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2 months ago ::
Mar 19, 2013 - 10:00AM
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Card of the Week
3/19/13 - 3/25/13 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 offered up a three-way tie! HairlessThoctar, febbstalicious42 and I were all voted in with the following entries (respectively):
Cruel Mercy
Sorcery
Target player reveals his or her hand. You choose a card revealed this way. That player discards another card.
Iridescent Anchor --  
Creature - Spirit Illusion
As long as Iridescent Anchor is not a card, it gets +2/+2 and gains hexproof.
A successful wizard has the power to make his dreams real. A wise wizard fears to.
2/3
Social Studies  
Sorcery
Each player who controls a creature with trample draws a card. Repeat this process for deathtouch, defender, flash, haste, hexproof, intimidate, landwalk, reach, and vigilance.
"What measure is the knowledge of a single mind versus that of the whole world?"
- Ro, Wirewood shaman
Previous Winners
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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
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1/29/13 - 2/4/13 zammm; Detektor
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.
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
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2/5/13 - 2/11/13 Detektor
Irrigated Field
Land - Plains
After your third turn of the game, Irrigated Field is an Island.
For eight thousand years, the Iteru had always flooded its banks just in time for the famers to plant flax. Was the river spirit offering a gesture of constancy in a world torn apart by war? Or was she the one seeking reassurance?
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2/12/13 - 2/18/13 turnip_song; Arazlam; SimpleDreams
Ma'ruf the Cobbler
Legendary Creature-Human
You may play lands from outside the game. (They still count towards your land per turn limit.)
Wish, above all else, for the worlds that lie beyond. Weep, above all else, for the burdens which you bring.
2/1
Æther Strings |
Enchantment - Aura
Enchant creature
You may activate enchanted creature's activated abilities.
"What's wrong Tim? Why are you pointing me with th--"
— Last words of Zeon, Director of the Institute of Arcane Study
Stellar Impact
Sorcery R
Arrange all creatures on the battlefield into a circle in any order, then choose one of those creatures at random. Destroy that creature and the two creatures adjacent to it in the circle.
On Ugoya, the word "starstruck" means something completely different.
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2/26/13 - 3/4/13 Arazlam
Timithy Spirit |
Creature - Spirit Illusion - (C)
Timithy Spirit can't attack or block unless it has another ability.
2/2
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3/5/13 - 3/11/13 Kavu_Overlord
Clockwatcher
Creature - Human Wizard
Clockwatcher is a 6/6 Avatar with flying during extra turns.
He's the only one to notice that every so often, a clock will tick without moving.
2/1
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3/12/13 - 3/18/13 HairlessThoctar; febbstalicious42; Rush_Clasic
Cruel Mercy
Sorcery
Target player reveals his or her hand. You choose a card revealed this way. That player discards another card.
Iridescent Anchor --
Creature - Spirit Illusion
As long as Iridescent Anchor is not a card, it gets +2/+2 and gains hexproof.
A successful wizard has the power to make his dreams real. A wise wizard fears to.
2/3
Social Studies
Sorcery
Each player who controls a creature with trample draws a card. Repeat this process for deathtouch, defender, flash, haste, hexproof, intimidate, landwalk, reach, and vigilance.
"What measure is the knowledge of a single mind versus that of the whole world?"
- Ro, Wirewood shaman 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 2/5/13 - 2//13
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Coffin Designer -
Creature - Vampire
Whenever a life total drops below 11 life, draw a card.
As long as you have ten life or less, Coffin Designer has lifelink.
She wasn't aware that sharing her inspiration and pleasure helped her dying master survive.
3/2
by cats_and_me
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Hunted by Assassins
Enchantment - Aura
Enchant creature
When enchanted creature becomes tapped, destroy it and put a 1/1 black Assassin creature token onto the battlefield.
, Exile an Assassin you control: Return Hunted by Assassins from your graveyard to the battlefield attached to target creature.
"They lurk in every corner, hound my every step. If only they would show themselves, the cowards!" - Lord Ryglen, last mutterings
by zsd
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Razorbone Armory
Land
: Add to your mana pool.
, : Put a stock counter on Razorbone Armory.
Equipment you control have equip  as long as three or more stock counters are on Razorbone Armory. You may cast Equipment cards from your graveyard as long as seven or more counters on Razorbone Armory.
by SimonGlume
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Stolen Chest -
Artifact
At the end of your turn, if there's no key in play, target opponent puts a colorless key artifact token into play with "Whenever a creature deals combat damage to you, that creature's controller may gain control of this artifact."
Sacrifice a key, , : Flip two coins. If you win both flips, sacrifice Stolen Chest and draw seven cards.
"Hey boss, that guy's treasury contained yet ~another~ key..."
by cats_and_me
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Habitual Liar
Creature - Human
At the beginning of each opponent's combat, choose "will" or "won't". Whenever Habitual Liar blocks this turn, if you chose "won't," you lose 2 life.
"You can trust me."
2/3
by Rush_Clasic
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Demote (R)
Instant
Exile target creature. Its controller may search his or her library for a creature card with converted mana cost 2 or less and put it onto the battlefield. Then that player shuffles his or her library.
by Riorvard
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Wildlife Researcher
Creature -- Human
Whenever another creature enters the battlefield under your control, draw a card if no other creature you control shares a creature type with it.
"As the discoverer of this new species, I elect to name it after myself." —Brushell Wagg, zoologist
1/3
by Libe
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Heroic Stand
Instant
Target creature you control fights all attacking creatures.
"Yes, he died, but he died surrounded by the corpses of the enemy. For that, we shall always remember him."
by 3-7-15-1-292
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Spare No One —
Enchantment
At the beginning of your upkeep, if there is only one creature on the battlefield, destroy it.
by tyranno6
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Pulsating Ooze
Creature - Ooze
Pulsating Ooze may be countered on the battlefield as though it were a spell.
At the right frequency, anything will fall apart.
3/3
by Rush_Clasic
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Ink-Spotted Scroll — 
Artifact
Equipped creature has ", , sacrifice this creature: Draw three cards."; ", , sacrifice this creature: Take an extra turn after this one."; and ", , sacrifice this creature: Each player shuffles his or her hand and graveyard into his or her library, then draws seven cards."
Equip — 
by tyranno6 Last week saw a bunch of discussion on how to better run this contest, with suggestions for both unlimited nominations and single nominations, unlimited voting and single voting, entry trimming, nomination seconding, ranking systems... and so on. The goals of this contest are to be fun, casual, and easy, all aiming at giving recognition where anyone feels it due. I don't believe a single voting system is conducive with this goal, nor having to second nominations. Unlimited nominations is a feature worth exploring, but it does threaten to bog down the thread in an unwanted manner and cause more catalogging work for me than I'd like. In the end, I feel the opinions were so greatly dispersed between different changes and no changes that keeping things the same right now aids the contests consistency more than it hinders further participation. I still very much want to hear opinions. I might even make a poll for it.
That said, nominations for next round and votes for this round are due Monday, March 25th, 9:00pm. I leave for Vegas early the next day, thus the early closing time. (I want to get the next thread up, after all.)
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2 months ago ::
Mar 19, 2013 - 10:07AM
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Voted for Demote cause I really like it, and for Pulsating Ooze cause it's weird, but elegant weird. :>
"The body is but a vessel for the soul, a puppet which bends to the soul's tyranny. And lo, the body is not eternal, for it must feed on the flesh of others, lest it return to the dust from whence it came. Therefore must the soul deceive, despise and murder men." — The Durai Papers
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2 months ago ::
Mar 19, 2013 - 10:23AM
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Date Joined:
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Pulsating ooze needs a power and toughness
I like demote, but it would make more sense if it grabbed a creature with less cmc rather than exactly 2.
Why can demoting a deathrite shaman give you a tarmogoyf in its place?
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2 months ago ::
Mar 19, 2013 - 10:26AM
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Also, the card needs another ability that allows counters to ~target~ this creature! ^^;;
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2 months ago ::
Mar 19, 2013 - 10:31AM
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Fun fact: I accidentally didn't vote on one of the three winners.
Everything Mown does is elegant.
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2 months ago ::
Mar 19, 2013 - 10:33AM
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Date Joined:
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Just checked the other thread. Pulsating Ooze is a 3/3. :>
"The body is but a vessel for the soul, a puppet which bends to the soul's tyranny. And lo, the body is not eternal, for it must feed on the flesh of others, lest it return to the dust from whence it came. Therefore must the soul deceive, despise and murder men." — The Durai Papers
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2 months ago ::
Mar 19, 2013 - 10:35AM
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Date Joined:
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Figures that the one card I'd sabotage is my own. 
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2 months ago ::
Mar 19, 2013 - 12:32PM
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Date Joined:
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Also, the card needs another ability that allows counters to ~target~ this creature! ^^;;
Pulsating Ooze may be countered on the battlefield as though it were a spell.
That's all this ability even does!
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2 months ago ::
Mar 19, 2013 - 12:41PM
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Date Joined:
May 29, 2007
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I'm afraid this ability does nothing before your counter would finally resolve, but how does that spell get on the stack in the first place? Maybe your creature could simply have haste, together with something like: "At the beginning of your upkeep, play this card from the battlefield without paying its mana cost."
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2 months ago ::
Mar 19, 2013 - 12:59PM
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Date Joined:
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I had to physically stop myself from voting for "Spare No One" just because of the name. Such an awesome name.
"I think me going Bang bang bang I win is pretty intuitive" Mafia Record: Wouldn't you like to know? 2011 Mafia Awards - Mastermind of the Year mymoment
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