Friendship is Card Games: d20 Pony, Ch. 9, Pt. 2 · 11:55am May 12th
Given the continually erratic rate of Tell Your Tale releases, we return to Trailblazer and company, and just in time for the Autumn Festival!
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Well, it works for the Southern Hemisphere.
After reading up on tales of Ragnarok and other doings in the Nine Realms, the group has a day of fun, games, and crafting workshops, plus running into a number of familiar faces to both them and the audience. Even Princess Celestia pays the town a visit, thrilled to see it its growth and propsperity since her last visit. The bat ponies of are Starfalls Clan are also enjoying themselves, even the most insular among them struggling to hide their fun. (Though no word on how they reacted to the Pitiless Sun herself.)
There is the curious situation of the river, though, which is occasionally flowing backwards into the Everfree, but everypony is assured that there are ponies looking into that.
Once the sun sets and after being told by the town’s rumormonger that that sex-change ring is valuable enough to garner the wrong kind of attention, Trailblazer hoofs it off to a visiting Twilight, who will be happy to use it in the name of science. Trailblazer uses it one last time for the road, to further explore the male condition.
And on that note, in the final minutes of the festival, the trio finds a wishing booth. In the spirit of exploring frontiers she never thought she would, Trailblazer wishes to become an alicorn with no royal strings attached… and with a snap of claws and an echo of draconequine laughter, it is so.
Unsure what to make of it, the group decides to roll with it… and we proceed to a moon-long timeskip, where I’ll call it for now. In the meantime, let’s see what’s at that cardcrafting workshop:
Packed Schedule 1WW
Enchantment
At the beginning of each player’s draw step, that player draws an additional card.
Each player can’t play more than one spell each turn.
So much to do, so little time to do it.
Canterbolg, Blade of Light 2W
Legendary Artifact — Equipment
As Canterbolg enters the battlefield, you may reveal a Dragon card from your hand. If you do or if you you control a Dragon, attach Canterbolg to target creature you control.
Equipped creature gets +3/+1 and has vigilance.
Equip 3
Fateful Wish 2W
Sorcery
You may choose a legendary card you own from outside the game, reveal that card, and put it into your hand. Exile Fateful Wish.
He wished for the impossible, and so the only possible twist was giving it to him.
Hoofington Confectioner 3W
Creature — Pegasus Citizen
Flying
When Hoofington Confectioner enters the battlefield, create a Food token. (It’s an artifact with “2, T, Sacrifice this artifact: You gain 3 life.”)
Metalcraft — 1W: Exile Hoofington Confectioner, then return it to the battlefield under its owner’s control. Activate only if you control three or more artifacts.
2/3
Watermill Energician 1U
Creature — Pony Artificer
Whenever Watermill Energician enters the battlefield or you cast a spell with mana value 5 or greater, you get EEE (three energy counters).
T, Pay E: Add C.
Equestrian power infrastructure is diverse, sustainable, and very rarely explosive.
1/2
Animated Octomasseur 2U
Artifact Creature — Equipment Octopus
Vigilance
T: Untap another target creature.
Equipped creature has vigilance and “1U, T: Tap target creature.”
Reconfigure 1U (Attach to target creature you control; or unattach from a creature. Reconfigure only as a sorcery. While attached, this isn’t a creature.)
1/4
Starbound Soul 2U
Creature — Spirit
Flying
Boast — 3U: Create a token that’s a copy of Starbound Soul. (Activate only if this creature attacked this turn and only once each turn.)
“You face the sky itself.”
2/2
Notable Cameos 3U
Instant
Each player may put a permanent card from their hand onto the battlefield. Return those permanents to their owners’ hands at the beginning of the next end step.
Festering Nightmare B
Sorcery
Spree (Choose one or more additional costs.)
+2 — Target player discards two cards.
+B — Target player loses X life, where X is 5 minus the number of cards in their hand.
“A blotch on the dreaming mind is best addressed quickly, before tragedy strikes.”
—Princess Luna
Forbidden Slice 2B
Instant
Target creature gets -3/-3 until end of turn. Create a Food token.
Pineapple on pizza is among the tamest territory Trailblazer has explored.
Rumormonger 3B
Creature — Pony Monger
2: Each player mills two cards. Any player may activate this ability.
It’s not that she dispenses lies. It’s that she dispenses so many different petty and irrelevant truths that trying to get something useful out of her is nearly impossible.
3/3
Blood-Bought Wisdom 4B
Sorcery
You draw three cards and lose 3 life.
Foretell BB (During your turn, you may pay 2 and exile this card from your hand face down. Cast it on a later turn for its foretell cost.)
Odin sacrificed everything for the knowledge to guide and protect his people.
Crimsonsand Forager 2R
Creature — Salamander
When Crimsonsand Forager enters the battlefield, you may discard a card. If you do, draw a card. If you discarded a Desert this way, draw two cards instead.
Most bat ponies are more willing to trust local wildlife than the other tribes.
3/2
Contesting Aurealis 3R
Battle — Claim
(Your opponents can attack a Claim. When another player defeats it, they exile it, then return it to the battlefield under their control.)
At the beginning of your end step, create two Treasure tokens. (They’re artifacts with “T, Sacrifice this artifact: Add one mana of any color.”)
4
Hired Hauler 3R
Creature — Ox Mercenary
Trample
Hired Hauler can’t attack unless another outlaw also attacks. (Assassins, Mercenaries, Pirates, Rogues, and Warlocks are outlaws.)
“Heading out alone’s a good way to miss payday.”
4/4
Muspelheim Dragon 6RRR
Creature — Elemental Dragon Horror
Flying, trample, haste
At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice Muspelheim Dragon unless you pay RRR.
Whenever Muspelheim Dragon enters the battlefield, attacks, or deals combat damage to a player, it deals 3 damage to each opponent and non-Dragon creature.
5/8
World-Root Dwarf 1G
Creature — Dwarf Druid
T: Add G.
G, T, Mill two cards: Add two mana in any combination of colors.
Refugees from blackened Svartalfheim make do in Yggdrassil’s embrace.
1/2
Cauldron Tender 2G
Creature — Unicorn Warlock
Whenever an artifact enters the battlefield under your control, you gain 1 life.
Whenever an artifact leaves the battlefield under an opponent’s control, put a +1/+1 counter on Cauldron Tender.
The soup’s delicious. Nopony dares ask what goes in it.
0/3
Festival Buffet 2G
Instant
This spell has split second as long as it targets three or more creatures. (As long as it’s on the stack, players can’t cast spells or activate abilities that aren’t mana abilities.)
You gain life equal to the total power of any number of target creatures you control with different powers.
Equinox Performers 4G
Creature — Pony Bard
Coven — At the beginning of your upkeep, if you control three or more creatures with different powers, proliferate. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there.)
Ambience is a key part of any festival.
4/4
Silver Horseshoe 1
Artifact — Equipment
Equipped creature gets +1/+0 and has ward 1 and protection from Werewolves.
Equip 1
A lucky charm may not be especially lucky against anything that actually exists, but it still helps.
Carpenter’s Workshop 2
Artifact
T, Sacrifice a land: Put a +1/+1 counter on target creature.
1G: Return target land card from your graveyard to your hand.
A wise carpenter invests in acorns.
Omniflavor Swirl 2
Artifact — Food
X, T, Sacrifice Omniflavor Swirl: You gain X life. Discover X. X can’t be less than 2. (To discover X, exile cards from the top of your library until you exile a nonland card with mana value X or less. Cast it without paying its mana cost or put it into your hand. Put the rest on the bottom in a random order.)
Power Field Emitter 3
Artifact
When Power Field Emitter enters the battlefield, you get EEE.
T, Pay EEE: Put a charge counter on each artifact you control.
2, Remove three charge counters from among artifacts you control: You get EEE.
Modern conveniences need modern solutions.
Lyra, Peerless Songsage 2WU
Legendary Creature — Unicorn Bard
Spellcraft — Whenever you cast or copy an instant or sorcery spell, return target enchantment card from your graveyard to your hand.
Finale — Whenever you sacrifice a Song, return target instant or sorcery card from your graveyard to your hand.
1/4
Trailblazer, Exalted Explorer 2GW
Legendary Creature — Scout
Alicorn (This card is also a Pony Pegasus Unicorn.)
Flying, vigilance
When Trailblazer enters the battlefield, create two Map tokens.
At the beginning of your end step, if you control no Maps, exile Trailblazer, then return it to the battlefield under your control.
3/3
Dragonlord Fulgur 4RW
Legendary Creature — Elder Dragon
Flying, first strike
Whenever Dragonlord Fulgur attacks, untap up to one target creature defending player controls. That creature gains reach until end of turn and blocks Fulgur this combat if able.
Peerless in war, Fulgur was dethroned only by guile and his own honor.
6/5
For what it's worth they did recently update their banner to specify that new episode are now releasing bi-weekly. Yes, not a word that's easy to trust, but it's something over the lack of any transparency since MYM finished.
Stupid Complicated Game Alert: Yes, Hoofington Confectioner's Metalcraft ability will trigger its other one alongside anything else that cares about it entering the battlefield. Same deal with alicorn Trailblazer effectively saying "if you don't have any maps, give me ten seconds" with its non-keyword abilities.
Protection From Editors Alert: Starbound Soul forgot to italicize its flavor text. I'm not bothering to bold it because, of course, it has no rules implications.
Stupid Complicated Game Alert: Once an opponent has defeated your Claim and thus claimed it for themselves, you are now "your opponents" for the purposes of what is technically a completely new game object. Do with that information what you will.
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Fun fact: Claims are based on a Gavin Verhey design from MagicCon Minneapolis, though he used "Control-Point."
Can the Animated Octomasseur tap to untap itself?
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Not anymore.