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Custom Planeswalker Cards Made for my DND Players
First post here!
I made these some for my players as an end of a campaign present in a DnD campaign we are running, and I was wondering what everyone would think. We might have a fun little commander game with them, I wanted to shoot for most of them being on the same power level. I'll add my thinking process for flavor!
Aelph, Conscript of Selesnya: His character was all about recruiting as many people as he could for Selesnya in game, so I thought mass token creation will protection from these tokens would be cool, as well as a unique for of removal with the -1 and -7.
Source: https://www.deviantart.com/greenviggen/art/Thea2-Elf-Mage-Gallery-789326920
Boddyknock, the Everpure: This player didn't really do much as he was a newbie to the game and has a bit of trouble understand what is going on (a lot of the gameplay was him rolling the dice then us doing the rest.) The joke within the group was that his character was not allowed to die, which inspires the passive. His main thing was shooting arrows, so I tried to do that in a unique way with token generation, which I felt fit in white and creature fighitng, which I felt fit in green.
Source: Was a commission for character we made for a different campaign, but he loved the image so we always use this for his character! Check out the artist here: https://www.facebook.com/darkstarchildart/
Jude, the Massacre: This character was a performer who was prone to killing the audience, so I wanted to reflect "successful" and "unsuccessful" performances with a coin flip, but not have either of the effect be detrimental. I feel as if the black color is a bit weak here, but I wasn't sure how to incorporate it to be stronger.
Source for character art: Aram Varatian, https://twitter.com/vartian/status/1037414132964831234
Source for Background: Blood Crpyt by Adam Paquette, https://img.scryfall.com/cards/large/front/5/f/5faba6c8-3463-47c1-ba01-09eb87fcb2d5.jpg?1584832229
Kirin, Genetic Mastermind: This was our simic scientist who was all about crafting monstrosities. Before mutate became a thing, the +2 was going to give just be about adapting, but now that mutate came out I feel as if it has to be here. The 0 is suppose to represent how she would often dig through the golgari sewers for "samples" for her experiment. The -10 was her final endgame goal, bringing back a boar they name Sir Pigglington from the beginning of the game to life and to make it the ultimate hydra monstrosity, similar to experiment Kraj.
Source for image: Silvia Regina Cossío Cámara I think, I cannot tell, the page is in Spanish but I believe this is the original artist http://silviareginacossio.blogspot.com/2017/02/medusa.html
Mr.Goodwright, the Insane Lawman: The only 3 colored character, he was a judge in the Azorious who was a sleeper agent for Dimir. His character was very much erratic, even though he tried to stick to the law. His +1 is straight forward, its pretty much word for word what detain does and detain is an easy way to represent arresting someone, and the paying mana is suppose to be paying bail. The -1 represents how he would often kill those he arrested due to his unstable mind. The bounce effect is suppose to also be similar to detaining. The -9 represents him "going crazy" and locking down all of the citizens of Ravnica under the rule of the Azorius and killing any criminals they previously had, while killing himself in the process.
Source for Art: Azorious Knight Arbiter by Even Mehl Amundsen, https://www.inprnt.com/gallery/amundsen/azorius-knight-arbiter/
Solana, Maul of Thundering Hooves: This was our druid turned barbarian, so the fighting ability was easy to make. I was tempted to make this a 4/4 instead of a 3/3, but I thought that trample and indestructible with a built in fight would be too strong as a 4/4. The minus ability is suppose to reflect her main characters story arc of finding and killing the giant who killed her father. I was trying to find some sort of common traits (I forgot about Giant Killer and how it destroys 4 power or greater creatures, oops) and decided that 4 cmc could represent a giant.
Source for Character Art: I think, not sure if this is the artist or just a reblog Søren Høeg https://www.pinterest.co.uk/pin/290622982204484259/
Source for background: Stomping Ground by James Paick https://db4sgowjqfwig.cloudfront.net/campaigns/204397/assets/923604/035-222.png?1543798349
Thanks for reading! Hope you enjoyed these as much as I enjoyed making these!
Comments
Thank you! I look forward to it!
I started out with MTG.Design as a base (card frame, loyalty, loyalty abilities, mana cost) then used GIMP to edit the sizes and everything else manually. If you look very closely at the Solana Planeswalker, above the +2 ability on the left you can see where I recolored the black border and the little bit of red above it.
@LordTachanka123
Thank you! I felt realy confident on the flavor of Aelph. Selesnya is my favorite two color combo.
Thank you very much! I wish they would fit on the card maker haha. But your praise is a great!
Thank you! As for the spells that bring them from the command zone, I hadn't thought of that. That sounds like a fun side project!