decks of various stripes, I feel the need to make this card to vent.

Perfect Scrubstorm 1
Enchantment
Hexproof, indestructible
Perfect Scrubstorm cannot be countered.
If a spell or ability an opponent controls counters a spell you control, that opponent loses 10 life.
If a spell or ability an opponent controls destroys a land you control, that opponent sacrifices all of his or her lands.
If a spell or ability an opponent controls causes you to put a creature you control on top of your library, that opponent puts all of his or her creatures on top of his or her library, then exiles his or her library.
"Ahh... that's better."

edited 21st Jun '15 11:06:25 AM by Durazno

You need to specify what kind of card it is.

Right you are. It's an enchantment. A salty, salty enchantment.

You forgot "Equipment cannot be attached to creatures" and "all creatures are Foxes".

Edit: Card tax:

Peridot (2UB)
Legendary Creature - Elemental Artificer
2/3
2U: Put a 1/1 colourless Drone artifact creature onto the battlefield under your control. Activate this ability only once each turn.
B, Sacrifice a creature: ~ gets +2/+2 and gains flying until end of turn. Activate this ability only once each turn.
"You clods don't know what you're doing!"

edited 21st Jun '15 11:20:56 AM by CountDorku

It might be okay to let her churn out more drones.

Drone Factory
Artifact Land
[CARDNAME] enters the battlefield tapped.
Artifacts have "T: Add 1 to your mana pool. This artifact can't be untapped until your next untap step."
Whenever a player taps an artifact, each player puts a 1/1 Drone artifact creature onto the battlefield.

edited 21st Jun '15 1:11:20 PM by TheSpaceJawa

Drones Club (4)
Artifact - Equipment
Equipped creature gets +1/+0 for each Drone you control.
Equip {4}
"That is definitely not what I meant!" - Bertie Wooster

Might be just me, but from how that one is worded right now, it sounds really, really broken. ._.

Drone Factory + Basalt Monolith (or two Unbender Tines) = free drone strikes for everyone.

Shapesliver - 2U
Creature - Shapehifter Sliver
Slivers you control have changeling.
1/2

What is so amusing about this? Why do you take lives? How can you forget?