The DCC - June 21st, 2024

[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.
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• 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.
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(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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Indighost 59 (+2)
Sagharri 50 (+3)
bravelion83 48 (+2)
Rithaniel 48 (+6)
netn10 36 (+1)
wizyard 12
marioguy3 8
OneAndOnly 3
void_nothing 3
kwanyeegor-ii 2

netn10's probation: 9 days left

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Votes: Rithaniel, Sagharri

HM: Indighost

Divine Boons W{W/U}{W/B}
Sorcery (U)
Create a 2/2 white Cat creature token with vigilance, then choose a creature you control. Put X +1/+1 counters on that creature, where X is the amount of white mana spent to cast this spell. If U was spent to cast this spell, that creature also gains flying until end of turn. If B was spent to cast this spell, that creature also gains haste and menace until end of turn.
"That day I realized one thing that somehow had always escaped me: Theran Leonin refused the gods, yet I and all my ancestors all have first names linked to those same gods we were supposed to reject. My inner search was leading me back to my home plane. I was myself part of a mystery, and I wanted to shed light on it."
—Jeff Lionheart

Votes: netn10, Indighost

Soldier of the Full Moon
Creature - Spirit Soldier U
Lifelink
Sacrifice Soldier of the Full Moon: It deals 1 damage to target attacking creature. You may pay . If you do, it deals 1 damage to each attacking creature instead.
"Do not attack under a bright moon, lest your foes see you coming."
2/1

Wording Note

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So, I was unsure about the wording on this ability. When you have activated ability that deals damage and sacrifices the permanent, the activated ability will often start with the words "It deals," when the card needs to refer to itself a second time. Fanatical Firebrand has an example of this wording.

For Full Moon, above, the wording fits the requirements, but it also has to refer to itself a third time. I wasn't sure how the wording would need to be, in that case, whether the card would refer to itself by its name or by the word "it."

So, I searched, and, surprisingly, when a card needs to refer to itself a third time, it just uses its name, all three times. The only example I could find was Gangrenous Zombies. I'm not sure I like this, and since this is the only card I could find that has this kind of wording, I've decided to knowingly deviate from it.

Votes: Sagharri, Rithaniel

Golgari Blightjaw 1bg
Creature - Fungus Insect (U)
Menace, Deathtouch
Scavenge 2bg
When you scavenge ~, put your choice of a deathtouch or menace counter on the targeted creature.
Its venom comes not from any internal glands but from a symbiotic fungus that colonizes its mandibular grooves. They make for deadly pike heads after the host bug is dead.
2/2

Votes: Indighost, bravelion83

Really don't understand Wizard's logic with all these type changes - remove Cephalid/Naga/Viashino, but somehow add Warmint.

Cephalid Techitect 1UB
Creature - Octopus Artificer (U)
Whenever a modified creature dies, draw a card. This ability triggers once each turn.
Spells you cast that target one or more modified creatures cost less to cast.
"Robbing corpses? No, it would simply be a pity if such an invention was lost."
1/3

Votes: bravelion83, Rithaniel

I'm aware this card will (hopefully) never get printed because it kinda breaks the game but it's an interesting concept

Temporal Stasis
Enchantment (M)
Flash
Cards can't change zones.
Vanishing 1 (This enchantment enters the battlefield with a time counter on it. At the beginning of your upkeep, remove a time counter from it. When the last is removed, sacrifice it.)

Votes: Sagharri, Rithaniel

Charming Results 1UR
Instant (Rare)
Choose one -
* Copy target instant or sorcery spell, you may choose new targets for the copy.
* Choose an instant or sorcery spell. Replace each instance of the word "target" with "each".
* Shift target instant or sorcery spell. (Exile it. Its controller may cast a spell that shares a card type and a mana value with it without paying its mana cost.)

[bravelion83]

Votes: Rithaniel, Sagharri

Elizabeth Lionheart G{R/G}{B/G}
Legendary Creature — Cat Peasant (R)
When Elizabeth enters, create X 1/1 green Cat Child creature tokens, where X is the amount of green mana spent to cast this spell. Then if R was spent to cast this spell, creatures you control gain haste until end of turn. Then if B was spent to cast this spell, put a deathtouch counter on Elizabeth and up to one other creature you control.
"Let's begin from my mother: 'God is an oath'. And were we supposed to have no gods? But let me move on to…"
—Jeff Lionheart
2/2

[Indighost]

Votes: Wren, Rithaniel

Building Chorus 1w
Sorcery (R)
Convoke (Your creatures can help cast this spell. Each creature you tap while casting this spell pays for 1 or one mana of that creature's color.)
Replicate - w (When you cast this spell, copy it for each time you paid its replicate cost. You may choose new targets for the copies.)
Choose one -
• Create a 1/1 white bird creature token with flying.
• Put a +1/+1 counter on target creature.
"With every voice added to Mat'Selesnya's song the clearer all others may hear it." - Uru, Temple Garden Tender

[Sagharri]

Votes: Rithaniel, Wren
HM: Indighost (I had earlier similar idea, but I still didn't found proper wording - and 'targeted' don't convince me)

Somehow inspired by @Wren's card.

Teferi's Gambit 1U
Instant (R)
Target spell phases out. (Treat it as though it doesn't exist until its controller's next turn. It will resolve as it phase in.)

[netn10]

Votes: Indighost, bravelion83

Battle-Hardened Tactican 1RW
Creature - Minotaur Soldier (Rare)
Whenever Battle-Hardened Tactican is dealt damage for the first time each turn, it deals that much damage to any target. Put a +1/+1 counter on Battle-Hardened Tactican.
Formation (Whenever this creature is dealt damage for the first time each turn, you may have any amount of it be dealt to another creature you control.)
3/3

[Rithaniel]

Votes: Indighost, Sagharri

HM: Wren - Love the idea, but all you need is a proliferation engine and suddenly creatures can't die and spells can't be cast. It'd have to be an instant with a wording of "until your next turn." Probably also want it to exile itself.

Journey into Winter
Sorcery U
Up to two target creatures can't block this turn.
Until end of turn, up to two target creatures gain "When this creature deals combat damage to a player, draw a card."
"In the months of snow, you either stay home, or you learn to survive."

[wizyard]

Wren, netn10

thoughts

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@Wren it doesnt work as is tho, bcuz even if the vanishing sacrifice trigger happens, the static ability would hold it in play. unless you meant "card" technically as in everything outside the battlefield, but i think that should be written more clearly and explicitly without the expectation that average players would have such a precise understanding of the nuances of game terms. can't really assume-- ppl _will_ misunderstand

@netn10 this doesnt work as is either, specifically the middle mode- there's a reason no card can exist to give all instants/sorceries overload.. it just breaks with certain sentences (first example i could find: Abandon Reason "up to two each creatures?"). this is why i'd prefer a radiate-styling of the mechanic which produced independent copies with diff targets.