Memory Extraction
A custom MTG card designed using that piece I just gushed about. This is another time where the art was commissioned specifically for the card. At the time, Magic the Gathering Standard was in the middle of the third Ravnica block, which would later culminate in...
You Brought This On Yourself
After tracking down and ambushing a particularly dastardly villain, our hero is doing his best to conduct an ethical interrogation. Unfortunately, the fiend knows all too well how to avoid incriminating himself. Or so he thinks. He made the mistake of pushing Enigma too far, which...
Relaxing by the Waterfall
In November of 2018, I commissioned BenBenCoo to draw this piece since I had taken up nightly meditation as a form of sleeping aid. I still have sleeping troubles, and yet to this day I try to unplug and sit in my bed for about...
Enigma, Mentalist Battle-Mage
This is the card I designed around the unveiling of Symbiote Enigma's "Combat Mode" (later dubbed "Perfect Bond"). In truth, it's not the first version of the card. Though the core concept never wavered, the original mechanics were quite different. Instead of transforming into a creature...
“This is My Full Power”
Drawn by Seiryuuden in October in 2018, this is the "official" unveiling of Symbiote Enigma's "Perfect Bond" form, which I had dubbed "Combat Mode" at the time. As I said with Lex Farran's piece, this was what happened when Enigma and his symbiote, Companion, merged both...
The Meditating Mage
"Watch closely. This is what I'm truly capable of." This piece was drawn by Lex Ferran back in September of 2018. You'll note that this is tagged in the Symbiote timeline. That's because this piece was intended to be what I would later call "Perfect Bond Enigma",...
Symbiotic Homunculi Cards
As I said in the last post, the idea for these cards actually came before the art did, and the art was commissioned specifically to place on the cards. The initial black mana card to serve as a "baseline", explaining what the mechanic was. Though...
Symbiotic Homunculi
After spending some time getting acquainted with his newfound other, Enigma discovered that the symbiote can be divided, in a way not to dissimilar to a cell. Though psychically linked to the original and its host, these copies have their own (mostly benevolent) personalities. And like...
Intimidating Presence
Yet another attempt to turn commissioned art into custom magic cards. I remember being very proud of this design, taking inspiration from Blink of an Eye in the Dominaria set: Though that seems laughable now. Then again, it is also likely the most solid design I...
Sword in one hand, spell in the other.
"I may be an academic and detective by trade, but don't underestimate me. I have more than a few tricks up my sleeve." There is nothing inherently special about this piece in particular, from August of 2018, in the grand scheme of my lore and story....