In the first iteration:

Daner wins with:
Spiked Viper
Creature - Snake
1UG
Flash, Islandwalk
UG: Regenerate
When Spiked Viper comes into play counter target spell unless it's controller pays 1.
2/1

In the second iteration:
Marriedwithchildren
First round - Unexpected Energy
UB
Sorcery
Unexpected Energy
BU
As an additional cost to cast ~ , remove 2 cards in your graveyard from the game.
Draw 3 cards.

Second Round - Shivan Spirit
Enchantment - Aura, WR
Flash
Whenever enchanted creature deals damage, you gain that much life.
{R}: Enchanted creature gets +1/+0 until end of turn.

Analytical Balance
Sorcery, 2BW
Each player chooses a number of lands he or she controls equal to the number of lands controlled by the player who controls the fewest, then sacrifices the rest. Players discard cards, sacrifice creatures, artifacts, enchantments, planeswalkers, and life the same way. Then remove all graveyards from the game.
Final Round - Gum Myr
Artifact Creature - 3
When Gum Myr comes into play tap target creature until Gum Myr leaves play.
1/1

Diamond Mine
When Diamond Mine comes into play, you may discard a card instead. If you do, put Diamond Mine into play tapped. If you don't, put it into its owner's graveyard.
{T}: Add one mana of any color to your mana pool.

Lama Su, Master Cloner
Planeswalker- 4UU
+2 Target land becomes the land type of your choice until the end of turn.
-3 Choose any creature in play, target creature becomes a copy of that creature until the end of turn.
-6 Choose any permantent in play, put a copy of that permantent into play.
3 loyalty counters

Rules of the Contest:
1. The card must apply to a real game of Magic. No political nonsense or Un- type cards. An actual magic card with all relevant information.
2. ONE ENTRY PER PERSON; NO REPEATS FROM PART I ABOVE.
3. Again, any current card type works. Any theme, colors, etc. works, but you have to explain yourself.
3. After the actual information/text of the card, give a description about the theme. For example, what set would this have fit into? Does it pertain to the storyline of that set?
4. I will be deciding the winner, based on creativity, ingenuity, theme, power, and remaining in the realm of the color scheme and wheel. And with any contest, I will be giving the winner a prize. As of right now, the prize is most likely going to be a few cards from my collection. Now, the cards won't be the GREATEST, but they definitely aren't going to be crap. I'd day about 2-3 decent rares from my collection. All for just entering your own card.
5. After a set amount of time (I'll give people an ample amount of time to enter a card), I will pick the top three. The top three will then submit another card to be judged for the final.

Just going to include some CYOC Part II cards that seem to have come to life in recent sets.
Skizzikmonger
Garruk the Cursed
1(B/R)(R/G)(B/G)
Planeswalker-Garruk
+1: Target player discards a card.
-X: Garruk the Cursed deals X
damage to each creature without
flying and each player.
-X: Garruk the Cursed deals X
damage to each creature with
flying and each player.
3 loyalty counters
Almost the same name as the Planeswalker in ISD.

HavocDemon
Indignation Judgment 3RW
Sorcery
Remove all creatures from the game.

Desperation- If you have 3 life or less, Indignation Judgment deals 10 damage to each opponent. The damage can't be prevented.

Looks like Fateful Hour, HAHAHA

DerangedHermit
Failed Quarantine (2WWW, Sorcery)
Destroy all creatures except for target creature.

Divine Reckoning...Almost.
Do not edit your submissions in here (makes it look like your making your card better. Honor system here.

Number of entrants will determine how many prize payouts, rounds, cards, etc. but the first round is ONE CARD.

Kicker - RB - when Grafted Pheonix enters the battlefeild, if you paid the kicker, comes into play with a +1/+1 counter and a +0/+1 counter.

flying, haste

RB: Grafted Pheonix gets +2/-1

Respawning - Grafted Pheonix enters the battle with a respawn counter. If it would be removed from play and it has a respawn counter on it, return it to the battlefield without a respawn counter.

1/4

3BB

When "this" enters the battlefield put a 1/1 Rat, 1/1 Spider with reach, and a 1/1 Snake creature into play all with deathtouch.

Rats, Spiders and Snakes get +1+1

2/2

Legendary Creature- Human Wizard

WUBR

6/6

Vigilance, Shroud, Undying

Final Strike (When this creature leaves the battlefield, you may exile a nongreen creature on the battlefield)

Quicken (When this creature is declared as an attacker, untap it. There is an additional combat phase after this phase. Exile this creature at the end of turn)

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Originally posted by B14ckM4g3:
Grafted Pheonix
1 r/b r/b 
Creature - zombie pheonix

Kicker - RB - when Grafted Pheonix enters the battlefeild, if you paid the kicker, comes into play with a +1/+1 counter and a +0/+1 counter.

flying, haste

RB: Grafted Pheonix gets +2/-1

Respawning - Grafted Pheonix enters the battle with a respawn counter. If it would be removed from play and it has a respawn counter on it, return it to the battlefield without a respawn counter.

1/4

(edit: forgot to name my mechanic)

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Just would like the time noted to when I had edited this card as there were no other submissions for me to better my card upon. Although if I could edit it at all from here, I would just like to give it a flavor text (awesome call Dazer, and great flavor. Made me jealous).

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Originally posted by B14ckM4g3:

BTW, are we allowed to comment on other peoples cards?

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Yes.

Planeswalker - Mishra

+1 Add 3 to your mana pool. This mana can only be used to cast Artifacts and activate artifact abilities.

-3 Gain control of target artifact.

-7 Each artifact you control becomes a creature with power and toughness equal to its converted mana cost and is indestructible.

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Originally posted by southparker2002:
Mishra, Brother Scorned 1UB

Planeswalker - Mishra

+1 Add 3 to your mana pool. This mana can only be used to cast Artifacts and activate artifact abilities.

-3 Gain control of target artifact.

-7 Each artifact you control becomes a creature with power and toughness equal to its converted mana cost and is indestructible.

Starting loyality counters = 3

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Each player's maximum hand size is three.

Pike Sharpener

R

Creature - Goblin Nomad

Whenever Pike Sharpener is dealt damage it deals that much damage to target opponent and that much damaage to you.

2/1

"Don't poke the goblin."

Edit : Flavor Text

for 3 black mana put 3 zombie tokens on your side.

legendary creature

4/4

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Originally posted by Angelofdread:
ctczffy

for 3 black mana put 3 zombie tokens on your side.

legendary creature

4/4

black

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Having it in the actual format of a magic card (see previous entries) and a mana cost might be helpful

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Originally posted by Sharpmaster:
lacro the fallen one
5/4
haste trample
for 3 white mana you can put 3 land on play

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ditto.

When ~ enters the battlefield, name a creature card.

All creature with the chosen name loses all abilities.

"A sword and shield is all expect from these drones"

As ~ comes into play, name a card.Activated abilities of sources with the chosen name can’t be played unless they’re mana abilities.

(4): Name a card, this card is now the card represented by ~. Any Player may pay for his ability.

Charred Skeleton BR
Creature - Skeleton Berserker
Haste
B: Regen
Whenever ~this deals combat damage to a player, put a +1/+1 on it.
Attacks each turn if able.
“Nothing short of a fiery death will stop a berserker. Actually, that usually doesn’t either.”
1/1

Was thinking of making him a 2/2 for 1BR so opponents have a chance to have a blocker, but that'll stick as my submission.

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Grafted Phoenix: +0/+1 counters aren't really relevant in today's magic. They just don't make any sense any more. Respawning sounds like a nice mechanic, but Persist or even better Undying (zombie, hello) would have been great. Relevant to new magic mechanics, relevant to a phoenix, relevant to a zombie, works great with the flowstone ability.
Also in every way possible, zombie phoenix makes no sense, and 1/4 is soooo defensive for a black/red haster. I understand having a huge toughness helps the flowstone mechanic, but the flowstone creatures were aggro, they didn't have big butts. If you wanted a mana sink for power, Firebreathing would have made much more sense.

Deranged Scientist: Could have a great synergy with something like Swarmyard if the pests he makes were different. Deathtouch is neat, but out of context if they aren't also Mutants or similar. And you forgot to specify a color for the tokens. Otherwise cool concept.

Laytazaror, The Sanctifier: That's quite a name. What is he sanctifying?
A human wizard who sanctifies doesn't need to have Undying, somewhat far out of flavor.
He hates on ONLY the colors he himself is? It's typically the opposite case.
Quicken is the name of a spell that has nothing to do with additonal combat, while they can have the same name it draws a really strange paralell. I dunno that quicken really describes someone who attacks twice. And i dunno that a creature with vigilance needs to untap to have another combat step. Who's gonna tap him?
Also he exiles himself at the end of a turn, so he won't even trigger his own Undying mechanic. Who is ever going to kill a Shrouded guy with 6 for a toughness anyway?
He's a really strange dude who basically gets one turn as a blocker, and one turn of attacking twice. Not a bad payout for 4 mana, woulda been bonkers with flying. Just paradoxical/oddly flavored in a confusing way.

Nissa, Slave of Bolas: Pretty nice flavorwise, having traditional and useful B/G abilities. Elves tend to propagate, and protecting itself is nice.
I don't know what is meant by getting two Mutagenic Growths? You can't activate the ability twice in one turn anyway. You could word it like Consume Strength (which is what it is) without a major problem.
I'm wondering how strong a P.Deed with a value of 3 is for only 4 mana, but it seems fine.

Mishra, Brother Scorned: Very awesome flavorwise. His abilities tie in nicely together. His power seems sketchy though. 3 free mana a turn is nuts. His second ability leads up to his ult nicely. However, his ult is so far away (and further if you like the second ability), he looks like a mana rock. A really decent one. Alltogether enjoyable flavorful and fun, but i'm looking at it like Tezzeret is doing more for artifacts.

Stupefy; The second bit works for blue, but reducing handsize is something blue never really does or does well. Blue can lockdown but blue doesn't play with a tiny hand size at sorcery speed.

Pike Sharpener: Seems like a beast Jackal Pup. It's not bad. Got quite a niche in goblin decks.

Ctzcfffy: 3 mana for 3 dues is really overpowered.

Lacro: White is not the color for a hasted trample with overpowered mana accel.
Is Sharpmaster an alt for Angel of Dread?

Engineered Amnesia: Not a bad pithing variant. But i don't understand the flavor. What are you imagining? The word 'drones' to me already implies they wouldn't have abilities.

At the beginning of your upkeep, you gain 1 life and put a 1/1 white Spirit creature token with flying onto the battlefield.

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Originally posted by fluffycow:
Engineered Amnesia
1
Artifact

When ~ enters the battlefield, name a creature card.

All creature with the chosen name loses all abilities.

"A sword and shield is all expect from these drones"

I imagine this would be in a set to combat creatures with annoying abilities or creatures with shroud or hexproof. So any color can lessen the blow from a geist or delver early on.

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You inspired me.

Engineered Amnesia 2: Electric Boogaloo
1
Artifact

When ~ enters the battlefield, name a creature ability.

All creatures lose the named ability.

Sure, some help from people who understand the rules might need to point out that "When Flametongue Kavu comes into play, it deals 4 damage to target creature" is indeed an ability that can be named, but that's not really the point.

Think about it: All creatures lose flying. All creatures lose Hexproof. That would definitely make the game more fun for a lot of people, because Hexproof is stunningly annoying. It might also be nice to be able to cast something with the whole one mana that I have before I lose to Glistener Elf where I can just say "All creatures lose infect." How nice would that be? Pretty nice.

Casting Cost: 1RGW
Card Type: Legendary Creature
Creature Type: Ape
Power/Toughness: 4/4
Card Text: Flying, Haste, Protection from Red.

Pay 1 life: Put a 1/1 monkey token onto the battlefield.

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Instant

Sacrifice X Lands then add X R mana to your mana pool. Into the core deals X damage to you.

Hellbent- Delve Into the Core and Spells cast with mana from Into the core can't be countered.

Just seemed like a fun idea. Maybe too powerful.

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Originally posted by Trag3dy:
Into the Core R

Instant

Sacrifice X Lands then add X R mana to your mana pool. Into the core deals X damage to you.

Hellbent- Into the Core and Spells cast with mana from Into the core can't be countered.

Just seemed like a fun idea. Maybe too powerful.

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You might have to change the name since there is already a card named Into the Core.

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Originally posted by fluffycow:
Engineered Amnesia
1
Artifact

When ~ enters the battlefield, name a creature card.

All creature with the chosen name loses all abilities.

"A sword and shield is all expect from these drones"

I imagine this would be in a set to combat creatures with annoying abilities or creatures with shroud or hexproof. So any color can lessen the blow from a geist or delver early on.

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edit: quote typo
"A sword and shield is all I expect from these drones"

Charred Skeleton BR
Creature - Skeleton Berserker
Haste
B: Regen
Whenever ~this deals combat damage to a player, put a +1/+1 on it.
Attacks each turn if able.
“Nothing short of a fiery death will stop a berserker. Actually, that usually doesn’t either.”
1/1

It would make a good uncommon, nothing really exciting, good beater, the attach each turn is a really big drawback.

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Originally posted by junichi:
Sun Wukong, The Monkey King

Casting Cost: 1RGW
Card Type: Legendary Creature
Creature Type: Ape
Power/Toughness: 4/4
Card Text: Flying, Haste, Protection from Red.

Pay 1 life: Put a 1/1 monkey token onto the battlefield.

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You forgot his stick, his drawback and he definitely tramples

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I thought about trample or rampage, but then that would make him too powerful. In fact, I think he is already a bit too powerful with the token generating ability.

Ruyi Jingu Bang, The Golden-banded staff

Casting Cost: 3
Card Type: Legendary Artifact - Equipment
Equip Cost: 1
Card Text: Ruyi Jingu Bang is indestructible. Equipped Legendary creature gets +4/+4 and is indestructible.

The Golden Headband

Casting Cost: 2
Card Type: Artifact
Card Text: All creatures lose all activated abilities. Creatures with power 3 or greater don't untap during their controllers' untap steps.

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