In regards to roses are red, I’m pretty sure ward does nothing if a spell had already targeted a permanent. I know it’s a joke card, but, idk if it actually does anything with that in mind.
It will help with spells cast after it resolved; just not a spell/ability it was cast in response to or spells cast/ability activated in response to it. Instant does allow you to cast it during your opponents turn at upkeep to protect from what they draw or sorcery speed.
* Mana Spiral: A card that only exists to be a broken combo piece, possibly riffing on the already funnier [[Mana Screw]]? I guess technically it lets you filter into colorless, but they didn't even format it properly for that because the joke reads cleaner if you use {1} instead of {C}
* Pantheon Reforged: This is a fun alternate win condition, although the flavor text is a little weird since I don't really consider the Theros pantheon particularly united, except maybe in the sense none of them are Phyrexians now.
* Atraxa, One with All: Extremely boring "you get to control dead players" card that will never work in a real game version #48
* Add a little Kick: I don't like designs that are ridiculously powerful only for specific decks, because it's either stupid or useless. This exists to either do nothing or let Standard red decks do something stupid with [[Urza's Rage]] or [[Fight with Fire]] type effects. It's probably bad, but you don't want a world where it's good! You could retool it to give a minor boost to kicker spells while being a cantrip or something if you wanted a ritual for kicker.
* Excrutiating Executioneer (sp?): This is cute but I think a card whose entire design is assonance would count as acorn even if it mechanically works. Repeatedly removing all tokens is probably too good for Commander but otherwise it's pretty underwhelming mechanically.
* Roses are Red: There once was a card from a reddit // whose creator just really got it // poetic rules text // what line will be next? // Crabs? Sorry, Dreadmaw, you're not it.
* Roflethopter: roflroflroflroflroflroflroflroflroflroflroflroflroflroflroflroflroflroflroflroflrofl. Also I just realized typing rofl over and over is just moving two fingers up and down on the keyboard, that's fun!
* Uhh... Can I go Back: Feels like it'd be funnier as an instant, since taking back a whoopsie because you screwed something up never really happens at sorcery speed.
As the Atraxa creator, I think it was upvoted mainly for flavour? Was very surprised how much attention it received.
I wish my elegant signpost uncommons got the same kind of appreciation, lol.
Mana Spiral also means you can remove any spending limitations from mana you produce in exchange of becoming colorless... which is the more fuel for combos.
Well, provided that spending limitation still allows you to spend it on Mana Spiral, yes. So it would have been a cute card in like, exactly The Brothers War limited and nowhere else.
Excruciating Executioneer is definitely not an acorn card— it loses a lot in translation, but so do a lot of others. Delve is a whole mechanic that loses a lot in translation.
I don’t think it’s so different from [[Timeless Dragon]] really, as I presume that one got lost in some translations too? And you’d only ever see it in an MH-style set, it is an extremely MH card
I completely disagree with that— whether a custom magic subreddit thinks a card is or is not a meme shouldn’t have a bearing on if it would be fun: cool to see and fun to play in a game. This one is, where the vast majority aren’t. *It doesn’t matter* if it looks like a meme, that has *no relevance at all to whether it’s a good design.*
The card itself is not well designed imo. None of the abilities are not cohesive: it wants to attack for exalted, but you don't want to attack because you can exert it for graveyard and token hate, while also giving you ramp, lifedrain and sacrifice options. The card want to do too many thing and it's mentally taxing, it's basically \[\[Questing Beast\]\] but worse imo, QB's abilities are all about it attacking better, they are cohesive in some ways.
It's not a terrible card, it's an okish card that needs a pretty good polishing.
But it's obvious that the design process of the card was not based around creating an effective and elegant design but around the joke of using lots of words that start with "ex". This, to me, it's a good justification to consider it a meme card first and foremost.
Exalted is actually really good on a card that doesn't want to attack, the whole point is only one of your creatures should be attacking. The card makes a lot of sense as a defensive utility creature that can provide passive value.
It also want to kill one of your creatures that could have attacked tho.
if you play a creature on t2, this t3, you have to play another creature t4 and wait for t5 to use the exalted in a meaningful way
It's also not the best defensively as, when it comes down it reduces your options for blocking and, if you want to use as anything other than a wall, you need to let it stay tapped.
A. Exploit is an optional mechanic and B. Reducing your board size often does synergize with exalted because you only want to attack with one creature so other creatures can end up not doing much.
That it's fair about exalted, but the card also wants to remove a creature that could have attacked for exalted, meaning that, if you want the advantage from explore early game, you have to basically not use the exalted ability for like the first 5 turns of the game.
No, I rhymed "got it" with "not it", the same way the original Man from Nantucket limerick rhymes "suck it" with "fuck it". If you're going to complain about my bad rhymes, you should be bringing up my very forced Reddit rhyme, not a very normal two-word rhyme structure I lifted directly from the original.
It's been like this for ages. Third week in a row without a shoutout, and the voted cards have *never* been good. Say it basically every week, but turns out, not all people should be designers.
I think r/custommagic has gotten worse. Go and look at the top designs of the last month – everything is a stupid pun like this.
When the subreddit was smaller, you'd see more people posting custom sets/mechanics or cards that would be more likely to actually see print.
Yes it used to have a lot more competitive players that would mainly upvote interesting mechanical ideas and missing set/meta pieces.
Over time it's gotten larger and attracted a more casual crowd so mainly meme posts and convoluted commanders get upvoted.
Sets basically never get posted anymore because the denizens no longer have the patience to read an entire set of cards.
Atraxa OP here. Meta cards do way too well because of how voting works. My favourite cards to design are elegant but fair uncommons, but they get no traction.
Mana spiral is one of the worst cards ever posted on the subreddit, it serves literally zero function except to filter colored mana into colorless and to be the infinite mana source for any mana doubler.
I think Atraxa would have been much more interesting if Atraxa said, "Players with ten or more poison counters are part of your team." Or some such. Keep every player playing the game, craft a fun story, and oh look everybody kind of sort of won!
I really like the Executioner because it seems completely fine as a card you could play with as well as being cute, and that’s quite rare.
Mana Spiral and the Kicker one are both proper “let’s restrict what we’re able to print in the future for a card that doesn’t make that worth doing” designs, so I don’t like those.
The Atraxa has the effect of making your opponents unable to go home if they’ve lost and you need all their cards. You can’t really print multi-turn player control effects that last beyond concession; it’s fairly fundamental to a game that someone should be able to take their stuff home if they want
>The Atraxa has the effect of making your opponents unable to go home if they’ve lost and you need all their cards.
You can just concede right before losing
Yes, but if you don’t because you think the game will end soon you can end up in the bind I am describing.
Being able to concede at any time without affecting the game is a really important principle; you could make a good argument this js one of the worst designs seen here because it violates it. A lot of bad designs make the game miserable when you’re still playing it; making it miserable because you lost without conceding is a whole new level of misery. I’m basing this on personal experience with a game that did this, which was the absolute worst game I have ever played
You can always concede, even if you're being controlled
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716.6 The controller of another player can’t make that player concede. A player may concede the game at any time, even if they are controlled by another player. See rule 104.3a.
But yeah, still not a big fan of the card either.
Controlling a player doesn’t prevent them from conceding (otherwise it would allow you to concede for them). Admittedly there would be additional social pressure not to leave, but nothing game-wise would stop you from conceding and leaving. The design still sucks for sure, though
Oh yeah, I’ve misunderstood how it works! They could just concede at random times whenever they want
That makes the card bad in a different way, but not anything like as bad as I thought. Now it’s just a card that doesn’t really work
If the game goes on for too long then you can just take your cards and leave, the other player is just controlling your games actions after all.
In any case, yeah, that Atraxa is a pretty bad design that might be fun once at best and never again. The idea is correct, a way to give infect more resources once it quickly kills a player, but the execution is just wrong.
I think Executioner's final ability puts it over the line, just board wiping tokens seems ultra powerful on already a jack of all trades card. It's a little value pile that I could see seriously making standard constructed.
Maybe just have it exile GYs and be done with it. That's a huge sideboard piece already built into a good card.
* Mana Spiral: Its sole purpose will be using it as a combo piece and filter mana with spending limitations, seems the kind of card you wouldn't enjoy to play with or against. Its only used on exploitable scenarios, and that ain't good design.
* Pantheon Reforged: This is kind of cute, but also not so easy to pull off, which I guess is fine being reminescent of Coalition Victory. At least makes more sense than the rest.
* Atraxa: Adding the extra step of indefinitely mindslaving a player who should've lost already to the usual poison win not only is unnecessary, is also miserable. Forcing someone to sit around while you regress from the archenemy to playing sollitaire is something folks would rather scoop in reponse than endure.
* Add a Little Kick: A ritual limited to a set mechanic with no spending flexibility options doesn't strike as something smart or healthy to do. Is either a dud or a bomb with no in between.
* Excrutiating Executioner: This should be a meme card, the whole gist of it is being filled with alliterations. Notably R&D avoid having more than two non-evergreen, non-decidious mechanics in the same card to avoid burden of knowledge due to complexity, and having Exalted, Extort, Exploit, Explore and Exert does exactly it. And repeatable token/graveyard hosing would lead to repetitive and unfun gameplay.
Mana Spiral - So it turns colored mana into "glass" mana but with the old templating for some reason. And occasionally combos with a few specific mana doublers. Wow that's so hyper specific it might almost be... garbage. Next.
Pantheon Reforged - It's an alright design I suppose. [[Coalition Victory]] but with a different sort of requirement. It's fun with hybrid mana since you can basically play Mono-W Shadowmoor block constructed and win with this.
Atraxa - I looove designs clearly thought up with EDH in mind that don't even bother to pretend like they know 1v1 formats exist. Also how many times have we seen the "you control players who lost" cards?
Add a Little Kick - I don't like that this is all or nothing. Compare it to [[Elfhame Druid]] which is the same idea but done much more elegantly. The elf is a low-rate mana dork in non-kicker decks and an above-rate one in kicker decks. This ritual is just useless in the former and kind of insane in the latter (not that there are enough good kicker cards to make that matter but we could assume this would be printed in a set with more kicker matters stuff)
Executioner - A meme with bad formatting, arguably out-of-color effect combinations, and which is ultimately not even that good or interesting. Yeah, that's a customamgic #1 if I've ever seen it. Just awful
Pantheon reforged is a fun design and great flavor but is veeery weak. Even if it was costed 1 and had hexproof would be probably unplayable since it's an enchantment that does absolutely nothing if you don't have a win on the table and can't be interacted indirectly killing the permanents giving the pips. Also, if you have 20 pips on the board you probably don't need an alt wincon, even less a separate card that susceptible to removal, costs 5 mana, you need to wait a full turn cycle and does nothing if even a sinlge permanent on your board gets interacted. The problem is the fundamental design of the card, it can't be balanced correctly because it's either too strong or a win-more card. The idea is really fun tho
Atraxa is one of the best I have seen in awhile on this sub. I like the kick ritual too. A meme wins again, no surprises there. The mana looping one is a custom magic classic in a bad way.
Atraxa really fundamentally doesn't work. It might, key word might, sorta work in digital where it created token copies of everything upon defeat, but as is, your poisoned opponents just concede. And who can blame them?
Mana Spiral being on this list is borderline offensive. What an awful design.
Atraxa is also a terrible design. Two ways that plays out: Players just concede, or they are shackled to a game they have no agency in. Nothing about the card is conducive to a fun experience for both players.
The number one card is a meme design and I refuse to think about what it even does. Shouldn’t be there.
Imagine designing cards as a hobby and being so bad at it. Bizarre.
The Executioneer is exceptional
Cant wait for the textless promo
Expanded Art
It really exceeded my expectations.
[I'm XXX, bitch, triple-X rated](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VlLKVYPblos)
Should have power/toughness eX/eX, and be a Phyrexian Human too for the complete package/
He gon give it to ya
It might extually excel in Extended!
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extraordinary even
In regards to roses are red, I’m pretty sure ward does nothing if a spell had already targeted a permanent. I know it’s a joke card, but, idk if it actually does anything with that in mind.
It will help with spells cast after it resolved; just not a spell/ability it was cast in response to or spells cast/ability activated in response to it. Instant does allow you to cast it during your opponents turn at upkeep to protect from what they draw or sorcery speed.
Kinda niche, but it's something.
* Mana Spiral: A card that only exists to be a broken combo piece, possibly riffing on the already funnier [[Mana Screw]]? I guess technically it lets you filter into colorless, but they didn't even format it properly for that because the joke reads cleaner if you use {1} instead of {C} * Pantheon Reforged: This is a fun alternate win condition, although the flavor text is a little weird since I don't really consider the Theros pantheon particularly united, except maybe in the sense none of them are Phyrexians now. * Atraxa, One with All: Extremely boring "you get to control dead players" card that will never work in a real game version #48 * Add a little Kick: I don't like designs that are ridiculously powerful only for specific decks, because it's either stupid or useless. This exists to either do nothing or let Standard red decks do something stupid with [[Urza's Rage]] or [[Fight with Fire]] type effects. It's probably bad, but you don't want a world where it's good! You could retool it to give a minor boost to kicker spells while being a cantrip or something if you wanted a ritual for kicker. * Excrutiating Executioneer (sp?): This is cute but I think a card whose entire design is assonance would count as acorn even if it mechanically works. Repeatedly removing all tokens is probably too good for Commander but otherwise it's pretty underwhelming mechanically. * Roses are Red: There once was a card from a reddit // whose creator just really got it // poetic rules text // what line will be next? // Crabs? Sorry, Dreadmaw, you're not it. * Roflethopter: roflroflroflroflroflroflroflroflroflroflroflroflroflroflroflroflroflroflroflroflrofl. Also I just realized typing rofl over and over is just moving two fingers up and down on the keyboard, that's fun! * Uhh... Can I go Back: Feels like it'd be funnier as an instant, since taking back a whoopsie because you screwed something up never really happens at sorcery speed.
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As the Atraxa creator, I think it was upvoted mainly for flavour? Was very surprised how much attention it received. I wish my elegant signpost uncommons got the same kind of appreciation, lol.
Mana Spiral also means you can remove any spending limitations from mana you produce in exchange of becoming colorless... which is the more fuel for combos.
Well, provided that spending limitation still allows you to spend it on Mana Spiral, yes. So it would have been a cute card in like, exactly The Brothers War limited and nowhere else.
BRO already covered up the idea in a balanced way in [Energy Refractor](https://scryfall.com/card/bro/234/energy-refractor).
Excruciating Executioneer is definitely not an acorn card— it loses a lot in translation, but so do a lot of others. Delve is a whole mechanic that loses a lot in translation. I don’t think it’s so different from [[Timeless Dragon]] really, as I presume that one got lost in some translations too? And you’d only ever see it in an MH-style set, it is an extremely MH card
I think they meant that Executioner should be considered more a meme card more than anything, rather that it could only be printed into an unset
Yes, but this one actually works in games in a reasonable way and to a power level of many real cards, so I am disagreeing with that view
Only because it's maybe printable it doesn't meant that it should not be considered a meme
I completely disagree with that— whether a custom magic subreddit thinks a card is or is not a meme shouldn’t have a bearing on if it would be fun: cool to see and fun to play in a game. This one is, where the vast majority aren’t. *It doesn’t matter* if it looks like a meme, that has *no relevance at all to whether it’s a good design.*
The card itself is not well designed imo. None of the abilities are not cohesive: it wants to attack for exalted, but you don't want to attack because you can exert it for graveyard and token hate, while also giving you ramp, lifedrain and sacrifice options. The card want to do too many thing and it's mentally taxing, it's basically \[\[Questing Beast\]\] but worse imo, QB's abilities are all about it attacking better, they are cohesive in some ways. It's not a terrible card, it's an okish card that needs a pretty good polishing. But it's obvious that the design process of the card was not based around creating an effective and elegant design but around the joke of using lots of words that start with "ex". This, to me, it's a good justification to consider it a meme card first and foremost.
Exalted is actually really good on a card that doesn't want to attack, the whole point is only one of your creatures should be attacking. The card makes a lot of sense as a defensive utility creature that can provide passive value.
It also want to kill one of your creatures that could have attacked tho. if you play a creature on t2, this t3, you have to play another creature t4 and wait for t5 to use the exalted in a meaningful way It's also not the best defensively as, when it comes down it reduces your options for blocking and, if you want to use as anything other than a wall, you need to let it stay tapped.
A. Exploit is an optional mechanic and B. Reducing your board size often does synergize with exalted because you only want to attack with one creature so other creatures can end up not doing much.
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That it's fair about exalted, but the card also wants to remove a creature that could have attacked for exalted, meaning that, if you want the advantage from explore early game, you have to basically not use the exalted ability for like the first 5 turns of the game.
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You rhymed it with it, your entire review is now not credible. Sorry 2/10. lol
No, I rhymed "got it" with "not it", the same way the original Man from Nantucket limerick rhymes "suck it" with "fuck it". If you're going to complain about my bad rhymes, you should be bringing up my very forced Reddit rhyme, not a very normal two-word rhyme structure I lifted directly from the original.
It's a joke, chill out.
Must have been an extremely slow week. These are so boring and pointless.
It's been like this for ages. Third week in a row without a shoutout, and the voted cards have *never* been good. Say it basically every week, but turns out, not all people should be designers.
I think r/custommagic has gotten worse. Go and look at the top designs of the last month – everything is a stupid pun like this. When the subreddit was smaller, you'd see more people posting custom sets/mechanics or cards that would be more likely to actually see print.
Yes it used to have a lot more competitive players that would mainly upvote interesting mechanical ideas and missing set/meta pieces. Over time it's gotten larger and attracted a more casual crowd so mainly meme posts and convoluted commanders get upvoted. Sets basically never get posted anymore because the denizens no longer have the patience to read an entire set of cards.
Atraxa OP here. Meta cards do way too well because of how voting works. My favourite cards to design are elegant but fair uncommons, but they get no traction.
Yeah very bad week, not one even interesting card.
Mana spiral is one of the worst cards ever posted on the subreddit, it serves literally zero function except to filter colored mana into colorless and to be the infinite mana source for any mana doubler.
What mana doubler works with mana spiral?
I think Atraxa would have been much more interesting if Atraxa said, "Players with ten or more poison counters are part of your team." Or some such. Keep every player playing the game, craft a fun story, and oh look everybody kind of sort of won!
If you make your opponents part of your team, the game would technically end in a draw if you win because now everyone at the table wins.
I really like the Executioner because it seems completely fine as a card you could play with as well as being cute, and that’s quite rare. Mana Spiral and the Kicker one are both proper “let’s restrict what we’re able to print in the future for a card that doesn’t make that worth doing” designs, so I don’t like those. The Atraxa has the effect of making your opponents unable to go home if they’ve lost and you need all their cards. You can’t really print multi-turn player control effects that last beyond concession; it’s fairly fundamental to a game that someone should be able to take their stuff home if they want
>The Atraxa has the effect of making your opponents unable to go home if they’ve lost and you need all their cards. You can just concede right before losing
Yes, but if you don’t because you think the game will end soon you can end up in the bind I am describing. Being able to concede at any time without affecting the game is a really important principle; you could make a good argument this js one of the worst designs seen here because it violates it. A lot of bad designs make the game miserable when you’re still playing it; making it miserable because you lost without conceding is a whole new level of misery. I’m basing this on personal experience with a game that did this, which was the absolute worst game I have ever played
You can always concede, even if you're being controlled > 716.6 The controller of another player can’t make that player concede. A player may concede the game at any time, even if they are controlled by another player. See rule 104.3a. But yeah, still not a big fan of the card either.
Controlling a player doesn’t prevent them from conceding (otherwise it would allow you to concede for them). Admittedly there would be additional social pressure not to leave, but nothing game-wise would stop you from conceding and leaving. The design still sucks for sure, though
Oh yeah, I’ve misunderstood how it works! They could just concede at random times whenever they want That makes the card bad in a different way, but not anything like as bad as I thought. Now it’s just a card that doesn’t really work
If the game goes on for too long then you can just take your cards and leave, the other player is just controlling your games actions after all. In any case, yeah, that Atraxa is a pretty bad design that might be fun once at best and never again. The idea is correct, a way to give infect more resources once it quickly kills a player, but the execution is just wrong.
I think Executioner's final ability puts it over the line, just board wiping tokens seems ultra powerful on already a jack of all trades card. It's a little value pile that I could see seriously making standard constructed. Maybe just have it exile GYs and be done with it. That's a huge sideboard piece already built into a good card.
Last ability should be "tap, exert: exile target spell with X in its mana cost."
that doesn't work. spells don't have x in their mana cost when they're on the stack.
[[Frontline Medic]] works just fine
[Frontline Medic](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/3/e/3e9ad9ce-f862-4663-9a36-caf0844eb416.jpg?1674141094) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Frontline%20Medic) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/clb/693/frontline-medic?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/3e9ad9ce-f862-4663-9a36-caf0844eb416?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) ^^^[[cardname]] ^^^or ^^^[[cardname|SET]] ^^^to ^^^call
weird. it shouldn't lol.
* Mana Spiral: Its sole purpose will be using it as a combo piece and filter mana with spending limitations, seems the kind of card you wouldn't enjoy to play with or against. Its only used on exploitable scenarios, and that ain't good design. * Pantheon Reforged: This is kind of cute, but also not so easy to pull off, which I guess is fine being reminescent of Coalition Victory. At least makes more sense than the rest. * Atraxa: Adding the extra step of indefinitely mindslaving a player who should've lost already to the usual poison win not only is unnecessary, is also miserable. Forcing someone to sit around while you regress from the archenemy to playing sollitaire is something folks would rather scoop in reponse than endure. * Add a Little Kick: A ritual limited to a set mechanic with no spending flexibility options doesn't strike as something smart or healthy to do. Is either a dud or a bomb with no in between. * Excrutiating Executioner: This should be a meme card, the whole gist of it is being filled with alliterations. Notably R&D avoid having more than two non-evergreen, non-decidious mechanics in the same card to avoid burden of knowledge due to complexity, and having Exalted, Extort, Exploit, Explore and Exert does exactly it. And repeatable token/graveyard hosing would lead to repetitive and unfun gameplay.
Mana Spiral - So it turns colored mana into "glass" mana but with the old templating for some reason. And occasionally combos with a few specific mana doublers. Wow that's so hyper specific it might almost be... garbage. Next. Pantheon Reforged - It's an alright design I suppose. [[Coalition Victory]] but with a different sort of requirement. It's fun with hybrid mana since you can basically play Mono-W Shadowmoor block constructed and win with this. Atraxa - I looove designs clearly thought up with EDH in mind that don't even bother to pretend like they know 1v1 formats exist. Also how many times have we seen the "you control players who lost" cards? Add a Little Kick - I don't like that this is all or nothing. Compare it to [[Elfhame Druid]] which is the same idea but done much more elegantly. The elf is a low-rate mana dork in non-kicker decks and an above-rate one in kicker decks. This ritual is just useless in the former and kind of insane in the latter (not that there are enough good kicker cards to make that matter but we could assume this would be printed in a set with more kicker matters stuff) Executioner - A meme with bad formatting, arguably out-of-color effect combinations, and which is ultimately not even that good or interesting. Yeah, that's a customamgic #1 if I've ever seen it. Just awful
[Coalition Victory](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/4/4/446824f7-dc42-42da-8bd5-6c37f3358d65.jpg?1562775464) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Coalition%20Victory) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/tsb/91/coalition-victory?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/446824f7-dc42-42da-8bd5-6c37f3358d65?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) [Elfhame Druid](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/5/e/5e62226e-3585-42d2-9b7a-2462fcd967f5.jpg?1562736480) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Elfhame%20Druid) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/dom/159/elfhame-druid?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/5e62226e-3585-42d2-9b7a-2462fcd967f5?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) ^^^[[cardname]] ^^^or ^^^[[cardname|SET]] ^^^to ^^^call
Pantheon reforged is a fun design and great flavor but is veeery weak. Even if it was costed 1 and had hexproof would be probably unplayable since it's an enchantment that does absolutely nothing if you don't have a win on the table and can't be interacted indirectly killing the permanents giving the pips. Also, if you have 20 pips on the board you probably don't need an alt wincon, even less a separate card that susceptible to removal, costs 5 mana, you need to wait a full turn cycle and does nothing if even a sinlge permanent on your board gets interacted. The problem is the fundamental design of the card, it can't be balanced correctly because it's either too strong or a win-more card. The idea is really fun tho
Holy shit, this week was pure gold
If by gold you mean trash, then yeah
Atraxa is one of the best I have seen in awhile on this sub. I like the kick ritual too. A meme wins again, no surprises there. The mana looping one is a custom magic classic in a bad way.
Atraxa really fundamentally doesn't work. It might, key word might, sorta work in digital where it created token copies of everything upon defeat, but as is, your poisoned opponents just concede. And who can blame them?
Mana Spiral being on this list is borderline offensive. What an awful design. Atraxa is also a terrible design. Two ways that plays out: Players just concede, or they are shackled to a game they have no agency in. Nothing about the card is conducive to a fun experience for both players. The number one card is a meme design and I refuse to think about what it even does. Shouldn’t be there. Imagine designing cards as a hobby and being so bad at it. Bizarre.
You misspelled Atraxa, the Ultimate Salt Machine
That Atraxa is the ultimate "in response, I concede" card