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

"Ayup, name's Pidge, of PB&J Delivery. Fastest service in the Verse!"

She looks a bit worried at the figure. That kid finds herself the strangest friends. "And yea, I know of the kid. Actually have a delivery for her on me, so would be happy ta drop off your message as well."

Unfinished Gift
Artifact
When Unfinished Gift enters the battlefield, scry 1.
, Sacrifice Unfinished Gift: Return target creature to its owner's hand.
, Sacrifice Unfinished Gift: Draw a card.
"Don't worry, she'll love it."

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Outland Courier - noice. Think at uncommon this could pull off an attack trigger but this is fine. 9/10

The elf's ears barely twitch as she picks up the tiny noise. "I do," she whispers as the scroll unrolls itself. She passes her hand over the page and quickly glances down and back to the bug as ink rises up:

If you can read this,
what do you want?

Troubleshooting
Enchantment
Whenever an artifact enters the battlefield under your control, you may draw a card, then discard a card.

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Reflexive Subroutine - hm. tiny effect, but the bouncing is nifty. 8/10

Troubleshooting: A one-mana enchantment with this effect seems like it's just begging to be broken, but I can't think of any way to actually do that, which is probably a good sign. 9/10.


The drone cautiously approaches the scroll to get a better view. "<What do I want? Information, mostly. I seek an uncolonized, resource-rich plane to restart my civilization. With all these maps, you must surely have found at least one by now.>"


Data Hoard
Artifact
, : Draw a card.
When you cast a spell, sacrifice ~.

"Perhaps. Perhaps not. Only time will tell, in the end."

With that, the figure tapped her staff on the ground, and her spiritual companion began walking through the field, trailing more wisps as it walked. The figure gave a curt gesture to the courier, before following their guide, away from the field and her 'chance' encounter. 

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Courier's Note: An interesting common, could probably replace itself, but otherwise I like it. 9/10

Excellent aural and reflexes, sufficient visual. 'Uncolonized' suggests nonhostile, at least for now.

// The ink on the sign in the door twists to read Closed.

"Uninhabited planes are not my strongest suit. Generally, people prefer planes where there is already at least some civilization."

"And generally, I prefer to work with people I can actually see. Particularly those making imperial demands."

Constant Observation
Enchantment - Aura Curse
Enchant player
Whenever enchanted player draws a card except the first card that player draws in each of their draw steps, each of that player's opponents may draw a card.
The only thing worse than thinking everyone is watching you is being right.

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Data Hoard - mm. not the biggest fan of the play pattern here, and probably should be at rare, but seems like a fair enough card. 8/10

The figure gives one look back towards the two as she departs, eyeing their exit though the portal, before turning back to the path in front of her. 

Without memory of anything but her name, finding sources of information, power, or other useful things...so far, had been proving fruitful. Perhaps that little girl who had greeted her so shortly after arriving...had been useful after all. 

For better or worse. 

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Portal Device: I'd probably make this more expensive, seeing as  Eerie Interlude is 3 in white, but the sac cost does add up to 5, so maybe it works. Repeatable etb is expensive enough to get a pass. 9/10

cajun
Your torment will begin now, child.
A figure approaches Karina from the distance - who was it?  As it approached, it looked familiar. A soldier's helm, a chest plate, a confident strut, and a spear identical to hers. "Hey, Karina!"

Aiden, Tainted
Legendary Planeswalker - Ominous Aiden
Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt to creatures you control.
: ~ becomes a 4/4 Spirit Soldier creature with indestructible and lifelink until end of turn.
: Target creature gains menace and vigilance until end of turn.

{0, -1, 5}

It feels so good to see Aiden again!  But, wait... isn't he dead?

The spear feels slightly heavier for Karina to carry and remains dull, and courage seems to be lacking.  You can't use to respond to this card.

For a moment, I hold my breath in the excitement. But something is missing. There is no love... there is something... spiteful.
You
"You're not real," I stammer. "You, if you're the hat, go away. You can't take me again!"
were
"I'm not weak anymore. Not alone." I try to lift up the spear, but it feels like something is holding it down.
warned.
// Karina pulls on her goggles to see through any illusions.

Truesight Goggles
Artifact
, : Target creature loses all abilities until end of turn.
"No more lies. Not from me, or from anyone else."

Using Karina's +1 to reset the goggles and bump her to 5 loyalty.

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Aiden, Tainted - ouphe, the first aiden walker is sadness. barely feels like is earning the black here tho, just picking up menace for the second color. 9/10

"I might be the only one here, but I'm never alone." She slides the goggles down to see clearly.

"Reyhsia taught me that. And Hannah taught me not to be scared. Miss Cheyn taught me to never give up. Teagan taught me to fight."

Her teeth grits as she holds the heavier spear forward.

"And you taught me better."

Karina's Defiance
Instant
( can be paid with either or by removing a loyalty counter from a blue planeswalker you control.)
Counter target spell unless its controller pays . If this spell was sparked, counter that spell instead.

Sparking it w/Karina Oblay. She's at 4 loyalty again.

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Totally Isolated - the power level on the modes here is all over the place, particularly the first and third together would probably be overcosted, and the second alone is probably undercosted. 7/10

"Hah, please," she waves away. "Bunch of bureaucrats who spend more time figuring out the morality of their actions than actually getting anything done. I'm guessing you've run into them already?"

Counter-ambush
Instant - Trap
If an opponent attacked you with three or more creatures this turn, you may pay rather than this spell's mana cost.
Create three 1/1 white Soldier creature tokens.
"Gotcha."

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Network Scanner - hmm, narrow but powerful if you can use it. not bad. 9/10

Well, if little intern is helping out, it can't be too bad. And she's helping... now?

"I see. And can little Karina hear me now?"

Sevid, Pyrulean Scout
Legendary Creature - Elf Scout
Whenever Sevid or another creature enters the battlefield, put a +1/+1 counter on a creature you control.
, Remove two +1/+1 counter from among creatures you control: Draw a card.
2/2

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Distributed Identity - The resource conversion is cool, but also a bit dangerous. I don't think this two-card-combos with anything so will give it 9/10, but it is spooky.

Her eyes tear up as he laughs. It isn't real. I should've killed you when I had the chance. It isn't real. "You've got more courage than when We-- I last was in your mind, child." It isn't... the hat?

Her face softens slightly. Who are you?

The imposter charged and she held her ground as Teagan had shown her. But she never had the chance. The dull stone lit up brightly, firing shot after shot at the illusion. With a final laugh, the figure disappears.

You're never alone, kid. "I knew it wasn't you," she whispers back.


She taps behind her ear. "Reyhsia? Something weird's going on..."

Early in the morning on Karina's day off, Arena Station is thrown into chaos. Frode Gulbrandssen runs up to Karina, tossing her a small backpack. "We're going to need one last bit of help before your vacation. We're about to fight the nightmares, and that means it isn't going to be safe for your Entelan friends; you're going to help them get out of here faster—which means you and Hannah will start your vacation a bit early. You're going to be bringing some aether over there, to help them charge their portal. The four of you are going to Volaria, and it's important that none of you come back until tomorrow, all right? Make sure to tell Seiva that. If you get stranded or separated from them, or if Linelans show up and try to question or arrest you, planeswalk to Kinshala and call us and we'll pick you up there; the pack's got enough supplies to last you until then. The aether canister's waiting in the entrance; it's got a hover gadget so it shouldn't be heavy, you just need to guide it."

Karina, First Contact
Legendary Planeswalker — Karina
Karina, First Contact enters the battlefield with an additional loyalty counter for each color of mana spent to cast her.
: Each player draws two cards, then discards a card.
: For each player, you may cast an instant or sorcery card from that player's graveyard and may spend mana as though it were mana of any color to cast that card. Exile those cards if they would be put into a graveyard this turn.


Casting her for so she can survive using the -4 to cast a Whir of Invention from Hannah's graveyard to tutor up a Planar Bridge.

cajun — Eager Assistance: I am deeply concerned by how much mana this makes, but I suppose there's not many decks that would want both planeswalkers and rituals. Oddly, I suspect the only format this is potentially playable in is Vintage where it feeds off Dack Fayden. 9/10

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A short, dark-haired woman waves at Pidge, her other hand holding a device that vaguely resembles a NOPE. "You're Pidge, right? I'm Aimi, I run R&D for the Seventh Circle, and I was hoping you could give our mods to your tech a once-over. We weren't able to figure out your power supply in time, and we needed to boost it to speed the decay rate of the rifts, so we replaced it with our own electro-arcane transformers. Downside is it needs a truly impractical amount of electricity, but fortunately we've got a reactor here we can hardwire them to. The second issue was precision; we want to be interdicting small targets from range and not hitting anything around them—we're using them in combination with some pretty sensitive aethertech. Producing a focused beam of nullification wasn't too hard, but we needed a way to mark targets and have it automatically track to them; optical targeting seemed like the best bet." She tosses the gadget to Pidge and winks. "So, what do you think of the High-Energy Laser-Linked Nullifier of Planar Energy?"

7CI Research and Development
Legendary Planeswalker — Division
Whenever one or more artifacts enter the battlefield, put a loyalty counter on each Division you control.
: Draw a card. Each player may pay 2 life. Each player who does draws a card.
: Untap each artifact, creature, and land you control. They gain "T: Add CC" until end of turn.
: You get an emblem with "Whenever you cast a spell, if it's an instant or sorcery, copy it and you may choose new targets for the copy. Otherwise, create a token that's a copy of it."


And calling aid for (masterpiece) Static Orb!