<BB> CyberChronometer Battle Board [Wind-Whispering Raz]

Neottolemo — In The Details: Weird sideboard tech for the mirror match; it feels more cute than good design. 8/10
(Against Rettai, that necessarily finds you a planeswalker; so an answer to a planeswalker answers In The Details...)

Hours later, Rettai reads Hyle's letter. "Hallucinations? That's not good. A side effect of Kirino's meddling, maybe. I'll get Tim to have a look at her..."
At the same time, in another place...
"Alright Arena. I think we got off on the wrong foot last time. What do you say, should we give it another try?"

Karina Liberated
Legendary Planeswalker — Karina
: Each player draws a card, then discards a card.
: Put a loyalty counter on target planeswalker. Draw a card unless you control that planeswalker.
: Restart the game. At the beginning of your first upkeep, you may put any number of planeswalker cards from your hand onto the battlefield.


(... but I'll choose to interpret it as a gift and buff whatever planeswalker you tutored a copy of instead.)

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korakhos — Negotiation: Neat fairly-costed EDH card. Seems annoying to play against and fun to play. 9/10

"Well, you've come to the right place—information is my business. Why don't you let me know what you're looking for and we can work out a fair price that we'll both be happy with?" Rettai's voice is a bit louder than before, the difference barely noticeable, and perhaps a touch more even, more rhythmic, in its cadence—changes that are surely irrelevant, or at most herald increased confidence now that the conversation has moved into his domain.

Rettai, Lore Dealer
Legendary Planeswalker — Rettai
: Draw a card, then each player draws a card.
: Exile up to two target permanents, then return them to the battlefield under their owner's control.
: Draw cards equal to the greatest number of cards in a player's hand. You have no maximum hand size until your next turn.

Aiden walks up to the building, standing outside the doors.  "Well, here I am Karina.  You told me I should visit this place... let's hope it goes well." he said, taking a deep breath and walking inside.  He was missing his helm, but still had on his breastplate and he had his spear strapped to his back with a seemingly makeshift belt out of dirty rope.  After everything, he looked a little worse for wear.  He walks up to someone, the first person he sees, not really sure how this place worked.  "Hi, excuse me?  I'm looking for someone called the 'Director'?"

Tanys, Sunspear Captain
Legendary Creature - Human Soldier
When ~ enters the battlefield, create two 1/1 white soldier creature tokens.
Other soldiers you control have vigilance.
Sacrifice ~: Creatures you control gain indestructible and lifelink until end of turn.
"I'm hard on those kids, but I would do anything for them.  They're everything to me, and to this kingdom."
3/3

7CI Internal Memo — Do Not Distribute
FROM: Rettai, Chief of Recruitment and Training
TO: Uthern, Station Chief of Valdheim
SUBJECT: Training Exercise

I'm sending a few students your way on a training exercise, cooperating with a larger group of planeswalkers to investigate a temporal anomaly of some sort. They should be able to handle themselves just fine, but I'd appreciate it if you could keep an eye on them regardless.

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Kauriga, Kunal, and Severin have left the Arena. The three of them, and possibly Uthern, are the only 7CI agents who will be participating in The Book.

(Guest System)

While Karina is keeping Hannah company, something finds its way into the 7CI. Nothing in the facility has been touched, except for Karina's room, which seems to have been violently searched. No one seems to have seen anyone near the room all day.

When asked, Karina nervously insists nothing has been taken from her belongings.

Mysterious Visit
Instant
Look at target player’s hand. You may choose a card from it. If you do, that player reveals that card, puts it on the bottom of their library, then draws a card.
Draw a card.

Kauriga: Yup, I actually enjoy a artifact archetype and this card is a cool example. 9/10.

You don't have to worry about this artifact at all, it belongs to a set I have no interest in completing, and the remaining two are far more dangerous, so you should really be focusing on those... No, all I need this artifact for is to return a plane to its former glory... and obtaining it will make that task easier" he says "Let me make you a final offer: if you know me, you probably know what I do to worlds. Right now, over a hundred worlds are swarming with my minions, minions who are bound to me and which I can kill with a mere snap of my fingers..." he says, raising his hand and making the gesture "Give me Aylin's weakness, that's all I ask... One weakness, and more than a hundred worlds are set free!"

Merciless Massacre
Sorcery
Each player chooses a creature type, then sacrifices each creature they control of a type chosen this way.
When the demon wished it, countless creatures were wiped out of existence in the blink of an eye.

korakhos — Merciless Massacre: This is a supremely elegant mirror of Harsh Mercy. 10/10

"You know, you've misjudged Division Chief Blackletter—indeed, the problem's precisely opposite what you stated. If nobody wanted her to be the Director, there'd be nothing to worry about. No, the truth is you have no idea who she is or why she's important beyond the details you pulled from my mind. Quite impressive, that—not many people are skilled enough to read me. And similarly, I had no intention of actually dealing with you—I just wanted to buy time for my agents." At that moment, the device Kauriga had carefully lowered into place behind him flickers on, snapping a Planar Interdiction Field into place around Malextros.
"Feel that? You're isolated from the Blind Eternities now. You can't planeswalk away. You can't draw on mana from anywhere but here. Oh, and by the way? Thanks for showing us the bindings to your armies across the multiverse—Operations is tracing those right now. And if you want to be able to leave here ever again, you're going to answer my questions. Now, what is this artifact and why do you want it?"

Varrs, Interdiction Engineer
Legendary Planeswalker — Varrs
: Until your next turn, if a nonland permanent would enter the battlefield and it wasn't cast, exile that permanent. If no permanents are exiled this way, you gain 2 life at the beginning of your next upkeep.
: Choose a nonland card name, then create an artifact token named Interdiction Field with "Activated abilities of permanents with the chosen name can't be activated."
: Exile target nonland permanent until Varrs, Interdiction Engineer leaves the battlefield.


The Division of Operations will call for aid for Haunting Echoes.

Varrs: correct me if I'm wrong but I'm not entirely sure this responds to my challenge, I'm interpreting you're exiling a card with the last ability and using Haunting Echoes as a punishment to remove my wiped board. I approve of the ::L+1:: and but am a bit wary of the . True, it takes a few turns to set up before nullifying everything your opponent throws at you, but the fact it can do so with no other drawback feels like too much. 5/10.

Malextros's smile disappears as he purses his "lips", then he smiles once more, although with lesser intensity.
"Fine" he says "Have it your way... You're more than free to kill all my minions, if they actually meant anything to me I wouldn't have made you that offer. And have fun during the years it will take you to do so, there's millions of them spread upon the worlds, you could've gotten rid of them in a second, but I guess I have no way of making fools make the right choice, even if I hand it to them on a silver platter."
As he speaks, it is evident that something about the demon feels different. After a few seconds, it is evident: he's slowly fading away, until he's completely disappeared from the inside of his cage. Rettai can suddenly feel him behind him.
"You see, I am no planeswalker, I am far more, so your petty cage has no effect on me. I can only draw mana from this world, is that so? That's fine by me, that's all I need" he says maliciously "Like I said, have fun slaughtering my children, I'm pretty sure it'll be quite a spectacle..."
He vanishes into thin air, but unlike the other times he visited people of the Arena, something's different this time: there is still some dark mist inside the Planar Interdiction Field, apparently he couldn't escape it completely. It might even be possible to analyze the substance in search of a weakness...

Study Specimen 
Creature - Frog Mutant
Whenever ~ becomes the target of a spell or ability you control, put a +1/+1 counter on it.
"We cut one of its legs and it grew back bigger, we blinded it and it developed a new way to see. Today we're setting it on fire, and I can't wait to see what happens!"
-Simic research notes
2/3

(I knew that was the right wording and then didn't put it gdi)

"Hey, Karina." Aiden said, smiling at her, then looking back up to Rettai.  "So, you're this Director I've heard so much about." he said, extending his hand for a hand shake.  "I'm Aiden- I'm sure you know that by now though.  And I have a lot of questions, but I don't really know where to start.  It's Karina who kept bugging me to come here." he said.  He still felt untrustworthy of the large corporation - the whole monarchy idea was hard-wired into him.  "I don't really know why.  Aren't you a place for planeswalkers?"

Vaness, the Ward
Legendary Creature - Angel
Flying
When ~ enters the battlefield, you may search your library for an enchantment with a converted mana cost of 3 or less, reveal it, and put it into your hand.  Shuffle your library.
Whenever you cast an enchantment spell, you may put a +1/+1 counter on target creature you control.
4/5

The Summer Intern Project: (Side note: not a fan of multiple type walkers but it's pretty irrelevant so I'll ignore it whilst judging) +1 seems neat, I like it.  0 is pretty aight but not wonderful, as a 0 should be. -3, I like the idea of "recruiting" the walker into the group by stealing their ideas, and -10 seems very neat, glad you had the preventing damage thing because that ult would probably run dry kinda soon.  Although perma-planeswalkers and creatures seems dangerous, letting this get to 10 is really good anyway - also appreciate the starting loyalty is 4 so casting it with Doubling Season doesn't auto-ult.  9/10.

A few minutes after a massive earthquake shakes the headquarters of 7CI, the Planar Interdiction Field containing Malextros's mist begins to shake violently. The mist takes the shape of an alien-looking creature bearing its fangs. It begins to violently charge against the boundaries that keep it trapped.

Incarnation of Malice 
Instant
Create an X/X black Horror creature token, where X is the total life lost by your opponents this turn.
"You die, I thrive. My power only grows!"
-Malextros

I use Inferno Jet with Call for Aid to create a 6/6.

Aiden asks a few questions of negligible consequence, that don't really matter, then looks around awkwardly.  "Well, I guess that's it, then." he said chuckling.  "Good to meet you Director.  I guess I was more told you might have questions for me.  If you ever want to find me, I have a shack..." he explains how to get to it from where they are.  As he turns to leave, he turns back around.  "Actually, I do have one major question: if she'd like, do you think I could... harbor Karina?" Rettai knew nothing of his dead family or current situation, and he felt like he knew the answer before he even asked it.

Doomed Angel
Creature - Angel
Flying
When ~ dies, create a 3/3 black horror creature token with lifelink.
Though she knew her destiny, she trudged forward - perhaps this time it would change.
3/3

Reyhsia, the Sparkseer: +1 feels fine, revealing with black tutors seems weird but legend clause makes sense.  -1 hand exile is pretty good but it's T4 or T5 at least by then so not a big deal.  -5 seems alright, not particularly powerful.  Like it as a gift receiver. 8/10.

Inside the Planar Interdiction Field, the monster begins to hiss, then shriek. It is fading away...
In a few seconds, neither the monster nor the dark mist that shaped it remain, the Field is completely empty.

Somber Harvest 
Instant
As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature.
You gain X life and draw X cards, where X is the sacrificed creature's power.
"You're still useful to us, just not alive..."

gurfafflekins  — Doomed Angel: I love this flavorwise. Mechanically, it reminds me of the Penumbra cards, and based on those I think you could tune the cost down to safely, although it's also fine as-is. Also, Horror should be capitalized. 9/10

"I'm her mentor, not her father—it's her decision where she lives, not mine. Karina, I'd suggest you take a moment to think this over carefully."
Rettai pulls Aiden aside, then adds in a whisper, "One of my students is interested in chronomancy research. They wanted to try an experiment on how long a man could survive if time was flowing forward in some parts of his body and backward in other parts. I refused, because even I—a half-devil from a plane of devils—thought it would be too cruel a death to subject someone to. If I find out you've hurt Karina in any way, I will inform them that I've changed my mind and found a suitable test subject. Do I make myself clear?"

Timeripper Lyfaen
Legendary Planeswalker — Lyfaen
: Destroy up to one target creature. At the beginning of the next upkeep, its owner returns it from their graveyard to the battlefield.
: Target player puts a card at random from their hand into their library third from the top.
: Target creature gets +X/+X until end of turn. Put X -1/-1 counters on it at the beginning of the next upkeep.


(The kills the original and the flickers away the token, if it's an attack; or the flickers the Angel into the graveyard repeatedly for a swarm of Horrors, if it's a gift.)

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korakhos — Somber Harvest: A Disciple of Bolas etb, but at instant speed and without the 2/1? Seems like a solid core set rare, or for a set with an aristocrats theme. 9/10

7CI Designation Report
AUTHOR: Trainee Agent Enfys
SUBJECT: Malextros
DESIGNATION: Class 4 Threat
After encountering, negotiating with, and partially trapping the entity known as Malextros, we have troubling new conclusions on its capabilities. Contrary to our previous assumptions, Malextros is not a planeswalker; rather, it is capable of conjuring projections formed from black mana on planes it is not physically present on...

Enfys, Determined Analyst
Legendary Planeswalker — Enfys 
: Reveal the top three cards of your library. Put one of those cards into your graveyard and the rest on back top in any order.
: Choose a nonland permanent card name. Return each permanent with the chosen name to its owner's hand.
: Draw cards equal to the number of cards in target opponent's hand.


(Using the ult here, so I can draw cards too.)

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Lady Mapi — Meek-Feather Hawk: Now that's more like it! I thought the 1/2 stats, echoing Pendelhaven's buff, were a particularly nice touch. 10/10

"Will do! We've got a pretty good doctor ourselves, but he's not around just at the moment—if someone gets hurt and we can't get him here fast enough, we'll give you a call. It's a pleasure to meet you, and do come find us if you need help with settling in or anything."

Aiea, Ethereal Emissary
Legendary Planeswalker — Aiea
: Create a 1/1 white Spirit creature token with flying.
: Until your next turn, creatures you control can block an additional creature each combat, and token creatures you control have first strike and vigilance.
: Target creature gets +X/+X until end of turn, where X is the number of creatures you control. When that creature deals combat damage to an opponent this turn, draw X cards.

Enfys, Determined Analyst: At , I think her should just be two cards. Great ultimate for a response, and I like how the bypasses hexproof. 8/10.

"Whoa! This place is so big! It's like Entela, but if it was above ground!"  Hannah was here for a reason but doesn't seem to remember what exactly that was.

Awestruck 
Instant 
As an additional cost to cast Awestruck, tap a creature you control.
Scry 2, then draw a card.