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Fanmade Secret Lairs for Magic the Gathering
Star Wars (Prequel Era) This Secret Lair would focus on the Prequel era of Star Wars, and thus the main types of cards would be Sieges, Vehicles, Droids, and Clones. This set would have a total of 10 legendary creatures, five for the Republic, five for the Separatists. The Republic’s legendary creatures would be: Ashoka Tano, Plo-Koon, Captain Rex, Commander Wolfee, and ARC Trooper Fives. The Separatists' legendary creatures would be: Assajj Ventress, Savage Oppress, Darth Maul, Count Dooku, and General Grievous. Lands would be as follows: White-Naboo, Green-Kashyyyk, Red-Mustafar, Blue-Kamino, Black-Dathomir
Team Fortress 2 This Secret Lair would focus mainly on the Red Team Mercenaries, and have a total of 9 legendary creatures. The legendary creatures are as follows: Heavy, Medic, Soldier, Scout, Demoman, Spy, Engineer, Spy, and Pyro. There’d be some Artifacts and Spells, one for each Merc. The lands would be various maps in TF2.
The Owl House This Secret Lair would mainly focus on the Wild Witches/Allies, while having some of the Emperor ‘s Coven included. There’d be a total of six legendary creatures. The legendary creatures would be as follows: Eda Clawthorne, Luz Noceda, Lilith Clawthorne, Amity Blight, Emperor Belos, and The Titan. The creatures involved would mainly be Witches (ex: Abomination Witch, Plant Witch, Illusion Witch, etc etc). The lands would be from around the Boiling Isles, while having two Legendary Lands (The Owl House, and Belos’s Castle).
Undertale This Secret Lair would focus on the various Monsters in Undertale. There’d be five Legendary Creatures and five enchantments. The legendary creatures would be as follows: Undyne, Alphys, Asgore, Papyrus, and Sans. The Enchantments would be focusing mainly on their abilities (Green magic, Determination Experiments, Fire Magic/Trident, Puzzle Making, Gaster Blaster) The lands would be Pixel Art inspired from the actual game.
FNaF This Secret Lair would mainly focus on one character from one of every main line game (1,2,3,4,SL,PS,HW,SB) The characters would be as follows: Freddy Fazbear, The Puppet, Springtrap, Nightmare Fredbear, Ballora, Scrapbaby, Grim Foxy, and Roxanne Wolf. The lands would be as follows: WHITE(FNaF 1 Stage), BLUE(Sister Location Boiler Room), RED(Grim Foxy’s Maze), GREEN(Monty’s Mini Golf), BLACK(FNaF 3 Office)
BatIM/DR The Secret Lair would have 4 Legendary Creatures focusing on the two protagonists and two main antagonists, whilst having a variety of creatures, lands, and other spells. The legendary creatures would be: Audrey Drew, Henry Stein, Bendy, and Wilson. The creatures would be various enemies found in both games (Lost Ones, Searchers, Spider Queens, etc etc). Lands would be various locations in the studio. Since they all look the same via color and tone, I have no ideas lol.
Hazbin Hotel/Helluva Boss This Secret Lair would only have two Legendary Creatures alongside their respective decks. The two Legendary Creatures will be Charlie Morningstar and Blitzo. The decks would have various creatures and spells that fit their respective shows. The lands would be in the style of playing cards with various characters being artfully displayed: WHITE(Angel Dust), BLUE(Moxxie), RED(Alastor), GREEN(Stolas), BLACK(Loona)
Wings of Fire This Secret Lair would have five legendary creatures and five spells in correspondence with them. The Legendary creatures would be: Clay, Glory, Moon, Leaf, and Darkstalker. The lands would be as follows: BLUE(Icewing palace), GREEN (Rainwing Village), WHITE (Mudwing Mudpits), RED (Skywing palace), BLACK (Nightwing Volcano home)
Warriors This Secret Lair would have a legendary creature for every clan (including Star Clan). The legendary creatures would be: Firestar, Tigerstar, Tallstar, Crookedstar, Leafstar, and Bluestar. The lands would be as follows: BLUE (Riverclan), WHITE (Windclan), BLACK (Shadowclan), GREEN (Skyclan), RED (Thunderclan)
Riordianverse This Secret Lair would follow four legendary creatures, each with five spells/creatures related to them. The legendary creatures would be: Percy Jackson, Jason, Grace, Sadie Kane, and Magnus Chase. Percy would have spells/creatures related to Greek Mythology, Jason would have Roman, Sadie would have Egyptian, and Magnus would have Norse. The lands would be artistic styles matching the art of the four mythologies.
Horror Figures This Secret Lair would focus on various horror characters in film. It would have various Legendary Creatures alongside five spells. The Legendary creatures would be: Xenomorph, Jason Vorhees, Micheal Myers, Freddy Kruger, Pennywise, Chucky, Billy the Puppet, and Ghostface. The lands in this Lair would be inspired by the gorey scenes these films provide. SO… WHITE(Broken Bones), RED (Meat Hooks), BLACK (Graveyard), GREEN (Acid/Melting), BLUE (Watery Grave)
Ah MTG the think that will keep my autism in check of 1 week - 7 years
i should get custom printed card sleeves that say “my pronouns are she/her” on them so people stop misgendering me at magic the gathering events
I’ve done it
I’ve made the best MTG proxy
i made this bc i couldn’t find the actual card anywhere but i don’t need it anymore this is just better
Brooooo I was playing MTG (magic the gathering) with one of my brothers. He was playing the Azorius (blue/white) deck and I was playing the Simic (blue/green) deck that he bought. And while I was playing I thought I was having a stroke because my deck was in Italian and his was in Spanish. we had to have moxfield open on our phones to know what the cards said :(((
Jace Beleren is my favorite planeswalker, and I just read the most amazing character analysis of him as a trans man by @wielderofmysteries and I had to draw it! The writing was beautiful and meaningful, you should definitely go read it!
I want to speak out against the whole push towards DEI. I feel that ever since you made the push to make identity the forefront of a character it has hurt the stories you tell. Captain Sisay's race was never the focus of her character and she was a complete badass! And I fear if you did it over again Gerrard would be trans, black and disabled just because. It also cheapens the stories of world devastation when characters worry more about their gender than Bolas destroying everything.
The reason I started this blog is so we can have frank conversations about things, so please let’s talk about this.
Imagine if every time you turned on the TV or watched a movie, no one looked like you. For some of us, that’s never happened. We see ourselves constantly, so it’s hard to truly understand what not seeing yourself represented in media is like.
I do have a personal window to this experience. While I am white and male, there’s an area where I am the minority - my religion. Jews are just under two and a half percent of the US population. I have had many experiences where I’ve been in situations where everything is geared towards a group I do not belong to, and zero consideration is given that not everyone at that event is part of the majority.
You just feel invisible and like an outsider. It’s not a great feeling. And I just experience it a tiny portion of time, only things that are geared specifically towards something religious. Most minorities have this feeling all the time, whenever they’re outside their personal community.
Now imagine, after years of not seeing yourself ever, you finally see someone that looks like you, but nothing about the character rings remotely true. They don’t sound like you, they don’t act like you, the facts about their day-to-day life are just wrong. It’s clear whoever wrote the character didn’t truly understand the lived experience of the character, so the character feels fake.
You bring up Sisay. Michael Ryan and I didn’t technically create Sisay (she played a small role in the Mirage story), but we did do a lot to flesh out her character as the creators of the Weatherlight Saga. We turned her from a minor character into a major one.
And while I’m proud, in general, of our work on the Weatherlight Saga, I don’t think we did justice to Sisay as a character. Neither Michael nor I have any knowledge of what it’s like to be a black woman. Nor did we ever talk to someone who did.
And if you’re someone like us that has no knowledge of that experience, you probably didn’t notice. But that doesn’t mean it’s a good thing.
Imagine if we made a movie about your life, and we just made everything up. We invented people you never knew, we gave you a job you never had, and we had you say things you’d never say. The movie might even be a good movie, but your response would be, but that’s not my life - that’s not me.
Now imagine we put the movie out, and people that never met you assumed that was what you were like. When people met you for the first time, they assumed things, because, you know, they’d seen the movie.
That’s what misrepresenting people does. It not only makes them feel not seen, it falsely represents them, spreading lies, often stereotypes, making people believe things about them that aren’t true.
Our move towards diversity is just us trying to better reflect the world and the people in it. We’re trying to do to everyone else what a certain portion of people get every day without ever having to think about it.
But why are we “making it the forefront of their character”? We’re not. We’re making it a part of their character. But in a world where you’re not used to ever seeing it, it feels louder than it is. Things that are a natural part of the world that you’re used to feel like the background of the story because you understand the context to it.
If a man kisses his wife before going off to a battle, that’s not a big deal. It’s just a thing a husband might do to his wife when he leaves. It’s not the forefront of his character. It’s just part of his life. But you’ve seen it hundreds of times, so it feels normal.
When someone does something that isn’t your lived experience it pulls focus. It seems like a big deal, but only because it’s new to you. It’s just as mundane a thing to that character as the man kissing his wife is to him.
Even the turn “pushing” implies that it’s unnaturally here, that we’re forcing something that naturally shouldn’t be. But why? That thing exists naturally in the real world, and it doesn’t make the real world any less. Maybe you’re less aware of it, but is making you aware of how others live their life “pushing” something on you?
How you live your life is represented constantly, everywhere. Why isn’t over-representing your experience at the expense of everyone else’s “pushing” it? Why is media only being the experience of those in power the “proper way”?
Having more depth and variety doesn’t lessen stories. It makes them deeper, more rich, more nuanced. In short, it makes them better stories. In my former life, I was a professional writer. I took a lot of writing classes. One of the truism of writing is “speaking truth leads to better stories”.
There’s another famous quote: “When you’re accustomed to privilege, equality feels like oppression.” You’re used to being over-represented, so being a little less over-represented feels like something has been taken from you. But really it hasn’t. Having a better sense of the rest of the world comes with a lot of benefits.
I’ll use food as an example. Let’s say all you were ever exposed to was the food of your heritage. Yeah, that food is really good, but sometimes isn’t it nice to eat foods of other nationalities? Isn’t your life better that you have a choice? Isn’t your exposure and access to the food of other nationalities a positive in your life?
Exposure to variety is a positive. It allows you to learn about things you didn’t know, experience things things you’ve never experienced, and get a better sense of understanding of your friends and neighbors.
Our actions are not to harm anyone, and if you think that’s what we’re doing, please take a minute to actually absorb what I’m saying. You’ve spent your whole life metaphorically eating one type of food, and we’re just trying to show you how much you’ve missed out on.
And while this might not impact you directly, we’re making a whole bunch of people felt seen. We’re bringing joy. Think of it this way. We make a lot of cards. Not every card is for you. But if it makes someone else happy, if they get to include it in a deck, and it makes Magic better for them, how is it harming you that we include it? You have so many cards that you can play.
To this poster or people that share their viewpoint, the narrative that a gain for someone else is an attack on you is just not true. As I just pointed out above, you play a game all about personal choice, about players getting to choose how they play and enjoy the game. Why should life be any different than Magic?
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I was making a magic deck based around the new crime keyword and my friend and I had a funny idea for a card. Targeting your opponent counts as a crime, whether anything happens or not, so why not make a card that does nothing but commit a crime?
Then war of the spark happened
Nicol Bolas Endgame
Ever since the Mending, Nicol Bolas has had some kind of master scheme going to try and restore him to his former glory (and then some) but the steps he’s been taking have often seemed disconnected and random.
After Rivals of Ixalan concludes however, I think I have enough information to put together a theory that ties these things together.
Let’s start by taking a look at what he’s been involved in (that we know of in canon) since the Mending…
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