No Goblins Allowed :: YMtCotW: Sphinx Cub

Sphinx Cub :1:

Creature - Sphinx
Flying
Play with your hand revealed.
"A man walks on two legs in the... um... can I start again?"
2/3

Urgent Exploration -

Sorcery
If you have no land cards in your hand and haven't casted a spell named 'Urgent Exploration' this game, you may reveal your hand and discard a card to cast this card without paying its mana cost.
Search your library for up to two basic land cards, reveal them and put them in your hand. Then, shuffle.

The design goal is to try and create decision tension for the opponent between letting this glass cannon live and hit them to get more information about the player's hand over the next few turns or trade with it via most removal or chump blockers. Mostly just trying to get the numbers down right: having this be a two-drop with 3 base power means the opponent can at least get one blocker down so they can make that decision even on the draw, and assuming the player has been hitting curve so far with no source of additional card advantage, that means four or five cards in their hand that are unknown vs a seven turn clock on its own.

Edit: okay so I saw Spike Jester, and as well as other 2 mana 3/1s that can't block or that have Haste in their text box. Cohort may be on the lower side of playability ... At least in a vacuum as scrying, surveiling, and red's exile-casting get a slight synergy bonus with the reveal card drawback. Hopefully because it is a drawback in a vacuum it still qualifies?

Edit 2: I caved and allowed the cohort to block now. Still individually worse than Spike Jester, and allowing it some defensive utility can help put decisive pressure on an opponent both attacking and defending. Maybe adding trample wouldn't be so bad? I want it to be extremely fragile, but I'm also wary about giving it too much offensive presence

Ancient Horizons

Enchantment - Aura (U)
Enchant land
Play with the top card of your library revealed.
Enchanted land has "

: Add the mana cost of the top card of your library."
He crested the hill to find...more hills.

Opponents may look at the top card of your library at any time.

: Reveal the top card of your library. You lose life equal to that card's mana value and may play that card from your library until end of turn.

Strangleroot Oracle -

Creature - Spirit | R
Haste
Play with the top card of your library revealed.
Strangleroot Oracle gets +X/+X, where X is the mana value of the top card of your library.
The magnolias whisper a sermon to the congregation of souls lost in the forest.
1/1

Author:	razorborne [ Sun Sep 29, 2024 8:22 pm ]
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Mata Hari wrote: Sphinx Cub Creature - Sphinx Flying Play with your hand revealed. "A man walks on two legs in the... um... can I start again?" 2/3 ok let's go with make a card that gives away information as a drawback. it can be any information you want as long, but the giving of information should be central to the drawback's design, not incidental to the card's functionality. (like, say, fabricate, where the reveal is technically a drawback over diabolic tutor but is mostly there to confirm that you didn't cheat.) gonna start grading on Friday. go!

Author:	Cato [ Sun Sep 29, 2024 8:39 pm ]
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Duplicitous Diviner Creature - Human Wizard When Duplicitous Diviner enters the battlefield, target opponent looks at the top three cards of your library, then puts them back in any order. That player may have you shuffle. Then, draw a card. 2/1 Her scrying is for the buying. unsure what the cost/stats should be for such a double edged card, but I think the ability is enough of a net upside for the stats to be slightly below the mana curve.

Author:	CommanderJim [ Sun Sep 29, 2024 9:08 pm ]
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Control the Narrative Sorcery (U) Draw a card, then each player reveals their hand. For each player, you choose a nonland card revealed this way, and its owner discards it. House Dimir's secrets are well-kept, and they know just how powerful it can be to let one loose.

Author:	Tevish Szat [ Sun Sep 29, 2024 9:26 pm ]
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Orcish Strategist Creature - Orc Advisor : Scry 3. An opponent controls you while you scry this way. Then, draw a card. Though General Khurzog's closest advisors frequently made the case for surrender, their aid was nonetheless invaluable. 1/1 Minor flavor text character referenced!

Author:	purple shrimp [ Sun Sep 29, 2024 9:50 pm ]
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Guardian of Firm Resolve Creature - Angel Flying, vigilance Play with exactly one card revealed from your hand. You may change the revealed card at the beginning of your upkeep, or whenever you have no revealed cards in your hand. You can't play cards from your hand other than the revealed card. An oath taken in Lady Veratia's name forms a bond stronger than steel. 4/4

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Author:	Rush_Clasic [ Mon Sep 30, 2024 1:46 am ]
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Orc Berserker Creature - Orc Berserker (R) As Orc Berserker enters the battlefield, choose an opponent. The chosen player controls you during combat. Orc Berserker attacks each turn if able. Rage is all it knows. 3/3

Author:	Hello World [ Mon Sep 30, 2024 4:58 am ]
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Kaladesh Central Station. Legendary land This land enters tapped. : Add , spend this mana only to cast spells or to activate abilities of cards in your hand. At the beginning of each opponent's upkeep, if this land started the turn tapped, you may reveal your hand, if you do untap it. "The Automatic announcer was the main legacy of Dovin Baan on Kaladesh, able to predict the arrival time of every public vehicle in the next 30 minutes, delays included" Changed flavor and nerfed it.

Author:	Confused [ Mon Sep 30, 2024 9:35 am ]
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Simpleton Bruiser - Creature - Ogre As an additional cost to cast ~, reveal your hand. At the beginning of your end step or when ~ enters, choose a number. As long as ~ is on the battlefield, you can only cast spells with mana value equal to the chosen number until another number is chosen. The guardsmen knew what the ogre was going to do, but none knew how to stop it. 5/4 Nah, not really fulfilling the criteria Urgent Exploration - Sorcery If you have no land cards in your hand and haven't casted a spell named 'Urgent Exploration' this game, you may reveal your hand and discard a card to cast this card without paying its mana cost. Search your library for up to two basic land cards, reveal them and put them in your hand. Then, shuffle.

Author:	Ragnarokio [ Mon Sep 30, 2024 11:02 am ]
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Geas of Silence - Enchantment As an additional cost to cast ~, name two cards in your deck. You can't play cards with those names for as long as ~ remains in play. Creatures you control get +1/+1

Author:	Tekkahedron [ Mon Sep 30, 2024 11:55 am ]
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Shimmershell, the Sporadic \| Legendary Creature - Insect Companion - Your starting deck contains no instants or cards with flash. You may cast spells as if they had flash. Spells you cast during your main phase cost less to cast. 3/4

Author:	EpicLevelCommoner [ Mon Sep 30, 2024 12:47 pm ]
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Beguiling Cohort Creature - Devil (C) Haste Play with the top card of your library revealed. "Aren't ya just a wee bit curious? Let me stick around, and ya might see a thing or two that'll blow ya away." [3/1] Spoiler The design goal is to try and create decision tension for the opponent between letting this glass cannon live and hit them to get more information about the player's hand over the next few turns or trade with it via most removal or chump blockers. Mostly just trying to get the numbers down right: having this be a two-drop with 3 base power means the opponent can at least get one blocker down so they can make that decision even on the draw, and assuming the player has been hitting curve so far with no source of additional card advantage, that means four or five cards in their hand that are unknown vs a seven turn clock on its own. Edit: okay so I saw Spike Jester, and as well as other 2 mana 3/1s that can't block or that have Haste in their text box. Cohort may be on the lower side of playability ... At least in a vacuum as scrying, surveiling, and red's exile-casting get a slight synergy bonus with the reveal card drawback. Hopefully because it is a drawback in a vacuum it still qualifies? Edit 2: I caved and allowed the cohort to block now. Still individually worse than Spike Jester, and allowing it some defensive utility can help put decisive pressure on an opponent both attacking and defending. Maybe adding trample wouldn't be so bad? I want it to be extremely fragile, but I'm also wary about giving it too much offensive presence

Author:	Knifethrower [ Mon Sep 30, 2024 1:13 pm ]
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Mistmaro Creature As ~ enters the battlefield exile any number of cards from your hand face-up. For the rest of the game you may play those cards as if they were in your hand. Whenever you draw a card, you may choose to exile it face-up. For the rest of the game you may play it as if it are in your hand. ~'s power and toughness are equal to the number of cards currently exiled by Mistmaro. /

Author:	UselessCommon [ Mon Sep 30, 2024 2:17 pm ]
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Control the Narrative and Orchish Strategist are so good, holy Actually, most cards submitted in this one are masterpieces

Author:	UselessCommon [ Mon Sep 30, 2024 2:33 pm ]
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Military Exercise Sorcery (R/M) Choose an opponent. Look at each other's hands. Untap all creatures they control and creatures you control gain Vigilance until end of turn. Creatures both of you control deal damage to creatures the other controls in form of +1/+1 counters this turn. Sorry for a multiplayer card but I have no better idea for now.

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Author:	Shazzeh [ Tue Oct 01, 2024 1:26 am ]
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Blend Into the Crowd Instant (R) Exile any number of target nontoken creatures you control face-down, then cloak those cards tapped. As long as those creatures are face-down, they gain "when this creature blocks, becomes blocked, or attacks and isn't blocked, turn it face-up." The drawback is that the creatures get un-hidden once they do combat.

Author:	Mown [ Tue Oct 01, 2024 8:59 am ]
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Nefarious Plot Sorcery Search your library for a card and exile it with a number of time counters equal to its mana value, then shuffle. If gains suspend if it doesn't have it. (At the beginning of your upkeep, remove a time counter from that card. When the last is removed, you may play it without paying its mana cost.)

Author:	Dudibus [ Tue Oct 01, 2024 9:24 am ]
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Captain Ahab, Monomaniacal Hunter Legendary Creature ─ Human Pirate (M) Whenever Captain Ahab enters or attacks, exile the top card of your library facedown. Opponents can look at and cast facedown spells from exile with mana value X by putting X cards from exile into their owners graveyards. Reckless (This creature attacks each turn if able.), madness ─ Exile a Whale card from your hand facedown. 5/5 "Thar she blows!" Does not meet criteria as the drawback is part of its functionality Ancient Horizons Enchantment - Aura (U) Enchant land Play with the top card of your library revealed. Enchanted land has ": Add the mana cost of the top card of your library." He crested the hill to find...more hills.

Author:	ParadOxymoron [ Tue Oct 01, 2024 12:04 pm ]
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Pewter Sight — Enchantment (R) Play with the top card of your library revealed. You may play lands from the top of your library. There's always a new horizon.

Author:	TPmanW [ Tue Oct 01, 2024 11:08 pm ]
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I'm wondering about maybe letting opponents (and only opponents) look at the top card of your library. Or maybe "other players" - is it fun to have neutral/ally players in on it? Not sure exactly what design the drawback ties into though. Maybe some sort of you can play this off your library, but maybe won't work/ costs an unknown amount of life? A little blunt, but not much else really ties in. Maybe some weird counterbalance effect for guessing games? Spoiler Opponents may look at the top card of your library at any time. : Reveal the top card of your library. You lose life equal to that card's mana value and may play that card from your library until end of turn. Abyss-Gazer Creature - Eye Warlock Vigilance Opponents may look at the top card of your library at any time. Pay 3 life, : Reveal the top card of your library. You may play that card from the top of your library until end of turn. 2/2

Author:	BelangiaJo [ Tue Oct 01, 2024 11:50 pm ]
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Landslide Elemental - Creature - Elemental \| U Trample, haste Play with the top card of your library revealed. Landslide Elemental gets +X/-X, where X is the mana value of the top card of your library. An entire mountain gone in a flash. 1/4 Spoiler Strangleroot Oracle - Creature - Spirit \| R Haste Play with the top card of your library revealed. Strangleroot Oracle gets +X/+X, where X is the mana value of the top card of your library. The magnolias whisper a sermon to the congregation of souls lost in the forest. 1/1