#MTGMoxtober Day 31: Doom

 

#MTGMoxtober Day 30: Apotheosis

 

#MTGMoxtober Day 29: Legacy

 

#MTGMoxtober Day 28: Wyvern

 

#MTGMoxtober Day 27: Parasite

 

#MTGMoxtober Day 26: Cult

 

#MTGMoxtober Day 25: Ashes

 

#MTGMoxtober Day 24: Puppet

 

#MTGMoxtober Day 23: Howl

 

#MTGMoxtober Day 22: Bifurcate

 

#MTGMoxtober Day 21: Decay

 

#MTGMoxtober Day 20: Ritual

 

#MTGMoxtober Day 19: Sweet

 

#MTGMoxtober Day 18: Undeath

 

#MTGMoxtober Day 17: Command

 

#MTGMoxtober Day 16: Orbit

 

#MTGMoxtober Day 15: Nobility

 

#MTGMoxtober Day 14: Summoning

 

#MTGMoxtober Day 13: Thirteen

 A finisher for a monowhite control deck.

#MTGMoxtober Day 12: Bones

 People have been casting bones to tell the future for a long time.  I wanted to give white an interesting way to draw cards. The play pattern on this seems like you would use it once and see the top two.  If you get a card, great!  If not, you know what the next one will be.  I can't be bothered to do the math on how many cards you get over X turns, but it's for sure more than 50% of the time.

#MTGMoxtober Day 11: Thief

 

This card had the most iterations of any I've done so far this year.  It started Black/Blue and used heist counters, then turned into black/red tiefling, then became an art thief, then became legendary, then could only play artifacts, then exiled graveyards instead of using heist counters.  What a journey.

#MTGMoxtober Day 10: Mystic

Remember conjure? 

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#MTGMoxtober Day 9: Duel

 I thought it would be fun to have a minigame for a duel card. Who doesn't love a minigame?

#MTGMoxtober Day 8: Paranoia

 Commander card that reads:  "maybe just attack someone else."  Also:  Can we get Freeze as a keyword please?

#MTGMoxtober Day 7: Wax

 The first thing I thought of with wax was Madame Toussad's House of Wax.  I thought it would be fun to make a clone that copied abilities instead of the whole card.

#MTGMoxtober Day 6: Plot

 ZoMbIeS!!!!

 

#MTGMoxtober Day 5: Nightmare

 I was imagining what a Tamed Nightmare might look like, and I came up with this:

I like all those griffins and pegasi that grant flying when they attack, and I wanted to expand on that a bit.  I upped the p/t and added lifelink to the mix to make it more interesting.

#MTGMoxtober Day 4: Dream

 I wanted the dreamy theme to be a quasi-random effect that can be manipulated by how you build your deck.  This is a card where you will want to have a list of the cards in your library handy when you use it.

#MTGMoxtober Day 3: Pawn

 A simple minion who is used for nefarious purposes.  The true definition of a pawn.

#MTGMoxtober Day 2: Mystery

There is more than one way to make a Mystery card.  I toyed around with a few iterations, and found a neat idea. 

The rules for Mysteries are as follows:  

1. You start the game with a Mystery deck.  The first Mystery is turned face up as the game starts and you may solve the mystery on your turn if you meet the criteria.  When you do, you get the reward, you exile the Mystery and reveal the next one. 

2. You may solve more than one Mystery each turn, if you meet the criteria.

3. Once the Mystery deck is depleted, it is out of play for the rest of the game.

#MTGMoxtober Day 1: Rebirth

 

Let's start with a curse!  I wanted to make a "resurrect a player" card.  I like that you can cast this on yourself and just get a second chance, or cast it on someone about to die to gain control of that player forever.

Kharsen, Wrongly Accused

 

It's been a while since I've posted new cards, but I got the bug again after playing a one-shot set in Castmire as this guy.  I like the idea of putting ability flavor words on planeswalkers so you can get a feeling for what they are all about.

If you ahven;t heard the newest episode of Beacon of Creation yet, you should listen here to get the context. (throw them a rating or whatever too so more folks can get in on the fun)

Beacon of Creation Update

All written communication for the podcast is going to be on Discord from now on.  It's just a more robust and community-driven format for what we need. 

You can find it here: https://discord.gg/M5eepQF

If you want to see the current iteration of Castmire, you can check it on Planesculptors.

Beacon of Creation Episode 98 Notes

Design Challenge Due Monday, Nov 25th by 7pm Pacific:


Give us a card a that starts with the word "Dwarven"

Based on this article from 2005:

https://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/making-magic/thirty-two-short-columns-about-dwarves-2005-11-21

Beacon of Creation Episode 97 Notes

Design Challenge due November 18th by 7pm Pacific:

Create a "Soul of _____" card for a plane that doesn't have one yet. 

 Here is a list of all of them.

#Moxtober Day 31: Ripe

Rotten! Human don't like rotten things so they can't block rotten things.  Fun!

#Moxtober Day 30: Catch

This is just bad, right?

#Moxtober Day 29: Injured

Something being injured doesn't mean anything by itself, but a lot of cards that reference it will give disadvantages.

#Moxtober Day 28: Ride

Does anyone have a cleaner reminder text?

#Moxtober Day 27: Coat

Is this too close to Equipment?  I dunno.

#Moxtober Day 26: Dark

Cloaked is an alternate form of Morph.  You still cast the card as a face down 2/2 for three, but the flip condition is different, and notably, free.

#Moxtober Day 25: Tasty

Thallids were originally bred as food, right?

#Moxtober Day 24: Dizzy

Yay for mind flayers!  I still want a D&D set to happen.  I think it will.

#Moxtober Day 23: Ancient

I know wizened isn't the right word here.  I wanted to have a mechanic that showed off experience of creatures and how they get more powerful as they get older.

#Moxtober Day 22: Ghost

Insubstantial is almost like indestructible, so it's not cheap.  On the other hand, your creatures can't do much, combat wise, so it's very defensive.  Probably better if -1/-1 counters and trample are big in the set this exists in.

#Moxtober Day 21: Treasure

Since treasure is now deciduous, I think having some mechanics that mention it specifically is fine. 

#moxtober Day 20: Tread

I don't think this is the exact right flavor for this mechanic, but it's high time it gets keyword.

#Moxtober Day 19: Sling

Ammo.  It's a thing, I guess.

#Moxtober Day 18: Misfit

This one is a play off of day 16's Wild mechanic.  Should they be in a set togther?  I dunno.

#Moxtober Day 17: Ornament

I don't have much to say about this one.  I wanted to make equipment called ornaments, but that felt a bit too far.

#Moxtober Day 16: Wild

I'm actually really proud of this one.  There is nothing in Magic so far that counts the number of subtypes a creature has.

#Moxtober Day 15: Legend

This one put me in a pickle for a while.  Eventually I landed at "What happens when a Legendary Creature dies?" 

#Moxtober Day 14: Overgrown

This one is a little weird. It is a mono-green mechanic, and I don't know what else it could go on besides a creature.  Maybe a sorcery that overgrows two of your creatures?  I dunno.