We've had community designed Magic cards, but what about a card with crowdsourced art? The art director could give a description and people could submit their takes on it with the most popular ending up on a card.

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The third “You Make the Card” (Vanish Into Memory) started with fan submitted art.

If multicolor is too difficult to balance, why does Vanish into Memory exist? Was that when you learned it was too complex?

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You misunderstood what I meant about balance. I was talking set balance not power balance. When we do an ally color multicolor card we do the other four ally combinations.  You Make the Card #3 had a different timeline (and other variables). We were able to make a multicolor card there because we had time and we were able to fit it in. The same is not true now.

Storm scale on You Make The Card? It's been almost seven years since Vanish Into Memory.

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I’ll say “You Make the Card” is a 3. It’s the kind of thing I’m pretty sure we’ll do again one day.

Have you considered that the reason Vanish into Memory was less recallable because people who weren't invested in it 7 years ago have no single wrapup thread to reflect on it?

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Vanish Into Memory isn’t that recallable because it wasn’t all that interesting of a card. Forgotten Ancient was cool if a little on the weak side (the public didn’t choose the most powerful option) and Crucible of Worlds was a bonafide hit. 2 out of 3 is far better than most Magic designers. For those unaware, the above three cards were all made by public voting through something called “You Make The Card”.