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Welcome to Card of the Week! This is an on-running contest of sorts where great cards are given the celebration they deserve, the praise for what perhaps went unnoticed.

Last week's winner was Mown with his own bit of nihilism:

Order of the Pale Road 
Creature - Human Monk
If a permanent would leave the battlefield, exile it instead.
The lessons in life shapes you, like bricks in a wall. It is only when complete, that you find it does naught but prevent your return.
2/2

Previous Winners Show

1/1/13 - 1/7/13 theAtog

Body Sinker 
Creature - Merfolk Assassin
Islandwalk
If a creature an opponent creature would die, you may have it becomes an island instead. (It's no longer a creature.)
4/1
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1/8/13 - 1/14/13 Imidazoline; Silly_Dragons

Polarize |
Enchantment
Creatures you control are white and get +1/+1.
Creatures opponents control are black and red.
Born on the same street. Buried in plot miles apart.

Serra's Lament
Sorcery
Destroy all creatures, then planeswalk. Instead of returning the current plane to a planar deck, remove it from the game.
Only in memory is her world forever pure.
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1/15/13 - 1/21/13 Hairless Thoctar

Cage Fighter

Creature-Ogre Berserker
Creatures your opponents control have ": Fight Cage Fighter" 
6/5
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1/22/13 - 1/28/13 Mown

Order of the Pale Road 
Creature - Human Monk
If a permanent would leave the battlefield, exile it instead.
The lessons in life shapes you, like bricks in a wall. It is only when complete, that you find it does naught but prevent your return.
2/2

Nomination Rules:
Anyone may nominate a card from any thread in YMTC as long as it was posted between 12:00 AM of the starting date and 11:59 PM of the ending date of that week's thread, Pacific Standard Time (that's what I live by, and I'm not fancy enough to use UT1). 
All nominations require the following:

1. The full card posted into this thread.
2. A link to the post/thread where the card originated.
3. The name of the card's creator.

You may nominate up to two cards a week.
You can't nominate your own designs.
All designs nominated will be put into a poll in the next week's thread. The design with the most votes is declared Card of the Week!

Voting Rules:
You may vote for any number of entries. Remember, every vote you cast matters, so try to vote only for the cards you really think deserve to win.
You may vote for yourself.
All cards carrying the most votes when the poll closes are elected as the winner for that week.
All winners and winning cards will be collected in the sblock above.

Nominations for 1/29/13 - 2/4/13 Show

Nomination thread

Monarch's Crown

Artifact -- Equipment
Equipped creature gets +3/+3 and has hexproof.
As long as Monarch's Crown isn't equipped to a creature, creatures you control get +1/+1. 
Equip  
"The tyrant is best served by holding the throne. The people are best served by leaving it empty." --Rennalt the Cynic

by Libe
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Invertigo 
Instant
Change the text of target spell by replacing all instances of "target creature" with "each creature except target creature."
Finally, tired of seeing his fortunes reflected upon others, Zoza tried to jump off a building...
-from Tales of the Falling City

by Detektor
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Amalgam Vat-
Artifact
: Exile target creature you control.
, : Choose a power, a toughness, a creature type, and a text box from among cards exiled by Amalgam Vat. Put a Mutant creature token into play with those values.
The Collective will answer any question except "Why?"

by razorborne
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Holding Cell - 
Sorcery
Exile target creature. Return that card to the battlefield when a player casts a spell named Holding Cell.
Azorius prisons are notoriously overcrowded.

by zammm
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Judge of Armaments 
Creature - Human Judge
Having a +1/+1 counter put on you is against the law.
Whenever a creature breaks the law, detain it.
1/3

by Detektor
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Seed Bomb 
Sorcery
Destroy target artifact or land. That permanent's controller searches your library for a Forest land card and puts it onto the battlefield. Then, shuffle your library.
"Your civilization is a ragged coat and your roads the ugly stitches. At dusk, nature will shed all your profanity and shake out the dust and revel in pure beauty." — Umako of the Earthcrawl

by Dream Spinner
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Borborygmos's Cunning 
Sorcery
Target creature you control fights target creature you don't control three times. The controller of the creature who won the fight draws three cards. (Whichever creature lives is the winner. If the result is a tie, neither player draws.)
Gruul boxing matches are not simply a means of entertainment. The highest Gruul shamans use the fights to predict which part of ravnica they should smash next.

by ChaosLight

Nominations for this round and voting for last round end 11:59, 2/11/13.