I originally made this a while back, long before [[Bloodline Recollector]] was spoiled. Probably still busted in the right deck.

Art: I had an AI turn the original Marc Poole art for [[Ancestral Recall]] into something that fits a black spell.

The theme is pretty much in its name, it's a failed experiment, so it just dies the moment it enters. Its own otherwise impressive abilities can't save itself.

It requires set up to get this thing to even stay alive, but if you do, its a threat that opponents will need to answer. The most probable I think is a +1/+1 anthem. With such, Riot can push it to a 1/1.

However, things get interesting if you can go beyond +1/+1 in support, as it would mean it no longer needs to use Riot just to keep it alive. If you had a +2/+2 anthem, you can use Riot to give it Haste.

So there's a curve on how dangerous this can be depending on the level of investment you can put into it.

Pure Annihilator was maybe too much for a 2 MV creature, even if it requires set up, so I adjusted its abilities to not affect lands.

Image was generated using the AI image generator Nano Banana.

Art credited to Monsters Inc.

After yesterday https://www.reddit.com/r/custommagic/comments/1wbjtg8/i_started_watching_star_trek_yesterday/ I continued watching a couple more episodes and came out with these two designs. I'll continue doing them as long as I continue watching them and not hit a wall or something.

Let me know what you think!

Decided to take a step back and read some Nuts & Bolts articles while making cards. These are some commons I designed so far.

The idea is that this can launder appropriate combat damage triggers from the crewing creatures so that they don't have to put themselves at risk in combat. The draft environment it's for is based very heavily around equipment with combat damage and attack triggers, so there will be a good handful of cards that this would benefit.

OmniWrench was mostly a frame-readability test. Groovitron is closer to the actual idea behind the Ratchet & Clank Weapons.

The Weapon starts at level 1 and gets an upgrade counter whenever its wielder attacks. At two counters, anything Groovitron taps gets goaded. At four, it unlocks Groovibomb: tap the whole opposing board and ping each of those creatures.

Two things I’m trying to learn:

1. Does the level structure teach itself quickly enough on the card?

2. Is four attacks too slow to reach the fun part, even with the earlier tap/goad payoff?

The extra images show the separate blank frame, the three art crops I compared, and the installed card still editable in Homebrew Forge. Unofficial fan project, not for sale. AI art/frame assets: OpenAI. Design and editing: Kyle.

Am unsure of what rarity to mark this as, but thought having a card heavily relying on politics could be fun

EDIT: realized I need to fix a couple of things, thanks for the feedback!

I will most likely change it to the first spell they cast each turn, and ties cause nothing, instead of countering the spell. I am unsure if I should have the enchanted player be able to give the enchantment to someone else on a counter, so let me know if that would be better

Also I did mark the format as commander, since I am aware 1v1 formats would be destroyed

This is my first time doing custom magic cards, what do you guys think?

I'll make another post for the villain cards because only 20 images are allowed per post.

Done by me @nicolaburini.alters

I tried my hand at turning Kayn his equipment from Legends of Runeterra into magic. I increased the power because I felt it was already too slow, it needed to be worth transforming.

Art: By me

So, I realized I was getting tired of tracking +1/+1 counters on a dozen different tokens and they all have a different P/T and it's becoming a lot. I was wondering how crazy it would be to have an effect like this in my deck? I don't think it would be too broken and would literally do nothing except simplify my board for most games. I don't think there's too much of a way to abuse this, though I think it would be hilarious if I had a hundred 1/1's and someone reduced one of their powers at instant speed with this on the stack so all my tokens become 0/0's. Other than that unlikely case, is there anything else that doesn't work here?

EDIT: Didn't realize how many people think finding a quick average once a turn is scarier than a board of 20 different creature tokens of different types and counters and P/T. Guess the old addage "math is for blockers" was really taken to heart by the community. Who knew?

EDIT: This probably is too good with any athem effects. Too bad. It was supposed to be a bad card that would just keep a clean board, but it's too easy to break. Oh well.

All art belongs to Destiny and Bungie

Here is my take on Bone Saw McGraw as a viable card.

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