Witching Hour Challenge Review, part 2

The final howls and cries of All Hallow’s Eve still ring out in our Witching Hour challenge! What makes for a cool Warlock support card? Can a sorcery be a lord? How do you redeem one of the weakest cards from The Dark? Can you pass the Timtober challenge?

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Scryfall gallery of cards mentioned

Topics and Tidbits

  • get those final moxtober submissions in!
  • gliding past the juliet gasp
  • can a sorcery be a lord?
  • part of a lord is the mana efficiency across several creatures
  • ways to benefit from dead cards in hand
  • nine triggers on the way out, nine more on the way in
  • are there too many abilities on a card?
  • are cast abilities a different category than trigger abilities for complexity?
  • censored abilities
  • creating a problem you already have a solution for
  • “the dark” vibe vs the “new phyrexia” vibe
  • giving an awful spell as a prepared spell so you can combo it
  • adding time to the game
  • a pile of fun facts
  • restricting power level just by not printing certain base cards
  • how hard is it to dump a fat creature into the graveyard?
  • “gate” type on a card
  • seasons of war shoutout
  • advances in sharpie templating assumptions
  • give me a sharpie arrow
  • sharpie-ing a letter to fix grammar
  • write down your intent on the submission if you want more feedback on your joke card
  • sacrifice costs and death triggers
  • how wide can each creature type go?
  • extort was very good in limited
  • if your engine is too big a creature, it doesn’t need to engine anymore
  • 5/5 fliers might be too big to be engines in limited
  • designing “partner” style commanders
  • potential of “choose a noncreature card type” as a theme in a set
  • tim-tober challenge: guess the patron
  • a “new” option from just… 11 years ago
  • how much poison can you give at once?
  • shout out to world lore in the pathfinder universe
  • becoming what you sought to destroy
  • reading a word too many times until it becomes nonsense
  • the difference between costing 0 or 1 mana on a sac effect
  • sorceror vs witch vs warlock
  • what if witches invented the nuclear bomb
  • deep dive into nuclear waste warnings and conveying more and more info across a message
  • impressions on rad counters
  • is giving wither to the team for 4 mana worth it?
  • repeatedly pulling from your sideboard
  • back in the day, more casual formats had sideboards
  • tutoring into your sideboard
  • juliet’s pick: the gates of hell
  • tim’s pick: bakta, the great old one
  • the bells of hell

Submissions

Redbay

YABO

WUBRG_Nich

PlayersGrade

AuxiliaryOtter

Patron of the Wicked

justnigel

Xena

JamesDaltonBell

Craftedlavaistrue

rexxer3


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