A Master of Unlocking
"Lockpicks? I don't carry them. I've got my own set of tricks for getting where I need to go." Infiltration is a necessary part of the detective's trade, and Enigma is no different from his peers in that regard. It is sometimes necessary to be discreet,...
Illusory Duplicate
The custom card designed with DanSyron's artwork in mind. After his work with Memory Extraction, he was always going to be the person I tapped for this, and I was lucky he was available. This might seem like an innocuous card in the modern context, and...
Double Trouble
"My my. You look like a person starring down two angry mind mages. What a precarious position." Whatever enemy our hero sees in front off him is about to be in for a rude awakening. He's angered Enigma to the point where he feels compelled to...
Practical Application
Yes, that's Enigma. You're probably wondering he's swinging around so high up right now. Enigma and his symbiotic partner have spent quite a long time together at this point, and now they have almost no difficulty sustaining their combined form for long periods of time. And yet,...
Precautionary Testing
The custom card that went with the piece commissioned from Novaloux aka LittleFreckles. I don't actually have a lot to say about the card itself. After a couple of solid designs, this one lapses right back into lacking an identity. I struggled to mechanically represent what...
What’s Happening To Me!?
"It's not just my body, that other presence is still inside me. I need to know what it is, and what it's doing." This is a scene right after Enigma returned to his home plane after first being infected with the symbiote and regaining control of...
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...