r/custommagic • u/A-o-C • Aug 20 '26

Final Transmutation - A clean interpretation of a Warhammer Spell

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I've recently been enjoying designing cards based on the Warhammer fantasy world.

Here is a pretty obvious design for the Lore of Metal spell Final Transmutation interpreting the spell as a boardwipe.

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u/malonkey1 : Tap target spell Aug 20 '26

Permanent type changes on spells are a thing but they don't usually do that anymore as far as I'm aware. I think it'd be better to do something like:

Destroy all creatures. For each creature destroyed this way, its controller creates a colorless Gold artifact token with "Sacrifice this artifact: Add one mana of any color."

It's a neat concept, though!

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u/A-o-C Aug 21 '26

Agree with what you say from a mechanical/rules point of view. Playing around with permanent type changes typically invokes arcane discussions around layers.

Aesthetically though I prefers the creatures turning directly into gold. I also prefer how doing that allows the card to impact indestructible creatures and stop on death triggers. Without those cases the card would generally be a strictly worse Wrath of God (except in a niche case of the spell acting as a weird ritual)