The DCC - April 7th, 2024

[void_nothing]

Welcome to the DCC!
If you have any questions or comments, feel free to post in the DCC Discussion Thread.

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How To Play

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How does this card-making game work? It's simple! Whenever your card receives a vote, you receive [1] point for the month. If your card ends up with the most votes for that day, you will receive [2] additional points for the month. In the event of a tie, each person who tied receives [1] additional point. At the end of each month, the person with the most points on the scoreboard wins that month, then the scoreboard is cleared for the next month. You can participate in as many or as few days as you want in any month.

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Rules

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• Each day you may post any card you want. On the next day all of the posted cards will be put into the thread as long as your card didn't get disqualified - see the next point for more details. If you post more than one card in a DCC thread, only the first card you post will be taken.
• When you vote, you need to make exactly two votes for two different people. Vote for the cards that are listed in the first post, not other cards being posted in the thread. If you notice that you've only voted for one person, include your second vote in a post, even if you're not submitting a card.
• If you want to change your vote for any reason, post that change in the day's thread (you can include it with your card if you want). Changed votes in the discussion thread will be ignored.
• Voting for only one person, for three or more people, or for yourself will earn you an asterisk by your name in the monthly leaderboard. So will failing to vote if you've posted a card. (We're not going to do anything about people who don't vote or post cards; that would be kind of silly.) This indicates that you're on probation for the next 21 days. If you're on probation and you make another improper vote, your card will be disqualified. Repeated disqualification is grounds for warnings and/or infractions for not following the game rules, so please don't do it.
• Voting for everything in the poll will be grounds for a lifetime ban from the DCC. Don't do it. It just wastes the thread creators' time.
• If you wish to post a render, please use the hyperlink option when posting your card and make the card name the image link. Renders are usually large enough to clog up the list, so submit a text-formed card and (optionally) a link in the name to the render.
• This thread is just for your card submission. Take your questions/comments to our discussion thread. If it's a question, comment, or complaint about probation, PM void_nothing and/or the month's DCC organizer.
• When posting make sure that:
  • You have included all of the previous day's entries.
  • You update the leaderboard with the previous day's scores.

(An easy way to post the new thread is to hit the multiquote button on every post in the previous day's thread, then click Post Reply. Select everything in this post, copy it, and then paste it into the first post for a new thread. You'll have to clean up a few small things, like quote tags around the opening post and the previous day's cards.)

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Notes of the Day

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DCC Scoreboard

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netn10 18 (+6)
bravelion83 18 (+3)
void_nothing 13 (+2)
Raptorchan 9 (+1)
Rithaniel 9 (+2)
OneAndOnly 7 (+0)
archemediesx 7
marioguy3 4

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Votes: netn10, void_nothing

Votes: bravelion83, netn10
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Palimza, Cloaked in Cloud -- 3UUWW
Legendary Creature - Giant Wizard {R}
Palimza can block an additional two creatures each combat. Palimza must block if able.
Whenever one or more creatures you control attack, target attacking creature becomes base power 8/8,'
8/8

Votes: Rithaniel, bravelion83

I think I'm addicted to spree.

Sic 'Em, Boys and Girls G+
Sorcery (Rare)
Spree
+2W: For each creature you don't control, create a 2/2 green Cat creature token with haste or a 3/1 green Dog creature tokens with vigilance.
+2R: A creature you control deals 1 damage to a creature you don't control. Repeat this process for each creature you control.
+2: Draw a card for each Cat you control, then put a land card from your hand onto the battlefield for each Dog you control.

Votes: Rithaniel, void_nothing

"One pierced heart, two mindful horns" Day 6/12 — Today you'll meet again Lubyd, a human boy in his late 20s that's been a lurking presence since the very beginning of the story. "Roy's housemate" is mentioned several times in the first three episodes, but it's only in Episode 4, the final one, that we get to finally know him. He has overheard from the other room Roy speaking to Zonez about his case and wanting to talk to the Dimir to investigate the killer's cloak, and to keep Roy as far away as possible from his own guild (Roy does NOT know his housemate is a Dimir member), he decides to incapacitate Roy, bring him in their house's basement, disguising his true identity with a Dimir cloak not unlike the one the killer had and a voice-altering spell, and try to convince Roy that there is no further involvement of the Dimir in his case besides selling the cloak to the Gruul (which is actually the truth, despite being a Dimir in disguise he's not lying here). But what he really wants is to scare away Roy from the Dimir. He knows Roy and knows it would be too much to him, and he cares too much about Roy. For the moment, he manages to do that, while also keeping his Dimir allegiance hidden to Roy. A complete success from his point of view. We as readers only learn his name now, after one of his intraguild contacts, a human girl who had been there hidden behind a piece of furniture the whole time, comes out of hiding and calls him by name: Lubyd, having a brief dialogue before leaving the house from the basement's secondary entrance.

Lubyd, Roy's Housemate 2UB
Legendary Creature — Human Rogue (R)
Disguise 3{U/B}{U/B}
Lubyd can't be blocked by creatures with power 1 or less.
2{U/B}: Choose target creature an opponent controls. That creature's power becomes 1 until end of turn. You can't activate this ability if Lubyd has been turned face up this turn.
"I care too much about Roy, and I know he wouldn't last a single day in our guild. I don't want him as a guildmate. I want to scare him away from joining our guild."
2/4

Votes: netn10, Raptorchan

Rejected idea from the April CCL round 1.

Vy'bar, Brass Beneath Dunes
Legendary Land - Desert (M)
T: Add one mana of any color. Vy'bar deals 2 damage to you.
T: Vy'bar deals 1 damage to target blocking creature. Activate only during the end of combat step.
4, T, Sacrifice Vy'bar: Search your library for up to two Desert cards, put them onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

bravelion83 netn10

[OneAndOnly]

Votes: bravelion83, netn10
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Bridge of Flowers
Legendary Land
T: Add C. If you gained life this turn, add one mana of any color instead.

[Rithaniel]

Votes: OneAndOnly, void_nothing

Dang, my post didn't make it in yesterday.

Disciple of the Wheel
Creature - Spirit Treefolk R
Vigilance
At the beginning of each player's upkeep, that player sacrifices an artifact or enchantment. Whenever a permanent is sacrificed this way, create a 2/2 green Wolf creature token.
: Return target artifact card in your graveyard to the battlefield. Activate only as a sorcery and only once each turn. Any player may activate this ability.
2/6

[netn10]

Votes: OneAndOnly, bravelion83

Total Absolution WWBB
Sorcery (Rare)
Exile each noncreature nonland permanent and each outlaw creature. For each permanent exiled this way, its controller may either draw a card and lose 1 life, or create a 1/1 white Spirit creature token with flying.
"This is a land of sinners, but that does not mean you should not try..."
- Dowan, Orzhov Crossroads-Dealer

[bravelion83]

Votes: void_nothing, netn10 (but I'm not really a fan of these card names though)

"One pierced heart, two mindful horns" Day 7/12 — Today you'll meet again Samarta, the necrotopsist that analyzes Katel's body in Episode 4. She's actually a secondary character, but I wanted a mono-black one as I didn't have any without her, that's really why she exists. Her main role is to give you, the reader, two of the four sequences of numbers you needed for the main puzzle, and in the very last episode, to make sure you couldn't resolve the puzzle too early, you were supposed to maybe have some ideas by the end of episode 3, but with a missing key piece of information that you needed to be 100% sure your solution was the correct one. I forged the wording of her whole dialogue with Roy in such a way to give you those two sequences. Her backstory is rather simple: one of the few uncompleated members of the Golgari during the Phyrexian invasion to have survived, she realized all the wrong the Golgari did to Ravnica during the invasion, and given that now the Golgari are looked at badly on Ravnica, if she, who had no part in the invasion, wanted to keep her own reputation safe, the only way was leaving the guild to go to work for those who are on the hotspot in the moment: the Agency. That's all for her backstory. I told you, I needed her more for mechanical reasons than flavor ones.

Samarta, Necrotopsist 3BB
Legendary Creature — Elf Detective (R)
Whenever Samarta, Necrotopsist enters the battlefield or attacks, you may return target nonlegendary creature card from your graveyard to your hand. When you do, reveal the top card of your library. If that card has mana value equal to or less than the returned card, put that card into your hand and you lose 2 life.
"After the bad impression the Golgari left after the Phyrexian invasion, the best way for me to not be publicly seen as guilty was leaving the guild and putting my expertise at the service of the Agency."
2/5

[void_nothing]

Votes: netn10, bravelion83

Inverter of the Law 1R
Creature - Devil Pirate (R)
Menace
As an player's opponent targets them, anything they control, and/or a card in their graveyard, the first player commits a crime.
Citizens, Clerics, Nobles, Knights, and Soldiers are outlaws.
2/2