A while ago I made some custom MTG cards. I don’t play Magic and I definitely don’t know how to balance a Magic card, so these are just conceptual explorations. In these cards, I was more interested in off-beat mechanics, rather than anything to do with actual MTG play. Purple knocks things out of place, and messes with time a bit, making things disjointed or throwing things out of their usual context. The Eternal Denizen is stuck out of time / stuck in a loop / stuck never quite entering the world. It doesn’t actually use mana, it just hypothetically uses mana. This is maybe still too spiky to be balanced. But it’s constrained by the colors, so it would be weird to build around. I like the idea of the channelmage getting lost in trying to wrangle a bunch of different mana of the wrong colors and getting all mixed up. I think libarary modification is interesting. There could be some unexplored ideas with making two libraries, e.g. splitting your library into eq...