#dromoka

[magic-the-girlbossing]

Dromoka vs. Arna Kennerüd

Magic: The Girlbossing 2024, Round 1, Match 20

Propaganda under the cut.

Dromoka

Color identity: Selesnya

Featured art by: Eric Deschamps

Dragonlord so a literal girl boss. She ended Abzan spiritual practices of binding spirits for ancestral necromancy and as such was part of the legendary MtG Tumblr Dragonlord Discourse. Problematic Queen.

Arna Kennerüd

Color identity: Esper

Featured art by: Cristi Balanescu

[no propaganda was submitted for this character]

[incorrect-mtg]

Dromoka: These invaders threaten to wipe out our people and our very way of life. They must be eradicated.

Anafenza:

Anafenza: I beg your pardon, when did you start caring about people's way of life being wiped out?

[googlyeyesonmagiccards]

That's DOCTOR Omoka. I didn't go to dragon medical school for 80 years to be called Ms. Omoka.

[mtg-cards-hourly]

Dragonlord Dromoka

Dromoka's followers forsake blood ties so that they may join a greater family.

Artist: Eric Deschamps TCG Player Link Scryfall Link EDHREC Link

[dimestoretajic]

MAGIC FACTIONS BRACKET, ROUND ONE!

It's battle seven! We've got the sandloving Tarkir folks versus the explodey folk from Ravnica! This one should be a gas!

Make your choice!

[variouspolltournaments]

[ryuuka-balaen]

>secret third option; I pull out my Dragonlords themed Magic the Gathering deck and tap five mana to summon Dromoka, the Eternal under my control, then end my turn.

you're in a girl's room and she's weird

[danco110]

"In the Tarkir I once knew, the Abzan revered their ancestor trees. Now, as Dromoka, they cut their finest groves to make weapons…What?”

Sarkhan glanced over at the Abzan spirit glaring daggers at him. Obliviously, he continued to question Anafenza’s ire.

“What?”

“You sound almost troubled,” growled the spirit, her gravelly tone clashing with its ethereal echo.

“I…I am? I mean, it’s a shame that they’ve abandoned their roots.”

“Indeed it is. And whose fault was that?”

“Er…” Sarkhan swallowed, finally realizing the source of Anafenza’s anger. “That was an unintended consequence of-”

“*Why do you think my ancestors fought dragons?*”

“Well…I don’t really know.”

“Forget it.” Anafenza sighed, a breath of sudden chill that made Sarkhan shiver. “Ugin, I can understand. A scholar and…not quite as much a tyrant as his brethren. Wise beyond his years - yes, even his years - and admittedly a victim of the khans before us cutting too wide. But for the others, again, there’s a reason they fought.”

“But to wipe out every last dragon?”

“Yes. Because this is, and always has been the only alternative.” Anafenza gestured to the ballista Sarkhan had been watching.

“I hear at least the Ojutai monks have found some solace in their dragonlord.”

“Yes. And I would have advocated for my people to go there…if Ojutai had not made the monks xenophobic and pompous, and hostile to all outsiders…even more than before, anyways.”

Sarkhan’s expression steeled. “I stand by my decision.”

“No need. Nothing I can do about it now, nor you, nor any of the dragonlords’ servants.”

Sarkhan’s defiance being left unanswered caused him to deflate. The planeswalker departed without another word, disappearing into the Blind Eternities. As such, Anafenza’s last words reached only herself:

“You won.”

[It does bring me some satisfaction to know that Sarkhan experienced some buyer’s remorse for his actions, albeit inconsistently according to different flavor texts. I really love the flavor of the khans, and idk, but it feels like a lot of it was lost jumping over to the Dragons timeline, as seen here.]

[soylent-crocodile]

Feats for Channeling

(Dromoka Dunecaster by Mark Winters)

Like my earlier Master Channeler, here's a few feats that hopefully make Channel Energy a bit more viable in PF1.

Disabling Channel Channeling Feat Prerequisites: Good, Channel Positive Energy 3d6, Heal 5 ranks Your positive energy can disrupt a living creature’s natural biorhythms. When you channel positive energy, you may choose to have it deal nonlethal damage to living creatures rather than heal living or harm undead. This does not count as Harming Living for the purpose of feat prerequisites or variant channeling.

Prestigious Channeler Channeling Feat Prerequisites: Channel Energy class feature. Treat your effective cleric level as three higher for the purpose of determining channel dice, uses, and DC. This feat cannot raise your effective cleric level above your character level.

[pxper-cranes]

Something something what if for our return to arcavios during the *dragonstorm arc* the elder dragons of Tarkir try to invade other planes and the elder dragons of Arcavios are forced to fight against them? Based on colour combos, the strixhaven dragons would fight the tarkir lords based on the missing colours from the clans they took over

For example

- Ojutai (Jeskai) vs Beledros (Witherbloom)

- Silumgar (Sultai) vs Velomachus (Lorehold)

- Kolaghan (Mardu) vs Tazanir (Quandrix)

- Dromoka (Abzan) vs Galazeth (Prismari)

- Atarka (Temur) vs Shadrix (Silvarquill)

Honestly i wish it was a block formula to have one set on tarkir, one on arcavios and the final one being the end confrontation. Itd be funny if the strixhaven founders weaponised their students to fight to liberate Tarkir for extra credit or something and this could be a place to see Liliana again because im getting withdrawals

[inventors-fair]

New Faces In Familiar Places Runners Up!!

Conrad, Errant Wolfir by @bergdg

This design is certainly quite pushed, it’s at minimum a 2 mana 3/3 trample that makes your other stuff bigger, and then has even more upside to make itself bigger so it’s never not relevant. If this had been a base 0/0 instead of a base 1/1, I’d be all over it, as is it might be just a biiiit much though, I think. But I still really like it, it’s a very solid design, and I’m not even wholly confident in the claim that it’s too much if I’m being honest though it’s certainly pushed

Hypiros, Battlement Bearer by @misterstingyjack

This is Hypiros, an Akroan giant from Theros in Zendikar. Here, he is acting as a roaming fortress for the Akroans to contend with the shifting landscape of Zendikar after the Akroans were displaced by the Phyrexian invasion. This card synergizes with the ROE level up mechanic as an allusion to the Akroans training up their forces in this roving fortress, with the copy ability keeping your level up engine going.

This certainly seems like a fun level up commander. It’s a lot of value, but only with niche cards. I like how the token creation lets you do more of the level up thing when the first ability makes it easier. I don’t think “mode” would be the word used here though, it’d probably just say level.

Özgür, Oriq Anoik by @nine-effing-hells

Özgür is an ainok once of the Dromoka who joined a clandestine rebellion against the dragonlord. Accidentally, he found himself on Arcavios, learning about Strixhaven and its leadership from his first friend on the plane—and when he expressed his dismay, his friend just so happened to have some other friends he thought Özgür should meet…

Yeah a tarkir native would react pretty badly to strixhaven, huh? I like the vision. I also like the simple use of mechanics, magecraft- bolster is a great expression of what’s going on here flavorfully. Good stuff, though it probably wants reminder text.

[magic-the-girlbossing]

Elesh Norn vs. Dromoka

Magic: The Girlbossing Round 1, Matchup 9

[leafdrake-haven]

Ok so if I wanna get back into doing stuff with my OC’s I gotta like, figure out what they’re doing xD

Trying to lay some groundwork for Rhynn here.

Post War of the Spark— Not doing great. Lots of survivor’s guilt and blaming herself for being a planeswalker and wondering if she hurt Ravnica while being there. (Obviously not her fault but worrying it is) Her Ravnica friend group is trying to help but she’s being a bit flighty. Ayden (to my knowledge, if this is still @connoissuer-of-fine-vines intentions) went off to Theros without saying bye in person (he is also obviously dealing with shit).

Elrick convinces (low key forces) her to take a vacation away from Ravnica so she can get some distance from the situation. She does a blind jump and winds up on Perenia (my fan plan). Ends up meeting Helis (Fanwalker from Perenia. He wound up on Ravnica during the war and Did Not Care For That). They end up befriending each other (and being into each other 👀). I’m working on this story and have the first chapter out on tumblr. I’ve got some overall ideas how their time on Perenia goes, including some fun CONFLICT.

Rhynn and Helis end up going back to Ravnica (Rhynn had to do much convincing, Helis really didn’t want to go back there). If timing is still right Ayden is also returning to Ravnica around this time, also with new powers in tow (👀). Elrick recommends they go study magic an Strixhaven. The Gang Goes To School.

This is where timing gets funky. Cause like they have to be able to apply/get into the school and actually start studying. How long are they there before they really can pick colleges? I want Rhynn to study a little at Quandrix but also, surprisingly, mostly at Witherbloom. Life and healing magic is something she already knows a lot about. Learning more about potions/poisons is something she’s intrigued by because of Elrick. But I also want this to be a good time for her to confront her fear of necromancy. Really embracing the circle of life and death in magic. I don’t think she’ll ever be a necromancer but learning to use life force magic could be beneficial. I want her to meet Witherbloom (big life/death dragon for the Dromoka Tarkir native yes please). Low key I actually would really like if Liliana became a pseudo mentor to her while she was there. So far I’ve managed to avoid too much interaction with canon characters but hey what’s the fun in that 😅 We also had an idea for my other fanwalker Tali to be there and be an antagonist of sorts. Never got fully fleshed out though.

Back to weird timing. The phyrexian invasion is coming up and I haven’t decided where I want Rhynn to be for that. She visits Ravnica frequently and I know the Gatewatch recruited walkers there. They would know of Rhynn at least because of the WotS. And let’s be real, they could use more healers in the Gatewatch. And after WotS Rhynn really would want to help against interplanar threats. So it feels like her being recruited makes sense. Again though, that’s reeeeeally putting her into the real plot. She could easily just not be at Ravnica while people come recruiting. And tbh Elrick would NOT tell her cause he doesn’t want her running off and doing a self-sacrifice.

So! I gotta decide, insert Rhynn into the plot or nah. I think she would probably stay behind on Dominaria as like a field medic or something maybe. She might try to go to Phyrexia but I think it would scare her too much and she wouldn’t want to compromise the team. Also I keep going back and forth on if her empathic abilities would help her detect phyrexian sleeper agents or not. Feels potentially OP but not necessarily impossible. But if Jace couldn’t detect sleeper agents, then she probably couldn’t. Telepathy and empathy are different but like she’s not on his level at that.

Now post invasion. I can’t decide if she’s losing her spark or not. Narratively it could be interesting. Especially since her adopted father is a planeswalker who lost his spark before they even met. But idk I like her having it just for fun reasons. Also deciding if Elrick would want to leave Ravnica now that there are Omenpaths. Myree would love exploring but I think Elrick would be nervous leading his teenage daughter around into unknown dangers. Plus he’s made a certain amount of peace with losing his spark and not leaving Ravnica. But seeing Fiora again… showing it to Rhynn and Myree…. Hmmmmmm Dx But he loves his house and what he’s built there.

Anyway I basically have to decide if/which of my walkers are losing their sparks. Where everyone was during the invasion (lol I’m too wimpy to compleat anyone or kill anyone off). Then I can catch everyone up to the plot. Hopefully before Tarkir. I actually WAS going to make some Tarkir dragon walker OCs to kickstart my own return to Tarkir but now I wanna see how they’re gonna do it xD Might still make those characters tho….

And my planebound OCs! Will they want to leave Ravnica???? I just don’t know :O

Anyway if you made it this far in the ramblings you should go get yourself a tasty treat. Just getting my thoughts out there xD

[loreholdlesbian]

Art links:

Abzan Ancestor

Sandbound Outsider

Anoik Insurgent

Return of the Abzan

Card transcriptions below

Four cards

The first

Abzan Ancestor 2W Creature- Spirit Warrior Rebel [common] When Abzan Ancestor enters the battlefield, amass Warriors 2. (Put two +1/+1 counters on an Army you control. It’s also a Warrior. If you don’t control an Army, create a 0/0 black Warrior Army creature token first.) Each creature you control with a +1/+1 counter on it has vigilance. 1/1

The second

Sandbound Outsider 2B Creature- Orc Warrior Rebel [common] When Sandbound Outsider enters the battlefield, amass Warriors 2. (Put two +1/+1 counters on an Army you control. It’s also a Warrior. If you don’t control an Army, create a 0/0 black Warrior Army creature token first.) Each creature you control with a +1/+1 counter on it has menace. 1/1

The third

Anoik Insurgent 2G Creature- Dog Warrior Rebel [common] When Anoik Insurgent enters the battlefield, amass Warriors 2. (Put two +1/+1 counters on an Army you control. It’s also a Warrior. If you don’t control an Army, create a 0/0 black Warrior Army creature token first.) Each creature you control with a +1/+1 counter on it has trample. 1/1

The fourth

Return of the Abzan 7WBG Sorcery [rare] Amass Warriors 20. (Put twenty +1/+1 counters on an Army you control. It’s also a Warrior. If you don’t control an Army, create a 0/0 black Warrior Army creature token first.) Despite Dromoka’s oppression, there was no stopping the tide of insurgency.

End transcription

[dimestoretajic]

THE MAGIC THE GATHERING FACTIONS BRACKET

HELLO EVERYONE! Oh, this is gonna be a fun one! I have semi-randomly set up a 32-faction bracket to see who is the greatest faction in all the Multiverse. What does "greatest" mean? That's up to you! I'm just here to facilitate the squabbles and watch with popcorn in hand, honestly. Can't wait to see what you all decide!

And... yeah, reblog if you like. No pressure, but this is so much more fun when more people participate!

Here are the seeds!

Quandrix College vs. Clan Atarka

House Dimir vs. The Mirrans*

Lorehold College vs. The Sultai Brood

Simic Combine vs. Silverquill College

The Cabaretti vs. The Jeskai Way

Boros Legion vs. The Maestros

Clan Dromoka vs. Izzet League

Selesnya Conclave vs. Clan Kolaghan

Abzan Houses vs. Cult of Rakdos

Orzhov Syndicate vs. Prismari College

Obscura vs. Gruul Clans

The Phyrexians vs. Witherbloom College

Clan Ojutai vs. Golgari Swarm

Brokers vs. Temur Frontier

Mardu Horde vs. Azorius Senate

Clan Silumgar vs. The Riveteers

Have fun, everyone! I know I will! Get voting!

*I know there's a typo on that one. You can't edit polls after you post them and there's SIXTEEN and I was doing them in reverse order, okay? :P