Purple, 130 cards made by random forum people

[Taylor]

I would like to thank: chronoplasm, ZasZ234, sawbladex and most of all dracomageat for all their help on this.

Color: Purple
Symbol:
Basic Land Type: Rift
Flavor Keywords: Æther, Insanity, Time/Space, Obscurity/Strangeness
Like all good Myths it has more than one Story Line: by Soron (here) & by ZasZ (here and here)

Races: Finori, Vith, Entity
(All Finori have Delif and all Entities are enchantment creatures)

Classes: Psion, some established ones

Themes:

• Controlling Opponent's Actions: (e.g. Vertigor and Vithin Mindbreaker )
• RFG-zone (plus: cards owned outside the game/sideboard)
• Stack
• Alternate Win (esp. Milling)
• Zone-Jumping (e.g. Proteus Entity)
• P/T-Setting ( - e.g. Chimeric Entity)

Mechanics: (though the keyword-template is used, e.g. Rifting may be just a nickname)

• Rifting (When you play this spell, return a spell you control to its owners hand.)
• Forget (To forget a card, remove it from the game. If a player would draw a card, instead that player may exchange the top card of his or her library with a forgotten card he or she owns, then draws a card.)
• Enchantment Creatures & Artifact Creatures (considering Phyrexians here...)
• Banding (This creature may attack or block in a band with another. If one creature in the band is blocked all are blocked. You assign how combat damage is dealt to the band.) [NOTE: Banding is the 'meshing of flesh' in purple. Two creature becoming one.]
• Insanity Counters (A player with insanity counters forgets that many cards from the top of the library, at the beginning of his or her upkeep.)
• Delif <action> (When this creature attacks and isn't blocked, it deals no combat damage this turn. <action>)
• Urborg Panther-Memorial Mechanic
• Retaliate (If this creature would deal enough combat damage to creatures it blocks to destroy them, you may have it deal the rest of its damage to attacking player.)

General Design Notes:

• Purple is a new color, not a quality of mana. It is considered listed everywhere the other five colors are listed in the comp. rules all the time. This is also true for associated values as e.g. basic land type.
• Purple is not considered to take a position among the colors of the 5-color pie (for those of you that still believe in the pie ) - it has an equal stance to each of the other five colors.

Set-related:

• Purple needs love for limited: Being able to play purple cards in non-purple decks on common and uncommon-level is appreciated/encouraged.

If you want the MSE package to make purple cards look: HERE!
(And if someone could make our set symbol MSE compatible, that would be cool, there is a thread going on for it here.)

Common:

Uncommon:

Rare:

In most cases the artist's deviantart name is provided. Or their real name if I could find it. In two cases put the url of the web site I found the art.
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[Pichoro]

I was going to see if I could help you with your set symbol, but I think you might've given the wrong link? It took me to the thread where Spiderboy4's purple frame was created.

Also, glad to see the extra-colors template being used. That template is consistently often downloaded, but hardly ever does anyone share cards made using it.

[dracomageat]

Originally Posted by WhoeverUsesBirdsReapsGame

recycling freak is truyly freakish
'land slide' is broken
'yoink!' is funny
'vithian musician' has actually already been spoiled in shards of alara LOL!
'solitary wish' is indeed a purple card
'aethervore's ability is just plain too good, 'lhurgoyf' is misspelled, its flavor text doesn't make sense
the identity of purple needs to be better defined. where does it stand on the issues, such as combat, removal, knowledge, time, resources, beliefs, strategy, etc.?

the freak was mine, I think sorons version just removes one card. mine constantly removed the bottom card but was shot down due to the fact that it cared about graveyard order.
land slide was mine, it was made because wizards belived dark ritual was a purple card and I thought purple mana accel needed to be out of the box.
I went through many versions and eventualy got it just about fixed but soron didn't have that version.
yoink is based off the fluxx card "take one and use it", I thought it was a great fun idea as a magic card.
? at the musician comment.
the wish shows how purple seeks company.
I know the vore is too good but you have to agree that purple needed one and this was the obvious area to choose. I didn't write the flavour...

as for the flavour of purple, that was explained better in the other thread:
having finaly managed to enter the mortal planes, after thousands of years locked away in the blind eternities, purple seeks little more than company and understanding of the other colours. purple cannot truely understand the other colours though due to the fact that all those years in solitude have led the purple creatures to insanity.
Purple is feared by the most of the more worldly races due to the fact that it comes from outside the planes. green hates it due it being "unatural", though the goblins enjoy the insanity of purple, the rest of red hates it's cold indifferance/lack of emotion. while blue likes it's search for knowledge and lack of emotion, it's insanity makes it too unpredictable/irrational for them to get along. white have realised that most of the purple creatures have no solid form and as such know purple cannot harm them. as such white doesn't care about purple at all. black is the only colour that likes purple but it seeks to manipulate and control it, rather than just get along.
that's all just from memory. as for the mechanical side:
purple seeks to win combat through means other than the norm. due to it's immaterial nature, many purple creatures are unblockable or have delif but possesion and other such weirdness are other purple combat tricks.
purple does not "kill" in the way the creatures/mages of other colours do, it instead forces them to "wake up" to what purple sees as the real world (see belifs), in other words, the blind eternities. thus causing them to dissolve into the mana from which they were formed. this is reflected in purples ability to outright remove creatures from the game as can be seen in "outerworld awakening" which shows a suprising amount of purples flavour (not sure if soron left that in but that was the most flavourfull of the cards I made, basically setting the example for all purple removal in the set).
Purple feels it knows all about the planes and the "outer world" that is the blind eternities and in a way it does. it's understanding, along with the rest of it, is weirdly disorted though. Because of this, the only knowledge purple seeks is an understanding of the races not native to the outer realm. unfortunately, this is something the warped minds of the sentient purple beings are unable to comprehend.
purple cares not for time. it's creatures never age but mearly dissintegrate into mana over time and as such it doesn't realy understand the effects of time properly. the fact that it veiws time spent on mortal planes as a dream states adds to it's confusion.
Purples veiw of resorces is unusual. it does not use life or death to it's advantage like black or white and doesn't pay life for effects. it cares little for having huge armies like green does or cards in hand like blue. the one resorce it realy cares about is the fact that, being formed of mana, it's creatures survive the blind eternities to return again as seen in the forget mechanic. the forget effect and "sanity" are the resources purple uses.
Purples insanity kind of effects it's idea of strategy...
as for belifs, purple sees mana as the source of all life and the blind eternities as the "real world", wandering into planes as though they were dreams. it doesn't understand that the other colours are restricted to thier home planes. I can't realy say much more on the belifs of purple.

[ilikepie]

Finally this was finished. Council of the Finori, Brainsculpter, Vith Inquisitor, Dementerror, Prodigal Psychomancer (i think), and Cosmic Command (i think) were mine..

Quizonify is awesome.

[Taylor]

Thanks WhoeverUsesBirdsReapsGame!

But I don't think I will be editing this set. I just did it because people kept talking about doing it, and I like to do what people talk about.

Besides, I would have to add 'exile' to all of the cards now.....

[Pichoro]

Originally Posted by Taylor

Besides, I would have to add 'exile' to all of the cards now.....

MSE has Find and Replace under its Edit menu. Maybe you knew this, but it speeds things up considerably.

[dracomageat]

I keep meaning to get round to doing something with this but if I did I'd stick to the real magic terminology, not this newfangled crud they're imposing on us.

[Xukkorz]

Is there a mse file for this set that's available? I would be happy to update the templating for the set.

[maddd0g]

Is it just me, or does having insanity counters on you seem like a good thing?

I'd love to exile some cards from library at the my upkeep and have my pick of them when I draw.

[tedv]

Threads like this really make me appreciate WotC's R&D department.

[Xukkorz]

Originally Posted by maddd0g

Is it just me, or does having insanity counters on you seem like a good thing?

I'd love to exile some cards from library at the my upkeep and have my pick of them when I draw.

They seem like a mixed bag to me. Sure you get your pick of what cards you want but it also makes you more vunerable to decking, especially if you have more then 5 of them. Seems like a counter strategy would really just wreck you. Of course all I can think about is playing jace with insanity counters on you

[Doom Lich]

I like this idea, it needs a nice kick to start it up again.

[ZasZ234]

Originally Posted by maddd0g

Is it just me, or does having insanity counters on you seem like a good thing?

I'd love to exile some cards from library at the my upkeep and have my pick of them when I draw.

Yes, intentionally so. Insanity counters can work both to your benefit as well as become a liability.

greetings
Z

[Nemo Starem]

I think the color of the card's text boxes is too saturated and dark. You can see it better on the multi-colored card: The purple part of the text box is much darker.

And the human vision is tired much faster by magenta than by any other colour, so I would consider desaturating the cards and making the text boxes lighter.

I can do it if you wish.

[Taylor]

Originally Posted by Nemo Starem

I can do it if you wish.

I've comply abandoned this project.

I know at one point someone sent me a list of all of the corrections I should make to these cards, but I never did. I am also sorry to say that the set file was purged from my computer at one point. These are the only record of the cards, except I think dracomageat might have a copy of the set info. You should PM him, I think he still has an interest in the cards.

Anyway, you can do anything you want with or to these cards. I forsake any and all claims to them, and they were not really only mine to begin with. If I was to do purple again, it would be very different, but I don't think I ever will make a set about purple again.

I found no joy in making these.