Chapter the Onlyeth
Twilight Sparkle was busily working away in the library when she heard the front door slam open. This didn't seem like much of a surprise at first; for one thing it was, after all, a public library. Ponies came and went all day. On top of that, her adopted daughter Nyx was due in from school any time. So she did not realize anything was wrong until she heard Nyx shouting "MOM!!!!!! How do you sue somepony!?"
"What in the world?" Twilight thought. She stepped out into the main room to find her daughter standing at the door. "Nyxy, what's wrong?" Twilight asked. "Why in the world would you want to know how to sue somepony?"
"This is why!" Nyx answered. "You know my friends and I have been playing that science fiction card game right?" Twilight nodded. At first she hadn't wanted Nyx wasting bits on such a game, but when she saw that it's complexity could be good for mental development she decided to allow it. Nyx continued "Well, I stopped at the store on the way home, since the new expansion set came out today... Look at the title!!!" Nyx help up a packet of cards in her magic, it was clearly titled 'Journey Into Nyx.'
Twilight began to chuckle. "Sweetie, I doubt they had you in mind. There are other meanings for Nyx. Like the story character I named you after, or, there's a long-dead pony civilization that had a god named Nyx."
"Yeah, but what if it is me?" Nyx insisted. "I mean, Journey INTO Nyx...? It's kinda perverted."
"And just how does a young filly like you even know what a pervert is?"
"Twist told us about them."
"Well never mind that... So that you know, I actually do retain a lawyer. As Celestia's student, and the Element of Magic, and your mother, well, it's kind of unavoidable." Twilight shook her head. "But I don't think we'll be suing over a coincidence."
"Oh all right." Nyx said. Taking her cards, she trotted up the stairs to her own room. There, she shrugged out of her saddle bags, flopped down onto her bed, and stared at the foil card package. "Might as well see what I got." She decided, and so she tore open the wrapper and looked through the cards. All was well until she reached the last one, the 'rare' card of the pack. Nyx stared at the card before her in disbelief. Blinked and shook her head in case she was seeing things. She wasn't. "MOM!!!!! Call that lawyer!!!!!!!" The filly shouted as loudly as she could.
Twilight rushed up the steps and into Nyx's room. "What's wrong now?"
"What's wrong now? You wanna know what's wrong now!? I'll show you what's wrong now!!!" Nyx exclaimed. She floated the offending card up to her mother's face:
"What the!?" Twilight exclaimed. "This was actually in your cards?"
"Sure was. Can we sue now?"
"Now don't get too worked up... We will absolutely investigate this and let them know we don't appreciate it. But going straight to court is overreacting."
"But Mom..."
"Besides, I'd think you'd be happy. That looks like a really good card."
"It is, totally, but..." Nyx sighed. "Oh well, I bet Scootaloo will be happy at least."
"What? Why her?"
Nyx pointed to the third ability on the card. "Crusaders token. If they've gone so far as to get my picture, I bet Scoots' is on that card. She's probably loving it too."
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As it turned out, Nyx was half right in her guess. Half an hour later the library door slammed open again and the original three Cutie Mark Crusaders marched in. "Nyx! Have you seen these new cards!?"
"I'm guessing you're on the token?" Nyx asked.
"Sure are!" Scootaloo replied angrily. "Look at this!" She held up a card:
"And you're mad?" Nyx asked. "Why?"
"You have to ask?" Sweetie Belle answered.
"Yeah, why does it take all three of us to equal just a 1/1?" Scootaloo demanded. "I bet if you're on a card it'll be better than that!"
Nyx blushed. "Yeah, about that..." She showed them the Nyx card.
"Whoa! Three of us to make 1/1 and you've got all that by yourself!?"
"In fairness Scootaloo, she is an alicorn." Apple Bloom said.
Scootaloo thought about this for a moment before admitting "Okay. Yeah, I'll give them that one."
Twilight came in from the kitchen just as they were discussing the issue. "Oh calm down, it's not that big of a deal."
"Ah've got ta' disagree Twi." A voice said. They looked to see the remaining element-bearers coming in through the door. Rarity was carrying a full box of booster packs in her magic.
"Oh don't tell me you guys are freaking out over this too?" Twilight asked.
"Ain't freakin' out when it's mah little sistah on one a these cards!" Applejack insisted. "So we're gonna look through all these ta' see who else they've got."
Twilight shook her head. "Suit yourselves, but this is getting out of hand."
And so the ponies, except for Twilight, each began searching through the cards. It took only a few minutes before Rainbow Dash began laughing hysterically. "Uh-oh..." Pinkie said, "What did you find?" The pegasus showed them:
"Um... I'm sorry but I don't get it..." Fluttershy whispered. "I mean, it's Soarin but why is he a vampony?"
"Let's just say it makes sense in context." Nyx chuckled.
The search continued. For the most part, the cards seemed perfectly normal. It was almost fifteen minutes later when Rarity's eyes went wide and she gasped. "OH...! Oh the horror! Oh, it's the WORST. THING. EVER! How horribly uncouth! Twilight dear, we ARE suing, and it's going to be a class action!"
"Why? Just how bad is your card anyway?"
"Oh, it's not a card of me. That I could handle. This, though, oh it's mortifying!!!" She held up the card for all to see:
Rarity fainted backwards onto a sofa.
"Oh come on you guys!" Twilight exclaimed, exasperated. "Look, I admit it's weird. And I agree that we need to have a word with this "Warlocks of the Beach" company... But don't you think you're all going a little overboard?" She picked up a packet of cards in her magic, tore it open, and started looking through them one by one. As she did, she continued talking "I mean, if I were to find a card of myself in this pack, I would stay calm, cool, and coll... ...ect... ...ted..." Twilight paused, dropped all of the cards but one. She stared at it. Her left ear twitched. Her eyes narrowed.
"Call the lawyers..." Twilight whispered. "It. Is. ON..."
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Hmm, who could have orchestrated this?
My money is on
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I desperately want a pony based MTG expansion. Now.
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Luna could be a two-sided card with Nightmare Moon on the other side.
Flaming Pony Horror, hahaha!
Now this is the story I like to read: very short, but very random and funny. Being a Magic: The Gathering fan, I couldn't help but laugh when "Journey Into Nyx" set came out. I'm glad someone wrote a fanfic referencing the set.
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I could actually see a flip card called 'Luna- Princess of the Night/ Nightmare Moon'
This....This is hilarious.... I was trying not to burst out laughing because it was late and I couldn't wake a friend, but inside, this whole thing just had me rotflmao the entire time.
congratulations.
I don't get the Soarin' Markov joke.
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It's a homonym. Magic has a vampire character named Sorin Markov. Sorin and Soarin sound alike.
6007507 I know about Sorin Markov. He's the planeswalker who summons 1/1 vampires with lifelink. my question is if Soarin' is supposed to be Sorin why isn't Soarin' a planeswalker?
Magic The Gathering had a spell card that was the equivalent of a nuclear bomb. The CMC card should be at least that destructive.
6023828 I agree completely
That is perfect and fits in with MTG and MLP. And now I would like to see MLP MTG cards.
Wow. How did I miss this? Rather amusing, though the templating is a bit... well, off. I apologize, but this kind of my thing.
Nyx: Nyx WUBRG
Legendary Creature — Alicorn Pony
W: Nyx gains flying until end of turn.
U: Nyx can't be blocked this turn.
B: Nyx gains lifelink until end of turn.
R, T: Nyx deals 1 damage to target player
G, T: Put a 1/1 green Pony creature token named Crusaders onto the battlefield.
2/3
Not sure I really buy that Nyx is all colors. White-black seems more up her alley. Also, the card itself is quite underpowered. Compare Cromat. Furthermore, her white and blue abilities are fairly redundant.
Soarin' Markov: Unless Cloud is a land type in Science: the Convergence, cloudwalking has no apparent rules meaning. Even if that's the case, it should be cloudwalk. Furthermore, keywords after the first don't need to be capitalized, and the list shouldn't end in a period. Cf. Akroma. I won't say anything regarding possible planeswalker status, but conserving creature types is always a good idea; there's no reason Soarin' can't be a Pegasus Vampire. Also, nonlegendary creatures shouldn't have proper names. As is, you can have four Soarin's out at the same time.
Tom: Tom 4
Artifact Creature — Rock
Cast Tom only if a permanent named Rarity is on the battlefield.
When there are no permanents named Rarity on the battlefield, exile Tom.
Tom's power and toughness are each equal to the number of discord counters on permanents named Rarity.
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Aside from the horribly parasitic card design (Making the card completely dependent on another specific card, to the point of it dying twice when there isn't one? Not advisable,) you haven't accounted for how the "legend rule" allows each player to control a legendary permanent with the same name. Furthermore, again, nonlegendary creatures should have more generic names.
Twilight Ablaze: If everyone loses at the same time, the game is a draw. Also, this would probably work a lot better as a Unicorn Berserker, and I see no reason to ever play one, unless you're also running Platinum Angel and are That Guy. And, once again, nonlegendary creatures need generic names.
Now that I've satisfied my compulsion, again, entertaining little story.
P.S. derpicdn.net/img/view/2014/1/20/529821__safe_oc_edit_alicorn_alicorn+oc_pun_satyr_oc-colon-nyx_card_magic+the+gathering.jpg
Well she got a mythic rare...
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Do you mean like Wrath of God, Rout, Damnation, Worldfire, Armageddon, Jokulhaups, Terminus, Worldbreaker, All Is Dust...Magic has more than one nuke.
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I'm not into the game myself. I just remember a friend mentioning it.
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Fair enough. Sorry if I came across as hostile, I was more amused by how many things in Magic could be called "nukes," given that at this point I'm pretty sure there's like two new ones each year.
Lol twilight
all the pictures are just lines of text saying "0x0 px"
rip me..
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Odd. They're still working for me.
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just figured it out, turns out it was my school's stupid content filter lmao
Damn this was a great story, please tell me that you are planning on making a sequel to it.
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Not every creature with a name is legendary, actually, in actual MTG. There are some that should, but aren’t because of some reasoning. Anyways, so I think that point is fairly moot due to Ali Baba, Sensei’s Divining Top, and other cards.
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Ali Baba predated the legendary supertype, and there can be (and apparently is) more than one teacher's fortune-telling spinny thing in all of Kamigawa. Some other examples were cases of insufficient world building, especially in Homelands.
The point is that if it has a proper name, convention dictates that it should be legendary if possible. Otherwise, use a more generic name for it. Like Sensei's Divining Top.
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Shoot! You saw the holes in my argument! Anyways, I had decided to seek out resources and found a thread of various examples of generic names that still should only have one, such as Mayor of Avabruck, but you can have four mayors for one town.
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Avabruck actually goes through a new mayor every month. They kept electing werewolves so often, they ended up just reducing the term to one lunar cycle.
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but at one time, they can have upwards of 16 mayors, since I can control four current mayors, same with you, Alfred, and Jenny over there.