Official MTG Snowstorm/Lore Thread

Bribe her with porn.

this

What sort is she into?

Tree fuckers

AM I DOING IT RIGHT

What does your flake's 'ultimate form' look like? (ex. pic)

What is something you regret doing with your flakes or in the flake thread in general
I regret making Vronak the Slayer

Better than Vronak.

Which flake is yours?

Well...a lot of things.

I like Will user, and I enjoyed the introspective writefaggings I did with her her and Will, and I don't dislike the idea of her being married at one point in time, but I kinda regret the whole Will thing.

...

what is "the Will thing"? I'm not up to date on my snowflake lore.

Okay, we gotta get this straight as to the differences between Vronak's Vronak and Belloski's my Vronak because with two Vronaks, it gets confusing as to which Vronak is being discussed or if it's Vronak user and not Vronak or Vonak anons are talking about.

Everyone talking about Vronak is taking about me.

Well, let's talk about the Vronak that's not you. Let's talk about the flake(s) known as Vronak and avoid any discussion of the person who refers to himself as Vronak on an anonymous image board

Here's a closeup of what I'm working on atm. It's Forpols riding Ka. I drew the flakes from memory, so let me know if I got something wrong.

Neah. The board would be less exciting without me.

>RRUUOOOAAAAAAAAAAAAA-
>Mnyeeeaaa!

That's precious, Gaia-chan.

This is a flake thread
where we talk about flakes
now let's talk about flakes

Absolutely incredible.

Long story short, 900 years ago Gaia tried to live a normal life. She fell in love with a guy named Will. They had a good life and had 2 kids. Later on, Gaia had to leave them for oldwalker business. She was gone longer than she thought she'd be (10 years) and her kids were killed by vampires in that time, igniting Will's spark. Exposure to the blind eternities and his family's death (he believed Gaia was dead at this point) and bitterness drove him mad. The two had a falling out. Fast forward a century or so. Will's a time traveler, so he's pretty old by now. Gaia makes her plane, cuts herself off from the blind eternities, and goes to sleep for, like, a fuck ton of time (she's in a time bubble, so time moved more quickly in the bubble). Will, now a troll and obsessed with all kinds of "ultimate truths" sees a blank spot in the blind eternities where a plane should be (where gaia's plane was plucked out and cut off). He's like "I wanna get in." Fast forward some more time, and after a shit ton of scheming Will breaks in. The Mending hits Gaia's spark, the plane collapses, taking her with it. Will's like "Oh shit, I killed my wife. I'm an asshole."

And then things get weird. It's...complicated.

lets facebook status this up, how complicated does it get?

Well...Multiple timelines and realities and dubius/multiple "flake canons" complicated. It's not even really set in stone.

So elves, liberals, and furries. Gotcha.

Kolya, till he dies. My next flake is in the process of having a bio written.

Top kek. That is great.

>During each round, flakes will be assigned to random opponents in single-elimination tournament fashion.
>Flakes will be treated as though they are all neowalkers in order to create a balance of power.
>Flakes with meme-levels of power will be treated as though they weren’t.
>Flakes that directly contradict lore, especially by going against or interacting inappropriately with canon characters, will be disqualified.
>Flakes that are joke or troll flakes will be disqualified. The use of silver-bordered cards in a flake’s preferred spell list automatically disqualifies them.

>During the first round, all flakes will be placed into the roster randomly. Flakes that are disqualified will give their random opponents a bye for the round.
>During the first round, flakes will be revealed in smaller groups, noting disqualifications and asking the thread if they wish to disqualify anyone else.

>During each round, small groups of flake match-ups will be revealed
>Arguments will take place in the thread and votes will be taken from the polls over which flake is likely to prevail over the other.
>After each round, the flakes that move on will be re-randomized on the roster to make match-ups unpredictable.

>Match-Up rules will treat both competing flakes in a match as though they are both forced into conflict with the other, and neither is allowed to planeswalk away until a winner is determined. Flakes will be treated as though they start with zero assisting summons and will not have prepared for this encounter.

>Current match-up

DID SOMEONE SAY MULTIPLE TIMELINES?

WHY I THINK THEY DID

Even if the flakepoint was gay, not gonna lie, the intro gives me chills.

Doing these now

Do a bicycle riding Ka riding Forpols.

I have done exactly as you asked Gaia senpai

On a scale of one to Digimon Eldrazi Lizard, how unforgivable is a flake Knight named Rider, who wears a mask and is themed around vehicles and justice?

make his last name "Ryder" and give him a righteous sounding first name, then it could be pretty cool.

Fucking delicious

About a GideonXChandra.

...Is that a "we sacrificed lesbian sex for this," or a "this is good and was at one time quite relevant but no longer the primary thing we're looking for" GideonxChandra?

I keep wanting to see Gideon get Chandra on all fours and put her in her place like that uppity fire tart keeps begging for.

The following Flakes move on to the next Round:

>Serena
>Ka'Koarm

The next match-ups are as follows:

>Tok VS Ivander VS Del
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>Cala VS Talo'ara VS Vanya
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DISCUSS!

Don't you die on me, thread...

Things are slow at this time in the mornings.

Do not die but never forget.

Sorry, I forgot.

>First match
I think Tok is a bit too gentle for these contenders (unless his user wants to correct me.) I think it will come down to either the rage wolf or the literal ball of Izzet magic. I'll look at their sheets more after work to be sure.

>Second match
I don't remember who Talo is off the top of my head (something else to look at later), but between Cala and Vanya I think Cala gets it. They both spit out tokens, but Cala has sic burn and storm. If livin in the country taught me anything, it's that fire is the best hard-counter to huge spiders (preferably delivered via lighter and aerosol can.)

I find it interesting how so many Instants and Sorceries aren't actual spells in universe, but events, actions and circumstances.

Can you make a timeline out of cards for your flakes backstory?

A lot of instants and sorceries, even the storytelling kind, are often pretty real. Oftentimes those spells just try to capture the power or effects that existed in a moment of time and replicate them.

Bandage is pretty weird, but I imagine that they wanted something beneficial as a spell instead of an artifact. Its simplicity is why it's a cantrip.

Feeling of Dread is mechanically in color, but its flavor rather oddly belongs to black.

Survive the Night could very well be a spell that someone has cast to help ensure that they have what it takes to survive a horrible night on Innistrad, just given a more flavorful name by an observer.

I think that Tok is gonna get burned out, leaving us with Ivander and Del. While some of Ivander's spells may not be as suitable for fighting an elemental, Del is also not primarily a combatant (though they do have quite a bit of knowledge that would be useful in combat). This is a tough call, but Weirds rather certainly can still be beaten, so I'm giving it to Ivander.

A samurai, a half-devil, and a spider-person all walk into a battlefield, and they throw tokens all over the place. Honestly, the methodology is everything here, and I think the crazy girl with the fire affinity has the upper hand.

So? What manner of transportation do YOU use to get around a plane?

Planeswalking can be aimed, right? Planeswalk somewhere else, then back to the original plane, but to a different location.

that'd be tiring as fuck, user.

Worth it for trips that would take longer than a couple of days.

Not.. cool though is it.

Riding other flakes.

Yo Sem, I brought goodies

woah wooooahwoah spooked.
Disclaimer: I do not use skeletons for the purpose or pronecreation

POLLS

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strawpoll.me/11336154

Only if you're familiar with a place, likely mana-bonded with it. Jace had to hoof it to the Eye of Ugin with some merfolk girl he wanted to plow or something during BfZ and he couldn't use planeswalking to fast travel to it, even though he, Chandra, and Sarkhan were the ones who fucked it up before Sorin even thought about looking for Nissa.

After talking to Ugin he then bounced to Ravnica to bounce back to the ally camp, which is why he hypnotized said merfolk to go back halfway into the trip.

Talo is either weenies or start shitting tokens

No one believes you.

Yes
do I get points for keeping it in my flake's colors?

Alright, I'd appreciate comments and criticism on this card. I don't have the bio totally fleshed out for this new flake, but he's a former mage-priest from the Boros Legion (they're mentioned on Lightning Helix).

As such, I tried to copy that choice mechanic between a white spell or a red spell effect, or a combination of them for his abilities, but I suspect they need work/a more creative touch.

his ult is pretty weak considering how long it'd take you to use it, maybe add a buff or two in there?

Yes.

I was thinking about a way to add a 2nd combat phase once per turn in the vein of Aurelia. Any way to make it workable and not broken?

what's your guy's deal? Make it have a flavorful requirement. Like, say, if they're all about heroes, give it "At the beginning of combat phase, tap target legendary you control. This creature cannot untap until next turn. If you do, untap all creatures you control that attacked this turn and after this phase, there is an additional combat phase." or something. Since your guy is dealing with lightning, maybe have the requirement be discarding an instant to suggest him charging up his soldiers with lightning speed and ferocity?

So few votes so far today...

>Choice between a weird and a thallid
Don't do this to me

I'll play around with it. Appreciate the suggestions, senpai.

>Using Mtgcardsmith.
>That formating and wording.

Boy, you need to re-work your flake's card a bit and not use MTGCardsmith.

+1 is too broken, IMO. Absolutely neuters aggro on a FOUR MANA PLANESWALKER with both the damage and the lifegain. See Ajani Vengant; his Lightning Helix is a minus ability.

-2 is Templated wrong, also that's more of a plus ability if you tone it down a bit. Maybe +1/+0 until end of turn. Don't do both because that takes up a hella lot of space for formatting and is TOO flexible and powerful.

-7 is a bit weak. Could beef it up a bit. Maybe throw in first strike?

I threw on my rendition of it, done in Magic Set Editor.

Would you consider Skyre or Kherto? I'd really like more art beyond my shitty phone doodles. I might even bust out a traditional medium depending on how desperate I get.

>they're mentioned on lightning helix
Right you are, but let me also attempt to cross-reference where that falls into ranking within the Legion, because I am into that shit.

Known rankings within the Boros Legion for mortal casters fall into one of the following Power Bands (with 1 being the Guildmaster and working its way down)

>5: Guildmages
The highest rank any mortal can hold within the Guild. Are allowed to make contact with angels. They also take orders from angels and pass them down to the commanders of the army and the League of Wojek.

>9: Wojek Embermages
The Guild's combat mages. They exist to break up situations where direct, hand-to-hand style combat methods aren't effective.

>12: Wojek Apothecaries
These people are the healers in the 'jek barracks. Sometimes they're contracted in from different Guilds, when recruitment is poor.

So we've got three examples of mages, so the question is, where does your character fall in? Given that the title is "mage-priest," I would imagine that the "priest" part means that there is a connection to the angels, effectively making that the same as a Guildmage.

Made a new attempt at Venn, using shitty art. Critique?

The +1 needs some tweaking on the wording.

The -7 costs a whole lot for being an easily breakable artifact whose equip cost I can't read.

Goddamnit, I forgot to put Indestructible to space out the wording. Equip 0 is the cost.

Also how is it worded wrong? That's the wording for Welding Sparks.

Make the equipment indestructible.

For the -2 maybe just put it into play? Being able to equip it too is a bit silly. Eitherway that's going to be silly with Withengar.

Maybe a -3 or -4 then?

You have to capitalize Equipment.

You also have to use the word plus, rather than a + symbol when writing rules text.

Updated.

The following Flakes move on to the next Round:

>Ivander
>Cala

A tie-breaker is required to complete the Round.

>Winifred VS Domoyl
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DISCUSS!

I still think that tutoring a equipment and playing it is a bit strong for something you can just drop on turn four and equip it while still having a solid walker up.

Just tutoring one could be a -1 or -2, when you're cheating it out like that it just opens horrible abuse cases like Withengar, Argentum Armour and Moonsilver Spear.

Made it a minus 4 then.

Still too good, just make it a tutor. Searching and equiping is the realm of Stonehewer Giant which costs more and can't do it on the turn it comes in. Just make it a tutor or allow him to play an equipment from your hand for free.

Another close-up update to keep the thread moving. Sorry it's taking so long to finish. I'm at the tedious stage where good shading takes a fuckton of time.

it perf and I love it

Oof, tough call. They both seem like backup characters in power level, meant to support not to lead, so them fighting eachother's a difficult decision. I think I like the archer guy more, and his range focus can keep him out of black trickery hitting distance, but the witch has much more magical focus, and can probably get around whatever he does with his arrows. This is actually a real tough call. What do you others think?

Sure can

>Winifred VS Domoyl
That's a fight you want to win as fast as you can, because the longer that it goes on, the worse it gets. Summons that punish you for attacking and curses making you weaker bit by bit. This is the kind of flake that you want big answers to as fast as possible so she can't take off and make your day bad.

Now, if that Naturalize is a spell in Domoyl's set, then this may not be so bad, but since there's just three sitting in his gear section, it's hard to tell if that's just a joke. I think that his creatures would be having a bad time during this fight. I don't think that he has the skill set needed to put her down before it gets bad, but it really all hinges on whether that Naturalize is a thing, because if he's really focused on using that spell, then her curses aren't going to stick and it would be a lot harder for her to seal the deal.

>do I get points for keeping it in my flake's colors?
Definitely. I did mine using the preferred spells, because the character is supposed to be a newbie mage and not know much actual magic, so events it is.

I feel like a mage that only casts "events" would be a good way to describe a non-mono red probability mage, who manipulates the likelihood of the events happening.

Red doesn't have all that many events, it's all "FIRE" or "RAGE".

nono, what I mean is that probability mages are more reds thing because they have all the chance-related cards, so making one that wasn't partially red would be flavorful to have them "cast" the events they are manipulating to happen.