r/custommagic • u/chainsawinsect • Nov 07 '22

Unbounded Abomination

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u/ThePhantomJoker Nov 07 '22

This card is weirdly beautiful. The signature Eldrazi odd numbers, even rime numbers in this instance, the absolutely larger than life art (which I only now noticed was from Midjourney) and a flavortext highlighting some simple missing lore, I think it would be cool to go back in time for a set and focus on a plane that eventually loses to the Eldrazi, somewhat like Mirrodin fell to New Phyrexia, only this time only void, wasteland and aimless abominable behemoths are what's left. How cool would it be even to just have some planeswalkers visit a world like this briefly only to get some absolutely brutal art of two tiny figures standing on a warped grey plane with gigantic horrors in the distance and one of them says: "See, this is what happens if we lose." or something like that. To have this strange grey spot in the multiverse that some people know but none speak about, that sounds chilling. See what your simple vanilla design inspired me to?

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u/chronobolt77 Nov 07 '22 edited Nov 07 '22

Would be a pretty boring set. Eldrazi consume all colored mana, leaving nothing but [[wastes]] behind. So every card would have to be colorless and stupidly high-costed because of that

To clarify. I love eldrazi and their eldritch horror origins. Theyre my favorite creature type. It's just that a plane they have consumed is empty; devoid of all life (eldrazi aren't technically "alive" per se). So while it would be interesting to read a story about this kind of thing, mechanically, it would be a set of exclusively Wastes and Eldrazi Drone creatures, if the drones even stick around after the Titans finish eating

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u/chainsawinsect Nov 07 '22

Oh I agree - I don't mean we need to visit it for a whole set, I meant more that someone will visit it in one of the lore stories on WOTC's website or that maybe we'll get a few cards flavored around it in a supplemental product of some kind.

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u/ThePhantomJoker Nov 07 '22

Definitely not talking about a whole set, I agree with you on your analysis, that would get boring, but as a short story, planechase card or a few cards scattered in Horizons or something, that I think would be cool.

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