j2miner

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"The sun sets on all things, be it people, kingdoms, or even the goes themselves. It what you do during that dark cold night to prepare for the next dawn that matters."

Chibi Fanary for @FrozenShepard & @Artofwar1234 's characters Bella and Zurdan respectively.

Yet even more fanart for @LoadingCrew 's Akiko, Late night confessions are the only way your going to get a Fox girl to confess( and then will absolutely deny it in the morning.)

More fanart for the @LoadingCrew , this time there character Akiko.

More Fanart of TheLoadingCrew's character Hana, I think with how often I do her in comparison to other characters I'm realizing I have a thing for Dark Elves.

"A bit hot out to day, isn't it~". Some more fanart of TheLoadingCrew's character "Hana Bunna" from The Complete Waifu Handbook.

"Nothing like a night time stroll to get that blood pumping, isn't that right ~ ?"

Ameiko is easily influenced by the worst people ~

With Alexandria's long life I wonder what sort of misadventures she had gotten up to, maybe spending some time in Kurgess' domain?

I was practice creating some Filigree for armor, jewelry & clothing.. and while playing around with them I accidently made some Womb Tattoos... Feel free to use them.

MTG Ramblings: Lands & Assumptions

I believe that both we the audience & the in universe Planeswalkers don't really know the true existent of magic or the lay lines that run through every Plane, so every Planeswalker will have there own theory's & names for mana, and where it comes from, its just that we were introduced through Alpha so we stick to what we know.

Personally I see it as all the potential energy of a location that could be collected/used in one amount of time/turn, Planes have the light & warmth of the sun and the growth fields of grains, grasses or other such that don't fall into Green's domain.

Islands have the flow of the water the pulling of the current from the moon & the creatures that swim within it.

Swamps have the decay fueling the growth of other plants or whatever dwells there.

Red... Yes the volcanos speak for themselves but also landslides & the movement of tectonic plates,

And Green's forests and the color's ability to grow out of control with the highest ramp of the colors should speak it for itself. (As well as Green's ability to produce mana of other colors)

It's the non-colored that are more interesting, they are cities, ruins or lands where not even the dead dwell (Bazaar of Baghdad, Scorched Ruins & Field of the Dead)... Or places so obscure that not even the colors have defined those places (Sheltered Valley, Winding Canyons & Rath's Edge) can produce mana that is ether so mixed together that cannot be separated into it's individual colors, or create a new type of mana.

With the Izzet mapping the multiverse threw the Omenpaths, I would like a character interviewing others plane by plane, each native explaining how they see each of the basic lands & what makes them so.

Is the land itself necessary, or just the Idea of the land? We have scene great & terrible things along our journey through the Blind Enteritis, so is there a land of pure blue mana? Mabey, but it would be so perfect that it would destroy us if we ever try and tap into it.. But Tolarian Academy is dame close, no wonder it keeps getting attacked.

One should know better than to riffle threw your colleague's stuff, especially the one that specializes in Enchantments, have fun being cursed to be a bunny-witch Alexandria.

Continuing the Pirate AU fanart of TheLoadingCrew's character's. "Princess Hime" from The Complete Waifu Handbook, just wanted to draw another pirate girl and used a existing character that is connected to another character as the base.

Another MTG custom card, MTG is missing a lot of Type combinations that you would think they would have done before or updated older cards to become. In this case 'GIANT BIRD' hasn't been done yet, even though we have "Giant Albatross"

Some AU fanart of TheLoadingCrew's character "Faith" from The Complete Waifu Handbook, just wanted to draw a pirate girl and used a existing character design as the base.

A commission from Discord of "Hana' & "Kabby" fighting over a pore ArtofWar's character Zurdan, all characters from TheLoadingCrew's "Pathfinder: Rise of the Runelords" campaign.

I was less informed when I asked that question, and have learned several other things so should have worded by question better.

One is that she was able to power up by ringing the 'Mexican Liberty Bell'/El Grito de Independencia that one time, So I assume that as long as it is bell shaped, could be rung, and being believe it to be a symbol of freedom it could be a viable 'power up' for her.

Also she did get the ability to admit ultra sonic waves, but we still don't know if that is from the Liberty Bell being struck by lighting again, or a side effect of Barron Blitzkrieg trying to steal her powers.

Until proven otherwise I will assume that any culturally important artifact can and will bestow powers given some circumstance....

This is to Uncle Sam, if he is still taking questions. Liberty Belle got her powers from the actual liberty bell & 'powers up' when the bell is struck, are there any other Colonial American historical items that are used as magical conduits? And is she technically channeling you when she used her powers?

US: How fitting considering what we just talked about. Me: This question will come out on the next day, but yes. US: Libby Lawrence was a wonderful woman, I should say. That woman's righteous indignation for the sake of others could burn white hot. I have seen her give enemies and politicians alike a look that could melt through a bank vault. Me: She is on record as the only woman who could get Johnny Quick to shut his trap US: Sometimes with blunt trauma to the head, but yes. Me: So to reiterate? US: Ah, yes, so we talked 'yesterday', only about 10 minutes for us, about Betsy Ross and Molly Pitcher, two young ladies who acted as sidekicks for Ms America in the late 40s Me: And the spool of thread taken from the historical Betsy Ross and the pitcher from the 'historical' Molly Pritcher that they used to gain superhuman abilities. US: Right, perfect example right there. Me: And the other question? US: No, so much as both her abilities and mine are both outgrowth of the same root. I keep explaining to folks that I'm not the SOURCE of the American spirit, they are. That being the American public at large. Me: I'll admit, the source of Lawrence's abilities have always been something that baffled my field since there really is no physical explanation for any of it. US: I hate to just shrug and say "magic" because I don't think of what I do or what I am as particularly arcane but that's about the best way to sum it up.

MTG Ramblings Split Cards & Remixes

Split cards, originally designed for 'Unglued 2' but appearing in the game during 'Invasion block', are an odd mechanic, as they aren't really a mechanic, but simply wo cards printed side by side on one physical card. They give players a choice on what to use there cards for, a better version of this would be the Spree mechanic from 'Outlaws of Thunder Junction'. They have had new mechanics of there own added to them thought the years, most notable the Fuse mechanic allowing both sides to be played at one, or the After math mechanic that allowed one half to be only cast from the Graveyard, and now becoming enchantments with the Rooms in Dustmourn. These are not what I want to talk about today, what I want to tank about is them not remixing the cards.

Each side of a split card is a card in and of itself, so reprints can happen and should happen, yes by todays standers the mechanic is slow but it still has the possibility of being used. The names of split cards are that of '_&_' or ' _to_', but whit what limited split cards we have there are still a few that can be put into this system. Take 'Failure' from 'Failure to Comply' & 'Market' from 'Farm to Market', combining them will have 'Failure to Market', while not as pithy as the former two still works, both mechanically & in color combination. Or have 'Hide' from 'Hide & Seek' and 'Run' from 'Hit & Run' to get 'Run & Hide', both are from multicolor card, one ally one enemy color on each side, but as a single wedge color the card can still work, is it vastly overcoated? Yes, but the possibilities is still there.

And that's not touching on any cards not in a split card that could be put into one, as long as it isn't overly wordy, I had thought of the Split card 'Flourish' from Flower & Flourish' and the lone card 'Thrive' to make 'Flourish & Thrive'.

The following card images are meant for Illustration purposes of my idea:

Some more fanart of TheLoadingCrew's character "Water Sword" & Herse Pokemon setting Counterpart Kiiza/Sequne.

I wanted to show off the physicals differences, while they may be counterparts they still have differences, mostly in the hair. Differentiating the two more I feel that Kiiza would have more developed legs due to the Legendary Beasts being roaming Pokémon, while Water Sword would have more developed arm mussels due to being a blacksmith.

MTG Ramblings Snow Mana & Hybrid Costs

Snow Permanents, first introduced in Ice age with Snow Lands but Snow Creatures & Enchantments in Cold Snap, are a unusual type of super type. Snow Permanents care about there own special type of mana, usually designated with the {S}, it is not a mana type on its own but can only be generated by Snow Lands. For most of its life it has been only used for activation of abilities, as having cards that required Snow Mana as a casting cost and not having any in a draft would suck, but as per usual in Modern Horizens they experimented having two cards that have Snow Mana as there costs, those being Arcum's Astrolabe & Icehide Golem.

This is interesting due to it implying that it is a mana type on its own that requires very specific circumstances to use in creation/summoning of artifacts. The two other 2/2 Artifact Creatures that require 1 Mana are "Reinforced Ronin" while having hast must go back to the hand at the end of your turn, and "Thraben Gargoyle" has Defender that has a high transform cost.

I wonder if that Snow Mana is so obscure among the Plains & so hard to work with that unless you are a true expert that its nearly impossible to work with. That the Mana it's self is so slow & ridged that most magic users carve away the 'Snow' aspect of it to get to the mana they are use to working with underneath, but that if you have the patience that you can create something form the 'Other'. The Existence of the variety of Snow Permanents implies by its timeline that anything can become/be shaped into a Snow card, with Lands being the first to change as they do with the seasons, then the Creatures & the Enchantments they use follow as they adapt to the new environment, then after a time people adapt so now Instant & Sorceries are also now snow as they cold is something to be wielded, and finally Artifacts as one truly understands how Snow Mana works.

But I have to wonder if there is a way to cheat the system, that a thought came to me when panning threw my collection, could snow have hybrid mana? What brought this on was Shadowmore's "Advice from the Fae" & the rest of the Monocolor hybrid cycle, That if you don't have the right colors of mana that you can pump in more mana to make up for that. That forcing a Snow Perinates to be created but causing it to become excused/come out wrong, such as a Artifact that enters the Battlefield tapped unless you payed snow mana to cast it, or Instants that cannot be cast at instant speed or are less powerful unless you pay snow mana for them.

Still missing Snow Enchantment creatures WOTC….

Some more fanart of TheLoadingCrew's character "Watersword" from The Complete Waifu Handbook.

Some fanart of TheLoadingCrew's character "Kabby/Kabriela"'s True Form from there "Pathfinder: Rise of the Runelords" campaign.

Some fanart of TheLoadingCrew's character "Kabby/Kabriela"'s True Form from there "Pathfinder: Rise of the Runelords" campaign.

"The mistress will be right down, Can I get you something to eat, some tea perhaps." The butler asked as I sat of the vintage couch, trying not to shiver. The furniture being a mish match of styles didn't quiet fit the ascetic of the mansion, then again nothing from the modern era really does.

"No," I say & take out the thermal flask, the cheep tea bag giving it a vagally fruity flavor clamming to be 'Orange Blossom'

"You realize that you don't need to do that," the butler said, dusting another corner of missed matched candle holder "it doesn't work that way with me."

"I'd rather not take the chance." I snipped back, what I learned is that you always need to go back to the original mythology of a creature to know there true abilities, at least to the older ones. Guess what, its all mental. If your a new one then yes, you get the whole package, but I was dealing with a 200 year old vamp & a Fae.

Huffing the browny turned to me and stated with a rather un ingenuity deminer and flatly stating "I am a Browny, a house cleaning spirit, one that is the unseen helper. One that is forced to leave if insulted by the homeowner, That being Lady Matilda good sir. I have no reason or means to harm you."

"Yah, but old Lovecraft took the name eldritch from the old word for Fae" I shoot back, leaning forward to look at them but not into there eyes. "I'm not gong to take chances. I've read the Brothers"

"I'm sure you have', just like how everyone in the modern age has read Homer, or Marks, or Tolkien." they show back, not bothering to look at me as they continued there work by the fireplace.

Sighing I relaxed and mumbled "I'm a F-ing HVAC tech, and got dragged into a world of Magic mumbo jumbo, how the heck am I suppose to react?"

Pausing the butler tilted there head in thought, then said "Like with any other client, respect. You, unlike your fellow craftsmen, do not seek to swindle your clients. You do good work, and are willing to do overtime in order to get the work done right, and not just done."

Taking another sip of my thermos I asked "And her?" I asked my eyes drifting to the stairs, both of knowing the meaning of the subject.

"She has always been well adjusted, but too… naïve" they hesitated, speaking of the home's owner in such a way. "It is why she was turned in the first place, too trusting… And what got her trapped in the first place."

We were going to continue but the intentional creaking of the upstairs door, one that they paid good money for, alerted us to the owner of the house.

"Ah, Matt, so how is everything? Did you figure out what happened to the System, it only twenty years old." The mistress of the house asked, she stiped down to the Victorian equivalent of skimpy wear, a fan in her hand as she tried to bear the overheated (to her) house.

"Not god" I said pulling out my phone & showing her pictures of the Compressor completely blackened "The thing was way to small when it was put in.. Because it was never meant for running all the time, or at such a low temperature, meant only during the height of summer." I didn't know what she expected, the place wasn't supposed to be at a balmy 40 degrease "The system is going to need to be torn out & replaced, your going to have to get something larger, probably a 4 ton. And you need a dehumidifier"

"De-humidifier?" She asked, not familiar with that word

"It takes ingenuity out of the air, so you don't get water condensing off your walls. Dry and Cold instead of Wet and Damp." I stated back "I like the walls drippings," She said "I reminds me of home"

"I's also destroying your house, there pools of water where there shouldn't be, and its warping the wood… I wouldn't be surprised if there's a lot of mold in the walls as well." I said

"That's what a Undead Vampire's home should be" She stated, not getting why I would want to get rid of it..

Sighing I rubbed the bridge of my nose, the supernatural had a.. Interesting taste in dwellings, but they were a lot more accommodating than most people. "Stuff isn't built like it use to be, if this keeps up y'all have to gut the house & re do it in half a year, and it would only last ten after that."

Eyeing me she sighed & walked over to the cabinet pulling out the check, Mumbling i herd her say "What happened with Human ingenuity to make an item last past your death?"

Taking the check in hand I said "Consumerism & short term memories. No one what's seeming good but expensive, they want something cheep that they can throw away. So we can start Sunday, it going to be…."

A Idea that came to mind while reading vampire folklore & Tumbler head-cannon posts, Vampire are usually obsessive, be that at people or things. And we have the trope of them twisting things into grotesque version of there previous interests, such as using blood to paint or twisting human bodies into monstrous statues. What happens to vampire who have more mundane interests/hobbies? What happens when a thousand year old vampire obsessed with candle making do? (Well besides start using a multitude of human bodies as the bace for the candles), Would they do shit like taking ten years to mold & carve a decretive candle in the shape of hyperrealist animal only to toss it into a pile of other previous attempts at a slight flaw?

And that is assuming there hobby is creative, what if the fang barer had something like physical exercise? "Ok, I have my jog around Europe all planed out, It will take three months, ill get back just in time to start laundry, have a quick snack before Elizbeth show's up". I know that they cant cross running water & the sea has a lot of salt so they cant exactly do a "Swimming across the English channel" but between the tips of South America & Africa, but still what sort of cray shit would they get up to?

Then again on the other side, how lazy & bad can they get. The 'I can do it later' mentality but when you have a near endless immoral life you can put stuff off for decades. Imagen trying to get the money for a commission you started in the early 1800's only to find that the entire bloodline is dead, and having to track down any connection, and the only living blood descendent is some HVAC technician living out in nowhere Ohio who knows nothing of his family history other than he was adopted & now has to try and convenes this Vampire that 1)he doesn't want it. 2) cant afford it, and 3) has no room for it in his shack of a house.

A short story that came to mind after writing the above:

"You wright historical Victorian supernatural murder mystery novels?" I asked, the woman could have been a double for Clara Bow, wearing a real fir coat as she sat at her typewriter.

"To me they weren't historical, but yes, I do." Her voice smooth and seductive, a voce that was confusingly half stereotypical British half vaguely eastern European accent that reminded me of a prowling large cat.

"So due to your vampiric abilities you are able to publish all of these in a year." I stated, the abilities to not get tired was a heck of a thing, then again getting up at six everyday and going to bed dam-near midnight for years was probably more soul crushing than having no soul.

Confused she stopped her work, turning her head "What? God no, I get one done about a year, writing is hard."

"Huuuu..?? You put out 12 full lenght novels last year, any you have for the last 10 years?" I stammered out, that cant be right, your a vampire, you didn't have to worry about making money, having to commute to your work, or cleaning your neo-gothic mansion thanks to your butler.

"Those? Those are just the backlog, not a who lot else to do when your trapped under a collapse consecrated burial ground." She stated going back to work, her finger movements slower, her face scrunching trying to decide on the next word.

"?????"

"I don't know how others are able to do it, Sometimes I wonder if they are actually human, Its like saying that humans have made it to the moon." She said half compilated.

A long moment of stunned silence passed with the occasional ticking of keys, my brain slowly began to reboot. Stupidly the first thing out of my mouth was "… We have… 50 years ago.."

Whipping her head around I could hear the sonic crash as she looked at me as a Deer would look at headlights. "YOU WHAT? I thought that was all Science fiction, Why haven't I herd about this!?" she all but screamed

"We… we left.." I stammered out, stunned by they statement

Slowly blinking, she took a shawl breath that she didn't need to, "You.. Left?.. Why?" She asked, looking about half a mind to jump at me if I didn't answer.

"We.. As in older folks with more power, decided that it wasn't worth the cost, you know the old 'Why should we spend money on useless things when there are people in need here?" I said, the stupid statement, not that the statement was stupid but it was true and that was what was stupid, mostly because that money was embezzled by nameless government alphabet soup.

"So you didn't encounter monsters from beyond the stars?" She asked

"No, Aliens don't… Scratch that, they probably do exist, Vampire & Fae exist, probably do aliens." he said with the new found perspective of 'Yah, its real alright'

"Fae don't exist, what sort of lune do you take me for?" She stated incredulity with the upmost confidence turning back to her work Looking over at the obviously Brownie butler, they look back with a smile only a devil or a used car salesman could have, "I have a job, and she's none the wiser." they said with a shrug of 'What are you going to do. "Would you like tea?"

A Idea that came to mind while reading vampire folklore & Tumbler head-cannon posts, Vampire are usually obsessive, be that at people or things. And we have the trope of them twisting things into grotesque version of there previous interests, such as using blood to paint or twisting human bodies into monstrous statues. What happens to vampire who have more mundane interests/hobbies? What happens when a thousand year old vampire obsessed with candle making do? (Well besides start using a multitude of human bodies as the bace for the candles), Would they do shit like taking ten years to mold & carve a decretive candle in the shape of hyperrealist animal only to toss it into a pile of other previous attempts at a slight flaw?

And that is assuming there hobby is creative, what if the fang barer had something like physical exercise? "Ok, I have my jog around Europe all planed out, It will take three months, ill get back just in time to start laundry, have a quick snack before Elizbeth show's up". I know that they cant cross running water & the sea has a lot of salt so they cant exactly do a "Swimming across the English channel" but between the tips of South America & Africa, but still what sort of cray shit would they get up to?

Then again on the other side, how lazy & bad can they get. The 'I can do it later' mentality but when you have a near endless immoral life you can put stuff off for decades. Imagen trying to get the money for a commission you started in the early 1800's only to find that the entire bloodline is dead, and having to track down any connection, and the only living blood descendent is some HVAC technician living out in nowhere Ohio who knows nothing of his family history other than he was adopted & now has to try and convenes this Vampire that 1)he doesn't want it. 2) cant afford it, and 3) has no room for it in his shack of a house.

Fanart of @RakkuGuy's Character Coal, This is yet another thing on the long list of reasons you don't leave a Kobold alone.

A Idea that came to mind while reading vampire folklore & Tumbler head-cannon posts, Vampire are usually obsessive, be that at people or things. And we have the trope of them twisting things into grotesque version of there previous interests, such as using blood to paint or twisting human bodies into monstrous statues. What happens to vampire who have more mundane interests/hobbies? What happens when a thousand year old vampire obsessed with candle making do? (Well besides start using a multitude of human bodies as the bace for the candles), Would they do shit like taking ten years to mold & carve a decretive candle in the shape of hyperrealist animal only to toss it into a pile of other previous attempts at a slight flaw?

And that is assuming there hobby is creative, what if the fang barer had something like physical exercise? "Ok, I have my jog around Europe all planed out, It will take three months, ill get back just in time to start laundry, have a quick snack before Elizbeth show's up". I know that they cant cross running water & the sea has a lot of salt so they cant exactly do a "Swimming across the English channel" but between the tips of South America & Africa, but still what sort of cray shit would they get up to?

Then again on the other side, how lazy & bad can they get. The 'I can do it later' mentality but when you have a near endless immoral life you can put stuff off for decades. Imagen trying to get the money for a commission you started in the early 1800's only to find that the entire bloodline is dead, and having to track down any connection, and the only living blood descendent is some HVAC technician living out in nowhere Ohio who knows nothing of his family history other than he was adopted & now has to try and convenes this Vampire that 1)he doesn't want it. 2) cant afford it, and 3) has no room for it in his shack of a house.

MTG Rambelings Meld

Generally when you want to get closer to some one they don't mean to meld with them into a abomination, Brisela.

So, Meld, a mechanic with a very limited card pool, so if I get side tracked you know why. It is a specific type of Transformation card requiring two specific cards in order to flip them becoming one 'card'/creature. It haven't been used all the much due to how it is presented, that being eldritch horrors or gaining power outside of the normal bounds of the Story/Universe, they fall into two camps/categories, Mono Color & Multicolor creature with a Artifact. Mono color are the easiest to do, as they share a color so can go into any deck that has those colors, but the problem is that the cards that make them up are not good. Take "Graf Rats" for example, its 2 mana for basically a vanilla 2/1 in uncommon, not good sure its other half "Midnight Scavengers" can get it's pare out of the Grave Yard, but its 5 mana for a 3/3. Even with the back side of these cards they are not worth the investment you pay in 7 mana across two cards for a 5/6 with Hast & Menace.

The Multicolor are better, being from a more resent set that being Brothers War depicting said brothers. Mostly cause the front of the cards are just better cards, sure that is because they are Rares & power-creep on legendarys, but you can also just have the artifacts in your deck with out needing the other halve for the meld. Having the color cost in the creatures makes it easier to put them into different decks while drafting. (Not that WotC cares about drafting nowadays.)

So what Idea do I have that that could enhance the under-utilized headache of a mechanic? Inspired by the actual physically split in the cards, Having one card that is always the top artwork with name on the back & multiple cards with different bottom holding the typeline, Rules box & power/toughness. Imagen a simple card, a colorless shapeshifter with a underwhelming mechanic at common, then other cards in the different types that correspond to the color drafts of the set that can meld with your curve filler card, how good it would feel to get to do that in draft.

Another idea is creating other types of melds on the back, we have Creatures & a Planswalker, why cant there be a Enchantment that recreates old powerful enchantments that cant be reprinted? A artifact that creates the original mox cycle? Some sort of super land that can tap for ten mana by itself.

MTG Ramblings Echo & Pact

When is a cost worse than it's actual face value? when you have to pay tax on it.

Additional Costs are a gripe in the MTG community, usually because they are not worth it in any circumstance, or they are way too good on the card they are on. But that is a ramble for another day, today I will be trying to use the long lamented mechanic of Echo to make better cards & talking about the Pact cycle.

Additional costs are what they say on the tin, an additional cost to cast a spell, this can come in several ways, such as Discarding a Card, Sacrificing Creatures or Lands, or paying life. Why does this happen, as it says its an additional cost so that way your powerful spell can cost less mana & people will actually want to play the card/not have a high cost card stuck in there hand, these costs are good as they can have synergy with other cards in your deck. Have to discard a card, Does it have Madness? Some sort of Flashback effect that you don't need right now but later? Does your sacrificed creatures have a Triger on death effect? Do they want to be sacrificed in the first place? Does an effect come on line when you have lost & gained life this turn?

We are not taking about that, we are taking about the black sheep of the additional costs, Echo. Echo is a mechanic that exists mostly in Red & Green that has you pay an additional cost, usually the Casting cost of the card, at the beginning of the Next Upkeep or sacrifice it. It is not a good mechanic, the only technique it may have is if you have a way of switching control of a creature you control with Echo & an opponent creature & they cannot pay the upkeep cost of the swapped creature. It generally doesn't lead itself to doing anything useful, some cards have tried to get around this by giving the creature Hast, and later the Dash mechanic came about which is much better than Echo.

Once again we go to Future Sight to see how this mechanic was used in other ways, this being giving alternative costs to Echo, "Shah of Naar Isle" has your opponents gaining way to much card advantage for a Cost, "Skizzik Surger" is a large body and the sacrifice of two lands is meant for late game and nothing else. Of course the Modern Horizons sets had there own take on it, that being Rakdos Headliner needing you to Discard a card, it's name alluding to you to use cards with Madness. Yet there is another cycle in Future Sight that we may take inspiration from, The Pact Cycle. (Also obligatory shout out to Rocket-Powered Turbo Slug, as this is basically a Pact card + a Dash mechanic.)

The Pact Cycle are a series of cards that are Zero Mana but require you to pay mana at the beginning your next Upkeep or you loose the Game. Its just an Echo cost on a Instant card. So why cant we do something with these? Having no or low cost creatures that have pushed stats, but require a High Echo cost? Such as having to discard you entire hand, or sacrificing permanents besides itself? The problem is that it can be abused, there are cards out there that make creatures lose all abilities, such as Mystic Subdual. This is a minimal problem as these types of cards also change the Creature's base stats and makes it so they cant attack or untap, but there is always the possibility WotC decides to make a card that shuts down your own Abilities as an upside.

So let me make an examples:

"Keldon Demolition Squad" {1}{R} 4/1 Creature - Human Barbarian (w) - When [Creature] enters, destroy target artifact. Echo - Sacrifice a Artifact you control. (Simple effect, destroys an artifact & leaves you if you decide to not pay them, that is if you haven't used them to Chump block a larger creature.)

"Multani's Acolyte's Acolyte" {G} 2/2 Creature - Elf Druid (w) - When [Creature] enters, draw a card. Echo - An opponent Draws a Card. (Simple, clean, can play politics with others & don't need some cost to untap it when it doesn't untap naturally.)

MTG Ramblings Spellshapers

Expanding on Spellshapers that have effects besides creating a certain spell or create certain token creatures. Such as creating certain Enchantment or Artifact tokens.

Spellshapers, a odd sort of Class type among MTG's creature types, as it implies with both it's name & Mechanics to specialize in changing spells. Mechanically how it works is you pay minimal amount of Mana, or Mana equal to the Original Spell that the card is refencing, Discard a card, and then have an effect of a card that already exists. Such as "Jolrael, Empress of Beasts" referencing & being a slightly better "Natural Affinity". Of course Time Spiral block does what it does & introduced a new cycle that can create Creature tokens that reference creatures that exist, Example being "Sarkspitter" creating "Spark Elemental" tokens.

And again my mind went "This could have gone further", and low and behold I did it again, this time with others, that being enchantments & artifacts. Of course there already exists cards that create Enchantment & Artifact tokens, the Roll Tokens from Eldrin come to mind, and the few that make equipment tokens that exist, or the myriad of 'Create Treasure Token' cards out there. But I want something else, actively referencing older cards other than Modern Horizon Sets, and giving some indication of what it means to be a Spellshaper instead of just another Magically inclined class (Such as Wizard, Druid, Shaman, or etc.)

So some examples:

"Traveler/Venturing Mage" {3} 1/1 Creature -Human Spellshaper (w) - {1},{T},Discard a Card: Create a Artifact token named Traveler's Amulet, it has {1}, Sacrifice Traveler’s Amulet: Search your library for a basic land card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle. (If you want to get rid of the additional cost then maybe have this creature just do the Artifact's effect.)

"Growth Mage" {2}{G} 1/2 Creature - Plant Spellshaper (w) - {G}, {T}, Discard a Card; Create a Aura Enchantment token with Whenever enchanted land is tapped for mana, its controller adds an additional {G}{G} & attach it to target land. (Powerful, Yes, especially when you can do this multiple times, so may need to have two cards discarded.)

Mtg Rambelings Cycling

Cycling is an old mechanic introduced all the way back in Erza's Saga, it primary effect is to pay the discard cost of a card with cycle on it & draw a new card. I has evolved over the years to have 'sub-' cycling which will search your deck for a card of the cycling type, usually this will be basic lands of a certain type, butt there has been outliers such as Wizardcycling, Wizardcycling & Artifact landcycling on Vedalken Aethermage, Step Through, Homing Sliver & Sojourner's Companion. Each of them being from Time Spiral block or calling back to Time Spiral Block.

They are utility mechanic without much explanation in terms of flavor, what does it mean to inherently have a cycling cost? To forget something/To remove some information for other information? It's odd, and cards that get benefits form you cycling, what do they represent? That when it's controllers lose memories that the creature/card gets a benefit? Are you feeding the cycled card to them? ???

But getting back on track there are two other cards in Future Sight that have given me an idea, those being Marshaling Cry & Ichor Slick, both cards with Cycling but also a mechanic that can cast the card from the Graveyard, those being Flashback & Madness. Marshaling Cry waning you to ether play it now for your creatures to fight or Cycling it in order to grab another card if you don't have creatures, and with Flashback you can pay it on a later turn once yo have creatures on your field. Meanwhile Ichor Slick wants you to cast it for it's Madness cost once you cycle it, its less versatile than it's White counterpart but it is also self activating.

With these mechanics I thought "Why cant you combine the two?", that being having a certain Cycling mechanic & a Grave Yard cost? They would need to be a Instant or Sorcery for Flashback, Creature or Artifact for Unearth, and about anything for Madness. It would, in order to curbed power creep, have to be on effects that already exist but at higher cost, and have to be in a Trible teamed set for the specific Cycling to be useful.

As an example let me create three cards that could exist:

"Druid of the Woodland Conclave" {G} 1/2 Creature — Human Druid (w) - DruidCyceling {2} & Unearth {2}{G}. (Does nothing by itself, but is a Tutor in green that can search for other Druids & can act as a first turn body if need be.)

"Mosuleum Strength" {2}{B} Sorcery (w) - Choose target creature. Mill three cards, then put a +1/+1 counter on that creature for each creature card in your graveyard. ZombieCyceling {2} & Flahsback {3}{B}. (Not a starting card, but a card that is usfull late game to refill the hand if in hand or used early game to search for a body & later used for its effect. If a bite exspenseive for what it does.)

"Mystical Might" {1}{U} Enchantment — Aura (w) - Enchanted land has “{T}: Target creature gets +2/+2 until end of turn.” EnchantmentCycling {4} & Madness {1}. (This being a not so good card with the tremendous upside of Tutoring for any enchantment.)