More MLP Characters as Magic Cards

Yup, time for more of this! Consider this to be a further dumping grounds for any character cards I might use in future fic chapters, and a place I can go back to if I ever need to tweak them. Without further ado, here they are:

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Discord, Spirit of Chaos 3RRR

Legendary Creature — Chimera Avatar

Flying

At the beginning of your upkeep, each player exiles a permanent he or she controls at random, then reveals cards from the top of his or her library until her or she reveals a permanent card, puts that card onto the battlefield, then puts all other cards he or she revealed this way on the bottom of that library in any order.

6/3

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Celestia of the Dawn 3WWW

Legendary Creature — Horse Advisor

Alicorn (This card is a Horse, Pegasus, and Unicorn in addition to its other creature types.)

Flying, vigilance

Other Horses, Unicorns, and Pegasi you control get +1/+1 and have vigilance.

2WW, T: Exile target attacking creature. Its controller creates a colorless land token named Lunar Prison with "T: Add C to your mana pool."

4/5

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Luna of the Night 3UUB

Legendary Creature — Horse Wizard

Alicorn (This card is a Horse, Pegasus, and Unicorn in addition to its other creature types.)

Flying, hexproof

When Luna of the Night deals combat damage to a player, that player puts the top X cards of his or her library into his or her graveyard and you draw X cards, where X is the number of tapped creatures that player controls.

2U, T: Tap target creature. It doesn't untap during its controller's next untap step.

3/4

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Discord was a character that I briefly thought about making black/red, with red representing his chaotic nature, and black representing his tendency to lord his own power over others even post-reformation. However, since the end of Season 6 he's shown a fair bit of of character development and isn't anywhere close to as self-centered as he used to be, to the point where he doesn't show any such behavior at all in Discordant Harmony. Mechanically, his card embraces chaos on a fundamental level by altering the game in random and unpredictable ways, much as many of red's larger spells do.

Celestia as mono-white was far and away the easiest color pie decision to make here, and not just because her cutie mark is literally the white mana symbol. Celestia is a standout of example of all of white's positive qualities, doing everything within her power to bring about long-term peace and harmony for her people, while also ruling fairly and justly. Much like white, she's shown willing to make individual sacrifices for the sake of long-term social peace, even if it comes at the cost great personal hardship to her. Her card is mechanically centered around the flavor of protecting and inspiring her subjects, and her activated ability is a demonstration of the exact kind of sacrifice she's willing to make. (And yeah, I'm aware she technically needed the Elements of Harmony to do what the card portrays.)

Luna was a bit trickier to nail down. Black seemed like the obvious choice, being associated with the night, but on further inspection it became clear to me that her primary color was actually blue. She's just as much a benevolent ruler as her sister, but while Celestia's benevolence stems from a desire for harmony, Luna's stems from a desire to see each and every one of her subjects become the best individual they can be, as demonstrated by the effort she takes to personally mentor ponies in their dreams. This is a desire for perfection, which is blue's central desire. However, black is still a secondary color to her, as she does have a desire for her power and accomplishments to be respected and recognized by others. As the Nightmare, this secondary desire becomes her only desire, and she drops the blue in favor of mono-black (where's the Nightmare's card, you ask? Magic already has one, silly! ) Her abilities are mechanically designed around the flavor of her dreamwalking: she can help put enemy creatures to sleep, allowing the player to learn new things from the information gleaned from their dreams.

Comments

[FanOfMostEverything]

Discord, Spirit of Chaos: One of the reasons I made Discord a planeswalker is that I just can't see him charging forth to his possible demise on the say-so of some schlub from another universe. (Also, I'm still willing to lay decent odds on him being a greater elemental of Lorwyn, or possibly of Shadowmoor.) Still, I do like this version, especially once I clean it up a little:

Flying
At the beginning of your upkeep, each player exiles a permanent he or she controls at random, then reveals cards from the top of his or her library until her or she reveals a permanent card and puts that card on to the battlefield, then puts all other cards he or she revealed this way on the bottom of that library.

Sad to say, there probably isn't room for flavor text.

Celestia of the Dawn: The beauty of alicorn is that you don't need to include any of its types on the actual type line. Thank you for acknowledging that she can't moon people without the help of the Elements. (Well, she can't constructively moon them...) That said, for her size and abilities, even with triple white, five mana seems a little low.

Celestia of the Dawn 3WWW
Legendary Creature — Advisor
Alicorn (This card is also a Horse Pegasus Unicorn.)

The rest is fine, though it certainly doesn't have room for that much flavor text. (I know you don't care about the real estate concerns of actual cards, and I can't blame you for not doing so, but this sort of thing bothers me if I don't say something.)

Luna of the Night: If it weren't for the hexproof, this would be spot-on in terms of costing. As is, I'd recommend tacking on an extra mana. Also, I love how Celestia vastly improves Luna. If only they had partner.
That being said, there's nothing actually black about this design. Every component is as blue as Luna's mane.

Luna of the Night 3UUB
Legendary Creature — Wizard
Alicorn (This card is also a Horse Pegasus Unicorn.)
Flying, hexproof
Whenever Luna of the Night deals combat damage to a player, draw a card for each tapped creature that player controls.
2U, T: Tap target creature. It doesn't untap during its controller's next untap step.

Yadda yadda flavor text no fun allowed.

[Zennistrad]

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Thanks for the feedback! I can always count on you to help me tweak the balance a little bit.

One of the reasons I made Discord a planeswalker is that I just can't see him charging forth to his possible demise on the say-so of some schlub from another universe. (Also, I'm still willing to lay decent odds on him being a greater elemental of Lorwyn, or possibly of Shadowmoor.

Planeswalkers actually aren't the only beings that can travel between planes naturally, they're just the most common, and are a specific type of being defined by the ignition of a spark. Other creatures that can freely move through the Blind Eternities include Eldrazi, but there are also other types of beings that can travel between planes at will, the most notable being Merit Lage.

Discord, in my own personal headcanon, is a physical manifestation of the chaotic energies of the Blind Eternities itself, filtered through planar reality into a more worldly conception of chaos. He can very much travel through planes at will, but he isn't strictly a planeswalker.

Still, I do like this version, especially once I clean it up a little:

I kind of agree, but it is generally customary to add "in any order" to ability's like Discord's when putting revealed cards on the bottom of your library, so I tweaked the wording there a bit.

The beauty of alicorn is that you don't need to include any of its types on the actual type line.

I included the "Horse" creature type (Pony isn't an existing creature type in Magic, sadly) on the Royal sisters because existing creatures with multiple creature types in the rules text usually also include one racially-attributed creature type in their type box, the standout example being changelings being listed as Shapeshifters.

I've also upped her mana cost by one. And yeah, I figured I might not be able to fit flavor text into an actual card. I've removed it now since after planning a bit more of future chapters I've decided it's definitely a spoiler for Sideboard Stories, albeit a very minor one.

That being said, there's nothing actually black about this design. Every component is as blue as Luna's mane.

I was actually aware of that during design but I struggled to find a way to incorporate the secondary black color. It's not unheard of for multicolored creatures to have abilities that lean heavily, if not entirely, towards one color, but I think adding a mill ability to the card draw makes it work. To compensate for the increased utility, I've lowered her power and upped her mana cost by one each.