This month’s challenge standardizes the cost and size: 5 mana, 4/4 flier. From there, our designers could go wherever they want! Plenty of fun designs and great discussion, plus a thorough look into the nature of humanity.
Scryfall gallery of cards mentioned
Topics and Tidbits:
- most submissions ever!!
- THAC0 back from the dead
- batching rules: the final frontier of retro rules
- imagine most things have split second except that interrupts can still jump in
- tim explains banding (not for the first time on this show)
- can serra angels have extra abilities
- adjusting scoring after all the tests are turned in
- are zombies humans??
- only takes 10 minutes of pod for juliet to start talking about cognates
- emergency dubbing
- snow washing
- two classic cat traits: they fly and they create birds
- snow payoff vs snow cards that can bridge into non-snow decks
- double snow mana costs
- juliet unleashes a chilling pun
- deploying your signature emoji
- a -1/-1 counter is like being punched every turn
- constellation and other rewards for enchantments
- dies vs leaves triggers
- high heat cards in commander
- saga tokens
- finding enough historic permanents to sacrifice
- helping stabilize with a flier
- gaining abilities while paired without sharing those abilities
- always going on terrifying dates with daredevils
- having relevant/surprising rules at the very end of a rules clause
- a gentle “lose the flip” clause
- koffing from pokemon tcg
- different half bonus point clauses
- voting and d20 rolling cards as “this or that” design space
- rakdos as a coin flip faction
- reverse ward
- indestructible uncommons
- 3/3 flying gravedigger seems good
- mechanical hooks for -1/-1 counter cards
- killing your opponent before you can steal all their stuff 🙁
- red exalted
- “this should be a commander” as praise for a card idea
- getting your humanity in… other ways
- board. wipe. every. turn.
- being critical on numbers when the point is making a new design idea
- is this a common?
- tim talks about Play Booster Era commons again
- double team
- is a scheme a spell?
- the power of protection/hexproof/shroud from instants
- landfall leveling
- zendikar angels
- un-set limited
- are gamers human?
- caught in the plural trap
- retail squad
- juliet’s fave: Destroyer of Histories
- tim’s faves: Summer Fling and Human Cannonball
- as we all know: casimir pulaski day
Submissions
Inte
CryptRat
PlumtreeChloe
MissLys
Juliet
Qirn
AuxiliaryOtter
Andrew
YABO
vtbassmatt
khord22
Pat
ChurchWizard
