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Omen Machine
Artist: David Rapoza
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Mardu Planeswalker OC: Nalyx, the Dross Devourer
Origin
Art by David Rapoza
When Jin-Gitaxias, Phyrexian praetor of the Progress Engine, returned from Kamigawa with the Reality Chip, all of New Phyrexia became frantic with the potential of such a discovery. Since the previous Father of Machines, Yawgmoth, had perished, the Blind Eternities had changed. The previous Phyrexian invasion engines no longer could pierce the veil between planes. However, with the Reality Chip producing the first Phyrexian Planeswalker in Tamiyo, the horizons for the Phyrexian war machine had greatly expanded. Particularly, the Progress Engine researchers began thinking of ways to most efficiently make use of this new technology. An underling of Malcator, named Sik-Rac, theorized a machine called The Siren Engine, capable of attracting those with sparks from across the Multiverse by combining the technology of The Reality Chip and that of Memnarch’s Soul Traps.
Art by Raymond Swanland
Meanwhile on a long desecrated plane known as Gorigmal, the elder vampire planeswalker known as Naligmal slumbered within his crypt. Older than the Thran, Elder Dragon War, and first Phyrexian Invasion combined, Naligmal knew power. His will and ambition was so unbending that nothing had ever stopped him from conquering planes for a long time… that was, until he faced his greatest opponent yet: boredom. He had sired generations upon generations of broods, and the number of worlds that saw him as an invincible god were beyond count. However, he realized that the joy of it all had been lost to him. And so, he went into a deep slumber, hoping the future he awakened to would provide him with a challenge.
Art by Dimitar Marinski
Suddenly, in his slumber, Naligmal heard a strange melody, beckoning him to awaken. Bursting from his tomb, he found the world had indeed changed since he fell into a deep sleep. The Mending had sapped him of much of his power, but the power that coursed through his veins was still terrifying to behold. After laying waste to nearby civilizations on Gorigmal to sate his hunger, he turned his attention to the melody that sang to him so sweetly. It called to him from all around, and Naligmal soon realized it was not coming from anywhere on Gorigmal. In a burst of crimson light, Naligmal planeswalked to the melody…
Art by Anthony Francisco
…and straight into Sik-Rac’s Siren Engine. The room around Naligmal was incredibly dark, and a chilling silence filled the air. After a brief moment, a creature speaking a language he did not understand yelled out to him, and then the room began to fill with enormous amounts of black ichor. Naligmal attempted to move, but found a sudden weakness filled his body as if something was entrapping him. The Mending had weakened him more than he realized, and although he knew he could escape this enchantment, he realized it would not be quickly enough to evade the black ichor. Cursing at the foul creature, Naligmal sank into a pool of black ichor. The melody stopped, and was replaced with a metallic voice. It told him to join Phyrexia. It told him to bow to the will of the machine. It told him to embrace his new gifts. Naligmal, however, was not one to be so easily corrupted.
Sik-Rac stood beside Jin-Gitaxias, looking to the pool of black ichor as the Reality Chip’s tendrils pulsed magical energy into the Siren Engine. Malcator slowly stopped channeling his paralysis spell, and the room was filled with a chilling silence again. The three Phyrexians waited patiently to see the results of the first trial run of the Siren Engine. A rumbling began to build within the pool, and Jin-Gitiaxias threw up a protective shell around himself and his fellow researchers. A new Phyrexian Planeswalker exploded out from the pool of black ichor, hissing at the world around him as he landed just beside the protective shell. Pleased with the process, Sik-Rac approached his latest creation to welcome it into the Phyrexian fold.
The vampire snatched Sik-Rac into its massive claws and tore the Phyrexian in two before devouring the Glistening Oil dripping from its open body. Jin-Gitaxias quickly teleported the Reality Chip into his clutches as the vampire lunged at the Siren Engine’s core and eviscerated it in one clean slice. Turning back to Jin-Gitaxias as he hung from the ceiling where the core previously was, the elder vampire cried out…
“I have never met a more powerful adversary than the will of the oil! You think you can enslave me? You believe yourselves my new masters? You sicken me! Together, we are one! Naligmal is no more! The oil has birthed me anew, and together none can stop us! We are Nalyx, and together our will is unbroken!”
Jin-Gitaxias watched as a crimson glow appeared within the oil seeping from Nalyx’s mouth. It would seem rather than being enthralled as expected by the oil, Naligmal and the oil had clashed within his mind and come to a standstill. And rather than either back down, they had come to an agreement. Naligmal would not bow, but he would accept the oil’s powerful gifts. And so, Nalyx was born within the now destroyed Siren Engine. The oil mutated when combined with the powerful elder vampire’s essence, and was now something new. Jin-Gitaxias sent out a telekinetic burst of energy, sending Nalyx across the room, before teleporting himself and Malcator away. Nalyx viewed their magical trail and planeswalked to follow them across New Phyrexia.
Art by Marc Simonetti
Appearing on a bridge in front of several Phyrexians, Nalyx looked around himself and plotted his next actions. He found Jin-Gitaxias, now standing beside an extremely tall Phyrexian with a massive headpiece. He charged towards Jin-Gitaxias before he found himself stopped in his tracks by a sharp glare of White magic. Elesh Norn spoke…
“Nalyx, as I have been told. We understand your desire. We know your true wishes. You seek to conquer, and we have a proposition for you.”
Readjusting himself, Nalyx considered her words before speaking…
“We shall listen.”
Description
Nalyx is a Phyrexian Elder Vampire planeswalker who’s mind is equally his own and that of the Glistening Oil. When he was compleated, he defied its will with his own equally dominant will. The two primordial forces, rather than destroying each other, agreed to a beneficial alliance. Nalyx would offer receive the enhancements of the oil to regain some of the power he lost during the Mending, and Nalyx would carry the oil across many worlds. After escaping the Progress Engine, Elesh Norn offered Nalyx a deal: assist New Phyrexia and Elesh Norn would provide Nalyx with the resources to truly challenge the entire Multiverse. Nalyx, again, agreed to this alliance.
Nalyx’s elder vampire powers are all but unparalleled among vampires in the Multiverse, and the Glistening Oil only further strengthens these powers. Capable of harvesting the life essence of those around him with a mere gesture, it takes a truly powerful entity to go toe-to-toe with Nalyx. Furthermore, due to his compleation, the drained husks of his victims are reborn as fresh Obliterators in the service of New Phyrexia.
Nalyx looks like a Phyrexian Obliterator himself, albeit with a cape made of the stolen, bloody skin of his victims. His mouth is also filled with long teeth like that of a Viperfish to more effectively devour his victims.
Art by Todd Lockwood
He has currently been tasked with keeping the Dross swamps of New Phyrexia from rebelling in order to ensure Elesh Norn’s leadership position. He doesn’t like taking orders, but he is fine with having an excuse to feed.
Art by Titus Lunter
#mtg#oc#nalyx#Titus Lunter#Todd Lockwood#Marc Simonetti#Anthony Francisco#Dimitar Marinski#Raymond Swanland#David Rapoza#New Phyrexia#Phyrexia#Phyrexians#Vampire
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i can't get over how cool this card looks
#David Rapoza#magic the gathering#mtg#lord of the rings#lotr#and it's a good card too!#Dunland Crebain
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gotta get back. back to the present samurai jesent
*wh-cha*
I am ten goddamn sets behind but I have to catch up because we’re almost back to The Horniest Goddamn Plane In All Of Magic Canon (that’d be New Phyrexia, babes!) and if I don’t cover that in uncomfortable detail, then what was this blog even for? We got some ground to cover, so let’s get going.
CORE SET 2021
Good news! Unlike Core Set 2020, this one isn’t a complete wash!
Indulging Patrician (art by Miranda Meeks)
Meeks giving vampire-fuckers exactly what they want here. Rose-tinted diaphanous silks & equally-diaphanous bats, the delicate damask patterns, the bridal carry, the victim’s languid pose, the collarbones, the blood - but for me, it’s the contrast between the vampire’s self-possessed hauteur and the trickle of blood down her throat that really makes this work.
Liliana, Waker of the Dead (art by Anna Steinbauer)
Liliana almost always makes the list, of course, but usually she gets here through raw displays of power and dominance. Steinbauer’s taken a different tack here, though, constructing this pastoral idyll centered around Liliana as a Gothic heroine. Is that sharp-edged pensiveness hesitation? Regret? Whatever it is, it’s a vulnerability we don’t usually get to see with her. This is easily, easily my favorite Liliana. It’s also about forty percent more Audrey Hepburn than typical, which. Yeah, that works for me.
KALDHEIM
man i just really do not care for the art direction in Kaldheim if I’m being honest. “viking plane” has a lot of potential and most of the art here is well-executed i just can’t help but feeling like the briefs the artists were given were kind of half-assed. like they have gods of DEATH and FEAR and they just look like whole foods hipsters. still, though! couple of hot valkyries.
Eradicator Valkyrie (art by Tyler Jacobson)
You really have to appreciate when someone just fully commits to a vibe. She could have stopped with the corpse paint and the black and gold everything but she went that extra mile for the blue flame wings and the smoldering pillar of the damned.
Youthful Valkyrie (art by Anna Steinbauer)
Yeahhhhh, I knew I could count on Steinbauer to deliver something ineffably sapphic. Hot, broody warrior angel fits the bill. Thank you for your service as always, ma’am.
HONORABLE MENTION: Jorn, God of Winter (art by Magali Villeneuve)
I gotta give credit where credit is due: in one of the drier sets in a very neutered Magic the Gathering era, Villeneuve has made a god who one million percent fucks. This rules.
STRIXHAVEN: SCHOOL OF MAGES
You know, I figured there’d be more candidates at wizard college, if for no other reason than there’d be more girls with glasses - but no, not even Goth Entomologist House OR Bitchy Poet Vampire House produced a single hit between the two of them. Here’s what we do get:
Professor Onyx (art by Kieran Yanner)
Liliana Vess: MILF professor version. I don’t need to say more than this, the scenario writes itself. Still, I do wanna pause and note the shoulder battlements. This is a woman who knows the value of fortifying gun emplacements, by which, yes, I do mean her tits.
Dragonsguard Elite (art by David Rapoza)
Oh yeah this is genuinely horny. Big owl glasses, perfect facial features, picturesque windblown hair, a dramatic display of power, those curves. I’ve really missed art that manages to be self-indulgent but not boring. More of this!
ADVENTURES IN THE FORGOTTEN REALMS
I have a great deal of resentment about the D&D crossover sets in terms of flavor. You can’t make Lolth, Zariel, and Mordenkainen planeswalkers in Magic canon and then be like oh well but no not really it’s not like they can go to Ravnica or something like that. Motherfucker then they’re not planeswalkers! You didn’t even bother to make Lolth hot! That was a fucking slam dunk! Three different D&D sets and you didn’t even include a single marilith!
I could keep going, at great length, but instead I’m choosing to be responsible and talk about the hot girls.
Ingenious Smith (art by Nicholas Elias)
I’m going to confess to spending an unspecified-but-lesbian amount of time watching Simone Giertz build weird shit on youtube. This scratches that same primal dyke itch of wanting to watch a clever, funny woman make something with her hands, but with bigger biceps.
Djinni Windseer (art by Livia Prima)
Look, man, sometimes what you want is a hot blue lady in a tornado.
Kalain, Reclusive Painter (art by Justine Cruz)
Cruz is almost a complete newcomer to Magic the Gathering here, which is really impressive because Kalain is the clear stand-out of this set. I personally wouldn’t choose to paint in my finest red doublet, but obviously this is a deficiency in my commitment to the Byronic artist Aesthetic. Obviously I don’t glower intensely enough. Obviously I don’t dress enough like a mildly-genderfluid Prussian vampire. Rest assured Kalain will be making none of these rookie mistakes!
I genuinely have so much gender envy about Kalain, holy shit.
OKAY progress made. This was the tail end of the drought. We got two Innistrad sets next, and whatever else you wanna say about those sets, I’m pretty sure we get more hits in even just one of them than we did in the four sets covered here together. Next time we got: girls accessorizing with bones, girls accessorizing with snakes, Hot Crossbow Autumn, woman laughing alone with shovel, dog mom, and so, so many vampires.
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85 Thieving Skydiver, by Kieran Yanner for "Zendikar Rising"
86 Draugr Necromancer, by David Rapoza for "Kaldheim"
87 Specter of the Fens, by G-host Lee for "Strixhaven: School of Mages"
#mtg#magic the gathering#fantasy#tcg#gaming#fantasy card game#expansion set#card number#zendikar#kaldheim#strixhaven#arcavios#wotc#wizards of the coast#road to 100
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Preliminaries Match 3: Gideon, Battle-Forged vs Gideon, Champion of Justice
Kytheon, Hero of Akros' less successful older brother versus the most infamous non-Planeswalker Deck Gideon. Kython sees a lot of play, but how often does he actually get to transform? Without looking, can you name all 3 of his loyalty abilities? What's his starting loyalty? While you think about that, Champion of Justice will +1 for 3 turns, reach 12 loyalty, and then die to a Hero's Downfall. But how about that David Rapoza art?
#magic: the gathering#magic the gathering#mtg#gideon jura#character tournament#polls#eight frickin gids tournament
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Not pokemon related but i thought yall might enjoy the 8x8 watercolor i did of “Nissa of Shadowed Boughs” this is a reproduction of the amazing work of David Rapoza and is NFS. I made this for my amazing spouses birthday :) long live Nissa 💔
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Dream Devourer
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Draugr Necromancer
Artist: David Rapoza
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Magic: The Gathering - Boom! Studios Variant Cover ~ art by Dave Rapoza
#2021#June 10th 2021#magic#magic the gathering#magic: the gathering#mtg#magic tcg#card games#wizards#wizards of the coast#magic cards#tabletop gaming#artwork#art#comics#mtg comics#boom! studios#david rapoza#dave rapoza#comic art#planeswalkers#liliana vess#elspeth tirel#planeswalker#magic art
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Following recent events in Venom and King in Black, Marvel is planning for more symbiote madness this summer in Extreme Carnage. The event series will kick off with an “Alpha” issue that will sport a cover featuring Flash Thompson, aka Agent Venom, who recently returned from the dead.
(cover by David Rapoza)
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#extreme carnage#flash thompson#agent venom#marvel#comic books#phillip kennedy johnson#david rapoza#manuel garcía#venom#carnage
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