Redgate Firemaster
Creature - Viashino Spellshaper
When ~ enters the battlefield, you may play a card from your hand as an instant with "This deals 2 damage to target creature" for .
2/1

Enabling a instant/sorcery theme in a new way.

Infinite Step Disciple
Creature - Salamander Spellshaper Monk
Creatures you control have "When this creature enters the battlefield, you may play a card from your hand as an instant with "Draw a card. This spell deals 1 damage to any target" for ."
3/2

Fire Step Dancer
Creature - Salamander Spellshaper Warrior
When ~ enters the battlefield, you may play a card from your hand as an instant with "Discard a card. Draw a card" for .
Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, ~ gains haste until end of turn.
2/1

Infinite Eye Seer
Creature - Human Spellshaper Wizard
When ~ enters the battlefield, you may play a card from your hand as an instant with "Draw X cards" for .
2/2

Hard to say how this should be implemented. Cast a token spell? Require a discard or tone down the effect and make it a kicker variant? Change the text of your next spell? Etb effect?

Made some changes to my contest submission
Enabling a instant/sorcery theme in a new way.

Fiery Eye Master
Creature - Salamander Spellshaper Monk
Creatures you control have "When this creature enters the battlefield, you may play a card from your hand as an instant with "Draw a card. This spell deals 1 damage to any target." for ."
2/2

Fire Step Dancer
Creature - Salamander Spellshaper Warrior
When ~ enters the battlefield, you may play a card from your hand as an instant with "This spell deals 1 damage to any target." for .
Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, ~ gains haste until end of turn.
2/1

Infinite Eye Seer
Creature - Slamanader Spellshaper Wizard
When ~ enters the battlefield, you may play a card from your hand as an instant with "Draw a card ".
2/2

Some early game cards inspired by Once Upon a TIme- but better, because they're not overpoweered. These are meant to lessen the impact of going 2nd in a game.

Dawn Patrol
Creature - Human Soldier
You may cast ~ without paying its mana cost if you control no creatures and an opponent controls a creature.
2/3
---Shenanigans with flash-granting effects. Leyline Of Anticipation would be fun, but some kind of sac/recursion engine seems more reliable.

Spontaneous Denial
Instant
Counter target spell.
You may cast discard an Island card from your hand rather than pay ~'s mana cost if it targets the first spell cast this game.

Mental Invasion
Sorcery
Target player sacrifices a creature or discards a card.
---Too good? What if it allowed them to sac any permanent? And, no it doesn't fit the theme.

Flash Fry
Instant
~ deals 3 damage to any target.
You may cast discard a Mountain card from your hand rather than pay ~'s mana cost if it targets the creature to enter the battlefield this game.
---Would it be better to have the bonus kick in against "the only creature on the battlefield"?

Rapid Corrosion
Instant
Destroy target artifact or enchantment.
If this is your first turn of the game, you may cast ~ for .

Reflection Researcher
Creature - Human Wizard
If ~ is a copy it gets +3/+3 and has hexproof.
2/2
One always wonders what heights they may have reached if only...
---I feel like there's better that can be done with this concept.


Hierarch's Hammer
Artifact - Equipment
If equipped creature is legendary it gains trample.
If equipped creature is a nontoken it gains first strike.
If equipped creature is a token it gains death touch.
Equip
Protect yourself my lord, it is not for you to fall today.


Drill Instructor
Creature - Human Soldier
When ~ enters the battlefield put a +1/+1 counter on each other creature you control that has vigilance as a base ability.
Vigilance
Creatures you control have vigilance.
2/3
---"base ability" like "base P/T", or "has (ability) natively"?

Professional Discipline
When ~ enters the battlefield put a +1/+1 counter on each other creature you control that has vigilance as a base ability.
Creatures you control have vigilance.
"You're king's men not privateers! Backs straight and step lively now!"
---Same question.

Military Progress
Enchantment
When ~ enters the battlefield choose a creature type and one of haste, first strike, trample and menace. Creatures you control of the chosen type have the chosen ability.

Advanced Weaponry
Artifact
When ~ enters the battlefield choose a creature type and one of haste, first strike, trample and menace. Creatures you control of the chosen type have the chosen ability.

---Which was better?

Goblin Pilot
Creature - Goblin Pilot
Whenever ~ crews a vehicle, put a +1/+1 counter on that vehicle.
1/1

Adamantium Exoskeleton
Artifact - Vehicle
Indestructible
Crew 2 (Tap any number of creatures you control with total power 2 or more: This Vehicle becomes an artifact creature until end of turn.)
2/2

Experimental Tank
Artifact - Vehicle
Whenever ~ attacks or blocks, put a +1/+1 counter on it.
Crew 2
3/3

Van Ruhaust, Steel Chevalier
Creature - Dwarf Pilot
Pilots you control crew for twice their power.
Whenever a vehicle you control is crewed, if the total power of the creatures crewing that vehicle exceeds that vehicles crew cost that vehicle gets +1/+1 until end of turn for each point of power in excess of its crew requirements.
2/2
...I have questions about this design. And the wording. Mostly the wording.

You know how land destruction has been stated to be worth "3.5 mana"?

Crumbling Ledge
Land
~ enters the battlefield tapped.
When ~ enters the battlefield, you may pay . If you do, destroy target land.
: Add
Probably too good with the added utility, but I like the idea. Would restricting it to nonbasics push it over the line into printablitiy?

I was talking with someone about Cleansing Wildfire the other day and saying how I wished they'd explored making Stensia Innkeeper's effect a more evergreen part of red's color pie. They did a little bit of red tap throughout the years with things like Rimescale Dragon and Urabrask the Hidden, but since Chandra's Revolution we haven't really seen anything.

I really think Imposing Sovereign and Loxodon Gatekeeper should be red. While we're at it, Icy Manipulator and Amulet of Vigor. It could open up so much for a slower playstyle for red, especially at lower rarities.

After going off about this for several minutes, my friend said "or they could just put Stone Rain in standard again those cowards"

I like your card. It seems a lot more fair than a lot of other land-destruction lands that have been deemed too powerful in the past. If it were me, I'd probably give it Fulminator Mage's nonbasic rider and make it 1CC instead of CCC, just because CCC seems clunky to me, but it may well be more appropriate for the power level that you're going for.

I agree on red tapping. Tapping things down is a temporary solution and red loves those.

I hadn't actually seen cleansing wildfire before. THat is a beautiful card. I'd nom WOTC for CotW there. Did WOTC post it to ITT: Cards that apparently don't exist?

I'm not 100% on what the best power level was so I just went CCC. It's dangerous territory to mess around in.
This is definitely cleaner though. Not sure why it wasn't nonbasic to begin with, especially with me being extra cautious.
v2:
Crumbling Ledge
Land
~ enters the battlefield tapped.
When ~ enters the battlefield, you may pay . If you do, destroy target nonbasic land.
:T:: Add :R:

I'm actually really digging all these.

Singularity Mox
Legendary Artifact
: Add to your mana pool.
You can't cast this spell during your first, second, or third turns of the game.
A single perfect moment, frozen forever.

I think this actually works. Ramp is best early on and loses value rapidly as the turns go by.
Being a legend makes this hard to spam on turn 4.


Isochron Resonator
Artifact
Imprint — Whenever an instant spell you control resolves, if you cast it from your hand, you may exile it. If you do, put all other cards exiled by ~ into your graveyard.
You may play spells exiled by ~.


Climb The Ranks
Instant
Create a 1/1 white Soldier creature token.
If you control a creature with base stats 1/1, create a 2/2 white Knight creature token instead.
If you control both a creature with base stats 1/1, and a creature with base stats 2/2, create a 3/3 white Knight creature token instead.

"Base stats" is not official MTG lingo, but if Razor can preempt "create" then I'm going to turn "base power and toughness" into "base stats".
WOuld "Stats" being short hand stop WOTC from making this move?

It's kind of like a Mox Tantalite, but more exploitable.

I made something similar called mox avenger a while ago, but it wasn’t legendary

I almost made it nonlegendary, but i realized that it's super swingy if you happen to have 2 or 3 in your hand by turn 4. Heck, 2 of these on turn 4 isn't even past the pale for ramp, but the mere possibility of 4 is frightening. I guess you could still play and tap them in sequence, but at least that requires graveyard manipulation to matter more than once.


Tellingly, the only mox worth less than Mox Lotus. (Currently $13 to $4)

I saw a design called "Primogeniture" and I was like, yeah, that's a thing.

Primogeniture
Enchantment
Whenever a creature you control dies, if that creature had the highest power among creatures you control, put +1/+1 counters equal to that creature's power onto another creature you control.

Primogeniture
Enchantment
Whenever a creature you control dies, if that creature had the highest power among creatures you control, creatures you control get +X/+X until end of turn where X was that creatures power.

Note that "highest power among creatures you control" can apply to multiple creatures. The 2nd card can be used to sacrifice a bunch of identical tokens to get a snowball effect.



On the opposite end of the scale:
Reign Of The Meek
Enchantment
Creatures you control with base stats 1/1 get +2/+2.
And the mighty shall inherit nothing.

Darksteel Obliterator
Artifact creature - Golem
Death touch
Whenever ~ deals damage to a player, that player sacrifices that many permanents.
4/11

Darksteel Colossus + Phyrexian obliterator.


Carbon Copy
Artifact
~ enters the battlefield as a copy of target creature except it's an artifact with power and toughness equal to its converted mana cost.


Memory Lotus
Artifact
Exile ~: Add one mana of any color. You can't activate your ability during your first, second, or third turns of the game.