Flyer Beast's Magic Creations

A sideblog for my many, many, custom Magic: The Gathering card designs, many of which will be based on the embarassing number of gacha games I have played My main blog: flyerbeast.tumblr.com Wurms sideblog: magicwurms.tumblr.com

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At long last, I can reveal my full proxy Leizi Commander deck!

For the past few months, I've been working on a project to put together a fully-reflavoured deck using existing Magic cards inspired by one of the coolest units released last year, Leizi the Thunderbringer, who happens to be a Kylin (aka Kirin) standing in for an utterly perfect preexisting Magic card in Hinata, Dawn-Crowned. The deck is specific to the Yan region and I thought it'd be fun to include all the known Sui, so ended out with a big spells blink strategy featuring, uh, 8 indestructible Gods.

The decklist: moxfield.com/decks/fZV9elsGs0ixvHj-ykPtAw

The complete set of cards: (take a look! there's some flavour wins in here I am immensely proud of): drive.google.com/drive/folders/1EHCkmrT2N-l_gWi5eBU2y-M_Sgk5_X78

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Through the Omenpaths Winners!!

I apologize for the delay everyone! I've been very very unexpectedly busy this past while so I had very little time to sit down and work on these. Runners will be up shortly.

Momir, Cytoplast Synthesis by @flyerbeast

This card does simic in a different way than usual- it’s never had scientists or changelings- but also in a way that doesn’t feel at all out of place. Really great reflavoring there. This card also seems really fun though it definitely wants a sorcery speed restriction on that activated ability. I’m unsure about the balance- it *looks* strong, definitely, but needing to actually pay the creature’s cost may be good enough.

The Hand in the Dark // Ereandor, Who Walks the Line by @xenobladexfan

The “can’t be blocked” part feels a little weird for a card you give to your opponent cause it could really screw you over, but for multiplayer I can see why it’s necessary. This thing would definitely die too quickly otherwise. This is a really flavorful design though, and seems like it would play quite well. “Double Agent that transforms into a big threat after a time” is a great design. 

Ardea, Erupting Vengeance by @dphkraken

This design rocks, I’m a huge fan. It’s a very fun twist on red’s style of draw. And I like the change from a character who’s a nymph as a seemingly largely-interchangeable kind of person to a more traditional nature spirit, that’s exactly the kind of thing I’m looking to see. Is Ly’lac a ttrpg character of yours?

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Woo wahay yippee!

Thanks for the kind words! Glad the design resonated despite being an "adaptation", I swear this started out not intentionally as a Momir

I hoped making tapped Shapeshifters would make a sorcery-speed restriction unnecessary, but yeah you're right, the threat of mid-combat activation here is especially scary.

Here is the card this is a Universes Within version of, for the record; Arknights' own somewhat sinister Elf Scientist, who creates water-based rather than genetic monstrosities:

(Many more Arknights designs are to be seen on @flyermagic, my blog almost exclusively consisting of them)

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My card for Mumu had to be this complicated, sorry

Beautiful art source

Bonus:

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Some Arknights cards that are Absolute Cinema™

EDIT: this post has been edited to hopefully improve the clarity of the effects on the first two cards, enjoy my new favourite piece of italicised rules text.

Miss Christine is an 'evil' version of what I by now consider the quintessential Magic cat, Helpful Hunter, but with added legendary weirdness.

Art source (Her glorious official E2 art)

This Phantom is based on his fast-redeploying, self-cloning self of course, and wants you to mould your tokens into other people, oh no

Art source (Offical art by Han Yijie for his EP)

Shalem is in full emo phase (gettit) and somewhat reasonably does his skill 2 while fuelling some obvious synergies with the rest of the 'cast'

Art source (Sadly the artist's Xitter is private now so this is the best I can do)

The bestest ever filmmaker bird Tippi is doing a Kira, The Great Glass Spinner impression, the first thing I thought of when I saw her periodically dodging the first attack against her. Also yay, finally an Arknights bird where I can reasonably give the Magic card flying!

Art source (Her very good E2 art, but WHERE IS ALL MY TIPPI FANART!)

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To celebrate Necrass Naugust/Neptember, here are some pushed mirrored mythics (Elder Dragons, no less!)

Reed turns your burn spells into big healing spells and tells your friends to "fear not the firelight", play alongside Chandra's Incinerator for accurate gamebreaking chain reactions

Reed's art source

Eblana makes killing people easy and rewards you for burning them with all those weird damage dealers. If you haven't burned anyone though, she'll basically double the amount of dying that happens (by making 0/0s), which is very on-brand

Eblana's art source

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Happy Here A People Sows rerun!!!

If it's not clear, Grain buds is kicking Zuo Le's ass in cards

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It's the Here A People Sows rerun so: the Dahuang drop

Rice paddies and their workers fit green/white frames far too well.

Art sources: Grain Buds's E2 art, Wanqing by his artist, Zuo Le (this artist has done so many great pieces with him!)

Card design notes below~

Grain Buds is, of course, casting Beast Within, as her in-game skill gives her a wonderfully specific strength against Wild Beasts, so having her give Beasts to opponents then subjugating them felt appropriate. Play her alongside all the removal-with-compensation spells and a bunch of Beasts and you've got... some sort of synergy!

Wanqing went through many iterations but they all revolved around tapping creatures (i.e. having them all face the same direction, as his skill encourages, to make Foods or Treasures, so we've ended out with an odd Pippin, Warden of Isengard / Bootlegger's Stash hybrid at a competitive mana cost.

Zuo Le is self-explanatory if you know how he works, he asks you to jump through a pretty unusual hoop for a hopefully well-worthwhile payoff. Some of the upsides I gave him in earlier versions were maybe a little too much (+19/+0 on attack), so I instead gave him a way to get himself online, albeit inefficiently

Bonus:

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In case these are useful to anyone else: my Arknights set symbols for custom card making (extremely low res edition!)

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Scavenger, who scavenges

(Happy Pride Month)

Art source

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I really like your blog, and it’s inspired me to try and design some of my own Arknights magic cards! They may not be very polished, but it’s a lot of fun

Woah, the best response I could have gotten!

You'll have to share what you've made of course, I would be happy to help with polish too if you want, I have an embarassing amount of experience doing this

(and I need to post up some of the cards I've been working on, I have a backlog at this point...)

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About time I did a card for the king bunny

Probably the most words I'm happy for a card to have on it tbh, but it was worth it

Art source (the Jeskaiest I could find!)

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Underflow!

This one would look a lot nicer without reminder text...

Art source (her illustrator!)

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Minimalist!

Simplicity is, of course, key with this playstyle

Art source

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Gladiia(rknights)

'Self-bounce' feels like a natural fit for puller specialists, so here's a Master Transmuter variant for seaborn sea monsters!

Art source

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May from Arknights!

Oh, hey: slowing/RNG-based stunning gameplay, just like May in the videogame Arknights, plus a bit of Clue stuff or obvious reasons

Art source

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Morgan, Arknights!

I had to do justice to this wonderful ridiculous Glasgow Gangmember by having her do naff-off big amounts of damage, possibly a little too much - as a representation of the Tenacity mechanic and her self-endangering skills

Art Source (Her E2 splash art by Infukun)

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Bagpipe Arknights!

Doing what she does best: get out quick and get everything else out quicker

Art source