#lifelink

[bubble-bobble]

You got something on your face >:3

[survclaimd1]

Care:  At night you may Care for your lover, giving them Powerful Defense and curing douses, poison, and Dreamweaves. Care bypasses Jail targeting restrictions. Maybe both Admirer and Lover should be able to care. It'd be cute. -- (yes i know the colors are a little wonky it's been a while since i used the sharpies WAH)

[wausaupilot]

BREAKING: Child airlifted after being struck by vehicle in Mosinee

What we know so far about this developing story:

Wausau Pilot & Review A child was severely injured Wednesday and was airlifted to a hospital after being struck by a vehicle in Mosinee, according to emergency scanner traffic. Rescue crews were summoned at about 6:20 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 25 to to the area of Western Avenue and Hwy. 153 in Mosinee. As CPR was being administered to the child, additional support from Riverside Fire was…

[eisner-therapy-and-counseling]

I've been very bored at work so I've decided to take my two special interests and smash them together to make a set of custom Fe3h universes beyond commander decks.

The designs are definitely still a WIP, especially the number tuning, and the art is... borrowed from the now defunct FE Cipher card game.

These are the face commanders I've created for each deck, explanations for the cards and the concepts for the decks in the Read More.

Edelgard / Crimson Flower

The Black Eagle/Empire deck is the fastest of the four, and focuses on overwhelming opponents through sheer numbers. The deck will generate a lot of creature tokens and has a number of effects that buff your whole team or provide keywords to them. There will be touch of Aristocrats flavor representing the Agarthan influence on the Empire, though cards related to TWSITD will appear in most decks as there were no nations that escaped their meddling hands.

Edelgard herself is a tough creature that encourages you to go wide, and can bring in a some elite knights to instantly enable her second ability if she focuses all her energy on attacking. She can also support her troops from the back line and play defense, but is at her best playing aggressively. She wants to end the game quickly and efficiently to cause as few casualties as possible.

Dimitri / Azure Moon

The Blue Lions/Kingdom deck wants to bide its time until it can attack with one large creature, though it is not intended to be a voltron deck (focused on equipments/auras). There are also some Knight kindred elements meant to represent the Kingdom's culture of Chivalry, and a few cards that involve the monarchy meant to emphasize Dimitri reclaiming the throne once he comes to his senses. The Blue Lions deck is the second slowest of the four.

Dimitri himself is designed to evoke that very concept. When he enters, he must reclaim the throne before he can take his place as king. Once he does, his followers look on with pride (or perhaps exaltation), placing their faith in the nobles of the Kingdom.

Claude / Verdant Wind

The Golden Deer/Alliance deck understands that it must make use of every possible resource to ensure victory. The lands of the Alliance are smaller than those of the other factions, and as such they must rely on diplomacy and clever use of resources to find victory. The deck will produce a lot of different types of artifact tokens, and has a dash of board politics to keep its opponents mollified until it sneaks in a win. The Golden Deer deck is the second fastest of the four.

Claude is a man who understands diplomacy, but also the idea that, “It’s a win-win arrangement. I just happen to win the most.” (To quote the flavor text of Cut a Deal). He plays nice with your opponents by letting them draw cards, but gathers information on their plans to prepare for what's coming.

Rhea / Silver Snow

The Church of Seiros deck is the slowest of the four, and wants to control the flow of the game while it builds up to something big. To aid that, the deck will tax your opponents and encourage them to fight amongst themselves, while a small life gain subtheme will keep you sitting pretty until its time to deal with whoever is left. Like the Alliance deck, there is a dash of board politics meant to allow you to provide boons to those who take your... advice.

Rhea is meant to be relatively unassuming at first glance, but also to threaten your opponents with the knowledge that she could transform at any time. The Immaculate One by contrast is a major beater, and can swiftly end the game if your opponents aren't prepared for it. When Rhea dies as The Immaculate One, she returns in a weakened state, and will perish for good if she transforms again before she recovers.

(Also she doesn't have the flip symbols because the version of MSE I'm using doesn't have borderless flip cards as an option.)

[mtgfantokens]

MtG Token: 1/1 White Cat with Lifelink

Magic: the Gathering has been around for 30 years. There are 27,000 unique cards and growing. And a lot of them create tokens. While the official tokens are great, I have a need to celebrate the artwork of our (mtg) ancestors. Let's celebrate older artwork with a new coat of paint.

Token: 1/1 white Cat creature token with lifelink

These are the cats that come with Regal Caracal

A newer cat type, we look to "newer" cards. First we have God's Hall Guardian from Kaldheim and Garrison Cat from Ikoria: Lair of Behemoths, both by Sidharth Chaturvedi

The literal and graphical information presented on this site about Magic: The Gathering, including card images and mana symbols, is copyright Wizards of the Coast, LLC.

[dravidious]

You're more amazing than face-down cards

White commons! Enchantments aplenty!

To be clear, the cards with capitalized names are existing cards that I'm using as reprints. Some, like Karametra's Blessing, will get new names eventually.

Also, using Elemental as a creature type was mostly just a placeholder, and now that I'm settling on the flavor I'm looking for a better subtype. The flavor is that they're spawned from human emotion, like faith, hope, or devotion for the enchantments, or passion or creativity for the artifacts. I scrolled through the creature types, but none really stuck out to me as a solid fit. The best I could come up with was spirit, but I figured I'd ask for ideas before committing to changing every instance of the Elemental type. I could even go with a totally new subtype, but I couldn't think of any good names.

[peofun1]

let's talk about how I made an "equines" deck (unicorns, pegasi, horses, ect) kind of as a meme deck but it actually goes fucking crazy

Lathiel is the commander and there's nothing quite like playing a lame 2/2 lifelink pegasus, and then a few turns later it's an 8/8 flier and if it attacks I can make it a 16/16

[pagerunner-j]

Being a recovering Magic: The Gathering collector (read: I sold most of my cards during a bout of unemployment and I'm still sad about it), I'd talked myself out of buying any of the Doctor Who-themed cards. But I've been poking through the art tonight anyway.

For some reason, what's getting to me the most are the basic land cards.

For the unfamiliar, land cards are how you make the whole game work. You have to utilize the appropriate land cards to fuel basically anything you want to do. Because of this, the same foundational land types -- mountain, island, swamp, etc. -- have existed in the game since day 1. There are special land cards that do unique things, of course, and the art for those can be pretty intricate, but the basic ones generally don't get the fanciest art. They're just pretty landscapes, really, lightly themed to match the rest of the set they're in.

So for the Doctor Who set? Plain old forests and fields and such, as always.

Except the TARDIS is sitting out in the middle of them.

I would put these cards in any game of M:TG I'll ever play until the end of time.

[juniepops]

So for the most part guesses on these lined up roughly how I expected! First Strike and Lifelink were more evasive than I thought they would be but the incorrect guesses were understandable, and Reach also gave folks trouble but some guesses did land surprisingly close. A couple folks noted knowing some terms because of other card-based combat games which is a neat fun fact.

I’m going to briefly explain the first list of terms in the tags of this reblog so anyone who still wants to guess them can do so, and throw on a bonus round of rarer or more complex keywords. Some of these interact with things I didn’t describe in the first post, like the ability to modify creature’s stats, but are otherwise all primarily if not exclusively combat-related:

Defender

Wither

Annihilator

Mentor and Training

Decay

Battle Cry

Landwalk (usually specified as, for example, forestwalk or swampwalk)

Shadow and Horsemanship

Ninjutsu

I’ve only been playing magic the gathering for a few months and I feel like I understand how it works pretty well, but I tend to pick things up quick anyway so it makes me wonder how comprehensive it is to complete strangers to the game.

For people who don’t play magic: one of the types of cards is “creatures,” which are left on the playing field and have numerical values called “power” and “toughness,” meaning strength and health. During one player’s turn, they may have their creatures attack another player, which requires them to be “tapped” (turned sideways); being tapped prevents the creature from doing other actions, including blocking. However, creatures that were played the same turn can’t be tapped to attack. For each attacking creature, the defending player chooses one of their own creatures to block it, and blocking creatures do not tap. If an attacking creature is blocked, both creatures deal their power against the other’s toughness as if fighting. Creatures that are not blocked damage the other player’s life total.

With this in mind, creatures can have additional abilities that modify the above combat process. Each of the following “keywords” is used to summarize a sentence or two of additional rules that apply to creatures who have the keyword on their card. I’ve sorted them in what I personally consider to be most to least intuitive, and would like any willing non-players to try and guess their effects without looking them up:

Deathtouch

Trample

Double Strike

First Strike

Lifelink

Flying

Reach

Haste

Vigilance

Menace

[markrosewater]

Maro’s “Look Inside the House”: A Duskmourn: House of Horrors Teaser

The new plane of Duskmourn is a perilous place, but if you can survive the horrors within you may come out stronger than ever. I’ve been there. I’ve seen the darkness and to that end, here are some hints of things to come – but will this information help or hinder your journey? Only time will tell. As with any good piece of horror media, you’re only receiving partial information and things are not always as they appear: 

 First up, here are some things you can expect:  

• A component of the set with a frame using technology first designed for an Un-set

• A tweak on an ability word that first appeared in the third set of a block

• Counters used in the set: +1/+1, -1/-1, finality, flying, lifelink, lore, loyalty, nest, possession, rev, stun, and time

• The first ability word to reference “second main phase”

• A 10/1 creature for UUU

• A variant on a mechanic that itself was a variant on another mechanic

• A modal three mana white mass removal spell

• A character returns as a legendary creature that first appeared in flavor text in Alpha

• A new ability word that cares about a card type and a (new) keyword action

• Creature tokens: 1/1 white Toy, 1/1 white Glimmer, 2/1 white Insect, 3/1 white Spirit, 4/4 white Beast, blue token copy, X/X blue Spirit, 2/2 black Horror, 6/6 black Demon, 1/1 red Gremlin, 1/1 red Balloon, 2/2 green Spider, 1/1 black and green Insect, and 0/0 green and blue Fractal

 Next, here are some rules text that will be showing up on cards:  

• “unlock a locked door”

• “Search your library for a Demon card,”

• “where X is the number of creatures you control with power 2 or less.”

• “Exile any number of target instant, sorcery, and/or Tamiyo planeswalker cards from your graveyard.”

• “The same is true for creature spells you control and creature cards you own that aren’t on the battlefield.”

• “You have no maximum hand size and don’t lose the game for having 0 or less life.”

• “Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell that targets only a single creature you control, copy that spell.”

• “Shards you control become copies of it until the beginning of the next end step.”

• “of creatures you control that don’t have the same name as this creature.”

• “(2, 3, 5, 7, 11, 13, 17, 19, 23, 29, and 31 are prime numbers.)”

 Here are some creature type lines from the set: 

• Creature – Human Doctor

• Creature – Kor Survivor

• Creature – Goat

• Creature – Shark

• Creature – Eye

• Creature – Fish Insect

• Artifact Creature – Monkey Toy

• Creature – Human Clown Berserker

• Legendary Creature – Elder Demon

• Legendary Creature – Rat Ninja Wizard

 Finally, here are some names in the set: 

• Acrobatic Cheerleader

• Don’t Make a Sound

• Exorcise

• Friendly Ghost

• Jump Scare

• Let’s Play a Game

• Meathook Massacre II

• Orphans of the Wheat

• Split Up

• Unsettling Twins

 Tune into Duskmourn’s Debut at 2pm PT, August 31 – streaming live from PAX West – where the House will finally reveal more of its secrets.

[bubble-bobble]

Well OOPS

this scribble got out of hand sorry Shin

[survclaimd1]

well better luck next time

[sexhaver]

so the main functional difference between Spirit Link and Lifelink is what they do when cast on your opponent's creatures. Lifelink does what it says on the tin: gives the creature Lifelink, gaining its controller (i.e. your enemy) life as it does damage. this is usually bad for you. Spirit Link, on the other hand, gains life for its own controller (i.e. you), not the controller of the creature it's enchanting. in practical terms, this means that you can slap Spirit Link on your opponent's biggest creature to effectively reduce its attack to 0, since you'll be gaining life equal to the damage it's hitting you for.

...unless it's hitting you for lethal damage, because that's where the other difference between Spirit Link and Lifelink arises: the former is a triggered ability, whereas the latter is a static ability. you lose the game if you have 0 or less life when state-based actions are checked, and unfortunately they do get checked between you taking damage and Spirit Link healing you back up. Lifelink healing, on the other hand, is actually simultaneous with the damage being dealt.

on a side note, you are correct about the first half of Canopy Cover, but the real strength of that card lies in the second ability not being Hexproof. as printed, you can enchant your opponent's stuff to prevent them from targeting it with any of their own further buffs, because the text "spells or abilities your opponents control" is written on Canopy Cover itself (controlled by you) rather than being part of a Hexproof ability granted to the creature (controlled by your opponent).

BONUS ROUND (featuring my own trade binder):

these cards ARE functionally identical. consider this and attain enlightenment.

rule 702.9b says: "A creature with flying can’t be blocked except by creatures with flying and/or reach."

rule 702.11b says: "“Hexproof” on a permanent means “This permanent can’t be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control.”"

the first ability is not Flying. the second ability is not Hexproof. if you changed the text to say "Enchanted creature has flying and hexproof", you would have a functionally different (and mostly worse) card.

consider this and learn.

[dravidious]

You're more amazing than flooding

Big fat combat trick to pump all your excess mana into!

Cards used as example for balancing the modes: