Mono-Color Custom Legends
Hi there, I've been a Magic player for years, and across pretty much every format I've always gravitated towards mono-color decks. To me, they're the purest way to understand what each color is supposed to represent and what its strengths and weaknesses are. No matter the format, I've almost always played a single-color deck.
Ever since Riftbound came out, though, I've barely touched Magic. It just lost everything I enjoyed about it. Standard feels miserable, the player base is tiny, and Commander has never really felt like "real" Magic to me.
Riftbound brought back the excitement of competitive 1v1 card games.
I've been playing a ton of different decks, won several Skirmishes, made Top Cut in some pretty large tournaments, and in Barcelona I'll finally get to play my first RQ.
But there's still one thing missing: a mono-domain deck.
That's all I want.
So over the last few days I've been thinking about what mono-domain legends could look like if they were designed to represent the identity of each domain. I ended up making a custom mono-domain legend for each one.
The basic idea is that they should have a relatively high power level, since you're cutting your available card pool in half by locking yourself into a single domain.
Here's the reasoning behind each one:
🟢 Calm – Taric
My original idea was simply "target unit can't take damage this turn." But being able to do that as a reaction on any unit felt way too strong. Since Calm is all about buffs, I changed it so you have to remove a buff (which you can also get from healing) from a unit in exchange for preventing all damage to it for the turn.
🔴 Fury – Olaf
Probably the simplest one.
All your units have Accelerate.
🟡 Order – Soraka
Order has two major themes: killing units and creating tokens.
The idea is that whenever one of your units with Deathknell dies, you create a Unicorn token (because lore). The Unicorn also has Deathknell, meaning you'll almost always have one on the board. The Deathknell only gives 1 mana, so I don't think it's too powerful... although it definitely looks like it could enable some funny loops.
🔵 Mind – Ryze
This is definitely my Magic background showing.
He's basically an Alhammarret's Archive. Drawing twice as many cards in the domain that's already all about drawing cards sounds completely busted, but I also think it creates interesting gameplay rather than just raw stats. You simply have way more resources to answer your opponent.
🟠 Body – Urgot
Body is the domain of huge units.
Urgot lets your big units stay big. Tanks often have a rough early game before becoming almost impossible to remove in the late game, so this legend pushes that fantasy even further by letting your biggest units keep growing as the game goes on.
🟣 Chaos – Shaco
Think of him as a LeBlanc that copies your trash, fitting perfectly with Chaos' discard mechanics.
You can activate it every time you conquer, meaning potentially twice per turn, in exchange for not being able to do it while holding.
So... what do you think?
Which ones are completely broken? Which ones are total garbage? Which ones would actually be fun to play?
I didn't spend too much time polishing the wording or making sure everything follows the game's official templating—I was mostly focused on the mechanics and overall design.