<Deprecated> Fleur de Violet's Battle Board

"No problem. Anything to help a good man like yourself." Lumen extends a metal hand to shake Aiden's. 

The Keeper's Touch  
Artifact - Equipment
Equipped creature has lifelink and deathtouch.
If an opponent would gain life, instead put a +1/+1 counter on equipped creature.
Equip

Try racing me. I dare you. 

CARD: Feels like a vampire? Yes. Feel monowhite? Yeah. Great card. One thing: Soldier should be capitalized. 9/10. 

The sadness doesn't show on Lumen's face. It can't - his face is covered. He nods. "I'd hope that's not the case. Stay safe out there." 

CARD: Cool payoff for a soldier deck. No complaints here. 9/10. 

Versatile Gunblade  
Artifact - Equipment
Equipped creature has vigilance.
As long as equipped creature's toughness is greater than its power, it assigns combat damage based on its toughness rather than its power.
Equip
"No one should struggle to use this thing." --Rin Ayakari 

Harsh Prohibition: Was gonna comment on how deranged that card was when I realized you got the raw end of the second ability. Even with the drawback might be a bit too strong to give white this sort of counterspell, but it looks fine and I like the creativity behind it. 8/10.

"Suit yourself, then" says the demon as he turns around to leave "Hopefully you'll be lucky enough to find it sooner rather than later. But I doubt it."

"I think I have more important things to attend to - I must take my leave." 

Lumen has left the arena. Blind Seer gives my next character +1 Skill Point(s).

In the distance, pages flip and blades whir. This is no ordinary book. 

The Book of Stabbing has entered the arena. 

Book of Stabbing 
An ordinary book (citation needed). Hostile. The pages seem to write themselves, but then again, no one's ever gotten close enough to read it.

Colors: (3 points) 
Card Types: Enchantment (1 Point) 
CMC: 6 (6 Points)
Perks: Spellslinger (1 Point)

Books on the ground were like bear traps to Marston. An endless pursuit of knowledge demands an endless amount of time and effort devoted to reading literature. So of course when he encountered the book, he bent down to pick it up, and flipped through its pages. "Let's see what you have to tell me."

Speed Reading
Instant
Look at the top two cards of your library. Put one into your graveyard and the other into your hand. Then repeat this process.

// Karina screams and jumps back as the book planeswalks, then sends a message to 7CI about the occurrence
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As Karina is walking about, she stumbles on another anomalous book. She stops uncertainly, then carefully approaches it to read the title and try to see if it's casting a spell.

Allure
Instant
Affinity for enchantments (This spell costs less for each enchantment you control.)
Gain control of target artifact, enchantment, or planeswalker.

As the pages fought against him, Marston stifled a sigh. "Fine. I'll go slower, but this better mean you're going to give me what I want." And what he wanted was information. Information, knowledge, power, all of that. If the book had that to offer, he would cooperate. After all, none of his actions were aggressive. Yet.

Reject And Reflect
Instant
Return target nonland permanent to its owner's hand. Then, if only was spent to cast Reject and Reflect, each player draws a card.

Fleur
Scholar's Regret — Very weak. Like, this feels worse than Cursed of the Pierced Heart by an appreciable amount. 7/10

ThatDamnPipsqueak

The book ceases moving, allowing Marston to take a closer look at it. There's a section about various defenses against people trying to disarm you; very useful in knife fights, supposedly. 

cajun  

The book does not, in fact, put down the knife. Rather, it's in some sort of standstill with Karina Oblay. 

Responding to both: 

Spiteful Scriptures 
Enchantment - Saga
I: You may discard a card. If you do, target opponent reveals their hand. You choose a nonland card from it. That player discards that card.
II: You may sacrifice a creature. If you do, destroy target creature.
III: You may pay 3 life. If you do, target opponent loses 3 life. 

Spiteful Scriptures can use the bounce spell's universal draw effect to fuel the second ability - I'm accepting Pip's card as a sort of gift. Cajun's card can be (indirectly) addressed by destroying whatever creature the equipment is equipped with or by forcing an equipment discard through the first ability. The scriptures are for Marston, the spite is for Karina  

Spear: Oi that's a potent effect for two mana upfront - I wonder if this needs to cost ? Then again most on-defense effects don't need to be costed too, too high. 8/10. 

Reject and Reflect: I really like how this incentivizes having a flexible mana base with the sidegrade effect - this is just a very solid card overall. 10/10.

(Doer, a Cat who Loves Knives) That book just took a knife out of it and knocked my knife? What. The. Meow. "Ameowzing. Show meow what else you can do." I recover my knife-sword-axe-weapon [I call it TMFWEMITHOAE. Yeah, I know it's too long]. I make it switch forms, becoming a dagger with a big ruby. Then I show it to the book, disregarding whatever it's trying to show to me. Reading is for nerds.

Disregard for Knowledge 
Sorcery 
As an adittional cost to cast ~ discard any number of cards.
~ deals X damage divided as you choose among any number of targets, where X is the number of cards discarded this way?
"Madness? I call it 'unshackled greatness'."

[You can't make me discard cards if there are no cards :3]

A Dubious Discovery: Wow, that's a lot of card disadvantage for someone. But I l like it. It should probably be rare though. 9/10

The book turns to a page about Festenyan knives, though a faint wave of paranoid magic still radiates from the book. It's no longer waving a knife at you, though.

Precedent by Grudge
Enchantment
When CARDNAME enters the battlefield, return target creature or planeswalker card from your graveyard to your hand.
Whenever a creature deals damage to you, you may pay and sacrifice CARDNAME. If you do, destroy that creature.
Interrupting the book of stabbing while it turns to another page is invariably fatal.

(returns whatever you kill with deescalate.)



The book pulls out a silvery knife, eager to spar with the cat.

Blacksilver Mantle
Enchantment - Aura
Enchant creature
Whenever enchanted creature attacks, create a tapped and attacking 2/2 black Wolf creature token with deathtouch. Sacrifice that token at the beginning of your next end step.
Moonsilver purifies. Blacksilver corrupts.

ratings:
Disregard: oh my that's a lot of power - I'd like this more if it only hit creatures or planeswalkers simply because this feels like it can delete someone very much very fast. 7/10
Descalate: i wonder if this might be better at . this is situational enough that this should be okay tho. 8.5/10

pip ill get to you later

I attack, steady. I don't go for the book, but for the kinfe. I don't want to destroy it, but this seems like a good training. I have to improve my reflexes to beat Rustface the next time we meet. Mi weapon, in the shape of a small dagger, clashes with the knife.

Aether Snapper 
Creature - Cat Cleric 
Tokens can't be created and counters can't be put on permanents.
2/2

Blacksilver Mantle: Playing this in turn 2 seems strong, if not broken. Auras are generally bad in Limited, but this can give you huge value when attached to an evasive creature. The tokens can be 1/1? Also, it doesn't interact with my card at all. 6/10, because I lilke the idea.

"Hey! Keep that far from meow paws!" I strike to the knife, but in the last second, I aim for the hand. You are not the only one who knows how to disarm people.

Doer, Solitary Hunter 
Legendary Creature - Cat Warrior 
Haste
~ can’t be blocked except by two or more creatures.
When ~ enters the battlefield, sacrifice each other creature you control. Then, put a +1/+1 counter on ~ for each creature sacrificed this way.ç
Whenever another creature enters the battlefield under your control, sacrifice it, then put two +1/+1 counters on ~.
1/1
Doer doesn't want your "gifts".

Extravagant Mutilation: I like this, seems pretty playable. 8/10

Is not this simple, isn't it? I look at the book, but grab the knife. Your move, thing.

Triumphant Black Cat 
Creature - Cat Warrior 
Whenever a card leaves a graveyard put a +1/+1 counter on ~.
~ has flying and lifelink for as long as it has three or more +1/+1 counters on it.
2/2

Bloody Triumph: Edict with upgrade. I like it. 8/10

The book recoils in agony, and the pages flip freakishly quickly. The section about Festenyan knives disappears - it's not quite an illusion, but it's written in magical ink. The page fades and is replaced with runes. The runes are indecipherable.

Asdkslkdlngkkentkjksanfksdksakdsoonyojospkjoskkdskdlsngkekjtktheakskjflslfkalksldsnkaflsjogsakgnakjgktrksaljtljeitkjeknaktkjektkentkjaksnkskspsrjeknaknskgsotjenkrnkenaingjnosksogsalmflsaflksajgfsajgjsagldtejtniantjowajtoekroekorakngwflnsajgspdkjgspj... the writings go on, and on, and on, and on, and on, and on, and on, and on, and on, and on, and on, and on, and on, and on, and on, and on, and on, and on, and on, and on, and on, and on, and on, and on, and on, and on, and on, and on, and on, and on, and on, and on, and on, and on, and on, and on, and on, and on, and on, and on, and on, and on, and on, and on, and on, and on, and on, and on, and on, and on, and on.

...and on. 

Book of Stabbing has spent 100 Valor to unlock Rarity Upgrader! 

Curse of Echoing Torments  
Enchantment - Aura Curse
Enchant player
CARDNAME enters the battlefield with X torment counters on it.
Whenever enchanted player becomes the target of a spell they don't control, copy that spell X times, where X is the number of torment counters on CARDNAME. Each of those copies target enchanted player. 

X = 2. 

The knife fits in my hand like it did before. Perfect. I inhale out of nonexistent lungs. Thank you, my dear.
Then the knife comes down, and it's horrifyingly real. 

Call for Aid: Sorin's Vengeance 

Wash Out: This is neat as a multi-purpose spell. Pretty cool. 9/10.