#hand of emrakul

[5ecardaday]

Monsters of Magic - The Eldrazi

And now for something a little different. In addition to doing Yokaitober this year, I'm also doing all of my normally scheduled weekly releases. While it can be a little difficult to balance both, it's going well so far, and I'm excited to finally be able to show off some more eldrazi. It's been quite some time since the last eldrazi I converted, and I think at this point I've got a better handle on how to make them a balanced challenge.

If you'd like to help support me and get early access to my content, as well as the ability to vote in polls and see additional patron-exclusive content, you can sign up on my Patreon for as little as $2/month. I often release several new monsters, magic items, spells, and more each week, so don't miss out on an opportunity to keep up with it all!

[roborabbitart]

Potential hot take for Magic: the Gathering's Commander format, but I'm starting to think CEDH and Casual Commander should have two separate ban lists.

Now hear me out. I don't personally play CEDH because the concept of it simply doesn't interest me, but from what I hear, it's effectively an entirely different game in practice. Gone are the alliances, the negotiations, the room for errors. It's whoever does their thing the absolute fastest or stops the other players the best. Politics and generally having a good time, on the other hand, are the priorities of Casual Commander play, even to a degree at high power non-CEDH levels.

So as I think about this, Emrakul being banned for "not being fun to play against" makes no sense for CEDH. As a game, CEDH primarily revolves around combos and control, and while Emrakul is nothing to sneeze at, you either need to cheat it out or have an infinite mana combo, and with the former probably being most common, you're most often not going to get the cast trigger. I genuinely cannot imagine her making a splash in CEDH compared to the utterly deranged things people pull off there.

Casual Commander, on the other hand, is an entirely different beast, rule zero conversations can be difficult to bring up, and there's ALWAYS that one guy that brings the degenerate shit to a casual game, anyway. Banning based on fun value is a much more reasonable option for a specifically casual format. Banning things like Karnlock for slowing down or outright halting the game (or really anything generally deemed "unfun" by a majority of casual players), especially in a format that already tends to be slower, makes sense in a more casual setting. It's a bit more difficult of a thing to judge, as it's rather subjective, but other common examples seem to be fast mana and land destruction.

I'm admittedly on the fence about fast mana, but my big issue with it is that there's simply no middle ground. You either pay 2-3 mana for 1 mana, or you pay 1 mana for 2-3 mana. The only guaranteed "break even" mana rock I can think of is Timeless Lotus, which is legendary, can only be used in 5 color decks, and costs 5 mana to play in the first place, or Springleaf Drum, which is solid but has a pretty rough additional cost that already requires you to have a board state. A set of simple "break even" rocks and/or tapped mana-positive rocks would lessen the power gap between someone with fast mana and someone without. As it stands, with the possible exception of Sol Ring, if only due to how many precons include it, I do think fast mana would be worthy of a ban in a proposed Casual Commander banlist, simply due to how significantly it widens the gap between decks with or without it and how inaccessible it is. However, there's no denying fast mana is a staple of CEDH and seems to have plenty of counterplay, and from what I hear Sol Ring isn't even good there.

Overall, I simply think Casual Commander needs a separate, soft ban list to give a baseline for the most common rule zero discussions, while also leaving CEDH intact.

[loreholdlesbian]

Art links:

Avacyn

Emeria

Call of the Void

Ghostly Warden // Ghostly Bindings

I had this idea for the longest time of a set (or likely, a couple of sets) in which Emrakul, as part of escaping innistrad's moon, pulls theros close to innistrad and the two planes start bleeding into each other. I never did do much with the set, cause I could never quite figure out what I wanted it to be. I knew I wanted to add a bit of an enchantment thing to the innistrad side of things to show the bleed through though, and these are a few cards that came out of that effort. Avacyn and Emeria are both the result of nyx bleeding through, and make for a fun mirrored pair. Curses just feel like a good, innistraddy way to add extra enchantments. And disturb returns since it already was an innistrad mechanic that kind of leaned into an enchantment thing (though this time, the spirits are gonna be enchantment creatures too).

Card transcriptions below

The first

Avacyn, the Golden Sun 7W Legendary Enchantment Creature- Angel [mythic] Flying, indestructible As long as your devotion to white is less than five, Avacyn isn’t a creature. At the beginning of your upkeep, return target creature or enchantment card from your graveyard to the battlefield. Put an indestructible counter on it. 8/8

The second

Emeria, the Silver Moon 7C Legendary Enchantment Creature- Angel [mythic] When you cast this spell, each player exiles their hand then draws that many cards. Flying, indestructible As long as you control fewer than five colorless nonland permanents, Emeria isn’t a creature. At the beginning of your upkeep, you may play a card exiled with Emeria without paying its mana cost. 8/8

The third

Call of the Void 1 Enchantment- Aura Curse [common] Enchant player 2, Sacrifice Call of the Void: Exile enchanted player’s graveyard. 7, Sacrifice Call of the Void: Exile target creature enchanted player controls.

The fourth

Ghostly Warden 2W Enchantment Creature- Spirit [uncommon] When Ghostly Warden enters the battlefield, exile target creature an opponent controls until Ghostly Warden leaves the battlefield. Disturb 2W (You may cast this card from your graveyard transformed for its disturb cost.) 2/3 Ghostly Bindings [W] Enchantment- Aura Enchant creature you control When Ghostly Bindings enters the battlefield, exile target creature an opponent controls until Ghostly Bindings leaves the battlefield. If Ghostly Bindings would be put into a graveyard from anywhere, exile it instead.

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[littjara-mirrorlake]

forget emrakul and 15 1/1 squirrels

jin-gitaxias literally got his ass handed to him by a bunch of 0/0 germs

[whowouldwininafite]

Tournament Tuesday, Week 2

Week 2 has arrived, and this time we’re taking on the bottom left hand of the bracket. We’ve got 16 more Fiters ready to go, including;

Lord Foog the 2st vs Yakko Warner

Alya Césaire vs Shel Silverstein

Fievel Mousekewitz vs Malfina the Demon Witch

Pepsiman vs Ty Lee

Launchpad vs Emrakul

Spencer Shay vs Clifford the Big Red Dog

PSY vs Space Invader

Winnie the Pooh vs Dangermouse

As always, the Fites themselves will be posted shortly after this announcement, and there’s no obligation to vote, but all help is muchly appreciated. Fite the good Fite <3

[danco110]

“So fall in, soldier. As the true enemy rises…”

Liliana gestured to her undead army, ordering them at the Eldrazi titan looming over Thraben. But the horde did not move. Naturally this irritated the necromancer considerably, causing her to angrily stomp her foot before retrying her magic.

“I said, fall in, soldier! What’s wrong with you all?”

One particularly large zombie shambled forth from the mob. Clad in a cathar’s armor and tricorne, his body was mostly intact, with the exception of the flesh around his mouth which had rotted away, giving him the appearance of having far more teeth than normal. He hefted his greatsword in a reverse grip as he approached Liliana.

“How dare you defy me!” Liliana roared, though she quickly backpedaled upon realizing that the zombie had moved of its own accord. “But…very well. Speak your piece.”

The zombie could not make words, but he gestured menacingly to Liliana with his sword in one hand, using the other to point to the army around them.

“The others.”

Liliana scanned the crowd. To her surprise, most of the faces she could see were fearful, their gazes fixated upon Emrakul floating over the city. Incredulous, Liliana clenched her fists and again addressed the soldier.

“Fear? You can’t be serious! You must outnumber her monsters a hundred to one!”

The cathar shrugged at the other undead, thumping his chest before gesturing again to the crowd.

“What? You…don’t tell me.”

The zombie made a slashing motion upward, at Emrakul. Then, it again thumped its chest.

“I can’t keep you all un-alive! I can’t stick around to lord over you all! And I can’t leave you to your own devices! Im trying to be a better- erm…”

The ghoul pointed to himself. Liliana rolled her eyes.

“Fine. If you all can govern yourselves, you can stay. Now…charge!”

The army growled in anger, rushing to meet Emrakul and her spawn. The armored zombie was one of the last to leave, flashing Liliana a wicked smile before joining the melee, much to her chagrin.

“Finally…”

[I like to I think Champion of the Parish was basically a union leader for humans in life, and then organized zombies in undeath as Perished. Also fun fact: that first line is from the EMN trailer!]

[oursparkspod]

i forgot to mention

i have to keep myself busy to stay engaged while playing

so i draw stuff inspired by our games!

here's the first thing i drew during my first session

if ms paint emrakul in a robe with a drink in "hand" doesn't get you to listen to the podcast, nothing will

[lilylizard]

I was tagged by @farewell-persephone to post 5 songs I've had on repeat lately :)

I don't use spotify but these have all been stuck in my head recently enough to remember

I'm tagging @oorangutan @pepsisvegetables @springfey @emrakul-flying-spaghetti-monster @rattlesnakebi @aububuh @orangutanjcalliope and anyone else who would like to participate 💖

[werewolfoverlord12]

Shadows in Crystal part 2

Tarkir, Kaladesh and Innistrad arrived soon after Eldraine.

Tarkir wore heavy furs and rough woven cloth, while a necklace of dragon teeth and scales hung around his neck; his long dark hair was tied away from his face with a leather string and a broken fang for a sultai naga. This Tarkir was still aware of the dragon-less world his plane once was, and while he approved of certain dragons, such as Ojutai and Dramoka, others like Silumgar made him ache for such a world once more.

Kaladesh was an older woman with dark tan skin and intricate gold jewelry, with bright red and purple cloth wrapped around her thin frame, her black hair hung down her back in a braid almost to her knees.

Innistrad was a tall, handsome man with a thin frame, dark brown hair tied back in a ponytail and a vampire's bearing; it was usually only when he smiled revealing a mouth full of wolf-like teeth you knew of his dual nature.

Tarkir and Kaldheim clasped arms, before pulling the other into a one armed hug, while Kaladesh embraced Kamigawa and Innistrad hugged Seraphina.

“I am so sorry.” Innistrad whispered.

Seraphina nodded, “I know. How's Elysia?”

Elysia was Innistrad's daughter with the plane's late protector, Avacyn; unable to protect or help the archangel due to ancient magics Nahiri unknowingly used that bound him to sleep as it brought Emrakul to the plane.

“Better. Still misses her mother, but at least the warping of the plane didn't affect her, even when she returned briefly.” Innistrad said.

“How much time do we have?” Tarkir asked.

Seraphina raised her hand and time sped up inside her world even further.

“Now? About... maybe ten or so months for every second outside.”

Her siblings raised their eyebrows at her; she shrugged,

“Better having too much time than not enough, right?” She said.

“Sometimes... although in this case it's nice to know we won't waste any time just trying to recover.” Kaladesh whispered.

“How bad?” Seraphina asked.

“My world was torn to pieces, so much so even the vampires, humans and werewolves started working together.” Innistrad said.

“The dragons were fighting against Phyrexian drakes. She's done her homework.” Tarkir said.

“Mercadia said the same thing,” Dominaria said, “Phyrexian airships were attacking theirs. How far and wide did this invasion plan go?”

“Far.”

They glanced over as Theros appeared in the room, stumbled over to a chair and collapsed into it,

“Gods. They'll compleat GODS, on my plane.” He said.

Theros appeared as handsome, brown haired satyr with a gentle disposition. He wore a white loincloth and sash across his shoulders.

“The oracles didn't see this?” Naya asked.

He shook his head, “They saw a horrible event, but not how bad it would be. Something was blinding them.”

“How could Gods become Compleat?” Tarkir asked.

“They compleated the believers, which corrupted the gods.” Theros said.

“Elesh Norn knows too much.” Ravnica said, “She must have spies everywhere and obviously has far more information than we do.”

“And she's been planning this for years.” Innistrad said, “She's ahead of us is so many ways...”

“Then we need to even the playing field, don't we?” Kamigawa said.

They glanced over at their brother; he was standing against the wall and his eyes glowed with an ethereal fire.

“What are you thinking?” Kaladesh asked.

“There's one preator whose brain is a goldmine of information, and who be the first to have and store such things.” Kamigawa said.

“Jin-gitaxias.” Ravnica said.

The idea spread through the others as they began murmuring to each other.

Seraphina met Kamigawa's gaze,

“I'll call and see if Urabrask is available.”

“So... let me get this straight,” the red dragonoid said, “you want to move ahead the plan to kidnap Jin-gitaxias from his lair on New Phyrexia, so I can break into his brain and download their plans instead, all before they notice?”

“Sanctuary was created from a piece of my plane,” Seraphina said, “it should have the same power over time mine does. You'll have to talk to my children, but it should be a simple enough process.”

Urabrask leaned back on his chair and stroked his chin; they were communicating through a crystal mirror that connected to one in Sanctuary.

“... can we grab the brain network that vedalken psychopath created too?” He asked.

Kamigawa smiled, “I can try, but my main focus is getting in, moving him to his old base on my plane, and... cutting him down to size for you.”

Urabrask grinned, “Send him my regards; I'll send a beacon you can attach to him that activates on contact with his skin. Then, I can grab him from anywhere, and put him straight into,” he turned the mirror to reveal a tall, cylindrical tank, one of four that reached floor to ceiling, “his new home.”

“That was fast.” Ravnica said.

It turned back to Urabrask, “We were set weeks ago, but just couldn't decide when we were going to do this. I'm going to see about the time thing now. Good luck.”

The glass went dark, and a thin, flexible disk of blue material appeared in Kamigawa's hand. Blinking, he glanced at Seraphina,

“How long has he been in control of Lab 1?”

“Six months or so?” Seraphina said.

“...Still.” Kamigawa said.

The screen flickered as her eldest son's face appeared, “Hey mom?”

“Yes, dear?”

“Amy still there?”

Amelia walked into frame, “What's up?”

He stepped back so that Jazal was also in frame,

“We're going to help Kamigawa deal with Jin.” Jazal said.

“We wanted to know if you were available to assist?” Alistair asked.

Amelia glanced at her mother then her uncle, “I...”

“Hold on,” Kamigawa said, “I don't need help dealing with Jin. I can handle him by myself and I'm not going to put any of you in danger.”

“We know you can,” Alistair said, “but with more of us, it shouldn't take nearly as long, now should it?”

“That, and I finished my new arrows.” Jazal said, manifesting a single, green crystal arrow that crackled with green energy.

Seraphina stood up, “You figured it out?”

Jazal nodded, “Mmm-hmm. I tested it on a phyrexian husk and it worked perfectly.”

Kamigawa glanced at Seraphina, “What do those arrows do?”

“They restore the pain receptors in Phyrexians.” Seraphina said.

Kamigawa's eyes widened, and he glanced back at his nephews, “...Fine. I will concede you're correct on the time issue, but are you sure you need your sister's strength too? That seems a little like overkill to me.”

The brothers grinned in a very familiar way to their father,

“Faster still, then, huh?” Jazal said.

Amelia shook her head, “I appreciate the offer to crack carapace but--”

“Go.” Seraphina said, “I'll be fine. I have things I must do too, remember?”

Amelia looked at her mother for a long moment, before turning back to her brothers, “Okay. You'll probably need my help speeding up time there anyway.”

Kamigawa turned to his sister, “I promise I won't let anything happen to them. You have my word.”

“I trust you,” Seraphina said, “just don't lose it and kill him. Or damage his brain. We unfortunately need it.”

Kamigawa kissed her cheek, “Don't worry, I'll be too busy ripping off his limbs anyway.”

As soon as Amelia and Kamigawa had gone, Dominaria walked up to her,

“I'll help with Sheoldred. I have a place we can drop her, and I still have my Mask of Shadows which'll allow me to get into her stronghold unimpeded.”

Seraphina inhaled, “Are you sure?”

“Yes. I stopped by my plane before I came here and... corrected a few mistakes I allowed to happen.” She said.

“Jaya?” Seraphina asked.

“Jaya. Gave her some of what Joda has, so they'll be reincarnated and find each other faster. Right now, she's a little younger than she was when she died.” Dominaria said.

Seraphina smiled, “Of course you would bring back that spitfire.”

“She's my daughter, my actual, flesh and blood daughter. I could do no less.” Dominaria said.

“So... that leaves Vorinclex.” Seraphina said.

“He's mine.” Kaldheim said, eyes shifting to a wolf's for a mere second.

“... Fair enough. Have you been home yet?” Seraphina asked.

“Yes,” he said, his fierce expression melting into a smile, “Esika says hi.”

She nodded, “Okay. So...” she turned to Theros, “can you tell us who we'll need to save from Phyrexia?”

Theros sighed, “I can try.” Closing his eyes, he settled into his chair and slowed his breathing.

After several minutes of slow, even breathing, his eyes shot open and he inhaled deeply; his normally warm chocolate eyes were pure white and his voice deepened as he spoke,

“Ikoria shall lose her wayward son to temptation in the Hunters Maze, while Ravnica shall lose daughter and adoptive son to battle's haze; Zendikar's wild daughter shall raise the tree, while the daughter of stone perishes and rises to be; Kamigawa's daughter is lost in moonless night, while Alara's son continues to fight. From Glistening Oil they shall be saved, if in the soul of a shattered plane they be bathed.”

Theros' head lolled to the side, as a single trickle of blood ran from his nostril; he came to moments later as Kaladesh helped him sit forward and pressed a handkerchief to his nose.

“Ugh my head.” He said, “That was a lot harder than it should have been.”

“Of course Lukka would willing become compleat.” Ikoria said under her breathe, “I swear i'm going to knock some sense into that boy...”

Ravnica sat quietly as the message played in their mind, “Vraska and Jace... damn.”

“Zendikar already knows they lose Nissa, but Nahiri too? They're going to be devastated.” Kaladesh whispered.

“You said Ajani is still fighting. We already knew he was.” Naya said.

“He's still aware of what's happening. He's still fighting against it, but he's being suppressed by the Parasite they installed in him.” Theros said.

Naya sat down heavily, “He's aware? Does...does he feel pain?”

Theros glanced at her, “Don't ask questions you don't want to know the answer to, sis.”

Tarkir placed his hand on Naya's shoulder, before turning towards his brother, “Was there anything you saw before you had to pull away?”

Theros nodded, “Kaya, Keito and Tyvar were cornered by the compleated walkers and Elesh Norn at the Seed Core.”

“Tyvar survives?” Kaldheim asks.

Theros nodded, “He kills Tibalt, and frankly, Tibalt dies in a really pathetic manner too.”

“Good.” Kaldheim said.

“But why were they at the Seed Core?” Tarkir asked.

“Failed raid to destroy the tree. ��� Theros said.

“A raid?” Several of them asked.

Theros nodded, “It goes as badly as it could: The Wanderer gets pulled away and the rest get separated and are turned one by one. After Jace succumbs, Elspeth teleports away with the Filigree Sylex to prevent the destruction of several planes, but that leaves them with... nothing to stop Phyrexia.”

Naya flinched, “I'm not surprised...”

“Not sure the exchange was worth it.” Ravnica said.

“It would have destroyed the Compleated Walkers as well.” Naya said.

“And you think they'd prefer the alternative? If they're all aware, than they'd prefer death over serving Phyrexia.” Ravnica said.

“Don't project. It doesn't suit you.” Naya said.

“Look, I am just as willing to fight for my Walkers as you are; I am here aren't I? But I am also not willing to sacrifice everyone else to save a few who are well aware of the risks.”

“Risks WE made them take!” Kaladesh said, “Chandra wouldn't have more than a blip on Baraal's radar if it weren't for her spark increasing her powers! Vraska wouldn't have attracted that predatory dragon if she were a normal gorgon and Jace wouldn't have been a pawn of Alhamaret had his mental powers not been what they are. If you're trying to distance yourself from them in case you have to make a 'difficult decision' then perhaps you shouldn't be here after all.”

“Enough!” Tarkir shouted, his voice carrying a dragon-like roar; in the silence that followed flame sparked from his nose, “We are a group of damaged adults trying our best to help a group of our adoptive children survive in a multiverse with various dangers that our own issues have created. Now, we have to deal with something that threatens everything we care for and are and the last thing we need is to be at each other's throats.”

He turned his harsh glare on Ravnica, “Difficult decisions are made by those without the power to make others. We don't have that problem, now do we? We are Spark Givers, we have the power to change our planes and our fates if we so wish, and we have a duty to our walkers!”

Ravnica began to speak, but the truth of their elder brother's words crushed any argument they had, “...I was trying to prepare us for the time when we can't save them. Gideon wasn't able to survive the war--”

“He chose that path,” Theros said, “and if you think I was going to stop him from doing something inherent in his soul, than I wouldn't be doing my job as his adoptive father, would I? He's happy, he's with his adoptive family, and he's given Liliana a second chance. He stopped Bolas by saving another; he couldn't have asked for more.”

Ravnica glanced between their siblings, “... what if we can't save them?”

“We aren't alone,” Kaldheim said, “not now. If you doubt your ability, say so. We will help you save them. Just like you would help us if we needed it.”

Ravnica scoffed, “I couldn't keep my plane from dividing itself into eleven factions, and the damn guilds were making everyone's lives a living hell before Bolas showed up. They're still working together only because Niv is far too clever for his own good and if they try to one up each other, he WILL burn them to a crisp. I haven't done much except cause trouble for the rest of you; how could I help?”

Seraphina stepped forward, and gently turned Ravnica around; every piece of furniture in the room was floating several feet above the ground, surrounded by an aura of pale blue. Ravnica glanced down at their hands to see the same aura around them. Without a word, they set the furniture down, before taking a deep breath,

“Okay. Okay... what now?”

“Now,” Seraphina said, “we wait for a Jin to get shoved into a glass bottle.”

[dbarenzu626-mtg]

Most people start off their new year by trying to resolve something new for themselves. As a Commander player, I can see people doing similar within their own playing styles: maybe stopping slotting in not as good cards or curbing spending so much on decks.

Me though? Aside from saving for Final Fantasy in June because by lord, my JRPG nerd self will die on that hill, my resolution has been apparently to add a few new weird lil' guys to my Commander arsenal for future decks. That has included these two:

People tell me Slivers and Eldrazi are really fun and yet in terms of weird alien-looking Magic critters and their decks, I only stuck to Phyrexians for some odd reason, building around Vorinclex, Monstrous Raider and Atraxa, Praetors' Voice. As characters, I always hear stories of these two in lore: Slivers basically being dimensionally adept insects where you don't really want to disturb their hives and then Eldrazi being eternally hungry invaders, Emrakul especially being one who corrupts and manipulates whatever living things her tendrils get their hands on (which led to her getting sealed away in the moon... that'sroughbuddyLOL). Building around these two is going to be interesting, that's for sure... bugs and jellyfish. What a strange combination~

[pikagatogirltits]

Custom Magic Cards: Tamiyo's Scrolls

One of the coolest things we got in Duskmourn was this:

This particular Saga represents the memory ghost version of Tamiyo that was contained in the third of Tamiyo's three iron bound scrolls, the one that activated upon her death.

But you know what I realized? Even though we know what the other two scrolls were, we've never gotten Sagas for them. So I decided to make some cards for those two myself.

The first iron bound scroll is the story of the collapse of Serra's Realm. We never got to see this story properly unleashed, but it was this scroll that was implied to be the one Emrakul modified to seal herself away. For my design, I went with the unmodified version of the spell:

Chapter I represents the injured Urza going to Serra's Realm to heal and learn, the first link in the chain of events that led to its destruction. I was limited on what effects I could use because of the second chapter, and life gain seemed the obvious effect for Urza healing but it felt a tad bit underwhelming on its own. I decided card draw would make sense for Urza spending his time there studying the nature of artificial planes, but because this is a monowhite card I added the "opponent draws too" downside. I let your opponent also gain life for shorter templating reasons. Chapter II is the collapse of Serra's Realm itself. I felt like the destruction of an entire plane was obviously a board wipe and I went with hitting all nonlands to represent the sheer devastation the loss of an entire world could bring. (Honestly could have hit lands too, but that's a tad bit unfun.) Chapter III represents Urza then condensing the collapsed plane into the powerstone that he used to power the Weatherlight's plane shifting engine. I thought giving you a powerstone was a cute little extra effect to tag onto what's basically a slightly slow board wipe that helped sell the story.

The second iron bound scroll is the history of Mirrodin, including its eventual corruption into New Phyrexia. This is the scroll used to pour massive amounts of Glistening Oil on Boseiju during the Invasion. While the scroll begins with Urza's creation of Karn, I decided for my Saga that I would start with the actual creation of the plane. I felt that the creation of an entire world should be a five color card:

Of course for maximum deep cut nerd points I used Karn's original name for the plane in the name of the Saga. Chapter I is Karn creating Argentum. I figured for 5 mana of different colors being able to search for nonbasics should be fine, but felt like ramping you by five lands was a bit much. An earlier version just stuck them into your hand, but I decided it was more rewarding to let you drop at least one land from your hand. Chapter II is Memnarch using the soul traps to draw living creatures onto the plane, turning it from Karn's perfect vision of Argentum into Mirrodin. Cheating creatures out of your library onto the battlefield did a good job of representing that, plus it helps set you up for the next chapter. Chapter III is the plane's eventual corruption into the hellhole that is New Phyrexia. All your creatures are made into Phyrexians (permanently rather than until end of turn, it should be noted) and are given the ability to deal damage as poison counters (this part is only until end of turn.) Hopefully you hit some good creatures with chapter 2 to set up your alpha strike.

But yup, those are my ideas for Tamiyo's first and second iron bound scrolls if they were Magic cards.

[rosiecow]

Magic nerd moment but Ulamog is generally referred to using he/him pronouns, Emrakul is the eldrazi titan that usually uses she/her, and I don't remember if this is the case in canon, but I'm deciding that Kozilek is mainly referred to using they/them, to round out the pronoun brigade.

Granted those are purely based on how mortals refer to the eldrazi titans, they have never commented on the issue, and they likely possess sexes and genders far beyond our mortal comprehension. Especially considering that they are self replicating, and each have their own special varieties of spawn.

Also they might be a different gender than their true form? As the titans are described as being extraplanar projections of much larger beings from beyond even the boundaries of the blind infinities. The analogy used to describe it is that the mortal realm is like a lake, and the eldrazi titans are the hands of beings from outside the lake reaching into it. So it kinda depends on if the titans are also only partial fragments of the personalities/identities of their true forms, or if they just complete extensions of their outside will.

The idea of the magic card "Swords to plowshares" is essentially that target creature rejects the way of the sword and becomes a farmer instead, hence you lose them as a combatant but gain the health from their farming.

This is really fuckin funny in conjunction with a lot of potential targets for that card. Can you just imagine you're an average farmer in an MTG plane, have a normal-ass day, and all of a sudden you look to the east, and stretching up past the clouds you see Ulamog, the despoiler, one of the infamous eldrazi titans, a creature that corrupts all that is good by its mere presence. And all the enormous bastard is doing is using their massive fuckin tendrils to plow the land and plant potatos, and tend to their flocks of eldrazi spawn, and then it turns its eyeless head thats the size of several cities at you and tips its wide brimmed straw hat at you and continues going about its worm.

[t-girlprowess]

FNM!!!!!!

Round 1: Fought against Rakdos midrange and killed them. Lost game 2 due to really bad hands, but killed on turn 4 game 3 to take it home!

Round 2: fought merfolk, and had enough removal to kill them super dead.

Round 3: fought a goryos vengeance emrakul list. Flusterstorm won me game 2 after the first one being forcibly discarded.

Round 4: killed amulet titan in the most stressful game as my opponent has all the setup and no payoff. Then game 2 my opponent mulliganed to 4 while I went to 5 and I killed them

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From Jund Phoenix to Cephalid Breakfast: My 2022 MTG Deck Adventures

Well, it's been quite a Magic year for me. I've dabbled in Legacy, Modern, Pioneer and even a bit of Pauper. I've played with my trusty Phoenixes of course but also Twiddle Storm, Jeskai Ascendany and Turbo Fog. What a year!

I registered this monstrosity for #mtgvintage #mtg #oathofdruids @emjatieternalweekend and finished in top4… out of 7 😜 Went 🦖☠️🦖 pic.twitter.com/z64GJOw3vl

— pierre-henri (@phulkor) August 13, 2022

My biggest highlight was playing Vintage with Oath of Druid. I don't own Power but the deck has legs! It was a blast to play and it was fun to bring back Emrakul against my opponents on any board state.

Pioneer top4 @demospel, let's go! #mtg #mtgpioneer #jeskaiascendancy pic.twitter.com/JpYOM2spvE

— pierre-henri (@phulkor) October 25, 2022

Pioneer was fun but I'll put it aside for now.

Looking back at the results I recorded, it's not very consistent. When I play combo like Cephalid or Omnitell, wins are free. On the other hand I bring some janks and builds I do not know well. This has two downsides: you die to your deck but also to your mistakes! In general my records in Modern were really poor and I didn't have that many chances to play the format.

First match of our Top8 seasonal @demospel #MTGLegacy. Sending a message! #emrakul #flyinspaghettimonster #skypasta pic.twitter.com/1Jg2RysTWC

— pierre-henri (@phulkor) August 6, 2022

I also play a lot of formats. I like them all but it's difficult to master them. I managed to make top 8 at FNM seasonal for Legacy and Pioneer. The Pioneer top 8 still needs to be played but in Legacy I didn't quite come out victorious.

Last sunday was #magicmastersmol and I controlled a "stock" #mtglegacy cephalid breakfast list to a 🍣🦑🦑🦑🍣🦑 finish. Good for a 10th place, not too shabby! ?-2 delver 2-0 doomsday 2-0 naya depths 2-1 goblins 0-2 8-cast 2-0 delver pic.twitter.com/lkAlmnNSQr

— pierre-henri (@phulkor) December 12, 2022

My best performance of the year was 10th place at Magicmastersmol with Cephalid Breakfast. This deck was my go-to deck for most of the second part of the year. I'm glad I decided to acquire it with all the buzz it's getting lately. Right now it's well positioned in the format.

Overall, I've had a pretty even win-loss record, but the important thing is I've kept on playing and experimenting with different decks. I participated in many tournaments and learned a lot from it.

One of my goals for last year was to keep a record sheet, but I didn't keep up with that. It's not too late, and I will make sure to keep up with it this year. I would also like to be a little be more consistent on FNM but my 2 first deckchoices are already in the bad direction so I'll have to work on that! Finally I want to produce art again. It's time to make those custom tokens that are in all my sketchbooks.

First match of our Top8 seasonal @demospel #MTGLegacy. Sending a message! #emrakul #flyinspaghettimonster #skypasta pic.twitter.com/1Jg2RysTWC

— pierre-henri (@phulkor) August 6, 2022

I want to thank all the people that make playing at demospel great as it's always a moment of fresh air to be able to relax, jam some cards and win or lose some games

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Got the Eldrazi deck out for the first time in forever to play some Xmas day MTG with the brother. Thought I’d take a picture of the big boys (plus momma Emrakul).

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Story time:

In 2018 I was brand-new to Commander, but had been playing MTG for 2 years at that point. I had really been enjoying the casual atmosphere at my LGS, but had kind of gotten bored of playing the only commander deck I owned (a birthday gift from a friend). I didn't have enough money yet for a second, so while I was saving up I'd sometimes borrow somebody else's deck.

One night, I borrowed a Phenax mill deck. It was walls, only walls, with basically nothing else in it. It got down to me and one other guy. I had been saving a removal spell in my hand for whatever big chungus he was going to cast, and lo and behold he cast one: Emrakul, the Promised End. I went "Oh, that's annoying. Well turn-stealing isn't that bad so I'll be fine."

He targeted me. He took my turn, played another wall so Phenax was a creature, then exiled it with the removal spell in my hand. He didn't zone Phenax. I was left with a pile of 2 cent walls against a 7.5.

To this day, I still build most of my decks in such a way that it can either play through it's own interaction or can't interact with itself at all. Just in case. I haven't been Emrakul'd since.