#MTGMoxtober Day 23: Howl

 

Card of the Day - Squirrel Blast

The art from this is when Squirrel Girl defeats Dr. Doom in the Marvel comic.  I wanted to make this monogreen, but I wanted it to hit players as well, so I changed it to green red. I think this could be a green effect as long as it only hits creatures, since the damage is based on how many creatures you control.

Card of the Day - Sporadic Storm

Card of the Day - Ambush Wurm

Card of the Day - Winter Ambush

Because sometimes you can't see in a blizzard.

Card of the Day - Rabid Baloth

The next logical step in the vanilla creature progression.

Card of the Day - Flamecharge Elephant

This guy started off as a 3/3 for 2GG that only dealt the damage to the creatures blocking him.  I wanted to give him more of a Hellrider feel, so changed it to any blocking creature.  I really like the way his secondary ability works with trample.

Card of the Day - Aggressive Intent

A simple Gruul sorcery to finish a game.  Would this be better as Boros?  Let me know what you think.

Card of the Day - Battlefield Reaver

I like to make french vanilla creatures.  There are so many possibilities.  This guy feels very Gruul, doesn's he?

Card of the Day - Hefty Warhammer

Here's a Gruul equipment.  If you have a big dude to put it on, it can get real mean.  Even better with Enrage!


Edit:  Here's a differenter version!

Card of the Day - Borborygmos the Cruel

Each guild has a leader.  The Gruul's leader is a giant Cyclops.  Also: he's real mean.

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.

Card of the Day - Thrashing Voros

A nice, simple common for a nice, simple guild.  Red and green both like to destroy artifacts, so this isn't much of a stretch at all.