Volpes’s Deal
This piece from Marsel-Defender in November of 2021 was the perfect compliment to an concept I had already been writing out, to help explain how an organization rooted in the slums, and opposing the wealthy, nonetheless has the funding necessary to run free clinics and...
May I Have This Dance?
As a detective, Enigma knows that those of power and prestige are most at ease when attending galas, and other high-end parties. And if you want to learn about someone, you have to engage them in their element. So it was that he learned to...
A Harvest Day’s Reaping
Harvest Day is an annual holiday to the people of crossroads, celebrating the bountiful harvest born from the fruits of the refugees left behind in the wake of the old Planeswalker wars. In those days, untold horrors were seen all around as Planeswalkers-of-old conjured any...
Enigma, Blackblood
This is the card that I used LittleBadWolf's art for. The idea was to mechanically represent the symbiote-enhanced Enigma. Though there was one more iteration of the card before this one. As you might be able to tell from the wording of the passive, this is...
Abandoned, or is it?
After touching down on an unknown plane ravaged by the bitter cold, cutting his way through the deadwood of a seemingly barren forest, the mind mage, fully bonded with his symbiote Companion, eventually found his way to an old village, or what remained of one.Though...
Not All Lessons Can Be Fun
When it comes to hands-on learning, Edmund is one of the sharpest students in Enigma's classes, able to quickly grasp core concepts and their practical application. Unfortunately, the same cannot be said of Edmund when it comes to lectures and magical theory. He knows better...
The First Recruit
Another chapter in the saga of Volpes, illustrated by the wonderful Novra aka BeefMcCat back in October of 2021. What I am most happy about with this piece is how it illustrates the manipulative nature of Volpes, which also setting the stage for Edmund's father and...
Mana’s Gentle Glow
"It is important for mages to understand the substance from which all spells are sculpted: Mana. No matter what color we are best attuned to, we are nothing without this essential energy that flows around and through us every moment of every day. For this...
Rabrandt of the Crimson Harvest
Naturally, with a piece as good as the one DanSyron made for me, I had to turn in into another custom MTG card design. Demons are the closest analog to voidsent in Magic, so I used that as the basis for my concept. Since Reapers fight...
Reaper, Reaper
He had heard the rumors back in his days as a Garlean soldier: Those who overcame their lack of magical ability by forming pacts with the creatures of the void. Back then, he had considered them ghost stories, nothing more than fairy tales meant to...