#Vadrok

[phi8]

Salas's Draconic Transformation

Birthday gift for one my players in the Magic the Gathering planeswalker campaign (April 2024).

Salas has been fascinated by dragons ever since he got off Ixalan, but funnily enough his draconic magic still looks like things that look like dragons but aren't. Here, he's channeling the Ikorian apex monster Vadrok for the spell Draconic Transformation.

[magicjudge]

If I cast a spell without paying it's mana cost, can I cast it for alternate or additional costs? This is for a Vadrok deck if the manner in which the spell is cast matters. I just want to overload Cyclonic rift from my graveyard every turn.

Alternate costs? No.

Additional costs? Yes.

When you cast a spell without paying its mana cost, you're already paying an alternate cost of 0. Any time you're casting a spell and not paying the printed cost, that's an alternate cost and you can only ever pay one alternate cost to cast a spell.

So why can't you choose to overload Cyclonic Rift rather than casting it for free with Vadrok? That's because Vadrok's ability is what's allowing you to cast the spell at all, so you have to pay the alternate cost it dictates if you want to cast it.

Additional costs such as Kicker costs are different, however, since you can always choose to pay an additional cost for a spell no matter what cost or alternate cost you're using to cast it in the first place. You still need to pay the mana for these costs, however. For example, if you cast Jilt off of Vadrok's trigger, you can pay 1R to get the kicker effect, but you can't get it for free.

[jasper-the-menace]

Traveling through Vadrok's lair towards Lavabrink was dangerous enough with the injured and ill, but Jirina Kudro and Vivien Reid did not expect the help and rescue they received.

Aka I got mad about how Lukka was handled and I have made him live in the Blood and Songbirds-verse.

[horademagic]

Vadrok, Ápice do Trovão/ Vadrok, Apex of Thunder

Tipo de criatura: Elemental Dinossauro Felino

Custo de mana: 1 azul + 1 vermelha + 1 branca = 3 no total

3/3 de Poder e Resistência

Por que ela é interessante? Se você conjurar essa mágica pelo custo de Mutação (1 de qualquer cor + 1 branca ou azul + 2 vermelhas), você vai colocá-la sob outra criatura que você possua e que NÃO seja um Humano. O que vai acontecer é que elas sofrerão juntas uma Mutação, tornando-se a criatura de cima (Vadrok) com todas as habilidades da criatura de baixo. Aqui a gente inclusive recomenda que a mutação seja usada. Essa criatura tem voar (vantagem sob oponentes sem voar ou alcance para se defender) e iniciativa (embates ela sempre ataca primeiro). Toda vez que uma criatura sofrer uma mutação (ele ou outra criatura, não importa), você vai poder conjurar a carta alvo com custo convertido igual ou inferior a 3 que não for uma criatura que esteja em seu cemitério direto para o campo de batalha sem nem ter que pagar o custo de conjuração dela. Então além de ter a mutação, os efeitos, ele ainda vai puxar alguma coisa para você e o mais legal, se tiver mais mutações no seu deck, elas também combinarão com esse efeito.

Preço da carta: em torno de 1,10 até 34,00

Disponível em Português

Link: https://www.ligamagic.com.br/?view=cards/card&card=Vadrok,%20Apex%20of%20Thunder&aux=Vadrok,%20%C3%81pice%20do%20Trov%C3%A3o

Até a próxima postagem, Ulli e Thiago

[mysteryoftheweekforme]

I'll be borrowing that

//Main

1 Vadrok, Apex of Thunder #!Commander

1 Cartographer's Hawk

1 Glitterfang

12 Island

12 Mountain

12 Plains

1 Run Away Together

1 Sea-Dasher Octopus

1 Swords to Plowshares

1 Tidal Barracuda

//Vadrok on 4

1 Agitator Ant

1 Aven Mindcensor

1 Dreadhorde Arcanist

1 Eiganjo Uprising

1 Fable of the Mirror-Breaker // Reflection of Kiki-Jiki

1 Kayla's Command

1 Komainu Battle Armor

1 Lore Drakkis

1 Runaway Steam-Kin

1 Zurgo Bellstriker

//Treason!

1 Act of Treason

1 Besmirch

1 Claim the Firstborn

1 Custody Battle

1 Furnace Reins

1 Goatnap

1 Harness by Force

1 Heat Shimmer

1 Hijack

1 Kari Zev's Expertise

1 Price of Loyalty

//"Gifts"

1 Battlemage's Bracers

1 Bloodthirsty Blade

1 Endless Evil

1 Goldvein Pick

1 Inquisitor's Flail

1 Mirror Mockery

1 Spirit Loop

1 Trickster's Talisman

1 Wings of Hubris

//Don't Hit Me

1 Coronation of Chaos

1 Disrupt Decorum

1 Ghostly Prison

1 Propaganda

1 Tenuous Truce

//Curse your slow and inevitable betrayal package

1 Faithless Looting

1 Inevitable Betrayal

//Ramp

1 Arcane Signet

1 Boros Signet

1 Commander's Sphere

1 Legion's Landing // Adanto, the First Fort

1 Loyal Warhound

1 Sevinne's Reclamation

1 Sol Ring

1 Sol Talisman

1 Solemn Simulacrum

1 The Restoration of Eiganjo // Architect of Restoration

//Card Draw

1 Behold the Multiverse

1 Compulsive Research

1 Cut a Deal

1 Field Research

1 Hard Evidence

1 Infiltration Lens

1 Love Song of Night and Day

1 Mnemonic Sphere

1 Secret Rendezvous

1 Secrets of the Golden City

//Maybeboard

1 Murder Investigation

1 Prying Blade

[burning-mind]

Incorrect MtG Quote

Vivien: I didn't want it to come to this, Lukka, but I will make your death quick.

*Vadrok rockets from the sky, mauling Lukka and tearing him limb from limb*

Vivien: ...After Vadrok is done playing, of course.

[lonelymmo]

Currently hopping between Ygra, Sound Wave, 11+Amy, and Vadrok. Hopping in this case meaning seeing interesting cards to add, Adding them to the deck list and then just staring blankly at the decklist for 5 mins before closing the tab.

My general thoughts are that Commander is in a good place for what it is but my game designer brain hates what it is.

I’m in a Commander mood, I wanna talk about it more.

What deck(s) are y’all brewing?

What are your takes about the format as a whole?

[dragongirltitties]

wait how many commander decks do i have right now

[magicartcodex]

Mythe de Vadrok

Lore externe :

“Rielle raconte une histoire ancienne de Vadrok réduisant un sanctuaire humain en cendres. Elle prétend que le feu magique a non seulement détruit la ville, mais aussi effacé tous les souvenirs de son existence ! Naturellement, je n'ai trouvé personne d'autre pour confirmer l'histoire.” 

- Vivien Reid

[gtjorgegonzalez]

Ibanez Les Paul Custom (lawsuit era) y Squier Precision de @diegoteodia de @serpyants Setup en E Standard con 10-46’s y también se hizo upgrade en los afinadores a unos wilkinson. El Setup del bajo es E Standard con 50-110 #gonzalezguitarworks #guitartech #guitarporn #guitarsalldayguitarsallnight #ibanez #ibanezguitars #lespaul #lespaulcustom #seymourduncan #wilkinson #squier #squierbass #whatsonyourbench #stewmac #speednut #musicnomadcare #vadrok #serpyants (at González Guitarworks) https://www.instagram.com/p/CCcFlqWpNIJ/?igshid=s4eua2rf1rnv

[jasper-pagan-witch]

I'd like to see your take on utilizing Vadrok, Apex of Thunder when you have time... thanks!

VADROK MY BELOVED.

Okay, so it's a Legendary Creature like Alesha is, which means (to me) it's some kind of other entity/spirit that you can holler at. It's the fiercest monster in one of the Ikoria triomes. It generates magical energy while flying, which it unleashes through a blue flame breath attack that always ends in death (in varying ways according to different sages; in one case it destroyed a city with its flames and erased all memories of its existence). It's incredibly mobile and uncontested by other monsters.

As a card, Vadrok, Apex of Thunder is a 3 power, 3 toughness Blue-Red-White Flying First Striker for 3 energy that also has Mutate. You can cast it for its 1 generic, 1 White or Blue, and 2 Red (so 4 energy total) and put it over or under another non-Human creature you own. It turns into the card on top of the stack plus all of the abilities from under it. When Vadrok mutates (either because of itself or because you tack a different Mutate Creature onto it), you can cast a non-Creature card from your graveyard with an energy cost of 3 or less without paying that much energy. Keeping up? No? Well neither am I, I'm not good at the Mutate mechanic.

Also I fucking zoned out and forgot I was typing this. Anyway. Let's make a hastening spell out of this speedy little thude. Despite the fact that it doesn't have Haste. Sigh. Anyway, time to make magic coffee. Let's talk about our energy sources for the 3 casting rather than the Mutate casting.

Blue: Water.

Red: Coffee grounds (or however people make coffee).

White: Creamer or milk (if applicable), otherwise uhhh just huck a howlite or some kind of quartz near the completed drink.

I mean, come on, this is our magical morning coffee, except with an Elemental Dinosaur Cat's influence. WHO DOESN'T WANT THAT? ...Well, probably people like me who don't drink coffee. Aw well, you can't win them all!

~Jasper

[cteranodon]

[inventors-fair]

Wedging it in There Entries 21-24 of 24

@helloijustreadyourpost​ - Vadrok's Broodling

@curiooftheheart​ - Vinebred Winnower // Vinebred Guardian

@yd12k​ - Zagoth Channeler

@deg99 - Zagoth Trophy Hunter

[jasper-the-menace]

My Current Magic The Gathering AO3 Fics

Almost exclusively Streets of New Capenna-based. Warning: the lewd ones are under the cut.

Last updated: July 5, 2023

Beyond The Planes [no ships] (complete) - The Father of Machines isn't too delighted by modern Phyrexians. The Benevolent Goddess has an idea.

Blood and Songbirds [background Edith Maestro (OC)/Emery Black (OC), Spara/Xander, Jaren/Jinnie] (complete) - A vampire demon hybrid is certainly rare, enough so that meeting another one awakens a fatherly side of Xander that he's not familiar with. But after the Adversary rears his head and old threats return, Xander finds out the hard way that he's in for the long haul. A reworking of the Streets of New Capenna set plus beyond to help me develop my OCs and wrap up some SNC plotlines that seem like they've been abandoned in favor of the Phyrexian plotline. And then suffering beyond that because I'm a big fan.

Five Times Falco Spara Fell In Love With Xander (And One Time Xander Did) [Spara/Xander, implied/background Evelyn/Xander] (complete) - Spara and Xander have fallen in love over and over again. Especially on Spara's side. (This takes place in my Blood and Songbirds-verse, which is only apparent with the last scene.)

In The Interim [Jaren/Jinnie] (in progress) - A series of scenes set in my Blood and Songbirds universe, after the end of Blood and Songbirds. Tags will be updated with each new chapter.

White Fires of Memory [Jirina/Lukka] (complete) - Traveling through Vadrok's lair towards Lavabrink was dangerous enough with the injured and ill, but Jirina Kudro and Vivien Reid did not expect the help and rescue they received.

Expected Partners [Spara/Xander, Ziatora/Xander, Raffine/Xander, Jetmir/Xander] (complete) - When a vampire reaches a certain age, they tend to stick with the same partners simply because they know what to expect. Xander often found himself sharing a bed with the other crime lords, which led to a nice variety. He didn’t much care for working, so he often let them take the lead. We're not gonna pretend that this is anything more than porn, let's be real.

For Ransom [Spara/Daniel (OC), other higher-up Brokers/Daniel (OC)] (complete) *implied/referenced rape/noncon, but not at Spara's hand; mature, not explicit* - If you accused any of the Brokers of being soft, most would toss you out of a window. But even then, one devil in all of New Capenna has the higher-ups wrapped around his finger, and there are plenty of people who would love to take advantage of that...

Fucked Up Cycles [Elspeth/Xander, other relationships with Xander referenced] (complete) *Omegaverse* - Xander wasn't expecting his heat cycle to come early. Luckily, a certain planeswalker happens to be an alpha and is willing to lend a hand.

Mismatched [Perrie/Kros] (complete) *Omegaverse* - Kros is late to meet with Perrie regarding their next mission, so Perrie goes to find him. You see the tags and the rating, you know how this ends.

What He Wants [Nixilis/Xander noncon] (complete) *rape/noncon* - Instead of killing the head of the Maestros, Ob Nixilis has other plans.

[sundayswiththeilluminati]

My understanding is that they worked closely with Toho, the Japanese studio that owns the rights to the Godzilla franchise, to develop the alt-arts. Maro  mentioned Toho has pretty clear guidelines on how they want each monster to be portrayed. IIRC they roughed out all card designs gameplay-wise for the set, then went to the studio and asked what monsters would fit in the set and what would suit which cards. Then they did some back and forth on design & flavor till they had something that both played well and suited the studio’s concepts. So you’d have to ask Toho that question I think.

What was the criterion for choosing the alternate arts of Ikoria? And when will we have an "actual" Zilortha card?

I have no idea, I’m only contracted to work on story.

[mtgbracket]

Round of 1024 - Batch 8

We reach the half way mark!

If you like Mirri, then today is your day as all THREE versions are up for voting. Plus we have Leovold, Progenitus, and Chulane!

Voting is open for one week here.  Batch 1 results will be up shortly.

Full list of matchups for today:

Commander Eesha vs Rick, Steadfast Leader Angus Mackenzie vs Shirei, Shizo's Caretaker Grusilda, Monster Masher vs Stitcher Geralf Kiku, Night's Flower vs Mirri the Cursed

Gisa and Geralf vs Lu Su, Wu Advisor Mogis, God of Slaughter vs Sek'Kuar, Deathkeeper Rhys the Exiled vs Varchild, Betrayer of Kjeldor Falthis, Shadowcat Familiar vs Inalla, Archmage Ritualist

Nebuchadnezzar vs Pia and Kiran Nalaar Emmara Tandris vs Kopala, Warden of Waves Jalira, Master Polymorphist vs He Who Hungers God-Eternal Kefnet vs Silumgar, the Drifting Death

Prossh, Skyraider of Kher vs Raff Capashen, Ship's Mage Kiyomaro, First to Stand vs Volrath, the Shapestealer Mirri, Weatherlight Duelist vs Otrimi, the Ever-Playful Ragnar vs Patron of the Orochi

Vish Kal, Blood Arbiter vs Xira Arien Lim-Dûl the Necromancer vs Borborygmos Enraged Mikaeus, the Unhallowed vs Ma Chao, Western Warrior Orim, Samite Healer vs Mirri, Cat Warrior

Johnny, Combo Player vs Shisato, Whispering Hunter Admiral Beckett Brass vs Progenitus Silvos, Rogue Elemental vs Vadrok, Apex of Thunder Mirko Vosk, Mind Drinker vs Chulane, Teller of Tales

Hazduhr the Abbot vs Korvold, Fae-Cursed King The First Sliver vs Kamahl, Fist of Krosa Bruna, Light of Alabaster vs Judith, the Scourge Diva Josu Vess, Lich Knight vs Hunding Gjornersen

Leovold, Emissary of Trest vs Anax and Cymede Rin and Seri, Inseparable vs Torbran, Thane of Red Fell Ol' Buzzbark vs Lavinia, Azorius Renegade Rebbec, Architect of Ascension vs Drana, Liberator of Malakir