#desperate ravings

[mtg-cards-hourly]

Desperate Ravings

Her mind was quite gone, yet she spoke nothing but truth.

Artist: John Stanko TCG Player Link Scryfall Link EDHREC Link

[5ecardaday]

Desperate Ravings (2nd Level, Divination)

Casting Time: 1 action (ritual)

Range: Self

Components: V

Duration: Instantaneous

Classes: Bard, Cleric

You feel yourself fall into the throes of madness, all at once losing your grip on reality and seeing more clearly than ever before. You speak three statements about the future, concerning events happening no further than 1 week from now. One of the statements is the truth, while two of the others are falsehoods. You do not automatically know which are true and which are false. The statements themselves, their level of clarity, and the events they relate to are determined by the DM. Afterwards, you become afflicted with a random form of short-term madness, also determined by the DM. While you suffer from this madness, you can not cast this spell again.

Flashback. If you’ve already cast this spell once since the end of your last long rest, you can instead choose to cast it as a Flashback spell using a 3rd-level spell slot. If you do so,all of the statements you speak are true, and you become afflicted with a random form of long-term madness. While you suffer from this madness, you can not cast this spell again.

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I don’t often make non-combat spells, which is something I’m trying to improve on, but it can be difficult when I’m converting spells from a game where you inherently win by reducing someone to 0 life. Thankfully, spells like this come along every once in awhile, which give me a perfect chance to do something a little different than normal.

[hexblade-warlock]

I’ll never get over how good it feels to just like, be in a bookstore or library.

[commandollar]

What could Unstable hold for edh? Will there be sweet new legendaries and what will they be like? Will it even matter in the end? Listen in and spec along.

[mtg-cards-hourly]

Desperate Ravings

Her mind was quite gone, yet she spoke nothing but truth.

Artist: John Stanko TCG Player Link Scryfall Link EDHREC Link

[hexblade-warlock]

One of the hardest things about being a writer (for me that is) is that writing something never feels as “real” as drawing it. I envy my artist friends sometimes because the stuff they make seems so real, so tangible in a way that I can’t feel about (my own) writing.  You know exactly what a drawn character looks like, it’s right there in front of you. No need to ask or speculate, it’s all right there. With writing? Fuckin, I dunno, just describe it as well as you can and hope to all the gods that your readers are following what you mean. Basically what I’m saying is that I’d never try to describe what a rhinoceros looks like to a person that had never seen one, I’d just show a picture. Because how the fuck do you accurately describe what a rhino looks like?

That got away from me. But like, sometimes I’m not even sure what my own characters look like. Apart from some key traits and features, it’s all sort of... wobbly.  Drawn characters actually look like something, while written characters are just a bunch of features and words thrown together in a way that hopefully registers with the reader the same way they register with the writer.

Also, sike, most of you probably didn’t know you were following a (bad) writing blog.

[commandollar]

What is it about EDH that makes it difficult to learn? What makes it harder or easier to play? What can we as teachers of the format do to combat this? These and more in this exceptionally late episode!

[commandollar]

The return that no one asked for! This week, Mr. X talks about the unbanning of Protean Hulk. Was it a good decision? Will it destroy playgroups? How long before someone attempts to Turn zero in commander? All this and more!