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| Format | Legality |
| Archenemy | Legal |
| Casual | Legal |
| Commander: Rule 0 | Legal |
| Custom | Legal |
| Limited | Legal |
| Planechase | Legal |
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The Grand Calcutron
Legendary Artifact
When The Grand Calcutron enters the battlefield, each player's hand becomes a program (an ordered row of revealed cards).
Players can only play the first card of their program.
If a card would be put into a player's hand from anywhere, that player reveals it and places it anywhere within their program instead.
At the beginning of each player's end step, if that player's program has fewer than five cards, they draw cards equal to the difference.
FauxFaux on Card creation challenge
1 year ago
insert The Grand Calcutron here.... JK!
Query Quarry
Legendary Land - Waste
~ enters the battlefield tapped.
, Discard a card: Shuffle your library, then Scry 1. You may reveal the top card of your library. If it shares a type with the discarded card, you may draw it. If you don't, untap ~.
"I'm feeling lucky, eh? Ok, lets see what we get..."
I'd love to see a card that makes Snakes!
philias on Card creation challenge
2 years ago
Srik Tiv, Spell Body
Legendary Creature: Avatar
~'s power and toughness are equal to the number of cards in your program
When an instant or sorcery you control leaves the stack, put it at the back of your program.
You may cast the first card in your program or a card with a selection counter in it
Put a selection counter on the first card in your program
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I apologise for cheating on the first card, that mechanic apeared on The Grand Calcutron, which in turn apeared in an unset. Now onto my real card, which has "Aftermath". A mana ability that can only be activated if the card is in your graveyard!
Prototype
Artifact Creature: Construct
_Aftermath_: Search your library for a creature card, reveal it, and shuffle your library. Put it second to the top card
3/1
Do the challenge above
philias on Card creation challenge
2 years ago
Thunt, Matrix Mage
Legendary Creature: Wizard
When ~ enters the battlefield, take nine cards from your graveyard and sort them into three, three card programs.(ordered row of revealed cards.). These programs can’t be more than three cards.
You can only play the first card in any of your programs.
: swap a card in your graveyard with one in the back of one of your programs
: Put a card in your graveyard in the back of any one of your programs
1/1
I love the program keyword introduced by The Grand Calcutron and sense many possibilites for the keyword!
My next challenge is to make a card that makes and/or does something with programs
tiffanyann on New Format for EDH: Rule …
2 years ago
Noire_Samhain on Does anyone know the plane/planes …
4 years ago
There's ONE confirmed plane, from Unstable. Bablovia, described as a Mad Scientist world.
Its ruled by five Allied-colored groups, each ruling part of the world.
Order of the Widget- Blue/White. They're a technocracy, a government ruled by technology. They upgrade themselves into cyborgs... often for really specific reasons and because they can. Ruled by The Grand Calcutron, who is no longer human and all computer.
Agents of S.N.E.A.K.- Blue/Black. They are a kleptocracy, a government ran by thieves. They used to be a job board, but got obsessed with obtaining information and their toys and gadgets to the point spying was the only way to afford it. Also, they suck at their job. They're lead by Phoebe, Head of S.N.E.A.K.
League of Dastardly DOOM. They are an oligarchy... aka the most normal government type in the entire set. They're generic doomsday villains who all hate each other and constantly dispute whose in charge. Though they DO help support fledgling evil geniuses start. Their main leaders are Baron Von Count, The Big Idea, Mary O'Kill, and Grusilda, Monster Masher.
The Goblin Explosioneers are a Goblin kraterocratic and democratic kakistocracy... aka, they are somehow all ruled by the strong, the people... and the stupid. They like explosions. They worship hammers. They breed too fast for their bad ideas to wipe them out. Led by Ol' Buzzbark.
Crossbreed Labs is both a laboratory and a geniocracy, ruled by geniuses. They believe that one should be their true selves, usually by modifying themselves into crazy crossbreeds. Their end goal is a perfect society in which everyone can be themselves. Led by Dr. Julius Jumblemorph.
Lore dump, I know.
SpammyV on The Silver Showdown: A Silver-Bordered …
4 years ago
Welcome to The Silver Showdown! This is a box set for 2-5 players to allow for silver-bordered Commander games. If you've ever seen someone's Commander Smash Up set, the same concept has been applied here. If you haven't:
There are ten 50-card decks consisting of a Commander and 49 other cards. They are:
Etiquette For Being A Proper Host
Assume that every Commander has Partner.
The decks can be randomly dealt out or snake drafted.
If snake drafting, set the decks out and determine who's going first. Following the turn order, every selects a deck until everyone has one, and then you reverse that to choose second decks. The last player to choose their first deck is the first to choose their second, and the player going first is the last to choose their second deck.
After you get your decks I really recommend reviewing them before shuffling up. If your position is "I ain't a coward" and you just go for it then I won't stop you but there's some oddball cards in here.
Additionally, there's another houserule in place. I have two complete sets of Contraptions, and before we get started the Contraption deck gets shuffled up and put in the middle of the table. At Sorcery speed (your turn, stack is empty) you can pay 1+1 for each Contraption you have to Assemble a Contraption.
If you've never had the chance to play with Contraptions:
-Contraptions live in the Contraption Deck until they're played.
-If they leave the battlefield, they go to the Scrapyard instead of anywhere else.
-When you Assemble a Contraption you attach it to Sprocket 1, 2, or 3.
-On your upkeep, move the Contraption to the next Sprocket (starting on 1) and then you may Crank any number of Contraptions attached to that Sprocket.
You may ask, "Why not just make a silver-bordered Commander deck?"
And I might answer, "I've been lucky enough to play with relaxed groups that have been accepting of me playing with silver-bordered cards. While they've been a lot of fun, there's still cards that I have not used because I am concerned they would be too disruptive. And usually, I am the only one with the funny cards. I wanted to be able to let everyone have fun with these and get into the crazier stuff since the baseline assumption of the game is 'We are playing with silver-bordered cards' rather than 'I am bringing some silver-bordered cards into our black-bordered experience.'
"There's also a consideration of power level. Many silver-bordered cards, even if they are quite fun, are not up to the same power level as even casual groups. It can be difficult to feel like you're making an impact on the game. While bringing preconstructed decks does take away the self-expression aspect of Commander, I'm hoping to balance the decks to each other."
The intent is to create games of full of silver-bordered interactions, but fairly matched up. Big turns and attacking opponents are encouraged. Infinite combos have been intentionally avoided. Assist spells from Battlebond and the "friend or foe" cycle are included to encourage helping other players out and cutting deals. Also in favor of the game experience, there's three lists: The Notably Absent, The Notably Observed, and The Notably Considered:
The Notably Absent:
Rules Lawyer and Staying Power: They're together because they're on this list for the same reason. I appreciate both of these cards but here's the thing: Even when everyone is playing serious Magic and trying to enforce all the rules as normal, stuff gets missed all the time in Commander. Replacement effects that don't do anything for four turns get ignored. People forget that extra buff that meant their creature would've lived through that combat. It's never a feeling I've enjoyed having and so I don't see trying to have everyone selectively ignoring rules adding fun. Now, Really Epic Punch is in the decklists, but that is an issue of scale. +2/+2 can be represented easily. Staying Power is even fine in two-player Unsanctioned. But I don't see it scaling up better.
Clocknapper: I was fortunate enough to never play with or against this in Unstable draft, but it frequently appeared in the games next to me, and it was always a downer when it resolved. I'll just as soon avoid Clocknapper than worry about every effect that involves bouncing or flickering leading to an infinite turns win.
The Notably Observed:
Half-Squirrel, Half-: The trigger here is on everyone's nontoken creatures entering the battlefield. That is something that can scale out of control quickly in a four-player game.
Ordinary Pony: I very nearly cut Ordinary Pony to break up the Half-Squirrel, Half-Pony combination, but decided to give them a chance. Depending on the trigger, repeatable flickering can get out of hand real fast.
The Notably Considered:
Nothing right now.
Q & As!
Q: What are these black-bordered cards doing here?
A: Okay first off, the White Knight and Black Knight are the white-bordered 5th Edition printing so they trigger Border Guardian.
The real answer is playability. But the overriding principle, the guide line of the set, the "What Would Richard Garfield Do?" (cast Fork on Shahrazad) line of the set is: Black-bordered inclusions exist to support the silver-bordered cards, not to supplant them.
Q: Where's Cheatyface? No Entirely Normal Armchair?
A: Cheatyface can be in any Blue deck. Entirely Normal Armchair can be anywhere. Before I put the decks away I'll flip them face down and randomly choose a deck to shuffle them into and then not really think about where I put them at all. You're highly encouraged to look through your deck before playing. Besides, Cheatyface making himself the 51st card seems more fitting.
Q: Why only in the Blue decks?
A: Why indeed.
Q: Don't you know The Grand Calcutron isn't a creature?
A: Check the Gatherer! It has been officially declared that The Grand Calcutron can be your Commander.
Q: How do and The Grand Calcutron work?
A: Not like you think. Since you can only play the first card of your Program, you can't cast cards out of your opponent's Program. Now, if X was the first card in the opponent's Program they wouldn't be able to do anything because they can't cast X. But since everyone orders their own Program... just don't do that.
Q: What happens if Look at Me, I'm R&D or More or Less makes you roll a d5 or d7?
A: I have odd-number dice. Make my day.
Q: Why no Enter the Dungeon?
A: I like The Countdown Is at One more.
Q: How do you separate the decks out?
A: Multicolored Sharpies. Put two dots on the front of the sleeve to show which color pair the card belongs in.
Q: Where do you go from here?
A: I'd really like to look at getting more Playtest cards to include. Since I have blanks I can sleeve up, something like Gunk Slug would be easy to include. There's also some more silver-bordered cards like Letter Bomb and Jalum Grifter that I didn't really think about until after I'd resolved to stop ordering cards.
Rzepkanut on
Slightly Unstable W/U Artifact
6 years ago
Where's The Grand Calcutron? I thought it would be the commander from the deck title, or at least in the 99... And maybe try out Muzzio, Visionary Architect he's great fun in artifact decks. Happy Gathering :)
Blo on Unstable: With The Grand Calcutron …
6 years ago
You should read the ability that [the grand calcutron] has as:
"If TGC is on the battlefield each player's hand becomes a program.
If you would cast a card from A hand, you're limited to cast the first card in YOUR program.
If you would cast a card from anywhere else, proceed as normal."
It makes sense they had to explicitly add X as an exception as it is the only card that lets you cast other players hand cards in Unstable (i think). However, this statement should hold true for each card that enables this. IE Sen Triplets allows you to cast cards from their hand, but it is no longer their hand, it's a program. The Grand Calcutron says you can you play the first card of YOUR program, so sen triplets won't let you cast it.