#magic the gathering custom cards

[syntheticsylvie]

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[lmigi]

Oathkeeper and Oblivion [Kingdom Hearts - Party Time]

Artist Credit: Kagachi_118 & Shiyu-artpainting

My friends and I prefer to play Commander using pre-con decks, as that way the less invested of us don't have to contend with those of us that have enough time in our days and motivation to spend crafting bonkers decks.

My personal favorite pre-con is entitled "Party Time", centering around the idea of having a "full party" on your team. As my favorite pre-con, I decided to customize the entire deck by making proxies of each card as a Kingdom Hearts themed deck. I was surprised to have found so many perfect matches for KH characters/ideas and the cards in this deck.

First up, we have the Commander, "Roxas, the Key" as a proxy of "Nalia de'Arnise". Admittedly, this proxy probably had the least association with its base card, but his presence as Nalia will make sense with further posts of these cards.

Second up is "Sora, Chosen by the Keyblade", a proxy of "Jazal Goldmane", which is a very clever reference to Sora's concept art as a sort of lion-boy. His ability to buff all creatures based on how many are attacking with him really exemplifies his "my friends are my power" mantra throughout the games.

Note: you'll notice that for this deck I opted to not use the "Legend Crown" frame around the names of Legendary creatures, this was intentional so as to maintain a cohesive aesthetic between all creatures, legendary and non-legendary alike, as even the non-legendary creatures will be represented with singular KH characters.

[whiteweddingparttwo]

@punkitt-is-here said they were playing Magic The Gathering, and that inspired me to make this custom token for the Witness Protection card!

[niuttuc]

Weird Magic: the Gathering effects: Fourth edition

Starting last year, and on three separate occasions, I've ran polling games listing weird magic the gathering card effects among which hid one fake one, to see how easy it was to figure out. It's time for another!

Like previous instances, this is intended for people who aren't experts at magic and would recognize all the cards instantly, more as entertainment for people outside the game, but I've been told it also works for plenty of actual magic players. There are certainly effects there I didn't know existed in specific before pulling this poll together.

As last time, only the current text of effects is used, not necessarily the one printed on the card. Limited to cards that exist in paper, and are legal to play in at least some tournament formats. Though I did expand in previous polls to text that's part of keyword rules or that's part of the current reminder text on at least one card, and that might apply here as well.

This time some of the cards are less obscure, but I wanted to include them because they're flavorful bits of text. Without further ado...

I will give one bit of context for people who don't play the game at all: your library is what your deck of cards is called while a game is going.

EDIT: the poll is over, time to add the solution under the cut on this message! It is also available in a reblog here, if you prefer that.

First, the Correct answer, and then the rest by order of voting percentage.

Whenever this creature becomes goaded, it fights up to one target creature (35.4%)

This first answer was the correct one, as was recognized by the majority (most of which, I assume, are Magic players who recognized the rest.) It was written as something that makes flavorful sense, and inspired by both Goad and the old mechanic of Provoke using similar meanings. Provoke later evolved into Fighting.

As mentioned, I like this effect, I ended up making a custom card with that mechanic while waiting for the poll to be over, though the wording is slightly different and that won't be in this post.

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This creature isn't a creature (17.5%)

This text doesn't appear printed on any card, but it is the current text of Weeping Angel from the Doctor Who set following a templating update of cards to avoid using their own name to refer to themselves, except for legends. Of course, within larger context. I've seen some people guess Gods from Theros as the source of this text, but since they're all legendary, they use their own names still, or a shortened version rather.

This is such a nonsensical line to be on a card that I knew it needed an inclusion here.

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Put a +1/+2 counter on target creature. (10.7%)

In the early days of magic, stats-buffing (or stats-reducing) counters weren't relegated to mere +1/+1 and -1/-1 counters. There were some +2/+2, -0/-1, +0/+1 counters and more, and when they mixed it made tracking the size of a creature with them a nightmare, so they stopped doing that. During that time, exactly ONE card, Armor Thrull, was created that put a +1/+2 counters on a creature. Neat and also weird!

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Redistribute any number of players’ life totals. (9.1%)

A very unique effect, Reverse the Sands is rarely worth the inclusion in any deck, but it is quite impactful. Printed in a game before commander hit big, expecting two players most of the time, it wasn't that different from other life swapping effects, but with Multiplayer becoming such a big part of the game nowadays, it's fun to have around.

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Your devotion to each color and each combination of colors is increased by one. (7.5%)

Devotion is a mechanic found in the ancient greek mythology setting of Theros within magic, caring how deeply you commit yourself to any given colors by encouraging you to play harder-to-cast permanents of that color. In the latest return to Theros, there is one card, Altar of the Pantheon, that has a weird effect of artificially altering your devotion without any cost shenanigans.

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If this creature would be destroyed, regenerate it. (5.8%)

Mossbridge Troll has a unique effect of just ALWAYS regenerating for free whenever it would be destroyed, be it by damage or destroy effects. In practice, it's mostly a fancy version of indestructible.

It also allows me to mention Mossbridge Troll from Shadowmoor is the creature associated with Mosswort Bridge from Lorwyn. Each of the five original Hideaway lands in Lorwyn had an associated "awakened" creature in Shadowmoor! Not the most obscure fact, but neat to know about.

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Other creatures are Food (3.9%)

A delightfully flavorful (well, except for all the salt) piece of rules text from Ygra here. Everything is Food for the Eater of All.

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1/1 named Legitimate Businessperson. (2.9%)

Witness Protection is a pretty normal design, but changing the name of the creature is a really neat touch that just adds a bit of flavor and makes it a card dear to many. It's funny how a small change like that can make a boring common into a card many remember for years to come. It even made its way into the "core" experience of the game through the Foundations expansion later on!

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You draw cards from the bottom of your library rather than the top. (2.6%)

Another appearance from Doctor Who, this time with River Song, who has an ability that is pretty flavorful, but in practice doesn't do much, since the cards at the bottom of your library are just as random as the ones on the top. Or are they? It's marginally easier to set up the bottom of your deck than the top of it, and to create loops with that and cards that put stuff back onto the bottom of your deck from your graveyard.

Unfortunately, that easily devolves back into infinite extra turns, which is very flavorful for a time traveler, but generally frowned upon in more social environments.

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Whenever another creature you control dies, investigate. (1.9%)

This one isn't that weird, but I wanted to include it for just how flavorful it is to investigate the murder of your creatures. Except of course you're likely the one to be doing the murdering for all those sweet clues. Oops?

This effect does not specify nontoken creatures, which means it's actually quite easy to make bucketloads of clues with it. Or an infinity, if you turn your clues into creatures themselves, so be wary of that because it's easy to end up in an infinite loop you can't stop, which causes the game to end in a draw, drowned in clues.

Protection from everything (1.6%)

Protection from everything has appeared on a few cards, but the most iconic (though not the most played, that'd be Teferi's Protection), is Progenitus, the first to feature it. A giant creature that's almost impossible to cast and can't be cheated into play from the graveyard, Progenitus has impressed many a player!

Unfortunately, it's both clunky to actually use and not immune to everything. While EVERYTHING does mean everything, Protection has a relatively narrow definition in the game rules, and Magic is a game where very specific rules matter. Getting rid of a Progenitus is difficult, but far from impossible. Any effect that blankets destroys or exiles all creatures will remove it just as easily as everything else.

Venture into the dungeon. (1%)

Venture into the Dungeon was one of the main mechanics for the first D&D set Magic has done, Adventures in the Forgotten Realms. They revisited it later on in the second with a slight variation. While flavorful, the mechanic involved a lot of extra baggage involving having three extra Dungeon cards to pick from each with several abilities and to plan a trip through them and... It ended up seeing just a little bit of play, and not being the designers' best work, even if it had a LOT of flavor.

Thank you for participating and reading through all this! See you in the fifth edition if I ever put it together!

[lutraslutra]

My little Good Omens inspired Magic The Gathering project is going swimmingly ✨

Lotsa fun here, if all goes well I can start printing them soon 🍷

Got any tokens you wanna see? Let me known,I’m open to all sorts of suggestions

Tokens done so far: Angel Warrior, Snake, Angel & Poison

[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

[swordandsable]

Vendilion Clique

I swear the blue foil doesn't look as insane in person lol

[homebrew-hobo]

Hey hey, guess what! We’ve got new cards! Some are miscellaneous, others are College of Winterhold, but they’re all TES!

And in TES: Commander news, we’re nearing on being complete with the College’s main cast of characters!

(Credit to @misty-seashore for the art on Savos’s Expedition, I found it being stolen on Pinterest and had to make sure they got proper recognition!)

We also have new rewordings and changes to older cards, to make them 100% official sounding and fun to play with!

[juliaroseghost]

This is a commission I made for my cousin! He wanted me to make custom art of a Magic card he had called “Karametra, God of Harvest.” I don’t know anything about Magic but I was told that she was similar to the goddess Demeter so I went with it lolol.😅😅 I made two versions of this piece, but the only difference is one has color dodge and the other doesn’t lmaooo. My cousin is the one that added the boarder to the cards in the last two images and I think it turned out very good! I hope you guys like it to!🧡🧡🧡

[syntheticsylvie]

more Playtest cards

[lmigi]

Riku and Repliku [Kingdom Hearts - Party Time]

Artist Credit: Shmz042 & Toni Infante

Support Shmz042 further here: Shmz042's INPRNT

Support Toni Infante further here: Toni Infante's Patreon

Another two proxies from my Kingdom Hearts-ified Proxy Deck of the Pre-con Commander deck "Party Time".

First, we have Riku as "High Priest of Penance", I wanted a WB card, to symbolize Riku's split between light and darkness. Riku is also one of the strongest Keyblade Wielders among the main characters, and having him destroy anything when he takes damage is fitting for that. Notably he starts at 1/1, which means he must go through a lot of growth throughout the game in order to be really effective, which serves as a parallel for his journey in the video games.

Secondly, we have the Riku Replica: a changeling to represent his replica origins, and his inability to block/be blocked is to represent his singular focus as a weapon of Organization XIII. He's there to hurt the enemy, and he'll achieve that goal.

[shaithelamb]

made proxies for my wife with our characters :3 the one on the left belongs to @vivian-the-panda the one on the right is my sona :3

i actually quite enjoyed making these, i dont know much about magic but i do like card games so ye this was fun to make

[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

[yidarowandering]

I've been messing around a lot lately with mtgcardbuilder.com, thinking of cool ways to design cards set in the worlds of other fandoms I like, and I'm really quite happy with some of these results. So without further ado, here's my take on the Demiurges (plus Allison) from the webcomic "Kill Six Billion Demons" (https://killsixbilliondemons.com/) as Planeswalker cards!

[narset-enlightened-member]