#Golgari Swarm

[mcauley-art]

Sometimes fan art is just for you.

I want to make a comic for Jarad the way did for Garruk, my two favourite MtG characters that just get constantly misused, and in Jarads case just killed off.

Going from a hero of Ravnica who worked with Agrus Kos and Teysa Karlov to fight the machinations of Grand Arbiter Agustin IV, Momir Vig with Experiment Kraj, and Lyzolda and the cult of Rakdos.

A man who went from having a relationship and a child with a woman from another guild, and whose child he loved so deeply that he was able to bring HIMSELF back from the dead to save him.

For that man to be reduced to a xenophobic isolationist, who hated the people of his own guild as much as he hated "outsiders" with no explanation given. You can't read the Ravnica novels on the mothership, so their canon may as well not exist.

Agrus and Teysa get to stay beloved and still appear in sets. Jarad gets turned to a statue while hiding in a secret room.

[sun-3-160]

Here are all of my guild playlists lol

[1llus1on1st]

Ravnica

Izzet: the future is now whether you want it or not

Orzhov: give us all of your money

Selesnya: one with nature

Golgari: one with psilocybin specifically

Gruul: aren’t you tired of being nice?

Boros: the fun police

Simic: i’m not like other girls. i have crab legs

Rakdos: man, prostitutes cost an arm and a leg these days

Azorius: my dad works at azorius and can get you banned from ravnica

Dimir: what are you talking about? there are only 9 guilds of ravnica. you’re just imagining things again

[dimestoretajic]

MAGIC FACTIONS BRACKET, ROUND ONE!

Lucky Round Thirteen has Tarkir's pack of Dragon-timeline ascetics go up against Ravnica's life cycle-loving rot harvesters! Gotta love revisionist history and reclaimed doody!

Make your choice!

[stillplayingrepubliccommando]

The Golgari swarm 100% agrees to this.

it's rotten work, but without the rot nothing can grow

[phyrexian-lesbian]

not the gruul kind of “burn civilisation to the ground” kinda anarchist but the golgari kind of “rebuild civilisation in a more sustainable fashion” kinda anarchist.

[mossybunni]

Not some of our dnd group chanting, "Golgari! Golgari!" because we encountered an elven rot priest last night.

[wandering-mage]

Magic: The Gathering Tumblr RP Blogs Directory

Thought I'd try to put together a list of all the active and new MtG rp blogs out here. Let me know if there is some that need to be added to the list, going to try to get as many as I can here (this is also an excuse for people to give me more blogs to connect to). Apologies if I missed you!

Remember to check the original post for edits!

Arcavios (#arcavios posting, #strixhaven posting)

Quandrix:

@quandrix-biomancer

Duskmourn (#duskmourn posting)

@delirious-duskmourn-doorblade

Eldraine (#eldraine posting)

@bellira-of-tuinvale

Ikoria (#ikoria posting)

@zagoth-bonder

Innistrad (#innistrad posting)

@shift-captain-seamus (planeswalker)

@normal-innistradi

Lorwyn (#lorwyn posting)

@mirrormist-clique-adventures (planeswalker)

New Capenna (#new capenna posting)

Obscura:

@obscura-omenseeker (planeswalker)

Phyrexia - Original (#phyrexian posting)

@gix-yawgmoth-praetor

Ravnica (#ravnica posting)

Azorius Senate:

@azorius-eloquence

@first-interplanar-bank (planeswalker)

Boros Legion:

@shift-captain-seamus (planeswalker)

Cult of Rakdos:

@bitchy-rakdos-enchanter

@rakdos-outlaw

Golgari Swarm:

@golgari-sewerposter

@kraul-likes-detritus

@lotleth-centenarian-2

@lotleth-spore-farmer

Gruul Clans:

@relentless-gruul-siegeseer (this is me!)

House Dimir:

@average-ravnican

@dimir-archivist

@duskmantle-diviner

@house-dimir-official

@hyde-the-toad-bard

Izzet League:

@avishkari-izzet

@kraz-and-burn

@nikos-peleren-izzet

Orzhov Syndicate:

@titheabsolution

Selesnya Conclave:

@conclavecreator

Simic Combine:

@antiling-but-simic

@biomancy-blues

Guildless:

@underthegates

[markrosewater]

When can we get a legendary Golgari skeleton? I'd love to run skeletal swarming in a skeleton tribal edh deck, but the only legendary skeletons we have are black, Dimir, and Rakdos.

It will require the right flavor, which is a big ask, so, while possible, I can’t promise it anytime soon.

[magic-the-girlbossing]

Grist vs. Ayara

Magic: The Girlbossing 2024, Round 1, Match 17

Propaganda under the cut.

Grist

Color identity: Golgari

Featured art by: Victor Adame Minguez

-excellent leadership skills (large swarms of insects only) -growth mindset (aforementioned large swarms of insects used as bug mecha) -just vibing (eating all plant life with her large swarms of insects) -unaffected by consequences (peaces out from "disrupted" planes to find new insects)

Literally a QUEEN of a hive-like structure, such Queen energy that she gets a new posse every plane she planeswalks to. Also looks absolutely metal af no matter the posse

Ayara

Color identity: Black

Featured art by: Ryan Pancoast

Where to begin... feudal aristocrat, sends people to their doom for fun, taps to sacrifice things, the list is endless.

[mtg-cards-hourly]

Golgari Guildgate

Enter those who are starving and sick. You are welcome among the Swarm when the rest of Ravnica rejects you.

Artist: Eytan Zana TCG Player Link Scryfall Link EDHREC Link

[incorrect-mtg]

A meeting in Korozda

One does not earn the moniker "Thousand-Eyed" by letting things slip by. In the ruins and dark alleys of Ravnica's Undercity, every bug is another potential set of eyes for her to keep track of those going through Golgari land. Which is why she noticed an anomaly immediately.

A hooded woman exploring the broken down ruins of Korozda wouldn't be a cause for alarm. It had almost become a familiar sight, after it was brought up to the surface. But this was no surface explorer carefully mapping their way: it was a local. One she quickly recognized.

The most noticeable thing, at first, was the lack of any signs of allegiance. In the wake of the invasion, the Swarm had broken down into my factions and each was quick to establish their own symbols to identify their presence. None of which the stranger carried on her. And then Izoni was able to get a look of her face. She looked human, but the height and facial structure were eerily familiar. The kind of details a cheap disguise wouldn't cover, particularly if there were more important things to hide.

So she followed and, at the right time, she struck.

She pushed her target against a wall, a knife on her throat and making sure her sight was blocked before calling on her swarm to follow. A tidal wave of insects and arachnids spread around them, covering the walls and the ground, their chittering and buzzing drowning all sound.

"You have a lot of gall, to return here" she says her knife digging into flesh "Give me a reason I shouldn't just kill you right now and feed you to my pets?"

A moment of silence, followed by a sigh, "I can't. Or at least if our roles were reversed, nothing would convince me."

In the blink of an eye the magical disguise is unmade, revealing distinctively organic scales and head tendrils.

"For what it's worth" Vraska says, eyes locked to the wall in front of her "I did not come here for a fight, Izoni."

"Oh? So what is this? A scouting mission? Doing some groundwork for the next invasion you will bring from beyond the Blind Eternities?" she asks, her pets increasing in loudness with her anger.

Through their eyes, she can see Vraska grimace and close her eyes.

"That wasn't me. As soon as I could, I fought the phyresis."

"How comforting. I'm sure the Simic would be interested in how you did it, even. Now, why are you here?" she insists, even as her mind connects some dots. Vraska had been the best of the Ochran. With access to disguise magic, if she'd wanted to go unnoticed, she'd have done it.

So she… Had let Izoni find her. This was a trap-

"I wanted to talk to you," Vraska replies, bringing her thoughts to a halt "how are the Golgari?"

"You… You came for ME. And that is your question?" she asks incredulously, her anger only growing when the answer is a nod.

"It will take generations for us to recover from all the deaths and compleations. Generations more for us to be a proper guild again" she says, her anger winning out against the knowledge she should not be talking to the gorgon any longer "millenia of knowledge is gone for good, there are literal species of Kraul that you helped eradicate. You want to know how the Golgari are? We are broken. We are a nest you covered in phyrexian oil and set on fire."

As she rants, she see Vraska is deliberately holding back any reaction. It only makes her angrier.

"Thank you," Vraska says once she is done, in a tone Izoni might even call meek "One last question… Do you have any hope? For the Golgari?"

Izoni sneers in response. She almost wants to say no, because that is how she feels sometimes. But she is nothing if not prideful.

"The Golgari are dead" she says "but death has never stopped us, and that isn't about to change now"

"Good" Vraska answers, before taking a deep breath "take care of them, Izoni. Be better than me or Jarad. You won't have to worry about me again."

Then she nods and everything goes wrong.

Izoni feels an attack against her mind only a moment before it breaks through, using her own magic to disperse her swarm. Her thoughts grow cloudy.

"You won't remember we were here" Vraska says, finally able to turn and look her in the eyes "Good luck. Goodbye Izoni… Goodbye Ravnica."

Those are the last words Izoni hear before she falls asleep.

[golgari-sewerposter]

Ghosts or zombies?

- ☀️

"Recycling" bodies is a regular part of life down here, I've sent my share of zombies merrily shambling away. They do a lot of unappreciated work for this city.

Ghosts are a thousand times scarier than zombies. Immortality is the only "death" Golgari fear.

They've broken apart from the natural cycles of life, death, and rebirth to just stagnate forever in a creepy in-between state. Never growing or changing again. As the world moves on, they lose their place within it. Divorced from their original context, displaced in time itself. Looking at a ghost is like looking at a gaping whole in nature and reality and it's screaming at you in pain and anguish.

The swarm is more than just our guild, it's our philosophy about the whole world. We are all a bug in the swarming hive, a strand on the great spiderweb, the organs of a living, breathing city. Every baby that's born and every corpse that rots is part of it. Even zombies. Even vampires. Even liches.

But not ghosts. They represent the only way the city of Ravnica could ever truly end -- stagnation. A ghostly apocalypse.

[raakdos-battlemap]

[Ravnica Battlemap]Jarad's Hideout 32x56

Jarad vod Savo, a Devkarin elf Lich, was the former guild leader of the Golgari Swarm. Jarad is a pragmatic and cunning leader, not particularly evil by the normal standards of many necromancers or liches, but driven by a cold, calculating view of life and death. His primary concern is continued survival. He wields significant political power and maintains a delicate balance of alliances and rivalries with other guilds, particularly the Dimir and Gruul.

While Jarad is deeply connected to the traditional necromantic practices of the Golgari, Vraska brings a new perspective. She wants to modernize and strengthen the Golgari’s political influence in Ravnica. She also seeks to position the Golgari as a more powerful and independent force, rather than merely a guild that dwells on the fringes of society, as Jarad’s leadership seemed content to do. Vraska’s vision for the Golgari contrasts with Jarad’s, and this ideological difference creates a rift between them.

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[azorius-eloquence]

"ooh the golgari shouldn't commit crimes against us even though we deserve it" have you considered: swarm queen hot

Well 1, the Golgari shouldn’t be committing crimes

2, we don’t deserve anything but your utmost respect and diligence to our laws

3, not the hottest guildmaster. Not by alot. 10 Zinos if someone can guess my top 5 most attractive guildmasters, in order.

[dimestoretajic]

THE MAGIC FACTIONS BRACKET FINALS!

It's finally here, gang! Our last bout is here! It's been a cutthroat series, and a lot of our fights have been down to the wire, but we finally have two phenomenal factions in our final fracas! Let's do this!

It's actually kind of fascinating - our two factions are very representative of Magic as a whole. It's factions from one of the most, if not THE most, popular planes in the game, and it represents all but one of the colours of Magic (and that one has been clawing itself out of weakness for years). We have created a Magic Microcosm. :D

Now...

FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT!

MAKE

YOUR

CHOICE!