Card of the Day - Kargaale Ooze

There was a Facebook post a few days ago asking what creature would show off my play style.  The card I made on the spot was a 0/1 for G with hexproof that got the counter each turn.  I tweaked it a little bit so it's not quite as annoying, but still powerful.

Card of the Day - Saltsea Shore

There have been a lot of drawbacks attached to the rare dual land cycle of each set.  This drawback gets more harsh depending on where you play it.

In a casual setting, a lot of folks won't even remember what you've shown, but if you're playing a big tournament, you can be sure that your opponent will get out her notebook to jot down exactly what you have.

Card of the Day - Timid Pronghorn

It's been a while since I've posted.  Life has been a little rough these past few weeks, but I'm sticking my head up over the wall into real life again. 

I wanted to make a card that was a powerful creature with a glaring weakness.  If you can get through the opponent's defenses, you've got a nice bit of damage each turn with ol' Elmer here. 

Most likely a candidate for a white/red "you can't block me" archetype in limited, but with limited usefulness elsewhere.

I'll be making a backlog of cards so I won't miss any days for a while.  Sorry I've been remiss in my posting; like I said, I've been having a rough go of it lately.

Card of the Day - AEtherwrought Exoskeleton

Card of the Day - Real Mad Frowns

People are real mad, guys. #paythepros

Card of the Day - Kindling

Card of the Day - Drainflux

Card of the Day - War Banner

Card of the Day - Great Snowy Owl

A lot of recent sets have had an uncommon cycle of multicolored cards, to kind of let you know how to draft that color pair. This is Frostmere's U/W entry. 

Card of the Day - Illusionary Viper

Card of the Day - Try to Remember

Card of the Day - Vadel, Servant of Ulamog

The last of our ragtag group was Vadel, a warlock who worshiped a god that none of our characters had ever heard of.

Card of the Day - Selphi, Bahamut's Heir

Selphi hasn't died yet, but he keeps saying that he's actually a dragon, and we're all pretty sure he'll become an awesome dragon if he does die.

Card of the Day - Auriel Brightmantle/Hazirawn, the Thirsty Blade

 This is my character in our DnD campaign. He died this week fighting a green dragon. Here's his badass sword too.

Card of the Day - Shaena Greenbottle

This is the first in a series of cards based on the D&D campaign my wife DMs. 

This is our bard, Shaena.  She's a little person.

Card of the Day - Harness the AEther

I've decided to start drawing my own artwork for these cards because I saw someone else do it on Reddit and I thought "Why the heck not?"

Enjoy

Card of the Day - Secret Assassin/Cloistered Sage/Hidden

I was inspired by the ladies on my favorite MTG podcast, Magic:the Amateuring, to fix the cards Camouflage and Illusionary Mask.

I think the best way to do it is to create a new mechanic that does what those cards are trying to do.

I present:  Hidden.

A card with Hidden enters the battlefield hidden. While you cast it, you hide it from your opponent, and you place this reminder token on top of it.

If a Hidden creature attacks, blocks, takes damage, activates an ability, or becomes targeted, you immediately reveal it.

That's it.

It's important to remember that a hidden creature does NOT count as a face-down creature, even if it is turned face down so the opponent can't see it. Face-down creatures have very specific rules that affect them, and they don't affect hidden creatures.

Here are some examples of cards that would have Hidden:

See if you guys can come up with some other cool things that can use Hidden well.

*Post edited to fix wording and add clarification.

Card of the Day - Tershan Taxman

Card of the Day - Enraged Ettin

Card of the Day - Glaze

Card of the Day - Bruna's Blessing

I wanted to make a mini-cycle of Auras as an homage to the angels of Innistrad.  Here's Bruna's.

Card of the Day - Tentacled Nemesis

Card of the Day - Cull the Abhorrent

Card of the Day - Pyrefiend's Persuasion

Card of the Day - Pure Resolve

Card of the Day - Markot Revolutionary

Card of the Day - Calcite Chapel

Card of the Day - Indentured Servant

Card of the Day - Nairb's Necklace

Hollee said, "Make a jewelry!"

Card of the Day - Ka-Mohari, WIsh Lord

This guy started in my head as a mono-blue 5/6 for 5UU that drew you two cards each turn. Strong, but kind of boring. I added the rider "Instant spells you cast cost 2 less" so you have some way of casting all the new cards you get. I changed him to Black/Blue and added the life loss to balance out the cost reduction, as well as letting commander players play a Juzam Djinn if they felt so inclined.

After looking through Gatherer and seeing some recent Djinni from Khans of Tarkir, namely the Jeskai clan, I decided to change the word "Instant" to "Noncreature". The cost reduction being for "noncreatures" is very Jeskai. Those monks sure do love their prowess.

I didn't set out to make a 4 color commander, but I think he turned out pretty well, nonetheless. Let me know what you think either here or in the /r/custommagic subreddit.

Card of the Day - Essence Harvest

Since Frostmere has the Espionage keyword, I wanted each color to have a way to use all the cards that are getting milled.  These cards are subpar as maindeck cards in a draft, but can possibly be quite useful if the opponent is playing an Espionage-heavy deck.

Essence Harvest, for example, gives you a ton of tokens if you've already been milled a bit.  It's also useful late in a game to break a board stall.

Card of the Day - Truth Seeker

Card of the Day - Flarefork Devil

Card of the Day - Lucky Break

Cards are inspired from myriad sources.  This one was inspired by a mash-up of Magic and Cards Against Humanity, where the question was: How did I lose my virginity?

Card of the Day - Heart Tacks

Today's card is an homage to the Stuffy Doll and the cards he stars in, Black Vise and The Rack. The card would be more powerful if it worked on every opponent, but the originals only let you choose one, so that's what I went with.

Card of the Day - Barlo Stanvik, the King's Voice

Card of the Day - Stoag the Poet

I chose to use the pronoun "him" when this card refers to itself because the character depicted is male.  I have always been annoyed when a Legendary creature card refers to itself as "it."

A few examples: Arcanis the Omnipotent, Ashling the Pilgrim, and Autumn Willow, and that's just the As.

I've noticed that the flip planeswalkers follow this trend as well, and I wonder if that's just because they are important characters, or if it's something they will be using on legendary creatures going forward.

Card of the Day - Primal Fury

Card of the Day - Kolaghan Cultist

Secrets of Tarkir

Card of the Day - Kylo Ren of the First Order

Star War man! He get so mad when stuff happen so he break things.

Guest Card of the Day - Saber Battle

This is Hollee.

I saw the new Star Wars tonight.

I don't know how to design cards.

Adam doesn't know I'm posting this.

All these facts are probably already quite clear from the above image.

Card of the Day - Infernal Spawning/Besman Horde/Spill From the Rift/Tibalt, Patron of Pain

Today's cards are a vertical cycle. A vertical cycle is a subset of cards that do similar things with bigger or more powerful effects at higher rarites. You can see some examples here. The common and uncommon parts of the cycle may seem familiar to you, as they are similar to Dragon Fodder and Hordeling Outburst. The second set in the Frostmere block is called Hellfire, and devils play a large part in the set, mainly using 1/1 Devil tokens.

The rare part of the cycle gives tokens, but also damages you each turn.  This may seem like a drawback, but trust me. In this set, you will wish there were more things that could let you damage yourself.

The Mythic entry to the cycle is a familiar face to some. All of his abilites revolve around Devils. You can pop him right away to get 5 1/1s with no questions asked, or, if you have some other Devils around, wait and see if you can do some other cool things.

I am developing Frostmere and Hellfire together, so they will play nicely with one another while being very separate entities.

Card of the Day - Artoa Lordpine