Invitaionalist Card Submissions

[Anusien]

Jose Barbero

Master of Destruction {R}
Creature — Goblin
2/2
When Master of Destruction comes into play, you may put up to two +1/+1 counters on another target Goblin.
, Sacrifice Master of Destruction: Master of Destruction deals 2 damage to target creature or player.


Pierre Canali

Pedro, Salsa Master
Creature — Human Wizard Dancer
2/2
You may play Pedro, Salsa Master any time you may play an instant.
When Pedro comes into play, you may rearrange the order of all spells and abilities on the stack.


Jeff Cunningham

Planter Mage {G}
Creature — Human Wizard Gardener
2/1
, Sacrifice a creature: Search your library for a creature card, reveal it, and put it into your hand. Then shuffle your library.


Antonino De Rosa

Bum Bum
Creature — Human Wizard
0/4
Triggered abilities don't trigger.


Mike Flores

Greedy's Grasp {G}{G}
Creature — Spider
1/3
Greedy's Grasp can't block creatures with flying (under any circumstances).
When Greedy's Grasp comes into play, look at target opponent's hand. You may put a land card from it into play tapped under your control.


Tsuyoshi Fujita

Wayfarer's Treasure
Artifact

, Sacrifice Wayfarer's Treasure: Search your library for a basic land card, reveal it, and put it into your hand. Then shuffle your library.
While you're searching your library of forty or fewer cards, you may remove Wayfarer's Treasure in your library from the game and discard two cards. If you do, reveal a basic land card from your library and put it into your hand.


Frank Karsten

Evolution Spawn {U/B}{G/U}
Creature — Zombie Minion
1/4
When Evolution Spawn comes into play, search your library for exactly three cards with different names. For each mulligan you took this game, an opponent chooses one of those cards. Put the chosen cards into your hand and the rest into your graveyard. Then shuffle your library.


Osyp Lebedowicz

Ebony Liespewer
Creature — Human Wizard
1/1
Whenever Ebony Liespewer comes into play or is put into a graveyard from play, search your library for a nonland card with converted mana cost 2 or less, reveal it, put it into your hand, then discard a card. Then shuffle your library.


Gabriel Nassif

Yellowhat {G}
Creature — Human Wizard
2/2
, Discard a card: Search your library for a card that shares a type with the discarded card, reveal it, and put it into your hand. Then shuffle your library. (The card types are artifact, creature, enchantment, instant, land, and sorcery.)


Julien Nuijten

Knowledge Seeker
Creature — Human Wizard
2/1
When Knowledge Seeker comes into play, choose land or nonland. Reveal the top three cards of your library. Put all the cards of the chosen kind into your hand and put the rest into your graveyard.


Antoine Ruel

Bibi
Green ManaBlue Mana
Legendary Creature — Human Baby
0/1
Whenever you draw a card, put a year counter on Bibi.
At end of turn, if Bibi has two or more year counters on it, flip it.
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Sleur

Legendary Creature — Human
3/3
If an opponent would shuffle his or her library, instead you may search that library for a card, that player shuffles the rest, you put the card on top of that library, then you draw a card.


Olivier Ruel

Oli
Creature — Human Wizard
1/3
{B}: Flip Oli.
When Toutoune is flipped into Oli, sacrifice Oli and counter target spell.
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Toutoune
Creature — Horror
2/1
{U}: Unflip Toutoune.
When Oli is flipped into Toutoune, sacrifice Toutoune and Toutoune deals 2 damage to target creature or player and you gain 2 life.


Geoffrey Siron

Lava Flow Master
Creature — Human Master
1/1
When Lava Flow Master comes into play, it deals 1 damage to target creature or player.
Sacrifice Lava Flow Master: If a source named Lava Flow Master would deal damage to a creature or player this turn, it deals double that damage to that creature or player instead.


Terry Soh

The Bluffmaster {U}
Creature — Human Wizard
2/3
When The Bluffmaster comes into play, name a card. Target opponent guesses whether a card with that name is in your hand. You may reveal your hand. If you do and that opponent guessed wrong, draw three cards. Otherwise, draw a card.


Kenji Tsumura

Avianomancer
Creature — Human Wizard
1/3
Flying
When Avianomancer comes into play, put a 1/1 blue Bird creature token into play.
Sacrifice a Bird token: Draw a card.
Whenever Avianomancer deals combat damage to a player, draw a card.


Dave Williams

Dark Evolver-
Creature — Zombie Wizard
2/1
Fear
As long as you control a Mountain, Dark Evolver gets +1/+1 and has haste.
As long as you control a Plains, Dark Evolver gets +1/+1 and has "Whenever Dark Evolver deals combat damage, you gain that much life."

[Moxlotus]

Wow-are people expecting a little downgrade in power in R&D so they start them off ridiculous?

I mean Kenji is infinite better than Phid and that was a damn good card.

Dave's looks pretty balanced.

Antoine's card will probably get moved to like 4 counters instead of 2.

Julien's card--blue usually doesn't get bears like that.  That could definitely be greee and be similar to Abundance.

Gabriel's and Cunninghamn's cards are like Survival on crack.

I like Osyp's card.  Simple and elegant.  Seems more red though to be like gamble.

De Rosa's card is interesting.

I really like Flore's card.  P/T might get switched around a bit but its ability is really cool.

[Hi-Val]

About the only card in that list that is not insultingly overpowered is Dave Williams' card, which I think is a very fair card to make, actually. The rest of them are just that tired pastiche of pros trying to milk huge amounts of card advantage out of whatever they make. I wish they would be more creative like Dave was and go beyond milking cards.

[kirdape3]

So you end up with a 4/3 Fear Spirit Link Haste guy for two mana?  I can easily see all Boros decks in Extended using that and Bobby then - and it's not like they need any help.  Let alone Standard, let alone Legacy.  That's one of the strongest cards on the list.

[Machinus]

I think this year's submissions are pretty bad.

Hopefully whoever wins will submit a second, more interesting, card.

[Anusien]

The cards are rarely interesting, and I heard that Dave just listened to suggestions from players for his card.

I can't wait for a TMDer to win so we have proof that WotC R&D rips off our CCF.

Siron's would be interesting if it weren't absolutely broken in multiples.  Flores's isn't bad.  Fujita's just seems awful to me, and not awful broken.  If only Karsten wasn't, I don't know, printing a Demonic Tutor for UU.

[Nazdakka]

Blatantly broken ones:

Jose Barbero (It's outrageous even without the sac ability)
Jeff Cunningham (Close survival variant)
Mike Flores (this is potentially VERY, VERY, swingy)
Osyp Lebedowicz (broken tutoring)
Gabriel Nassif (Survival on crack)
Julien Nuijten (undercosted draw)
Geoffrey Siron (undercosted by 1 mana even without the broken sac ability)
Terry Soh (Swingy beyond belief)
Kenji Tsumura ('phid on lots and lots of crack)
Dave Williams (2 mana 4/3 with good abiliies = silly)

Possibly good ones:
Pierre Canali (Useless but cool)
Antonino De Rosa (this might not work rules-wise)
Tsuyoshi Fujita (I'm not sure what exactly the second bit does. Might make a good common, if I read it right)
Frank Karsten (Interesting one. Reanimator?)
Antoine Ruel (Strange but cool. Might be rather annoying)

I can't believe that the best Magic players in the world can't see the brokenness, so I assume they know that these are all liable to get nerfed in development. Terry Soh still seemed kind of surprised that 'Duress you every turn' was considered broken last time round, though.

[Jacob Orlove]

Tsuyoshi Fujita (I'm not sure what exactly the second bit does. Might make a good common, if I read it right)

Basically, if you're playing a limited match and for some reason you're searching your library, you can remove extra copies of the card to search for basic lands and put them into your hand--but you have to discard two cards for each land you get. It's an interesting way to let players recover from poor mana draws, and I wouldn't be surprised to see Wizards turn the idea into real cards at some point.

edit: also, keep in mind that TWO of these cards get made--the winner's card, and a fan favorite. There is a huge incentive to make your card look totally awesome, so that lots of people vote for it and some version of it gets made.

[Anusien]

Is the "fan favorite gets made also" institutionalized or just a one-time thing?

[Matt]

Karsten's looks interesting (except for the ugly manacost), all the rest are undercosted by at LEAST two mana.

[dandan]

Karsten's looks interesting (except for the ugly manacost), all the rest are undercosted by at LEAST two mana.

Frank Karsten

Evolution Spawn {U/B}{G/U}
Creature — Zombie Minion
1/4
When Evolution Spawn comes into play, search your library for exactly three cards with different names. For each mulligan you took this game, an opponent chooses one of those cards. Put the chosen cards into your hand and the rest into your graveyard. Then shuffle your library.

Matt, does your comment mean that you don't consider Karsten's card undercosted by 2 mana? 2 mana for a 1/4 and probably 3 cards of your choice from your deck going to your graveyard? It looks like Buried Alive to me!!

De Rosa, Fujita and Olivier Ruel's cards look interesting and at least not clearly unbalanced.

Regarding Canali's card, I fail to see how a Blue Wizard at Instant speed is useless. It's ability means that a spell that would be countered could resolve before the counter=resolves and a countered counter would end up uncountered. If is effectively an Instant bear that acts as a superior counter in a counter war. Pretty silly for 2 mana!

As has been already said, most of these are about as balanced as a Phid with CIP Ancestral!!

[Hi-Val]

So you end up with a 4/3 Fear Spirit Link Haste guy for two mana?  I can easily see all Boros decks in Extended using that and Bobby then - and it's not like they need any help.  Let alone Standard, let alone Legacy.  That's one of the strongest cards on the list.

Williams' card requires you to have a mountain, a plains and a source of black mana for it to be fully amped up. For Extended, this means Fetchlands and what might end up being a load of damage. I think it's a fine man if any one of its three abilities were removed. If he Spirit Linked and had Haste, it would be in flavor, but that's really still bust-ad. The problem is that for one more mana, it's unplayable.

At least it isn't blatant "When this comes into play, tutor for three cards" or "Draw two cards and potentially draw many, many more! And did I mention I have evasion?"

Greedy's Grasp is interesting, but I think it would make more sense as UB (discard along with land stealing, which is a blue ability).

[Matt]

No, I didn't mean to imply that. They're all badly undercosted, but since theyre all going to be altered to hell and back, Karsten's provides the most interesting effect, in something that rewards mulligans. I just would make it RFG when you take no mulligans so it can't be Entomb.

[dandan]

Tsumura wins the prize for most savage contempt for game balance. Even Dandan on a power-hungry day has never suggested an evasive Phid for 2 mana with built in cantrip!!

[Anusien]

Please stop comparing Kenji's card to Ophidian.  It's much more hilarious when you note that it has the exact same wording and P/T as Thieving Magpie, at half the cost with a built in cantrip.

[jpmeyer]

At the same time, nobody wants to be Sylvan Safekeeper or Rootwater Thief.

[Jacob Orlove]

Please stop comparing Kenji's card to Ophidian.  It's much more hilarious when you note that it has the exact same wording and P/T as Thieving Magpie, at half the cost with a built in cantrip.

Magpie is 1/3. This card has double that power before the cantrip. Also, it's not even UU.

[Moxlotus]

Antoine Ruel

Bibi
Green ManaBlue Mana
Legendary Creature — Human Baby
0/1
Whenever you draw a card, put a year counter on Bibi.
At end of turn, if Bibi has two or more year counters on it, flip it.
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Sleur

Legendary Creature — Human
3/3
If an opponent would shuffle his or her library, instead you may search that library for a card, that player shuffles the rest, you put the card on top of that library, then you draw a card.

So this is what is getting submitted.

[Matt]

Ugh, that was probably my least favorite of all the possibilities.