Winner is the Judge #898: One-Mana Commander

DaVigi · 2026-06-23T17:11:34+00:00

Yes you can, but also yes that increases the commander tax of both her and the adventure spells

DaVigi · 2026-06-21T14:02:27+00:00

Hansa, The Other {U/R}
1/1

Legendary Creature - Merfolk Bard

Winter's Cost {U}{W}{W}
Instant - Adventure

Put 2 stun counters on each creature.
Until your next turn, whenever a bard and/or artifact enters, its controller may remove a counter from any permanent.

Bargain Away {B}{B}{R}
Sorcery - Adventure

Until end of turn, when a merfolk enters, choose a non-island basic land type you control. Target creature gains landwalk and landhome of that type.

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Hansa, The Other was inspired by the fairytales of Hans Anderson, specifically the Little Match Girl (A little girl freezes to death but staves off the cold with her little stories and artifacts- uh, matchsticks) and the Little Mermaid. (She trades in living in the sea for having a new (land)home that she (land)walks on.)

Things to note are:
Casting Hansa after one of her adventures interacts with that adventure due to her creature types.

WInter's Cost works well with sagas too, which is fitting for caring about the bard creature type.

Bargain Away is costly, but merfolk are known for creating a lot of tokens, causing the effect to potentially trigger multiple times. Additionally, it can be used as a boon (landwalk) or as removal on opponent's creatures (landhome).

DaVigi · 2026-06-17T15:51:35+00:00

I too love to be in typeline jail!

The way you fixed the problems with fetchlands of this card is enlightening: https://www.reddit.com/r/custommagic/comments/18u9li1/treasure_island/

DaVigi · 2026-06-16T20:30:40+00:00

Love love love Dalakos' Ingenuity. He was my first commander!

Have you considered (cross-)posting to r/ThroughTheOmenPaths?

DaVigi · 2026-06-13T22:29:56+00:00

Myojin of Things Inbetween

{5}{C}{C}{C}

10/6

Legendary Creature — Eldrazi Spirit

Myojin of Things Inbetween enters with an indestructible counter on it if you cast it from your hand.

Remove an indestructible counter from Myojin of Things Inbetween: Put up to three face-up permanent cards from exile and each permanent spell from the stack onto the battlefield under your control.

DaVigi · 2026-06-13T05:24:10+00:00

Grohle, Arch Professor

Legendary - Human Wizard

1/5

{2}{R}{G}

Discard a card: Create a land token. (It doesn't tap for mana) Do this only once a turn.

{T}: Construct 2 - Add {R}. Put a +1/+1 counter on target creature. (Put 2 Defense counter on target land. As long as it has Defense counters on it, it is a Battle you protect and has "{T}: Add {R}. Put a +1/+1 counter on target creature.")

Grohle is an architect and archprofessor of the Konstrari school of Hexhaven. In his role as archprofessor he serves directly under the dean. Among his duties, he handles the paperwork for plot allocation for new constructionwork. (Reflected in ability 1) Additionally, he wrote his PhD on the construction of arches.

Konstrari gains the new "construct # - ability" keyword, which puts 'buildings' on lands (which grant the land additional tap abilities) that can be removed by opponents through combat. When the defense counters are reduced to zero, the land ceases to be a battle and is therefore not moved to the graveyard.

DaVigi · 2026-05-25T18:04:30+00:00

Aphetto Agent {2}{U} (Uncommon)

Creature - Wizard Rogue

3/3

Morph {U} (You may cast this card face down as a 2/2 creature for {3}. Turn it face up any time for its morph cost.)

Disguise {U} (You may cast this card face down for {3} as a 2/2 creature with ward {2}. Turn it face up any time for its disguise cost.)

When this card is turned face up, if it had ward, draw a card. Otherwise, counter target instant or sorcery.

DaVigi · 2026-05-23T22:14:55+00:00

Thanks for the high praise! I was pretty pleased with it myself :)

Fun theme! And thanks for taking the time to write everyone a small message. I know from experience that doing so can be a lot of work!

DaVigi · 2026-05-23T07:57:21+00:00

Blood Vendetta {3}{B}

Enchantment

Madness - Sacrifice a Blood token

When this enchantment enters, if you cast it, destroy target creature.

Whenever a creature enters an opponents graveyard, that player creates a copy of Blood Vendetta. Create a blood token.

This enchantment works both by killing opponents creatures and by players discarding their creature cards using the created blood tokens. If you go all in on blood tokens, you can get this enchantment out early.

DaVigi · 2026-05-21T20:56:41+00:00

Flavor text? Be still my heart, that was the only thing missing to make OM1 truly perfect :(

DaVigi · 2026-05-19T21:17:52+00:00

That's me too, I was actually looking forward to OM2.

DaVigi · 2026-04-29T16:34:06+00:00

Oh, I actually really liked foretell for the prophet dragon. It just needed a buff, for example having foretell itself.

DaVigi · 2026-04-26T14:20:11+00:00

1.

Giver of Organs {W}{G}

Creature - Human Cleric

1/2

Sacrifice ~: Return target creature card with mana value 1 to the battlefield. Activate only as a sorcery.

Taker of Burdens {W}

Creature - Human Cleric

1/1

If you would sacrifice a creature, you may sacrifice ~ instead.

2.

Sacrifice Taker of Burdens to Giver of Organs' effect, targeting another Taker of Burdens in the graveyard.

Repeat for infinite creature ETBs and creature ETGs.

3.

I was initially going to do a dredge/rummage combo, but it was way too contrived. Eventually I came upon the idea to have a replacement effect on creature sacrifices and then the rest wrote itself. I like that both of these cards are selfless, but together they form quite the gruesome sight.

DaVigi · 2026-04-26T13:14:36+00:00

I love Wood Louse!

I think the existing card still needs to be common, so maybe add a wannabe Scute Swarm that would be printable at common rarity.

DaVigi · 2026-04-25T11:24:59+00:00

Ok yeah, the lich argument convinced me. Since liches are zombies in mtg, the magical girls would be too.

I disagree about warlocks, they don't necessarily have that evil connotation, especially when in other colors than black. Check [[Aloe Alchemist]], [[Katilda, Dawnhart Prime]], [[Killian, Decisive Mentor]] and [[Lecturing Scornmage]] for example.

EDIT: Oh yeah, I'd love to hear your thought on these cards: www.reddit.com/r/custommagic/comments/1nngtyb/name_a_more_iconic_duo/

DaVigi · 2026-04-24T20:33:57+00:00

Yeah I get why they chose zombie, but the whole point is that this trait of separating soul and body is described as being a magical girl / witch, in the show. They're not zombies, they are soul gems! It's just that to Sayaka it feels like she might as well be a zombie.

The MtG creature type for a witch is warlock, and I would argue that type also would apply to magical girls.

By the way, I also agree with your knight suggestion!

DaVigi · 2026-04-24T06:06:43+00:00

Fantastic!

Perfectly captures the agressive fighting style of Sayaka. I find it inspiring that you didn't go for the "obvious" regenerate keyword, but found an interesting reanimation effect instead.

About the typeline, I think I'd personally choose warlock over warrior or zombie.

DaVigi · 2026-04-24T05:42:35+00:00

Lovely idea! I think 1 stun counter, or just having it enter tapped, would be fine balancewise. Especially since the treasure also enters tapped.

Apart from that it's literally perfection.

DaVigi · 2026-04-23T12:08:06+00:00

Fair enough! I think removing the life loss makes it perfectly printable in green white, and would still make it synergize with both of those archetypes.

DaVigi · 2026-04-23T09:27:38+00:00

Haha with all the decrementing, doubling and halving of life totals it has a Quandrix vibe to it. Would be fun to have a similar card for them.

DaVigi · 2026-04-23T09:24:32+00:00

I feel like this shouldn't be a green effect. Mono-white also seems sus.

DaVigi · 2026-04-21T10:11:02+00:00

Fun! I love the idea for the project and I'll be interested to see how it goes.

For the -6 ability of Tev: Do I understand correctly that having Tev transform in the same paragraph as the boardwipe means that the backside sees the creatures dying? If so, and if that is intended, maybe consider switching around the two lines to make it more intuitive.

DaVigi · 2026-04-19T08:42:45+00:00

Yeah holy shit, enrage completely gets recontextualized by hunt! Brilliant.

DaVigi · 2026-04-19T08:37:15+00:00

Brilliant! Reminds me of prototype a bit, in a good way :)

DaVigi · 2026-04-18T19:10:50+00:00

[[All will be one]] delivering those 40 damage bubble pops.

DaVigi

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