Design or Die! To celebrate Card Colosseum, Khord and Tim are design cards at lightning speed! Each prompt gets three minutes, for 15 cards all in one podcast. Listen to our answers to these prompts, then hop on the Discord and give us your versions!
Card Colosseum is a yearly summer event in the Magic Set Editor (MSE) Discord created and run by Timespiraled. Pairs of players battle it out, bracket-style, to see which designer comes out on top.
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Scryfall gallery of cards mentioned
Topics and Snippets:
- bracket format, 1v1, each pairing gets different prompts
- prompts submitted by other competitors
- 3 minutes per prompt (timer starts after reading is done)
- 15) Design a land that can turn into a creature permanently!
- once you animate enough times, it sticks
- 7) Design a card with a new GU mechanic that doesn’t mention counters.
- extort but for counters would be great, if not for the challenge rules!
- like mentor or training, but just copying
- how much should lil copy guys cost?
- 10) Design a card that cares about/copies/steals abilities! (See Kathril, Aspect Warper or Odric, Lunarch Marshal)
- stealing keywords
- stealing a textbox by mutating its victims onto itself
- 12) Design a card that would fit in Tarkir.
- bring disturb back, all disturb costs are black (the B rejoining GW?)
- finality as an ability
- having to read past the text on DFCs (ww transform, disturb)
- 27) Design a face commander for a deck named “A Thousand and One Nights”.
- the king who demands stories!
- WU with either red or green (to go with the other colosseum entries!)
- sagas you control have propaganda
- 25) Design a colorless graveyard-hate artifact.
- how to aim graveyard removal at a deck
- equip triggers
- 14) Design a card that references your library’s size.
- play a huge deck and as a reward… card draw
- magic design as party game
- 37) Design a three color, three mana 3/3 creature.
- Oriq from Strixhaven
- Ward – discard something specific
- 24) Design a Vampire or a Zombie with a color identity that’s exactly white.
- cat vampire rome
- 8) Design a card featuring a new mechanic for a Ravnica set.
- what’s emmara up to?
- why not just give a +1/+1 counter
- 16) Design a card with the number 15/fifteen on it.
- 15 in the mana cost
- got eaten by the lion
- 4) Design a board wipe that costs 5 or more mana.
- what counts as a board wipe?
- 11) Design a card that features the number 5 exactly 5 times. (This can include PT, mana cost, etc.)
- trying to design fives in three minutes!
- 31) Design a Mono-black or colorless Angel.
- timer mishap!!!
- long axes… aka scythes
- 36) Design a card named aphantasia. (The inability to voluntarily recall or form mental images.)
- accidental canon card recreated
- eh, just make it two color and cheap
- any dismiss into dreams fans out there?
- khord’s round 1 entry
Our Card Drafts
Khord made these during the 3 minutes so you aren’t allowed to be mad at them being incomplete. Listen to the episode to understand the context!
15) Design a land that can turn into a creature permanently!
7) Design a card with a new GU mechanic that doesn’t mention counters.
10) Design a card that cares about/copies/steals abilities! (See Kathril, Aspect Warper or Odric, Lunarch Marshal)
12) Design a card that would fit in Tarkir.
27) Design a face commander for a deck named “A Thousand and One Nights”.
25) Design a colorless graveyard-hate artifact.
14) Design a card that references your library’s size.
37) Design a three color, three mana 3/3 creature.
24) Design a Vampire or a Zombie with a color identity that’s exactly white.
8) Design a card featuring a new mechanic for a Ravnica set.
16) Design a card with the number 15/fifteen on it.
4) Design a board wipe that costs 5 or more mana.
11) Design a card that features the number 5 exactly 5 times. (This can include PT, mana cost, etc.)
31) Design a Mono-black or colorless Angel.
36) Design a card named aphantasia. (The inability to voluntarily recall or form mental images.)
