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Something is gathering around the bearers of the Elements of Harmony. Something dangerous. Something magical. There's only one pony with the knowledge, the skills, and the muffins needed to save Equestria as we know it.
A Friendship is Magic: the Gathering crossover. Here there be flashbacks, briefly seen OC's, and possibly every emotion known to man or tiny horse. Abandon all pretenses of not being a nerd, ye who enter here.
I love the language in your story, the way the story is developing, and the smooth connection between Equestrian and collectivecardgamingmagic. (And I like Scootaloo having two full parents, including a father sneaking her novels that certainly arent for little girls.
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*Begin reading first chapter. Spot reference to Haruhi. Proceed to laugh for about 5 minutes. Finish laughing, proceed to read the rest of the story.*
For the record, Twilight would make an excellent Kyon, Fluttershy is clearly an ESPer, Dash is a time traveler, and Pinkie is obviously an alien. You just managed to rearrange my entire head-canon. Well done.
Okay....we have more backstory on Ditzy, more of Twilight's literal-mindedness and tendency to panic biting her in the flanks, Sweetie Belle being five minutes away from telling Steve and the other gentlecolts to behold silence, Celestia's numbered smiles and finally Ditzy explaining exactly how real things have gotten. That being said, I can't wait to see how the day gets saved.
Interesting assortment of tags... One of them NOT being dark (which hopefully suggests no gore, violence, or death)... And one of them being comedy (my favorite tag)...
But I know NOTHING about Magic: The Gathering.
Do I need to know about Magic the Gathering to read this, or will it introduce the concepts as I go nicely?
Tezzeret! Tezzeret? Tezzeret saw Ditzy Doo flying by and she's still alive? Tezzeret actually feeling pity for any living being???
I'm sorry but I think my suspension of disbelief was shattered worse then if Pinkie Pie had taken TNT to the bricks to the fourth wall. The man is very intelligent, cold, cruel, calculating, and has special talent for murdering the mother of anyone he perceives to have slighted him. Furthermore besides this break of character from someone that would fell quite at home in the Italian Mafia, if he was on his way to Mirrodin then you might of given your story a plot hole:
1) Ditzy doo wouldn't of done any planeswalking after she had returned to Equestria
2) the events in Scars of Mirrodin are too recent for Tezzeret to have started the journey to Mirrodin before Ditzy returned to Equestria.
(The following paragraph is full of Magic flavor nonsense. Ignore if you don't follow the story behind the cards.)
>>16544 Well, someone never read Test of Metal. Tezzeret has a soft side, believe it or not. It's just very well hidden most of the time. Also, ever since Bolas reconstructed his brain after Jace Beleren reduced it to head cheese, Tezz has been much calmer and generally nicer than before. Oh sure, he's hung a Sword of Damocles over Jace's head, but he doesn't go out of his way to antagonize anyone who hasn't done the same to him. He may be cold, cruel, calculating, and matricidally gifted, but he's learned the value of having a friend. Yes, really. Besides, it's not like he's going to be all sweetness and light. Give me a chance here.
>>17878 I swear it was completely unintentional, but I definitely see how you could make the connection. That said, I don't think we'll be seeing him do anything lethally awesome with piano wire.
>>21366 I never said when this story was taking place on the Magic timeline (which has gotten a bit muddled anyway.) The reference to Tezzeret merely establishes one chronology's relationship to another. In this case, the events of Elementals of Harmony take place several years after the compleation of New Phyrexia. Just because the story contradicts your assumptions doesn't always mean that the story contradicts itself. It could just mean that your assumption was wrong.
That said, thanks for reading, and for caring enough to point out what you thought was a plot hole.
So, what have we learned today?
1. Nightmare Moon is actually pretty decent when not suffering from extreme isolation.
2. Fangirl/boyism is capable of uniting beings from different planes of reality.
3. You portray a great Spike.
4. Pinkie Pie is still the best pony. Ever. Of all time.
And 5. Turns out I'm capable of laughing for five minutes straight. Did not know I could do that.
>>27782 The sensor spell is an original creation. Sort of. It would have been the card of the chapter, but Pinkie kind of overshadowed it. Here it is in card form:
Ditzy's Probe 1U
Creature — Eye Illusion
Flying
Players play with their hands revealed.
"First one to make a joke about my wandering eye swallows his teeth."
—Ditzy Doo
1/2
>>27800 That would be telling. However, I will tell you that the truth to Pinkie's youth will be revealed next chapter.
"Nicol Bolas, elder dragon planeswalker, acknowledges me as the one being who has withstood his touch with sanity unchanged"
LIES!! My touch did have an effect on her sanity... ]It made her even more dangerous
And the traditional author/Pinkie Pie conversation has been done. Can't say I'm particularly surprised, given that you effectively made Pinkie one of the most powerful creatures in the Multiverse. You pulled it off nicely though; didn't feel shoehorned in, like a few others I could name... And a few more manga references makes me a very happy and entertained reader.
You've managed to catch just the right mix between adventure and comedy here; laughs come with nearly every paragraph, but you've got your fair share of serious drama too. Not everyone can do that, very well done. One of the reasons this story is one of favorites on the site.
Somehow you manage to make things like Pinkie Pie being a planeswalker work, made Dinky the most adorable foal ever, and made Trixie lovable. All without breaking my brain.
I won't say that it will absolutely win the internet yet because for that you would to something random like Lauren Faust as an allicorn dragging Nicol Bolas away to speak with his mother. But I know it's still possible in future chapters.
I WANT to feel bad for Screwball, but she is just a summon.
The way you deal with with Generosity was very creative and well done, though the aggro player in me would have preferred something with split-second shenanigans. From straight up sudden shock to trickbind, or maybe a sudden spoiling eating away the the subcrystals. And where'd Spike go, wasn't he still in the boutique?
Can't wait to see what Magic Elemental does. Is it going to be 5c or colorless like an eldrazi?
>>147690 I've been going for a theme of the key to each elemental's defeat being the concept it embodies. Laughter was killed by a superior comedian. Honesty was destroyed by a deeper truth. Generosity was undone by its own better nature. I'll let you speculate on how that will play out with the other three.
Spike was still in the Boutique, just incapacitated and thrown in a closet until Jean felt ready to try and incorporate the volatile, greed-prone mind of a dragon. Totally not because I forgot about him and wanted to get this chapter over and done with after more than a month of no updates. 
As for the Magic Elemental, all I have to say is wait, see, and if you really want to, guess.
Dinky had a special connection in the gestalt? Iiiinteresting...
I see what you mean about how you're defeating each one with it's own nature. Bravo, very good.
Can't wait to see the next piece. We still have Loyalty, Rarity's little project, and Magic itself. I'm worried for Trixie. Weren't all the other unicorns hypnotized by Magic's influence on the surrounding area?
Right, here we go: Imagine, if you will, a student sitting before his laptop, studiously failing to pay attention to the clock nestled into said computer's desktop. A few dregs of sleep might still cling to his myriads of scrambled thoughts and seemingly nonsensical ideas, as he clicks through a series of uninteresting emails and messages that he rushes to ignore, lest his thus far beautifully unproductive day be ruined by accomplishing something.
Said student, for the record, has only just recently been dragged back down into the horrifying abyss (And drain on his wallet) that is a slight addiction to Magic. I blame the new Commander decks.
Now, in your mind's eye, picture our somnolent protagonist stumbling upon a blessed nugget of distraction in his spam-cluttered inbox, an update to one of his favorite stories. Watch as he gleefully follows the entertaining escapades of a pair of preposterous Planeswalkers, an out-of-touch Lunar Princess, an arbitrary collection of "regular" mares, and a group of silly fillies, one of whom has recently been endowed with the powers of a minor deity. And then, to top it all off, he realizes that Ollie is Dirk Strider.
Simply put, it's a pretty nice way to start a morning.
And suddenly, Dancing Mad-levels of "Oh, fuck!".
Although I have to wonder... Celestia is near-divinity, if not at least a lesser god. Who is going to stop her if she decides to intervene? Seems a little apathetic on her end, court can wait when the universe is shattering.
>>239358 Happy to be of service.
>>243198 Then I've done my job.
>>243219 What, and let the panic and chaos spread further? Better to keep the situation on a need-to-know basis. That way, the possible end of the world won't disrupt normal life if it's stopped (and Celestia is 99% sure that it will be.) It's not like she has some miraculous form of divine intervention that could fix everything. Otherwise, she'd have used it by now. Wouldn't she? 
>>244050 Unreal, perhaps?
That's true, too. I mean, sure she could intervene, but at this point she knows she doesn't have to. She's got two Planeswalkers and the Elements of Harmony in her corner.
Just seemed a bit defeatist of her, though. But to each their own, there's something to be said about a goddess that maintains utopia by doing virtually nothing.
When you consider that one of the Elements, the most powerful to boot, has taken leave of rationality, and has achieved levels of power that I am willing to guess are on-par with an old-school Planeswalker... Things might not be so much in Celestia's favour as you would like to think.
Pretty awesome. Trixie is rather clever, but that was only going to be a minor distraction. What happened to her was hilarious
. Dinky with a mox lotus is so crazy, all she needs now is Gleemax. That would mess the Elemental of Magic up quick
. Keep up the good work.
Poor Trixie. Her one chance to prove herself worthy of something, and be the big damn hero, and all she has to show for it is being turned into a rabbit.
Her life is completely crapsack. I am amazed at her ingenuity though. Against anything other than the two celestial goddesses or a newly ascended God of Magic, that attack would have pretty much annihilated anything. Kind of like leaking pure hydrogen into a room and then setting it on fire, times a bazillion.
And holy fuck, Twilight is out of control. I KNEW she was reaching Dancing Mad levels of "oh, shit!". But now that Dinky has reached epic levels of badass and has effectively become the Macguffin, all will be well.
>>690831 Omigosh. Does... does this count as fanart? 
I won't be so crass as to say that it'd look better in the actual planeswalker frame. You know, other than by saying that.
>>704407 Really? Could you explain it to me? I've just been taking dictation. I really do need to give Miss Pie coauthor credit...
>>742393 Now there's a scary thought. Pinkie, Lady of Secrets. Or, if you like Cupcakes, Pinkie, Pony Vivisectionist 
>>58311 I am suddenly reminded of Lucent Limnid, a Future Sight white vanilla flier (can't remember mana cost or power/toughness) unremarkable except for its type line: "Enchantment Creature – Illusion". Ever since I saw that card I thought it was a great idea, and wondered why there weren't more of them.
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but exactly how big a mess will Ditzy, Pinkie Pie and Tezzeret have to clean up and how many unicorns will be traumatized for life?
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