Friendship is Card Games: Fall Weather Friends · 6:38pm Jul 27th, 2014
Sorry for the delay. I'm starting to hit an issue of redundancy; there are only so many effects and so many ways to vary them. That doesn't mean I'm going to stop, of course, but there wasn't much here that I haven't explored in "Rainbow Falls," "Equestria Games," and pretty much any time Dash does something. 
The interaction between Applejack and Rainbow Dash is interesting from a color pie standpoint, though. At first, it's red and green playing off of one another, competing for the sheer joy of it, doing what they want because they can. Then Dash starts to show her shades of blue. Green never does do well against fliers. At least, not without some kind of anti-air effect.
Dash's comment on a pegasus pitching better than a workhorse (her words) make me wonder. Is horseshoes considered a largely earth pony-dominated event, possibly because they invented the game or are most likely to wear shoes? Are earth ponies expected to throw better than pegasi in general? Little comments like that can have big ramifications, since they hint at a lot of assumed societal underpinnings.
I have to wonder what's used as the rider for the bronco buck when baby dragons aren't available. Maybe terrier-breed Diamond Dogs?
Rainbow using her wings presents a bit of a dilemma in theory. Yes, it's an unfair advantage, but the same could be said of Applejack's passive magic. I'm pretty sure she can't turn off her souped-up muscles. In practice, Dash takes it way too far at times, nicely resolving the issue.
"The autumn leaves of Equestria would never fall." As she drifts by fallen leaves. I suppose they could've been dislodged by ponies walking to the starting line, but still.
Twilight is number 42. As you may know, 42 is the Answer to Life, the Universe, and Everything. Given Twilight's royal title, we can deduce that the purpose of Equestria's universe is friendship. But then, we already knew that.
"Oh, horseapples!" Figures Dash would fly under the radar.
Pinkie and Spike are the best Mario Kart Lakitu.
"Anypony can get swept up in the excitement of competition." Especially when she feels she's competing with her sister for the love and adoration of her subjects, goes mad with jealousy and… Oh, sorry, that's probably not what Celestia meant.
On that note, fall is probably one of her favorite seasons because it and spring are when she and Luna have roughly equal duty. Or she was just saying that as an excuse to see Twilight and company. Or both.
Fudge Pudge 1W
Enchantment — Aura
Enchant creature
Enchanted creature gets +1/+4 and can't attack.
"And now you can't budge. I hope you're happy. I know I would be. That was a lot of fudge!"
—Pinkie Pie, Bearer of Laughter
Athletic Egghead 3U
Creature — Unicorn
Battle cry (Whenever this creature attacks, each other attacking creature gets +1/+0 until end of turn.)
Whenever Athletic Egghead deals combat damage to a player, draw a card.
2/2
Blatant Cheating 3UU
Enchantment
Whenever a player casts a spell during another player's turn, the casting player draws a card.
"Hey, if everypony does it, then it's fair, right?"
—Rainbow Dash, Bearer of Loyalty
Airborne Emcee 4U
Creature — Pony Rogue
Flying, defender
Whenever you cast a creature spell, you may pay 2. If you do, draw a card.
"Broadcasting far and wide, this your eye in the sky, keeping tabs on everything as it happens! Stay tuned, race fans!"
2/3
Horseshoe Toss 1RR
Instant
Each creature you control deals 1 damage to target creature.
Most ponies would be shocked to learn of the violent origins of their favorite games.
Pounce 1G
Instant
Target creature gets +2/+2 and gains reach until end of turn.
"You're not getting away that easy!"
—Applejack, Bearer of Honesty
Tanglesyrup 1G
Instant
Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt this turn by creatures with power 4 or less.
Maple trees tended by earth ponies produce a sap thick enough to drizzle directly onto pancakes. Or elsewhere.
Running of the Leaves 2GG
Sorcery
Creatures you control get +1/+1 and gain trample until end of turn.
Hoofcraft — If you control three or more Ponies, Pegasi, and/or Unicorns, until end of turn, creatures you control get an additional +1/+1 and gain "Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, add G to your mana pool at the beginning of your next main phase."
Iron Pony Competition 3G
Sorcery
Put two +1/+1 counters on each of up to two target creatures.
"It's all in good fun. And beating the saddle blanket off of AJ is really good fun."
—Rainbow Dash, Bearer of Loyalty
Draw a Crowd 3GG
Instant
Put a 2/2 green Pony creature token onto the battlefield.
Storm (When you cast this spell, copy it for each spell cast before it this turn.)
Ponyvillians have an uncanny sense for shenanigans in progress.
Bees! 4GG
Instant
Put three 1/1 green Insect creature tokens with flying and deathtouch onto the battlefield.
"Bees? Oh my."
—Fluttershy, Bearer of Kindness
Whitetail Crag
Land
Whitetail Crag enters the battlefield tapped.
T: Add R or G to your mana pool.
T, Sacrifice Whitetail Crag: Add RG to your mana pool.
Also, her cutie mark has 42 points (five 6-pointed stars surrounding a 12-pointed one-- or maybe it's two 6-pointed stars on top of each other?)
Does Fudge Pudge deliberately not grant defender, or did you forget it was a keyword?
On Blatant Cheating, I think it would be "that spell's controller" on account of there not being many things that let you gain control of spells.
"Bees!" should really be named "Covered in Bees!". Both because they were, indeed, covered in bees and because meme.
Bees make everything better! MORE BEES!
I regret nothing.
2320640 I think Fudge Pudge's wording is to get around certain corner cases. A creature with Fudge Pudge can't attack even with a Warmonger's Chariot, and a creature subject to Power Dink can't gain defender but will still be rendered immobile by Fudge Pudge. Finally, which is more intuitive: "gains defender" or "can't attack"?
2322456 You bring up some excellent points, which are exemplary of why I asked rather than told. All the same, I think FoME would know better than you, on account of being the one who made the card
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I was following convention. Only two Auras give defender. Guard Duty is in a set where defender and Auras matter enough that you might occasionally want to stick it on one of your own creatures. Zephyr Net grants another keyword, so its templating is cleaner than the alternative.
Every other such Aura uses the "Enchanted creature can't attack" wording, including Weight of Conscience, which is in the same block as Zephyr Net.