The DCC - June 30th, 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.
• 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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Big performance by Sagharri today, probably securing them second place. It's a long time by now that Indighost has secured his victory on the month of his return, so long that I didn't even mention it before.

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DCC Scoreboard

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Indighost 91 (+1)
Sagharri 77 (+8)
bravelion83 68 (+4)
Rithaniel 66
netn10 51
marioguy3 18 (+5)
wizyard 12
OneAndOnly 8
KB52665 4
Wren 4
void_nothing 3
kwanyeegor-ii 2

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Votes: marioguy3, Sagharri

Lifechanging Mentorship {R/G}W
Sorcery (U)
Put a +1/+1 counter on target creature you control. That creature gains haste and mentor for as long as it has a +1/+1 counter on it. (Whenever it attacks, put a +1/+1 counter on target attacking creature with lesser power.)
"I told Ajani everything, and he explained to me what it means to be a planeswalker. He also told me Heliod had killed himself his last champion, that he wasn't to be trusted, and that my ancestor was who he was while I had to find out who I was, without pretending to live someone else's life."
—Jeff Lionheart

Votes: bravelion83, Sagharri

Numerical Elemental
Creature - Elemental (Rare)
Flash
When Numerical Elemental enters, create a 1/1 red Goblin creature token, a 2/2 black Skeleton creature token, a 3/3 green Beast token, a 4/4 blue Wizard token, and a 5/5 white Pegasus token.
Whenever a creature token you control leaves the battlefield, scry 1.
6/6

Sagharri, Indighost

View: Sagharri, Marioguy3

The Cleaver Hulk 2bb
Creature - Horror (R)
Menace, ward - sacrifice a creature
When ~ enters, sacrifice another creature.
Whenever ~ attacks, the defending player sacrifices a creature.
"I don't what it is or where its from, it just showed up and started killing. Survivors, animals, other monsters; it doesn't seem to care so long as it gets to wet that huge slab of metal with blood." - Shay, Teratologist
6/6

Votes: Bravelion83, Marioguy

Hail Mary 4{w/u}{w/u}{w/u}
Sorcery (M)
Assist
Target teammate may choose to lose the game. If they do, take two extra turns after this one. Exile Hail Mary.

(Envisioned for Battlebond 2, if that wasn't obvious.)

Votes: Sagharri, bravelion83

Empty Cassete 2
Artifact - Clue (Common)
When Empty Cassete enters the battlefield, you may exile an instant or sorcery card with mana value 3 or less from your hand.
2, T, Sacrifice Empty Cassete: You may cast a card exiled with Empty Cassete without paying its mana cost.
2, T, Sacrifice Empty Cassete: Draw a card.
A survival neccessity in That House, some might say even more than food or water.

Votes: marioguy3, Sagharri

These "Rites" cards haven't gone over well, but I enjoyed making them.

Rite of the Furious
Sorcery R
Kicker
This spell can't be countered if or was spent to cast it.
Exile each creature with power 3 or less. If Rite of the Furious was kicked, exile all creatures instead.

Votes: marioguy3, bravelion83

Shadow Alley Scarblade 1UB
Creature - Human Assassin (R)
: Destroy target creature if it has a counter on it. Otherwise, put a -1/-1 counter on it.
"You have to make an impression before you die."
2/3

[bravelion83]

Votes: Sagharri, KB52665

With this I've finished my month-long retelling of Jeff's backstory. What happens after this is that he meets Kim and Vuk on Taqul, they become friends and start wandering the planes together until Jeff decides to settle on Vukanat, and Krest, who is going to become his best friend, will rent him his childhood house for free. Starting tomorrow, I will also go back to square one... I'll go back to random cards again.

Back to Square One 4G{G/U}{G/U}U
Sorcery (M)
Restart the game. At the beginning of the first upkeep, each player may put up to two land cards onto the battlefield tapped, then draw that many cards.
"I had to start it all from scratch: wander the planes looking for a home. Martin saw me disappear from Theros, and I started wandering from one plane to the next, until finally I found one with people in need that looked like it could have eventually become my new home. Its name was Taqul, and it was indeed time for a fresh start."
—Jeff Lionheart

[Indighost]

Sagharri, Netn10
I was hoping to crack 100, but I have exhausted my stockpile of good ideas.

Asha's Benediction 1{w/u}{w/u}
Instant (U)
Counter up to one target spell that targets you. You gain a Ward 1 counter. (Whenever you become the target of a spell or ability an opponent controls, counter it unless that player pays 1)
Though exhausted, the champion did not falter as the flame bore down on them. Suddenly, their medallions gleamed in the clouded evening and the fireball splintered into ashes.

I cannot tell how powerful this is or isn't.

[marioguy3]

Votes: Rithaniel (this seems the most elegant of the cycle), netn10

Ruinous Recovery
Sorcery (Mythic Rare)
Exile all permanents you control, then exile that many cards from the top of your library. You may cast any number of nonland cards exiled from your library this way without paying their mana cost. Your life total becomes 10.

[netn10]

Votes: bravelion83, Sagharri

Prepare for Rainy Season XGU
Sorcery (Rare)
Create X 1/1 green and blue Frog creature tokens, then distrubute X +1/+1 counters amoung Frog creatures you control.
"We are the watchers of the rain, we cherish its gift but we do not command it. With gratitude and humility, we honor the life-giving waters, nurturing Bloomburrow and everyone it touches."
- Rib, Lilypad Villige Elder

[Rithaniel]

Votes: KB52665, Sagharri

Ontological Lightning
Instant U
Kicker and/or
Ontological Lightning deals 2 damage to any target and you gain 2 life.
If Ontological Lightning was kicked with its kicker, draw a card.
If Ontological Lightning was kicked with its kicker, each opponent discards a card.

[Sagharri]

Votes: Rithaniel, netn10
HM: bravelion83 (I really like it, but would prefer see it as an Aura to avoid memory issues)

Paradox Clock 4
Artifact (R)
, T: Proliferate if this is the first time this ability was activated this turn. If it's the second time, remove a counter from target permanent or player.
At the beginning of your end step, draw a card if total of three or more counters were put on permanents and/or players this turn.
The watchmaker couldn't figure out how the hour-long repair ended an hour before it started.

[bravelion83]

July 1st thread up in a few minutes.