[never mind]

Hey the deadline isn't yet

Lower Market Taxi
Artifact - Vehicle (U)
When Lower Market Taxi enters the battlefield, create a 2/1 white Pilot creature token with defender.
Crew 2
The taxis are expensive, but anyone going by foot in the Lower Market is likely to lose their whole wallet.
3/3

oh whoops I was tired and that was meant for the PT thread

Lmao

near the deadline and we're just missing Libe and arathinius

Apocalypse Engine
Artefact -- Vehicle
Trample
Whenever ~ deals damage to an opponent, destroy all creatures.
Crew 2
5/5
Damned if you crew, damned if you don't.

I've discovered that I don't like designing Vehicles that much, but here we go.

Adaptive Exoskeleton

Artifact -- Vehicle (R)
Whenever a creature with first strike crews Adaptive Exoskeleton, Adaptive Exoskeleton gains that ability until end of turn. The same is true for flying, deathtouch, double strike, haste, hexproof, indestructible, lifelink, menace, reach, trample, and vigilance.
Crew 2
4/4

ok closed

next round's shaping up to be a bit of a bloodbath.

I suppose it's mathematically possible that no one gets eliminated, but the Danger Zone will cover more than half the field.

Round 7

speaking of bloodbaths, another way to get in danger is to pick a fight with someone much tougher than you. make a creature card that is in some way difficult to kill. do not use the word "indestructible".



72 hours again, so this time on monday although with the weekend in the way I'm definitely open to extending.

Would something that recurs from the graveyard be considered 'hard to kill'?

yes

more broadly, this criteria is intentionally vague so odds are if you feel like your idea meets it it more than likely does.

Moloch the Corruptor
Legendary Creature - Demon (M)
Flying, trample
Whenever a nontoken creature dies, create a 2/2 black zombie creature token.
: Return Moloch the Corruptor from your graveyard to the battlefield. Activate this ability only if four or more creatures died this turn and only once a turn.
6/6
You come to me like children, with questions to which you are the answer.

Well damn, maybe I should've just done the unblockable ability and drop the Crew to 2... Oh well, too late.

Snowflurry Kamaita
Creature - Illusion Weasel
When ~ deals combat damage to a player, draw a card.
Whenever an opponent casts a spell or activates an ability, you may exile ~. If you do, return it to the battlefield tapped at the beginning of the next end step.
"Never let your guard down while in a mountain blizzard. A kamaita may attack at any time, and it withdrawing doesn't mean it has ended it's assault."
2/3

Based on the Kamaitachi, a bladed weasel yokai that attacks travelers in cold areas. Well that's a simplification but I'm not gonna dump all the info on a myth and make this too long. Sneasel is based on them.

BRING ON THE BLOODBATH

Deathless Draugr

Creature -- Zombie Warrior (R)
Deathtouch
Deathless Draugr enters the battlefield tapped.
You may cast Deathless Draugr from your graveyard if it was put there this turn from anywhere.
Those who lived for battle could hardly be expected to enjoy a quiet afterlife.
3/2

Giuseppe, Master of Disguise
Creature -- Human Wizard Rogue
If a source would deal damage to ~, instead it deals that much damage to a creature you control chosen at random.
If ~ would become the target of a spell or ability, instead that ability targets a creature you control chosen at random.
4/4
"This morning I'll be the baker. By the time the baker is killed, I will be the count. And by the time the count is arrested, I will be the guards arresting him."

This'd be great for the pro tour except I don't know what colours it should be.

Tenacious Figment |
Creature - Illusion

Flying
Whenever ~ would die, instead return it to its owner's hand. That player then discards a card.

3/2

- first... it's not really that unintuitive. if there's a crew 1 vehicle and a 3-power creature, you are already overcrewing it and no one will even stop to think about if they can do it.
- second, in your situation, even if it's not obvious, any basic observation to such board state will raise the question, "can i actually do that?" I think you give people too little credit, especially when there is such population recognizable enough to have their own archtype... "Johnny"

I do agree design should be simple and intuitive. But not necessarily to the point you have to spell everything out for the player. Besides, all the problem you stated was with crew more so that the design. A high crew count will just make the card unplayable. It's not like formidable comes easy.

that's a very different situation, because you can't crew the vehicle while tapping only some subset of your creatures. you're not just tapping extra stuff for the fun of it.

strongly disagree. while any vehicle can be overcrewed, outside of weird corner cases none of them encourage you to overcrew them. my point is that that's likely intentional, because overcrewing is not intuitive.

I mean, sure, if all the other numbers stay the same and you just raise the crew count, the card will be worse. but you can change other numbers to compensate, which I specifically recommended.