With Modern Horizons coming out, I know that people have been going through the old list of characters who never got a card (a list which no longer includes Serra!). While Yawgmoth comes up on these lists, many players have indicated that Yawgmoth could not canonically fit on a single (balanced) card as he is the single most powerful character from MTG history... by a sizeable margin.
After seeing the monstrosity of Yawgmoth on Yawgmoth's Vile Offering, however, another possibility sprung to my mind. Why not represent Yawgmoth with a series of cards (one legendary "core" with a bunch of redundant extensions representing the rest of him)? Rather than making Yawgmoth a card, why not make it half of your library? While I doubt that we'll ever get something like this, I wanted to see what it might look like... even if these cards are still a bit too powerful to see actual print.
1. Voice of Yawgmoth
Artifact Creature- Specter
Flying
Whenever an opponent takes combat damage, that player puts that many cards from the top of their library into their graveyard.
Whenever a creature card is put into an opponent’s graveyard from anywhere, you gain 1 life.
1/1
2. Dream of Yawgmoth
Artifact Creature- Illusion
Menace, Lifelink
At the beginning of your upkeep, exile the top card of your library unless you exile a card from your graveyard. You lose life equal to that card’s converted mana cost and may play that card this turn.
2/2
3. Blood of Yawgmoth
Artifact Creature- Ooze
Deathtouch
Whenever a creature an opponent controls dies, put a +1/+1 counter on each creature you control.
: Target creature gets -1/-1 until end of turn.
3/3
4. Eye of Yawgmoth
Artifact Creature- Eye
Non-Eye creatures I control can’t attack
Whenever a creature deals combat damage to me, destroy it and put a +1/+1 counter on Eye of Yawgmoth.
4/4
5. Hand of Yawgmoth
Artifact Creature- Horror
The first time each turn that a nonartifact creature an opponent controls dies, return it to the battlefield under your control with a +1/+1 counter. It becomes an artifact in addition to its other types.
, , Sacrifice a creature: Destroy target creature or planeswalker.
5/5
6. Maw of Yawgmoth
Artifact Creature- Nightmare
Sacrifice 5 artifacts: Until end of turn, you can’t lose the game and opponents can’t win the game.
When Maw of Yawgmoth becomes tapped, each opponent with 20 or more creature cards in their graveyard loses the game.
6/6
7. Heart of Yawgmoth
Legendary Artifact Creature- God
As long as you control seven or more artifacts, Heart of Yawgmoth has indestructible.
Whenever you would draw a card, choose one of the following instead:
Return target artifact or creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield.
Search your library for an artifact or creature card, reveal it, and put it into your hand, then shuffle your library.
0/7
And finally, the sort of planeswalker I think that we might realistically get for Yawgmoth one of these days (representing his time as a mortal medical genius).
8. Yawgmoth, Medical Savant
Legendary Planeswalker- Yawgmoth
+1: Up to one target creature gains indestructible until your next turn.
-2: Each player loses 1 life, then discards a card, then sacrifices a creature, then sacrifices a land.
-4: Return target nonartifact creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield. It becomes an artifact in addition to its other card types.
Starting Loyalty: 3
Yawgmoth as planeswalker seems incredibly off, since he is best know as a Phyrexian and they can't hold a spark under any circumstances.
"Legendary Artifact Creature - God" is pretty much what I would expect... However for a god he should just be straight up indestructible and have a condition which gets him moving. Also devotion to black would be something I would expect on him.
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After seeing the monstrosity of Yawgmoth on Yawgmoth's Vile Offering, however, another possibility sprung to my mind. Why not represent Yawgmoth with a series of cards (one legendary "core" with a bunch of redundant extensions representing the rest of him)? Rather than making Yawgmoth a card, why not make it half of your library? While I doubt that we'll ever get something like this, I wanted to see what it might look like... even if these cards are still a bit too powerful to see actual print.
1. Voice of Yawgmoth
Artifact Creature- Specter
Flying
Whenever an opponent takes combat damage, that player puts that many cards from the top of their library into their graveyard.
Whenever a creature card is put into an opponent’s graveyard from anywhere, you gain 1 life.
1/1
2. Dream of Yawgmoth
Artifact Creature- Illusion
Menace, Lifelink
At the beginning of your upkeep, exile the top card of your library unless you exile a card from your graveyard. You lose life equal to that card’s converted mana cost and may play that card this turn.
2/2
3. Blood of Yawgmoth
Artifact Creature- Ooze
Deathtouch
Whenever a creature an opponent controls dies, put a +1/+1 counter on each creature you control.
: Target creature gets -1/-1 until end of turn.
3/3
4. Eye of Yawgmoth
Artifact Creature- Eye
Non-Eye creatures I control can’t attack
Whenever a creature deals combat damage to me, destroy it and put a +1/+1 counter on Eye of Yawgmoth.
4/4
5. Hand of Yawgmoth
Artifact Creature- Horror
The first time each turn that a nonartifact creature an opponent controls dies, return it to the battlefield under your control with a +1/+1 counter. It becomes an artifact in addition to its other types.
, , Sacrifice a creature: Destroy target creature or planeswalker.
5/5
6. Maw of Yawgmoth
Artifact Creature- Nightmare
Sacrifice 5 artifacts: Until end of turn, you can’t lose the game and opponents can’t win the game.
When Maw of Yawgmoth becomes tapped, each opponent with 20 or more creature cards in their graveyard loses the game.
6/6
7. Heart of Yawgmoth
Legendary Artifact Creature- God
As long as you control seven or more artifacts, Heart of Yawgmoth has indestructible.
Whenever you would draw a card, choose one of the following instead:
And finally, the sort of planeswalker I think that we might realistically get for Yawgmoth one of these days (representing his time as a mortal medical genius).
8. Yawgmoth, Medical Savant
Legendary Planeswalker- Yawgmoth
+1: Up to one target creature gains indestructible until your next turn.
-2: Each player loses 1 life, then discards a card, then sacrifices a creature, then sacrifices a land.
-4: Return target nonartifact creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield. It becomes an artifact in addition to its other card types.
Starting Loyalty: 3
"Legendary Artifact Creature - God" is pretty much what I would expect... However for a god he should just be straight up indestructible and have a condition which gets him moving. Also devotion to black would be something I would expect on him.
Hands to the sky
Give a round of applause
For the great Miss Y!