The Great Creature Type Challenge, Day 90 - Germ

[void_nothing]

Type of the Day: Germ

Over 280 creature types exist in Magic. Some of them have been more prominent than others. All of them deserve some time in the sun. That's where this daily contest thread comes in. The rules are detailed below:

To Enter:

• Note the type for the day, which will be the creature type directly after the previous day's in alphabetical order.
• Design a creature (or tribal) card that has the day's specified creature type. This is the only restriction - as long as you have the right typeline, you can design any card you want. You can include any other types you like, as long as you have the specified one for the day.
• Vote for two of the other entrants from the previous day. (In the event that there are two or fewer entries that you are allowed to vote for, you may vote for only one.)

Scoring:

A running score tally will be kept for all players' totals throughout the length of this contest. In addition, an honor roll of the winners of each day (the champions of that day's creature type) will also be maintained in spoilered form in each day's thread. Once all the creature types have been cycled through, and voting for the final alphabetical type (presently Zubera) is done, there will be a highly prestigious overall winner as well!

Other Rules:

Just like any other daily contests, anyone is free to enter as many or as few days as they like and begin entering at any time.

The list of creature types that will be used in this contest is the Comprehensive Rules list, which includes "canon" creature types, those which are only used on tokens at this time, ones only used in Universes Beyond or D&D crossover products, and ones only used in Unfinity, the most recent acorn set. If new types are added to the Comprehensive Rules list during the run of this contest, they will be included in a thread if and only if they are alphabetically later than the current day's type.

The penalty for entering without exactly two votes for the previous day's cards will be 7 days probation, during which there will be no restrictions on continuing to enter the contest or score points. However, if a player fails to vote properly again during probation, their card will not be eligible for voting the next day.

Threads will be archived by letter: Once the first day with a type starting with B is posted, for example, all threads for types starting with A will be sent to the Contest Archives.

Scores:

Ink-Treader 222 (+4)
Subject16 214 (+3)
ApocalypseChive 214 (+4)
slimytrout 203
void_nothing 190 (+1)
Henlock 174 (+1)
netn10 137 (+2)
lookingupanddown 127 (+1)
JovialJovian 53
OneAndOnly 41
kwanyeegor-ii 23
MonoRedMage 19
Wren 8
Feyd_Ruin 2

Past Champions

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Advisor: slimytrout, Ink-Treader, ApocalypseChive, Henlock
Aetherborn: Ink-Treader
Alien: Ink-Treader
Ally: slimytrout
Angel: Ink-Treader
Antelope: ApocalypseChive, Henlock, Subject16
Ape: slimytrout, Subject16, netn10
Archer: Ink-Treader, Henlock, ApocalypseChive, netn10
Archon: slimytrout
Army: OneAndOnly
Artificer: slimytrout, Subject16
Assassin: Henlock, Subject16
Assembly-Worker: slimytrout
Astartes: ApocalypseChive
Atog: void_nothing
Aurochs: netn10, void_nothing, Ink-Treader
Avatar: Subject16
Azra: MonoRedMage
Badger: Subject16, OneAndOnly
Balloon: Subject16
Barbarian: Henlock
Bard: Ink-Treader
Basilisk: netn10, OneAndOnly
Bat: ApocalypseChive, Subject16
Bear: Ink-Treader, ApocalypseChive
Beast: slimytrout, Subject16
Beeble: Subject16
Beholder: void_nothing
Berserker: ApocalypseChive
Bird: kwanyeegor-ii
Blinkmoth: Subject16
Boar: void_nothing
Bringer: slimytrout
Brushwagg: JovialJovian
Camarid: JovialJovian
Camel: slimytrout, void_nothing
Caribou: Ink-Treader
Carrier: ApocalypseChive
Cat: Henlock
Centaur: void_nothing
Cephalid: ApocalypseChive, Ink-Treader, Subject16, Henlock
Child: Subject16
Chimera: Ink-Treader
Citizen: Ink-Treader
Cleric: JovialJovian
Clown: Subject16
Cockatrice: JovialJovian
Construct: Ink-Treader, Henlock
Coward: Henlock
Crab: ApocalypseChive, lookingupanddown
Crocodile: Ink-Treader
C'tan: void_nothing
Custodes: slimytrout, Henlock, netn10
Cyclops: slimytrout
Dauthi: Subject16
Demigod: ApocalypseChive
Demon: slimytrout
Deserter: ApocalypseChive
Devil: lookingupanddown
Dinosaur: void_nothing
Djinn: lookingupanddown
Dog: Subject16, lookingupanddown
Dragon: Ink-Treader
Drake: slimytrout
Dreadnought: void_nothing, Ink-Treader
Drone: Subject16
Druid: void_nothing
Dryad: ApocalypseChive, void_nothing
Dwarf: Subject16, void_nothing
Efreet: Ink-Treader
Egg: slimytrout
Elder: slimytrout
Eldrazi: JovialJovian
Elemental: slimytrout
Elephant: void_nothing
Elf: Ink-Treader
Elk: Henlock
Employee: Subject16
Eye: void_nothing
Faerie: Ink-Treader, void_nothing
Ferret: Ink-Treader, slimytrout
Fish: Ink-Treader
Flagbearer: Subject16
Fox: slimytrout
Fractal: Ink-Treader, Subject16, netn10
Frog: Subject16, Henlock, lookingupanddown
Fungus: Ink-Treader, void_nothing
Gamer: Ink-Treader, ApocalypseChive

Note of the Day:

Yesterday's Submissions:

(Yesterday's Type: Gargoyle)

Gamer votes: Subject16, Ink-Treader

Grotesque Guardian 4
Artifact Creature - Gargoyle (U)
Grotesque Guardian has flying as long as it's attacking.
Fortified land has "T: Remove target attacking creature from combat."
Install 3 (3: Attach to target land you control; or unattach from a land. Install only as a sorcery. While attached, this isn't a creature.)
3/2

I want to vote for all the cards today.

Votes: Subject16, Henlock

Vizkopa Guardians 1
Artifact Creature - Gargoyle (Rare)
Flying
Defender
Players can't attack you or planeswalkers you control unless they pay 3 life and let you gain 3 life during their turn.
Even stealing a pen can take a toll on your soul.
3/3

Votes: Subject16, netn10

Prismatic Gargoyle 1W
Creature - Gargoyle (U)
Flash
Flying
2W: Prismatic Gargoyle gets your choice of +1/+1 or +0/+3 until end of turn.
U: Target permanent that's one or more colors becomes the color of your choice until end of turn.
1/1

Vote: ApocalypseChive, void_nothing

Razor Grotesque 1RW
Artifact Creature - Gargoyle (U)
Flying
Whenever Razor Grotesque is dealt damage or dies, create an Equipment artifact token with "Equipped creature gets +1/+0." and Equip 1.
How does it fly with all that nonsense poking out? A closer investigation isn't advised.
2/2

netn10, ApocalypseChive

Ethersworn Guardian 3WW
Artifact Creature — Gargoyle (R)
Flying
No more than one nonartifact creature can attack each combat.
No more than one nonartifact creature can block each combat.
"Esper belongs to the Esperites."
— Lodus of the Ethersworn
3/3

Lookingupanddown, InkTreader

Museum Gargoyle3ww
Creature - Gargoyle (u)
Flying, protection from historic.
4/4
//
Curation 1w
Instant- Adventure
Choose a name. Permanents with the chosen name are legendary.

apocalypsechive ink-treader

Votes: ApocalypseChive, Ink-Treader

Watcher of the Keep 2WW
Artifact Creature - Gargoyle (Uncommon)
Flash
Flying
When Watcher of the Keep enters the battlefield, exile target creature until Watcher of the Keep leaves the battlefield.
The castle guards found the thief the next morning, having spent the entire night in a stone embrace. They decided to leave him hanging there as a lesson to any future trespassers.
3/2

[ApocalypseChive]

Gargoyle votes: Ink-Treader, Henlock

Wheat Germ
⚪ Land Creature - Plains Germ (U)
(Wheat Germ isn't a spell, it's affected by summoning sickness, and it has "T: Add W.")
Wheat Germ enters the battlefield with a +1/+1 counter on it, plus another +1/+1 counter if you control another Plains and another +1/+1 counter if you control a Peasant.
Whenever you mill, remove all counters from Wheat Germ and create that many Food tokens.
0/0

Uh no way this flavor text fits but:
Phyrexia's first invasion of Moag had a lasting impact on its agricultural practices.

[netn10]

Votes: ApocalypseChive, Subject16

Viral Germ 0
() Creature - Germ (Rare)
At the beginning of your upkeep, create a token that's a copy of Viral Germ.
Crafted in a state-of-the-art laboratory? Or is it extraterrestrial in nature? Perhaps nature's ingenious solution to eliminate its sickness? The significance of these questions had become irrelevant in mere seconds."
- Excerpt from "Last Day of Humanity".
0/0

[Subject16]

ApocalypseChive, Henlock

Mindmaw Virus 1UB
Creature — Germ (R)
When Mindmaw Virus deals combat damage to a player, that player exiles a card from their hand with a contamination counter on it.
Once each turn, you may play a card from exile with a contamination counter on it if it was exiled by an ability you controlled, and you may spend mana as though it were mana of any color to cast it. When you cast a spell this way, create a token that's a copy of Mindmaw Virus.
2/2

[void_nothing]

Votes: ApocalypseChive, Ink-Treader

The Remnant of Corruption 2WB
Legendary Creature - Phyrexian Germ (R)
When you cast this spell, mill seven cards.
Lifelink
The Remnant of Corruption gets +1/+1 for each Phyrexian and Equipment card in your graveyard.
1WB, Exile The Remnant of Corruption from your graveyard: Return target Phyrexian or Equipment card from your graveyard to your hand. Activate only as a sorcery.
0/0

[Ink-Treader]

Vote: Subject16, Henlock

Gigantikari Plague B
Creature - Germ (U)
Wither
At the beginning of your upkeep, if Gigantikari Plague is in your graveyard, you may pay B. If you do, exile another target creature card in a graveyard and return Gigantikari Plague to the battlefield. Otherwise, exile Gigantikari Plague.
Being able to perceive the sickness doesn't make it easier to eradicate.
1/1

[Henlock]

InkTreader, subject16

Phyretic Agent x
Artifact Creature - Phyrexian Germ (u)()
Haste
Phyretic Agent enters the battlefield with X +1/+1 counters on it.
If Phyretic Agent would deal combat damage to a creature, instead remove a +1/+1 counter from it and put a -1/-1 counter on that creature.
If Phyretic Agent would deal combat damage to a player, instead remove a +1/+1 counter from it and that player gets a poison counter.
0/0

[lookingupanddown]

Votes: Subject16, Henlock

Invasive Thoughts 2UU
Enchantment Creature - Nightmare Germ (Rare)
Whenever a player casts a spell, you may pay 2 and tap Invasive Thoughts. If you do, return that spell to its owner's hand, then they gain control of Invasive Thoughts. If that player doesn't own Invasive Thoughts, its owner draws a card.
"Unlike most things, planting intrusive thoughts is easier than planting more soothing ones."
—Ashiok
0/3