Card of the Day - Lifedrinker Cultist

Card of the Day - Dozan Magebrute

Card of the Day - Gargut Grunt

Card of the Day - Feral Shifter

I've stumbled upon something interesting. I'm taking a page from Transguild Courier and making a pile of creatures with his ability.  I changed the frame because I think this one looks cooler.

Card of the Day - Fury of Battle

This is a given.  If the Enrage mechanic is ever a thing, this card will be made to go along with it.  I can see this being uncommon, as well. 

Card of the Day - Rioting Dragon

It fells weird giving Enrage to a flying creature, but it feels weirder to not give Enrage to a Dragon.  Flavor wins over functionality on this one.

Bonus! Card of the Day - Gruul War Shaman

I liked the tension on the Battle Druid so much, I had to make a red counterpart.  So, here he is!  Bonus!

Card of the Day - Battle Druid

There's an interesting tension here.  He's kind of a Llanowar Elf.  He's kind of a little hurty guy.  This, to me, is a powerful design that just might catch a lot of the slower strategies off guard.

Card of the Day - Gruul Battle Drummer

For goblins, drums signify creatures not being able to block how they'd generally like to. I'm expanding on that a bit for this guy.  A nice support card for the Enrage strategy in limited, to be sure.

Card of the Day - Crazed Tribal

This is the card I submitted for the contest on Goblin Artisans.  I changed the mana cost because he wasn't quite good enough at 1RG.  He should be a good cornerstone for any fast damage Gruul deck.

Now I'm REALLY angry!

So, it turns out I'm lucky enough to win a contest.  The concept of the contest was to design a mechanic that works best in the Red Zone.  I'm currently trying to make a mechanic for each of the ten guilds, and this was the perfect opportunity to create a mechanic for the most Red Zone-y of the guilds - the Gruul.

I wanted something simple, powerful, and resonant.  Something that has an easy trigger, and is useful on creatures. Here's what I came up with:

Enrage (Whenever this creature is blocked, put a +1/+1 counter on it.)

Very simple.  Very resonant of what the Gruul are about.  Potentially very powerful.

Here's the simplest version of Enrage.

This week, we'll be exploring what we can do with this simple but powerful mechanic.