Pentagram, Part 2

[Mana Geek]

You stand before the doors of a grand hall amidst the void between planes. You push the doors gently, but it does not bulge. Instead, they swung open from inside with a creaky noise.

You shades your eyes as you enter the hall, as it is brightly lit. It is about the size of a small concert hall, but it is empty and spartan in design. There are hints of recent cleaning, but dust and cobwebs are still visible. A great pentagram is etched on the stone floor.

Then the symbol flares up. Each point of the star is occupied by a principal colour of magic, and the colours are arranged according to the wheel of colours devised by the Coast Wizards. The central pentagon is unaffected - instead, a humanoid being emerges from that area head first.

"Welcome to the Pentagram," the being said. "I am Mana Geek, your host."

"To start this whole thing off, let's start with getting the colours arranged:

Drakonis Mage :r:
Chainer9999 :g:
magicrules45 :u:
dark_knight_307 :b:
Welding_Jar :w:
MatthewJava :g:
affinityplaya :r:
White_Dragon1225 :u:
DragonAsylum :w:
Hyram :b:

Remember that you can only make cards of your colour or land that produces mana of your colour.

"So... " Mana Geek surveys the hall. The remaining dust and cobweb starts gathering before your eyes, whirling towards each other. They merge into a giant, manacing figure behind the host.

"It is kind of sad that dust gets little recognition, even though it is everywhere. So, you will make a card about dust. You will submit your card on this thread before 6/26 (Sunday). Have fun!"

Will flesh out the whole thing later...

[Chainer9999]

As the black mage adjusted to the area around him, he realized that fate had put him at odds with his own color, that thrice-damned boring color they called green. Life! Overgrown life! A jumbled mess of a color, Chainer thought. Nevertheless, he knew the power(and the loose reins that were upon it) of Mana Geek, so he thought about it for a while. Twas difficult, imagining things that were in direct opposition of his beliefs.

After a good 15 minutes of thinking, he twirled his chain, which struck the ground around him. The ground cracked, and at the impact, a worm that had been stationary up to that point began moving, through the puff of dust that the chain had stirred up. Soon it was followed by more worms.

"Inspiration comes from strange places," thought Chainer.

Fixated on the idea, he began writing it down...

Dust's Form :2: :g: :g:
Creature - Spirit
Trample
Dust's Form can't be blocked unless defending player sacrifices a land.
At the end of an opponent's turn, if Dust's Form is in your graveyard, you may sacrifice all Forests you control. If you do, put Dust's Form and X creature tokens that are copies of it into play under your control, where X is the number of Forests sacrificed this way minus 1. Play this ability only if you control at least 1 Forest.
4/4
"Swords and spears, arrows and artillery.
Dust to dust, finding futility."

If only it were a true creation...

[Welding_Jar]

Welding_Jar stumbles toward the white circle on the floor. Then Welding_Jar decides against using the third person instead of the first person, as was the case in the original Pentagram game.

After pondering Turn to Dust, Dust Bowl and Hokori, Dust Drinker, I sensed that dust in Magic represented some sort of control, usually a preventative measure. After thinking for a while, this is what I came up with:

Reryll, Arena of Dust
Legendary Land-Arena
T: Add W to your mana pool. Reryll deals 1 damage to you.
Sacrifice a creature: Prevent all damage target creature would deal this turn.
The pit fighters of Reryll were all owned by a small group of wealthy mages. Despite their strength, an unspoken pact existed that these slaves would never turn on their captors.

[Hyram]

The mage moved slowly, ponderously throughout his tower. He had not bound himself to a color, and as such his robes remained a drab grey. His mind whirled as spells and formuli spinned through it. Dust. Simple, yet elusive. He was confounded by the shear possibilities. He shifted from one foot to another, slinking into art and poetry. Remembering melting clocks and an epic wasteland.

I will show you fear in a handful of dust.*

The line amazed him. So fitting to the task at hand. So simple in it's execution. He took out the necessary implements to begin writing the new spell and sat down at his desk.

Visions of Dust :1::b::b:
Sorcery
As an additional cost to ~ discard your hand.
Target player discards their hand.
'C'est possible que nous ayons eu ca. Mais maintenant, nous peuvons seulement étreigner a la poussière.'

('We may have had it once. But, now we can only grasp at dust.')

OOC:*T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land
OOC: If someone wants to correct my limited french feel free. I think it is mostly correct.

[magicrules45]

Out of the nether void, a ghostly orb appears...a soft throbbing noise emits from the deep ochre sphere. Nothing moves for a few moments, and the noise gradually grows louder...and louder...

"It is good to be back in a semblance of life again...that trip to the other side did little good for my body. So. It has begun again. I seem to have fallen short as a mere mortal in this competition of sorts...perhaps as an immortal entity, not alive and not dead, I can begin my domination of this Pentagram."

"It is of utmost importance that I keep to the rules. I have only one rival in power, and MaG could crush me if I were to try to bend them in my favor. Hmmph. I shall have to carefully craft this card, in order to keep from offending the one other true power in the multiverse..."

Stir Up the Dust

:2: :u: :u:

Instant

Target player chooses one: Either that player skips his or her next two main phases, skips his or her next untap step, or skips his or her next combat step.

Storm

"The blue mage among the prison escapees chanted a few phrases, then all of a sudden, he disappeared behind a veil of sand. When I could find him again, the tables had been turned; I was no longer the hunter, but the hunted."

P.S. @ MaG: Dust isn't underappreciated. I have a shrine to dust under my bed. ;)

P.P.S. @ Hyram: The flavor text should read: "C'est possible que nous ayons eu ca. Mais maintenant, nous peuvons seulement étreigner a la poussière."

[DragonAsylum]

"Protect yourself, little one", whispered the mage in white robes, peering into a spider's web.
"There is much to be used all around you."
The butterfly flapped it's wings, struggling to get free, only to entangle itself further into it's web.
"No no no, you will not make a good apprentice if you're dead! Use what the gods gave you to help you here!"
The butterfly struggled, releasing it's wings. Flapping wildly, it tried to escape the web as a dark, gruesome spider came near it.
The wizard let out a sigh. "Instead of attempting to run, attack it!"
The spider came closer, and had the beautiful creature's legs in it's clutches. The colourful insect stopped shivering as the wizard spoke, and with all it's might, took four swipes at the spider with it's wings. The spider knocked out of it's web, the butterfly free to leave.
"Sometimes, a good offense is an equally valuable defense, and you must learn to use all around you."


Blinding Dust :1: :w:
Instant
Target blocked creature deals no combat damage this turn.

The wizard grabbed a handful of dust from his oldest grimoire and flung it to the dark wizard's face, kicked him in the shin and ran with his scroll.

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Side note: Haha! I got your scroll, Hyram! :p

[Chainer9999]

Asylum's flavor text is one of the funniest I've seen in months. Sounds like a goblin wizard:D

[affinityplaya]

:2: :r: :r: -pain after dust <---( it was gonna be life after dust but that wouldn't work probably and woudl be white or green and dust was supposed to sound like death anyway heres my card)
Enchantment

Whenever a creature is put into a graveyard from play, pain after dust deals one damage to that creatures controller.

The dust is never forgotten, nor appreciated.

[White_Dragon1225]

The massive white Half-Dragon that you all remember so well flies into the hall just a little late. He punches the ground, putting all of his eight-and-a-half foot, 400 pound body into it. The entire foundation of the hall seems to shake with the hybrid's might.

"Hello!" He bellows in his deep voice. "I am glad to see you all again. I have been gone from this part of the multiverse for too long. Ah! Mana geek! I have not seen you in ages. Sorry if I damaged your hall. I am also sorry that I am late. I was... delayed. Oh well, that is a story for another day. Here is the card I submit:"

Ashes and Dust :2::u::u:
Enchantment
At the beginning of your upkeep, put a dust counter on target land an opponent controls and target land you control.
Lands with dust counters cannot be the target of spells or abilities.
Lands with dust counters cannot be tapped for mana.

The warrior, after the war had been won, rejoiced as he was going home. Nothing prepared him for the inches of dust that had settled in his house, as his family was long dead.

[dark_knight_307]

Dark_knight jumps up and brushes his shoulder off, coughing a bit. He sighs, realizing that, had he not checked this dimension while planeshopping, he would've missed this evently entirely.

"Let's get started" he mumbles to himself.

Dust huh? he thinks. What an odd topic. Specifically, black dust. Hmm. Well, what would a black mage think of when he sees dust? he wonders. "What a challenging subject, especially since I am no black mage by any stretch of a wizard's imagination...." He figures they see one of two things:

A dead corpse that was literally disintegrated
or
A chance to find a new zombie-slave.

Easy enough. So the spell could reduce something to dust, or make something from dust. But, he mutters while having an epiphany, what if it did both? In the spur of the moment he draws up a rough draft:

Rise from the Dust :1::b::b:
Instant
Two target players each sacrifice a creature. Then each player who does may return target creature card from the other player's graveyard into play under their control.


Simple and elegant, yet effective and very black. He sighs and pauses. He realizes his... inner jonny is... taking... over......

MINSLAVER AND PHAGE!!!!!

The newly insane mage runs off, cackling loudly and screechingly like a teenager with ADHD.

EDIT: Took Jar's post into account...

[MatthewJava]

MatthewJava once again begins his characteristic pacing back and forth across his cell. He tilts his head back and closes his eyes, envisioning something deep within the recesses of his mind.

Suddenly, his eyes burst open. He has come up with something.

Then he frowns.

He jogs over to his desk, and jots down a quick note for MaG:
Exactly how closely related to dust must our submission be? I mean, must the word "dust" be in the name of the card, or would basing the flavor text on dust be sufficient?

MatthewJava folds the letter into thirds, and slips it into the box hanging outside of the door to his room.

Meh. If only I only still had that 2nd place lead that I had during the first part...

OOC: Do the results from the first 3 competitions matter, or are we starting over completely afresh?

[Welding_Jar]

We are starting fresh. Hence "Pentagram, Part 2."

Dark Knight, what if two people want the same card from an opponent's graveyard?

[affinityplaya]

The massive white Half-Dragon that you all remember so well flies into the hall just a little late. He punches the ground, putting all of his eight-and-a-half foot, 400 pound body into it. The entire foundation of the hall seems to shake with the hybrid's might.

"Hello!" He bellows in his deep voice. "I am glad to see you all again. I have been gone from this part of the multiverse for too long. Ah! Mana geek! I have not seen you in ages. Sorry if I damaged your hall. I am also sorry that I am late. I was... delayed. Oh well, that is a story for another day. Here is the card I submit:"

Ashes and Dust :2::u::u:
At the beginning of your upkeep, but a dust counter on target land an opponent controls and target land you control.
Lands with dust counters lose all abilities.

The warrior, after the war had been won, rejoiced as he was going home. Nothing prepared him for the inches of dust that had settled in his house, as his family was long dead.

this is an enchantment right? you might wanna add that, and its not a big deal but you spelt put wrong :rolleyes: other then that it seems like a pretty good card, maybe you could add a way to sacrifice "ashes and dust though..."

[Mana Geek]

Noticing the note, Mana Geek stretches it a bit, and the note yields to become a bit longer. Then the host wrote on the new space:

MatthewJava - You can make the connection looser if you want. A little mention of dust in flavour text would be okay. Hey, I will even take Dustmites (http://magic.tcgplayer.com/db/article.asp?id=2789) if somebody hasn't made it already.

[Chainer9999]

The massive white Half-Dragon that you all remember so well flies into the hall just a little late. He punches the ground, putting all of his eight-and-a-half foot, 400 pound body into it. The entire foundation of the hall seems to shake with the hybrid's might.

"Hello!" He bellows in his deep voice. "I am glad to see you all again. I have been gone from this part of the multiverse for too long. Ah! Mana geek! I have not seen you in ages. Sorry if I damaged your hall. I am also sorry that I am late. I was... delayed. Oh well, that is a story for another day. Here is the card I submit:"

Ashes and Dust :2::u::u:
At the beginning of your upkeep, but a dust counter on target land an opponent controls and target land you control.
Lands with dust counters lose all abilities.

The warrior, after the war had been won, rejoiced as he was going home. Nothing prepared him for the inches of dust that had settled in his house, as his family was long dead.

If this is pertinent, I will say this: this card is broken, at least with its current wording. You can put all the dust counters on one land you control, while you whittle away the other guy's lands 1 by 1. Of course, that's probably the idea, I guess.

[vany137]

Is it alright that i join? i really would have a lot of fun with it... I hope that all of you would let me... I understand if you think it's too late but none the less.... Just let me know... thanks. :D

[MatthewJava]

Reading the reply slipped under his door, MatthewJava gently smiles. Well, maybe my idea wasn't complete crap after all.

He opens his spellbook (sitting on his desk, among masses of random papers, bits of food, and miscellaneous junk), and opens to a blank page. He scribbles down his entry. (So characteristic of him to be one of the last few to submit.)

~
Biogenesis 4G
Sorcery

Put X 1/1 squirrel creature tokens into play, where X is the number of forests you control.

We were all ultimately created from the dust, and to dust we shall return.
~

Well, it's different than everyone else's entries. But perhaps that is not a bad thing.

[White_Dragon1225]

Thank you all for alerting me to my mistakes. My hat is off to you ;)

[affinityplaya]

okay so now that this is started, when does it end? is the poll gonna be up soon?

[MatthewJava]

i suppose it'll be over when drakonis posts his card, or when sunday rolls around.

[Drakonis Mage]

i suppose it'll be over when drakonis posts his card, or when sunday rolls around.
Indeed. You'll have to pardon my muse's absence, I've been busy helping my sisters and mom pack for their trip to Indonesia. It should be up (in this post) later today or tomorrow.

[Mana Geek]

Alright - Round closed.

Please PM to me the two best participants of this round.

New round will be put up later.

[Drakonis Mage]

Yeah. Sorry about that. I had some issues to deal with and couldn't think clearly enough on a card.

[Mana Geek]

Eh... Some of you have only sent the name of one participant. Please give me the other...

[dark_knight_307]

Oooooh, right, I'll send another.