<BB> Cajun's Battle Board [Cygari of the Thousand Steps]

Huh. I wonder if "Prototype zero" refers to Zero. She did refer to herself as Experiment Zero when we met. If this little drone is searching for Zero, perhaps it is time to go find her. She may know more anyways. Packing up her tools, Neeyo sets off to find Zero with the drone under her arm, companion trailing behind with a bag full of tools in case of necessary repairs and such. 

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Restore Operation
Sorcery
Put target artifact card from a graveyard onto the battlefield under your control. If that artifact is not a creature, it becomes a creature with power and toughness each equal to its mana value. 

Broken Prototype: Seems decent enough. Seems like a lot going on, but not very much on further examination. I do worry about giving colorless "modal" Inspiration with split cost at uncommon. Might affect limited? 8/10.

Neeyo jumped at Zero shouting, figuring she was going to have to wait as it seemed Zero was preoccupied with... Is that Atlani? Not enough people here, especially if the storeowner found me so easily. "Sorry to interrupt anything. As for this," she says, shaking the drone a bit under her arm. "This was something given to me to repair. I figure, since it was crying out for what I assume is you, you might know a bit about how it ticks. If nothing else, it seems you know it or where it comes from?" Neeyo adds the last part, hoping to observe the reaction, or at least signs of definite familiarity. 

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Construct Subassembly
Artifact
: Add .
Whenever a nontoken artifact enters the battlefield under your control, if ~ is untapped, you may look at the top card of your library. If its an artifact card, you may reveal it and put it into your hand. 

Sonic Emitter: I like it in theory. Not exactly sure what "that creature" refers to, as both subjects in mind are creatures. Given that it returns your creature, I could see staying at 2, but if it is intended to refer to the opposing creature, I do think it should be 3 or come with a mana payment per activation. 7/10.
(upon further examination, with your explanation of its use, its clear its intended to be bouncing the enemy creature, but thats still not clear on the card itself imho)

Right Where I Want You: 10/10. I love buffs that offer versatility like this.

"If I may: The drones said you were "missing." Is it right to assume you are intentionally not returning?"

Rat Out 
Sorcery 
Target opponent reveals their hand. You choose a nonland card from it. That player discards that card.
Destroy target permanent that player controls that shares a name with the chosen card.

Explosive Decompression

"Well, if its screaming of somewhere Wormwood knows about, I have some questions as well. Let us be off."

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Explosive Decompression: I love the idea. Still might be a bit pushed for an uncommon, but it is sorcery speed, so that alleviates most of my fears. 8/10

cajun

Zero finds a sword in her path, lying in its sheath on the ground. She may recognize it as Atlani's sword. Both the sheath and the handle are ornately decorated, in a style reminiscent of multiple planes. Some parts are gilded, others shimmering in the winter-morning sun. 

Upon noticing this sword, she hears a new voice in her head.

"Hello. I believe we may be able to help each other."

Selem, Bewitching Blade 
Legendary Planeswalker - Selem Equipment 
Equip 
: Scry 1, then reveal the top card of your library. Equipped creature gets +1/+X until the beginning of your next turn, where X is the revealed card's mana value.
: Untap equipped creature.
: Attach ~ to target creature you don't control. You control that creature as long as ~ is attached to it.

Watching from a nearby thicket, the faint traces of life around her in frozen barren trees and in conifers, Lettie has to contain her laughter, both the nervous and excited. There's no fixing one such as Zero., but the scavenger is targeting her legs before anything else; it seems to have that presence of mind. Lettie sweeps aside snow until she finds the barest trace of green, stuffs as much dried mint in her mouth as she can chew, and with a touch, infects the cold ground with new life, which will seek to form at points of sudden pressure, hopefully beneath Zero's footsteps rather than the scavenger's wheels. On account of the season, it takes a moment for the earth's new beating heart to thaw, but soon, Zero might feel a stronger presence of life beneath her, before masses of worms begin to tear themselves out of the ground to wrap around her legs, and thin the very earth upon which she stands. Lettie hopes the scavenger will take the opportunity presented.

//Zero might recognize the formation of worms-that-walk from earth, though the shift in the ground is far less drastic this time since it's being done as more worms are being summoned, rather than the gradual creation of a sinkhole.

The-Worm-That-Laughs
Creature — Worm Horror
Each opponent's maximum hand size is reduced by The-Worm-That-Laughs's power.
At the beginning of your upkeep, put a +1/+1 counter on The-Worm-That-Laughs.
1/1

Mistaken Identity: 10/10 I think this would be a fun card to have in a sacrifice deck where you don't really care about accidentally killing your own things.

The voice waits for a beat, then continues:

Well, it seems that whoever you've confused me with is not present. I am Selem. I am the blade.

Staff of Obfuscation 
Artifact - Equipment 
Living Weapon, Ward 
Equipped creature gets +1/+1 and gains ward .
Equip 

Jittering Execution: 9/10. Certain combinations feel too expensive, but the combinations that I see myself using are good (last two; all three)

My aims are simple: to be wielded, to slay, and to not be slain. I have reason to believe you can succeed in areas where my previous wielder had failed. Though while I do see your strength, I admit I know little else about you. What is it that I would have been encouraging?

Duskmantle Blade 
Artifact - Equipment 
Equipped creature gets +1/+0 and can't be blocked by creatures with power 4 or greater.
Whenever equipped creature deals damage to a player, that player mills 2.
Equip 

The roots are not particularly fast, and Zero can easily cut them down before they make contact with her, even with her delayed response. The severed sections fall to the ground, where they crumble to ash, and the fumes that once trailed leach into the ground, somewhat faded.

Lettie, meanwhile, is silently fuming at Four's disappearance. That useless scrap! What happened to fixing? She was just standing there! With her temper getting the better of her, and Zero still in the same spot, Lettie starts attacking Zero from the sides, before trying to "pull" the roots behind Zero at a completely blind angle; most of them wouldn't hit Zero if she stayed stock still—most.

Once the roots immediately surrounding Zero are exhausted, Lettie has a brief moment of clarity. Atlani mentioned a tendency to teleport short distances. From how it faced the roots, Zero's opponent might be looking for me right now. Lettie considers changing her position, but notes that she'd have to stop channeling her harvest spell to do so. It's just as well; I won't be able to harm Zero unless she's occupied with another opponent. She does seem to have difficulty reacting to these however. Lettie terminates her spell with a final burst of animation, which forces every single transmuted root in the wider area through the surface at a straight angle toward Zero. Of course, most would not be long enough to reach her, and without the spell they would no longer be capable of absorbing anything, but they could still impede her movement and distract her calculations with the residual miasma radiating off them.



Assuming that All Out Attack had laughing worm as one of its targets, leaving vice up. This is also a lot of potential face damage piling up. For now though, we'll make up our lacking board presence with another discard payoff.

Lettie arrives to find Zero entangled by roots, worms, and the other machine; it had been doing something with the base of Zero's skull for the past few moments. But at last: Zero is immobile. Lettie pulls out a corrosive vial and prepares to transmute it for a higher pressure. Then, it briefly occurs to her that Zero could be fixed right this moment; that she could return to Spark Labs as the angel that she was once meant to be. No, that's only what her creator and this creature would like her to believe. But the injustice lies in the nature of her creation, and enduring existence. Five sparks are still trapped, and will always stain her life's experience, whether by presence or history; the same is true of her failures, and the failure that she represents for her creator. In truth, she should have never been created at all. This is justice—and it will be rest. Lettie prepares to throw the vial, now close to cracking open from the bank of vapors trapped within.

All because no one tried to fix it. I can't let this happen again because I was scared.

This is fixing it. She is better dead than forced to live with such injustice.

Lettie's hands shake.

I didn't have a choice, and I don't think Zero did, either.

Do it, you faltering weakling. This is the exact responsibility that you had run from, and your cowardice is why you must now bear this curse. The best helpless wretches such as we can do is destroy ourselves and each other. Perhaps then, one day, the world can be free from us.

What about you?