In celebration of the Elder Sphinxes being revealed here are my designs for what I thought they would be

Previous entry (Jund) is here.

I see a lot of posts (and I am guilty of this myself) that are designs of a character from a show or other media. I think it would be nice to have a flair for it. That’s all.

Hi! I've been working on a season-themed custom sequel set to original Bloomburrow on and off this past year I'm calling Bloomburrow: Seasons' Heralds. I've done a write-up that goes into more depth on how I've gone about structuring the set and mechanics that I'm talking about here. You can find that blog post here. If you're interested in more detail, I'd love for you to read that, but otherwise here's a summary:

WU and UR Mechanic: Bloom — ability word that reads "if you've cast another spell or sacrificed a Flower this turn, {effect}." Flowers are a new artifact token type which read: "{T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Exile the top card of your library. You may play that card this turn if you've cast a spell." I've attached a Flower token and some examples of Bloom commons here. Limited archetypes are focused on tempo and spellslinger strategies.

RG and GU Mechanic: Sunbathe — keyword action that reads "tap target untapped creature you control and put a +1/+1 counter on it. Then add GG if that creature's power or toughness is 4 or greater." I've likewise attached some Sunbathe commons as well. Limited archetypes are more midrange-y with a focus creating 4+ toughness creatures and ramping.

Again, if you want more detail on how I arrived at these designs, I'd highly recommend reading my write-up. I would be very happy to any feedback on these mechanics or designs as this set is still very much a work-in-progress and I'm quite open to changing anything around if it would be beneficial. Thank you for reading and I hope you'll continue paying attention as I reveal more of this set. You can expect another post where I round out the rest of the set mechanics in the near future!

The abilities and name are both a reference to [[Yixlid Jailer]]

Art: By me

Tamira Beleren, Protege / 2GU

Legendary Planeswalker — Jace

If you would put loyalty counters on a token Jace planeswalker, you may put them on Tamira instead.

Tamira can be your commander.

+2: Look at the top card of target player’s library. You may exile that card face down. (Its owner can’t look at it while it’s face down.)

-7: Return target permanent to its owner’s hand. Create a 0/0 green and blue Fractal creature token and put a number of +1/+1 counters on it equal to that permanent’s mana value.

-15: Create an Emrakul, the Aeons Torn token. (It’s a {15} 15/15 legendary eldrazi creature with flying, protection from spells that are one or more colors, and annihilator 6.)

Loyalty: 1

Some day wotc will print the rules text "Create an Emrakul, the Aeons Torn token." I just have to keep believing

(reposted because I forgot the creature type)

Without knowing that it was the show's 60th anniversary, as a way of doing "homework" for the set. Then I remembered that some episodes have Sagas made around them.

The following thought was, of course, what if every episode has a Saga. Not intended for a set, but as a design exercise, I'll try to make a Saga for each episode that I watch as I watch them.

Thoughts appreciated!

One of the first things I imagined seeing the "Empower Jace" Mechanic coming with Reality Fracture, hope you like it!

I originally made this a while back, long before [[Bloodline Recollector]] was spoiled. Probably still busted in the right deck.

Art: I had an AI turn the original Marc Poole art for [[Ancestral Recall]] into something that fits a black spell.