#witherbloom command

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Witherbloom Command

Artist: Dmitry Burmak TCG Player Link Scryfall Link EDHREC Link

[chornayadrakoshig]

Not a Wednesday but a WIP! lol

I wanted to share some writing for a while but with my main projects I'm on a strict "no snippets, no spoilers, no sharing publicly" until approximately February next year, so I can't share that 3 complete oneshots I wrote for CL fandom. But I've been working on fics for other fandoms too — less successfully but it is what it is.

So, this one is Greatmage in Strixhaven AU. I have very mixed feelings about this, to be completely honest, so any early reviews/critique are extremely appreciated.

I intend to make it a oneshot collection where each fic it's a separate story but all of them are in continuous timeline. Don't have final title yet, the beta versions are "The Paladin. The Sorcerer." and "The weave keeps bringing us together".

This one was intended as a 2nd or 3rd oneshot in a series, where Gareth and El have already met in passing, but haven't really interacted before. However I haven't introduced El in this snippet yet (it's more focused on Gareth and a bit less on Eddie).

About 1.2k words under the cut:

When Gareth heard that they got a scheduled practicum in the infirmary as part of their class, he was excited at first. He was always ready to give a helping hand to someone who needed it (except for Carver and his goonies didn't count — they were a menace to the whole university), and healers, who worked on Strixhaven grounds, fascinated him since his first year, when (…. some accident). Of course, his upbringing was mostly focused on combat — but how good is the paladin who can't heal an injured teammate in the battle? So after their Life Auras and Necrosis professor,… said they'll spend a few hours per tenday volunteering at the infirmary and helping with the patients, he was thrilled. It was a great practice for the future of slaying real monsters — or, at the very least, a good practice for their Live-Action Roleplaying Guild meetings. Unsurprising amounts of younger students were getting minor injuries while hanging out in Segemoor outside of limiting passageways and bridges of the Witherbloom campus; a surprising amount of older students from their club didn't have any first aid skills, let alone any healing spells in their arsenal. And, apparently, they had a surprisingly absent sense of self-preservation too.

Gravelly boring and quiet shift in the infirmary — following the assigned healer around, helping to restock the supplies, updating some medical charts by controlling a quill with a spell while his hands were full of other stuff — was abruptly cut when sickly pale Eddie, supported by some Lorehold student from his year, came to see the healers.

When they explained what happene­d, Gareth was not impressed, to say the least.

“And you just drank it?!” hissed Gareth. “Eddie, you can't be that stu… No, cross this out” he mumbled, giving directions to the mage hand spell. The quill, which was floating above the paper in the grip of an invisible hand, crossed out the last sentence. Gareth hoped he wouldn't get in trouble for corrections on the medical card he was instructed to fill in. He cleared his throat and continued — Despite the signs of an incorrectly brewed potion, such as wrong shade and consistency, the patient drank it anyway. Observed symptoms: pale skin, nausea, vomiting…

“Oh Gareth Arthur, the son of Emmer, will you show mercy to the humble bard…” dramatically proclaimed Eddie, stopped abruptly, and puked in the bucket. Gareth was glad that he thought about setting it up as he saw his sick friend cross the threshold of the infirmary. If he had to clean up this mess, he would choose much stronger expressions, that's for sure.

“Stop writing,” he commanded to the quill and sighted. “I have no idea how you managed to mess up a simple flu concoction, Edward Munson,” he teased his friend and smiled a tiny bit as he saw his best friend wincing (Eddie hated his full name with passion), “but you're clearly not dying, so…”

“Gareth, you can't be that grudgy after I killed your character in the last game! I was playing the owlbear, I couldn't just mercy you because we're friends!”

“But you didn't have to push me face down into the mud,” said Gareth, though he was smiling. “Hold on here, I need to consult with the professor before I can treat any patients.”

“Oh come on, I know you've learned that spell that,” Eddie stopped and vomited into the bucket again. Gareth politely waited, “that helps with the poisoning! You helped Jeff when that strange scorpion bit him during the game.”

“I do,” confirmed Gareth, ready to leave Eddie on the hospital bed behind the curtains, “but it's not our game club session, it's part of my class practicum and I have a protocol to follow. I don't want to get a lower mark just because you're puking farther than you can see. I am going to help you, just… Maybe think about your life choices for a minute?”

He quickly left, searching for the healer he was assigned to. Technically, Gareth's shift was almost over — it was early morning, and he was supposed to go to classes, — but he couldn't leave his friend behind without making sure he was okay (even if Gareth was, a tiny bit, mad at Eddie). However, he wasn't sure if his mentor was still working, or if she went to instruct the next apprentice. Maybe she took a break? Once again, he was disappointed that he didn't get a spot at a different infirmary on campus. Not every college had one locally — Witherbloom had one, since animals and beasts wandered on campus territory, located in the middle of the forest, and Lorehold college opened a small infirmary since they resumed the excavation near the campus, as many artifacts they found wasn't necessarily safe. The one on the central campus, however, was the largest, with multiple healers working in shifts day and night, unlike other infirmaries, that were normally opened while classes were in session, or if some major event was going on. Originally Gareth was a bit disappointed that he didn't get his training assignment in the Witherbloom's infirmary, mostly because they normally had to deal with more dangerous — and therefore more interesting — injuries. And, of course, because they had more convenient working hours, unlike the infirmary on the central campus, where he was assigned to an early morning shift, just before classes started. Luckily, his club meetings and band performances didn't interfere with his practicum yet: staying up late and waking up at dawn would be too much. But right now Gareth was annoyed at the sheer size of that infirmary — it was a giant wide hall with a dome-like ceiling, made of light stone, with multiple smaller chambers attached to the main area: alchemists workstations, storage rooms, healers' breakrooms and what not. Finding a specific person here wasn't quick.

“Maybe I should've helped Eddie first, and fuck the protocol,” thought Gareth grimly. He even mastered the courage to look into some rooms and distract those few people he found working, but they either didn't know where the healer DeSantos went or just shooed him away. He wondered if she just left for breakfast — the tavern on central campus should've opened for the day, — and forgot to tell Gareth what he's supposed to do. After all, it was his first day helping at the infirmary. And despite his sharp tongue, Gareth knew when to be observant and quiet (if he wanted, of course) — unlike Eddie, who in four years here got more detention hours than all the other guys from his club, combined. Faculty even wanted to remove him from the position of club's head, but everybody protested and said they wouldn't accept anybody else in this position. But maybe today Gareth was too quiet, silently following healer DeSantos and doing all the tasks. He wanted to make the best impression — Gareth liked the idea of this practicum after all, — but maybe releasing a bunch of pests (these voracious caterpillar-like tiny chunky monstrosities, that were, for whatever reason, the Witherbloom's college mascots) would be more… memorable. At least he wouldn't end up in this situation, where the person who was supposed to boss him around just, apparently, forgot about his existence and left.

Maybe most of the staff left for breakfast, actually. The building was surprisingly quiet — in fact, significantly quieter than a mere hour ago.

“Hey! Somebody? Anybody?” called a vaguely familiar voice from the infirmary's entrance, sounding more and more annoyed with each word.

...

[fellwar-finch]

Aight folks I'm back on my bullshit!

Tried building Tiamat in magic and the deck is really really neat! I don't have a big budget for lands, but in testing she still works on a budget.

If anybody's experienced with Tiamat or five-colour decks in general, I'd love some help with this! Not sure about the protection suite, should I try to run more cards that give hexproof, or just try to use counterspells and cards that give indestructible. Is flawless maneuver worth it?

The basic idea is either to grab morophon and two-headed hellkite, along with beledros witherbloom or klauth to try and cheat on mana, grab bladewing morophon and discard moro to hand size to resurrect it and play two-headed and scion of the ur-dragon, or focus more on the burn with terror of the peaks and scourge of valkas.

I don't know if there's enough removal, either. 8 including counterspells, not counting the ones that only do removal sometimes in the dragon slots. Is that enough? Or should I try to run more? Any dragons in here that Tiamat players have universally decided have better options? Should I run Dragonlord Kolaghan over Tyrant of Jund? 1 less mana in exchange for not stealing my opponent's dragons?

Is the reanimation package big enough? I like lots of recursion in my decks, and currently have 4 here. I know I'm likely to play a lot of archenemy (should I pick up a scheme deck), will this be enough interaction and recursion to handle that? How does Tiamat handle fighting infinites?

I'm sure I'll learn the answers as I keep playing the deck, but any help from seasoned players would be much appreciated!

[littjara-mirrorlake]

The M.O.M commander product gave us a new cards related to planes walkers in expertness and paths. While the expertness cards are interesting but straight forward, the paths I think a low for more interesting creative with regards to fan walkers. So my question is, what is your ocs path?

I went ahead and made a cycle of five monocolored paths.

(These were designed flavor/concept first, so I'm not 100% sure about balance, but it's the idea that counts.)

Path of the Channeler: Takumi, moonfolk artificer, accompanied by her kami Suzu; scenes of Kamigawa, Ikoria, and New Phyrexia.

Path of the Glistener: Xena, Phyrexian rogue, partially in her compleated form, with Mirrodin/New Phyrexia, Kamigawa, and Kaladesh.

Path of the Bonereaper: Amaranth, half-elf cleric, in her Witherbloom uniform and scythe, with Arcavios and Innistrad.

Path of the Transmuter: Riyuna, moonfolk shaman, accompanied by their kami and the spectral koi that represent their three material affinities (elemental, biological, artificial), with Kamigawa and Dominaria(?)

Path of the Horizon Walker: Borealis, changeling ranger, with an arrow nocked in their Littjaran wood bow, walking through an aurora with Kaldheim's many realms around them (including Valla, the lost realm/independent plane).

[afro-dave]

I played the deck at my local once before MH3 and my biggest complaint was that Orcish Bowmasters just didn’t cut it as a threat. Now that we have Frog and with SCG Tampa coming up next week I’m hoping to do some side events to see if closing power is upped enough. Depends on how much modern I end up playing, hoping to get an RCQ invite as well but making top 8 with my admittedly less playtime in the format could be rough.

https://www.moxfield.com/decks/M9NGvoo9SEavulyPMUfTmw

Hope that link works, had to type it manually. May be editing immediately

Updates from the immediate future:

I can’t paste and that looks correct but also didn’t work for me, so typing it out because (again) can’t paste for seemingly no reason considering I’ve pasted Moxfield links before.

1 Thoughtseize

2 Fatal Push

2 Sheoldred’s Edict

2 Murderous Cut

4 Brainstorm

4 Ponder

3 Lórien Revealed

1 Spell Pierce

1 Stifle

2 Daze

4 Force of Will

4 Up the Beanstalk

2 Witherbloom Command

1 Tamiyo, Inquisitive Student

4 Murktide Regent

4 Psychic Frog

1 Bayou

2 Tropical Island

3 Underground Sea

1 Hedge Maze

1 Undercity Sewers

3 Misty Rainforest

4 Polluted Delta

1 Island

3 Wasteland

Sideboard:

1 Surgical Extraction

1 Dismember

1 Force of Despair

1 Blue Elemental Blast

2 Consign to Memory

1 Force of Negation

2 Carpet of Flowers

1 Veil of Summer

2 Pernicious Deed

1 Nihil Spellbomb

1 Leovold, Emissary of Trest

1 Swamp

Never say I don’t love you guys

[haaaaaaaaaaaave-you-met-ted]

Witherbloom Command by Dmitry Burmak

[jodeeeart]

So happy to finally share my first piece for Magic the Gathering from the Strixhaven Commander set.

Marshland Bloodcaster AD Zack Stella

[olden-towne]

bloody centrists

[skullingthunder]

Last year for my buddies birthday i got him the Witherbloom pre-con cause he was hyped af for the Chef commander, so i made him tokens based off of his favorite foods and referenced characters from our dnd campaign with the flavor text

[ravnicacardsconverted]

Mascot Exhibition

7th-level Conjuration Casting Time: 1 minute (Ritual) Range: Self Components: V,S,M (A Vile of ink, A chunk of stone carved into a humanoid shape, A fire, and A handful of dead insects (all consumed in the process) Duration: 1 hour. Classes: Bard, Cleric, Druid, Warlock, Wizard

Description: You focus on each school of the Strixhaven collage invoking the power of each of their mascots. The ink then begins to worm its way out of the vile and form into a Silverquill Inkling, The stone then shatters and forms itself into a stone humanoid, known as a Lorehold Spirit, the fire explodes launching a Prismari Elemental, The Insects morph into a Witherbloom Pest, and finally a  Quandrix Fractal forms itself out of a mathematical vortex. The creatures are an ally to you and your companions. In combat, the creatures shares your initiative count, but it takes its turn immediately after yours. It obeys your verbal commands (no action required by you). If you don’t issue any, it takes the Dodge action and uses its move to avoid danger.  

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Witherbloom Command

Artist: Dmitry Burmak TCG Player Link Scryfall Link EDHREC Link

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Magic: the Gathering - Strixhaven School of Mages

Command Cycle - Each of these rare modal spells has four modes each and allows you to choose two different modes rather than merely one. Modeled after the command cycle originally printed in Lorwyn.

• Silverquill Command, illustrated by Bryan Sola

• Witherbloom Command, illustrated by Dmitry Burmak

• Lorehold Command, illustrated by Jason Rainville

• Quandrix Command, illustrated by Viktor Titov

• Prismari Command, illustrated by Johannes Voss

[whumpshaped]

strixhaven colleges w my ocs. bc i can. i included descriptions of them for anyone who doesnt know what they entail (like me half an hour ago)

lorehold: Loreholds are diligent researchers and daring adventurers. Passionate scholars obsessed with history, they explore the past by pouring over archaeological artifacts and summoning long-dead spirits. For some students, the past is a rich tapestry worthy of disciplined study. While others wear that tapestry like a cape as they jump down into a forgotten tomb. Their motto is "Leave no stone unturned."

my ocs who belong here: alex, vanya, holdyn, the human from the devil's story

prismari: Prismari are the theatre kids of Strixhaven, and magic is how they express themselves. Their spells can be spectacles of raw creativity or meticulous artistic expressions. All the world's a stage, and whether their art is informed by mind or emotion, Prismari always leave a lasting impression. Their motto is "Express yourself with the elements."

my ocs who belong here: felix, mika, pavel, nikita, valeriya, venetia, the conductor, blitzen, grace

quandrix: Quandrix mages are ingenious math magicians. They study patterns, fractals, and symmetries to command power over the fundamental forces of nature. They'll solve a Rubik's Cube while contemplating the metaphysical properties of the universe and can recite every number of Pi backwards. Their motto is "Math is magic."

my ocs who belong here: svetlana, craven, craven's master, charlie, dusk

silverquill: Silverquills wield the magic of words, from inspiring battle poetry to biting arcane insults. Stylish, intimidating, and tirelessly competitive, these mages are born leaders with a razor-sharp wit and natural charisma that can be used for good or for ill. Their motto is "Sharp style. Sharper wit."

my ocs who belong here: dmitry, katya, winter, alyson, seth, the devil

witherbloom: Witherblooms are goth bio majors. They draw power from the essence of living beings, whether that means enhancing nature or exploiting it. Witherbloom mages are most at home riding zombie crocs, picking herbs for potions, and hanging out in their swamp making grim jokes. Their motto is "Get your hands dirty."

my ocs who belong here: maria, juniper, pumpkin, and lil old me!

[twoscoopsblog]

Strixhaven Previews

Oh boy oh boy. I cannot begin to tell you how happy I am for Strixhaven to be coming. As someone who grew up reading two main book series, Harry Potter and the Forgotten Realms novels (mostly Drizzt and the books where Kelemvor became a god), I am totally stoked for Strixhaven and the D&D set.

So let’s look at what we know about Strixhaven, shall we? This is the Multiverse’s best wizarding school (take that, Tolarian Academy!) and it had five colleges. 

Lorehold is in Red and White, and is focused on history, artifacts and understanding the magic of artifice. 

Just look at that artwork. An owl student shooting magic. A dwarf student with a GATLING SCROLL!? And those effects - Make a 3/2 token? Make all creatures stronger and indestructible and fast? A lightning helix? A blood divination? And I get TWO OF THEM!? A 3/2 with a free Blood Divination is totally worth 5 mana! And it’s even more modular! I love it!

Then we have the college of dirt, decay and life, Witherbloom.

I love the tusky troll dude. I love the green miasma. Land recursion with mill? Permanent removal? Creature debuffing? Life drain? It’s pretty nice.

Prismari is the art college, full of elemental magics, song and dance. So my wife’s school and my best friend’s school, but not my college.

Look at this. Burn. Rummaging. Treasures. Artifact destruction. This is the school of heavy metal and rock opera, the school of drumlines and dance troops, the school that’ll make you know you just got served. Amazing.

But if you’re more into STEM, maybe Quandrix is where you’ll be.

For only 3 mana, you get two of - a bounce, a counter, a permanent buff, or mill insurance? Yes please, I’ll do math for that! (This would be my sister’s college, btw). 

This one we even know an associated teacher - Kasmina! Remember her, the wizard teacher planeswalker from War of the Spark? We all knew she was from Strixhaven, and it sure is good to be right.

So much cooler than Professor Trelawney, Kasmina can summon fractal owls, and just her being there makes your other planeswalkers have more abilities because she’s a wizard teacher, and she teaches them how. She even lets you tutor and free cast a spell of any color of a sufficiently loyal planeswalker you control. You can keep your Uncommon Walkers from WAR around longer now! I would totally be that guy to use Teyo to Wrath of God you or Angrath to pull a Star of Extinction. It’s just how I am. (Don’t use it with X spells though, because it’ll set X to 0.)

And finally, my college of choice, Silverquill. I wasn’t sure about them at first - they came off like the Slytherins to me, but their black mana isn’t from “Wizard Supremacy” or being literal wizard Nazis, but instead from healthy competition. Compete within the group to get stronger, and your group itself is now stronger. Then you are all better to face your enemies. They’re the school of constructive criticisms and biting witticisms. The writers. And they have ink magic they’re so cool!

Their Command gives you so much fun. An angel buff! Graveyard draw! A deal with the devil! Forcing a death! And the ink! Look at the ink!!!

Man they’re so cool. And we’re pretty sure we know one of their teachers now.

Look, I haven’t had a 2D crush since Sailor Mercury when I was 11, but hot damn. I think I’m hot for teacher. Like I never got the “step on me” jokes, but like, I get it now. As I said on Twitter when someone said “Everyone thirsting for Professor Onyx  is a bottom,” - even if you’re a top, sometimes you have to make an exception. 

Like, Liliana was always attractive. She traded her soul for eternal youth and beauty. But now that’s she’s trying to be good, and on a redemption arc, she’s got a certain je ne sais quoi.

And in that outfit, I suddenly have a lot of feelings I’m not used to, and I don’t want them to stop. 

Like I shipped Lili and Gideon hard for a while, but to quote the sketch Ice Cream Parade “Oh... he’s dead now. Welp, here we go!” Like there’s people on Magic TikTok thirsting for Gids, and I suddenly get it. 

Just... holy fuck, I started this post to try to convince people to play Strixhaven, and now I’m just ready to turn this page into a 100% Liliana Thirst Blog. 

Anyway, I’m going to not shut up about Strixhaven. Come for the non-transphobic wizarding school, stay for the insanely attractive faculty, like holy fuck is this allowed, how in the name of Ugin is this allowed.

[jones-friend]

I get why they made the witherbloom restrained, life payment can get wild with a commander like that. Jumpstart gave us a creature who lets you recur a creature if you gained life on your turn (and force a sac).

This lets you do a disentomb every lifegain you trip. That’s fucking rad in aristocrats, being able to sac a creature and trip a lifegain from blood artist, trigger veinwitch coven to recur the sac’d creature. If you liked phyrexian reclamation you’ll love this. And gaining life is typically not a hard thing to trip, plus this being monoB lets you slot it in orzhov builds too. This is gonna enable some nutty af sacrifice engines.

Anyways I have 5 silverquill cards I’m gonna go nuts over tomorrow GNIGHT.

[littjara-mirrorlake]

watched the good morning magic teaser episode for the commander decks and oooop i'm leaning witherbloom again