Breath of the Sun
Stomach of Infinity - 3
Artifact
Other permanents you control are Food artifacts in addition to their other types, and have "{2}, {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: You gain 3 life."
It takes 'omnivore' to an entirely new level.
Edited by kagescorpionakki on Sep 14th 2021 at 3:08:07 PM
What is so amusing about this? Why do you take lives? How can you forget?
Slight tweak needed: The ability refers to the permanent as an artifact but the card doesn't grant the type to non-artifacts.
And actually since I think food is an artifact subtype it would need to.
Edited by Elfive on Sep 14th 2021 at 7:52:36 PM
It's more funny than annoying, but I had to comment on it.
Almighty Gaze of the Fire God RR
Instant
Deal 3 damage to any target. This damage can't be redirected or prevented.
Literally Just, Like, A Normal Guy Stabbing You With a Poisoned Dagger 1RR
Instant
Deal 4 damage to any target. This damage can't be redirected or prevented.
Bane of the Fallen (2WB)
Creature - Human Soldier
3/3
Whenever a player gains control of a creature they don't own, that player sacrifices that creature. That player and the creature's owner each draw a card.
Those who stray from the path are buried far from it, where travellers will not stumble on their remains.
Breath of the Sun
Susie, the Mean Girl - 3GR
Legendary Creature - Dinosaur Warrior
Trample
{R}, {T}: ~ deals 4 damage to target creature.
6/5
"How do you feel... about losing your face?"
Kris, the Leader - 2WR
Legendary Creature - Human Knight
Haste
Creatures you control have "{W}, {T}: Put a mercy counter on target creature. Then, if that creature has three or more mercy counters on it, put it on the bottom of its owner's library."
2/4
Don't forget.
Ralsei, the Dark Prince - 1WW
Legendary Creature - Goat Cleric
{T}: Choose one: prevent the next 3 damage that would be dealt to target creature, or you gain 3 life.
{W}, {T}: Tap target creature.
1/3
"I believe this tale may have a happy ending."
Breath of the Sun
Curse With Rot - 5BB
Enchantment
Each creature your opponents control is a Zombie in addition to its other types and has decayed. (A creature with decayed can't block. When it attacks, sacrifice it at end of combat.)
As your flesh sloughs and festers, you will be thankful when death finally takes you.
Quick Draw Contest (G)
Sorcery
Choose target creature you control and target creature an opponent controls, then you and that creature's controller each roll a die. If you roll equal to or higher than the other player's roll, your creature deals damage equal to its power to the opponent's creature. Otherwise, those creatures fight.
Now that die-rolling is officially part of black border I'm vaguely speculating on ways it could be used in a Western set.
Breath of the Sun
Gamble in Blood - 5BB
Enchantment
Whenever a creature attacks you or a planeswalker you control, its controller rolls a die and loses life equal to the result. You gain life equal to the life lost this way.
- Exquisite Foodstuff 4BB
- Enchantment
- Whenever an opponent loses life, for each life lost, create a Food Token.
- Bon Appetit!
Edited by NickTheSwing on Dec 26th 2021 at 12:48:16 PM
- Dragonlord Placidusax
- Legendary Creature - Dragon God
- Suspend 4 - 2WUR
- Flying, Hexproof, Trample
- While Dragonlord Placidusax is Suspended, when you cast a Dragon spell, create a 5 / 5 White Blue and Red Dragon creature token with Flying.
- XWUR: Destroy all nonland permanents with converted mana cost X.
- 8 / 8
Flying because duh, Hexproof due to his sky high resistances to most status ailments, Trample because huge dragon. I used Suspend instead of a casting cost due to his nature of being "outside of time", yet having some form of influence - with some suspecting him to be involved with certain dragons. His activated ability is a reference to his lightning nuke.
Edited by NickTheSwing on Jun 21st 2022 at 2:57:35 AM
That's Dr. Title, thank you!
Command Shock (R)
Instant
Command Shock deal 2 damage to up to X targets, where X is the number of opponents at the start of the game.
For each distinct opponent targeted by Command Shock, double the damage of Command Shock.
(My intent should be clear here; a slightly buffed version of Shock that helps red in commander.)
![[up]](https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/smiles/arrow_up.png "[up]"){kind=icon}
I would argue that if you want slightly buffed, you probably should not have the doubling part, because in a 4-player game that makes it able to do 16 damage to 3 targets for one mana with no other costs and that, ah, that is not a slight increase over 2 damage to one target.
Edit: If I'm doing the maths right, in a game with six or more players, that would be a turn one win.
Double edit: Realised that the doubling included the first opponent and made sure to include that in my calculations.
Edited by CountDorku on Jun 21st 2022 at 7:46:27 PM
Alchemy only card.
Get On With It! (R)
Instant
This spell can't be countered.
Cast this spell only when your opponent's timer fuse appears. If they have no timeout extensions, you win the game. Otherwise, they lose all of their timeout extensions. If it's their turn, end the turn. If it's your turn, exile all effects on the stack that they control and they lose priority for the rest of the turn except to cast Get On With It!
Oh, I love this scene!
More Alchemy Only;
- Conjuration Sabotage U
- Enchantment
- If your opponent would Conjure 1 or more cards anywhere, they instead Conjure that many Chimney Imps.
Why would you hand your opponent such a huge advantage, though? You might as well have a card that says "whenever target player would conjure a card, they conjure that many Black Lotuses instead."
Murder but Blue (1UU)
Instant
Return target creature to its owner's hand. That player then casts that creature without paying its casting cost as though it had Flash. Then counter that spell.
That's very good. And with Delver of Secrets out there, it feels like less of an exaggeration than I'd like.
I think there was an ask on Mark Rosewater's blog recently about how cards aren't allowed to do specifically that.
His example was you can't use Black's "Do two damage gain two life" and "lose two life draw two cards" to make a card that did "do two damage and draw two cards".
He's mentioned it in response to several asks over a few years, yeah. There are a lot of ways to contort the mechanics a colour or colour combo has access to into "destroy target creature" when it's not supposed to get that, or similar pie-breaking antics, and he is not a fan of any of them.
Card tax with similar shenanigans:
Murder But Blue 2 (1UU)
Instant
Put target creature on top of its owner's library, then that player mills one card.
Murder But Green (1GG)
Instant
Create a 1/1 green Snake creature token with deathtouch. It fights target creature an opponent controls.
Murder But Simic (1UG)
Instant
Target creature gains flying until end of turn, then destroy that creature if it has flying.
Murder But Selesnya (1WG)
Instant
Target creature an opponent controls gets +4/+4 until end of turn, then destroy that creature if its power is 4 or higher.
@Durazno: They're very different things, though. One is a thing blue isn't supposed to do, one is a thing blue is supposed to do, just undercosted.
Edited by CountDorku on Jul 11th 2022 at 6:42:56 PM
That's true. The undercosting is just what makes it feel wrong.
Vaguely gesturing at thoughts of maybe one day creating an Eberron set.
Day of Mourning (3WW)
Sorcery
Destroy all creatures. If you controlled four or more creatures as you cast this spell, create a 3/2 black Horror creature token.
The dead-grey mists swept across Cyre, leaving its people as refugees, corpses, or worse.
- Cyric, Prince of Lies 2UBR
- Legendary Creature - God
- As long as your life total is less than or equal to half your starting life total, Cyric, Prince of Lies has indestructible.
- Whenever you discard or mill a creature card, you may cast that card from your graveyard by sacrificing a creature in addition to paying its mana cost until end of turn.
- 4 / 5
Legendary Creature - Human Wizard
Creatures and Planeswalkers you control other than Cyriak, Prince of What are Horrors in addition to their other types.
Whenever a Horror you control attacks, defending player mills three cards and you create a token that's a copy of that creature that's not legendary. If it's a Sheep, it enters with a Flying keyword counter on it.
2/4
Edited by Dattix on Jul 14th 2022 at 6:51:28 AM
I'm Sorry, What? (R)
Instant
Split-Second
Cast this spell only when any player casts a counterspell. Those players lose the match. (A player who loses the match loses the current game and automatically concedes all remaining games in a best-of-three match.)
Yeah, those guys tried some tricky tricks on me. You can still see where I smashed their faces into the pavement.
— Big Al, Riveteer Bootlegger
Silver-Inlaid Warforged (3W)
Artifact Creature - Warforged Knight
3/3
Vigilance
Smite - Whenever ~ blocks or becomes blocked by a Demon or Devil, ~ gets +1/+1 until end of turn.
The Silver Flame binds the mightiest of Khyber's fiends in chains of holy fire. Its mortal worshippers have to deal with the remainder.