Your last chance on the battlefield! This month’s design challenge is all about finality counters. Bring creatures back, but not forever. Added on top is a whole lot of Universes Beyond-style top down flavor! Tune in to hear about all the twists our designers found for this still-new mechanic.
Scryfall gallery of cards mentioned
Submissions
vtbassmatt
UB: Talky Tina, a creepy doll from The Twilight Zone. The concept is a bit of a stretch — I’m afraid I fell in love with the mechanical design before trying to flavor it.
UW: Finalizer Construct moves hard in a different direction. It’s not a sweet little toy, it’s part of an army of killer robots.
Juliet
A Memory Called Empire‘s own Mahit Dzmare! in this case she can make any creature in magic her yskandr-imago.
JamesDaltonBell
From the surprisingly well-received and not at all controversial set MTG Universes Beyond: Christian Gnosticism I present Zachariel, Redemption and the Through the Omenpaths digital equivalent, Liesa, Reformed Archangel (Surprisingly, the digital licensing rights were just too expensive to bring it to Arena.)
Xena
I just really like the idea of a card that’s both Killer and Survivor, but with the same mechanics. Up to y’all how well that worked. Ignored the different genres bonus point
MonoWhiteBorder
JourneymageEuge
Fortuneteller Baba from the Dragonball franchise was the perfect pick for this challenge, since she has the ability to bring someone back from the dead for one day. Weird Wanda granting a dying person one more day feels like the opposite in some ways.
AuxiliaryOtter
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Yorktown_(CV-5)
Khord
Jack Wolcott from the Wayward children series is an apprentice to a mad scientist of the Moors. Through science they can reverse even death, but once someone has been brought back once, there is no certainty they will come back again.
Dolovan, an Apprentice to the famed Strixhaven teacher, followed her off world to dominaria and learn her style of life magic.
Training (Whenever this creature attacks with another creature with greater power, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.)
Craftedlavaistrue
UB: The sweepers from the City, a very dystopian world. I could give a blurb about what role these guys play in that dystopia. But I’d rather you just look at how annoying it is to kill. This magic rendition is actually rather tame as to how annoying they usually are to finish off, I promise.
UW: Failed Specimen is meant to play off of the “failed summoning” trope sometimes seen in fiction, which is a more fantasy-esque way of representing this.
Wobbles
This card is from the prolific mil-fi space opera series Expeditionary Force by Craig Alanson. The series follows Joe Bishop, a young American soldier, and Skippy, a beer-can-shaped, ancient, and incredibly powerful AI, as they narrowly escape ever escalating cliffhangers.
Karn’s plot is about restoring the Weatherlight after it got Phyrexianized in DMU.
Jaxyaboy (new submitter!)
Spongebob and Patrick, Paradox is in reference to the season 7 episode called Back to the Past. In that episode they repeatedly went back in time to when they arrived thus creating many versions of themselves. The artifacts it is bringing back is in reference to the many copies of the time machine that they arrived in.
The Great Amassing Reef is a reef around the waters of Tolarian Acadamey during the Time Spiral Crisis. Due to this it is caught in a time loop with itself while bringing with it artifacts from the now destroyed Acadamey that were scattered and shattered into its depths.
Pat
kuyashiiPlays
Topics and Snippets:
- not evil, just vindictive
- finality counters after the first one
- low power indestructible is mostly for blocking, but extra power adds a new problem
- little doll vs killing robot are probably different genres?
- previous memories as an artifact on the battlefield
- artifact brain that depends on a host as an inverse umbra armor
- needing the nobles to do something
- expensive christian license
- archangels need an extra title?
- 13 to 1 angel to arch ratio
- lizard wizard angels
- second lowest rank angels
- and me with thee hath ruined
- powerscaling heavenly actors
- walls-matter joshua card
- parody vs meta
- game ending 4/5s
- priced to move
- do not cascade
- gotta protect reassembling skeleton’s business
- somehow comes in clutch
- halloween season in dragon ball
- premium wikispeech
- UB/UW double meaning comes true??
- another miracle by the patron saint of podcasting
- “eating counters matters”
- vehicle commanders
- toot toot
- professor onyx
- training
- thinking about soulbond a lot lately
- seanan mcguire
- whew one green card!
- 75% of the time it survives every time
- better or worse than indestructible
- indestructible but can’t be part of combat
- plucky sidekick
- is setting p/t to 5/5 an upgrade or downgrade to vehicles as a whole?
- unfinality
- karn always gets more story
- gallifrey lore
- epic!
- artifacts that mill more artifacts instead of eggs stuff
- signing up for the wild ride
- reflavor of legendary creature – sponge starfish
- the falconer snl sketch
- solutions to problems podcast
- exiling some cards to convey searching an area
- universes beyond cards like a little extra mechanical novelty
- a milder graveyard hate piece
- blurring the line between common and rare
- juliet’s fave: Calcifying Rootwalla
- tim’s fave: T-800, On the Hunt
- I’ll Be Pod for Castmas is coming back!