MadOlaf's Magic Cards

I've been watching The Walking Dead.  Can you tell?

Happy Halloween!

Here's a bonus to go with the Bard from earlier.

Evey team needs a good Bard to boost its stats. This wording of Team Up is the one I'm going to use until we can figure out a better...

The dungeon crawling atmosphere really wants to have nasty baddies.  This guy is a direct port from D&D.  Beholders are one of the mos...

Level Up! 

For anyone who doesn't know, Goblin Artisans is hosting a set design event.  This is the first of many cards designed to be a part of...

This is a Gaea's Touch variant that helps snow players get a few more lands out.

Finli o' Tego is a character from Stephen King's The Dark Tower.  He's a Weasel Taheen, which basically means he's a guy w...

This is another Basic card.  This card could be quite powerful if you have 12 in your deck.  It just keeps getting bigger!  For more exp...

Here's one of those "Why didn't they make this?" cards.  I got the idea when I saw the new guild charms.

Here's another Gnome.  It's been a while since I posted one.

This card went through a lot of changes before it made it to this form. When I first created this card a few years ago, it was an enchant ...

Big Snail = Big Fun!

Lanica really likes giving out curses.  Like, really , really. 

I wanted to make an upgraded version of my very first favorite card, Orcish Oriflamme. (There have been more than a few favorites in the...

I like how the art and the frame of this card work together.  Also: coin flip cards are fun!

This is a card that I made that kind of got made after I made it.  If you don't know the card I'm talking about, here's Switch...

Simple White removal.  Enough said.

This guy plays interestingly.  You can have any amount of 3/1 s, 4/1 s and 5/1 s attacking, (not to mention 1/3 s, etc.) but a 2/2 is stu...

This is a stretch for a white common, but not by much.  The closest we've seen are 3/5 and 4/2 .

Here's a card you wouldn't mind drawing really late in the game.  Probably quite useless before then.

Return to Ravnica has piqued my interest for X spells that do two different things.  Interestingly enough, this card was in my file a bi...

A non-red dragon that I created for one of Havelock V's challenges on Goblin Artisans.  I tweaked his P/T and mana cost for a long tim...

Better than Gray Ogre !  Not quite as good as Granite Gargoyle !  It's a filler common!

I've been making a lot of lands lately.  Here's a swamp that you can sacrifice for two black mana. It's basically just an upgr...

Here's a nice build around card.  Someone should try to make an infinite combo with this one.

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

For when you really, really need that last burn spell.

This is a card that will be banned in Commander as soon as it's legal.  This might also be the funniest card to counter (or bounce).

This guy uses a mechanic that blue hasn't been used since Serendib Efreet was around. I wanted to make another common blue 2 power ...

Here's a fun land design that was inspired by Reliquary Tower .  Instead of using Spellbook as a secondary effect, I used Glasses of ...

No specific theme this week.  I'm having a tough time coming up with a Boros keyword, but I'll try to have one for next week.  T...

This is a Wedge land.  I wanted to make it different than other lands by having its ETB trigger be dependent on the type of land it is.  A...

Here's an example of a keyword I designed while figuring out the guild keywords.  This one didn't quite fit into Boros, but I thou...

I love making these Espionage cards!  Here's another bonus for y'all. 

I love making a huge blue common creature.  Most big sets have one. It's almost always a serpent, and it's almost always overlooke...

Although this isn't strictly a Dimir card, it is an excellent card to draft in a dedicated Dimir deck. The synergy with Espionage is s...

With Espionage as the Dimir mechanic, mill is a viable draft strategy.  This guy is a good enabler for a lot of mill strategies.  If he ha...

A new take on a Specter.  I like how he makes the damaged player draw a card as well as milling three. Edit:  Here's an updated ve...

Does this seem forced?  Black has very limited direct damage. I wanted to make a spell with Espionage instead of only creatures, an...

This week is House Dimir.  As you may know, the Dimir are very secretive.  They even convinced the general populace of Ravnica that they ...

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...