Make your own Magic card!

That seems workable to me.

Thanks for your help.

• Vandes, Prince of Scarlet Keep 4WRB
• Legendary Creature - Vampire Knight
• Flash, First Strike, Lifelink
• WRB: Exile ~; create 4 1 / 1 Black Bat tokens with Flying, OR 3 2 / 2 Red Hound tokens with Deathtouch, OR 2 4 / 4 White Beast tokens with Lifelink. Any Tokens created by this ability have 3: Sacrifice this creature. Return ~ from exile to the battlefield under your control. If this ability is activated during the combat step, ~ returns tapped and attacking.
• 6 / 6
• Prince Vandes of the Scarlet Keep is a daring, some would say reckless boy, but devoted to the duties passed down to him by his father...and ruthless to his foes.

edited 10th Jun '18 2:35:09 AM by NickTheSwing

Wall of Fading Lights - 3WW
Creature - Spirit Wall
Flying
{W}{W}: Put a 0/1 white Spirit creature token onto the battlefield blocking target unblocked creature. Exile that token at end of combat. Activate this ability only during the declare blockers step, and only during your turn.
0/5
A flash of light lasts only for a moment, yet is still enough to halt the fiercest foe.

Wall of Enormity - 7W
Creature - Giant Wall
Reach
Blocking creatures you control get +7/+7.
7/7
Several giants have tried to vault over the wall in centuries past. They're still climbing.

Playing around a bit with batching.

Inscribed Warlock (2BB)
Creature - Human Wizard
3/3
Whenever you cast a fiendish spell, you draw a card and lose 1 life. (Demons, Devils, Malefic spells and Curses are fiendish.)
Successful warlocks are paranoid warlocks.

Gaze into the Abyss (U)
Sorcery - Malefic
Target player puts the top six cards of their library into their graveyard. Put the top two cards of your library into your graveyard.
Putting out your eyes doesn't help. The mind's eye is just as vulnerable.

So a friend of mine might be, in a bit over a month, running a FATE game using Magic. While batting some character ideas back and forth, I came up with one who had a flintlock pistol (acceptable under "Ixalan exists" rules) but had had to bind a vengeful spirit to it. So:

Mireia, Wrathbinder (2UR)
Planeswalker - Mireia
Starting loyalty: 4
+2: Discard a card, then draw two cards.
-1: ~ deals 3 damage to any target.
-7: ~ deals 3 damage to each of up to three targets. Draw three cards. You may not activate any Mireia planeswalker's loyalty abilities until the end of your next turn.

Edited by CountDorku on Jul 28th 2018 at 6:31:18 PM

This is America
Legendary Land
{T}: Add {R}, {W}, or {U} to your mana pool. Target nonblack creature you control becomes black (Its mana symbols remain unchanged.).
Black creatures you control get -1/-1.
Sacrifice five creatures with power 1 or less: untap ~.
Don't catch you slippin' up.

Gustha Ebbasdotter, Royal Mage UUU
Legendary Creature - Human Wizard
Protection from Red
When Gustha Ebbasdotter enters the battlefield, scry 2. You may also exile a card from your hand until Gustha leaves the battlefield.
Tap, UU, Sacrifice Gustha Ebbasdotter: Counter target spell.
2/3

Alien Mentality (1U)
Enchantment
If a spell or ability would force you to reveal your hand, you may instead reveal three cards from your hand. If an opponent would choose cards from your hand to discard, they may only choose from the three cards you revealed in this way.
Not every mind is comprehensible, even to the most gifted telepath.

In an appropriate context this could also have Devoid.

Ben Kei of the Thousand Blades - 3WR
Legendary Creature - Human Samurai
~ has Bushido X, where X is the number of Equipment attached to ~.
Sacrifice an Equipment equipped to ~: Choose one.

• ~ deals 2 damage to target creature or player.
• Destroy target artifact.
• Create a 3/1 red and white Spirit artifact creature token with haste. Exile that token at end of turn.

Some more recent D&D characters of mine in card form.

Edited by ImperialSunlight on Aug 4th 2018 at 11:42:30 AM

Loosely Bloodborne-inspired mechanic idea: insight counters. These go on players, much like energy, but they're spent a bit differently: at low insight, things tend to be weaker but gain you insight, while at higher insight they're stronger but remove insight.

Probably not NWO-acceptable, but it's fun to play around with anyway.

Eldritch Awareness (3U)
Instant
If you have three or less insight counters, draw two cards, then you get an insight counter.
If you have four or more insight counters, draw three cards, then remove an insight counter from yourself.
Not all revelations are nice.

Blind the Mind's Eye (UB)
Sorcery
Remove all insight counters from all players.
It's for your own good.

Phantom of Hubris 4BR
Creature - Phantom Horror
Phantom of Hubris cannot be blocked unless the defending player has 3 or more insight counters.
4BR, tap: Phantom of Hubris deals damage to target player equal to the number of insight counters they have.
2/3

Open Perceptions (1U)
Sorcery
If you have three or fewer insight counters, gain two insight counters.
If you have four or more insight counters, instead, draw a card, then discard a card.

King Counter - WUBRG
Legendary Creature - Human Wizard
{2}: Name a type of counter and choose target permanent, player or suspended card that could have a counter of that type on it. Put a counter of the chosen type on that permanent, player, or card.
0/1
He keeps count of every counter with the help of his numerous Counts and Countesses.

Horrifying Secrets (2U)
Enchantment
Whenever you sacrifice a Clue token, if you have three or fewer Insight counters, get an Insight counter.
If you have four or more Insight counters, Clue tokens you control have "2, Sacrifice ~, Remove an Insight counter from yourself: Draw two cards, then discard a card."

Black Veil Initiate 2B
Creature - Human Rogue
Menace
When ~ deals combat damage to a player, that player loses all insight counters.
They steal the knowledge that {Faction}s have tortuously gathered, leaving only nameless dread.
2/1

Lucrative Wager 1RR
Sorcery
Search your library for a card, put that card into your hand, discard a card at random, then shuffle your library.
Add RRR.
"The look of shock on their faces when the dice fall is almost as satisfying as when they land."

...mm. Considered making this a R/B hybrid card, but I think it'd be of more interest if playable in mono-red edh, so eh.

Edited by ImperialSunlight on Aug 6th 2018 at 10:18:08 AM

Depending on the size of your hand, the card might be a bit too good. Also, it feels less like a wager when you get your mana back!

I do love the idea of a red tutor coupled with a random discard, though.

Fool's Gamble - BR
Sorcery
Search your library for a card and put it into your hand, discard your hand, then shuffle your library.
You can't lose your mind if you don't have a brain.

Suddenly, Pineapples - XGG
Instant
Create X 0/1 green Plant creature tokens with "When this creature dies, you gain 1 life."

Actually, I wonder if something like...

Catchy Gambling-themed Name R
Sorcery
As an additional cost to cast ~, pay 1 for each card in your hand.
Search your library for a card and put it into your hand, then discard a card at random. Shuffle your library.

That way, the greater the chance you get to keep the card you tutored, the more you pay.

Edited by Durazno on Aug 6th 2018 at 3:52:21 AM

Gamble is already a card, just FYI. It's mostly useful because of stuff like madness.

Mind Tornado - XU
Sorcery
Draw X cards, then shuffle X cards from your hand into your library.

Consult Alternatives 2U
Instant
Look at the bottom two cards of your library, then put any number of them on top of your library and the rest on the bottom in any order.
Draw a card, then draw a card at the beginning of the next turn's upkeep.

Supreme Healing - 5WW
Instant
Choose two.

• Target player loses all poison counters.
• Target player gains 10 life.
• Prevent all damage that would be dealt to target player this turn.
• Prevent all damage that would be dealt to creatures target player controls this turn.

Edited by kagescorpionakki on Aug 14th 2018 at 9:17:40 AM

Curse of Malignity (2BB)
Enchantment - Curse
Enchant player
All instant and sorcery spells enchanted player casts are Malefic.
Whenever enchanted player casts a spell, they lose 1 life.