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Reflections, Dreams, and Reality: A MTG Fanblock. Anonymous 04/21/2025 (Mon) 08:44:30 Id: 24958f No. 2013

So back on halfchan, I had posted a mtg fanset called "Reflections: What could have been". Well I had gotten some great feedback, and thus, wanted help with inspiration for my next set Dreams. However, that died with the site, and required me to post single cards multiple times a day just to keep the thread from 404. Here things seem more mellow, so I'll start again. I'll start with the four color 'colorless' cards. which is entirely anachronistic for a set inspired by the earliest days of Magic, but I included them. Everything else here exists with the intent to be played in the 93/95 card pool, as a proverbial "what if?" set. I did modernize the text (since this is the fourth draft of the set). Also after these four cards, green text will be mechanical comments, red text lore comments. I'd appreciate all feedback, praise, hate, ect. I'd also appreciate any art recommendations, with the one cavet they have to be public domain art. Now, lets go.

Anonymous 06/26/2025 (Thu) 22:47:03 Id: ae6618 No. 3822

>>3820 Den Ludd costs is to placate him. If you're 'for the cause' he will be on your side. As soon as you're not (or no longer useful) he turns his back on you and joins another cause. Originally Seal the Realm didn't have Cumulative Upkeep, just a regular upkeep cost. It's extremely strong.

Anonymous 06/26/2025 (Thu) 22:50:19 Id: ae6618 No. 3823

Anonymous 06/26/2025 (Thu) 23:06:14 Id: ae6618 No. 3824

This finishes up all the multicolored cards I currently have for 'dreams'

Anonymous 06/27/2025 (Fri) 12:33:48 Id: eac805 No. 3825

>>3822 Oh, I get it now, The less metaphorical side of revolutionary chaos. So with that only the colorless remain? After they've all been posted I wonder what your plan if for the future.

Anonymous 06/30/2025 (Mon) 04:20:59 Id: f64efd No. 3826

>>3825 I want my cards to be interpretated by the player. However you imagine it is the canon one.

Anonymous 06/30/2025 (Mon) 22:36:02 Id: ca1747 No. 3827

>>3826 Either Hero's Tomb is an infinite loop any instant/sorcery cast from the GY, or what it's doing would be better served by shutting off such abilities outright.

Anonymous 07/01/2025 (Tue) 02:04:11 Id: f64efd No. 3828

>>3827 Thats a very good point, though I did intend for it to shut down Flashback in Jailer.

Anonymous 07/01/2025 (Tue) 10:59:44 Id: eac805 No. 3829

>>3826 Something about the design of the Ancestral Arch makes me feel happy. A mix of potential and perceived balance I with simplicity too. Ski's are kind of silly, must they be sacrificed?

Anonymous 07/02/2025 (Wed) 16:38:07 Id: f64efd No. 3830

>>3827 I scrapped the tomb I intend for these to have flavor text like the regular basics.

Anonymous 07/04/2025 (Fri) 14:05:33 Id: eac805 No. 3832

>>3830 These works of art, I can feel it in my eyes. Appreciation of the moments they convey.

Anonymous 07/07/2025 (Mon) 17:37:06 Id: f64efd No. 3833

These are cards I designed while posting the set, with the one exception being Crystal Mine, which didn't fit in with any other posts. >Colorless storage land. Was originally in Reflections, but when I designed Allegory of Winter, moved it to here. <The Dwarves 400 years ago bitterly sold their mining rights, and many became merchants. Most now are owned and operated by humans. >More flavor than function. >Another bands with other knight, designed around the idea of your knight having a mistral. <The Order of the Thespian is an official knightly order largely composed of knights from other orders and those two old to actively take the field. <The order contains numerous chapters, and they reenact famous legends and battles in controlled battles. These are often done as plays, designed to entertain and keep moral. <The membership of the knights in the order is largely kept anonymous. Many knights belong to other orders as well, and the general opinion among other knightly orders that this is a waste of taxes keeps members from being more open about their membership. >A strong, but extremely frail red creature. <This card depicts the sentry found at the north gate in Pompeii. He was found standing his post, while the world literally ended around him. Since his discovery, he has been romanticized both as a symbol of duty, of unflinching courage, or unwavering discipline. >Apart of the "cards with same name" theme.

Anonymous 07/07/2025 (Mon) 17:53:29 Id: f64efd No. 3835

Tokens

Anonymous 07/08/2025 (Tue) 15:25:32 Id: eac805 No. 3836

>>3833 Love the idea behind Last Sentry, captures the sometimes forgotten theme behind red of desperation. Twin Sphinx even back then would have been not to good, though I seem to recall some spells that change names did any work mid-cast?

Anonymous 07/11/2025 (Fri) 15:03:06 Id: f64efd No. 3837

>>3836 "Reality" far away from anywhere near completion is third and final set of the block. Most of this is placeholders for unused art and designs. Other cards in this are still there but proved to be too strong.

Anonymous 07/11/2025 (Fri) 15:14:09 Id: f64efd No. 3838

The prevailing theme is simple, a new age. The war is over, the Capital of the Realm lays in ruins, and the kingdoms are new kingdoms. While what was the realm is still there, as a group of new nations, the encounter with another civilization has forever changed the world, and some go with the change well, others not so much.

Anonymous 07/11/2025 (Fri) 15:22:35 Id: f64efd No. 3839

Anonymous 07/12/2025 (Sat) 03:29:52 Id: f64efd No. 3842

Anonymous 07/12/2025 (Sat) 19:09:03 Id: eac805 No. 3843

>>3838 Monk Companion feels very right for banding. The new age theme is in full effect already, though I see the lesser throughline. >>3839 Willis is one of those fun things that creates unusual situations without warping the whole game around theme.

Anonymous 07/12/2025 (Sat) 20:15:27 Id: f64efd No. 3844

Anonymous 07/12/2025 (Sat) 20:22:10 Id: f64efd No. 3845

I wanted to finish off the season theme with a series of 'ends' of the season. I've debated an uncommon set of aura's as well, but that isn't here or now. >Autumn's End shows the arrival of winter by being a sort of weird and conditional Scapeshift. Cost is pending. >Winters end destroys snow lands >spring, the time of renewal, returns all lands to play. >Finally, the last gasp of summer's heat is a very powerful, and very dangerous burn spell. >May Queen doesn't really the cycle, but sort of fits the theme.

Anonymous 07/17/2025 (Thu) 05:00:01 Id: eac805 No. 3847

>>3845 Nice as always. How much more is there to go? I was wondering if maybe we could look into trying to get them onto Cockatrice or some other thing for a bit of play. It's funny, as far as I know right now it's never been played.

Anonymous 07/25/2025 (Fri) 23:30:07 Id: eac805 No. 3852

Ah well, it seems to have stalled. For any who read this, I'll be trying to get all these cards into a state on one of those custom TCG applications mentioned earlier.

Anonymous 07/26/2025 (Sat) 13:45:36 Id: 7593ea No. 3853

>>3852 sorry homie my father was in town

Anonymous 07/26/2025 (Sat) 13:53:24 Id: 7593ea No. 3854

Anonymous 07/29/2025 (Tue) 01:23:36 Id: 51fe86 No. 3855

>>3853 Oh me of little faith. Anyway we've got some of the interesting effects going on here. Jester's advice say to be combo piece or funny draw of cards you're not supposed to draw. Either way, very nice. Kondak's Visage is amazingly powerful even with limited colors, and color changing was a thing. Death's Embrace is a flavorful one so strong in flavor I've got to ask exactly what it means. When surrounded by Death they can't be cursed yet in it's absence they gain freedom from society or something? Carapace Armor meanwhile is pretty simple. And then right back to the full story being told on a card. The hero is a sacrifice for the people and they rejoice as they return to exhausted and wounded to survive. >>3854 An effect that again tells a story, though an effect that's recognizable this time, though solemn. But being only able to cast it once it once is an interesting twist. Prophetic in a way, flavorfully.

Anonymous 08/05/2025 (Tue) 02:27:23 Id: 7593ea No. 3862

>>3855 check em Anyway here are the last of the 'finished' cards. I really wanted a set of true duals, but at this point, that is so overdone its amazing. Fuck edh amirite?

Anonymous 08/05/2025 (Tue) 02:55:55 Id: 7593ea No. 3863

Here are the last of the cards. Everything here out is unused art.

Anonymous 08/05/2025 (Tue) 03:06:45 Id: 7593ea No. 3864

Anonymous 08/05/2025 (Tue) 03:18:06 Id: 7593ea No. 3865

Anonymous 08/05/2025 (Tue) 03:29:51 Id: 7593ea No. 3866

With this, I've shown all my designs up until this point. I was pretty sure Cuckchan was never coming back when I started doing this, and I kind of wish it didn't. Magic has only gotten worse, and continues to do so tragically. Yet, here we are, continuing along. "As long as the addictive ink works, right? Anyway thank you everybody, who lurked, and who posted. It's been a real pleasure getting your feedback and words of praise. I'll be here, but I think I'll take a break from posting any cards for a while.

Anonymous 08/05/2025 (Tue) 13:38:16 Id: 51fe86 No. 3867

>>3866 I kind of wish is didn't too, a little bit. Well, it was sort of sad to lose some people, but there was a chance from something better to grow from the ashes, if it stayed dead just a little longer. Well, no I think there was time to make it work, but there needed to be actual support structures to help people break their chains. Am I still talking about 4chan or Magic here? Haha. Anyway, now it's my turn to (try) to digitize all of these into cockatrice (and fail), or some other program. It'll also be a bit before I fully commit so if you've any other ideas, I'm listening.

Anonymous 08/08/2025 (Fri) 18:30:40 Id: eac805 No. 3870

>>3854 Cockatrice looks pretty promising so far.

Anonymous 08/10/2025 (Sun) 12:50:52 Id: 45e353 No. 3874

>>3866 Thank you for sharing anon. I haven't posted but I do appreciate all the OC.

Anonymous 08/18/2025 (Mon) 09:33:08 Id: eac805 No. 3880

https://github.com/Cockatrice/Cockatrice/wiki/Custom-Cards-%26-Sets Alright it's going to take some doing to get all these on Cockatrice, even for two players, but it seems to be straightforward doing.

Anonymous 08/26/2025 (Tue) 09:02:27 Id: eac805 No. 3881

>>3866 Anyway, shall try at it or shall you? If no response I'll eventually do it myself.

Anonymous 08/28/2025 (Thu) 20:31:48 Id: ca1747 No. 3882

>>3807 >burning of Remus I sure hope this set is played without any donate effects

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