Introduction
Welcome to Edition IX of the Pro Tour YMTC! Prou Tour YMTC is one of the most venerable YMTC contests, featuring open entry rounds and elimination finals for great glory. This year, our format will be a little different, consisting of six rounds of open entry followed by a double elimination final. Any contestant who has participated in at least five of the six rounds of Open Entry will be eligible for a wildcard round, joining the Top Seven in the finals.
The Blurb
When the first Kamigawa block rolled out, it was (not that we knew it) the dawn of something of a new age of Magic: the Gathering. Previous sets had largely been their own sort of fantastical kitchen sink, with a common story thread that stretched from Weatherlight at least (and argualby Antiquities) all the way to Fifth Dawn with little in the way of interruptions. However, after Mirrodin block, Magic decided to take a tour, doing uniquely Japanese fantasy in Kamigawa, presenting its (first) take on a world of fairy tales in Lorwyn and steadily growing more such archetypes as time went on. We've done Gothic Horror, Classical Mythology, Egyptian, Norse, Age of Exploration, and more, representing these resonant concepts as new planes, with cards that serve up familiar stories or genre tropes, often with Magic's own little spin on the effort.
Your job this time around is to tap into that resonance and create a new top-down design that shows your take on some genre, time period, or world mythology for Magic to take a swing at. It doesn't have to be something new, but you should bring something new to the table. If, for instance, you want to evoke Greek or Roman mythology, your version should be distinct from Theros as Eldraine is from Shadowmoor. Your one card should capture a familiar story or genre trope (like
Rescue from the Underworld or
Rooftop Storm) or else show a way you would choose to evoke the target subject matter (like a God card for Theros or a DFC in Innistrad) It can be out there and new, or it can be simple and use existing tech, but it needs to be resonant.
The Prompt
Create a card that evokes in a new way a world mythology, time period, or genre of fiction of your choice. The ideal entry communicates how the subject matter is to be represented in card form, either in the specific or the generic sense, while remaining an interesting card from a mechanical perspective.
I mean to be very loose with the definitions for potential subject matter, as long as the card you make is resonant with something
outside M:tG that's
broader than a single IP (this isn't meant to be "Universes Beyond Round"), I'm not going to split hairs about whether something is a genre, subgenre, or simply an aesthetic. Do whatever feels right to you, whether that's "Babylonian Mythology", "Tang Dynasty China" or "Cheesy 70's and 80's Fantasy movies" or anywhere in between
DEADLINE: Holidays are done for most of the world, so we'll call it a rough week from when I remembered to add this in --
Deadline is Jan 28, 2023 at 23:59 PST