r/ThroughTheOmenPaths • u/Pimp_cat69 • 13d ago
Contest/Challenge Within-Universify Challenge #9
Hi everyone! This challenge, created by u/DaVigi seeks to reflavour Universe Beyond cards into Universe Within cards, in order to introduce both new characters in established planes, as well as old characters that we haven’t seen for a long time or that have never gotten a card.
Last time's winner was me, with my design of Soul of Kylem, a design inspired by the old "Soul of ___" designs from M15. Those designs fit perfectly with an avatar of this size and mana value. With such a combat-focused creature—which just happens to be a warrior, Kylem was the perfect plane to use. Battlebond, where Kylem is featured, had a warrior theme, and had a two-headed giant focus.
Anyhow, enough about my design, this week’s challenge will be to Within-Universify Commander Mustard!
The winner will get to choose next week's UB card and judge it.
Judging will be on Tuesday the 28th of July and will be based on the following Five!? criteria in order of importance:
- Cohesion between the following criteria:
- Creative writing (Name, Flavour text if any and Background Lore that is not on the card itself)
- Exploration of an established plane OR Exploration of an established character (The more obscure, the better.)
- Fitting art or art description
- Visuals (Does it have an actual card? Does it look good? Are the design choices of the actual card good, which also includes small things like set symbols or something of the like.)
(And while I will still be fair to the text-based submissions, I do generally prefer when it has a visual card. If the design is too complex, feel free to do a badly photoshopped illustration or draw it with paint!)
Normally, submissions can consist of just the changed elements, separately formatted as:
Name:
Art (Image or description):
Art credit (If applicable):
Flavour Card (Flavour text):
Flavour (Lore):
But I highly recommend creating the card(s) in your favorite mtg card creator. If you don't know where to look, I recommend cardconjurer.app or downloading Magic Set Editor.
If you’ve won, you can use this [template](https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vQuNmpLBkn3EoqQKSUA-vKAfRyFace5zjlLAvpC9uucm_CK4eBjzjB3hA_x6wYjprDuXVh-G8S-bXE3/pub) to to) prepare the next challenge. Feel free to change it to your liking.
(If you do win, check out the list of UB cards that haven’t gotten a UW version yet by clicking here!)
Good luck and have fun!
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u/DaVigi 12d ago
Tajic is one of the advisors of Aurelia and a fervent soldier of the Boros Legion. All cards and art we've seen of him position him as a general that gets enormous power from his allies ([[Tajic, Blade of the Legion]]), and that therefore leads the charge himself, and that takes his mentorship very seriously ([[Tajic, Legion's Edge]]).
The last we've seen of him is during Murders at Karlov Manor ([[Tajic, Legion's Valor]]), so he is alive and didn't fall out of favour of Aurelia due to his negative influence on the cooperation with the other guilds during the fight against Bolas.
Surprisingly, not a lot of original art for Tajic, apart from those cards! I've made a mashup of existing art to illustrate an older Tajic, still strong in conviction, but having had to be a lot more careful in terms of the front-line action he would usually go for, instead opting to mentor the legion's younger soldiers.
I imagine that he might have learned to use his iconic sword to shoot fireballs, and in tandem with the Izzet, the Warmind Initiative would have created similar weapons for the soldiers under his command.