The DCC - December 28th, 2022

[bravelion83]

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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netn10's probation: 11 days remaining

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DCC Scoreboard

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Ink-Treader 94 (+1)
Surging Chaos 89 (+2)
wizyard 82 (+5)
netn10 * 81 (+2)
Rithaniel 59 (+2)
Venedrex 53 (+2)
void_nothing 50 (+1)
RattingRots 42 (+2)
bravelion83 40 (+1)
OneAndOnly 29
folding_music 13
marioguy3 10
kwanyeegor-ii 3 (+2)
emily 2

Votes: Venedrex, Rithaniel

HM: Practically everybody else. Hard choice today.

Invasion of the Brainhorde 3BB
Sorcery (R)
Rewind 1BB (You may cast this spell for its rewind cost. If you do, perform the listed actions in reverse order while resolving this spell. This is not a modal spell.)
• You lose 1 life for each Zombie you control.
• Create two tapped 2/2 black Zombie creature tokens with "When this creature dies, you may cast a spell named Invasion of the Brainhorde rewinded from your graveyard." (To do so, cast that spell from your graveyard by paying its rewind cost rather than its mana cost.)

RattingRots, netn10

Golden Branch Paladin GGWWW
Creature - Treefolk Knight (M)
Each creature you control assigns combat damage equal to its power and toughness combined.
3/5

Votes; bravelion83, Venedrex

Dispel the Mystique 1B
Sorcery (Uncommon)
Destroy target enchantment you don't control.
Players can't cast enchantment spells until your next turn.
"As a new Department of Possibility candidate, you are going to see a lot of unexplainable phenomenons, yet as a rule of thumb, you must assume there is a rational explanation for it. Do not fall into the trap of the gullible."
Darka, Talent Hunter

Vote: Surging Chaos, void_nothing

Honored Lifeguide 2{G/W}
Creature - Elf Shaman (U)
When Honored Lifeguide enters the battlefield, if it isn't a token, populate. Otherwise, return target creature card in your graveyard to your hand.
Embalm 3GW (3GW, Exile this card from your graveyard: Create a token that's a copy of it, except it's a white Zombie Elf Shaman with no mana cost. Embalm only as a sorcery.)
2/3

Votes: wizyard, kwanyeegor-ii
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Jade Trinket -- G
Artifact
1: Add G, Activate this ability only once each turn.
T: Target green spell you control is uncounterable. Activate this ability only if you activated Jade Trinket's mana ability this turn.

Votes: netn10, wizyard

Matrix of Mayhem 3
Artifact (R)
T, Add R.
At the beginning of your end step, Matrix of Mayhem deals 3 damage to any target if an opponent cast a spell or activated a nonland ability on your turn.
"'Improper breach of decorum' my rear-end! Let's just get rid of the legalese and call it for what it really is: lack of manners!"
-- Chandra, to Dovin Baan

Votes: Surging Chaos, Rithaniel

Ascending Swordsphere
Artifact - Equipment (Rare)
Equipped creature gets +1/+0 and has trample for each time you rolled the planar die this turn.
: Create a token that's a copy of Ascending Swordsphere. Activate only once.
Equip

Votes: kwanyeegor-ii, RattingRots

Re: marioguy3 - This is something I just recently realized, but all your plane cards are missing subtypes. Like Feeding Grounds is "Plane — Muraganda."

(Also, I've realized that my last two cards didn't specify "this turn" in the damage prevention ability. So that's a mistake.)

Soulstorm Hellkite
Creature - Dragon R
Flying, trample, haste
, Pay X life: Exile each nonland permanent with mana value X controlled by a player who was dealt combat damage by Soulstorm Hellkite this turn.
Her breath is not fire, but it does certainly burn.
7/7

Votes: wizyard, Ink-Treader

Fang of Concealment 1BB
Creature - Naga Assassin (R)
Lifelink
Fang of Concealment can't block and can't be blocked.
Whenever a permanent is turned face up, you may pay 1 and 1 life. If you do, turn that permanent face down.
3/1

[marioguy3]

At Rithaniel: Aha! That might be partially responsible for my poor score this month.

Votes: netn10, Surging Chaos

Plane of the Pain
Plane - Painville
At the beginning of your upkeep, the beginning of your precombat main phase, the beginning of your combat phase, and the beginning of the end step, you lose one life.
: Each player loses five life.

[netn10]

Votes: wizyard, Ink-Treader

Tracking Van 1G
Artifact - Vehicle (Rare)
Tracking Van has hexproof as long as it's untapped.
3G and T, or Crew 2: Until end of turn, whenever an opponent cast a creature spell, draw a card.
0/4

[OneAndOnly]

Votes: void_nothing, netn10.
HM Rithaniel, but it deserves an "X can't be zero" clause.
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Ruby Trinket -- R
Artifact
C: Add R. Activate this ability only once each turn.
T: Damage dealt by target red spell can't be prevented or redirected this turn, Activate this ability only if you activated Ruby Trinket's mana ability this turn.

[wizyard]

netn10, OneAndOnly

Ursan Protector 1G
Creature - Bear Shaman (R)
Whenever a spell is put onto the stack, counter it unless its controller pays 1 for each other spell on the stack.
2/2

[Ink-Treader]

Vote: bravelion83, netn10

Ol' Tam, Cait King 2uBR
Legendary Creature - Cat Faerie (M)
Ward - Ol' Tam's controller gains control of a permanent you own of your choice.
2, T: Exchange control of two target permanents. Activate only as a sorcery.
His wealth is only matched by his boredom. And perhaps his corpulence.
3/8

[RattingRots]

wizyard, Rithaniel

Mimic Suit 3
Artifact - Equipment (R)
Equip 4
When equipped creature dies, if it's a nontoken creature, create a token copy of it.

[Surging Chaos]

Votes: netn10, wizyard

Angry Atoll
Land (R)
Angry Atoll enters the battlefield tapped.
T: Add U or R.
Channel - 2UR, Discard Angry Atoll: Goad target creature. It gains flying until the beginning of your next turn.

[Rithaniel]

Votes: netn10, Ink-Treader

HM Rithaniel, but it deserves an "X can't be zero" clause.

Well, at cmc 7, I think it being powerful as a token-hoser is fine, but fair enough.

Crystalwing Hellkite
Creature - Dragon R
Flying, trample, haste
: Until end of turn, target creature has base power and toughness equal to three times the number of cards in its controller's hand.
His wings are not flesh and bone, but he can still soar.
6/6

[void_nothing]

Votes: wizyard, Surging Chaos

Silverspear Cathar 2WW
Creature - Human Knight (U)
When Silverspear Cathar enters the battlefield, exile up to one target Wolf or Werewolf.
"Such a tidy end for such a savage thing."
3/3

[bravelion83]

Sorry, I forgot to post this right after posting the thread yesterday.

Votes: Ink-Treader, Rithaniel

HMs:
- wizyard ("rather than its power" is missing, see Doran, the Siege Tower itself)
- netn10 (I like the flavor text a lot but I feel like this should be a white card)
- Surging Chaos (there is no "nonland ability", abilities themselves can't be a card type, it should say "an ability of a nonland source" or something like that)

Fiery Breath RR
Sorcery (R)
Rewind XRR (You may cast this spell for its rewind cost. If you do, perform the listed actions in reverse order while resolving this spell. This is not a modal spell.)
• Fiery Breath deals damage to any target equal to the amount of mana spent to cast it.
• The next time a source you control would deal noncombat damage to a permanent or player this turn, it deals that much damage plus 2 instead.
"Beware! Everything can suddenly spit fire out of nothing here, be it a dog, a dinosaur, or a dragon."