[Duos]

Judging:

Binks

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An all devouring ooze fits right up BUG's alley. It eats your hand, too, I get that, but pitching your whole hand for an easily removed dude is not very enticing. X would have to be large enough to eat your opponent's hand too.

Tgva

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Sweet lord, this is the hydra to end all hydras. Its ability to immediately grow out of hand in an exponential manner is nuts. It doesn't have any traditional forms of evasion, but "grow an army of huge dudes" works well enough that it doesn't need it. It does suffer from most of the same problems that all creatures without evasion have, though, and in order to really jump-start your board presence you'd need to cast the thing for 8 mana or more.

Mythestopheles

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Quite an interesting utility card. Probably playable in an environment where affinity is running rampant. The variability of the card is nice; you could engineer a board state where the only things bounced are your opponent's permanents.

Frankelshtein

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I think this is a control deck's dream finisher. Wipe out all of your opponent's permanents, including lands, and leave your other, massive beater? Sold. Even without pumping extra mana into it, it's a 4 mana, 4 power flier with haste that wrecks token decks. I'll admit I'm a bit worried about the power level, but still, a solid card.

Necroticplague

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Alas, this is not a wedge card, so it doesn't fulfill the challenge requirements.

Istari

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This is definitely a strong card; any draw X spell is usually pretty good, and it also double as removal and a way to make any of your dudes a genuine threat. And each of the things the card does are in color. But it feels like you just took a green card, a blue card, and a black card and mashed them all together. There's no real feel for the flavor of the wedge itself.

DMofDarkness

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I love the feel of this card. A pool of sludge, slowly evolving things into other things. Sometimes there's large leaps forward on the evolutionary path, and eventually, the sludge dries up. I'm a bit worried about the overall complexity of the card, though. It's a lot of lines of text, and the process of actually dumping things into your graveyard to mutate into isn't super straightforward.

Ninjaman

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Similar to Istari's entry, the card itself is very strong and flexible. But it suffers from the same 'three cards glued together' problem.

radmelon

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I really do like this card. Rock colors thrive on both tokens and death, so it works very well from a flavor perspective. I feel like it's missing... something, though. Another thing to do with the tokens made, or a way to change the number of counters on the card itself after casting it. Regardless, it's a fairly powerful, very flavorful card.

And our runner up!

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radmelon, with his entry, Gravewurm's Rise! I love the flavor of the card a LOT, but the double X cost hurts it a bit, especially since there's really no way to get more of them. Even something simple, like "Whenever a nontoken creature you control dies, you may pay GWB. If you do, put a coil counter on [CARDNAME]" would have worked wonders. Regardless, it was actually a very close decision, and I look forward to seeing more of your cards later.

And the winner IIIIIIIIIS:

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Tgva, with his entry of Multiplying Hydra! It's in color for the wedge (Big thing with unusual effects), it's very flavorful, and it doesn't break the power bank too hard. I could definitely see myself building a deck around this card for standard, and it'd drop straight into an EDH deck. I had fun doing mental math with this card, too; trying to maximize the number of huge dudes I could squeeze out of it was great fun.

Congrats to the winner, and a big thank you to everybody who submitted an entry! Many of these were very clever and flavorful, and I look forward to seeing what everybody has planned in the future.