Deforestation card should be something like: whenever a land enters the battlefield from anywhere but a players hand, destroy it. That player creates a treasure token.
Probably exile though, since the decks this is meant to punish the most are the ones that can play lands from the graveyard. So destroying it wouldn’t actually be much of an obstacle.
@@Atanar89 My attempt at a Phil card: Tireless Reef Land Creature - Elemental Island (Tireless Reef is blue) ({T}: Add U) You may not play Tireless Reef from your hand as the first land you play during your turn. {T}: Copy target triggered ability of a permanent you control that was triggered by another land or elemental entering the battlefield under your control. [0/3]
Crim's sword is excellent even without tweaks. With the tweaks (Choose two, cast whenever, and you can split the counters) it's *Chef Kiss*. Well done Crim. Well done. You designed a fair and balanced magic card.
Or just give her "opponents cannot attack you" just to make the card less confusing. "Each end step" and including "graveyard" is too absurdly powerful. Having a 4+ power angel with lifelink is not a "clunky" detriment in angel tribal. I know everybody's dream opponent in commander is the one with an Atraxa possessing both Undying and Persist; but we should probably draw the line somewhere.
With Magus of Magnus, you could include the token case and only increase the text by 3 words like so: "Each other creature loses all abilities. Each other nontoken creature has base power and toughness X/X, where X is that creature's mana value."
The deforestation axe only creating treasure would fix it I think. The card advantage is too much when the point of the card was to fix the ramp in other colors
Interesting how no one brought up the loop. You and opponent both have this in hand, and just ramp through each others deck, drawing cards and making treasure. Therefore still sort of boosting green ramp.
My attempt at a Fixed Deforestation Axe: --- 2 Equip 2 Equipped Creature has Forestwalk Whenever a land enters the battlefield, if it's the second land that entered the battlefield this turn, you may attach Deforestation Axe to a creature you control and draw a card. You *could* also put the damage trigger on it but I would want it to be something like a "Whenever equipped creature deals combat damage, if that player has more lands than you, search your library for a basic land and put it on the battlefield tapped".
I was thinking "yeah make it a 3/3, though you would probably want to make it mana value 4 to compensate... wait a minute that puts us back where we started" 😆
As a dedicated Giada player, the guys don't understand the difficulty of having plenty of life gain but also plenty of Angel support. You have to go one way or the other.
Fix for tuition fees: Players can’t search libraries. If a player would search their library, that player may pay X life, then they search the top X cards of their library where X is the amount of life paid this way.
How about changing tuition fees to something like: “Whenever an opponent would search their library, instead they pay any amount of life and search from that many cards from the top of their library.” I’m uncertain on whether or not to include the card draw, but this would definitely cut down on the text by a large margin and also prevent people from repeatedly tutoring by setting their life total to 1.
The ax propels its owner a little too far forward for two mana. Explosive Vegetation being draw 2 make 2 treasures, or heaven forbid Awaken the Woods comes down with X=5 or something silly. This should read "whenever one or more lands..." instead of "whenever a land...", and cost 3 mana to start, would fix it right up imo.
Deforestation Axe is a bit over the top with the card draw. The treasure token would be enough. The second part is a bit weird...I like the idea of stealing a land from the opponent's library, but giving it away to any other player? Nah...make it so you ramp trough your own library and maybe tap a land from defending player.
What if Tuition Fees played like Vorinclex, Voice of Hunger? "Whenever an opponent searches their library, you draw a card and their lands don't untap on their next turn."
Richard has such a great sense of humor and is able to convey it so well in each episode he appears in. I've missed him so much. Glad to see everyone having so much fun designing their own cards.
Tuition Fees should work sorta like an Ad Nauseam. Any search effect is replaced with the searcher revealing cards until they take a card, losing 2 life for each card revealed. Then shuffle the rest back in. Then they have control over how deep to dig, but also punished for being really greedy.
Tuition Fees should say: "Flash - If an opponent would search their library, instead they reveal the top card of their library and lose 1 life. They may repeat this process any number of times. They put the last card revealed this way into their hand." Think Ad Nauseum meets Opposition Agent with a touch of "You did this to yourself!".
This is for Crim: Hidden Fees 1UB Enchantment Flash Whenever an opponent would search their library for a card, they must instead reveal cards from the top of their deck until they find the card they are looking for, that opponent then loses one life for each card that was revealed in this way, then they shuffle the revealed cards that were not searched for into their library. "Of course it is unfair. That is why I put it in the contract."
Missed chance to make Marked for Compleation a curse and call it Curse of Compleation :p Some really cool designs btw, Marked for Compleation and both of Richards cards are especially homeruns for me!
I believe Phyrexian Penny Tray will always add at least one counter to itself during it’s controller’s end step because the Penny Tray itself is an untapped permanent with a mana ability
To fix ax make it the following: Whenever an opponent searches their library for a land you may search your library for a basic land and put it into your hand. Equipped creature has 2+tap: destroy target non-basic land, it's controller may search their library for a basic land and put it into the battlefield tapped. Equip 3.
Love these! I think Seth's nephilim commander could introduce a mechanic called Protegé (Protegé a 4 color nephilim) and proteges rules text would contain you may have two commanders if your second commander meets the condition, and gets around the partner with search ability and is clean. Additionally my favorite card is marked for completion, and I think I have a fix for the rules nightmare. It could be worded, if enchanted player has 10 or more poison counters, that player cannot win the game, their creatures are goaded, and marked for completion's controller has protection from enchanted player. That way you get around them not working for you, they have to use their resources on someone else. Not quite on a team, but close.
When will we get the last "harmonicon"? Either a Legendary creature, enchantment, or artifact that gives "If a creature you control dealing combat damage to an opponent causes a triggered ability of a permanent you control to trigger, that ability triggers an additional time."
The ink nephilim is zada but for all creatures, not just your own creatures. That limits the spells that are good for it. If you use it to pump, you pump all creatures. So the card draw remains but the combat dominance of Zada isn't quite there.
It makes it even better actually. You cast Expedite on Ink and instead of drawing a card for each of your creatures, you draw for all creatures. You make everything can't block with Renegade Tactics and draw for all creatures. Slip Through Space etc. You're in 4 colors instead of 1 so the options are so much better on top of the ability itself being stronger. Card is cracked.
@@tomerabramovici32 I didn't think of the can't block cards. That preserves the combat dominance of Zada with the added advantages you pointed out. Touché! Good sir! Touché!
Ok crim, imagine this: Whenever an opponent searches their library they exile each card they find. Then, each player secretly chooses a number 0 or greater, then all players reveal those numbers simultaneously. The player who chose the highest number loses that much life and they may play the exiled card for as long as it remains exiled and they may spend mana as though it was mana of any color to cast it.
Idea to fix the deforestation axe: add the following triggered ability: "when deforestation axe enters the battlefield or whenever equipped creature attacks, sacrifice a forest".
Penny tray would be cool if when you use it you add 2 and when an opponent uses it they get 1. Gives you an incentive to play it over another 2 mana colorless rock.
For Bodhi, maybe you could just say Non-Changeling Nephilim. Then you get rid of the Changelings and don’t need to say nonlegendary. Also maybe the keyword could be Command with X. Then in the set they reprint the old cards we want to make into commanders
Richard's Wanda Magus could say: "Other creatures lose all abilities. Other nontoken creatures have base power and toughness equal to their mana value."
Asha or any other lifelink blockers would trigger her ability, you don't even need that much extra lifegain. It acts as an attack deterrent unless you can't block.
Asha seems fine as is. She requires WUBRG, doesn't have haste, doesn't have hard protection like regeneration or indestructible, doesn't generate card advantage. She needs so much help to go off, definitely feels like the Timmy "looks stronger than it really is" kind of commander Tomer was aiming for.
you know those medieval easter-egg depictions of hornists, bent double, head between their legs, tooting with their farts? add a dash of human centipede and that's how you get the codfather intro, tooting his own. you're most welcome.
1:03:00 we definitely Round Up and Down LOL. You havent noticed because you're not paying with cash. Debit/Credit always pays the exact amount. Cash is when you do the rounding.
For Asha, we have things like ward-discard a card or ward-lose 2 life. What about ward-Asha's controller gains 4 life. Also for Tuition Fees maybe something like pay x life to look at the top x cards of your library.
I don't think you need 5 color Angels because it would automatically the go-to. They're only green for cycles, they're not actually green, and they're barely blue. I'd rather have like a cycle of 3-color Angel tribal commanders. Save five color for actual tribes that are consistently in each color. Asha also isn't 5-colors. That's just Azorius, if you want to push it Esper or Bant. Without Ward it's just white, and with first strike it's boros-based. No matter what there is no green.
Okay, Deforestation Axe is amazing on every level. It's balanced (aside from the card draw lol that's a bit pushed) it's fun, it's super flavourful- it's such a great design overall. Absolutely love it.
@@jadegrace1312 You are correct- I misread the card. I thought it put the land into play under THEIR control, so you could have strategies that revolve around using effects that trigger when people cheat cards into play or effects that revolve around an opponent having more lands than you in play, so you could ramp up a player while also benefiting you more if you have your deck built that way, and you can choose who to attack so you could either ramp the player that's really far behind or the player that's already ramped most of the lands they need and trigger your stuff more without them getting (much) benefit. But it doesn't do that, so yeah it's pretty broken lol but there's an interesting design space there for tweaks and improvements. Definitely my bad for not reading it properly though and making it more balanced in my head though.
@@Level_1_Frog I wish the card had something to with land destruction instead. Maybe like a reverse sword of the animist, where when it attacks you can destroy a non-basic land controlled by a player who controls the most lands
@@jadegrace1312 okay yeah yeah yeah that works- so let's 'fix' the card real quick; it can cost the same, the first effect can be the same except you just get a treasure, then I'm gonna change the second ability slightly going off your idea, and have the second ability destroy a non-basic land they control, then they can put a basic into play from the deck or hand (just to balance it out) and then you can draw a card if they do (just for some nice value on top, and if they don't get any value neither do you). I think that's a pretty fair and fun card altogether.
I think the two changes that would make the Axe playable but not ridiculous are making it a 1 mana instant speed activated ability instead of static, and change the combat damage trigger to work like catchup ramp by requiring the opponent you damaged to have more lands than either yourself, each other opponent, or all players. Also, animate the Penny Tray, slap a Luxior on it and suddenly you've got an insane beater threat for very little investment.
I think a solid fix for the Deforestation Axe would be that the static is given to the equipped creature. It makes you have to have a 1 drop creature and spend your first turns playing and equipping
I have 2 card ideas against land/green ramp. 1. An artifact that says when a land enters the battlefield if its controller has more than 1 land more than the player with the least amouth of lands put that land on the bottom of that players library. 2. Artifact, etb phase out all lands in play, when a land comez into play phase it out. Lands can't phase in. At the beginning of upkeep gain mana equal to the lowest/higheat number of lands a player phased out. Mana doesn't empty from pool until next upkeep.
Suggestion for Tuition fees ... Pay X life search through X cards. Thier life total cannot reduce under 1. You draw one card. Also name it Library Dues since you search your library.
Deforestation axe's static could be "if a land would enter play and another land has already entered play this turn under that players control then exile that card instead."
Deforestation axe, you could keep the card the way it is but replace the text “a land enters the battlefield” to “a forest enters the battlefield”. It’s more flavorful and it lowers the power by a lot because it only cares about one land type. So we are still fixing the problem of green out ramping everything but it doesn’t become broken.
Idk if anyone else has mentioned this, but a player who controls an untapped Phyrexian Penny Tray will always add one penny counter to the tray on their end step, because the tray itself is a permanent with a mana ability. I see this as a bit of intentional design/flavor win, because it ensures that the tray will be available for the next player to use.
Another take on deforestation axe would just be to give each other color rampant growths, {1}{W} sorcery, gain 3 life, plains ramp {1}{U} instant, draw 1, island ramp {1}{B} sorcery, drain each opponent for 1, swamp ramp {1}{R} sorcery, 2 damage to any target, mountain ramp
I think "Partner with nonlegendary Nephilim" has rules baggage but it's acceptable rules baggage. Like you don't want most changelings as your commander. Maybe Realmwalker, Changeling Outcast, Taurean Mauler, or Unsettled Mariner but they're all two colors or less and worse than Morophon. The other baggage is Bodhi tutors for a Nephilim or changeling but that's fine too. Some niche playability for changelings but Nephilim can't be in each other's decks so what it really does is let you play five color Nephilim, which is sweet but sucks because they all want different things.
Tuition fees would be so much cleaner if it just said ‘If a player would search their library, they instead pay X life and search the top X cards of their library’.
This was great! I wish the poll had more options/ maybe tier voting cause I loved all of Richards cards but had them in 2nd place for each option, which means it got no votes 😢
Tuition fees looks good and then you think about it and it really just maybe stops 1 tutor and then it doesn’t really fully stop tutors so they can still tutor up the win
For marked for compleation a very simple fix for the second line would simply be “Then, if that player has 10 or more poison counters, when Marked for Compleation’s owner or enchanted player wins the game, both players win the game”
I think the solution to the Compleation aura would be to replace the bottom text with "If enchanted player and this enchantment's controller are the only players, both players win the game. If enchanted player or this enchantment's controller would win the game you both win the game."
Tuition fees could be whenever your opponent searches their library you get to copy that search on their library after the opponent does so and put that second card into an exile zone that you can play using any color mana.
This may be wrong, as I am not a judge, but this is my understanding of what happens: in layer 6 you have both magi trying to remove the abilities of all other creatures, and you go in timestamp order. So the one that entered the battlefield most recently will apply it's effect first, which will remove the abilities of the older one, so the older one won't apply to the newer one. in layer 7b, the p/t changing effects will apply and the newer one will be a 2/2 and the older one will be a 3/3. after all this happens, one copy will die to state-based actions since you control two legendary permanents with the same name :P
Deforestation ax will win the voting, because everybody loves card draw and treasures. Card is pushed and would be $50+ if printed at a mythic in an un-set or commander deck
39:28 I am surprised no one decided to mention the jank win of tutoring out near death experience and an extra turn spell with this thing out on the opponent's field.
Marked for Compleation definitely works in the rules. 2-Headed Giant has a 15 poison counter limits, so you don’t even have to remove the poison counters. Check out the rulings for “Better than one”, a card from Unstable where a person outside the game becomes your teammate.
Marked for Compleation - enchantment - curse Enchant Player Enchanted player doesn't lose the game for having 10 or more poison counters. As long as enchanted player has 10 or more poison counters, you, spells you cast, and permanents you control have protection from enchanted player.
I love the thought of Penny Tray... but personally it should be something life "All Lands are Tapped at End of Turn, Add an encounters to Penny Tray equal to the number of unused mana" Pay X Life, remove X encounters, add X colorless mana. Pay 5 life, add one mana of any color. Loss of Life cannot be prevented. Opponents of Player activating ability, cannot lose life.
For Deforestation Axe: If the first ability had an intervening if clause "if that player controls more lands than you," then this would be PERFECT (it still punishes the green player, without the green player auto-including this)
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Phyrexian Penny Tray goes straight into my Braid of Fire / Helix Pinnacle deck. XD
This and the shark tank episodes are amazing please do more of both!
the shark tank especially, although I do think perhaps there should be more stringent criteria like the cards are in less than X decks or something
they could do variations on this idea as well, like design the best enchantment, design the best commander etc.
The shark tank was my favorite episode of all time!!
please no more of this! why would anyone give a shit about made up cards?
Deforestation card should be something like: whenever a land enters the battlefield from anywhere but a players hand, destroy it. That player creates a treasure token.
Also, the fact that late game you can ramp your opponents to purposely get a treasure and a card seems very powerful
Probably exile though, since the decks this is meant to punish the most are the ones that can play lands from the graveyard. So destroying it wouldn’t actually be much of an obstacle.
@@Crunchatize_Me_Senpai it would destroy it again if they tried
@@Crunchatize_Me_Senpai stgxx🔨
@@Ekair42its broken with field of ruin
Happy to see Richard, sad to see Phil gone
Where’s he go?
Yeah I would have loved Phil to be on this episode as well tbh
@@5000KAITOSHION Phils designs would just be a Tireles Reef or Risen Tracker.
Screw you, man. #TEAMPHIL
@@Atanar89
My attempt at a Phil card:
Tireless Reef
Land Creature - Elemental Island
(Tireless Reef is blue)
({T}: Add U)
You may not play Tireless Reef from your hand as the first land you play during your turn.
{T}: Copy target triggered ability of a permanent you control that was triggered by another land or elemental entering the battlefield under your control.
[0/3]
Crim's sword is excellent even without tweaks. With the tweaks (Choose two, cast whenever, and you can split the counters) it's *Chef Kiss*. Well done Crim. Well done. You designed a fair and balanced magic card.
The Cod-Father has graced us with his presence once again.
Please more Richard episodes!!
For Asha, I would make her a 4/6 and replace the ward with vigilance. This way it would be easier to get that on EACH endstep by blocking with her.
This was also my idea! Bravo
@@highdark4 Haha same actually, was just about to comment.
Or just give her "opponents cannot attack you" just to make the card less confusing.
"Each end step" and including "graveyard" is too absurdly powerful. Having a 4+ power angel with lifelink is not a "clunky" detriment in angel tribal.
I know everybody's dream opponent in commander is the one with an Atraxa possessing both Undying and Persist; but we should probably draw the line somewhere.
With Magus of Magnus, you could include the token case and only increase the text by 3 words like so: "Each other creature loses all abilities. Each other nontoken creature has base power and toughness X/X, where X is that creature's mana value."
or just change it to 'mana value plus 1' and it doesn't outright kill tokens, but still punishes them
@@zombiemage1451 it'd actually be better to add "X can be no less than 1" instead. so it makes all tokens 1/1 without inflating other creatures.
@@thatepicwizardguy I think it's ok to make most creatures a little larger
Phyrexian penny tray is just “Mana Cache” from nemesis, almost word for word
The deforestation axe only creating treasure would fix it I think. The card advantage is too much when the point of the card was to fix the ramp in other colors
Yeah the draw is way too much. You can also target the player you know doesn't have basic lands
I think Deforestation Axe would be like a 40$ card lol
Unless it's reprinted in every precon for 4 years
@@SoloWing88 You know they wouldn't though lol
Interesting how no one brought up the loop. You and opponent both have this in hand, and just ramp through each others deck, drawing cards and making treasure. Therefore still sort of boosting green ramp.
@@TheAlexdodd I mean id fix it with this can only trigger once each turn.
My attempt at a Fixed Deforestation Axe:
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2
Equip 2
Equipped Creature has Forestwalk
Whenever a land enters the battlefield, if it's the second land that entered the battlefield this turn, you may attach Deforestation Axe to a creature you control and draw a card.
You *could* also put the damage trigger on it but I would want it to be something like a "Whenever equipped creature deals combat damage, if that player has more lands than you, search your library for a basic land and put it on the battlefield tapped".
Marked for Compleation is pretty sick honestly. It adds interesting incentives and a few new lines of play.
As someone dabbling in card game design outside of magic, I absolutely adored this episode!
I would love to see more like it in the future!
Magus probably should be a 3/3 for consistency's sake (even though it doesn't affect itself).
I was thinking "yeah make it a 3/3, though you would probably want to make it mana value 4 to compensate... wait a minute that puts us back where we started" 😆
As a dedicated Giada player, the guys don't understand the difficulty of having plenty of life gain but also plenty of Angel support. You have to go one way or the other.
The Penny Tray is incredible.
cant believe theyre sleeping on that
I really like Bodhi. I really like the idea and the name is incredibly well done. Pity the rules to make it work feel cumbersome but worth the effort
Phrexian penny tray reminds me of the super old red enchantment that puts charge counters on it for mana for each untapped land and anyone can use it
Sounds like a Prophecy card.
Fix for tuition fees:
Players can’t search libraries.
If a player would search their library, that player may pay X life, then they search the top X cards of their library where X is the amount of life paid this way.
I haven't even started this yet and I know it's going to be a banger.
The Secret Lair art for Tuition Fees could definitely be Garfield making the same face
Garfield or Richard Garfield ?
@@GerBessa The cat
the compleation aura would be amazing in two-headed giant. top 10 anime betrayals
How about changing tuition fees to something like:
“Whenever an opponent would search their library, instead they pay any amount of life and search from that many cards from the top of their library.”
I’m uncertain on whether or not to include the card draw, but this would definitely cut down on the text by a large margin and also prevent people from repeatedly tutoring by setting their life total to 1.
Spectacular return of Richard with that intro
I think Tomer actually had some bangers. That phyrexian enchantment lmao.
Please make more vids like this there u design your own cards, It was sooo cool and fun to watch! Definatelly deserves a like!
The ax propels its owner a little too far forward for two mana. Explosive Vegetation being draw 2 make 2 treasures, or heaven forbid Awaken the Woods comes down with X=5 or something silly. This should read "whenever one or more lands..." instead of "whenever a land...", and cost 3 mana to start, would fix it right up imo.
Deforestation Axe is a bit over the top with the card draw. The treasure token would be enough. The second part is a bit weird...I like the idea of stealing a land from the opponent's library, but giving it away to any other player? Nah...make it so you ramp trough your own library and maybe tap a land from defending player.
What if Tuition Fees played like Vorinclex, Voice of Hunger? "Whenever an opponent searches their library, you draw a card and their lands don't untap on their next turn."
I like that
Richard has such a great sense of humor and is able to convey it so well in each episode he appears in. I've missed him so much. Glad to see everyone having so much fun designing their own cards.
Tuition Fees should work sorta like an Ad Nauseam.
Any search effect is replaced with the searcher revealing cards until they take a card, losing 2 life for each card revealed. Then shuffle the rest back in.
Then they have control over how deep to dig, but also punished for being really greedy.
Tuition Fees should say: "Flash - If an opponent would search their library, instead they reveal the top card of their library and lose 1 life. They may repeat this process any number of times. They put the last card revealed this way into their hand." Think Ad Nauseum meets Opposition Agent with a touch of "You did this to yourself!".
This is for Crim:
Hidden Fees
1UB
Enchantment
Flash
Whenever an opponent would search their library for a card, they must instead reveal cards from the top of their deck until they find the card they are looking for, that opponent then loses one life for each card that was revealed in this way, then they shuffle the revealed cards that were not searched for into their library.
"Of course it is unfair. That is why I put it in the contract."
Missed chance to make Marked for Compleation a curse and call it Curse of Compleation :p
Some really cool designs btw, Marked for Compleation and both of Richards cards are especially homeruns for me!
Just wanted to say, this was a ridiculously entertaining episode. For Bodhi, make it a 3/3 and it would literally be perfecto.
I believe Phyrexian Penny Tray will always add at least one counter to itself during it’s controller’s end step because the Penny Tray itself is an untapped permanent with a mana ability
For a better name: Replanting Shovel. You are taking someone else's forest and planting it on your board
Asha, Guardian Reborn is SSS tier, even comes with perfect vorthos reborn with black and red!
To fix ax make it the following:
Whenever an opponent searches their library for a land you may search your library for a basic land and put it into your hand. Equipped creature has 2+tap: destroy target non-basic land, it's controller may search their library for a basic land and put it into the battlefield tapped. Equip 3.
Love these! I think Seth's nephilim commander could introduce a mechanic called Protegé (Protegé a 4 color nephilim) and proteges rules text would contain you may have two commanders if your second commander meets the condition, and gets around the partner with search ability and is clean. Additionally my favorite card is marked for completion, and I think I have a fix for the rules nightmare. It could be worded, if enchanted player has 10 or more poison counters, that player cannot win the game, their creatures are goaded, and marked for completion's controller has protection from enchanted player. That way you get around them not working for you, they have to use their resources on someone else. Not quite on a team, but close.
Not being able to have both brothers yamazaki is commanders original sin.
When will we get the last "harmonicon"? Either a Legendary creature, enchantment, or artifact that gives "If a creature you control dealing combat damage to an opponent causes a triggered ability of a permanent you control to trigger, that ability triggers an additional time."
I’ve been thinking about this exact thing recently!
It’s a glaring Saboteuramonicon-shaped hole in the Panharmoniconverse!
The ink nephilim is zada but for all creatures, not just your own creatures. That limits the spells that are good for it. If you use it to pump, you pump all creatures. So the card draw remains but the combat dominance of Zada isn't quite there.
It makes it even better actually. You cast Expedite on Ink and instead of drawing a card for each of your creatures, you draw for all creatures. You make everything can't block with Renegade Tactics and draw for all creatures. Slip Through Space etc. You're in 4 colors instead of 1 so the options are so much better on top of the ability itself being stronger. Card is cracked.
@@tomerabramovici32 I didn't think of the can't block cards. That preserves the combat dominance of Zada with the added advantages you pointed out. Touché! Good sir! Touché!
Ink Treader as a commander goes (semi) infinite with literally anything
Ok crim, imagine this: Whenever an opponent searches their library they exile each card they find. Then, each player secretly chooses a number 0 or greater, then all players reveal those numbers simultaneously. The player who chose the highest number loses that much life and they may play the exiled card for as long as it remains exiled and they may spend mana as though it was mana of any color to cast it.
Its nice seeing the og hosts back together
Idea to fix the deforestation axe: add the following triggered ability: "when deforestation axe enters the battlefield or whenever equipped creature attacks, sacrifice a forest".
To fix the Magus to not kill tokens while not adding a ton of text, you can just have it be the creature's mana value +1
I love Seth's ax idea! Synergy with the static ability is really cool!
Penny tray would be cool if when you use it you add 2 and when an opponent uses it they get 1. Gives you an incentive to play it over another 2 mana colorless rock.
For Bodhi, maybe you could just say Non-Changeling Nephilim. Then you get rid of the Changelings and don’t need to say nonlegendary.
Also maybe the keyword could be Command with X. Then in the set they reprint the old cards we want to make into commanders
Most of these cards have more text then your average double sided Strixhaven card
You should do this more often! This is soooo much fun
Richard's Wanda Magus could say: "Other creatures lose all abilities. Other nontoken creatures have base power and toughness equal to their mana value."
Good episode. Definitely should do a part two at some point,
Asha or any other lifelink blockers would trigger her ability, you don't even need that much extra lifegain. It acts as an attack deterrent unless you can't block.
If you didn’t tap your mana dork for mana because it had summoning sickness, you’ll still put a penny in the tray. Where did this penny come from?
Please do more of this, I love to see your ideas!
Asha seems fine as is. She requires WUBRG, doesn't have haste, doesn't have hard protection like regeneration or indestructible, doesn't generate card advantage. She needs so much help to go off, definitely feels like the Timmy "looks stronger than it really is" kind of commander Tomer was aiming for.
you know those medieval easter-egg depictions of hornists, bent double, head between their legs, tooting with their farts?
add a dash of human centipede and that's how you get the codfather intro, tooting his own.
you're most welcome.
Richard's cards are incredibly creative. The rest are so... inside the box.
I think it’s a little pushed to say that his first car was creative. It literally is the most uninspired card on the list by design
1:03:00 we definitely Round Up and Down LOL. You havent noticed because you're not paying with cash. Debit/Credit always pays the exact amount. Cash is when you do the rounding.
Oh that peach momoko is amazing I would love for her to do a secret lair. Probably my favorite comic book artist
For Asha, we have things like ward-discard a card or ward-lose 2 life. What about ward-Asha's controller gains 4 life.
Also for Tuition Fees maybe something like pay x life to look at the top x cards of your library.
This episode is amaazing, I hope they do a part two or more stuff with custom cards!
I don't think you need 5 color Angels because it would automatically the go-to. They're only green for cycles, they're not actually green, and they're barely blue. I'd rather have like a cycle of 3-color Angel tribal commanders. Save five color for actual tribes that are consistently in each color. Asha also isn't 5-colors. That's just Azorius, if you want to push it Esper or Bant. Without Ward it's just white, and with first strike it's boros-based. No matter what there is no green.
Okay, Deforestation Axe is amazing on every level. It's balanced (aside from the card draw lol that's a bit pushed) it's fun, it's super flavourful- it's such a great design overall. Absolutely love it.
And with only treasures it would be like smothering tithe but for 2 and colorless.
And it should be reforestation axe xD
If that card came out I guarantee you that most commander players would not agree that it's balanced
@@jadegrace1312 You are correct- I misread the card. I thought it put the land into play under THEIR control, so you could have strategies that revolve around using effects that trigger when people cheat cards into play or effects that revolve around an opponent having more lands than you in play, so you could ramp up a player while also benefiting you more if you have your deck built that way, and you can choose who to attack so you could either ramp the player that's really far behind or the player that's already ramped most of the lands they need and trigger your stuff more without them getting (much) benefit. But it doesn't do that, so yeah it's pretty broken lol but there's an interesting design space there for tweaks and improvements. Definitely my bad for not reading it properly though and making it more balanced in my head though.
@@Level_1_Frog I wish the card had something to with land destruction instead. Maybe like a reverse sword of the animist, where when it attacks you can destroy a non-basic land controlled by a player who controls the most lands
@@jadegrace1312 okay yeah yeah yeah that works- so let's 'fix' the card real quick; it can cost the same, the first effect can be the same except you just get a treasure, then I'm gonna change the second ability slightly going off your idea, and have the second ability destroy a non-basic land they control, then they can put a basic into play from the deck or hand (just to balance it out) and then you can draw a card if they do (just for some nice value on top, and if they don't get any value neither do you). I think that's a pretty fair and fun card altogether.
No Phil? :( Although very happy Richard is here
I love how Richard just added more layers to Mana cache, with the Phyrexian Penny Tray.
That intro laughter was so great. I see ou guys take your doing very seriously 😄
I think the two changes that would make the Axe playable but not ridiculous are making it a 1 mana instant speed activated ability instead of static, and change the combat damage trigger to work like catchup ramp by requiring the opponent you damaged to have more lands than either yourself, each other opponent, or all players. Also, animate the Penny Tray, slap a Luxior on it and suddenly you've got an insane beater threat for very little investment.
im just so happy to see richard baack , i love his vibe ,plz stay,
I think a solid fix for the Deforestation Axe would be that the static is given to the equipped creature. It makes you have to have a 1 drop creature and spend your first turns playing and equipping
I have 2 card ideas against land/green ramp.
1. An artifact that says when a land enters the battlefield if its controller has more than 1 land more than the player with the least amouth of lands put that land on the bottom of that players library.
2. Artifact, etb phase out all lands in play, when a land comez into play phase it out. Lands can't phase in.
At the beginning of upkeep gain mana equal to the lowest/higheat number of lands a player phased out. Mana doesn't empty from pool until next upkeep.
Suggestion for Tuition fees ... Pay X life search through X cards. Thier life total cannot reduce under 1. You draw one card. Also name it Library Dues since you search your library.
Deforestation axe's static could be "if a land would enter play and another land has already entered play this turn under that players control then exile that card instead."
Deforestation axe, you could keep the card the way it is but replace the text “a land enters the battlefield” to “a forest enters the battlefield”. It’s more flavorful and it lowers the power by a lot because it only cares about one land type. So we are still fixing the problem of green out ramping everything but it doesn’t become broken.
Idk if anyone else has mentioned this, but a player who controls an untapped Phyrexian Penny Tray will always add one penny counter to the tray on their end step, because the tray itself is a permanent with a mana ability. I see this as a bit of intentional design/flavor win, because it ensures that the tray will be available for the next player to use.
I think the phyrexian penny tray is a hilarious card. But Canada abolished the penny ten years ago Richard no need for penny purses up here lol
oh nvm I watched more lol and yes you round up or down to the closet number 5 number
Richard saying "I'd sooner kill myself than team up." was hilarious.
Another take on deforestation axe would just be to give each other color rampant growths,
{1}{W} sorcery, gain 3 life, plains ramp
{1}{U} instant, draw 1, island ramp
{1}{B} sorcery, drain each opponent for 1, swamp ramp
{1}{R} sorcery, 2 damage to any target, mountain ramp
I think "Partner with nonlegendary Nephilim" has rules baggage but it's acceptable rules baggage. Like you don't want most changelings as your commander. Maybe Realmwalker, Changeling Outcast, Taurean Mauler, or Unsettled Mariner but they're all two colors or less and worse than Morophon. The other baggage is Bodhi tutors for a Nephilim or changeling but that's fine too. Some niche playability for changelings but Nephilim can't be in each other's decks so what it really does is let you play five color Nephilim, which is sweet but sucks because they all want different things.
Tuition fees would be so much cleaner if it just said ‘If a player would search their library, they instead pay X life and search the top X cards of their library’.
This was great! I wish the poll had more options/ maybe tier voting cause I loved all of Richards cards but had them in 2nd place for each option, which means it got no votes 😢
Tuition fees looks good and then you think about it and it really just maybe stops 1 tutor and then it doesn’t really fully stop tutors so they can still tutor up the win
For marked for compleation a very simple fix for the second line would simply be “Then, if that player has 10 or more poison counters, when Marked for Compleation’s owner or enchanted player wins the game, both players win the game”
I think the solution to the Compleation aura would be to replace the bottom text with "If enchanted player and this enchantment's controller are the only players, both players win the game. If enchanted player or this enchantment's controller would win the game you both win the game."
Bro I’m so happy Richard got into comics there’s so much awesomeness that he can reference during games now
Tuition fees could be whenever your opponent searches their library you get to copy that search on their library after the opponent does so and put that second card into an exile zone that you can play using any color mana.
Marked for Compleation is an incredibly creative card. Nicely done Tomer!
What happens if you have 2 magus of magus? Do the magi get neutralized or is it some weird layers thing?
This may be wrong, as I am not a judge, but this is my understanding of what happens: in layer 6 you have both magi trying to remove the abilities of all other creatures, and you go in timestamp order. So the one that entered the battlefield most recently will apply it's effect first, which will remove the abilities of the older one, so the older one won't apply to the newer one. in layer 7b, the p/t changing effects will apply and the newer one will be a 2/2 and the older one will be a 3/3.
after all this happens, one copy will die to state-based actions since you control two legendary permanents with the same name :P
Deforestation ax will win the voting, because everybody loves card draw and treasures. Card is pushed and would be $50+ if printed at a mythic in an un-set or commander deck
39:28 I am surprised no one decided to mention the jank win of tutoring out near death experience and an extra turn spell with this thing out on the opponent's field.
Tomer could literally take Maros job as Hypeman before each set, he is so bubbly when he talks about his cards :D
Marked for Compleation definitely works in the rules. 2-Headed Giant has a 15 poison counter limits, so you don’t even have to remove the poison counters. Check out the rulings for “Better than one”, a card from Unstable where a person outside the game becomes your teammate.
This episode is so sick. Maybe you could do a similar thing with viewer-submitted cards?
Marked for Compleation - enchantment - curse
Enchant Player
Enchanted player doesn't lose the game for having 10 or more poison counters.
As long as enchanted player has 10 or more poison counters, you, spells you cast, and permanents you control have protection from enchanted player.
I love the thought of Penny Tray... but personally it should be something life "All Lands are Tapped at End of Turn, Add an encounters to Penny Tray equal to the number of unused mana" Pay X Life, remove X encounters, add X colorless mana. Pay 5 life, add one mana of any color. Loss of Life cannot be prevented. Opponents of Player activating ability, cannot lose life.
For Deforestation Axe: If the first ability had an intervening if clause "if that player controls more lands than you," then this would be PERFECT (it still punishes the green player, without the green player auto-including this)
Omg the Article is Amazing!!
Spoilers tho!