No Goblins Allowed

The world of Obscio has long been a doomed world, but it is only now that its denizens realize it. The stars have aligned, and a great awakening has begun across the plane. When a sinister fog crept across the world, none panicked, until the disappearances and horrors began.

Where once peaceful villages and farmlands stood, now lie ghost towns drowned in the mist. What once were safe wooded passages have now become refuge only for nightmares. And the surviving natives have been divided by vast swaths of the unknown. Even as the last refuge of humanity, some people of Obscio have revealed their allegiance to the darkness, and seek to forsake the remainder of the sane.

Will the people of Obscio fall to the encroaching unknown, or will humanity's seemingly limitless resourcefulness fight back the tide of the ineffable?

Madness - When you discard this card, you may cast it for its Madness cost.

Arcane - An Instant/Sorcery subtype denoting forgotten, eldritch magics.

Seeking - When this creature attacks, the defending player reveals the top card of their library, then put that card on the bottom of their library.

Stalker - You may pair this creature with another unpaired creature an opponent controls when either enters the battlefield. They remain paired for as long as you control the stalking creature.

Mechanical themes, subthemes: This set will bend the color pie a bit, for flavorfully spreading horror into all colors. Random chance, revealing cards, and mill will be subthemes present.

Common (10/20)

Uncommon (7/11)

Rare (3/7)

Mythic (0/2)

Common (12/20)

Uncommon (7/11)

Rare (4/7)

Mythic (1/2)

Common (5/20)

Uncommon (7/11)

Rare (4/7)

Mythic (1/2)

Common (7/20)

Uncommon (5/11)

Rare (3/7)

Mythic (1/2)

Common (6/20)

Uncommon (3/11)

Rare (4/7)

Mythic (1/2)

Common (5/6)

Uncommon (12/15)

Rare (7/7)

Mythic (1/2)

Seeking seems like nightmare for actual play. How do you randomize the top card of the library and the hand without revealing any of them and without risking getting the top card confused with the hand?

Turn Away feels like a bad Stave Off.

Treacherous Frogspawn doesn't feel like a common. It also feels really underpowered.

Consume Likeness feels like a bad Mind Control. I think it would be better if you made it an instant and cut the cost to 4 (or 5, if you're power level paranoid).

Blackwing Harrier is green

Why use the Arcane subtype when all your Arcane cards do something totally different from Kamigawa Arcane cards? Just use a new subtype, or even better, don't use any subtype at all and make it an ability word.

Have you figured out the different draft archetypes for this set?

Maybe consume likeness could cost five, but exile instead of destroy?

I feel that an uncommon clone should help you remember what the creature is now and removing the old one from the game allows you to put it under (or over) the original creature.

Prognostic revelation confuses me, compare plea for power, is the 5 mana for 5 intentional?

chill of the void feels more rare than common.

Devastating revelation and savage strike should probably say may.

-The mists were a big part of Mindscape's flavour. Basically any area not being witnessed by a conscious observer would slowly degenerate into this dream-fog that covered the whole world. Inside the mists stray thoughts and strongly held beliefs would take physical form.

It's not exactly super-relevant (or well-timed), but I thought I would share this nugget from Mindscape- the set that I based my concept of Obscio on.

TPzombieW wrote:

Hats off to you for the flavor. I can feel the Lovecraft dripping from the commons. Well done!

Maybe stalker could put a counter on the stalked creature to forestall memory issues? Or you could go a step further and have the stalkers affect all stalked creatures your opponents control, which would encourage players to build a stalker deck.

Reven Kenner, Mistbound Deceiver, Archmage Erynol: "Whenever an ability of [CARDNAME] causes a [...] card to be revealed..." Alternatively, you could be cute and say something like "Whenever [CARDNAME] discovers a [...] card..."

Sign of Protection is a Limited bomb. It should be rare.

Halfbreed Cutthroat is missing its card type.

Echoing Wall: "Whenever Echoing Wall blocks a creature..."

Scrying Field: Change name to "From Beyond" or "Visions from Beyond"?

Chill of the Void is very efficient compared to the current standard of common removal. Consider making it uncommon.

Brain Churning: "You may pay 2 life. If you do, repeat this process. Otherwise, draw a card."

Spiraling Unreason is no longer in red's color pie according to Mark Rosewater. Tormenting Voice and the like are the new standard.

Tindermote is a repeatable removal engine. In its current state, it should be uncommon.

Crackling Immolation could probably be common.

Savage Strike: Change name to "Finish the Prey"?

Serpentine Woodcaller should be uncommon if you plan on having a common instant-speed Arcane spell.

Wooden Divinations: Change name to "Strange Aeons"?

Call of the Stars: "Put a 1/1 green Druid Horror creature token onto the battlefield. It has '

: Add

to your mana pool.' "

Blessed One: The name is a little too generic when you consider that another card might want this name in the future. Namedrop one of the Dark Gods instead?

Coiled Kidnapper: Change name to "Coiled Emissary of [Dark God]"? Lovecraft did love his overblown names.

Consume Identity is awesome (though it should be rare, not uncommon). I'd nominate it for CotW, but it's too tied to the flavor of this set to make sense as a one-off, so I'll have to settle for praising you here.

Author:	Tequilasaurus [ Sun Sep 28, 2014 1:18 am ]
Post subject:	Obscio
With some permissions granted, I'm developing a set originally concepted by TPmanW, known as Obscio, a Lovecraftian/Cosmic Horror set. Obscio: Fear the Unknown "The world is shrouded in fog. It would be at any rate, if where the fog falls could be called "this world". Under the thick and eerie blanket of fog lies an unworld full of places and things that should not be. Only a sane mind can keep the mists at bay. But the horrors from beyond the veil love no taste more than that of a thinking creature's mind." – TPmanW Obscio is planned to be a large set, composed of 230 cards. It may have the rest of a block following it, but as of now, I'll see if I can even crank out one set. Set Lore The world of Obscio has long been a doomed world, but it is only now that its denizens realize it. The stars have aligned, and a great awakening has begun across the plane. When a sinister fog crept across the world, none panicked, until the disappearances and horrors began. Where once peaceful villages and farmlands stood, now lie ghost towns drowned in the mist. What once were safe wooded passages have now become refuge only for nightmares. And the surviving natives have been divided by vast swaths of the unknown. Even as the last refuge of humanity, some people of Obscio have revealed their allegiance to the darkness, and seek to forsake the remainder of the sane. Will the people of Obscio fall to the encroaching unknown, or will humanity's seemingly limitless resourcefulness fight back the tide of the ineffable? Set Mechanics Madness - When you discard this card, you may cast it for its Madness cost. Arcane - An Instant/Sorcery subtype denoting forgotten, eldritch magics. Seeking - When this creature attacks, the defending player reveals the top card of their library, then put that card on the bottom of their library. Stalker - You may pair this creature with another unpaired creature an opponent controls when either enters the battlefield. They remain paired for as long as you control the stalking creature. Mechanical themes, subthemes: This set will bend the color pie a bit, for flavorfully spreading horror into all colors. Random chance, revealing cards, and mill will be subthemes present.

Author:	Tequilasaurus [ Sun Sep 28, 2014 1:18 am ]
Post subject:	Re: Obscio
104/230 White (20/40) Common (10/20) Fearful Sentry Creature - Human Soldier Seeking When a creature card is revealed by an ability of Fearful Sentry, sacrifice it at end of combat. 2/2 - Designed by CKY Outpost Warden Creature - Human Soldier Defender Trained to keep a wary eye on both sides of the gates. 2/4 Mistbane Borderwatch Creature - Human Soldier Seeking Whenever a nonland card is revealed by an ability of Mistbane Borderwatch, untap Mistbane Borderwatch. The Borderwatch were chosen from the unfortunate intersection of expendable and competent. 1/1 Preternatural Guidance Enchantment - Aura Enchant Creature Enchanted Creature has +0/+2 and vigilance. Splintering Fate Instant - Arcane Untap all attacking creatures and remove them from combat. Turn Away Instant Counter target spell or activated ability targeting a creature you control. Sometimes the only thing to do is shut your eyes and pray whatever it is won't harm you. Euroch's Hounds Creature - Hound Vigilance When you can't depend on your eyes, companions with sharper ears and noses are always welcome. 2/2 Vanishing of the Vulnerable Instant Exile target attacking or blocking creature. Subtle Unraveling Instant - Arcane Put target enchantment on the top or bottom of its owner's library. Light of Discovery Sorcery Target opponent reveals three cards from his or her hand. You gain life equal to the converted mana costs of each of those cards. Uncommon (7/11) Suspicious Sleep Sorcery - Arcane Tap X target creatures. Eilan awoke to find that every last soul in the outpost had all at once fallen into a slumber, even amid their duties. Afterward, tensions wound higher, and none knew what may have happened in the hours the outpost was open. Courageous Tide Instant Creatures you control get +1/+1 and gain First Strike until end of turn. Starbound Ancestor Creature - Spirit Flying, Lifelink 2/3 Otherworldly Journey Instant - Arcane Exile target creature. At the beginning of the next end step, return that card to the battlefield under its owner's control with a +1/+1 counter on it. Stoic Watch Creature - Human Solider Defender, Protection from Black 3/5 Nebulous Wings Enchantment - Aura Enchant Creature Enchanted creature has +1/+1 and flying. If damage would be dealt to enchanted creature, prevent 1 of that damage. Saltes of Undeath Sorcery - Arcane Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield. It becomes a White Spirit in addition to its other colors and types. “The essential Saltes of Animals may be so prepared and preserved, that an ingenious Man may have the whole Ark of Noah in his own Studie, and raise the fine Shape of an Animal out of its Ashes at his Pleasure; and by the lyke Method from the essential Saltes of humane Dust, a Philosopher may, without any criminal Necromancy, call up the Shape of any dead Ancestour from the Dust whereinto his Bodie has been incinerated.” - Borellus Rare (3/7) Immortal Revelations Sorcery - Arcane You gain 15 life. Whenever a spell or ability an opponent controls causes you to reveal Immortal Revelations from a hidden zone, you may gain 5 life. Even as he dug the plot, his grandfather's hand had already touched his shoulder. Sign of Protection Enchantment , Discard a card: You or target creature you control gain protection from a source of your choice until end of turn. Revan Kenner, Militia Captain Legendary Creature - Human Soldier Seeking, Seeking Whenever a nonland card is revealed by an ability of Revan Kenner, put a 1/1 White Soldier creature token onto the battlefield tapped and attacking. Each new outpost we find brings more men to my cause. 3/4 Mythic (0/2) Blue (24/40) Common (12/20) Treacherous Frogspawn Creature – Frog Mutant When Treacherous Frogspawn deals combat damage to a creature, return a creature you control to its owner's hand. “Bewar o’ dealin’ with things that came befor’ concep’s like loyalty.” – Mezziah Hardock, Mistwatcher 4/5 Screech Owl Creature - Bird Flying When Screech Owl enters the battlefield, each player puts the top 3 cards of their library into their graveyard. 1/1 Exoscopic Shudder Sorcery - Arcane Look at the top card of each opponent's library. Draw a card. Weight of Knowledge Sorcery - Arcane Target player puts the top X cards of his or her library into their graveyard, where X is the number of cards in their hand. Memory Lapse Instant Counter target spell. If that spell is countered this way, put it on top of its owner's library instead of into that player's graveyard. Sorcerous Steed Creature - Horror Seeking, Flying Whenever a nonland card is revealed by an ability of Sorcerous Steed, target creature gains Flying until end of turn. 3/2 Disturbed Dreams Sorcery Target player reveals the top three cards of his or her library. Put one on top of that player's library and the rest into that player's graveyard. Draw a card. "Do we dream of it? Or does it dream of we?"-Writings of Khazrad - Designed by CKY Insightful Delusion Sorcery Draw two cards. Each player puts the top 5 cards of their library into their graveyard. Mist Courier Creature - Human Scout Seeking Whenever a nonland card is revealed by an ability of Mist Courier, you may draw a card, if you do, discard a card. 1/3 Twisted Disappearance Instant Put target creature on top of its owner's library. Draw a card. Frogspawn Wailer Creature - Frog Mutant When Frogspawn Wailer enters the battlefield, tap up to two target creatures. 2/2 Halfbreed Cutthroat Creature - Human Mutant Rogue Islandwalk When Halfbreed Cutthroat enters the battlefield, you may tap target creature. 2/1 Frogspawn Channeler Creature - Frog Mutant Wizard Whenever you cast an Arcane spell, target creature gains Islandwalk until end of turn. 1/1 Echoing Wall Creature - Wall When Echoing Wall blocks a creature, each opponent puts the top 4 cards of their library into their graveyard. Few things are worse in a world of fog than a dead end. 0/5 Uncommon (7/11) Mistbound Deceiver Creature - Human Rogue Seeking Whenever a nonland card is revealed by an ability of Mistbound Deceiver, you may tap target creature. A few dangerous souls made their livelihood by tricking others into the mist, and returning later for the spoils. 2/1 Crucial Error Instant Counter target spell. Its controller puts the top 4 cards of their library into their graveyard. Few feelings hit like the gut wrenching realization of failure. Frogspawn Mist-Lurker Creature - Frog Mutant Flash When Frogspawn Mist-Lurker enters the battlefield, return target creature an opponent controls to its owner's hand. 2/3 Croaking Schemer Creature - Frog Mutant Lord Frog spells you cast cost less. Whenever a Frog you control becomes blocked, you may return it to its owner's hand. 2/2 Webbedtoe Liar Creature - Frog Mutant When Webbedtoe Liar enters the battlefield, each player puts two cards from his or her hand on the bottom of their library, then draws cards equal to the cards put on the bottom of their library this way. 1/3 Glass-Eye Gurgler Creature - Frog Mutant Seeking, Islandwalk Whenever a land card is revealed by an ability of Glass-Eye Gurgler, target land becomes an Island until end of turn. 2/2 Involuntary Glimpse Instant - Arcane Until end of turn, target creature gains ":Target player reveals his or her hand, then reveals the top card of their library, then reveals the bottom card of their library." Draw a card. Scrying Field Enchantment - Aura Enchant Permanent Enchanted Permanent has "At the beginning of your upkeep, each opponent reveals a card at random from his or her hand." "Take to avoid ye mundane trinkettes that breng ye unease. Witches maye place cvrses or spelles vpon vnseeming trifles." - Dominus Hexus Rare (4/7) Archmage Erynol Legendary Creature - Human Wizard Seeking Whenever a noncreature, nonland card is revealed by an ability of Archmage Erynol, exile that card. You may cast it without paying its mana cost as long as it remains in exile. 3/5 Symonn Eldabrie, Inbred Noble Legendary Creature - Human Frog Mutant Menace Whenever you cast an instant spell or a creature with Flash, draw a card. Social etiquette had protected Symonn's appearance from much suspicion, but with the advent of the mist, many now saw him for what he'd been all along. 2/3 Fractal Echoes Sorcery Put three tokens onto the battlefield that are a copy of target creature, except one is base power 3/3, one is 2/2, and one is 1/1. Prognostic Revelations Sorcery - Arcane Draw five cards. Whenever a spell or ability an opponent controls causes you to reveal Prognostic Revelations from a hidden zone, you may draw two cards. Even as she wondered, the scrawled words had already met her eyes. Mythic (1/2) Eon Spasm Instant Take an extra turn after this one. End the turn. Black (17/40) Common (5/20) Unfortunate Accident Sorcery Target opponent sacrifices a creature at random. "There was no reason for this, no divine plan! There is only the cold, uncaring universe, and the laws it is based upon!" - Warren Eislek Misshapen Grotesquery Creature - Horror Deathtouch As a wet sucking and cold snaps of sinuous joints heralded its arrival, the slopping terror lurched forth from the mist in abominable blasphemy, a revolting testament to all that is unclean. 7/2 Wallcrawler Rats Creature - Rat When Wallcrawler Rats enters the battlefield, each player discards a card. "Every night, I heard droves of them, tearing through the spaces in the house, gnawing away my restful hours." 1/1 Degenerate Ancestor Creature - Human Mutant 3/1 Fleshtempted Ghoul Creature - Zombie Madness When Fleshtempted Ghoul enters the battlefield, if you played it for its Madness cost, sacrifice a creature. Unholy things drive unholy bargains. 3/3 Uncommon (7/11) Eyeless Cannibal Creature - Zombie Seeking Whenever a creature card is revealed by an ability of Eyeless Cannibal, put it into its owner's graveyard. Rasping tongue, probing fingers, pallid skin, it creeps along sightlessly, eagerly hunting for any trace of the living. 3/3 Wretched Failure Creature - Zombie Mutant When Wretched Failure enters the battlefield, each player loses 3 life. "A struggling, half-animate slop, it cried out with labored, wet sobs. I should never forget the awful thing, though I spend every moment wishing I could." - Rollard Binfaire 3/0 Lurking Terror Creature - Horror Stalker At the beginning of the end step, if Lurking Terror is not paired with a creature, sacrifice it. 4/3 Rotting Arcanist Creature - Zombie Wizard Stalker Whenever a creature Rotting Arcanist is paired with dies, draw a card and you lose 1 life. 2/3 Shrouded Lore Sorcery Target opponent chooses a card in your graveyard. You may pay . If you do, repeat this process except that opponent can't choose a card already chosen for Shrouded Lore. Then put the last chosen card into your hand. Shattering Truth Instant Whenever an ability of a creature an opponent controls causes you to reveal Shattering Truth from a hidden zone, that creature gets -2/-2 until end of turn. Target creature gets -4/-4 until end of turn. Chill of the Void Enchantment When Chill of the Void enters the battlefield, destroy target creature. At the beginning of your upkeep, lose 2 life. The price of her betrayal was high. The price for my revenge, insidious designed by Dudibus Blackwing Harrier Creature – Horror Stalker, Flying At the beginning of each end step, Blackwing Harrier fights the creature it’s paired with. 2/4 Rare (4/7) Sickening Revelations Sorcery - Arcane Each opponent discards 3 cards at random. Whenever a spell or ability an opponent controls causes you to reveal Sickening Revelations from a hidden zone, you may have each opponent discard a card at random. "Even as he ate, the unforgivable taste of corruption had already graced his tongue." Kezah, the Dreamhaunt Legendary Creature - Spirit Wizard Whenever a creature an opponent controls becomes tapped, its controller discards a card and loses 1 life. The witch and her pet, in death, as in life, hold dark council with things beyond this world 4/4 Kezah's Familiar Creature - Spirit Rat Horror Whenever an opponent discards a card, they lose 2 life. : Creatures your opponents control attack this turn if able. "A sinister, toothed thing appears in my dreams, demanding my attention and biting my hands and feet painfully if I do not follow." - Eryn Wultz, Farmkeeper 2/1 Brain Churning Sorcery Look at the top two cards of your library, and put one into your graveyard. You may pay 2 life. If you do, repeat this process. Otherwise, draw a card. Mythic (1/2) Nightmare Throng Sorcery For each Horror creature you control, put a token onto the battlefield that's a copy of that creature, except they gain Haste and "At the beginning of the end step, exile this."

Author:	Tequilasaurus [ Sun Sep 28, 2014 1:19 am ]
Post subject:	Re: Obscio
Red (15/40) Common (7/20) Prophetic Instigator Creature - Human Cleric First Strike When Prophetic Instigator enters the battlefield, until your next turn, creatures your opponents control attack you if able. "Someone needs to punch that preacher in the mouth." - Eilan Wailes 2/1 Raving Lunatic Creature - Human Citizen 1/1 Crackling Immolation Instant - Arcane Crackling Immolation deals 3 damage to target creature or player, then 2 damage to a player chosen at random. Unhinged Madman Creature - Human Berserker Madness When Unhinged Madman enters the battlefield, if you played it for its madness cost, you may have it Fight another target creature. 3/2 Spiraling Unreason Sorcery - Arcane Madness Discard a card, then draw two cards. Each leap of madness builds momentum to the next. Destructive Fit Instant Madness - Destroy target artifact. If you cast Destructive Fit for its madness cost, destroy another target artifact. Maddened Seer Creature - Human Cleric When Maddened Seer enters the battlefield, each player reveals a card at random from their hand. Put a +1/+1 counter on Maddened Seer for each nonland card revealed this way. 1/1 Murderous Brute Creature - Human Berserker Madness Haste "With the way some of these fellows look at me, sometimes I wonder if it isn't safer out in the fog." - Eilan Wailes, Barkeep 5/4 Uncommon (5/11) Blackwing Skirmisher Creature - Horror Madness First Strike, Flying 3/2 Searing Sacrament Instant Seering Sacrament deals 2 damage to target creature. That creature gets +2/+0 until end of turn. The insane are a danger, no matter which side they think they're on. Sanity Lapse Instant Untap target creature and gain control of it until end of turn. It gains haste until end of turn. Flailing Tusklet Creature - Boar Haste, Intimidate Being natural doesn't make it any less dangerous. 1/1 Tindermote Creature - Elemental Horror Whenever you cast an Arcane spell, Tindermote deals 1 damage to target creature or player. They appeared as distant lanterns in the fog, drawing unwary travelers close enough to immolate. 2/1 Rare (3/7) Devastating Revelations Sorcery - Arcane Devastating Revelations deals 5 damage to each creature and each player. Whenever a spell or ability an opponent controls causes you to reveal Devastating Revelations from a hidden zone, you may have Devastating Revelations deal 3 damage to each creature and each player. Even as she cracked the door, the stench of sulfur had already filled her nostrils. Fractured Fortune Enchantment If a permanent or player is chosen at random by a spell or ability, you may choose another permanent or player at random from the same possible choices. Starmad Ravings Sorcery Madness When you play Starmad Ravings for its Madness cost, it deals 4 damage to you. If you control a Mountain, copy the last Instant or Sorcery spell a player cast this turn. "The frenzied words of the prophet frothed across her lips. Horrible vistas not of what was to come, but what had already happened." Mythic (1/2) Rays of Ash Sorcery Rays of Ash deals 7 damage to two target creatures, then 7 damage to a player chosen at random. The red flash zigzagged down, coloring every droplet of mist with a crimson malevolence. All that remained were grossly unrecognizable smears of ash where the watch had stood. Green (14/40) Common (6/20) Reclusive Venomfang Creature - Serpent Druid Deathtouch, Trample 1/1 Grasping Tangle Creature - Plant : Grasping Tangle gets +2/+2 and gains Reach until end of turn. 0/2 Moment of Violence Instant Target creature gets +2/+2 until end of turn. If that creature is paired with another creature, you may have it fight the creature it is paired with. Serpentine Woodcaller Creature - Serpent Druid Whenever you cast an arcane spell, put a +1/+1 counter on Serpentine Woodcaller. The worst of all things that the mist brought, was the revelations of the things that were already there. 2/2 Fungoid Wall Creature - Fungus Wall Defender Whenever another creature dies, put a +1/+1 counter on Fungoid Wall. Remove three +1/+1 counters from Fungoid Wall: Draw a card. The mushrooms in the deserted mists of Preacher's Bend glow with a sinister charnel luminescence, and grow to unwholesome proportions on an unspeakable nourishment. 0/4 Splintergale Instant - Arcane Splintergale deals 9 damage to target creature with Flying. Wooden Divinations Sorcery - Arcane Search your library for two basic land cards. Put one into your hand, and the other into your graveyard. Call of the Stars Sorcery - Arcane Put a 1/1 Green Druid creature token with " : Add to your mana pool" onto the battlefield. Mist runners tell of sounds far within the black haunted woods, where no dweller ventured. There were insane shouts and harrowing screams, soul-chilling chants and dancing devil-flames. Uncommon (3/11) Midwife of Sheirus Creature - Satyr Horror Whenever you cast an Arcane spell, you may sacrifice a creature. If you do, put a 2/4 green Beast Horror creature token onto the battlefield. 2/1 Deepwood Gate Enchantment - Aura Enchant Land Enchanted Land has ", , Sacrifice a creature: Search your library for a basic land card, reveal it, and put it into your hand. Shuffle your library." Isolated places held curious stone arrangements, flecked with rusty stains and etched with pictographs both terrible and inscrutable. Coiled Kidnapper Creature - Serpent Druid Stalker When Coiled Kidnapper blocks the creature it is paired with, put two 1/1 green Druid creature tokens onto the battlefield with ": Add to your mana pool." blocking that creature. 1/3 Unseen Behemoth Creature - Beast Mutant Hexproof, Trample 4/5 Rare (4/7) Prolific Revelations Sorcery - Arcane Put three 2/4 green Beast Horror creature tokens onto the battlefield. Whenever a spell or ability an opponent controls causes you to reveal Prolific Revelations from a hidden zone, you may put a 2/4 green Beast Horror creature token onto the battlefield. Even as he called her name, the bleating cries had already reached his ears. Lurker Beneath Creature - Wurm Horror Hexproof, Stalker When Lurker Beneath attacks, untap the creature it is paired with, and that creature blocks Lurker Beneath this turn if able. 9/5 Cthonian Vorossus Creature - Wurm Horror When Cthonian Vorossus becomes blocked, each player sacrifices 5 lands. 8/8 Starchant Procession Sorcery - Arcane Put X 1/1 Green Druid tokens onto the battlefield with ": Add to your mana pool." Mythic (1/2) Unstable Primordial Creature - Ooze Horror When Unstable Primordial becomes the target of a spell, put an X/X token copy of it onto the battlefield, where X is the converted mana cost of that spell. 3/3 Multicolor and Colorless (24/30) Common (5/6) Worm-Eaten Tome Artifact , pay 3 life, sacrifice Worm-Eaten Tome: Draw a card, then discard a card. Eroxian Observer Artifact Creature - Horror Seeking Whenever a nonland card is revealed by an ability of Eroxian Observer, Eroxian Observer gains flying and hexproof until end of turn. 2/1 Starforged Trinket Artifact When ~ enters the battlefield, draw a card. When ~ leaves the battlefield, discard a card. A relic from a time that never was, foretelling plans that cannot be. Surgical Implements Artifact - Equipment Equipped creature has +1/+0. : Equipped creature gets -1/-1 until end of turn. Regenerate it. Sacrifice Surgical Implements. Equip Obscene Idol Artifact Obscene Idol enters the battlefield tapped. When Obscene Idol enters the battlefield, each player loses 1 life. : Add to your mana pool. Uncommon (12/15) Consume Identity Instant – Arcane Choose two target creatures. Exile one, and the other becomes a copy of the exiled creature. Samwyle awoke in a daze, unsure of where he was. Blood dripped from his mouth, without any wounds or pain of his own. The final clue was a severed finger, bitten clean off, with his own wedding band upon it. Mist Runner's Lantern Artifact Equipped creature has Seeking. Whenever a nonland card is revealed by ability of equipped creature, you gain 3 life. Equip Obscured Landscape Land Whenever an ability of an attacking creature an opponent controls causes you to reveal Obscured Landscape from a hidden zone, you may remove that creature from combat. Add to your mana pool. Ending up where you began is often the most merciful outcome in the fog. Feverscream Sorcery - Arcane Each creature gets -2/-2 until end of turn, and Feverscream deals 2 damage to each player. Vestige of Corruption Creature - Wurm Horror Lifelink When Vestige of Corruption dies, you lose 8 life. It sat in bloated, decadent obscenity, fed kingly scraps by the hopelessly deluded. 4/4 Ray of Reticence Instant - Arcane Target player can't cast instant or sorcery spells this turn. Draw a card. Paranoia Captain Creature - Human Soldier Double Strike 1/4 Lineage Succession Instant Sacrifice a creature. Search your library for a creature card that shares a creature type with the sacrificed creature, and put that card into your hand. Shuffle your library. Feral Degenerate Creature - Human Mutant Protection from Blue A backwoods brute with no patience for the patient. 6/4 Bloodsap Creature - Horror Stalker As long as Bloodsap is paired with a creature, that creature has -1/-1. 2/3 Manic Premonition Sorcery - Arcane Madness Reveal the top four cards of each player's library. Choose three of those cards. Put the chosen cards on the top of their owner's libraries in any order, and the rest into their owner's graveyards. Draw a card. Hyperspatial Expansion Instant - Arcane Target creature gets +5/+5 until end of turn. Put it on the bottom of its owner's library at the end of turn. "He just grew and grew and grew, and then... He grew so big he was gone!" - Farmer Alak Rare (7/7) Uneuclidean Stalker Creature - Hound Horror Haste, Uneuclidean Stalker can't be blocked. When Uneuclidean Stalker enters the battlefield or attacks, it deals 2 damage to target creature or player. Whenever a player casts a spell, exile Uneuclidean Stalker until end of turn. 0/2 Outworld Altar Artifact Instant and Sorcery spells you cast are Arcane in addition to their other types. : Add one mana of any color to your mana pool. Darkened Cathedral Land Darkened Cathedral enters the battlefield tapped unless you reveal a black card then a white card from your hand (they can be the same card, or two different cards). Add to your mana pool. Add or to your mana pool. Fungous Thicket Land Fungous Thicket enters the battlefield tapped unless you reveal a black card then a green card from your hand (they can be the same card, or two different cards). Add to your mana pool. Add or to your mana pool. Kelpstrewn Harbor Land Kelpstrewn Harbor enters the battlefield tapped unless you reveal a blue card then a green card from your hand (they can be the same card, or two different cards). Add to your mana pool. Add or to your mana pool. Hissing Falls Land Hissing Falls enters the battlefield tapped unless you reveal a blue card then a red card from your hand (they can be the same card, or two different cards). Add to your mana pool. Add or to your mana pool. Highgrass Cliffs Land Highgrass Cliffs enters the battlefield tapped unless you reveal a white card then a red card from your hand (they can be the same card, or two different cards). Add to your mana pool. Add or to your mana pool. Mythic (1/2) *Dominus Hexus* Legendary Artifact If a source an opponent controls would deal damage to you, it deals that much damage plus two instead. Whenever a source an opponent controls deals damage to you, you may search your library for an instant or sorcery card with converted mana cost X and cast it without paying its mana cost, where X is the damage dealt. That spell must target that source or that source's controller if able. Penned in foulest ichors, the dreaded Book of Revenge consumed all who espied its unspeakable contents.

Author:	Cato [ Sun Sep 28, 2014 2:42 am ]
Post subject:	Re: Obscio
Seeking seems like nightmare for actual play. How do you randomize the top card of the library and the hand without revealing any of them and without risking getting the top card confused with the hand? Turn Away feels like a bad Stave Off. Treacherous Frogspawn doesn't feel like a common. It also feels really underpowered. Consume Likeness feels like a bad Mind Control. I think it would be better if you made it an instant and cut the cost to 4 (or 5, if you're power level paranoid).

Author:	Burning_Earth [ Sun Sep 28, 2014 2:50 am ]
Post subject:	Re: Obscio
Blackwing Harrier is green

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Author:	chinkeeyong [ Sun Sep 28, 2014 9:55 am ]
Post subject:	Re: Obscio
Why use the Arcane subtype when all your Arcane cards do something totally different from Kamigawa Arcane cards? Just use a new subtype, or even better, don't use any subtype at all and make it an ability word. Have you figured out the different draft archetypes for this set?

Author:	Tequilasaurus [ Sun Sep 28, 2014 12:05 pm ]
Post subject:	Re: Obscio
Cato wrote: Seeking seems like nightmare for actual play. How do you randomize the top card of the library and the hand without revealing any of them and without risking getting the top card confused with the hand? Turn Away feels like a bad Stave Off. Treacherous Frogspawn doesn't feel like a common. It also feels really underpowered. Consume Likeness feels like a bad Mind Control. I think it would be better if you made it an instant and cut the cost to 4 (or 5, if you're power level paranoid). I guess I was stretching too hard. I have the rare cycle of "Revelations", and didn't want a player to be able to hold one as the only card in hand to guaranteed punish your Seeker creatures. Tweaking it slightly to give the option of one or the other, instead of randomly choosing between either. There are some bad cards in the set. I have the problem of designing top-down too heavily, and tend to miss mechanical elegance because of it. I definitely appreciate the critiques, and will be doing some changes. I think I'll drop Turn Away to and remove the tap clause. Frogspawn is meant to be a bad beefy blue creature designed for the limited tempo archetype. I might reduce the drawback to bouncing your creature instead. I think I'd like to keep Consume Likeness as-is mechanically, and maybe drop the cost to 4. As an instant, I feel it could be a dangerous combat trick, but I suppose 4cc combat tricks don't really get much play as it is. Burning_Earth wrote: Blackwing Harrier is green Is it worse to bleed Fight into Black, or Flying into Green? I guess I went with Fight in Black because it really wants kind of a vulture-y feel, and I felt that kind of opportunism was justifiably Black. chinkeeyong wrote: Why use the Arcane subtype when all your Arcane cards do something totally different from Kamigawa Arcane cards? Just use a new subtype, or even better, don't use any subtype at all and make it an ability word. Have you figured out the different draft archetypes for this set? I did want "arcanecraft" cards similar to Kamigawa's "Spiritcraft" cards, and I find that less elegant with ability words. I also did want some cross-block support for what was an otherwise very insular mechanic from Kamigawa. I felt it would be nice if, should they ever be playable together, you'd have more options to spice up your Obscio deck with Kamigawa cards, and vice-versa. They both also represent otherworldly magic, not the kind regularly used by the natives of the plane. Arcane here is being used in its more traditional definition, but I felt the added mechanical friendliness was a good bonus to reusing Arcane. Draft archetypes envisioned at the moment are W/U tempo, B/R Madness, G/R tokens, any color Arcanecraft, and U/B Mill.

Author:	Cato [ Sun Sep 28, 2014 1:17 pm ]
Post subject:	Re: Obscio
Combat tricks are awesome though : (

Author:	Tequilasaurus [ Sun Sep 28, 2014 3:47 pm ]
Post subject:	Re: Obscio
For the sake of making it more fun, I moved it to Instant.

Author:	Dudibus [ Mon Sep 29, 2014 5:26 am ]
Post subject:	Re: Obscio
Looks good so far, plus it has the added coolness of having a card I designed in it .

Author:	Hello World [ Mon Sep 29, 2014 5:50 am ]
Post subject:	Re: Obscio
Maybe consume likeness could cost five, but exile instead of destroy? I feel that an uncommon clone should help you remember what the creature is now and removing the old one from the game allows you to put it under (or over) the original creature. Prognostic revelation confuses me, compare plea for power, is the 5 mana for 5 intentional? chill of the void feels more rare than common. Devastating revelation and savage strike should probably say may.

Author:	Tequilasaurus [ Mon Sep 29, 2014 1:32 pm ]
Post subject:	Re: Obscio
Hello World wrote: Maybe consume likeness could cost five, but exile instead of destroy? I feel that an uncommon clone should help you remember what the creature is now and removing the old one from the game allows you to put it under (or over) the original creature. Prognostic revelation confuses me, compare plea for power, is the 5 mana for 5 intentional? chill of the void feels more rare than common. Devastating revelation and savage strike should probably say may. I'm switching Consume Likeness to exile, but I think I want to push the power on it a bit on weird cards like that. I don't see it breaking NGA standard at 4cc, so I'm thinking I'll leave it there. Prognostic Revelations I feel can get away with 5 cards for 5 mana. It's a rare, sorcery, and costs double so if Tidings is an uncommon, I feel this can go rare for one more card and a semi-unlikely conditional effect. Comparing Chill of the Void to Vendetta I feel is a fair comparison. Chill will likely do more damage if played early, unless you jump through some hoops, and is only Sorcery speed. As for it being a global enchantment at common, compare the Seal cycle, for simplicity. I did add may clauses to the Revelation cycle, and Sudden Ambush. Good call.

Author:	Tequilasaurus [ Mon Oct 06, 2014 2:22 pm ]
Post subject:	Re: Obscio
Nearly 20% concepted. Added enemy dual lands to fill out NGA's needs.

Author:	chinkeeyong [ Mon Oct 06, 2014 2:54 pm ]
Post subject:	Re: Obscio
"Darkened Cathedral enters the battlefield tapped unless you reveal a white card, then a black card, from your hand." Thanks for looking out for NGA Constructed, by the way. I think we have enough serviceable enemy duals now.

Author:	Tequilasaurus [ Fri Oct 31, 2014 3:34 pm ]
Post subject:	Re: Obscio
Stalled for midterms, but planning to resume this. Hopefully before Christmas season annihilates me with work.

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Author:	TPmanW [ Tue Nov 11, 2014 10:44 pm ]
Post subject:	Re: Obscio
It's not exactly super-relevant (or well-timed), but I thought I would share this nugget from Mindscape- the set that I based my concept of Obscio on. TPzombieW wrote: -The mists were a big part of Mindscape's flavour. Basically any area not being witnessed by a conscious observer would slowly degenerate into this dream-fog that covered the whole world. Inside the mists stray thoughts and strongly held beliefs would take physical form.

Author:	Tequilasaurus [ Sun Nov 16, 2014 3:04 pm ]
Post subject:	Re: Obscio
TPmanW wrote: It's not exactly super-relevant (or well-timed), but I thought I would share this nugget from Mindscape- the set that I based my concept of Obscio on. TPzombieW wrote: -The mists were a big part of Mindscape's flavour. Basically any area not being witnessed by a conscious observer would slowly degenerate into this dream-fog that covered the whole world. Inside the mists stray thoughts and strongly held beliefs would take physical form. That is a really cool concept. I'd borrow some of it, but I think its hitting an evolution of its own here. That aside, added some more cards, including the first Mythic. My organizational impulses want me to fix the color balance on the multicolored cards, but asymmetry is perfect for the set themes. It incites an uncomfortable reaction.

Author:	chinkeeyong [ Mon Nov 17, 2014 7:49 am ]
Post subject:	Re: Obscio
Hats off to you for the flavor. I can feel the Lovecraft dripping from the commons. Well done! Maybe stalker could put a counter on the stalked creature to forestall memory issues? Or you could go a step further and have the stalkers affect all stalked creatures your opponents control, which would encourage players to build a stalker deck. Reven Kenner, Mistbound Deceiver, Archmage Erynol: "Whenever an ability of [CARDNAME] causes a [...] card to be revealed..." Alternatively, you could be cute and say something like "Whenever [CARDNAME] discovers a [...] card..." Sign of Protection is a Limited bomb. It should be rare. Halfbreed Cutthroat is missing its card type. Echoing Wall: "Whenever Echoing Wall blocks a creature..." Scrying Field: Change name to "From Beyond" or "Visions from Beyond"? Chill of the Void is very efficient compared to the current standard of common removal. Consider making it uncommon. Brain Churning: "You may pay 2 life. If you do, repeat this process. Otherwise, draw a card." Spiraling Unreason is no longer in red's color pie according to Mark Rosewater. Tormenting Voice and the like are the new standard. Tindermote is a repeatable removal engine. In its current state, it should be uncommon. Crackling Immolation could probably be common. Savage Strike: Change name to "Finish the Prey"? Serpentine Woodcaller should be uncommon if you plan on having a common instant-speed Arcane spell. Wooden Divinations: Change name to "Strange Aeons"? Call of the Stars: "Put a 1/1 green Druid Horror creature token onto the battlefield. It has ': Add to your mana pool.' " Blessed One: The name is a little too generic when you consider that another card might want this name in the future. Namedrop one of the Dark Gods instead? Coiled Kidnapper: Change name to "Coiled Emissary of [Dark God]"? Lovecraft did love his overblown names. Consume Identity is awesome (though it should be rare, not uncommon). I'd nominate it for CotW, but it's too tied to the flavor of this set to make sense as a one-off, so I'll have to settle for praising you here.

Author:	Tequilasaurus [ Mon Nov 17, 2014 3:08 pm ]
Post subject:	Re: Obscio
chinkeeyong wrote: Hats off to you for the flavor. I can feel the Lovecraft dripping from the commons. Well done! Maybe stalker could put a counter on the stalked creature to forestall memory issues? Or you could go a step further and have the stalkers affect all stalked creatures your opponents control, which would encourage players to build a stalker deck. Reven Kenner, Mistbound Deceiver, Archmage Erynol: "Whenever an ability of [CARDNAME] causes a [...] card to be revealed..." Alternatively, you could be cute and say something like "Whenever [CARDNAME] discovers a [...] card..." Sign of Protection is a Limited bomb. It should be rare. Halfbreed Cutthroat is missing its card type. Echoing Wall: "Whenever Echoing Wall blocks a creature..." Scrying Field: Change name to "From Beyond" or "Visions from Beyond"? Chill of the Void is very efficient compared to the current standard of common removal. Consider making it uncommon. Brain Churning: "You may pay 2 life. If you do, repeat this process. Otherwise, draw a card." Spiraling Unreason is no longer in red's color pie according to Mark Rosewater. Tormenting Voice and the like are the new standard. Tindermote is a repeatable removal engine. In its current state, it should be uncommon. Crackling Immolation could probably be common. Savage Strike: Change name to "Finish the Prey"? Serpentine Woodcaller should be uncommon if you plan on having a common instant-speed Arcane spell. Wooden Divinations: Change name to "Strange Aeons"? Call of the Stars: "Put a 1/1 green Druid Horror creature token onto the battlefield. It has ': Add to your mana pool.' " Blessed One: The name is a little too generic when you consider that another card might want this name in the future. Namedrop one of the Dark Gods instead? Coiled Kidnapper: Change name to "Coiled Emissary of [Dark God]"? Lovecraft did love his overblown names. Consume Identity is awesome (though it should be rare, not uncommon). I'd nominate it for CotW, but it's too tied to the flavor of this set to make sense as a one-off, so I'll have to settle for praising you here. Fixed or changed a lot of these, as per suggestions. Much appreciated! Feedback keeps me from trying to work out a set completely in a vacuum. Still gotta tinker with my uncommon/rare slots I'd allocated to ensure that there's room for a lot of these designs where I want them. Are the memory issues of Stalker any different from what was done with Soulbond? Flavorwise: Decided to leave the name Scrying Field as-is, since the flavor alludes to using it on an artifact, and it works on lands. Good catch on the name of Blessed One, it has been reworked, and the first GOO has been name dropped. Leaving the Druid tokens as raceless, just as Solider tokens represent different soliders of varying mtg races, or the mothership article that talked about Priests of Norn as transcending race. I think its better to imagine the druids of obscio as hooded cult figures, some of which could be insane humans, the newly resurfaced serpent people, and some of which are horrors themselves.

Author:	TPmanW [ Tue Nov 18, 2014 12:19 am ]
Post subject:	Re: Obscio
If you're going to have raceless druids you should play up their mysteriousness in the flavour text.