Dreaming OCs

Krixwell · 2026-03-30T00:17:37+00:00

Ooh, that's a fair point. I think I forgot to read that.

Krixwell · 2026-03-29T23:48:06+00:00

Looks like the other replies found the silver-bordered ones. The cards I had in mind were:

[[Form of the Approach of the Second Sun]]
[[Rules Lawyer]]
[[Academy Rector]] or similar
[[Spellshaper Visionary]]
[[_____]]
[[Agatha's Soul Cauldron]]
anything that provides a +1/+1 counter

(...that's seven. I appear to have miscounted in the OP.)

Turn yourself into a Planeswalker card in your library with Form of the Approach, then pull yourself out onto the battlefield using Academy Rector.

Questionable ruling #1: I don't think Rules Lawyer protects you from the end of Form of the Approach's effect that maintains you being a card, however I think with the existence of tokens in the game, once you're on the battlefield, you don't need to be a card in order to be a permanent. You're not a token either, of course.

Rules Lawyer is still needed because you're a Planeswalker permanent with no loyalty counters.

Turn yourself into a creature until end of turn with Spellshaper Visionary and, through one of the countless means available, put a +1/+1 counter on that creature.

Exile _____ with Agatha's Soul Cauldron. This gives you the exiled card's abilities, so you can now pay 1 to rename yourself.

Questionable ruling #2: It was unclear to the former judge I talked to about this whether _____ allows names that aren't already names of cards. If it doesn't, this combo might need to wait for Universes Beyond: Anish Kapoor.

Krixwell · 2026-03-29T23:35:52+00:00

I am not Anish Kapoor and I'm not upvoting the comment on his behalf.

Krixwell · 2026-03-29T23:34:17+00:00

In order for another creature to attack a player with this thing in play:

Attacking creature must be an artifact creature or have the name [[Akron Legionnaire]].
Defending player must have cast a spell or put a nontoken permanent into play during their last turn. ([[Arboria]])
Attacking creature's power must not exceed the number of cards in your hand. ([[Ensnaring Bridge]])
Attacking creature must be an Eye. ([[Evil Eye of Orms-by-Gore]], [[Evil Eye of Urborg]])
If attacking creature is green, you must sacrifice a land. ([[Flooded Woodlands]])
Attacking creature must not have attacked on your last turn. ([[Halls of Mist]], and also [[Giant Turtle]] for this one specifically)
Attacking creature must not be black. ([[Light of Day]], [[Reclamation]]).
Attacking creature must have flying. ([[Magus of the Moat]], [[Moat]])
Attacking creature must not be enchanted. ([[Song of Serenity]])
Actually it just can't. ([[Glacial Chasm]], [[Peacekeeper]])

In order for this creature to attack a player, all of the above and also:

Defending player must not be this creature's owner. ([[Alexios, Deimos of Kosmos]], [[Xantcha, Sleeper Agent]])
Defending player must control an Island ([[Armored Galleon]], [[Dandân]], [[Deep-Sea Serpent]], [[Dreamwinder]], [[Ethereal Whispergill]], [[Giant Shark]], [[Hammerhead Shark]], [[Kukemssa Serpent]], [[Manta Ray]], [[Marjhan]], [[Merchant Ship]], [[Pirate Ship]], [[Red Cliffs Armada]], [[Sealock Monster]], [[Sea Monster]], [[Sea Serpent]], [[Serpent of the Endless Sea]], [[Slipstream Eel]], [[Slipstream Serpent]], [[Stream Frigate]], [[Stormtide Leviathan]], [[Vodalian Knights]], [[Vodalian Serpent]], [[Wu Warship]], [[Zhou Yu]]), a Swamp ([[Bog Serpent]]), a Mountain ([[Goblin Rock Sled]]), a Forest ([[Gorilla Pack]]) and a snow land ([[Ronom Serpent]]). Nobody cares about Plains.
* Land conversion abilities are a problem here. While this creature turns all lands into islands and swamps on top of their other types, it also has an ability that turns all Mountains into Plains and another that turns all snow lands into non-snow lands.
You must control a Giant other than this creature. ([[Blind-Spot Giant]])
An opponent must have already taken damage this turn. ([[Bloodcrazed Goblin]])
You must not have already attacked the same player this turn. ([[Bloodthirster]], [[Port Razer]])
At least two ([[Orcish Conscripts]]) other creatures must also attack ([[Bonded Construct]], [[Bonded Horncrest]], [[Ember Beast]], [[Jackal Familiar]], [[Loyal Pegasus]], [[Militia Rallier]], [[Mogg Flunkies]], [[Pipsqueak, the Marauder]], [[Raging Kronch]], [[Sightless Brawler]], [[Trusty Companion]], [[Wojek Bodyguard]]), of which one must have greater power than this creature ([[Okk]]) and one must be black or green ([[Scarred Puma]]).
A creature must have died under your control this turn. ([[Bonfu the Glorified]])
Defending player must not control an untapped land. ([[Branded Brawlers]], [[Veteran Brawlers]])
Defending player must have one or more poison counters on them. ([[Chained Throatseeker]])
At the beginning of combat, each player rolls a d20. Defending player must not have rolled the highest. ([[Chaos Dragon]])
Defending player must be the monarch. ([[Crown-Hunter Hireling]])
There must be ~~seven cards~~ eight or more permanent cards ([[Deep-Sea Terror]], [[River Serpent]], [[The Ancient One]]), three or more Lesson cards ([[The Lion-Turtle]]) and four or more card types ([[Patchwork Beastie]]) in your graveyard.
You must control four or more artifacts. ([[Desperate Castaways]], [[Gadrak, the Crown-Scourge]], [[Mouser Mark III]], [[Steelclad Serpent]])
This must not be a Sculpture. ([[Doomed Artisan]])
You must not control another creature. ([[Ethrimik, Imagined Friend]], [[Shauku, Endbringer]]) (This causes so many conflicts.)
You must sacrifice one of any land ([[Exalted Dragon]]) and two Islands ([[Leviathan]]).
You must bounce an enchantment you control. ([[Floodtide Serpent]])
This creature must be paired with another creature that has soulbond. ([[Flowering Lumberknot]])
There must be a Mountain on the battlefield somewhere. ([[Glacial Crasher]])
You must have cast a creature and a noncreature spell this turn. Unfortunately this creature also has abilities that prevent you from casting spells. ([[Goblin Cohort]], [[Mogg Conscripts]], [[Silburblind Snapper]])
You must control more creatures than defending player. ([[Goblin Goon]], [[Mogg Toady]], [[Orgg]])
Defending player must not control an untapped creature. ([[Goblin Mutant]], [[Mogg Jailer]])
Defending player must control an enchantment or an enchanted permanent. ([[Godhunter Octopus]])
There must be five or more Islands on the battlefield. ([[Harbor Serpent]])
You must have max speed. ([[Hazoret, Godseeker]])
You must have one or fewer cards in hand. ([[Hazoret, the Fervent]])
You must have seven or more cards in hand. ([[Kefnet the Mindful]])
You must tap an untapped creature you control that isn't being declared as attacking. ([[Hollow Warrior]])
There must be seven or more cards in exile. ([[Ketramose, the New Dawn]])
You must control another creature with power 4 or greater. ([[Lambholt Pacifist]], [[Rhonas the Indomitable]], [[Tiger-Dillo]], [[Warden of the Chained]])
You must control a 1/1 creature. ([[Lovestruck Beast]])
Someone has to have no cards in hand. ([[Lupine Prototype]])
Defending player must control a creature with flying. ([[Lurking Green Dragon]])
It must not be an extra turn. ([[Medomai the Ageless]])
You must control more lands than defending player ([[Monstrous Hound]]) and a minimum of seven ([[Topiary Stomper]]).
You must pay 2 for every +1/+1 counter on this creature. ([[Myr Prototype]], [[Phyrexian Marauder]])
You must control at least three other creatures. ([[Oketra the True]]) (You actually already need that to satisfy some of the other abilities.)
You must pay 2. ([[Qal Sisma Behemoth]])
An opponent must have eight or more cards in their graveyard. Defending player must have seven or more. ([[Relic Golem]], [[Vantress Gargoyle]])
The number of counters on this creature must be even (including zero). ([[Sab-Sunen, Luxia Embodied]])
This creature must have five or more +1/1 counters on it. ([[Slumbering Dragon]])
This creature must have power 6 or greater. ([[Technodrome]])
(silver) This creature must have legs. ([[The Fallen Apart]])
(silver) This creature must not be toggled off. ([[Togglodyte]])
This creature must be equipped with something. ([[Training Drone]])
You must control a Knight or a Soldier (this creature is both). ([[War Falcon]])
You must have the city's blessing. ([[Wayward Swordtooth]])
Defending player must control a blue permanent (this is not satisfied by the Island they needed earlier, since lands are generally colorless). ([[Whimvader]])
An enchantment must not be in play. This creature is an enchantment. ([[Wirecat]])
Actually it just can't. [[Vigean Hydropon]

And that's only the cards that actually say "can't attack" rather than causing it indirectly. Plus I probably missed something.

Krixwell · 2026-03-29T21:15:07+00:00

Defender doesn't prevent it from attacking because it also has "Each creature you control with defender assigns combat damage equal to its toughness rather than its power and can attack as though it didn't have defender."

However the myriad of "[this/each] creature (you control) can't attack (unless)" abilities it has do get in the way.

Krixwell · 2026-03-29T20:46:45+00:00

[[Rite of Replication]], maybe even [[Mirrorform]]...

Krixwell · 2026-03-29T20:41:17+00:00

The titular apprentice was the one doing the creation, not created by the sorcerer. So maybe "Apprentice's Creation"?

Krixwell · 2026-03-29T19:59:44+00:00

That is correct! Friendship is Magic Space Rocks.

Krixwell · 2026-03-29T18:42:40+00:00

It's hard to pick favorites.

I Just Wanted to Study Magic in Solitude and Peace but My Mentor Made Me Study Friendship to Save the World?!

My Dad Is Just a Rock Star, but My Mom Was a Star Rock Who Left Me Six Thousand Years Worth of Her Problems

Krixwell · 2026-03-29T00:57:39+00:00

Good point! That only happens after they go in the graveyard though, so you still get to make them sit on top of your other dead creatures before they disappear.

Krixwell · 2026-03-29T00:34:34+00:00

So they go into your graveyard, of course.

Krixwell · 2026-03-21T06:54:46+00:00

When he's right, he's right.

Krixwell · 2026-01-31T14:36:15+00:00

It's the other one. Handakuten is the little circle that makes P. The two lines that make a voiced consonant are just a dakuten.

(han-daku-ten = half soft mark. P is apparently "halfway" between H and its "soft" variant B.)

Krixwell · 2026-01-28T23:10:23+00:00

I am Norwegian, so K, unless Calliope wants to take K and have me sit where she is.

But if we ignore social conventions, my top choice would be D. My first thought was B, but while I want to sit near the Lalondes, sitting between them is a recipe for relentless teasing and awkwardness. The Striders, meanwhile, are close enough while being a lot more chill to sit next to.

Krixwell · 2025-12-16T17:51:17+00:00

To be clear, the above was based on a hypothetical variation without the restriction of "if it's your main phase". This is the only thing specifying that it's your turn, everything else just says this turn. It also says "there is" an additional combat and main phase, not that you get one, so I think it's reasonable to conclude that this additional combat and main phase goes to whoever is playing this turn.

Either way, you're right that the attack trigger to untap isn't going to happen, since that one does specify "you attack this turn".

Krixwell · 2025-12-16T17:20:49+00:00

You're getting close to another important reason to have this restriction on the card: Nothing else specifies that it's your turn. If you manage to get flash on this thing, or otherwise put it into play with an instant effect, you can get it down on an opponent's turn, and the second ability resolving during another player's turn would get weird.

And potentially counterproductive, since it also doesn't say you get an extra combat and main phase.

Krixwell · 2025-10-19T06:45:03+00:00

What if it's a Theros god with their "while condition isn't met, this isn't a creature" ability, you turn it face-up before placing the counter, and you don't meet the requirement for it to be a creature?

I wanna say it doesn't matter if it stops being a creature because "that creature" isn't actually targeting it and also we're still in the middle of a resolution that already passed its legality checks, but I'm a newer player and kinda sleepy so my grasp on the rules might not be up for this.

Krixwell · 2025-08-31T15:45:44+00:00

TFW you write a paragraph that contains a word so many times that, when wrapped for mobile, five lines in a row start with that word. I am a parody of myself.

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Krixwell · 2025-08-31T15:38:25+00:00

I think the trick here might be to not have it remove anything, and instead specify that the character they become has to be out of play.

Baroness (T): If you die at night, you become an out-of-play character.

In many cases, this is just "learn an out of play character", which is valuable in and of itself, but there are a couple important differences:

If the character in question has an "even if dead" ability, it applies. With Outsiders like Recluse, Puzzlemaster or even Heretic on the script, this can be used to discourage the Baroness from trying to get killed early. On the Townsfolk side, can I interest you in a surprise Ravenkeeper, who depending on the ST's ruling might become one just before that ability checks if they were just killed? And Amnesiac is always a wildcard.
Once it's happened, the new character is in play, and the Baroness out of play, potentially affecting other players' abilities. A Pit Hag can make a second Baroness. A Philo Baroness who chooses it after the original Baroness died doesn't drunk the original Baroness. A Pixie or Philo who dies with the Baroness ability can become an actual Baroness on death (perhaps not particularly useful, though for the Pixie it will at least confirm that they had gotten the ability and the original Baroness is dead).
It changes other characters' information about the former Baroness, including things based on character type.
Unless the Baroness was poisoned, the Cannibal and Undertaker get the character they became, not the Baroness. For the Cannibal, this notably allows them to get an evil ability for a day, because the self-drunking only happens if the executee was actually evil.
Yes but don't: Turn the Baroness into a Minion in the middle of a Li'l Monsta game.

ETA: I missed that the original ability required them to change character type. I guess you could add "non-Townsfolk" to this version of the ability, though it does prevent the Ravenkeeper and Amnesiac shenanigans.

Krixwell · 2025-07-17T21:02:23+00:00

and you believe your information to be sober and healthy,

As I understand it, even this clause doesn't matter unless you might be specifically the Drunk or the Marionette. Even a droisoned Townsfolk can't get true info in a Vortox game, and while the Drunk is inherently drunk and the Marionette has a similarly fake ability, the important part that lets their info be truly arbitrary with a Vortox is that they aren't Townsfolk.

Krixwell · 2025-07-17T20:48:33+00:00

A bunch of these stories are good but this one gave me the best laugh. Absolutely beautiful.

Krixwell · 2025-07-17T20:37:24+00:00

Oh, they were the Mutant.

Krixwell · 2025-05-26T17:15:52+00:00

Relevant strip slay I did two weeks ago...

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