#custom magic card

[affinityforanime]

Happy Thanksgiving! 🦃 Once you thaw out that turkey, do you prefer roast or deep fry? 🍗 And then pumpkin pie for dessert!

[thehappyastronaut]

I've been making my own custom Magic the Gathering cards for a while now, but I started really getting into it this week and thought I'd post some!

Sorry for the blurry pictures, I really tried to get nice ones, but I have very shaky hands :_:

These are in chronological order, and the first three are ones I made earlier in the year, all the ones after are the ones I made this week

Hope you guys like them! I'll post more as I make them, but this is all I have as of now

[inventors-fair]

Lyrical Miracles

What's the word? Several words. Maybe I've been a little down on outside sources in MTG as of late, but there are opportunities to use one's love for source material as inspiration. Inspiration leads to creativity, and with however many songs are out in the world, I hope there's a lot to be inspired by this week. I'm keeping the preamble short because honestly—I've never designed a card in the way I'm about to challenge y'all with. Whatever you come up with is going to be uniquely yours. That also means you're going to have to find a strong basis for your presentation! So—

Design a card that uses a song lyric of your choice in either its name or flavor text.

When submitting, please tell me what song it is! Part of this is curiosity, and part is just verification that we're quoting correctly. It'll be tempting to change the lyrics to fit grammar or context, but I want you to adhere to the exact words.

It doesn't matter where you get the lyric from as long as it's from a song that someone would be able to look up and listen to. If you yourself are a songwriter, that's a wonderful vocation; I'm also gonna ask that you use a song that you yourself did not write this week as an additional challenge. Honestly this is a really niche requirement unless Bob Dylan has a secret Magic-themed Tumblr or whatever.

Obviously, you don't have to use a whole line if it goes too far beyond the name bar or stretches the FT box. As long as it's long enough to be recognizable.

If it helps the world of the card, you can attribute the quote in flavor text to a Magic character and/or the subject in the card, etc.

Sometimes song titles are also in the lyrics, that's understandable. If you're going to choose a quote that includes the song title, I wanna stress: I don't want to see card names that are just song titles, 'cause that's a whole different contest that I think we've also done before and defeats the purpose of this being its own thing. Yknow?

Branch out! This one's not a requirement, but these cards don't have to be music-themed at all. I use the Prismari campus just 'cause that one happens to hit the inspirational theme. Let the lyrics guide you towards feeling, and put that feeling towards a card!

Most importantly: have fun <3 I think we've done this one before but it's been a long time and I don't...think it was me running it? Eh, either way, I'm a poet, so let's go nuts.

A winning card will be an impactful and/or transformative work that uses the flavor text in ways that elevate the emotions, situation and context of the work at hand.

I'm looking to see cards that either lean heavily into the heart of a song lyric or skillfully subvert the lyric to emphasize a card's presentation.

@abelzumi

Submitters, keep on >> SUBMITTING The Discord, keep on >> DISCORDING

P.S. If you're on Mobile and have trouble submitting, use the askbox instead! It should work just as well.

[crepuscular-girlthing]

Falin Magic Cards

was inspired by all the great fanart on here to make some custom MtG cards for chimera Falin

[harmlesschimera]

Some Custom magic cards i made based of the characters in season 1 of arcane since the show has filled my mind entirely.

(1/2) Undercity cards

[narset-enlightened-member]

[niuttuc]

Alright, trying again without a typo. Had this idea for a proxy and I didn't remember seeing one of them around, so rendered it quickly. A while since my last proxy

[island-delver-go]

Saw this setup in a squishmallow store and had to make it

[loreholdlesbian]

Card transcription

Lanternlight Storyteller W Enchantment Creature- Fox Bard [rare] Lanternlight Storyteller gets +1/+1 for each lore counter among permanents you control. Whenever a Saga you control leaves the battlefield, put its lore counters on Lanternlight Storyteller. 1/1

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[pineapplejazz]

I have once again made some mtg x Vinland Saga :D

*I should have written Thorfinn Karlsefni, of Vinland on Gudrid's card. Oops. The partnered cards can be found on my blog somewhere.

[eight-freakin-gids]

I deleted my previous post about basic land art alters, because I realized that the full art frame looked 100 times better.

Also I forgot to add the Basic supertype

But I figured I would add the finished lands alongside some other art alters I made

[affinityforanime]

The gods of Hallownest.

[thehappyastronaut]

More custom cards! After someone pointed out to me that the solid color mana was hard for colorblind people, I've started trying to add the little symbols into the color costs. They're hard to make look right, since it's very small, but I'm doing my best

[gay-little-izzet]

I have a new banner image!

In honor of me opening up commissions again, I decided to make a piece of my phyrexian-sona running a shop on Thunder Junction offering whatever bodily modifications other wanderers might desire. At first glance, the helms on the wall might seem like trophies, but they’re actually just examples of my craft.

I never do stuff with this much of a background, so I’m really happy with how this came out. It was pretty time consuming though, so idk when I’ll do another piece like this. Let me know what y’all think!

A friend of mine made a custom card for me too! Feat. an obligatory reference, because I couldn’t pass it up (or think of anything funnier)

[concoctionboy]

I'd been meaning to do more Wizard Tumblr Magic cards, but hadn't gotten around to it, but I… finally did, I guess. Anyway, here's a card featuring @wizard-eater.

I realized I'd forgotten to include the holostamp in the earlier cards, so I added that this time, and I figured I probably ought to include the URL of the Tumblr user the card is inspired by, so I did that too… although I'm not really happy with the placement; I'm going to try to figure out a better place for it.

(I do still intend to set up a Neocities page and put these cards, among other things, there, but I, uh, haven't gotten around to that yet either.)

As usual, this card has not been playtested, and I have no idea whether it's anywhere near balanced.

[OOC I haven't been on Tumblr in a while because I'm currently at Gen Con, and it's keeping me very busy. (For those who don't know what Gen Con is, it's a big game convention in Indianapolis.) I figured it would be thematically appropriate to post another Magic card while I'm here and managed to make time to do so, but I probably won't make another post until Monday when I'm back home.]