u/linrodann

[[Iron Man Armor]] and [[Night Nurse, Healer of Heroes]] from MSH. Bonus borderless version for Iron Man Armor, since the art I chose was vertical. For Night Nurse, I started experimenting with including a watermark to indicate the plane I'm going for.

[[Long Feng, Grand Secretariat]] from TLA and bonus [[Evereth, Viceroy of Plunder]] from J25. Evereth isn't UB, but the only printing has anime art that is especially jarring to me. The art for Elisabet is fanart of an Ixalan vampire by a non-MtG artist, though I think his work is good enough to work for WotC. I was excited to find it and to find a card to use it on.

I've included versions with and without bleed (the 1/8" extra margin required for printing).

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This is a rough sketch with notes for my hex, Okifen Mire. The yellow-green areas are open flooded prairies, the brownish-green areas are islands of higher ground covered in forest, and the plain green areas are lowland forest that is dry or flooded based on time of year.

I'm satisfied with the symbols/texture for the prairie regions, but I need to figure out something to indicate tree cover for the other regions. I'm not totally satisfied with the style of the lakes, either. I also still need to come up with names for the settlements, lakes, and major forks of the river. Suggestions are welcome. The color sketch just used an 8-pack of color pencils, so the palette is limited, but this is just a test.

The final version will use the template shape to be sure it's the correct aspect ratio. I'll do one version with just pen and another version with watercolor pencils.

[[It's Clobberin' Time!]] from MSC. Very cool card, mechanically speaking.

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[[Uncle Iroh]] and [[Iroh, Grand Lotus]] from TLA. The quote in the flavor text is paraphrased from something I heard from a man named Rick, so I stuck his name in there (he’s not my uncle, though).

My main critique of both of these is that the artworks make it look like they should have the Wizard type, but I kept the original types. The artworks also lean harder into the “firebending” side of the mechanics than the lesson side, especially for Grand Lotus. Maybe I’ll attempt new versions later.

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Hey All! This challenge (run by u/DaVigi) seeks to reflavour Universe Beyond cards into Universe Within cards, in order to introduce both new characters in established planes, as well as old characters that we haven’t seen for a long time or that have never gotten a card. Important clarification! You don’t have to use an existing MtG character (but it’s really cool if you do); it’s okay to make up a new character that lives on an existing plane. I almost didn’t submit my entry last week because I didn’t realize that.

Last time)'s's) winner turned out to be Horst, Guardian of Gatstaf, by me. My description was: “Horst is a character I made up, living on Innistrad. He lives on the outskirts of Gatstaf, a remote village in Kessig. He made his living hunting game to sell (hence the food tokens) in the surrounding forest, but since the Travails he has expanded his role to tracking and hunting down aberrations and monsters that might threaten Gatstaf (hence the clues and explore)”.

This week’s challenge will be to Within-Universify Miles “Tails” Prower ([[Miles “Tails” Prower]]). A fox with flying and vehicle synergy is challenging, but at least I didn’t choose [[Knuckles the Echidna]] like I was tempted to, right?

The winner will get to choose next week's UB card and judge it.

(Check out all remaining 2877 (minus 6) UB cards that haven’t gotten a UW version yet by clicking here)

Judging will be on Monday, July 6 and will be based on the following four criteria in order of importance:

1. Cohesion between the following criteria:

2. Creative writing (Name, Flavour text if any and Background Lore that is not on the card itself)

3. Exploration of an established plane OR Exploration of an established character (The more obscure, the better.)

4. Fitting art or art description

Submission can consist of just the changed elements, separately formatted as:

    Name:
    Art (Image or description):
    Art credit (If applicable):
    Flavour Card (Flavour text):
    Flavour (Lore):

Or, create the cards in your favourite MtG card editor and submit those. Remember, you can make up a new character as long as they are plausibly from an existing plane!

If you’ve won, you can use this template to to) prepare the next challenge. Feel free to change it to your liking.

Good luck and have fun!

[[Astrid Peth]] from WHO. I would have liked to add flavor text, but no room with the reminder text for explore, which I'm not removing because I never remember exactly what explore does. Horst is not a pre-existing character, but I imagine that he is from Innistrad, specifically Gatstaf in Kessig.

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[[Crack in Time]] from WHO. I know it's more of a door than a crack, but I wanted to keep the name to reduce mental overhead. I also like the original art, so I also made a version keeping that but replacing the UB frame with the regular enchantment frame.

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[[Radagast, Wizard of Wilds]] and [[Legolas's Quick Reflexes]] from LTC.

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[[Displaced Dinosaurs]] from WHO. I know the title is dinosaurs, plural, while the art I chose only shows one, but the effect mechanically just gives you one dinosaur (itself) at first until you have another historic thing enter, so the flavor text is trying to convey that things keep turning into dinosaurs. This one makes me giggle.

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[[The Prydwen, Steel Flagship]] from PIP. I've pretty much finished posting my backlog of cards, so now I'm mostly posting as I make them.

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[[Summon: Bahamut]] from FIN. The artist's original title for this art was "The Zmeu", referring to a creature from Romanian folklore: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zmeu I also kept the "Summon: " format of the name because I like it as a quick way to notice it's a saga creature, and the flavor makes sense to me.

[[Hit-Monkey]] from MSC. I would have liked to change the creature type to better match the art, but I'm trying not to do that if I can help it.