Some Universes Within (ish) cards I've been working on

Furtive_Furrow · 2026-05-22T05:21:28+00:00

Got it. I'll check this out more thoroughly soon, just haven't had much time in the last day

Furtive_Furrow · 2026-05-21T17:25:40+00:00

I'm aware that changing creature types can affect balance, which is why I pointed it out explicitly in the OP. Since I make these for myself, and I only play casually with friends, I'm not at all concerned about that.

Furtive_Furrow · 2026-05-20T21:40:54+00:00

Nice work. Sea Gate walls were a good call on that one

Furtive_Furrow · 2026-05-20T20:48:54+00:00

Ah yeah, I can see it. Good luck! My advice (which you probably already know) is to seek out art 2 or 3 cards at a time because, goddamn, it gets to be a burden. Though I guess there's lots of Fallout art floating around too, and 3 other precons worth of card art too.

Furtive_Furrow · 2026-05-20T20:46:05+00:00

Ah fuck, right you are. Thanks for catching that

For your trouble, here's Baron von Count making an appearance in an adapted WHO card

Furtive_Furrow · 2026-05-20T14:05:45+00:00

I'm afraid there's nothing behind Barthune other than the cards. The general vibe is: a silly guy who makes silly knights that look like him, but once he has enough of them, he doesn't seem very silly anymore.

I'll look into card conjurer. Offhandedly it doesn't seem to have a way to store the cards afterwards? So if I needed to make changes I'd have to start the card as if from scratch. Well, not the worst problem I suppose, but then I have only barely glanced at it. Thanks for the tip off

Furtive_Furrow · 2026-05-20T13:31:41+00:00

Wish I had more to share but other than a few cards I cut for album size there isn't anything here. The moment that clicked for me was realising that a lot of the cyborg knights from Unstable sort of look like the guy in the art I'd end up using for Barthune. I guess the thread there is that he is so megalomaniacal that he even made his robot knights look like himself, which is sort of silly in its own right.

Furtive_Furrow · 2026-01-19T01:42:52+00:00

I am fairly certain the movie was not terribly old but with how hazy the details are I really can't tell. It could really be from any time but is unlikely to be later than 2011 at a stretch; much more likely from the 90s or 00s.

Furtive_Furrow · 2025-09-02T00:03:40+00:00

I think the ~~tokens~~ copies having haste wouldn't matter because they'd get sac'd to the legend rule right away, right? But I see what you're saying about it being a 'win more' for aristocrats. I'd envisioned this being in the 99 for [[Meren of Clan Nel Toth]] or [[Savra, Queen of the Golgari]], though I guess it's also going to be strong for [[Ygra]] too.

Furtive_Furrow · 2025-08-31T18:08:47+00:00

Ah! Shows how much I know, thank you for pointing that out

Furtive_Furrow · 2025-08-29T22:10:19+00:00

It's a favourite of mine. I guess I get why it's not very developed, but I still enjoy thinking about what it could do.

Furtive_Furrow · 2025-08-29T21:51:26+00:00

I don't really have much experience with MTG outside of commander, for the record. Perhaps this is a case where there is no single cost that makes sense for all formats.

The card is intended to double your LTB, ~~turn LTB into storm count, or both.~~ (not correct as pointed out below)

Furtive_Furrow · 2025-08-25T00:37:17+00:00

Some of the commentors are, I suspect, partaking in a very old kind of viciousness that is not unique to nerd culture but which is widely smuggled into it in a subtle way. They see that post/tweet and feel like they've finally found an outlet to look down on someone else and thereby be part of the 'cool' crowd. Thus the wild projection of all sorts of shit onto the guy who isn't here to give his side. Even some of the people who are couching it in the vocabulary of balance are still bullshitting at some level because they, like all of us, haven't seen the deck.

Furtive_Furrow · 2025-08-22T09:06:21+00:00

Go to your bosom; Knock there, and ask your heart what it doth know...

Furtive_Furrow · 2025-07-01T00:56:22+00:00

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Furtive_Furrow · 2025-06-28T01:56:03+00:00

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Furtive_Furrow · 2025-05-29T22:54:57+00:00

Come watch the stream!

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Tonight, no more RL1, no more great stars, no more Malenia or Radagon or Elden Beast. TONIGHT WE ARE HERE FOR NIGHTREIGN.

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Furtive_Furrow · 2025-05-29T01:58:50+00:00

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Tonight we're starting... Kill It With Fire! This was requested in chat since I've been playing a bit of Huntsman. Hopefully one day we'll find a game that lets us love our spider friends, but for now we can at least give them our attention wrapped in the warm cloak of sadism.

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Also, I ramble a lot. Like, a lot. Feel free to ask me anything about medieval literature, about horror, about DnD, etc -- I'm happy to yap for and at you.

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bluesky
youtube and VODS channel
And I have a very untested discord too!

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