<BB> Amechra's Battleboard [Alina Makyavonavich]

The surge of stone hits Kirino dead-center. She's dragged along with it, her doll-like frame dashed to pieces. Kirino is dead.

I am dead. I was killed by a child who is too trauma-struck to do anything but kill. This shall not be.

Kirino has lost the ability to use Evoke! She has gained [Credo of the Ruler]! She doesn't seem too interested in dying anymore.

The surge, the violence, my death... they've been discarded. They never happened. As for me... I bleed into this plane's mana. I have some children to free.

"Hello, kitten! It's nice to see that you've made some friends. Have you come to play?"

Trigger the Apocalypse is a beefy, beefy monster of a spell. That's the mythic burn finisher that we've all be waiting for! Unfortunately, it has a little bit of a flaw -

Someone Else's Problem -
Instant -
Exile target spell.
"I'm sure they'd love your spell on Agahia, dearie. If it still existed, that is."

- but other than that? Lovely! A 10/10! Fantastic show! Unfortunately, it left you without any lands to your name, so your response must be a land.



I turn and address Arina casually - her attention has given her away as if she were on fire.

"As for you, Ms..." I check through my now-expanded memories (the beautiful tapestry of sentience is laid bare before me - I feast upon the threads), and smile. "Ah, Arina. You have history here, I see." I sniff at the air, and my smile breaks into a full-on grin.

"Your daughter loves you very much, you know. You should be proud. It'd be a shame if something happened to her while you were away."

Invitation to Ignorance -
Instant -
Whenever target player would draw one or more cards this turn, instead exile that many cards from the top of their library. That player may play cards exiled by Invitation to Ignorance this turn.
"Permanence of memory is an illusion."

Extended Surveillance is good stuff. It's a really good finisher for a draw-centered deck - heck, it can be a win condition on its own if you're playing it right. I'm giving it a 10/10 because it makes the Johnny side of me giggle.

Oh, yeah, and your response has to involve Hannah in some way.



En route, the entire world seems to have gone insane. There's rioting in the streets, and the sky is heavy with thunderclouds. One of those clouds tosses out a sheathe of lightning, grounding itself on the distraction charm shielding Karina.

Splinterthought -
Instant -
Splinterthought deals damage to any target equal to the number of cards your opponents have drawn this turn.
"Careful, you might attract a brainstorm."

Dang it! I was going to be the archenemy . More seriously, All in Due Time seems like a perfectly fair card for Archenemy... it's just that that name feels more like a counterspell than a card draw engine. A 8/10, still, but names are important for Schemes - you have to be able to loudly proclaim them with a smug look on your face!

I don't have any particular demands for your response. Maybe when you actually get involved...



"It's OK Hyle. I'm sorry, too. It would have been nice to be friends, I think - but I'm a bit beyond that now."

As the water crashes over me, joining the stone that was never there, I shrug and let it take me where it will. True freedom lets go, after all.

Embrace The Void -
Instant -
Exile your hand.
Whenever a card would be put into your hand from anywhere this turn, exile it instead (drawing cards puts them into your hand).
At the beginning of the next upkeep, shuffle each card exiled with Embrace The Void into your library, then draw 7 cards.

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I open my eyes, and gaze out on the wreckage Hyle's spell has left. "It seems my assassins need to practice a little."

I have multiple EDH decks with Ire of the Leviathans' name on them (Wrexial Merfolk-plus-Leviathans and Nin Choke-on-your-cards-and-die, to be specific). It's a profoundly blue board wipe with some nicely tricky combos you can pull with it. A 10/10.

Oh, right - heh.

I've been operating like Battle Boards has a continual back-and-forth for so long that I've forgotten that officially there's only attack-and-response.

korakhos, WindyDelcarlo - you don't have to respect my horrible, horrible demands.

As she sees her destructive opus, Aylin catches a glimpse of As'Han, who seems to be casting a spell...
Is he trying to save Kirino?! she thinks as she is filled with maniacal rage I knew I should've dealt with the pest when the chance presented itself! Why the hell did I underestimate his capacity to antagonize me...?

@flufydeathbringer: Tricorn Barrier: 3 points for name, 3 points for effect, 3 points for FT plus a bonus point because my OCD side has a soft spot for such beautiful trifecta and I can't bring myself to give this anything under 10/10.

But all of Aylin's rage dissipates as she sees the fox's intervention did nothing to prevent the massacre, and she rejoices in deranged glee when she sees Kirino finally dead.
"You got your wish" she spits out with a sigh.
But why did she do it? Despite her tough appearance, she never directly killed anyone except for... him. But that death had also been an accident, even if she would've done it regardless... Why was she motivated to kill Kirino? And most importantly... Why was Kirino not dead?!
"Hello, kitten! It's nice to see that you've made some friends. Have you come to play?"
This is no longer a matter of revenge and whether or not she has a reason to kill her. This is a matter of pride.
"Why won't you die?!" screams Aylin desperately. Fortunately, her encounters with Ryn have taught her not to spend all her energy in one spell, and she has more than enough for what she plans to do next.
She extends both her arms and the earth surrounding her vibrates. Chunks of stones of all shapes and sizes start violently flying towards her and coating her body. In a few seconds, Aylin is hiding on the inside of a monstrous behemoth. A few seconds later a vedalken attempts to rally the assaulters, but whatever he says gets muffled by and never reaches Aylin's ears.
The giant growls gruesomely, then takes a shot at Kirino.

Barbaric Bluffs
Land
, Pay 1 life: Add .
: Until end of turn, ~ becomes a red Giant creature with base power and toughness X/X, where X is the highest power among other creatures you control.

(I'm using a land because I want to, not because you told me to )

Someone Else's Problem: this card feels too good. One of blue's weaknesses is not being able to deal with things in the long term and, even though examples of blue cards that exile stuff exist, they either compensate for it or need to counter the spell first before doing so. At this color saturation, I would add a "that spell's controller draws a card" clause or something like that. 5/10.

Lady Mapi: I would like to point you to the fact I completely forgot the existence of that card. You get three additional points (still think it needs more saturation) and a heartfelt apology!

As Aiden has sort of come to grips with the fact his family are spirits (kind of and I'll get around to writing it later), he runs to see what in the seven Hells is going on.  As he runs there, he finds Karina and walks up to her, not paying attention to the lightning clouds or aftershocks or anything really, besides now Karina and before himself.  "What the Hel--" he's cut off by a crack of lightning, and another crack as his spear glows a white light and in a flash seemingly knocks into the lightning bolt, directing it into a nearby tree.  "What the?!" he exclaims, looking at the smoldering plant, then back to Karina.  "For heaven's sake, what are you doing here?!"

(an attack flavored as defense/assist for Karina)

Geist of the Clock Tower
Creature - Spirit
Flying
You and your teammates have hexproof.
2/1

Karina doesn't miss a beat as Aiden jumps ahead of her to intercept the bolt. "Hello!" she says cheerfully as she passes him.

"What the?! For heaven's sake, what are you doing here?!"

At that she stopped and turned to face him. "Well, isn't it obvious? We're gonna save the world, of course."

She turned back around without waiting for an answer, and skipped back on her way, her positive attitude seeming to spread into the rioting masses around them.

Call for Aid: Dream Lash

Infinite Dreams
Enchantment
At the beginning of your upkeep, for each Aura you control, you may create a token that's a copy of it.
Illusion and reality become one and the same.

Splinterthought - this is quite finicky outside of team games, even at three cards it's an extra blue on Searing Spear. will round your fraction with 7.5/10 unless i missed you get a .5 from someone else and then blargh

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cyberchronometer
There was a kind of terrified comfort in Reyhsia's stomach as Ops touched down. We had Ops, we were fine. We needed Ops, we were so dead. Stay focused. Lance needed weaknesses. "Rachkta."

The light of the thing's spark was intense, likely enough to blind me if I had truly been seeing it. "Lance, I've got a visual. This thing doesn't so much have a spark as it is a spark." I turned from the lightning ghost, seeing the strange creature flowing out to the rest of the Arena. "It's crazy at the body, but looks like it's melting? It's spreading from the source, at any rate."

Reyhsia votes for time.

Aylin's clumsy attack is so utterly predictable. If I weren't listening to her internal monologue, I'd even suspect it was just a feint. As it is, I don't even feel like dignifying it with a legitimate response. I twist the local mana to form a gap within the stones and refocus myself there. I (gently, softly, like a mother cat picking up her wayward kitten) wrap my arms around her and whisper in her ear:

"You have a lot to learn about hurting people."

I slip away, quick as anything, with my prize. I slip off one face and adopt another.

As far as Aylin can tell, Korino now looks exactly like her mother.

Quiet The Stones -
Instant -
Tap target nonbasic land. It does not untap during its controller's next untap step.

Barbaric Bluffs is a manland. Manlands are fun, and the resulting creature feels pretty balanced - the primary issue is that it breaks everything if you have two of them triggered and put a +1/+1 counter on one of them (unless I'm failing my reading check). But I can't fault you for trying it out. 8/10



A voice crackles in Lance's ear.

"Hello there, Mr... Ryba. Lance Ryba. I see you've had a little tiff with our mutual friend Mr. Rettai - it wasn't a very good idea to bring that in to a fight with a... Class 7, was it? Oh, and I vote time."

The plane shudders as I draw up the planar boundaries and slip a shard of my awareness down between the seconds. I wait with baited lack-of-breath.

Chronarch's Pact -
Enchantment -
Activated abilities of permanents that aren't mana abilities cost an additional "skip your next turn" to activate.
"Everyone is born with a finite amount of time. Some people simply use it up more quickly." - Archduke Jotta

Lance is a pretty nice planeswalker and certainly feels balanced. The ultimate feels a little bit too splashy, but he's a big target and you're going to have to wait 5 turns for it to go off. A 9/10



Another lightning bolt comes down from the sky, drawn towards the spear itself. Inches away, it splinters into what look like roses drawn in raw light.

Chaotic Shock -
Instant -
Chaotic Shock deals 2 damage to target creature and 2 damage to that creature's controller.

Geist of the Clock Tower feels just a little bit undercosted... but I suspect that that's just my hatred for Hexproof talking. Giving a True Believer -0/-1 and a price bump doesn't feel like it entirely covers adding Flight and swapping Shroud for multi-person Hexproof. I'm giving it an 8/10 to account for my bias.



"Ah, Arina, no need to call for your spirits. I'm not the one who made veiled threats about the safety of your precious Hannah if you couldn't focus on the 'job' of killing me.

Do you want to know the real reason Aylin has been so hellbent on leading this murder attempt? I gave her a precious little kitten as a gift.

She strangled it."

I subtly twist some emotional threads, pointing that (sweet, awful) fear and anger towards Aylin. I also pick up Hannah's scent - that might be... useful.

Turn Aggression -
Instant -
Change the target of target spell or ability with a single target.
The first rule of fighting empaths is that you don't bring emotional baggage with you.

Persist in Fear feels appropriately costed. It's also now pointing towards Aylin unless you do something about that. In any case, 9/10.



A hundred meters further along, the rain starts. Within seconds, there's a downpour of mildly salty rain. With it comes a peculiar sadness. Why even try? Why go on? The only things that are real are bare-fanged predation and soul-crushing misery, so why fight it?

Isolationist Decree
Conspiracy -
(Start the game with this conspiracy face up in the command zone.)
Your deck cannot have more than one copy of any nonbasic land card.
All permanents are legendary.

Infinite Dreams is... wow, that kind of overwhelming effect should not be that cheap. Running it in a deck with Curses or other auras that are difficult to deal with is a death sentence. I'm thinking of what it would look like with Song of the Dryads or Pacifism, and I'm shuddering. I can't give this more than a 6/10 because of how grossly undercosted it is.

Lumen stares at the. Kirino thing. "I'm a tad late here - could someone tell me what's going on?" He notices Lance in a corner and gestures towards him, then he pulls up his notes on Kirino Oblay. Destroyer of planes. Empath. Wants to self-terminate. "Oh. I see." See, this is why you never follow a criminal's instructions. In his mind, he cusses out Aylin. 

"Do no harm, I suppose."

"After all, I always tell myself - overconfidence is a slow and insidious killer." The scar beneath his mask pulsates with fresh pain.

Kassovan Retainer  
Creature - Human Warrior  
Flash
When CARDNAME enters the battlefield, choose a color. You and your teammates gain protection from the chosen color until end of turn.
Whenever damage is prevented for the first time each turn, put a +1/+1 counter on CARDNAME.
2/2

The second lightning bolt caused him to jump back, and as he did he lost his balance.  Landing on his behind, he didn't notice the lightning's flowery pattern.  When he stood up and got his balance back, he followed after Karina.  He did a quick jog to catch up to with her, as his spear-tip adopted a red glow at it's tip.  As they made their way to the salt rain, he felt it hit what skin was exposed of his, and dink against his helmet, sometimes audibly.   He walked beside her.  This rain was obnoxious, to say the least.  "What's with the rain?" he asked Karina.  "Hey, I don't know what's going on, but whatever happens from now on, I'll protect you." he said.  For a ten-year old she had to be scared - he knew he'd be, because he was alone and orphaned at her age too, but she hid it well.  The rain and atmosphere seemed to not bother him, and he gave her a pat on the shoulder.  "We'll make it through."  

Being an oblivious dope had it's upsides.

Jugsar, Absentminded Envoy
Legendary Creature - Giant Soldier
Protection from black and red
If a source would deal damage to you or another legendary permanent you control, prevent up to 2 of that damage.
"Huh?  What is that wind?" - Jugsar, after being struck by lightning
5/5

(again, attack flavored as a defense)

Chaotic Shock: Nice response but 4 damage (even if double shock) should probably cost at uncommon. 9/10.

Quiet the Stones: Beautiful name, beautiful effect, I really enjoy that effect that's been given to red and am willing to see more of that in the future. 9.5/10.

Aylin feels a cold embrace and her instincts trigger. It feels so soothing, as if it belonged to someone who loved her deeply, but, knowing the implications of that, she wants none of it. She begins trembling and squirming as she hears Kirino's voice whisper in her ear, then she sees her face...
Aylin's shock is evident, she was not expecting to see her own mother there, and yet here she is. Her eyes begin to fill with tears at the memory of her mother, and for a few seconds she seems to relax. Then, as tears begin to fall down her face, she begins to laugh. But it's not a laugh of joy or one of relief, no, it is the mischievous laughter of someone who's figured something out.
"Wrong choice, idiot..." says Aylin "My mother is dead!"
"Careful, everyone—Kirino's listening in on our comms. On the bright side, we've identified a weakness—her physical body may not exist anymore, but there's still a planeswalker spark in the middle of this and we know where it is. If any of you can hit an isolated spark, give us a few seconds to raise our defenses and we'll start calling out targets, but you'll have to act fast before she repositions."
Kirino hears Lance's voice and realizes the truth, she is being a nuisance. As long as she keeps being impulsive, reckless and selfish, she'll be an obstacle and not an asset. That's why Kirino is trying to stirr her emotions, to keep her that way. Teamwork is not her favorite thing in the world, but she's done it before, and in order to see this thing through, she's willing to compromise.
"I'm collaborating with you!" she screams at the top of her lungs, hoping that Lance will hear "Just let me get out of this situation and tell me what to do next!"
Squirming isn't working, though, Kirino seems to have her held tighter than two rocks forced together by her geomancy. As the tears dry, Aylin focus and her armor breaks, then, in a split second, two armlike invocations protrude from the ground and try to drag her away, pulling strongly to try and beat Kirino's embrace.

(amechra, I'm letting you decide whether this works or not)

Stubborn Resistance 
Instant
Until end of turn, lands you control gain ": Target creature gets +1/+0 until end of turn."
"Don't cross me, I've an entire world I can use as a weapon."
-Aylin, the Geomancer

"Correction." I coughed. "The witch just ran me through." My vision blurred back to normal. Needed to focus on keeping my own blood together for now. "Nisita you better not miss at this range," I tried to laugh through the pain. "Gonna need my soul to match these new scars."

"Now don't you run off on me, young lady."

Destiny Bond
Enchantment - Aura
Enchant creature or planeswalker you control
Enchanted permanent has lifelink.
When enchanted permanent dies, destroy target creature or planeswalker you don't control.

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Okus has spent 50 Valor to unlock Scars of Mirrodin
Call for Aid: Turn Aside
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"Do you know how old I am, little one?"

I dunno, probably really old, like forty or something. A familiar ruffling of fabric follows.

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Worldbreaker's Hand - might be a touch too stabby for instant speed, and am sideyeing Smelt + Price of Progrees + Aura Barbs + some other stuff at four. still, suitably epic if a tad dubious 8/10

"Please, tell me more about this Sever Reality of yours. I mean, if you can remember anything about it - I'm sure it's a very nice spell." Kirino's voice shoves itself further into Arina's mind, toying with her thoughts and memories.  Leave my memories alone, Arina thinks.  Stay away.

Arina staggers while charging her spell but only returns a chuckle.  Kirino's prod returns two main factors regarding Sever that Kirino may not have known before:  It strips the soul from a being, and is nigh-impossible to stop once it hits the end of its channel.  "My Scripts are a part of my being.  I could not forget them sooner than I could forget how to breath.

"Nisita you better not miss at this range," I tried to laugh through the pain. "Gonna need my soul to match these new scars." That voice is not Kirino.  That voice is an ally.  Whatever her name is, she has the monster pinned right now, locked in a single place.  If only for a second, that is all Arina needs.

A simple targeting reticule appears in Arina's vision, centered directly on Kirino's spark, and so hopefully her soul. "Lumen—keep her still if you can, but stay clear! Arina, now!"

"As for Sever Reality?"  Arina says, in thoughts and aloud across all forms of communication,  "I will allow you to decide for yourself if it is 'nice'.  You will not threaten my child or my allies further."  Arina hops from her cover, spending only a few moments to cover a portion of the distance between herself and Kirino.  It is in those seconds that she shouts her declaration, to herself and to the Spirits of her home world.

"Severi aritae." Arina's voice is punctuated by the precision of her blade's arc through the placement of the monster's soul.  In the split second afterwards, Arina has channeled and cast another spell, collapsing to the ground as the result of her own actions in a writhing lump.  She grasps around her body, looking for a vial of energy she knows she has but is struggling to find through her pain.

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Sever Reality 
Sorcery 
Spells that target Sever Reality cost an additional  to cast for each spell cast before it this turn.
Exile target creature or planeswalker.

Arina calls for aid for Perplex to protect her spell, sending it the moment Kirino tries to channel something (i.e. casting it once a spell hits the stack if it lacks split second) and promptly overchanneling herself. 

(So, Sever as a spell in-world isn't impossible to dodge but is basically impossible to counter.  The spell was developed by immortal deities to slay other immortal deities, which is why Arina wanted a moment where Kami!Kirino was being held down by something. Given the context and assumptions we operate under for BB (first and foremost being that this is a collaborative effort), obviously Kami!Kirino can survive this if you wish, whether by somehow breaking the spell, the soul not being with the spark, or by peacing out or what have you, but she can also not survive it if that's the actual end result you're hoping for now that she's well within reincarnation range and a large amount of the Arena wants her dead.  I can't really read whether she's intended to die or not.)

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Noting that Calm Thoughts is actually pushing equal against Mindbreak Trap, since Summary Dismissal also paves all the abilities. It's basically 2UU wipe the opponent's half of the stack out with some minor upside.

If Mental Skip were to exist, this is likely the CMC and colors it should exist yet. In general though, I'm concerned about split second both countermagic and also hand attack since the hand attack part can and will win games on its own. 6.5/10

Unresponsive Leylines:&nbsp;being such a niche effect I think it could cost . Still, I like it. 9/10.

Aylin lands on the ground and begins to run away from Kirino, towards Lance.
"Ah, the children are learning. Maybe your fumbling will do something next time."
Aylin's first instinct is to turn around and give Kirino the punishment she deserves but, through a ton of mental effort, she manages to keep herself together and keep running.
Running away from a fight, you should be ashamed of yourself... speaks the mocking voice in her head.
But no, she isn't running away, she's regrouping, or so she hopes. She tries to evaluate the situation with a cold mind and strategic thought, but that's not who she is. She's thinking of countless ways to be of help but they would all involve getting in the way of her "allies". She considers being a distraction, but Kirino will obviously see through that. She could try to take a hit at whatever part of Kirino Reyhsia is apparently seeing as her weak spot, but that would get in the way of Arina.
Think, think, think, what can you do? she asks herself.
Nothing is the voice's cold reply Right now you are completely useless...
Uselessness, one of Aylin's greatest fears, but the voice is right, there is nothing she can do right now. She can help in no shape, way or form. While still trying to keep these destructive thoughts at bay, she finally reaches Lance.
"Give me something to do, anything!" she pleads "I don't care how risky it is I need to be involved in this!"

Desperate Beg 
Sorcery
Discard up to three cards, then draw that many cards.
"There must be something I can do..."

(I know I'm addressing Lance, but this is still an attack on you BB so it's under your jurisdiction, amechra XD)

I managed to not find Aether Tradewinds when I was looking at how to cost things . Oops.

Ylansa then belatedly realizes that her mother never fell in love with her father, and that as a result she was never born. Oops.

My corpse, having never existed, flickers back out of existence.

Switch Happentrack -
Instant -
Split Second
Return target spell and target permanent to their owner's hand.
"You see, in this timeline, you never learned how to dance."

Ylansa is interesting - that +0 is probably the closest you'll really get to a counterspell on a planeswalker, and that -4 is pretty insane. On the other hand, that +1 is... less insane, though it does turn into draw-sealing if you use it enough. It feels off enough that I'm going to give you a 7/10 - that ultimate really shouldn't be able to go off the turn you drop her.



I let Emil leave - this really isn't his fight, after all. On the other hand...

"Lumen, it isn't exactly friendly to spray toxic gasses everywhere. Someone could choke on them, you know."

A slight ripple to my mana, and I repurpose his spell. The air all around sparkles beautifully.

Errant Sparks
Instant -
Errant Sparks cannot be countered.
Errant Sparks deals 2 damage to any target.
Until end of turn, whenever a spell you control would be countered, you may discard a card instead.

Nitrogen Burst is pretty cute (to borrow a phrase from one of my coworkers) - it'll buy you a turn against Storm or a weenie deck, at the bare minimum. I like it. 9/10



I feel Sever Reality cut through the mana-flesh of my temporary body. I run a quick scan of all the worldlines leading away from this moment, and I see myself blinking out of them one by one. I check for other Kirinos, other lives...

My urge to live vanishes. A strange peace comes over me. I just need a little more time...

"I hope you enjoy the wine, Arina - it's from my family's last pressing. Thank you for everything."

One Last Second -
Instant -
Exile target permanent you control. Return it to the battlefield at the beginning of the next end step. Take an additional turn after this one. At the beginning of that turn's end step, you lose the game.

Sever Reality is a suitably epic way to die. It's also suitably hard to stop. Vorthos demands that I give this a 10/10, and I'm inclined to agree.

Canonically, Kirino Oblay is now dead. Each of the following responses take place during the "extra turn" of her last second.





At that moment, Aiden notices me. I give him a sad smile - he didn't take my advice. A shame, but probably for the best.

"Aiden, you're a better man than anyone here deserves. If you weren't a planeswalker, you wouldn't be here."

I turn back to Karina, and I laugh. Lightly. Tiredly.

"You know, Karina, I sometimes forget how young you actually are. My current body is 29. I, personally, am well over a thousand years old. My Spark carries my memories - don't ask how. I don't know."

At that moment, I feel the death of my core. I don't have much longer.

"The reason I wanted you to kill me is because you are the only non-planeswalker here that I could see taking my Spark. The spell Mrs. Nisita hit me with... it should clean my Spark of most, if not all of my memories."

I stumble slightly.

As for the rest of them... I need someone with a strong will to hold on to a part of it. And you, little one, have managed to practically fight yourself free.

I try to hide my pride, but a little of it leaks. If things had gone differently... Aiden's eyes might be tricking him, but something in the way I stand reminds him of Melody around Rose - which is nonsense, of course. What kind of love could a monster like me have in her?

When I die, you'd just need to reach out and take it. Please.

Then I slump to the ground.

For Cajun:

The Life of Kirino Oblay -
Enchantment - Saga
(As this Saga enters and after your draw step, add a lore counter. Sacrifice after III.)
I - Tap target permanent, then deal 2 damage to any target.
II - Draw a card. You may remove a lore counter from a Saga you control.
III - Each player returns all permanents they control to their hand. Then they discard their hands and draw 7 cards.

Destiny Bond is, as the kids say these days, pretty dope. I have a feeling like it's a bit undercosted, but this is the kind of effect that's a bit weird to cost. A nice 9/10 for the Blood Samurai Lady and her Lovely-Hatted Charge.

For Gurfafflekins:

Peaceful Means -
Enchantment - Aura
Enchant creature
Whenever enchanted creature would deal combat damage to a player, prevent that damage. If you do, each player draws a card.
Peace only begets peace.

Great War Veteran's flavor makes me feel a bit sad. That being said, he's also a bomb for a soldier deck - if your opponent isn't on top of things, it'll let you run away with the game. A 10/10, right there.



Aylin feels more than sees Kirino crumple from Sever Reality. She died without Aylin even doing anything relevant. Predictably, the voice comes back, mocking...

Then my voice joins in - it sounds impossibly old and tired. The mockingly vicious voice cuts out suddenly.

"I'll be dead by the time you get hear this, but my Spark will still be there. At least, most of it. If you want to do something... go over there and take it (or, at least, what's left). Otherwise, it will move on to some other young woman elsewhere, and I'll be back. There's a risk - if you aren't strong enough, my memories will overwhelm you. But I think you can deal with it."

A light chuckle.

"After all, little kitten, you've gotten good at not taking my bait."

A sparkly mist fills the battlefield, marking the places where my collapsing soul is rapidly fading from the local mana. Aylin can see a small knot of it over Reyhsia - no one else seems to have noticed.

"Goodbye, Aylin. Please remember that loneliness isn't strength."

Then silence, and nothing more.

Reputation for Honesty
Conspiracy -
(Start the game with this conspiracy face up in the command zone.)
Play with your hand and the top card of your library revealed.
Whenever you would draw one or more cards, you may put the top card of your library into your graveyard.
"The council hopes that you can handle the duplicity of your fellows."

(I'm treating Desperate Beg like a gift.)

Desperate Beg seems like a pretty standard Red draw-spell. Can't complain about it, really. 8/10

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This is it. I'm dying. And unlike all the other times I've died, I'm not coming back from this one. No more reincarnations. No more dead planes. No more Kirino Oblay.

If I had a mouth, I would smile.

I feel a light touch on my shoulder, and look up. A slight young woman is there, dressed in the fashions of old Agahia.

"Why are you here, sweetheart? You never existed."
"Neither did you, mother. Neither did you."

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And with that, Kirino Oblay is gone. I'll figure out my reincarnation in a bit - right now, I need a nap. Dealing with this many simultaneous attackers is really hard - each of these big response posts takes me something like two hours to put together.