Magic Enemy George

_{More cowbell}

...Shut up! I do what I want!

I like the idea of cleave. You pay a cost, and carve parts of the text away to get a different result, and in this case, a different card. The name wouldn't leave my head while I was thinking about the prompt, and I decided that cleave was my way of making it work.

If you pay the normal cost, you get (Don't) Fear the Reaper, which has an ETB, but that's it. It just sits there afterward, doing nothing. Pay the cleave cost, and you get Fear the Reaper, which is a constant menace and intimidate to all your creatures from then on.

Now the wording is wonky, I know, but it's the only way I could see to make the effect I wanted to happen work with the way Magic cards are written. Saying something gains and has a keyword is redundant, but it wouldn't have made sense if I said that creatures have a keyword until end of turn, but not that they got it in the first place. You don't write 'have' when you do an ETB, but you do on an anthem. So, it just had to be that way.

Art was a bugger to find though. Eventually found this ominous piece, which fitted what I wanted very well.

This was always going to be a land. It couldn't not.

Originally I was thinking some kind of 'horror film' cabin, a little 'ol murder house, but in the end I was browsing for art and came across this piece. The whole design fell into place the moment I saw it. Phasing made sense as a way to keep something safe, and now the land is Snow. Simple!

I'm a Doctor Who fan, have been all my life. I don't like Universes Beyond at all, but it's here and I have to deal with it. So, we just had some Doctor Who cards, and this moment (which I dislike, because the Doctor is not Jesus Christ) wasn't represented in a card. So, here it is.

I had to make an effect that made either a player or creature not do harm, but not harm it either, and it couldn't be stopped. I decided on creature, since now there are creature cards of The Master, it should be able to be used on them. Add 3 life, because I felt that adding a little Healing Salve on top would be just dandy. I then realised I'd made a healing-salve-but-better, which is fine because we should always dunk on Healing Salve because it's shit and the fellow cards of it's cycle are just so much better than it.

Also I recreated the Doctor Who set symbol, as there wasn't a good source of it for the common rarity. I think I did a good job!

Yes, quarrel, meaning a crossbow bolt! Because somehow I thought of that before, I dunno, an argument.

There have been cards of projectiles before, and I continued their trend of doing -X/-X effects, and debilitating effects. I thought of the name of the card quickly, then I went to thinking how that could be reflected in the game in addition to the minus counters.

It took an embarassingly long time for me to remember there's a thing referred to as 'bleed effects' in Magic, where a player loses a 1 life to a repeatable effect.