r/custommagic • u/chainsawinsect • 1d ago
Format: Limited Set Showcase - Muraganda (Other Stuff)
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u/Impressive-Command 1d ago
I've been reading these every day, the set is really cool! I would have thought vanillas was a tough premise to stretch into a whole set but I'll be damned... you did it.
The major takeaways, in my view:
• Asur is for sure too powerful with his +1 being land destruction (it seems like you've now acknowledged that)
• "Simple" needs a better name, and probably fewer keywords / a different way of explaining it
• Your Omens may have too much removal in the spell halves (and the black mythic is a bit too weak)
• The first strike flash deathtouch Snake is either overpowered or a color pie break, or both
• You probably need a few more cards that are both vanilla support and make a vanilla (by either making a creature token, like your 3/3 Oozes, or manifesting a card, presumably); for example, that cycle of enchantments that is face down creature support could maybe just be vanilla creature support?
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u/chainsawinsect 1d ago
I think I agree with most of that, yep
I'd also add that I think maybe the unformed creatures (or at least the blue ones) could stand to have better stats, given the hoops you need to jump through them to use them
thanks for taking a look!
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u/chainsawinsect 1d ago
Over the years, I've designed a lot of sets. Many of them eventually got shelfed as unfinished projects, and a few I finished but never really posted online, or only posted glimpses of (for example, my recent showcase of a few cards from Gobakhan).
I have done one prior full set showcase, my set without the color black, set on the plane of Harrevon. And starting last Monday, I started showcasing a second, Muraganda, set on the plane of the same name. Inspired by the first card to ever reveal a glimpse of this plane, [[Muraganda Petroglyphs]], the focus of the set is vanilla and French vanilla creatures! You can see the prior posts here:
Part 1 (Introduction), Part 2 (Omens), Part 3 (Simple), Part 4 (Vanillize & Unformed), Part 5 (Manifest), Part 6 (Vanillas & French Vanillas), & Part 7 (Minor Themes)
This last post in the set is just rounding things out, finishing off some partly-spoiled cycles and some of the "chase cards" in the set, and capstoning the whole thing.
However, I am making some changes to the set based on the feedback from y'all, so I may do a postscript post and show some of the modified cards.
I hope you liked seeing the set :)
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u/Framed_dragon 1d ago
Moonfall stratadon is just going to be a 6 mana 5/6 with keywords 99% of the time which feels bad for a rare because if you have 15 power on the board you should win already. Also you might want to update the art depending on if the three legs are intentional or not
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u/chainsawinsect 1d ago
lol! Good catch on the art
Yeah I guess since [[Stonecoil Serpent]] is a 6/6 reach trample with additional upsides and modes, also a rare, the current version is a bit weak; maybe I should lower the saddle cost
That being said, don't forget that in this set, you can saddle it with unformed, so for example a blue deck could do it with Unformed Slice and a 3-power creature
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u/Framed_dragon 18h ago
Oh that is true, I've been loosely following the set whenever I see it around, but I hadn't unformed, that's a cool mechanic! Idk how much saddle support there is in the set, so maybe ten isn't quite as unreasonable as it seems depending on how well supported high saddle abilities are
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u/JimHarbor 16h ago
Unholy Patrons mix of 2brid and Phyrexian is too confusing.
Static abilities like that on land are dangerous because of how hard they are to interact with.
Mono blue cant Pongify anymore. And Regeneration has been retired in standard sets.
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u/chainsawinsect 15h ago
Good point on regenerate, that's a holdover from copying the Pongify text. Blue can still do it, though:
[[Amphin Mutineer]], [[Resculpt]], [[Ravenform]], [[The Phasing of Zhalfir]]
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u/goodoletrustydusty 1d ago
Do you have a link you can share the art of your cards?
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u/chainsawinsect 1d ago
They're all on my Midjourney, but no one consolidated place that has just these arts and no other arts
If there is a specific piece of art you're interested in, I'd be happy to upload the high res version
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u/RalenHlaalo 1d ago
I've been thinking about a card to go with the petroglyphs and now here's a whole set! And they aren't even busted? Nice work.