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1 year ago ::
May 01, 2012 - 5:00PM
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Keeper of the Word -    Creature - Illithid WizardIntimidate You control all cards in all graveyards. 5/4 History reveals only who is the best at weaving lies.
Are you allowed to give suggestions about reminder text? I wanted to put in " (Cards are still put into their owners graveyards, but for effects that invole opponents graveyards they are considered empty.)" to clarify the effect, but it seemed wordy.)
I'm a nut about flavor, so I'll likely add some kind of back story about every card, because thats fun (for me at least). You can tell me to stop anytime. Silence is acceptance!
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The Illithid are an ancient, secretive race with a long history of guile and subversion. The Worshipers of the Great Owl have embraced their psionic abilities for its subtle and often undetectable way of controlling thoughts and helping to steer or erase important events and decisions that suit the will of the Great Owl. They often employ them for mindwipes and interogation of key individuals. Enitre sections of history have been re-written and thoughts implanted that have pushed members of their order into prominent positions within Rakper upper eschelon. And if it costs them a few brains once in a while, so be it...
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These cards are Ball Tightening.
Perfect originality is overrated and often ugly. The best and most beautiful cards I've ever seen were clearly inspired by something else.
Cards are not entirely unlike living organisms in this regard. All the good ones are a result of long evolution; the 'original' ones are either monocellular or mutant aberrations.
Graveborn are strictly better than Zombies. I mean, look at that wicked beard  . You try growing that when your dead. And I know aging fellows who are suffering from Male Pattern Baldness, who would kill for a Mop like Ribsy's over there.
Hey Dudibus, I can't take you seriously until you take your shirt off!
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1 year ago ::
May 02, 2012 - 3:10PM
#42
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I don't normally like to give out spoilers for the next round, but your Planeswalker is hitting on the next round's criteria. It's up to you if you want to throw in a Planeswalker this round, but I intended for this round to focus on big creatures and combo cards.
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1 year ago ::
May 02, 2012 - 7:53PM
#43
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Date Joined:
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Thats good enough for me.
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These cards are Ball Tightening.
Perfect originality is overrated and often ugly. The best and most beautiful cards I've ever seen were clearly inspired by something else.
Cards are not entirely unlike living organisms in this regard. All the good ones are a result of long evolution; the 'original' ones are either monocellular or mutant aberrations.
Graveborn are strictly better than Zombies. I mean, look at that wicked beard . You try growing that when your dead. And I know aging fellows who are suffering from Male Pattern Baldness, who would kill for a Mop like Ribsy's over there.
Hey Dudibus, I can't take you seriously until you take your shirt off!
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1 year ago ::
May 03, 2012 - 11:42AM
#44
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If Eramkul isn't in the set, the land could certainly be redesigned to a different (even non-legendary) Eldrazi. It's not a big deal to me. It was already kind if a wincon, but I have no problem with 2! Perpexis  Legendary Creature - DemonFlash, Flying Champion a Cleric Whenever a player casts an instant, you gain control of that spell and may choose new targets for it. 5/4Members of the Cabal have been trying for some time to transcend their mortal frames. A few actually succeed.
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1 year ago ::
May 04, 2012 - 8:30AM
#45
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Screamcaller Lich Creature - Zombie Wizard Champion a Zombie When Screamcaller Lich enters the battlefield, you may play cards in your graveyard for their Evoke costs until end of turn. A thousand dying servants. A million slaughtered enemies.2/3
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1 year ago ::
May 04, 2012 - 3:44PM
#46
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Damn, I had this card in my head for a while, and now it seems like everyone else wanted to do a champion creature as well. For the sake of my pride I'm going to go ahead and call Great minds, but part of me worries that it might just be the path of least resistance. Anyway: Heretic Slayer   
Creature - Angel
Champion a creature. Flying, Annihilator 1 3/4 "The Church preaches mercy, compassion and forgiveness. They will show you none." - Chirek, Condemned Heretic
Deck Flavour and Information: The Angelic Inquisition deck is a G/W control deck, which achieves board domination by clogging up the battlefield with creatures until it can power out angels, after which it can sacrifice most of the chump creatures to fill up the graveyard and unlock threshold effects. It has few non-creature spells, replacing them with creatures wielding a combination of kicker, evoke and sacrifice effects. I am trying to play up the xenophobia (understandable if the xenos is the Eldrazi), brainwashing and mindless zealotry that can be present in green/white.
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Morgothra has the Syntax and Grammar of a God.
I love this card.
I can't compete with this.
CKY and magicpablo666 combined ingenuity and silliness to win a Summer fUn contest each!
vlord beat the rest to become the architect of a better tomorrow in Build it and they will come!
CityofAs pranced masterfully to victory in Skipping Merrily!
ConfusedAsUsual conquered both tropes and opponents ascend in Metafiction!
FirstTurnKill condensed Success into Art form in Summing it Up!
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1 year ago ::
May 07, 2012 - 6:30AM
#47
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1 day left countdown.
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1 year ago ::
May 08, 2012 - 2:22AM
#48
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This round is closed.
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1 year ago ::
May 08, 2012 - 3:42AM
#49
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This was a pretty solid round for everybody. I'll try to make updates based on this round as soon as I can.
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Sebanovich
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creativity 2.0
balance 1.0
synergy 2
flavor 2
bonus 1.5
Total = 8.5
My main concern is that this card can be easily broken. I think if this were printed today it would cost no less than 5 mana. Even though the card works against yourself, I still don't think that's enough to price it at 4. I like a mill win condition card though, and this one looks nice.
vlord
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creativity 2.0
balance 1.5
synergy 1.5
flavor 2
bonus 1.5
Total = 8.5
I'm interested to see where this card goes. This was a much better round for you, but this card is hard to grade as it seems to be a bad card, but if paired with something else it may be pretty decent. From the cards available to you now, this card seems underpowered. I like cards that require you to think of how best to use them though, so hopefully the synergy will be clear in the upcoming rounds.
AnubisDread
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creativity 1.5
balance 2.0
synergy 1.5
flavor 2
bonus 1.0
Total = 8
I worry there may be too many eldrazi in your deck. This is really just a eldrazi card with an ok ability attached to it, so it didn't really thrill me on creativity. Still, it's a good card to work with.
Dudibus
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creativity 2.0
balance .5
synergy 2.0
flavor 1.5
bonus 2.0
Total = 8.0 + .5 = 8.5
This one is a bit confusing, and I'd suggest in the future to look into the wording clinic with ideas like this. I'd rather it be a little wordy than unclear of what it does. From what I can tell, this seems to be gaining control of an opponents graveyard as if it were your own. This is overpowered for a creature this easy to cast. For one, the opponent loses all cards in their graveyard which effects things like threshold. On top of that, you can use reanimate effects that would target your graveyard only on the opponent's graveyard. I like the idea a lot, however. I like the flavor, and that now we have also added a new race to the set. It's a risky move, so I had to take some points on flavor due to illithids were not yet present. Still, the risk paid off. I like Illthids and I have no problem with their addition to this set. I'm going to suggest taking this to the wording clinic and reposting the card so neither of us get bogged down on what this card does for future round purposes. I don't want you to lose points in the future simply because I'm unclear of exactly how this card works. Also, I don't really give out suggestions or hints to people after a round is started. I think the wording on this may be close to something like "Gain control of target opponents graveyard as long as ~ is on the battlefield."
EDIT : Added .5 to your total for flavor as illithids are did exist in this set.
Exxile72
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creativity 2.0
balance 2.0
synergy 1.5
flavor 1.5
bonus 2.0
Total = 9
I like this card a lot. Flavor text would have helped it out. I didn't know if the text below the card was the flavor text. I don't think it has the best synergy with the deck, either. I would have rather seen more interaction with existing cards in your deck.
Jessica_Morgan
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creativity 2.0
balance 2.0
synergy 2.0
flavor 1.5
bonus 2.0
Total = 9.5
I think the flavor text could have been better, and I would have liked the flavor of the card to fit in with this set more. I also usually prefer liches to be a bit more of a tank than this guy, but I understand that MtG has made some wimply liches, so I won't count it against you. This card is otherwise a great entry.
Morgothra
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creativity 2.0
balance 1.0
synergy 2.0
flavor 1.5
bonus 1.5
Total = 8
I worry about the power levels here. I imagine this angel can drop on turn three, and if the opponent is land screwed there is no hope. This probably should have costed no less than 5. I also didn't really get any kind of green flavor with this card. It feels more red or black than green. Still, I like the card and I'm happy to see annihilator move beyond eldrazi.
Round 2 Winner - Jessica_MorganJessica, you can pick a single card using either the Threshold or Evoke mechanic to add as a reprint to this set. This means that in the future this card may become available to you and the rest of the players here to add into your decks.
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1 year ago ::
May 08, 2012 - 3:53AM
#50
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Round 3 - Make a PlaneswalkerThis round, you must create 1-4 Planeswalkers. At least one Planeswalker must be based on an existing legendary creature or an existing Planeswalker. This will fill four more cards in your deck, so make sure that you also let me know how many of each design you want in your deck. You can make as little as one, or as many as four. Also, NO Eldrazi Planeswalkers.
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