#kamigawa: neon dynasty

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Swamp

Artist: Maiko Aoji TCG Player Link Scryfall Link EDHREC Link

[necroticboop]

❝ We go faster, fly higher, and we glow. ❞

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Rabbit Battery by Justyna Dura

[sapphic-scylla]

*Phyrexians coming to reap mechanical death upon the planes and all of its inhabitants*

Kamigawa:

Ikoria:

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Chainflail Centipede

Artist: Viko Menezes

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Hello! Could I request a board themed around the Kamigawa: Neon Dynasty expansion from Magic the Gathering, with neon lights, vehicles, robots/mechanical elements, and katanas (or swords and samurai stuff in general)? Tysm!

Kamigawa: Neon Dynasty (Magic: the Gathering) with neon lights, vehicles, robotics, and katanas!

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Raiyuu, Storm's Edge Full (Showcase Ver) by Ichiko Milk Tei

[jasper-the-menace]

One of my favorite headcanons for Tatsunari and Kotose is that they're both trans but in the opposite directions so they just took each other's deadnames.

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Token Tuesday #2 - Pilot

[magicmalcolm]

Spirited Companion

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Brilliant Restoration

Artist: Totetsu Kondo TCG Player Link Scryfall Link EDHREC Link

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Flavor Text Highlights - Kamigawa: Neon Dynasty + Commander Precons

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Cool - Peerless Samurai

“I fear I have run out of worthy opponents.”

Funny - Enthusiastic Mechanaut

“Greetings, fellow inventors!” the akki shouted, attempting a friendly smile. To her dismay, the greeting was met only with shrieks and alarms being activated.

Worldbuilding - The transformed side of the Age/Era Cycle (The Shattered States Era, Era of Enlightenment, The Modern Age)

“In the wake of the Kami War, Kamigawa descended into a state of constant warfare. Even with Kyodai’s wisdom guiding them, it took the first Imperials decades of work and bloodshed to subdue the clans and bring peace to the land.” —History of the Empire

“We have endured lifetimes of war and carved our way to peace by blade and conquest. Now, united at last under Kyodai’s guidance, we lay down our weapons and open our minds.” —Aoha, general of the First Emperor

It drifted from the spirit realm into a neon world full of new possibilities … and decided to stay.

Emotional - Yoshimaru, Ever Faithful

Day after day he sat there, knowing that the Wanderer would soon be back for him.

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Fable of the Mirror Breaker by Joseph Meehan

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today's impulse purchase

i have no real excuse for this i don't even have a use for specifically 80 sleeves

[disbarredgoose0]

I keep looking at what's been revealed of Duskmourn and I keep wondering why Duskmourn just does not resonate with me. Like, I enjoyed Kamigawa: Neon Dynasty and adore Streets of New Cappena, so I don't think it's the quality of dipping a little into recognizable technologies or more modern aesthetics. Maybe its just the quality of how contemporary Duskmourn feels by comparison. Cause like, the pastiche is calling back to the tech and aesthetics of 80s horror, pop culture, and, most importantly, fashion. It calls back to things that are recognizably "un-fantasy" if still hightened so as to be fantastical. I mean, Episode 1 of the stories starts out by describing what may as well be a suburb. It's something that's so linked to modern Americana that it's hard not to feel a sense of disonance between it and Magic.

This certainly makes a comparison to Neon Dynasty a little easier cause sure, Neon Dynasty has a sci fi aesthetic, but it's firmly rooted in aesthetics from fiction. It's got mechs and cyberpunk tropes and anime callbacks. Even when it dips into recognizably "Japanese" aesthetics, it's got a veneer to it that reads the same way as any generic fantasy does when it calls upon vaguely European "medieval" cities.

That still leaves New Cappena cause I mean. It's got cars! Guns! Sky scrapers! Its whole thing is Art Deco and the Americana of the Roaring 20s and Prohibition! Why do I still mesh with it, why does it still ring to me as Magic where Duskmourn really doesn't? Honestly, no idea. I could go down a line of argument that Art Deco was always its own kind of fiction, or question whether it's the fact that the aesthetic's more separated in time that makes me more comfortable in slotting New Capenna along other Magic settings in my brain. But I don't know, neither feels like a satisfying answer.

I could also talk about how Duskmourn feels a little too random-action-heroes-genre-bending-toy-collection-you-find-in-a-dollar-store for me, but that's another thing entirely.