Lavos
Finally, the party faces off against Lavos. After a harrowing battle, the enormous parasite would prove to be no match for the heroes.
This piece is by the enormously talented Orioto, who's done some of my favorite fanart pieces of many different video games.
As for the mechanics, I wanted something that wasn't easy to summon. Magus spent decades trying to figure out how to do it, and his mother did it almost by accident. There are two cards that directly get this card out, and several others (albeit out of its color identity) that can suspend it. Whenever Lavos emerges, there is mass destruction around it, and it basically devours your permanents to power itself up.
In all, this is a scary, risky card to play, and even more terrifying to see across the table.
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Except that's not the end of the fight. The shell cracks open to reveal an enormous cavity that the heroes crawl into. They find the huge living organism that controlled the outer exoskeleton. They defeat it, and it becomes the final, true form of Lavos.
I like how disturbing this piece by Mk-5 is. It's detailed, but not hyper realistic. The background is also a great rendition of the background in the game as well.
Once it transforms, it creates two decoy pods that ensure the true core remains alive. You have to destroy one or the other to be able to damage it. The boss mechanic reaches its own final form on this card. If an opponent defeats it, you lose.
I didn't mention it in the Queen Zeal post, but I made the DFC symbols specifically for Lavos. I really like how the second side turned out, with the various hands representing time not functioning like normal, and also evoking Lavos's shell.
I've been sitting on this one for so long. It's gone through so many tweaks and revisions, and I'm so excited to show it to you. There are a few more cards in the pipeline, so stay tuned!
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Garden Spirit by artist Orioto (Mikaël Aguirre) via ImaginaryGardens
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Digital Artwork Enchanced from Video Game by Orioto
Digital Artwork Enchanced from Video Game by Orioto
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"Maternal Instinct" by Orioto / Facebook / Twitter / Tumblr / Instagram / Store
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A compilation of art by the magnificent and underappreciated Orito, that uses his art of Phalanx as the thumbnail.
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Super Mario Art by Orioto
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Created by Mikaël Aguirre (Orioto)
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