how does Bar From Existence handle primes? also which direction do pyramid levels go?

In my head you could make a 3x1 grid or even one with uneven length for each column and row, although at that point you might argue you could just arrange them diagonally, so I don't really know.

If you have 7 creatures you can give three of them one counter, two of them two counters, and one of them three counters.

I can't help but notice that my great enthusiasm for Cycle of Violence's design is not reflected in this community.

these are some really cool and novel designs

thanks bwo

it's because arranging all creatures into a circle is impossible. if it read "arrange all creatures into an n-gon" it would be the best card ever

Cos I ain't looking forward to finding actual card presentation for that one guy at the table playing the token deck with 20 1/1 something out.

Ignoring it is gonna be more of a hexagon than a circle, if there are like 20 creatures on the battlefield, the players will have to either complete the circle on the floor or seize an empty table.

I think you're supposed to bend the cards to get a nice circle shape.

or just use foil creatures

Strictly speaking Cycle of Violence is the only one where you actually don't need to make the geometrical shape, in practice it's just a sequence of bite spells that loops back on itself, it's just less verbose and more thematically resonant to conceptualize it as a circle. It's not like the spell fails if you don't make a perfect circle, you can also just do any kind of winding snake biting its own tail.

As someone who primarily play on MTGO, I kinda wanna watch the system struggle to perform the action. Probably would look rather cinematic on Arena.

But the card says a circle, Mown.

*Puts on the nerd hat and swirly glasses*

A circle is defined by the dictionary as "a closed plane curve consisting of all points at a given distance from a point within it called the center. Equation: x 2 + y 2 = r 2 ."