MinotaurOfTurnwunMountainPass @mycroft@wubrg.social

#Introductions

I'm a budget casual player of #mtg, mostly #Commander #EDH, though I've dipped into #Oathbreaker.

Most of my cards come from RTR and Theros blocks, when I got into the game. I have a much lower budget now, and try to stick to cards that I already have in my pool.

I play primarily Naya :red::green::white: and subsets.

I keep inventory of cards I have and decks I've built over at https://deckbox.org/sets/404272

I don't play MTGO or Arena much.

goblin boomstick, 0
Artifact Equipment
Equipped creature gets +2/+0 as long as it's attacking.
When equipped creature dies, sacrifice Goblin Boomstick.
Equip 1

I originally had it at cost 1 and thought it might be undercosted, but looking at other equipment even at 0 it might be overcosted?

maybe Horde can get a Bloodlust N mechanic, similar to Adapt, that if it has no +1/+1 counters on it, it gains N +1/+1 counters and attacks each combat if able

or put an activated ability on an ogre-mage that pumps all creatures by +?/+0 and can't be blocked by more than one creature and must attack this turn if able until eot, activate only as a sorcery

I realized this has the side effect of Warcraft characters and units most likely to have a Wizard creature type will not appear in Blue at all.

Colorless artifacts focusing on goblin or gnomish themed
ornithopter gets a reprint here

it hit me that I can re-use the same color combos as Gatecrash:

R/W: Alliance, traditional soldier aggro fits, maybe some ability that easily flips between offense and defense
R/G: Horde, traditional stompy fits, maybe something with elemental tokens
G/U: Night Elves, less familiar with mechanics of these colors, maybe hexproof when not your turn
W/B: Scourge, traditional aristocrats, making and using 0/1 Acolyte tokens as a resource
U/B: Burning Legion, ?

okay, Eberron and others pushed to the side again, I've got a better idea: Warcraft

stretching a little to have 5 factions, Alliance, Horde, Night Elves, Scourge, and Burning Legion

this took another hour

mainly to find out the artist is Steve Prescott

but also to hem and haw over whether to keyword this ability that I'd want to appear on all warforged creatures

this took me an hour

yup, gave up already

brain: what else can I possibly adapt that's less complicated than 12-14 noble houses

brain: what about transformers

me: how do I do 5 colors?

brain: leave out green and do a wedge and a shard, Grixis for Decepticons and Mardu for Autobots.

me: representing transforming is already there with the transform mechanic

brain: no, use morph to represent them being robots in disguise

me: ok I'm bored I'll give up and look for something else

found public domain art (some cases tweaked) for basic lands, and got a set symbol that's not bad, now I guess for some top-down design

getting the itch for set design and using https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLHHN9OOAAMAGqE2O5FjGQwOaaq_wtBY7T as a guide, first the creativity part, creating or adapting a setting to be the basis

I like the D&D setting Eberron, and its Dragonmarked Houses are very similar to Ravnica guilds, but there's ~12-14 of them, which doesn't divide evenly into mtg colors.

There's the historical Five Nations, which sounds like a starting place.

oh no, my local friend who shares the design and development and rules interactions bug as me shot down some of my decisions

he's a real real stickler for the rules and following systems and examples really closely

i think my idea of "when Goblin Orator enters the battlefield sacrifice it unless you sustain a belch for at least 500ms" doesn't need to be shot down quite so fast

oh no I've gotten interested in designing an entire set of custom cards for cube

wanting to make custom tribal cards but only with cute animals associated with mtg colors
green - squirrel
black - rat
white - rabbit (normally cat, and rabbit traditionally green, but I'm me)
blue - otter?
red - fox?

Dork Bunny, G
Creature - Rabbit
T: Add G for each non-beast rabbit you control.
G: Dork Bunny gains flying until end of turn.
0/1

oh no I've gotten interested in building a cube

from scratch I mean, not my Gatecrash retail draft simulating cube

Izzet Safety Inspector
Creature - Viashino Artificer(?)
Whenever Izzet Safety Inspector is dealt damage, add UR. Pretend I know templating and you don't lose this mana until the beginning of your end step.
(U/R), T: Izzet Safety Inspector deals 1 damage to target creature you control.
1/2

like this

sounds like a blue instant that counters target spell and if that card would go into the graveyard exile it instead

what do you think

no prizes :(

idea: weekly contest where I post an image with no context and people submit custom mtg cards based around the art and everybody gets something cool for participating

problem: I have no cool things to easily give away :(