MadOlaf's Magic Cards

What's phase 2?

This is my favourite creature in Final Fantasy VI.  So I made it into a card.  It generally sticks around for a long time.

Here's my first submission for Counterspell Friday , as suggested by fellow game designer Chimzar. This is a Violet Dawn card.

I call this guy Channel Dude.  Paying life for mana always felt more black to me than green. 

This is an old design.  I wanted to make a powerful blue flier that was absurdly cheap.  It was basically as mashup of Tar Pit Warrior an...

I made this card when I was designing vanilla creatures a while back. It didn't fit as a common, but I liked that you had to jump thr...

No specific theme this week; just some cards I find interesting for one reason or another.  I like how this one feels like a spider and an...

You will like this card better tomorrow.

(Spooky voice) Seven days!

This card does something that I've never seen a card do before.  Seems powerful against blue.

Fun with cards that make everyone draw!

Good control-y card.  Also kind of mean.

Although this card isn't an auto-include in most decks, it fills a niche need. Also, it's a cheap curse!

I was utterly enchanted with Curses when they were first revealed in Innistrad.  This week, I'll make some new ones!  Let's start wi...

I wanted to make a planeswalker with the ultimate ultimate.  Winning the game pretty much sums that up.  Keeping him alive for seven turns...

Not an Avadnu card, but it has the same feel as one of those.  Seems abusable. :) Edit: Added "another".

This is my favorite card in this cycle.  It seems very powerful.

Alaihar are noble birds who sacrifice themselves for the greater good. 

These things explode into goopy stuff all over the baddies. ew.  It's getting more apparent that there are a lot of gross things on ...

I like how this card forces the opponent to reevaluate combat math.  It seems quite powerful.

This could be a good card for a Jund or Rock deck. 5/5 for 5 with a built-in resistance to removal. Also: the worms live inside it.  ew.

Since we've seen some cards for each of the humanoid races of Avadnu, let's take a look at the local fauna. Centioch - This cre...

Simple, powerful, not done yet. Me likey.

This is an old design.  A bit convoluted, but permanent "gain control" is a powerful ability.

I pushed the white one a bit.  Who doesn't love tokens?  At instant speed?  For free?! Edit: oops.

Originally 4/4 for 3GG. Seemed too strong. This seems more fair.

Red guy burns!

I originally made this a smaller, cheaper creature but the Grandeur ability is quite strong. It's usually a good idea to keep an extra...

I like this guy because you can force a discard at instant speed; something not done very often.

I wanted to explore the Grandeur ability a bit more ever since it appeared in Future Sight.  It has only appeared on Legendary Creatures so...

Artifact Knight.  Bazinga.

Here's an uncommon entry to Bob's aggro design challenge .  Enjoy!  Updated to be less scary.

I like giving Defender instead of taking away the ability to attack.  It's exactly the same thing unless they have Wakestone Gargoyle ...

This month, I'm going to change the format of the blog.  Instead of writing a blog post on Fridays talking about something independent o...

Red = hurt.

Happy leap year day! Edit: Better version.