Desert Bandits
Creature - Human Rogue
4/3
With no fields to till or herds to hunt, it's no wonder that banditry is Illpyre's most popular profession.

Dune Wurm
Creature - Wurm
6/4

Silly's means we have to change my two-drop but I like it anyway.

Is this the two drop you're talking about? Because interestingly enough, it's very very similar to a particular M15 red common.

Cool, so I guess we're maybe changing it anyway.

TPzombieW.

Cato

This pick is really about which size creature red needs in common. I don't think common is the place to be cute with vanilla stats, so half the entries are out. Looking at our existing creatures we have two 2-drops, a 3-drop, a 4-drop and a 5-drop – I guess I'm voting for Shazzeh.

Um... yikes. Looks like my card is a copy of TP's.

You can remove it from the round.

Yours has better precedent for mana cost though.

Unreasonable size for manacost.I'm not clear on how the flavor text would work.

I like it, but is it too defensive for red?

meh. Also the name is too close to Desert Nomads

OK

I don't understand what the target role for this card is.

ok

Solid

That's a little too on the point.

Cato

I still like to see a fire elemental reprint in a set where half the world is burning.

I vote Shazzeh though.

@Ace: Riot Devils and Pensive Minotaur (AKA "WHY IS LEG") were both cards.

Fakeartist's Dune Wurm, but with Knifethrower's Sandhusk Wurm's flavor text.

Silly: 1
TP: 1
Cato: 2
Shazzeh: 2
Fakeartist: 1

Cato and I are even, so we break out the sacred book of tiebreakers:
1) Steinhauser didn't vote, so no help here.
2) Cato didn't vote, but I did, so we skip 3 and 4 and Snowblind Brute takes it.

So, uh, criteria.

Make a red common that gives you an incentive to run Viashino Sandscout and stuff. Don't make an actual viashino tribal card, that's just ignoring the set theme for no reason.

Dammit Shazzeh.

Hellish Snowstorm

Instant (C)

Hellish Snowstorm deals 2 damage to each creature and each player.

"There is nothing for us aboveground. If the wind does not tear us flesh from bone, the wendigoes will."
–Niala, Chasmhall crone

Sorry about changing the criteria, I'll probably use the other one if I win red again but right now red has a bunch of creatures and nothing that actually cares. Seemed like a bigger hole.

Desert Shimmer
Enchantment (C)
Whenever a creature enters the battlefield under your control, target creature an opponent controls can't block this turn.
Too often, young recruits find themselves hopelessly lost in the desert, chasing nothing but hot air.