Incarnation Challenge Review, part 1

Our latest challenge asked submitters to submit big, abtract creatures that could fit in a five color cycle. How do you convey vast and unusual in a non-legendary Magic card? Plus, at least one card submitted in jest.

Scryfall gallery of cards mentioned

Submissions

PlumtreeChloe

Inte

Redbay

YABO

Khord

WUBRG_Nich

Dragon of the West

Mini

Topics and Tidbits

  • late to the pod
  • vanishing creatures to limit an ability
  • continuing the doctor who incarnation cycle
  • fading vs vanishing… vanishing you get one less turn with
  • doing things in response to the last time or lore saga being removed
  • vanishing creatures vs saga (summon) creatures from FF
  • how much would you pay in mana and time to get 2 extra copies of a spell?
  • repeated flashback
  • what effects are ok to do turn after turn?
  • nerfing your opponent’s creatures with forced clones
  • the effect of on board removal
  • that “are you cheating me” moment when playing against a new player
  • on board tricks in the graveyard!
  • affinity wishes
  • what are the most broken things to do with karn?
  • what is the cycle of wishes today?
  • flip flopping war
  • DFCs in foundations?
  • enchantment-like effects in exile
  • full team deathtouch
  • a discussion of mortality
  • a card submitted in jest?
  • talkin’ ’bout dredge again
  • “when you mill me” triggers
  • triple victory
  • a card designed so tight that it’s hard to unpack
  • appealing to big
  • alive it stops the air, dead it stops the ground
  • judgment had a cycle plus two extra
  • “let me hit you with this card, guys”
  • tim’s fave: obfuscation
  • juliet’s fave: mortality
  • time keeps on slippin’
  • sensory overload


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