The Great Designer Search 2, Challenge 4: Scott Van Essen’s Malgareth

My first batch of ideas for Scott Van Essen’s prison-themed Malgareth. My priorities while engineering this booster:

**Make sure that coming out of this pack, player’s have a sense of the three groups in the conflict. Prisoners and wardens are natural enemies, but it’s probably too hard in one handful of cards to explain what the natives are fighting about. Still, each faction does get an identity in the following cards.

**Interestingly, one of the subthemes that seems to have snuck into the Watcher’s camp is leaving the opponent with options and some measure of control. Maybe these guys are noble reformers, and not sinister Shawshank-type wardens.

Gave the numbers (CC, Activation, and P/T) a good eyeballing, but not gonna worry about it too much.

A mash-up of Blind Fury and blind justice. And yes, this guy will take himself down too. Because no one is above the law.

The watchers are supposed to be the only group with any significant technology. Had to do a robot guard obviously. And with a little tweaking to line up with the block’s -1/-1 counters, we have the newest member of the clockwork family.

Tried getting compost ability word on this card but there was no wording tight enough for a common that way. This may not be a common, but it is definitely clean.

The revolution will not be televised. Would like to make this be able to target any library, but that seems like it could be a little too messy. Still, sowing that kind of discontent would be pretty sweet.

This name isn’t doing it for me, but it was the best I came up with. I mean, I like the name for the card, just not for the setting.

“It was him. He did it all. And whatever I did, he made me do it.”

Just trying to capture what a criminal in each color might do. This could also be a disappointed parent locking their black-sheep child in the basement for life.

Judges didn’t seem too hot on rage as implemented, so I just went with a scaled-down more moderate unkeyworded version.

A fixed Life from the Loam/Thawing Glaciers.

This card comes straight from Shawn Main’s submission for challenge 3. So if you think it’s too broken, bother him or Scott.

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