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During a climactic battle with King Sombra, Twilight Sparkle's Planeswalker spark ignites, flinging her far from home. Lost in a world she could never have imagined, will Twilight be able to overcome the many challenges she will undoubtedly face on her journey home?

A Magic: the Gathering crossover.
Colour is spelt with a 'u' because that's how I spell it, being British and all.
Post season three, not EQG compliant (because I haven't seen it yet).
Some light gore.

Chapters (3)
Comments ( 110 )

Twi's card is Azorius, yes? My favorite! I would make an EDH from that card so fast.

I am definitely going to be keeping an eye on this one. Hello, Sorin. Or Lilliana. Or someone equally cool.

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Yup, Twilight Sparkle, Head LIbrarian is White/Blue. Of course, that's just one of her roles—Twilight can easily fit into both Izzet and mono-white roles.

Welcome to Innistrad, Twilight. Enjoy your stay, and be very glad you didn't land in New Phyrexia.

As for the cards... please don't be offended, but this is something of a compulsion of mine. I love the story, but... well, you'll see.

Sombra, Dark King of the North 3BBB
Legendary Creature—Unicorn Pony Wizard R
Wither
You may choose not to untap Sombra, Dark King of the North during your untap step.
3B, T: Gain control of two target permanents for as long as Sombra, Dark King of the North remains tapped.
"That is mine!"
4/4

As is, Sombra's abilities are utterly, completely blue. They're also extremely overpowered. Don't be afraid to allow more story-gameplay segregation in terms of what characters and their respective cards can do.

Twilight Sparkle, Head Librarian 3WU
Legendary Creature—Alicorn Princess Wizard R
Flying
3U, T: Search your library for three instant and/or sorcery cards, reveal them, and shuffle your library. An opponent of your choice puts one of those cards into your hand, one into your graveyard and one on top of your library.
"This is my book. And I'm gonna read it!"
2/5

Looking for cards is a very powerful ability. Being able to repeatedly look for cards is incredibly powerful. At the very least, you should add the "with different names" clause to the search criteria so Twilight can't just look for three copies of the same card.
Also, in an ironic twist, Twilight's ability is more black than Sombra's. That or red. The white's a stretch here, especially since there's been a recent push for more low-power, high-toughness black creatures.

The Great and Powerful Trixie 2UU
Legendary Creature—Unicorn Pony Wizard R
T: Put a 2/2 blue Bear Illusion creature token onto the battlefield. It has "Whenever this creature becomes the target of a spell or ability, sacrifice it." Sacrifice that creature at the beginning of the next end step.
T, Reveal an instant card with converted mana cost 1 or less from your hand: You may cast the revealed card without paying its mana cost this turn.
T: Tap two target creatures.
"Watch in awe as the Great and Powerful Trixie performs the most spectacular feats of magic ever witnessed by pony eyes!"
2/2

Great and powerful indeed. Between Phantasmal Ursa production and free(!) double-tapping, Trixie is an absolute beast. Especially since there's nothing stopping her from tapping herself and a single opposing creature with her third ability. By all rights, any creature with this kind of diversity and cost should be a 0/1. At most.

Power of Friendship 1WW
Enchantment U
Whenever a black creature is dealt combat damage, that creature's controller sacrifices it at the beginning of the next end step.
When you control no Earth Pony, Pegasus Pony, Unicorn Pony or Alicorn Princess creatures, sacrifice Power of Friendship.

Well, it certainly makes up for the ridiculously overpowered cards. A hoser that gives your creatures not-quite-deathtouch in white. Moreover, an enchantment that black can actually deal with by killing your dudes. Yeah...

Again, I loved the story and am eagerly looking forward to more.

Yeay, another FiM:tG fic!

"Stood above her, on the roof of a long decayed building stood Sombra, the Dark King of the North, his silhouet stark against the setting sun."

Um, you wrote stood twice.

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Yeah... There's a reason I don't work for Wizards. Story and gameplay segregation isn't something I'm good at, nor is balancing cards.

Sombra... Well, dominating someone's mind and turning them into your thrall always felt like a black ability to me (temporary Red treason effects not withstanding—that's messing around with emotions, not the mind) whilst simply messing with their memories was a blue ability. I suppose it would make more sense if he was U/B rather than mono-B. He is a sorcerer, after all.
As for Twilight's ability, I was going off the fact that she lives in a library and can search for the spell she needs. There are other blue cards that tutor (archmage ascension springs to mind). Maybe if it was changed to the top three cards of your library, like fact or fiction. I think that would be more balanced/on colour. And the white is, again, poor gameplay and story segregation.
Trixie... Got out of hand. Badly. At one point she was a 3/4, of all things, and her tap effect lasted an extra turn like sleep. Yes, this is a nerfed version of Trixie. If I up her mana cost by U, and shrink her to a 0/1 as you suggested, that might be a bit better.
Power of Friendship was orignally way over costed (2GWB!). Thankfully, I came to my senses and fixed the price. Though, I can't help but wonder if it would work better as an instant. White is renowned for its combat tricks.

And yeah, it would be too cruel to just drop her into New Phyrexia... Just yet, that is.

I can't help but feel there should be something about Sombra's shadow form on his card, either Shroud or Unblockable, or possibly "When Sombra, Dark King of the North dies, if he is a creature, he instead becomes an Enchantment with the same activated abilities".

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As is, Sombra's abilities are utterly, completely blue.

The theft is blue (or red), but Wither is black/green/red, and the "tap to do X for as long as it's tapped, you can keep it tapped" mechanic appears in every color (and artifacts besides).

Also, in an ironic twist, Twilight's ability is more black than Sombra's. That or red.

No. Black's shtick is unconditional tutoring. Tutoring for instants and sorceries is blue's thing. Twilight's ability has echoes of Kaho, Minamo Historian.

Red doesn't get proper tutors, unless it's goblins or has an element of random. (Giving your opponent a choice isn't an "element of random".)

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Planeswalkers and ponies go really well with each other.

And I'll go fix that. Thanks for pointing it out!

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Yeah, cause he needs to be even more OP. And turning into an enchantment isn't very black. That's more of a green/white thing. I think. I may have to look that one up.

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I can only immediately think of a single card that has a creature turn into an enchantment, and I think that's blue (can't recall the name so can't look it up, though). I was just thinking that Sombra comes back from the dead, which is of course the blackest of black abilities, but loses his physical form, and while trying to come up with a rule text to represent that, "turn into an enchantment" popped into my mind.
Anyway, I will be watching the story eagerly :)

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Hmm, well, I suppose turning into a spirit token could work, although Innistrad used that in white. I can see that working in Black, however, particually in Orzhov flavour.
And I know of a couple of Green enchantments that turn into creatures, so that's probably what I'm thinking of.

2822373 Heck, why not make it a horror instead of a spirit? Horrors are unnatural things that come in all sorts of shapes and designes over the years. A smoke monster fits right in there.

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Indeed it does. A horror would work very well.

Well written! I'll be following this!

Are you going to bring in other Planeswalkers from the Card Game like Nicol Bolas, Chandra and Jace?

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Eventually. Wouldn't be much of a crossover if I didn't.

Mtg and ponies combined, this made my day.

Sorin is hands down awesome.

A Vampony, huh? I actually did not see that coming. Good reasoning, though, so it's forgiven. Also, even though I've only read the stuff on MTG Wiki for Sorin, I think you got him just right. I can't wait for that future story/chapter where Twi somehow finds Equestria and her teacher or somepony special freaks out at her new fangs. And those pigs remind me of the pigs from Animal Farm for some reason.

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Yeah... I'm not entirely sure where the idea came from myself, it just sort of happened. Managed to work with it though.

I think the Mirror of Truths should only have the token-spawning effect on non-token creatures.

Going a little fast but still a very good story.

unless by kill spells that say destroy most creatures die with 0 toughness

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I can't see how that would make a difference.

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Yes, but these two effects don't affect toughness. A 5/5 creature will still be a 5/5 creature when it is destroyed by a destroy effect. Of course, if you bolt it before it does, it will be a 5/2 creature. I think.

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Have to agree here. Really need to slow down.

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Huh. I didn't think the pacing was fast. Anything in specific that makes it too fast?

Because, to be honest, "too fast" doesn't really tell me much.

Comment posted by THEJMAN deleted Jul 6th, 2013

I think alicorn magic affects the vampire disease since Luna is one to, yet can be in sunlight/moonlight.

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Luna isn't a vampire, she just stays up late and sleeps in.

In addition, Innistrad Vampires are not affected by sunlight, but by silver—and the moon is made of silver. It isn't so much the light of the moon, but its presence unnerves them, and water that reflects it is a powerful barrier. Many mages use moonlight as a spell component as well, making the spell doubly harmful to Vampires.

Dang, this is awesome. First time I've ever read about a Planeswalker Twilight becoming a vampire of Innistrad.

2830824 no a creature goes to the graveyard when the toughness is equal to zero

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Damage does not reduce toughness (unless the source of damage has Wither or Infect).

Cards like Pandemonium and Warstorm Surge could become issues with large creatures, but that becomes a 3-card combo that doesn't even necessarily win the game instantly... not really a big issue.



Not sure I'm liking vampirism on top of Planeswalker spark, but we'll see where this leads.

2830661 2831696 2830824 I have to agree with Pino on this one. The card reads: "Its power is equal to that creature's power and its toughness is equal to that creature's toughness" And when it's in the graveyard, it's not on the battlefield, so technically it is 0/0 When it is copied. Even before then, if it stays on the stack still while the effect triggers before it actually enters the graveyard, like Pino said unless killed with a spell it would have X/0 Toughness when it triggers.

There are no cards, that I can find with "Its power is equal to that creature's power and its toughness is equal to that creature's toughness" at all. The closest, and this can be used to with Sorin Markov, Vampire Lord would be changing it to:

+1; Destroy target creature. If a creature dies this way, put a token that's a copy of that creature onto the battlefield. That token is a black Vampire in addition to its other colors and type.

The idea comes from This Card Rise from the Grave: Put target creature card from a graveyard onto the battlefield under your control. That creature is a black Zombie in addition to its other colors and types.

For Mirror of truths I think it would be something along the lines of:

4,T; Destroy target creature. If a creature dies this way, its controller puts a token that's a copy of that creature onto the battlefield. That token is a colourless Reflection.

Colour is spelled with a 'u' in every country except the United States (and so is armour, honour, favour et cetera)

I can't wait to see what our Twilight does with the Myr.

And I now see changelings as Equestrian Slivers.

2831743 yes it does ask Tabak about this then.

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Actually, it does work.
The errata for Kalitas, Bloodchief of Ghet states:

The power and toughness of the token are based on the destroyed creature's last existence on the battlefield. The token doesn't have any of the destroyed creature's other characteristics.

It's the same principle that cards like Death's Caress and Phthisis work on.

I think the issue here is that you are confusing "creature card" with "creature". When it is in a player's hand, library or graveyard, it is a "creature card". When it is on the stack, it is a "creature spell". When it exists as a permanent on the battlefield, it is a "creature" (it can also be called a "creature permanent"—both are valid syntax, but "creature" is prefered). Since both abilities refer to a "creature", you would use the last known characteristics of that creature.

But Lithl is correct about damage—damage does not reduce toughness, but instead if the amount of damage on a creature equals to or exceeds that creature's toughness, it goes to the graveyard as a state based action. Counters, however, do modify power/toughness vaules.

121.1. A counter is a marker placed on an object or player that modifies its characteristics and/or interacts with a rule, ability, or effect.

If I used Sorin Markov, Vampire Lord's +1 ability on a 5/5 creature with two -1/-1 counters on it, I would get a 3/3 black Vampire token. If I used Mirror of Truth's ability on a 6/6 creature with 4 damage on it, it's controller would get a 6/6 colourless Reflection token. If the creature didn't die (because it was removed from the battlefield by a different effect, had indestructable or regenerate or the ability fizzled) then no token would be produced.
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2831074 It is a great story but Twilight having to become a vampony in the second chapter is going a little bit too fast. I can understand meeting the vampire and everything but her becoming a vampony in the second chapter is, as I said, going a little too fast.

2833106 Brings up the point even that COULD she become a vampire? Looking up a bit on Vampires in the MTG lore, it seems all of them, except 1 card, are humans, human shaped, and so on.The one exception being a Vampire Dragon.

2831074 WHAT is this story about? Do you have a story, a goal and such? Cause if not this story is going to go down the drain really really fast, especially if in the second chapter you add in drama right in the beginning. Worse, you hide the event away, and 'tell about it' later. Twilight would probably spend the next week/month/years maybe even crying over being a monster, never seeing her friends again, or anything.

If she didn't become a vampire, she could just learn about the spark, being a planeswalker, and going on her way. Now she has restrictions, and drama, and so on.

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Whilst a few of the details do need working out, I do have a clear idea for where I want this story to go. I have, at the very least, three story arcs that will form the "core" of the story roughly planned out in my head, and ideas rolling around that could evolve into more.

Twilight being turned into a Vampire... Well, if several people have mentioned it, then yes, I probably could have handled it better. I personally don't see anything wrong with it, but I'm willing to chalk that up to creator bias.



Hmm... A lot of my later ideas aren't really set in stone, so I could write Twilight''s vampirism out compleatly without disrupting too much. I'd have to rewrite both chapters 2 and 3, and a few ideas I had for later chapters would become obsolete, but that's it.
Actually, looking at it as objectivly as possible, it dosent really do much for the story, baring Twilight's personal angst. It dosent (in my opinion) detract from the story, but neither does it add to the story.
Yeah, it can be written out. The more I think about it, the more I don't want it—especially if people are complaining about it.



This is why I need prereaders :facehoof:

2833394 Go bug the groups all about pre readers. I can't remember any of their names, but I know there are quite a few. It will probably help alot :twilightsmile:

And yeah, are you said, it doesn't add anything to the story. She becoming a planeswalker is the major thing, not being a vampire :twilightblush: Tho it probably would have been awesome of her not being a planeswalker at first. She still get pulled away for some reason, hang out with planeswalker, explore a lot of the lore, see the many different sides and events. Then something happens and her spark triggers.

But atleast your way we get right into the planeswalker awesomeness. :pinkiehappy:

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Yeah, I'll go get some prereaders. I've been hesitant in the past because I am really bad at comunicating with people, and my first few prereaders... were not very good, to say the least.

As for Twilight hanging around planeswalkers before becoming one... That's a good idea, but the question is how does she meet them? It feels very limiting to me if they all come to Equestria and hang around for a bit (they can go anywhere in the multiverse, after all), yet Twilight (under normal circumstances) can not leave her plane, since traveling through the Blind Eternities is fatal to anyone who doesn't have a planeswalker spark (although the old Phyrexians where able to build portals that achived this, if I remember correctly, and the New Phyrexians are currently working on replicating the technology—although the old Phyrexians had Mishra helping them, whilst the new ones only have their records of Karn's neowalker spark, so I have no idea how succsessful they'll be).

2833584 Well like I said, it could be any reason at all. There could even be no reason! No one knows how she survives, and is the only one to ever survive. That would catch the attention of a lot of people. Including Jace's curiosity, Nicol Bolas's attempt to gain a new powerful pawn to control, and I bet even Tezzeret's interest in the knowledge of this unknown plane and the secrets to how she survived.

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Ooh... yes, I could see that working. That would be a very intersting basis for a story.

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The card reads: "Its power is equal to that creature's power and its toughness is equal to that creature's toughness" And when it's in the graveyard, it's not on the battlefield, so technically it is 0/0 When it is copied.

As written, both cards will use LKI to determine the stats of the token. Not only are creatures not 0/0 in the graveyard (with the exception of creatures that are actually 0/0 likke Clone and creatures that are */* with CDAs that only apply while on the battlefield like Sewer Nemesis), the cards Charles wrote don't care one whit about the stats of the creature in the 'yard, but rather how the creature appeared immediately before it was put there. Among other things, that means modifying the creature's P/T will get you a modified token (Giant Growth in response gets you a bigger token), killing a Clone gets you the P/T of whatever it was cloning, and the effect works intuitively on token creatures.

There are no cards, that I can find with "Its power is equal to that creature's power and its toughness is equal to that creature's toughness" at all.

Kalitas, Bloodchief of Ghet has the same ability.

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i don't need to ask Tabak whether damage reduces toughness. i could ask any registered Rules Advisor (or anyone who'd ever tried reading the CR without continuing on the path to becoming a judge) on the planet that question, and I'd get nearly identical responses.

Unless the source of damage has either Wither or Infect, damage is simply marked on a creature. If that damage exceeds the creature's toughness (and the creature isn't indestructible), the creature is destroyed as a SBA. Marked damage is removed during the Cleanup Step or when the creature regenerates.

Wither and Infect are two static abilities that both modify the result of damage; rather than simply marking damage on the creature, -1/-1 counters are placed instead.

Nice chapter, but I did like the whole Twilight being a vampire thing. That was definitely creative.

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I kinda liked it too, but I realised that in the grand scheme of things, it would be detrimental to the story—I want it to be about Twilight's adventures in the Multiverse, not Twilight being angsty about her fate. The two ideas just didn't mesh properly, so I ditched the vampire one.

Ooh! Lot's of name calling and horse puns? I like! :trollestia:

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