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Post by WindyDelcarlo on Mar 9, 2022 4:05:06 GMT
WindyDelcarlo Stalemate on Agahia: Interesting. I think it's costed correctly. Doesn't feel especially mythic. 9/10."I see. You've mentioned the Empire and the Technocracy. What planes do each of them cover?" Imperial CrueltyConspiracy , Sacrifice a creature: You gain 3 life. "Oh, at this point? Gotta be upwards o' 50 each, maybe more. Most of 'em got there diplomatically and stuff, but it's been a while. And that's not even countin' the stuff the Technocracy talks to daily but doesn't control, places like Leritha."All creatures are pseudo-food. 8/10 Expanse of Order
Land Expanse of Order enters the battlefield tapped. : Add . , : Tap target creature. Its controller gains 2 life.
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Post by Parasign on Mar 9, 2022 7:24:32 GMT
WindyDelcarlo Expanse of Order: Seems strong, but probably okay? 9/10."Fifty—" the man gives Rel a surprised and somewhat doubtful look. "Well, which planes would you say are the most notable?"Ruthless EfficiencyConspiracy Hidden agenda Abilities of cards with the chosen name you activate that aren’t mana abilities cost less to activate. This effect can’t reduce the mana in that cost to less than one mana.
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Post by cajun on Mar 11, 2022 0:08:52 GMT
cajun Botched Job: Seems perhaps a bit weak, but it's a good clean design. 9/10.The man sighs. "Poor girl." He turns to Zero. "I suppose I owe you the full explanation. It was a sort of self-perpetuating story. Lysenda's mind formed the seed, and our minds were trapped along with it and hijacked to help power it—hence our ability to influence what was happening. Unfortunately the incomplete protection sigils meant it was unstable, and if we hadn't gotten back into our own heads we would've died when it collapsed completely."
He takes a deep breath.
"And yes, this has taught me to be much more careful with my books. All this time I've been waiting for something to come after me, for the Arena to resist my intrusion into its affairs. But the only one to cause harm has been myself." He sighs again. "My fear and foolishness, putting others at risk when I was barely at risk myself – that's what got poor Lysenda killed." He sets his jaw. "I won't let it be for nothing. This ends now."Benefactor's DiscretionConspiracy Hidden agenda Whenever you cast a spell with the chosen name, choose one— • Put a +1/+1 counter or a loyalty counter on each creature or planeswalker that spell targets. Each player that spell targets draws a card. • That spell deals 3 damage to each of its targets. "I had not even been able to tell. It had all seemed to be just an illusion."
"You speak as though you believed the plane itself would have fought back against whatever you were doing? Because if you mean the people, surely this was that resistance."
Turn of Phrase Instant Change each of the targets of target spell or ability to target player if able. (Any effects that can't target that player keep their old target.) Benefactor's Discretion - this is a good conspiracy. 9/10
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Post by Parasign on Mar 11, 2022 1:22:52 GMT
cajun Turn of Phrase: Strong when it works, but extremely narrow. Awkward against cards that specify "opponent" instead of "player," such as many of those with discard effects. 8/10."I mean the plane, yes. Multiple interplanar groups have been here, but the one major city around these parts vanished before they could properly study it. I tried to find the city myself and wound up in an illusory trap designed to mimic it – not dangerous for me personally, but an effective warning. I encountered one man who was sent four hundred years back in time when he tried to survey this area. Don't you find all that strange?"A nameless scholar has spent 1 Skill Point to unlock Cycling.Suspicious AbsenceConspiracy Hidden agenda Nonland cards in your hand with the chosen name have cycling .
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Post by cajun on Mar 11, 2022 2:44:26 GMT
cajun Turn of Phrase: Strong when it works, but extremely narrow. Awkward against cards that specify "opponent" instead of "player," such as many of those with discard effects. 8/10."I mean the plane, yes. Multiple interplanar groups have been here, but the one major city around these parts vanished before they could properly study it. I tried to find the city myself and wound up in an illusory trap designed to mimic it – not dangerous for me personally, but an effective warning. I encountered one man who was sent four hundred years back in time when he tried to survey this area. Don't you find all that strange?"A nameless scholar has spent 1 Skill Point to unlock Cycling.Suspicious AbsenceConspiracy Hidden agenda Nonland cards in your hand with the chosen name have cycling . "Those are certainly strange tales. I have not seen things quite that out of the ordinary. Though, the experimenters playing in the realm of Elsewhere, the copying child, the technomancer... The Arena is no stranger to strange occurrences. The plane doing it may explain some strangeness, but where is the proof of such a claim?" Sorcery Search your library for two basic land cards, put them onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle. Then gain control of target creature if it has mana value less than or equal to the number of basic lands you control until end of turn. Untap it. It gains haste until end of turn. Suspicious Absence - hm not as much a fan of this one since Conspiracies are limited exclusive where you're less likely to be running the sideboard-y cards where cycling 0 is beneficial. maybe if this had double agenda? - 7/10
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Post by Parasign on Mar 11, 2022 5:35:01 GMT
cajun Extraordinary Claim: I like the pun. Don’t see why it's blue but if you really need a third color that's probably the best option. 9/10."I'm afraid I have nothing that's likely to convince you, at least not yet. What convinced me will sound just as strange: I can sense threads of meaning in the world around us. That's how I could tell the story-world wasn't real, and it's how I can tell this world is, for lack of a better term, more real." A pause. "As I said, strange… or think I said, anyway."Twisted FormsConspiracy Creatures you control get +1/-1.
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Post by WindyDelcarlo on Mar 14, 2022 1:53:09 GMT
WindyDelcarlo Expanse of Order: Seems strong, but probably okay? 9/10."Fifty—" the man gives Rel a surprised and somewhat doubtful look. "Well, which planes would you say are the most notable?"Ruthless EfficiencyConspiracy Hidden agenda Abilities of cards with the chosen name you activate that aren’t mana abilities cost less to activate. This effect can’t reduce the mana in that cost to less than one mana. "'side from the capitals, the big important ones for the Empire are Invi and Tollen. Industry centers, stuff like that. Technocracy's got, like... Iksi, that's the place with the Collective Archive. Lot of their places are important if you care about what they've got goin' on but nothin' super big. Ruthless Efficiency is okay. Not sure how much it'll come up, but it might have something specific. 8/10 Iksi Collective Archive
Legendary Land : Add . , : Reveal the top card of your library. Add one mana of each of that card's colors.
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Post by cajun on Mar 16, 2022 4:24:49 GMT
cajun Extraordinary Claim: I like the pun. Don’t see why it's blue but if you really need a third color that's probably the best option. 9/10."I'm afraid I have nothing that's likely to convince you, at least not yet. What convinced me will sound just as strange: I can sense threads of meaning in the world around us. That's how I could tell the story-world wasn't real, and it's how I can tell this world is, for lack of a better term, more real." A pause. "As I said, strange… or think I said, anyway."Twisted FormsConspiracy Creatures you control get +1/-1. "I see." She did not see. But planeswalkers each had such strange abilities, why not... whatever this was. "Should you find more on this, I would be interested in hearing of it."
She makes a note on her missive. Mission accomplished. I think.
She looks back up. "Oh! Hello there, citizen," she says to the strange old man she'd never seen before. She looks around. "It seems all is well here. I must be going then." Twisted Forms - uhhh sure 9/10
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Post by cajun on Mar 18, 2022 6:12:21 GMT
The nameless scholar comes across a gleaming rift in his travels. It may have seemed familiar, at least at first. Any familiarity likely would have died along with the pleasant blues of the rift as they turned to black.
His thoughts on the matter are interrupted by howling from the abyss. Streaks of fire race across the ground from the rift. The source of the howling reveals itself by calmly stepping from the open wound in reality. He has the appearance of a demon, though on closer inspection, it is merely a horned helmet. That realization may be delayed by the more pressing realization that the entity is also ablaze. It moves as though raising a sword, but none is in sight.
It seemed the Arena had finally brought its resistance.
Note: Reinforcements will be on the way for characters that need them
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Post by Parasign on Mar 19, 2022 4:01:17 GMT
cajun Know Naught But Fire: Using this to twincast something for free seems a bit scary, but that only works on Revelations that you're coalescing or that naturally cost 3+ generic mana so it's probably fine. Good thinking on the reminder text. Not entirely sure what the name has to do with the effect. 9/10.The man looks the burning entity straight in the eyes, squinting due to the brightness of the flames. "I wouldn't come any closer if I were you."Last WarningConspiracy When a player casts the first spell of the game that you didn't cast, counter that spell unless that player pays .
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Post by Parasign on Mar 19, 2022 4:12:53 GMT
WindyDelcarlo Iksi Collective Archive: Doesn't feel mythic, and has the usual legendary land problem with duplicates being worthless. Also awkward that you don't know how much mana you're getting in advance (unless you scried or something first.) 7/10."How odd. I haven't heard of any of those." The man looks suspiciously at Rel. "What happened to, oh, let's say Ravnica? Or... Arcavios? Or perhaps Kamigawa?"Ubiquitous SurveillanceConspiracy : Scry 1.
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Post by cajun on Mar 19, 2022 4:54:39 GMT
cajun Know Naught But Fire: Using this to twincast something for free seems a bit scary, but that only works on Revelations that you're coalescing or that naturally cost 3+ generic mana so it's probably fine. Good thinking on the reminder text. Not entirely sure what the name has to do with the effect. 9/10.The man looks the burning entity straight in the eyes, squinting due to the brightness of the flames. "I wouldn't come any closer if I were you."Last WarningConspiracy When a player casts the first spell of the game that you didn't cast, counter that spell unless that player pays . The entity shows no signs of comprehension and swings, an arc of flames flying for the old man.
Some moments later, another entity begins forcing its way through, struggling due to its size. What appears to be a large, purple-tinged man shoves at the boundaries of the rift with fingers long and pointed more like claws, tearing it wider apart and further up into the sky. A green sludge spills from its mouth as it groans in effort. It steps through, its posture nearly on all fours due to the tremendous swelling on its back. The growth is as hard as a turtle's shell, yet seems to be completely under the creature's skin, even despite the array of spikes protruding from the armor.
The creature of Elsewhere turns its back to the scholar. If let be for too long, the spikes will begin to erupt from its back. Last Warning - name seems pretty off here. doesn't seem like a great conspiracy for the usual format either. 6/10
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Post by Parasign on Mar 19, 2022 5:19:01 GMT
cajun Meaning Falls to Ruin: Interesting. Seems a bit hard to break the symmetry in Limited and I'm guessing it's unplayable in Constructed, but maybe it has a use I'm not seeing, and I like how you turn the W effect into a UR one. 9/10.The man steps swiftly back before the eruption of flames can reach him and speaks an impossible word. Seeing that it elicits just as much response from the burning entity as his previous ones did, he reaches into a hidden compartment of his pack, pulls out a revolver, and fires. Word of Banishment
Conspiracy Hidden agenda When ~ is turned face up, exile target nonland permanent with the chosen name. Return it to the battlefield tapped under its owner's control at the beginning of the next turn's upkeep.
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Post by cajun on Mar 21, 2022 23:51:41 GMT
The man steps swiftly back before the eruption of flames can reach him and speaks an impossible word. Seeing that it elicits just as much response from the burning entity as his previous ones did, he reaches into a hidden compartment of his pack, pulls out a revolver, and fires. Word of Banishment
Conspiracy Hidden agenda When ~ is turned face up, exile target nonland permanent with the chosen name. Return it to the battlefield tapped under its owner's control at the beginning of the next turn's upkeep. The bullet pierces the flaming entity, blowing a hole through it which rapidly begins dissolving outward. It continues forward while it still can. Behind it, the second creature is pulling itself from the rift.
"Stay back, citizen!" says a recorded woman's voice. "Creatures of Elsewhere have invaded the area! I will defend you!"
The flaming entity turns to the voice. Flames race across the ground toward the charging robot, who jumps the lines of flames before it can surround her. The broad sword beats the movement of the flame sword, cutting across the body from shoulder to hip, through the wound from the scholar. Zero's leg hooks the creature's and kicks, throwing out the burning lower half of the creature towards the other as both halves quickly disintegrate. A jet of flame fires from her boots as she charges the second, the tremendous momentum not doing much damage to the creature's strange shell, but knocking it partially back within the rift. The rift snaps shut bisecting the creature's body from its spiny shell, the later of which thuds to the ground before it begins to dissolve away entirely.
She looks around the area, lingering on the towering black rift in the distance before turning her attention to the scholar. "Citizen, are you in need of aid? Are there any more of the creatures nearby?" Word of Banishment - 8/10
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Post by Parasign on Mar 22, 2022 8:55:52 GMT
cajun Find True Purpose: This feels rare, and the free coalesce seems maybe a bit too powerful; it's a stronger free creature than Narcomoeba if you have 2+ colors, and it doesn't need to enter from your library. 8/10."I am unharmed. I haven't seen any other beings like those... except…" The man's eyes defocus for a second or two before settling back on the robot. "No, those were quite different. Thank you for your help. I am in your debt."Induced FealtyConspiracy Whenever a creature enters the battlefield under an opponent's control, tap it unless that player pays .
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Post by cajun on Mar 23, 2022 2:45:47 GMT
"I am unharmed. I haven't seen any other beings like those... except…" The man's eyes defocus for a second or two before settling back on the robot. "No, those were quite different. Thank you for your help. I am in your debt."Induced FealtyConspiracy Whenever a creature enters the battlefield under an opponent's control, tap it unless that player pays . "The creatures can vary quite dramatically in appearance, as you have seen," Zero says. "If you see any more like this, run before anything else can emerge. And you are in no debt. Destroying these creatures are my duty."
[And perhaps, my responsibility. Chance the child's words were hollow and she had brought this upon the Arena by listening to them... sixty-three point eight one nine zero percent.]
Zero bids the scholar farewell, and heads for the towering rift.
Induced Fealty - 9/10
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Post by WindyDelcarlo on Mar 23, 2022 2:56:48 GMT
WindyDelcarlo Iksi Collective Archive: Doesn't feel mythic, and has the usual legendary land problem with duplicates being worthless. Also awkward that you don't know how much mana you're getting in advance (unless you scried or something first.) 7/10."How odd. I haven't heard of any of those." The man looks suspiciously at Rel. "What happened to, oh, let's say Ravnica? Or... Arcavios? Or perhaps Kamigawa?"Ubiquitous SurveillanceConspiracy : Scry 1. "Ravnica... Oh, Arcavios, that's the other place with the books right? Kinda like the Technocracy -- education's the most important thing in the world to 'em, but less interplanar tech." Rel thinks a bit more before concluding, "Oh, yeah! Kamigawa, they got good food. They're part o' the network, but 's far as I remember, they refused to let either Technocracy or Empire rule 'em. Got an empire of their own to hold up, after all."Ubiquitous Surveillance is a lot of scry, but I don't know whether it's balanced or not in formats with conspiracies. 8/10 Planebound Imperials
Creature - Human Samurai Whenever Planebound Imperials deals combat damage to a player, you may put an Equipment card from your hand onto the battlefield. When Planebound Imperials dies, you may return target artifact card from your graveyard to your hand. 3/2
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Post by Parasign on Mar 23, 2022 5:34:36 GMT
WindyDelcarlo Planebound Imperials: A bit awkward that this recurs artifacts but summons Equipment, which don't normally go to the graveyard. 8/10."I see." The man jots down a few more notes in his journal. "It sounds like things are going fairly well in your time. No existential threats? No dire warnings to those of us here in the past? No planes that should be evacuated? Other than Volaria, I mean."Unthinkable CostConspiracy Hidden agenda Sacrifice a nonland permanent with the chosen name: Draw a card.
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