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Best of mtg cardsmith2/12/2024 "If the focus is on something like artwork or story, I'll begin by trying to translate it best and as interestingly to Magic mechanics as I can, or otherwise finding the best "fit" for it." Some of us like to design around stories. ![]() "I think, what makes this card unique? Is it the amazing art? Is it the sick flavor text? Is it the crazy one liner?" "I like making fun cards that aren't cards you would normally see in an official Magic Pack." "Get a vague idea, find art, and try and make it work from there." "What's the coolest thing I can do without a bunch of words?" Here is some of what you had to say about your inspiration for creating custom cards. What's your inspiration to create custom cards? We've picked a handful of excerpts from your responses to share in the blog this month, but there were so many great responses, that we've decided to post them all on the May 2021 Forum Thread. We're not as famous as Steve Harvey, but recently we posted a survey and asked YOU. The designs featured are some of the most incredible and mind-blowing custom cards ever crafted on MTGCS, or anywhere else! If you don't find yourself with a Feature this month, it isn't because we forgot you or you haven't made some great cards, it's only because we could only fit a few of the thousands of masterful cards that WE have created over the past 10 years! So in our attempt to honor not just our past, but our present as well, this month you'll find Featured Cards from just a handful of the amazing people who you may not have met, some that are still around, and some that joined our family not too long ago. ![]() Creators like NilGravity, who posted the first set of entirely custom artwork cards, Looverse, who brought a larger than life personality and cards that matched, Grimshac who made not just amazing challenges, but created the original Circuit Challenge that we're still using today! We could list a virtual cornucopia of early Cardsmiths such as MrRansom, Cryptonight, Shinobi, krazykobold, Memnarchitect, DeepSky, Crimson, Noobplayzgames and of course the incomparable Beeswax, and only scratch the surface of people who have made our site, YOUR site what it is today! We're still going to try, but it really is an impossible task! When we first started, there were already legendary Cardsmiths who were no longer making custom cards, and we had no idea how many countless others would come along and leave their mark on MTG Cardsmith. It would be impossible to list everyone, or even acknowledge all of the folks who've left their mark on the website since day one. Flame on.It's hard to believe that MTGCardsmith has been around for 10 Years now! We've been reminiscing about all of the Cardsmiths who have come and gone throughout the years. And just like Dressed to Kill, she's a must answer threat unless your opponents want to perish from her fiery emblem. As stated above, she simply does it all as far as what you might expect from a red planeswalker. Nonetheless, Torch of Defiance is undoubtedly the frontrunner Chandra planeswalker for seeing play in Pioneer as well as the best Chandra planeswalker printed to date. However, now that the Modern format has sped up a bit, her four-cost mana value is a bit too slow. Furthermore, Torch of Defiance does have a method of protecting herself thanks to her -3 loyalty ability which can be used to remove most creatures.īefore the printing of Modern Horizons 2, Torch of Defiance was even seeing play in a handful of Modern decks. After all, Torch of Defiance provides the same effects of card advantage, mana ramp, and consistent ping damage. Looking at Chandra, Torch of Defiance, maybe it shouldn't have been so surprising that Dressed to Kill ended up being a good card. The emblem and card advantage that it provides simply deal too much damage for a deck that isn't playing copious amounts of life gain to survive. ![]() Lastly, she is a must answer card thanks to her -7 ultimate loyalty ability that will likely end the game on the turn that it's activated. Her second +1 loyalty ability to exile the top card of your library and play it that turn also provides semi-reliable card advantage that Mono-red decks desperately need. RELATED: Magic: The Gathering - Cards From Streets Of New Capenna To Watch After Standard Rotation After all, many red removal spells and creatures only cost a single red anyways. ![]() Her +1 loyalty ability to ping for damage every turn adds up rather quickly in an aggressive deck, and the single mana she provides is easy enough to find uses for in most red decks. Notably, she is missing the important method of protecting herself, which is something that almost all good planeswalkers have. A relatively new addition to the planeswalker pool, Chandra, Dressed to Kill has been a lot better of a card than most people expected she would be.
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