MTG/Dune Brain Rot

Magic the Gathering meets Dune by Frank Herbert. Art has been paid for and cards are not for sale!

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MTG Dune Deck

Final Updated Archidekt of the Landfall Desert Token Magic the Gathering Deck with Dune Alternate Art and Names! [LINK]

Commander Ghired, Mirror of the Wilds (Paul Muad'dib Atreides)

I build this deck with idea of the lore in Dune when Paul Atreides is in the desert of Arrakis before he takes the Water of Life. The deck encapsulates all of the fun elements of landfall triggers, token generators and multipliers, and deserts. If you would like to see the alternate art, you can see it other posts!

Artifacts (6) Amulet of Vigor (Sigil of House Atreides) Arcane Signet (Atreides Ducal Signet) Conduit of Worlds (The Desert Planet, Dune) Horn of Greed (The Water of Life) Idol of Oblivion (Idol of Paulus Atreides) Sol Ring (Spacing Guild's Heighliner)

Creatures (24) Ancient Greenwarden (Thufir Hawat, Mentat) Ashaya, Soul of the Wild (Lady Jessica, Reverend Mother) Baru, Wurmspeaker (Usul, Wormrider) Canyon Jeroba (Muad'dib, Desert Mouse) Courserer of Kruphix (Spice Harvestor) Dune Chanter (Jamis, Tahaddi Challenger) Emeria Angel (Shishakli of Sietch Tabr) Esper Sentinel (Dr. Liet-Kynes) Hazezon, Shaper of Sand (Stilgar, Naib of Sietch Tabr) Jetmir, Nexus of Revels (Paul, Lisan al Gaib) Kona, Rescue Beastie (Gurney Hallack, Balliset Warrior) Lotus Cobra (Lotus Nayha) Maja, Bretagard Protector (Duncan Idaho) Moraug, Fury of Akoum (Feyd-Rautha Harkonnen) Ocelot Pride (The Spacing Guild) Ojer Taq (Paul, Kwisatz Haderach) Temple of Civilsation (Desert of the Kwisatz Haderach) Radha, Heart of Keld (Chani Sihaya Kynes) Rampaging Baloths (Rampaging Salusan Bulls) Soul Warden (Sihaya, Desert Spring Tears) Springheart Nantuko (Fremen Stillsuit) Tireless Provisioner (Shadout Mapes) Tunneling Geopede (Wormsign) Windborn Muse (Holtzman Shield) Worldspine Wurm (Shai-Hulud, Grandfather of the Desert)

Enchantment (17) Annie Joins Up (Alia Atreides Joins Up) Anointed Procession (Tahaddi Challenge) Brave the Sands (The Fremen Sandwalk) Chivalric Alliance (Paul-Muad'Dib's Jihad) Desert Warfare (Lead Them to Paradise) Desert's Hold (Spice Blow) Exploration (Pointing the Way) Felidar Retreat (Castle Caladan) Fires of Yavimaya (Arrakeen Ablaze) Impact Tremors (Fremen Thumper) Land Tax (Spice Tax) Lifegift (Spice Melange) Parallel Lives (Heirs to the Great Houses) Retreat to Emeria (Retreat to Sietch Tabr) Sandwurm Convergence (Bless the Maker and His Water) Shared Animosity (Weirding Way) Warleader's Call (Voice from the Outer World)

Instant (7) Akroma's Will (The Mahdi's Will) Enlightened Tutor (The Bene Gesserit) Entrapment Maneuver (Fedaykin Ambush) Flare of Fortitude (Spice Agony) Heroic Intervention (Channel the Voice) Path to Exile (May Thy Knife Chip and Shatter) Worldly Tutor (Imminent Arrival)

Sorcery (5) Ezuri's Predation (Long Live the Fighters!) Grow from the Ashes (Desert Coriolis Sandstorm) Hour of Promise (Free the Spice) Map the Frontier (Cultivating Desert Power) Wurmcalling (The Call of the Sandworm)

Lands (40) Desert of the Fervent (Desert of Arrakis) Desert of the Indomitable (Desert of Dune) Desert of the True (Desert of Shai-Hulud)

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The Villeneuve Dune(s) can be broadly interpreted as one of the two possible futures Paul sees in the original novel

Spoilers below for Dune Part Two. (And for the original novel, but that's been out since the 60s.)

He had seen two main branchings along the way ahead--in one he confronted an evil old Baron and said: "Hello, Grandfather." The thought of that path and what lay along it sickened him.

The other path held long patches of grey obscurity except for peaks of violence. He had seen a warrior religion there, a fire spreading across the universe with the Atreides green and black banner waving at the head of fanatic legions drunk on spice liquor. Gurney Halleck and a few others of his father's men--a pitiful few--were among them, all marked by the hawk symbol from the shrine of his father's skull.

"I can't go that way," he muttered. "That's what the old witches of your schools really want."

Obviously the Doylist explanation for why there are differences in the new films is that the original book is 60+ years old and has certain elements no longer in cultural vogue that were adapted out or altered to better fit modern sensibilities, and I'm all for that. But I did find it interesting that there is an explicit moment at the end of Part 2 where Paul confronts the Baron, utters the "Hello, Grandfather," line, and kills him.

This isn't necessarily because there is any one choice that Paul makes throughout the course of the two movies that leads here instead of to the jihad. In point of fact, most of the changes that drive him here are caused by choices made in the adaptations of the films.

The causal chain that leads to Paul undertaking the spice agony is his failure to predict the attack on Sietch Tabr, rather than his failure to predict Gurney's attack on Jessica; this is, of course, necessitated by the omission of the Harkonnen scheme in part 1 to impair Thufir's Mentat efficiency and potentially drive a wedge between Leto and Jessica by framing Jessica as the traitor. The final push that causes him to make the decision is, of course, the vision he experiences of an alternate future in which he didn't have to kill Jamis, with Jamis counseling him to climb as high as possible before the hunt so he can see as far as possible. (In other words, he ignores Stilgar's advice of not listening to the djinn.)

Similarly, his killing of the Baron is necessitated by the adaptational choice to keep Alia as a fetus so the audience doesn't have to deal with a two-year-old talking like an adult and killing the Baron, which they probably did because it would have been distracting.

However, I might argue that a Watsonian explanation for the film omitting the two-year time-jump lies specifically with Paul's decision to explicitly disavow the prophecy when Jessica undergoes the spice agony, and to explain to the Fremen that her survival is because of her Bene Gesserit training. He then attempts to secure his position with the Fremen through secular deeds, rather than letting Jessica carve a place for them with the BG prophesy.

This disagreement between the two of them causes her in turn to take a more active approach in cultivating Paul's status as Lisan al-Gaib, which accelerates the timeline of the Fremen being ready to submit to him. In turn, Paul focusing more strongly on guerrilla war against the Harkonnens accelerates the timeline of Feyd-Rautha being put in charge of Arrakis and cracking down hard in the north, leading to the aforementioned crisis point of Sietch Tabr being attacked without Paul's foreknowledge.

Notably, while we do see the shrine of Leto's skull in the film, we only see it in a vision; there is no moment in the movie where Paul explicitly finds his father's remains and enshrines them. Hence, going from a strict interpretation of the film's "text," this is not the future in which the legions are marked by the shrine, because the shrine doesn't exist. It is the other future. The compression of time means that Paul and Chani's relationship is much newer and more fragile and doesn't survive the strain of his apotheosis, and that's what sickens him most.

Of course, the "Hello, Grandfather" path also leads to the jihad, because Paul's tragedy is that his very existence was always going to lead to it, regardless of what he chose to do.

And Paul saw how futile were any efforts of his to change any smallest bit of this. He had thought to oppose the jihad within himself, but the jihad would be. His legions would rage out from Arrakis even without him. They needed only the legend he already had become. He had shown them the way, given them mastery even over the Guild which must have the spice to exist.

Obviously none of this passes explicit, close scrutiny, and is more of a fun "if you squint and look at it a certain way it kind of makes sense." I expect that the line was put in as a nod to the original book, no more or less, but making up head-canons like this is fun for me and if even one other person finds it edifying then I consider sharing it time well spent!

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I made some updated to my Dune Magic the Gathering Commander Deck! [LINK]

Magic the Gathering cards reimagined with Frank Herbert's Dune novels and movie adaptations.

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A local card shop is running a Pride event in two weeks where you can put two commanders together without it having the word "Partner" on it. My husband made a Baldur's Gate deck with Karlach and Shadowheart as commanders [link] (which is amazing and so GAY 🏳️‍🌈)

However, I decided to make a slight modification to my current naya Dune deck by adding Feyd-Rautha Harkonnen! [link]

Magic the Gathering cards reimagined with Frank Herbert's Dune novels and movie adaptations.

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*bonk* here's my dune deck list, it's mostly complete and kicks ASS at EDH night

https://www.moxfield.com/decks/vNwQepjl_EOlQ0WOVBzE8A

WOW! This is an insane deck! You focused on the worms more in this deck but I love the elements of deserts and Hazezon triggers! Thank you for sharing this with me, this is so cool to look at.

I named my Worldspine Wurm Shai-Hulud, do you have a specific wurm you call Shai-Hulud? Also, when you say mostly complete, what are you missing? You have insane ramp and tutors but I do notice a lack of card draw. Maybe an Esper Sentinel or Toski?

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"Bless the Maker and His water. Bless the coming and going of Him. May His passage cleanse the world. May He keep the world for His people." ~ Liet-Kynes

Magic the Gathering cards reimagined with Frank Herbert's Dune novels and movie adaptations.

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Magic the Gathering cards reimagined with Frank Herbert's Dune novels and movie adaptations.

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A couple of additions to the Paul themed Dune MtG cards!

Magic the Gathering cards reimagined with Frank Herbert's Dune novels and movie adaptations.

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Magic the Gathering cards reimagined with Frank Herbert's Dune novels and movie adaptations.

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Magic the Gathering cards reimagined with Frank Herbert's Dune novels and movie adaptations.

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Magic the Gathering cards reimagined with Frank Herbert's Dune novels and movie adaptations.

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Magic the Gathering cards reimagined with Frank Herbert's Dune novels and movie adaptations.

Technically, this card isn't legal in MTG and I understand the reasons. It just also fits the overall theme of this deck and it was fun to redesign the card!

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Magic the Gathering cards reimagined with Frank Herbert's Dune novels and movie adaptations.

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I kinda wish Dune got the universes beyond treatment, but I'm really skeptical as to what they would do.

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I actually would prefer a Secret Lair similar to Hatsune Miku over a Universes Beyond!

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Magic the Gathering cards reimagined with Frank Herbert's Dune novels and movie adaptations.

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Magic the Gathering cards reimagined with Frank Herbert's Dune novels and movie adaptations.

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Magic the Gathering cards reimagined with Frank Herbert's Dune novels and movie adaptations.

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Magic the Gathering cards reimagined with Frank Herbert's Dune novels and movie adaptations.

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Magic the Gathering cards reimagined with Frank Herbert's Dune novels and movie adaptations.