We don't really do Christmas where I am but happy holidays all the same!
I have a character named Scypher (for who I'm named). I have played her in a few different games like Dungeons and Dragons (D&D or Pathfinder as we play now) and World of Warcraft. When I started thinking about the story of Magic: the Gathering, I decided that she would be my representative. Her story (in a nutshell) is she is from a Plane where black and white are dominate. Much like the Orzhov Syndicate, the law of the land is a religion that rules with an iron fist. In the end, her spark ignited and she seeks out religions of other Planes.
No concept art but I have tried to make a few cards, but nothing I've been overwhelmingly happy with.
Scypher the Pilgrim
Planeswalker - Scypher
/+1\: Target creature gets Lifelink until end of turn.
\-X/: Each opponent loses X life. You gain life equal to the life lost this way.
\-9/: You get an emblem with "Whenever you gain life, destroy target permanent."
[5]
Also this card:
Return to Dream
Sorcery
Exile all enchanted creatures.
"May you find yourself in a waking dream." Scypher, Shadowed Priest
A lifegain planeswalker? Seems like a friend of Oloro, Ageless Ascetic. I wonder if spending 5 mana for a straight-up drain 5 from all players as a one-shot effect is too dangerous or not, but it seems mostly fine.
Return to Dream seems like it's overcosted, but I'm not sure...
(Was this character in any way inspired by who you are in real life?)
Aurora is... a bit different. She is partly inspired by who I am (though she's a girl and I'm not, and she's younger than me), though her out-of-MTG personality is more inspired by a "dream" bandmate (singing ability, songwriting, and also able to do some gymnastics for posing on album covers and that sort of thing).
Yeah, I heard... that's the one thing Chimney Imp is "good" for...
Anyways, played some games yesterday. Three players, with Planechase, including the custom planes mentioned here. My opponent looks at opening hand (before planes are revealed), saying "Is it okay if I break the game on turn 4?", so we decide to go through with it to see what would happen. First plane revealed, which was my custom Prismatic Node. With two extra mana, plays a Farhaven Elf first turn and passes.
So, with that, we tried to roll away in order to prevent bad stuff happening on turn 2. One person successfully planeswalks away... only to run into Eloren Wilds! So, yeah, bad stuff happened next - Natural Order on Farhaven Elf, into Vorinclex, Voice of Hunger. On turn 2. Crazy stuff.
Nothing yet... we're actually not doing stuff until my relatives come over tomorrow. Though I did make some paper snowflakes and played some Christmas music on the piano.
Hm... I could post some of those "imaginary trap rooms" that you may have heard about last month or so, but I probably should keep those to my own clan.
These are rooms like some that Aurora would create (because Aurora is apparently a very mean girl who seems to take pleasure in watching people suffer in harmless ways). Usually they are just in spoiler tags without much indication that they are traps, like this...
Oh no, you just ended up in a trap room! To escape, you must do 20 star jumps before making your next post on these forums, or else the turret will fire 1000 Nerf darts at you!
Of course, all this stuff is simply fictional/virtual/hypothetical, so most people usually don't follow along with these.
Also note that Aurora is only using Nerf darts, because Aurora doesn't want people to get hurt in these.
Some trap rooms are more dangerous, but those usually have a warning label on them:
Oh no, you fell into a trap room again... and you just caused the bucket of ice and blue photofluid to pour on you! You are now covered in blue light residue (or just "blue'd" for short), and you are also now extremely cold.
I'm no fun. I blow up Aurora's trap rooms, so I don't have to do her menial tasks.
As for Christmas, I had to work Christmas Eve and Christmas Day. I had Christmas day brunch with my family which was nice. And I got to watch my niece open presents which is always fun. Highlight of the presents next to my Vortigern Saber Alter... A new laptop. I thought I was originally purchasing it for my father who wanted a new one, but he insisted I take the new one and then he'd take my old one since he uses his laptop more like a desktop anyway. I was like... "Why didn't you just get another desktop then?" He was like, "In case I wanted to take it somewhere."
The battery on my old laptop doesn't retain charge. That's the only problem with it. I'm sad to say that I liked my old machine better because I don't like Windows 8, this new one is bigger than my old one and won't fit into the old computer bag I had, I think my old machine was faster and had a better sound system (aka louder speakers). It took me 6 hours to transfer all my data to an external from my old computer then from the external to my new computer.
@Bur: Congratulations! You get a and a from Aurora... and I think that was the first time this year that someone on these forums actually did 20 for one of Aurora's requests.
@PG: You are free to do that in the virtual world, but currently, Bur is winning the thread because I believe he did this in the real world.
@Rest of the clan: You are free to complete that as well... if you want.
I do unproductive things all the time. Not playing online multiplayer games though.
And... OK, I suppose Bur is already on top of the thread being the Clan Rep... but you may notice that Bur also won one of those coveted up-arrows from me. Yes, that's also a reward for completing these tasks.
(As for the new thread: I suppose you could add PG and me to the friends list since we post here frequently.)
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EDIT: Looked at the new preview cards.
The rulings for manifest cover the problems with the spellmorph mechanic from my custom block!!!
Whelp, looks like they printed the mechanic from Azgol that I showed you guys a few days ago Only in a slightly different from (Azgol's forced sacrifice to basically inspire some interactions with Immolate)
I have a character named Scypher (for who I'm named). I have played her in a few different games like Dungeons and Dragons (D&D or Pathfinder as we play now) and World of Warcraft. When I started thinking about the story of Magic: the Gathering, I decided that she would be my representative. Her story (in a nutshell) is she is from a Plane where black and white are dominate. Much like the Orzhov Syndicate, the law of the land is a religion that rules with an iron fist. In the end, her spark ignited and she seeks out religions of other Planes.
[Inkfox Aesthetics] [The Spirit of EDH] U Sakashima the Impostor R Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker Sigarda, Host of Herons
And another random question... how similar are you (in real life) to her?
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Scypher the Pilgrim
Planeswalker - Scypher
/+1\: Target creature gets Lifelink until end of turn.
\-X/: Each opponent loses X life. You gain life equal to the life lost this way.
\-9/: You get an emblem with "Whenever you gain life, destroy target permanent."
[5]
Also this card:
Return to Dream
Sorcery
Exile all enchanted creatures.
"May you find yourself in a waking dream." Scypher, Shadowed Priest
[Inkfox Aesthetics] [The Spirit of EDH] U Sakashima the Impostor R Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker Sigarda, Host of Herons
Return to Dream seems like it's overcosted, but I'm not sure...
(Was this character in any way inspired by who you are in real life?)
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Not really but I have grown rather fond of her. She came into existence (in her first incarnation) about 6 years ago.
[Inkfox Aesthetics] [The Spirit of EDH] U Sakashima the Impostor R Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker Sigarda, Host of Herons
Aurora is... a bit different. She is partly inspired by who I am (though she's a girl and I'm not, and she's younger than me), though her out-of-MTG personality is more inspired by a "dream" bandmate (singing ability, songwriting, and also able to do some gymnastics for posing on album covers and that sort of thing).
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This is what it seemed like.
Tatyova | Anje
Alela | Marchesa
Wanderer
Anyways, played some games yesterday. Three players, with Planechase, including the custom planes mentioned here. My opponent looks at opening hand (before planes are revealed), saying "Is it okay if I break the game on turn 4?", so we decide to go through with it to see what would happen. First plane revealed, which was my custom Prismatic Node. With two extra mana, plays a Farhaven Elf first turn and passes.
So, with that, we tried to roll away in order to prevent bad stuff happening on turn 2. One person successfully planeswalks away... only to run into Eloren Wilds! So, yeah, bad stuff happened next - Natural Order on Farhaven Elf, into Vorinclex, Voice of Hunger. On turn 2. Crazy stuff.
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Tatyova | Anje
Alela | Marchesa
Wanderer
What did you do? What presents did you get (like, from your Secret Santa)? Did you meet any relatives? What (if any) plans do you have for New Year?
So, who wants to start?
Hm... I could post some of those "imaginary trap rooms" that you may have heard about last month or so, but I probably should keep those to my own clan.
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Of course, all this stuff is simply fictional/virtual/hypothetical, so most people usually don't follow along with these.
Also note that Aurora is only using Nerf darts, because Aurora doesn't want people to get hurt in these.
Some trap rooms are more dangerous, but those usually have a warning label on them:
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As for Christmas, I had to work Christmas Eve and Christmas Day. I had Christmas day brunch with my family which was nice. And I got to watch my niece open presents which is always fun. Highlight of the presents next to my Vortigern Saber Alter... A new laptop. I thought I was originally purchasing it for my father who wanted a new one, but he insisted I take the new one and then he'd take my old one since he uses his laptop more like a desktop anyway. I was like... "Why didn't you just get another desktop then?" He was like, "In case I wanted to take it somewhere."
The battery on my old laptop doesn't retain charge. That's the only problem with it. I'm sad to say that I liked my old machine better because I don't like Windows 8, this new one is bigger than my old one and won't fit into the old computer bag I had, I think my old machine was faster and had a better sound system (aka louder speakers). It took me 6 hours to transfer all my data to an external from my old computer then from the external to my new computer.
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@PG: You are free to do that in the virtual world, but currently, Bur is winning the thread because I believe he did this in the real world.
@Rest of the clan: You are free to complete that as well... if you want.
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Got my friend three packs of Journey into Nyx for a secret Santa.
Pulls Keranos, God of Storms, Mana Confluence, and Ajani, Mentor of Heroes.
I'm so done. Lol.
Edit: On a completely random note, is anything happening with a new thread.
Tatyova | Anje
Alela | Marchesa
Wanderer
And Bur can win the thread all he wants cuz it's the EDH thread... He wins by default because he's their rep?
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And... OK, I suppose Bur is already on top of the thread being the Clan Rep... but you may notice that Bur also won one of those coveted up-arrows from me. Yes, that's also a reward for completing these tasks.
(As for the new thread: I suppose you could add PG and me to the friends list since we post here frequently.)
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EDIT: Looked at the new preview cards.
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The new Kolaghan, the Storm's Fury might be a good card for my Karrthus, Tyrant of Jund deck... maybe.
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