Cardborn Muse

I may have invented a genre. First was Story Shuffle. Then KingMoriarty followed suit with A Cavalcade of Cards. Now SirNotAppearingInThisFic has gone a step beyond. He isn't basing his shorts on anything so prosaic as normal Magic cards. He's basing his on the products of RoboFoME.

Appropriately enough, his collection is entitled Unhinged. There's only one entry thus far, but going by the quality, it's worth your time.

Comments

[Bugsydor]

I like the title. It's fitting on a variety of levels.

[PresentPerfect]

I just did what he suggested in the story description, and got this as flavor text:

"Ne'er have afterwards & Practices!"
—Pinkie Pie, Bearer of Honesty to me with me, you call are trees the idea."

Yes.

[SirNotAppearingInThisFic]

I've got to give Bugsydor the credit for the title. I'm not familiar enough with Magic to have made the connection myself.

I'm as curious to know where this is going to go as anyone else.

[Navieka]

This is awesome.

[Malandy]

I want to upvote this blog for sending me to that great awesome craziness!

[Bliss Authority]

I may have to follow suit (it is a card pun) with Dawn of the Fifth Age. Which would be a post-series MTG fusion based on, uh, Dawn of the Fifth Age, my poniblock.

[Lithl]

I have my own Cardborn Muse for designing Commander decks. I'm slowly working towards having one Commander deck in every color identity (that's 32 decks, and I'm currently only missing seven, three of which are in-progress). Naturally, things would get rather stale if I just stuck with conventional deck ideas at this point.

My most recent four decks are, in order from oldest to newest:
Uril, the Miststalker: Foglio tribal. All of the nonlands except the commander are illustrated by Phil Foglio or Kaja Foglio. I make an exception for the lands, because they've only illustrated 2 lands, neither of which were basic lands. (But the two lands they did illustrate are in the deck.) I make an exception for the commander because they've only illustrated two legendary creatures, both of which are pretty bad, both are in color identities I already had (although I'm running the one that's in Uril's identity), and getting enough cards for the deck was hard enough with access to three colors but using one of those two legends would limit me to just one or two colors.

Iname as One: Spirit tribal. It's a pretty terrible tribe, especially when limited to BG (there are some newer UB spirits that are more worth playing), and Iname as One is one of the most expensive legendary creatures in the game and his ETB trigger doesn't work if cast from the command zone. I decided that I had to build him after Command Beacon was spoiled. Mortal Combat is one of my wincons, since I can dump 20 creatures in the graveyard with Iname, Death Aspect.

Olivia, Mobilized for War: Vampire/madness tribal. There aren't that many actual vampires in the deck (although there are enough to justify inclusion of Falkenrath Gorger), but with Oprah Olivia as my commander, everything's a vampire! With haste! For the low, low cost of discarding something. Like Squee.

Silas Renn, Seeker Adept + Tana, the Bloodsower: I had the decklist ever since we got word that the C16 decks would be 4-color, and the actual general didn't much matter to me (and fortunately, the actual UBRG general, Ydris, Maelstrom Wanderer, lends himself to building a deck almost exactly like my Maelstrom Wanderer deck, so I didn't feel bad for not building around the nonwhite commander). The goal of the deck was to see if I could meet a challenge: An "Oops! All Spells" deck in Commander. Zero lands, not even lands that do not produce mana like Bazaar of Baghdad. The two things I was wishing for as the C16 spoiler season arrived were free cantrips, and completing the Spirit Guide cycle. I didn't get the latter, but the Partner mechanic is even better than the former. Instead of adding a cantrip to my 99, I get to remove a card from my 99 entirely and put it in the command zone. I essentially get a free cantrip in every single opening hand, used before every mulligan decision.

My three in-progress decks are Breya, Etherium Sculptor Thopters (50%), Depala, Pilot Exemplar Dwarves & Vehicles (43%), and Sidar Kondo of Jamuraa + Vial Smasher the Fierce "you play my cards" (28%).

The last one will be very interesting, with cards like Sqallmonger, Land's Edge, Lightning Storm, Well of Knowledge, etc. The colors were decided because my mono-blue deck is Thada Adel, Acquisitor, which does not have a wincon -- it simply plays my opponents' wincons against them. Since the "Take my cards... please!" deck will be getting opponents to play with my cards, it's the opposite of my mono-blue deck. So it's non-blue.