A small set of purple MTG cards

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 equal sized piles, shuffling, and then getting to pick which to draw from each turn. Anyway, RSM is a potentially very powerful card. The recursive part would be if you thin your library, and thereby find more tutors / more copies of RSM. I like that RSM is potentially very powerful, but also potentially very dangerous and self-mangling if not used carefully.

More things out of place, rearranging time. This is very situational, but in some cases powerful, e.g. you could effectively counter several counters by putting them on the bottom of the stack, or you could disrupt your opponent’s synergistic triggers or whatever.

I have no idea how to balance this or if it’s workable; would take playtesting.

Purple shuffles things around, filtering through possibilities, spinning through time.

The idea of this card is that if you activate it enough, you’re kinda stacking your deck—not necessarily in the sense of tutoring anything, but in the sense that if you have cards that chain into other cards (e.g. Cascade or similar) you can set yourself up. In the late game it is more like a clumsy repeatable tutor / deck stacking.

Purple is somewhat otherworldly—things come in from strange places, going where they aren’t supposed to go. Then they vanish, and you don’t even remember if they were real at all.

Purple explores possibilityspace—and can swap possibilities, or pump probabilities.

Purple is powerful, but always with some twist. Often the twist puts some weird constraint on how the power can flow, making it hard to use, e.g. the erstwhile channelmage or the ruined ur-portal. I think this card might be interesting to build around: it could be powerful, but you have to have the right balance of several card types.

This is a very unhinged card.