Puella Magi Madoka Magica Theme Deck

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Post by materpillar » 5 months ago

I've never done a hard theme vorthos deck. Figured I'd throw together one based on my favorite anime.

I'm planning on doing 3 cards per character, representing the beginning, middle and end of their story arcs / part of the story. I'm also planning on making cards for massive plot points.

Mom - Mother of Runes
Kyosuke - Doomed Artisan

Witches
Charlotte Deceiver of Form/Oblivion Sower

Wishboard
Healing Hands
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Post by darrenhabib » 4 weeks ago

Does your playgroup allow for "outside the game" concepts for Fae of Wishes // Granted, Wish, Burning Wish?

Have you thought about doing custom proxies for each card? So you can use an online website to make up the cards with your characters and they have the "alternative names" frames like you see with Lord of the Ring cards and others.
I've done it myself so if you are interested I can step you though the process.

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Post by materpillar » 4 weeks ago

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Does your playgroup allow for "outside the game" concepts for Fae of Wishes // Granted, Wish, Burning Wish?

Have you thought about doing custom proxies for each card? So you can use an online website to make up the cards with your characters and they have the "alternative names" frames like you see with Lord of the Ring cards and others.
I've done it myself so if you are interested I can step you though the process.
My playgroup is pretty chill. I'd be very surprised if they didn't let me rule 0 the wish cards. I'm planning on doing custom proxies for every card with photoshop. I just started dabbling this past week. My plan is to do as few alternate names as possible just to keep the cards more understandable. I'll post all the images here once I'm finished.

Here's the first few I've done. They might get edited some more but this is kinda the look I'm going for. I took a bunch of screenshots from the anime but they don't frame quite as well. I might use a different template, I'm not positive.
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Post by materpillar » 2 weeks ago

Finished cards so far.

Anguished Unmaking
Burning Wish
Cruel Reality
Desolation Angel
Elder Deep Fiend
Gilded Drake
Gisela, Blade of Goldnight
Liliana Vess
Mass Manipulation
Sol Ring
Ulamog, the Infinite Gyre
Wish

I'm very much enjoying the process of making these and I'm super hyped to show them all off to you guys when I'm done.

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Post by materpillar » 1 week ago

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I'm having trouble thinking of what cards Mami should have to represent episodes 1&2. Did you have any ideas? I was thinking maybe Mentor of the Meek and Kogla, the Titan Ape because she is a mentor figure and does a lot of fighting. But, I feel like I can do better at the same time.

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Post by darrenhabib » 1 week ago

Unfortunately I have not watched the anime, so can't help with personality matchups.

Just from what I read on the fandom wiki it sounds like protection (for others) is the most likely of mtg mechanics she would have.
Mother of Runes, Eight-and-a-Half-Tails.

I noticed that she summons guns, so I'm thinking creatures that search for equipment.
Stoneforge Mystic seems the best as you can then tap to "pull those weapons out".
It says she has several weapons in her arsenal so you could play some equipment that represents them.
I'm not to sure what going to best represent her weapons but Umezawa's Jitte using the -1/-1 sort of like firing a rifle (you know shooting at a distance).
Assimilation Aegis could represent a one-use of a weapon -or- restraint magic.
Sword of Truth and Justice "helping" other creatures with buffs.
Anyway if you like this idea, more thought could be put into equipment that represent her arsenal.

The other thing I read was about her transformation into Holy Mami. I was thinking literally transform cards.
Kytheon, Hero of Akros is one. The transformed side does give other creatures indestructible for a turn.
The other one is Urza, Lord Protector (it has protector in the name!) and meld with The Mightstone and Weakstone.
Urza, Planeswalker would be her "Holy Mami" form and The Mightstone and Weakstone could represent her soul gem.
That's kind of nice that you have to wait for both of them, as story wise her transformation wouldn't happen until further into a game.

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Post by darrenhabib » 1 week ago

I'm always on the hunt for recommended animes so watched it and was awesome! I watched the tv series (12 episodes) and the Rebellion movie.

Just going to throw some ideas out there. If your playgroup is already malleable to rule 0 ideas then "plane" cards would be a cool way to represent the witches realms (labyrinths).
Now the concept of planes are stupidly powerful, so the idea would be to select ones that are not obnoxious so that your playgroup will be okay. You need a minimum of 10.

If you don't like this idea or your playgroup doesn't go with it, then I was thinking "Battles" are the next best idea for labyrinths. You know that's where the battles take place. The transformed sides could represent the witches. It doesn't make sense that you "defeat" a battle and then the witch appears. But I'd just imagine it that you get the witches grief seed powers at your disposal represented by the witch.

I was thinking that Sinister Concierge would be a nice fit for Homura Akemi resetting with time counters as this just keeps looping. You could say this is her "beginning" card, which fits in with the paradox of time travel.

Maybe Kyubey could be represented by Garth One-Eye with granting a "wish" each time?

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Post by materpillar » 6 days ago

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I'm always on the hunt for recommended animes so watched it and was awesome! I watched the tv series (12 episodes) and the Rebellion movie.
Glad you liked it! It's literally my favorite. I'd also recommend Baccano and SpyxFamily as fantastic animes. They're wildly different but awesome.
Just going to throw some ideas out there. If your playgroup is already malleable to rule 0 ideas then "plane" cards would be a cool way to represent the witches realms (labyrinths).
Now the concept of planes are stupidly powerful, so the idea would be to select ones that are not obnoxious so that your playgroup will be okay. You need a minimum of 10.
They're malleable but I don't think they're quite that malleable.
If you don't like this idea or your playgroup doesn't go with it, then I was thinking "Battles" are the next best idea for labyrinths. You know that's where the battles take place. The transformed sides could represent the witches. It doesn't make sense that you "defeat" a battle and then the witch appears. But I'd just imagine it that you get the witches grief seed powers at your disposal represented by the witch.
Huh. I'll poke through the battles some later. I hadn't thought up a good card to represent a Grief Seed yet.
I was thinking that Sinister Concierge would be a nice fit for Homura Akemi resetting with time counters as this just keeps looping. You could say this is her "beginning" card, which fits in with the paradox of time travel.
I was going with Liliana Vess for the looping aspect. Since she's a time traveler she's not a creature anymore. The -2 as a search feels on theme as does the ultimate of resurrecting everyone.
I was leaning towards her beginning card being timeless witness because of the name, remembering the past and coming back stronger.
Maybe Kyubey could be represented by Garth One-Eye with granting a "wish" each time?
I was going with Kyodai, Soul of Kamigawa because he comes in and makes them fairly unkillable.

I'm a little low on card draw and Sunforger targets at the moment. Pretty hyped to post all my alters when I finish them up.

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