Create-a-Card Contest! R3 Winner and Round 4 Begins!

[FlickerYourOwnIdentity]

Trivasta, the Faceless Clone       {U}{U}{3}
Legendary Creature

{U}{U}{1}: Activate this ability only if Trivasta, the Faceless Clone is in your command zone; Search you library for a permanent, and exile it, Trivasta, Faceless Clone is now a copy of the exiled card, and gains this ability.

Whenever Trivasta, the Faceless Clone enters the battlefield, you may choose a permanent, if you do, Trivasta, the Faceless Clone becomes a copy of that permanent.
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Screwed up wording a bit here, but I couldn't think of a better way to put it.

Trivasta's first ability basically says, search your library for a permanent, now Trivasta is that permanent, and it is now basically your commander, until you activate that effect again when it is in the command zone.  However that card you searched is exiled forever, even if you change permanents.  Trivasta gain's it's mana cost too, that way your not paying {U}{U}{3} for a {Karn Liberated}.  The second ability makes it so that if you haven't activated the first ability at all, then it clones a permanent.

[FlickerYourOwnIdentity]

Make it keep it's mana cost though, otherwise they would exile a {memnite}, play it for free! and copy the eldrazi for a total of 3 mana

No the first ability can only be activated in the command zone, and the second ability goes away if it copies something with the first ability.

Plus, imagine copying an Ulamong and playing it for {U}{U}{3}.  I don't think you will have many friends after that.

[FlickerYourOwnIdentity]

I know, and that could be a change worth considering, but I made it to be adaptable, because when you need some mana, I would love to just search for a {Sol Ring} in my deck, and suddenly I can have my nice {Sol Ring}

[abstractApathist]

Knowledge Exortion: {3}{B}{B}

Sorcery

Each opponent chooses to draw a card or take 2 damage, then repeats this process 4 more times. Draw a card for each card an opponent draws this way.

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This gets better the more opponents you have, letting you deal up 10 damage to each or draw a ton of cards.

[Brawler_1337]

Yeah, I know Ushio doesn't do much and has a lot of balancing clauses, but I wanted to explore the design space of having a land as a general. Also, he doesn't have much black in his design, but I wanted a land-friendly ability.

If you guys have any suggestions, I welcome them. I'm thinking about making this a cycle.

[FlickerYourOwnIdentity]

Try making it so he is a color, because at the moment, this card is colorless.  Make it say it is junk colors!

[Birdbrain]

Yeah, I know Ushio doesn't do much and has a lot of balancing clauses, but I wanted to explore the design space of having a land as a general. Also, he doesn't have much black in his design, but I wanted a land-friendly ability.

If you guys have any suggestions, I welcome them. I'm thinking about making this a cycle.

i love this! Land creatures are cool. I hope this wins!

[abstractApathist]

Try making it so he is a color, because at the moment, this card is colorless.  Make it say it is junk colors!

In commander, all mana symbols on a card are part of its identity, so a deck built around Usio would be junk colors.

[Brawler_1337]

Try making it so he is a color, because at the moment, this card is colorless.  Make it say it is junk colors!

In commander, all mana symbols on a card are part of its identity, so a deck built around Usio would be junk colors.

Exactly. I designed him kind of like the Treefolk in Lorwyn block. I gave him a big ass, so he could work with Doran, while still being useful as a commander himself. I feel like he needs more abilities, but he already has a lot of text as is, so I figured I'd leave him like this for now.

[FlickerYourOwnIdentity]

Wow, I feel so stupid.  I haven't played commander in a long time.

[Birdbrain]

Wow, I feel so stupid.  I haven't played commander in a long time.

i must be a birdbrain than. I've never played commander

[Skyshadow731]

He looks likea pretty cool.

[darkarts981]

Time limit has been reached, I should have the image up tomorrow

[Destore117]

Time limit has been reached, I should have the image up tomorrow

Idk why but your user image always reminds me of the Limit Break Braver from FF7

[Spencer Addington]

Time limit has been reached, I should have the image up tomorrow

Idk why but your user image always reminds me of the Limit Break Braver from FF7

Nice profile pic Why the change?