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

Sevid sneers at the ruined monument. "What happened here?" she growled. The locking spell still seemed to be in place. "Seems we've got another cartographer. Guess they'll have to learn why I'm the one with the Atlas."

Backlash Trap
Instant - Trap
If a permanent you control was targetted by a spell an opponent controlled this turn, you may pay rather than this spell's mana cost.
Target spell loses all abilities and gains "This spell deals 3 damage to you."

// Sevid takes the Atlas to the monument to investigate

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Scramble the Signals - as a one-turn, prob fine at one or a cantrip. 8/10

Ridicule: I was gonna say that as an instant it might be undercosted but then I actually read the type XD. 9/10.

(regarding Grim Manifestation, yeah, I pretty much overestimated the graveyard removal part when I gave it a double color saturation XD)

"The real fight? The real fight! I bet that's what you told yourself when you dropped a mountain on poor Oblay, wasn't it? Or when you nearly killed Reyhsia for telling you you weren't an orphan? Maybe when your personal beef with a demon killed Sunspear and got children caught in the crossfire? Or maybe just now, when you cratered that bakery? Was all that in service to 'the real fight?'"
Aylin's face contorts into its usual grimace.
"Poor Oblay? Poor Oblay?!?! You're right, I shouldn't have thrown a mountain on her, I should have let her use her magic to take over the entire Arena and destroy us all. Aiden, on the other hand, died by his own choices, I never told him to come help me, he made a choice and payed the price! And the demon had a beef with me, not the other way around, but hey, if you were so mad at the consequences of me facing the demon, why was he hiding in the statues you built?! The 7CI guy and me fought him together, that was the real fight, we actually did something, rather than just hide behind a bakery and attack people from a distance while playing dumb. You consider yourself someone who fights the real fight? Great, then, prove it right now!"
A circle of stones surrounds both women and shoots upward, trapping them both in a cone made out of stone. The figure immediately collapses, causing rocks to fall onto both of them with enough momentum to break more than a few bones.

Granite Volley 
Instant
As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a land.
~ deals 3 damage to any target. If the sacrifice land was nonbasic, damage dealt this way can't be prevented.

Call for the aid of Survivor's Encampment

Sevid's eyes go wide as the rocks fall. The Atlas couldn't move those. The map floats as one hand snaps to her position and another to a lonely corner of the Arena. Aylin may feel the rumblings as a column of lead rolls into position beneath the ground. Stone coated in shining metal pulls itself from the ground over the elf and wards off the falling rocks.

Platinum Protection
Instant
Your life total can't change this turn.

Any goodwill that was still left on the elf's face has vanished. One finger rests on the map as she sneers at Aylin.

"I didn't hide any demons anywhere. I told you. I'm just a humble map witch."

"I just have a very good map."

// Sevid's finger slides up the map, ramming an angled pillar of lead into Aylin at a ridiculous speed

Bunny Buster
Instant
Return target spell or permanent to its owner's hand. Bunny Buster deals damage to that player equal to that spell or permanent's converted mana cost.
"They've got a giant indestructible rabbit!" Lucien said incredulously.
"Not for long they don't." Sevid grinned.

(aiming at the "Aylin planeswalker" not the spell)

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upgrade to Shard Volley, seems a pretty fun way to do it tho. 9/10

Sevid's eyes remain glued to a cartographer's step as she makes her way to the memorial, looking for any unusual people between her and the monument.

She doesn't find anyone, and stranger still, the monument is unharmed. She looks around for someone, anyone, but she's alone. She looks back to the Atlas. Sunspear Memorial is back to normal. Before she can question it, she sees another ruined area, and another, and another. All of them surrounded by the faint glow of the lock spell. Including...

They were probably all fine as well, she assured herself. Someone was playing tricks on my eyes.

The faintest whiff of smoke passes by her nose. The bakery. She ran for it, her hand guiding a river on a more noble path for the minute.

Flames ate away at the building. The Step confirmed the building was clear. The maps should survive, but after Aylin and this, it might finally be time to remodel. With a flick of her wrist, the riverbed catapulted its contents at the burning building.

Redirected River
Land
, Pay 1 life: Add .
, , Sacrifice Redirected River: Counter target spell that targets a permanent you control.

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Burn it Down - think this quite more expensive than it needs to be, is easily 1R without the LD for example. think a lower cost or bigger burn'd serve this well. 7/10
(re: trap- ye the the weird wording was just to double down on the backfire flavor)

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Sevid runs up to a pale, blonde woman who seemed to have been calmly watching the blaze. "Hey! Did you see what happened? Or who did this?"

The other woman stares off into space for a few seconds, before simply answering, "No."

Sevid's eyes narrow. "Then what are you doing here?"

"I just wanted one of missus Manji's muffins, but seems you've got your hands a bit full for now. It was nice meeting you though."

"What did you call me?" she growls back.

"Ah, did it not work out for you two? Shame. Well, I've got places to be, bridges to burn, you know the drill." Before Sevid can object, a freezing wind blows past her, and the woman disappears with it.

cajun

The river puts out the fire.  People seem unharmed - a couple are burned, a couple passed out from the smoke.  They'll recover.

A voice distorts the wind around Sevid after the stranger vanishes, sounding suspiciously like her:

Reinforce what you will, missus Manji.  Turn the land to steel.  Make it indestructible.

But creatures tend to be much less reinforcable.

Redirected River: Hmmmmmmm.  A counterspell on a land.  Even if it's just Turn Aside, land abuse is so easily done, but less so in blue... 8/10.

This one's interesting - essentially it's saying historic creatures, but doesn't bear the baggage of Sagas (which probably shouldn't have been included in the umbrella of historic, since it would make it so much easier to use the term in future sets without having to bring Sagas along).  With this, my Keybearer Servitor, Skullclamp, and a mana rock, you can draw as much of your deck as you want.  Aside from that, I can see this one being pretty difficult to break.  The cost looks good as well - I like it overall.  9/10

"I was informed that New Phyrexia is ruled by five Praetors, each one aligned with a different color of mana.  Each rules a different portion of the plane, and as I have come to understand it, there may be some conflict between them due to uncertainty over who holds true authority over the plane.  The Praetor who wields black mana is, apparently, quite ambitious and has been making moves to try and solidify a power base there."  I withdraw the sketch that Rolt provided me, and show it to Rehysia.  "The only one of the five that they were able to name is the Praetor who wields red mana, known as Urabrask - this is a sketch of him, though I cannot speak with certainty to its accuracy I am assured that it at least was accurate in the past, and should be relatively close to his current appearance.  Urabrask's domain includes the furnaces of New Phyrexia...  I would assume this would give him significant leverage over the other Praetors."

Visage of the Praetors
Artifact
:  Add .
, Sacrifice an artifact or creature: Add X mana in any combination of colors, where X is the sacrificed permanent's mana cost.

cajun — Tactical NOPE: Certainly a versatile answer, and fairly costed; but I'm a bit leery of the onboard counterspell. 9/10

"Right—but the mana runs out before the aether does; the transformer keeps it supplied with mana long enough for the pocket-plane to run out of aether and dissolve back into the Eternities, or wherever it comes from."
Aimi winces at the Skaloran saying. "Believe me, I'd rather be working on anything but more bigger guns. But sometimes, nothing else you could to to help people matters more than protecting them, and the HELLNOPE gives us a way to strike at the nightmares without hurting any of the people... well, except for Volarians and other aetherborn, and we're already helping them evacuate. Thank you for your help, Pidge. Oh, and if you ever get tired of courier work, give us a call—my workshops always have room for someone with your ingenuity and integrity."

The day before Karina leaves for Entela...

Shortly after Hannah leaves to work on the tunnel some more, Pidge bounces up to me.

"Hey kid, gotcha stuff here," she whispers, pulling out a box. I peek inside to the fabrics and needles and grin.

"Thanks, Pidge," I whisper back. "I was going to do this today but-" "Nah, no worries kid, I getcha," she smiles back.

"Also have a message from an R?" she says as I pack away the box. "Normally that's short for Reyhs but this wasn't Reyhs, but said you'd know her. Real tall lady with too many arms ringa bell?"

"Rudara? Huh. What does she say?"

"Your aid was appreciated. You have my eye." She frowns a bit. "You're not getting into more trouble now are ya?"

"I don't think so? But I'll keep a better eye out, I guess." I pay Pidge for her package and message, and she portals away with a slight salute.

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Some time after Karina returns from Entela...

"Hey, kid with the transceiver, over here!" I hear a shout. I turn to a stranger in a pretty blue- with a transceiver in her hand running towards me. "So glad I found you, thought I'd have to head back home. My transceiver got pretty banged up in a fight earlier. I think I've got it mostly repaired, but think the date's still wrong, can you double check me?"

She holds her transceiver with the name Vaisa Iglae, Researcher across the top. I check her time with my own. "Looks like you've got the days right, but the year is broken. It's 381 VY, not 367... er RVY, because we're not on Volaria, right?"

"Right," she smiles. "Well, thanks for the help, I've got..." she runs her hands over her dre-pockets and somehow pulls out a few ryla. "For your troubles," she smiles as she drops them in my hand.

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Karina has gained access to her Timewalk spell
Karina has spent 100 Valor and unlocked Phasing (which the inspector will be cribbing soon)

cajun

Entelan Refuge: I don't like giving dual lands basic land types unless they encourage running actual basics; fetchlands don't need to be any more broken than they already are. The tap condition works here, and I could potentially see a cycle of these in an artifact-heavy set. 8/10.


"You're most welcome, Karina." The sphere leans slightly further forward. "And no, I suspect this is a very poor time to be alarmed. Fear is a primitive emotion that leads to rash decisions. And I don't know about you, but the last time I acted rashly a whole lot of people who were counting on me died."

The drone taps one leg against the ground. "As to the spirit's reasoning, it claims you have thwarted its efforts using stolen magic that lets you manipulate spacetime. You wouldn't happen to know why it thinks that, do you?"


Impulse Modulator 
Artifact
You can't lose control of permanents.
"Take a deep breath and think about what you're doing. Then obey."

"Really?" the elf said with a hint of surprise. What is your game, woman? "I didn't know I was so well known! I've just been doing my best as a little map witch."

"I think I can help you with your nightmare problem, come in, come in," she said, waving towards the glass case at the center of the room. A faint blue enchantment rest over the case, resisting any pull of Lochana's magic might try to take. "I was in the area when Pidge and Reyhsia took down that first one, and I've been following the others si-good. Night." she swore as she turned to the Atlas.

Black smudges littered the map of the Arena, with more boiling up into place as more holes opened across the Arena. Where the names should be written was simply a black streak, although the growing number of smudges was making it harder to tell. "Oh... oh no... that's... that's no good," she breathed, her eyes wide. "Okay. Okay. Um. I don't know about the origin, but I did map one, if that helps?" she twists her hand, causing the map in the case to gently unfold. "Magresi."

// Ink traces along the page to draw the unstable shape of Magresi. The title at the top of the pages declares Magresi - Lost

"It seemed to be a whole other plane, but more... conscious than usual. Pidge claimed the thing had a 'evil spark', whatever that means."

Atlas of Nightmares
Artifact
When Atlas of Nightmares enters the battlefield, search your library for any number of lands with different names and put them into your graveyard. Then shuffle your library.
You may play an additional land from your graveyard on each of your turns.

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Lochana, Map Witch - -1 seems a bit pushed, but rest is sonice. 9/10

"Yeah, no kidding. Seventh Circle's been doing what they can for years, but it's not a nut we're expecting to crack any time soon."

"Can you remember anything from Phyrexia that might have led to this? Talks of attacks against other targets? Other Phyrexias?"

Tirvanan Trailmender
Creature - Human Cleric
Lifelink
Whenever a land enters the battlefield under your control, you gain 2 life.
1/2

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Phyrexian Trailblazer - 9/10

You don't have to be afraid anymore. "Okay," I say taking a big breath. "I've hurt people because I was scared too. I should try to not do that again."

"As to the spirit's reasoning, it claims you have thwarted its efforts using stolen magic that lets you manipulate spacetime. You wouldn't happen to know why it thinks that, do you?"

It knows? How?!

"Unless it's just very confused about planeswalking, I don't have any idea why it would think that, no." I say sadly. "I don't think I've even met it before, so I don't know what I might have thwar-ted or even how."

(Don't really know how to handle this as a gift, so have an 'attack' for Karina dodging the whole truth)

Exact Words
Instant
As an additional cost to cast this spell, you may pay . ( can be paid with either or by removing a loyalty counter from a blue planeswalker you control.)
Exile target creature, then return it to the battlefield under its owner's control. If this spell was sparked, return it to the battlefield under your control instead.

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Impulse Modulator - generally this gets worded as Homeward Path nowadays. 8/10

Yea i really just wanted to use the name >.>
WAR I suspect has enough walkers, but ye I see loyalty mana as more of a supplemental mechanic, something to go in like a Commander set or similar where you can fire that more regularly. (and as should have mentioned in that post which might've helped things, using two of my commander's loyalty there)

"Well, it seemed to imply that the magic was stored in your spear." The drone swivels its spherical body a few degrees left and right without moving its legs, as if looking around, then leans in still closer. "You do still have the spear, right?"

"Of course," Karina said, bringing down the spear, not sure which of the eyes to show it to. "It does have some kind of magic in it, but it's sun magic, not time magic. And I don't even know how to use it."

"It did do a big light blast when whatever it was tried to attack me, and that seemed to scare it away."

"Wait... are you sure it's a spirit? It's mean, has illusions, is scared of the sun, it sounds like," she hesitated, "like a vampire? We had those on Festenya, and I always tried to stay away from them because..."

// Karina's voice trails off

The Sun May Set
Enchantment
Each nonland permanent you control has "When this permanent becomes untapped for the first time each turn, untap it."
But we never will.

Acquisition Module - kind of sidegrade to icy manipulator? dunno that it needs rare but k 8/10

Trailmender is a solid card - something I could see in pretty much any set, really.  I do think it could probably have more toughness, though, for the cost - or cost less with the current statblock.  9/10

I shake my head, and reply, "The only battles I ever was aware of were in regards to the invasion of Dominaria...  and I had heard nothing of other incarnations of Phyrexia."  I pause, considering for a moment, before continuing, "The closest I can think of would be Rath - an outpost plane created by the Ineffable to serve as a staging ground and incursion point for the core assault on Dominaria.  But I know little about it, as I was not dispatched there."

World Generator
Artifact
At the beginning of your upkeep, you may search your library for a basic land card and put it onto the battlefield tapped.  If you do, shuffle your library.
At the beginning of each opponent's upkeep, that player may search their library for a land card and put it onto the battlefield tapped.  If they do, you may search your library for a land card and put it onto the battlefield tapped.  Then each player who searched their library this way shuffles their library.

cajun

The Sun May Set: I'm going to assume you meant 'tapped' instead of 'untapped' the first time around. I like the name and the callback (even if it's before my time), as well as the combo potential. It does feel more green or blue than white, which as far as I can tell hasn't been able to untap noncreature permanents since Burst of Energy back in Urza's Legacy, but it's close and the flavor does help here (and colorless untaps artifacts all the time anyway). 10/10.


"Scared of the sun? I didn't get that impression." Thin antennae sprout from the drone's body, waving gently in the direction of the spear. "And I've encountered vampires on at least three separate planes. All were physical beings and none of them had illusion magic, as far as I could tell. I don't know what kind of spirit this is, true, but there are many."

The antennae retract into the drone. "Now, are you sure you don't know why it thinks you can time travel? Because that could be key to understanding what to do about this problem."


Time-Rending Spear
Artifact - Equipment
Equipped creature has double strike.
Whenever equipped creature deals combat damage to a player for the first time each turn, untap all creatures you control. After this phase, there is an additional combat phase.
Equip