Novice Witch   Creature - Human Warlock When Novice Witch enters or dies, search your library for a curse, put it into your graveyard, and shuffle.  , Exile Novice Witch from your graveyard: Return any number of curses with total mana value X or less from your graveyard to the battlefield, attached to target player. "The spirit she has, but not the talent. Maybe in the next life." - Granny Thornapple1/2
4/5
Hexdrinker  Creature - Vampire Cleric (U) Lifelink Whenever ~ deals combat damage to a cursed opponent, put a +1/+1 counter on ~ for each curse attached to that player. "Few cocktails are as succulent as the blood of the living and their sorcery mixed together."[2/2] technically you don't need "cursed" since if they're not cursed it'll just put zero counters on it, but it also doesn't hurt anything. the card seems solid, not sure it's what a curse deck needs from an enabler but it does do good work at closing out the game, and mesa unicorns always make good speed bumps for decks looking to build long-term value engines. I'm having a bit of a hard time parsing the flavor text, I get what it's going for and I think it's a good idea but the wording doesn't quite land for me and I'm not sure how to fix it. I could definitely see this working as a signpost, and Orzhov is an interesting color for curses: the most natural would probably be Rakdos, flavor-wise, but Orzhov is much more about slow-bleed styles so I like it as a way of emphasizing white's darker, more manipulative side.
3/5
Accursed Pharaoh  Creature - Zombie Noble (M) When this creature enters or attacks, search your library for a Curse card with mana value 4 or less, put it onto the batlefield attached to target player, then shuffle. Menace, lifelink , Sacrifice two Curses: Return this card from the graveyard to the battlefield. 3/6 interesting. it's a tough call, since the whole point of a curse is to be this infinite recurring value source, but sacrificing them does get you a new one right away and a shot at a second one if you get to attack with it. I like the 3/6 stat line, lets the card be much more about its value than about the damage it can deal. might even go 2/6 to push that further. I wonder if it'd be better with a recross the paths-style wording so you're not doing quite as much shuffling and you also can't just whip out your best curse the first time around. (I mean, you can if that's the only one you run, but this card doesn't really want to just be a one-off tutor so you're probably running a lot of curses anyway.) but it feels like a card that gets how curses work and what they want to do, and I definitely appreciate that.
4/5
Jinxed Prowler Creature -- Cat
Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, you draw a card and you lose 1 life.
When this creature becomes blocked, search your library for a Curse card, put it on the battlefield attached to defending player, then shuffle.
Crossing its path is bad luck for people and worse luck for mice.
1/1 I'd let you play the curse from hand, 'cause as-is the potential for a cruel reality or something just makes this unblockable, which isn't nearly as fun as if you had to make real judgment calls on whether the risk was worth it. I was gonna say the scroll thief ability shouldn't cost 2, but then I did a search and they've done it a couple times, so what do I know. still, being functionally unblockable does complicate that significantly. flavor's adorable.
3/5
Misfortune-Teller - Creature - Human Witch Spells and abilities you control that targets an opponent costs less to cast or activate. This does not reduce its cost to less than . At the beginning of your end step, if an opponent is cursed, draw a card. Her accuracy in foretelling misfortune is uncanny. Coincidentally, so is her talent at jinxes, hexes and curses.1/3 flavor's fun. card seems solid. straightforward but functional, and having a solid blocking body works well with the card. I do think it's maybe undercosted for what it does, although it's killable enough that it's more likely to just eat removal than generate a bunch of card advantage so maybe not. and in limited, where creatures are harder to kill, you're also gonna have a harder time getting it going. probably fine, and I think for the cost reduction effect 2 is the right cost, to get the discount going before you get enough lands to not really need it.
4/5
Cassandrian Insight Enchantment - Aura Curse Enchant player Enchanted pla At the beginning of enchanted player's upkeep, they draw cards and lose life equal to the number of curses enchanting them. interesting. 2 mana discount off curse of thirst in exchange for giving them a lot of value, or it's a phyrexian arena that doesn't scale well. (or scales very well, if you can keep up with the damage.) I wonder if the curse type is too distracting from the fact that you probably want to put this on yourself, but I think that's more of a rewarding deduction than it is an actual drawback. I also like that, since you can genuinely put it on either player, it makes better use of the Enchant Player ability, since most curses could, in a duel context at least, just be global enchantments that reference your opponent. I'm convincing myself to like this card more the more I think about it.
5/5
Rapture  [u]Sorcery (R) Exile all nonland, non-curse permanents. "And the cursed will know only each other, devouring wicked flesh until they are one and none the same."
—The Koriank Prophecies, invocation 898, scrawl 17 I love this. my one note is I think it's the wrong flavor: the card wants to be in a curse deck, to keep your value engines alive, so I'd have gone with a story that supports that usage. don't get me wrong, the flavor's really good, I just don't think it quite fits the card. still, though.
5/5
Manifested Guilt - Enchantment - Aura Curse | MREnchant player Whenever a creature enchanted player controls dies, exile it. Then create a Memorial token and attach it to that player. (It's an Aura Curse enchantment with ", Sacrifice this: Put target card with mana value X exiled with Manifested Guilt onto the battlefield.")At the beginning of your end step, enchanted player loses 1 life for each curse attached to them.
1/5
Weight of the Past Sorcery (U) Return target Nightmare or Curse card from your graveyard to the battlefield. A trauma long forgotten still leaves its scars. cute! flavor's nice, card's very functional. potentially very scary, but the type limits make it hard to find a really broken target for it. petradon is probably the worst thing you can do with it on turn 3, and that's only available in legacy and vintage. still dangerous to have the potential (reminiscent of how sorin, imperious bloodlord was basically fine until four years later they printed vein ripper) but it takes enough work for basically a 1-mana discount on zombify that I doubt you'll have much of that problem. the flavor connection of curses and nightmares is clever.
4/5
huh. that's a lot of mana, but you really have to build into it pretty hard to be confident you'll have something to spend it on. and it's not like mana is the main thing holding back a curse deck anyway, so you might have room to push a bit there. seems huge but mainly just lets you get established a little quicker, giving the deck some explosive potential without too much extra long-term power, although it does get you some of those 7-drop curses like cruel reality on turn 4 if you're lucky. my guess is this is a great casual enabler that will tempt some people into bad limited decks and make no impact on competitive constructed, which is a good place to be.
4/5
Lurking Misfortune Creature - Serpent HorrorWhen ~ enters, search your library for a curse card, reveal it, then add it to your hand. Shuffle. ~ can't attack unless the defending player is cursed. ~ can't block unless the attacking player is cursed. 6/6 reminiscent of my Thousand-Eyed Witch, which got CotW a while back, but certainly different enough. I don't know if the drawback is sufficient to justify the body when it's also got a tutor attached that solves the problem the drawback creates: feels like a lot of card advantage to staple on a 6/6 for 4. it does force you to play the curse on your next turn if you haven't played one yet, but there's plenty of 1-2-drop curses so that's not a huge roadblock, and you can get something bigger and more valuable if you want. I wish there was a way to write the last two abilities as one, 'cause they read kinda awkwardly is sequence like that but I don't know a better way.
2/5
Eater of Misfortune — Creature — Horror (C) Whenever Eater of Misfortune attacks, it gets +2/+1 and gains menace until end of turn if defending player is cursed. Kelva had always felt a deep and profound loneliness since childhood. But today, she was about to meet her demons face to face.1/2 this feels entirely plausible, and the flavor's really good, but mechanically it also comes across as kinda unconnected. like, it doesn't really care about curses, that's just a random marker to check for so it can do its unrelated thing. and that's fine! sets need things like that to make their themes work. I'm just not finding myself super inspired by it, because you could swap "if defending player is cursed" for any other themed condition and wind up with basically the same design in another context. it's not using anything unique about curses, which feels like a bit of a missed opportunity.
3/5
Speficix Scribe  Creature - Salamander Wizard Whenever you cast a spell that targets a player, copy it. (If you copy a permanent spell, the copy resolves as a token.)2/3
3/5
Abandoned trinkets Artifact -Clue At the beginning of your upkeep, each player may draw a card, then for each opponent who did you may attach a curse from your hand to them. ,  , sacrifice this artifact:draw a card
3/5
Witch-hunting MobCreature - Human When this creature enters, destroy target enchantment an opponent controls. If it was a Curse, exile target creature that opponent controls until Witch-hunting Mob leaves the battlefield. "Most witches deny their true nature, however, that's exactly what a witch would say."
—John Duncan, Captain of the Village Watch2/2 surprised more people didn't go for anti-curse cards, but I like this. might have to cost 4 given it's a potential 3-for-1, but it does require a specific set of circumstances so maybe that's ok. although not that specific, it's still a war-priest of Thune even without the curse rider, but that's not amazing for 3. heck, it wasn't amazing for 2. feels like a solid hate card, my one question is if killing a creature does that much against a curse-heavy deck, but those do still benefit from gumming up the board so the answer is probably yes.
4/5
Harbinger of Sadism Creature - Demon (R) Flying Whenever a triggered ability of a Curse attached to you triggers, each other player copies that ability. If it has targets, you may choose new targets for those copies. (They own the copy and suffer its effects.)This creature gets +3/+3 for each Curse attached to you. Suffering is its own reward.2/2 so... unfortunately this doesn't work. for starters, not all curses even have triggers (curse of exhaustion, curse of death's hold, curse of the nightly hunt...) but more importantly, the ones that do mostly reference "enchanted player", not the controller of the ability, which is usually that Curse's owner. see cruel reality, or curse of the pierced heart. is that solvable? maybe. probably the easiest way is to do text-switching ("Replace all instances of "enchanted player" in the text of Curses attached to you with "each player".") but as you know, unbounded text-switching is just begging for corner cases where it creates a garbled, non-grammatical mess. curse of echoes comes to mind as a difficult one to resolve the meaning of in that case, or curse of misfortunes. and unfortunately, I don't have a better way to make this work. at least, not as one thing: you could maybe do it piecemeal with tokens. "When this creature arrives, for each opponent, create a token copy of each curse attached to you and attach the copy to that player." and then "Whenever a curse becomes attached to you, for each opponent, create a token copy of it and attach it to that player." but then you're looking at some pretty gnarly wording and just, like, a lot of text. I don't think this is salvageable, but I like the idea of the second ability and I respect the effort to try to make it work.
2/5
cursed round. winner is TP! congrats, nominating now, next round is up already.
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. Spend this mana only to cast Curse spells.