My little tribute to HZ: HtG (warning: lots of images)

[Varangaard]

Horizons The Gathering

Basic Lands:



Lands and Multicolor Lands:




Legendary Lands:



Creatures and Artifact Creatures:

White:


Blue:


Black:


Red:


Green:


Colorless:



Enchancements:

Enchantments:


Enchant Creature:


Enchant Land:


Enchant World:



Sorcery and Instants:




Some Notes:
I considered if I should post these to off-topic, but decided against that as this is quite obviously related and relevant to Horizons.

I haven't played MtG in a decade or more. I've no idea of the current rules beyond what little I researched for these. The cards here have not been balanced, nor are they intended to be; thus many are underpowered or overpowered - especially check out the black cards that relate to errors, servers and developers. Creating actually playable cards wasn't the intent of this project in the first place, anyway.

Black cards usually require more colored mana to play than other colors, as I've made it easy to blight lands and thus convert them to produce black mana.

Color assignments:
I've assigned colors to by in many places ignoring MtG's assignments and making up my own. Above and beyond what is listed below, black cards also represent errors in code, server hiccups and developer activity. For the interested parties, they go as follows:

Assigned land types:
WHITE: plains
BLUE: islands, snow-covered regions
BLACK: blight blooms, swamps
RED: mountains, volcanic regions
GREEN: forests

Creature assignment to colors:
By land they inhabit (nahguk ogres are plains and white), by elemental affinity (lava golem, fire pygmy and fire ogre are red etc), by thematic affinity (magma kwellen is allied with WA and thus black) or judgment call (all golems except elemental affiliates are colorless).

Magic assigned to colors: (though I inthe end mage a decision not to add spells)
WHITE: augmentation, life, summoning
BLUE: ice, mind
BLACK: blight, spirit
RED: flame, energy
GREEN: nature
COLORLESS: primal
Summoning is assigned to white because it is currently insignificant, and borrows all of its effects from schools assigned to other colors. Primal could make a good case on belonging to blue (wind magic) or red (world's own power) but I decided to cop out and make it colorless on interests of balancing magic schools to colors.

Player races assigned to colors:
WHITE: human, gnome, saris
BLUE: dragon (helian), fiend
BLACK: none (black is Withered Aegis)
RED: dragon (lunus), dwarf, half-giant
GREEN: dryad, elf, satyr, sslik
Racial cities used as legendary lands are assigned color by same criteria. Generally, the player race color decides card color regardless of any school the creature may be assigned to.

Special abilities set to school-related creature cards (most abilities will be activated abilities): These are intended for Legendary Creatures only; normal schooled creatures go without abilities. The list is unfinished as I've no good knowledge of certain classes' unmasterable, school-defining abilities.
Battle Mage
BERSERKER: Ignore Pain (ignore damage from one blocking/blocked creature)
Blood Mage
Chaos Warrior
CLERIC: Weaken Black Creatures (diminishes power and toughness of black creatures)
Conjurer
Crossbowman
DRAGON: Gold Rage (sacrifice controlled artifact for power boost)
Druid
Elemental Archer
Flame Disciple
Guardian
HEALER: Damage Prevention (negates damage creature receives in combat)
Ice Disciple
KNIGHT OF CREATION: Banish Armor (ignore toughness boosts and use the creature card's base value)
MAGE: Damage Target Creature (rangestrike bought with red mana)
Monk
PALADIN: Protection From Black (as it says)
Ranger
Reaver
Scout
SHAMAN: Expulse (remove enchantments from target creature)
SORCERER: Spellbind (tap target creature)
Spearman
Spirit Disciple
SPIRITIST: Lifetap (boost toughness of own creature, diminish toughness of opposing creature)
Storm Disciple
WARRIOR: Double Strike (as it says)
Wizard

[Hal`cyon Sskyler]

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No words

[imported_tjl]

lol at "error - grouping". i remember lem with his 40 marrows... good times.
awesome work Varangaard

[Levity]

I haven't played M:tG in many years but you capture the look perfectly. I can't wait to look at this on my own computer instead of my Mom's laptop which keeps getting an error and only booting in Safe Mode :(

Very well done!

-Levity

[Varangaard]

It appears I forgot to include one of the most pertinent pieces of information; this wouldn't have been possible without a nifty piece of software called MtG Editor. It takes care of backgrounds and image/text positioning, leaving to me just the rules part, flavor text and images. All pictures have been touched with photoshop, as HZ screenies are bit flat on the saturation department. Most also need levels adjustment, especially the ones taken on blight.

Now, if anyone wants to see their ugly mug as one of the Legendary Creatures in the set, PM me with a link to a screenshot of yourself (whole body or waist up, I'll take care of saturation/levels adjustments if it needs any). When taking the shot, have options for visible name and visible guild name off so they don't appear on the shot. Add in your character's name - first name only will be used because of space considerations. Tell me your race - I'll assign card color by race - or the specific card color if you want some other. Choose one class you want to be; I'm not going to do multiclassed creatures. Note down your level in the class; I'll assign power and toughness by level/20, rounded up - caster classes will be adjusted down some. Choose +1 to either power or toughness for the privilege of being a Legendary Creature. [;)]

Abilities I will assign by list I've posted. I know many are not available at lower levels, but I'll just ignore that bit. If your class has no ability listed yet, describe me your class' defining ability and I'll try to turn it into simple MtG rule and add to list. Finally, choose some flavor text to the bottom of card, but remember that space is limited so make it short. I will not correct any typos on the flavor text, it'll be straigth copypaste.

[Uro]

Lol nice job Varan! :D

But surely you have forgotten a few mobs, just beacuse they are not in the game anymore they could still be included, likeAOP,or cursed doggies(I know you have killed enough of those to never wish to see them again ;)). I have never played magic though, so have little concept of how much cards should cost to deploy.

AOP
4/4
special ability: can command other black monsters and adds +1/+1 or something ;)

Cursed wolves
3/3
Special ability: In big numbers they make you sleepy,unconcentrated and prone to insane giggeling :P

And of course

Urodwaggie
7/7(was loking at what you gave umyaar and surtheim, and thoseuro ussually eats)
flying, goldrage, big hoard(no need to sacrifice an artifact, but the silly grinding makes Uro more expensive(or something))

[Takora Drakan]

Holy batman! [:O] Great job Varan! [H]

I really love the cards [:P]

[Vlisson]

wow great work

i love your cards!!!!

very nice pictures

[Tribunal]

*twitch* that brought me back to my eight-grade year, I remember playing that game during chior, OH BOY! thems was good times. Now I sitting here with a large collection of cards, and two Krosan Cloudscrapers (13/13 :no special ability), and no one wants to buy them from me[:'(][:'(].

....ANYWHO!!!

That was very entertaining, very nice job.

[imported_Godly]

OO my holly god this is awesome
i still play magic and this is well dunno what to say
I WANT THIS DECK no matter what cost

very nice job vara iam so gratefull

[Varangaard]

But surely you have forgotten a few mobs, just beacuse they are not in the game anymore they could still be included, likeAOP,or cursed doggies(I know you have killed enough of those to never wish to see them again [img]/Web/emoticons/emotion-5.gif[/img]). I have never played magic though, so have little concept of how much cards should cost to deploy.

I certainly would have liked to add Avatar of Pain, but I've lost all of my old screenshots (everything before Nov 2004). Anyway, I didn't have too many AoP shots that would've been usable. Same goes for cursed wolves, I don't think I ever took a close-up screenie of them... adding to that, dragon perspective is set high off the ground, good images of short creatures are hard to take (you'll notice all pygmys have been screenshotted uphill, and for the really small ones I fielded my biped alt).

In other news, the first player-based Legendary Creature is finished. Ladies and gents, flame disciple Menkure:

[Varangaard]

Bleh, little bump post to bring this back up; I forgot editing the opening post sends the thread to very bottom of the pile... [:S]

[Sigi1985]

Cool!!
very, very nicely done..
you've put a lot of work in it, thanks for sharing :)

[Menkure]

Ohh!! I love it!! [:D] Thank you very much Varangaard!

-Menkure

[Tribunal]

that is a wonderful program, to bad I don't have actual screen shots I can mess around with anymore, since I deleted the program I never thought I'd need them again.

anywho, thought I'd have a crack at it [:D]

http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b2...ibunalmang.jpg

(I uh... might have overpowerd it just alittle)

but the idea of course is all yours.[:)]

[cattoy]

Wonderful work! It would be a marvelous thing indeed to have an istarian themed set for M:tG.

A few quick observations

You ought not to use the Tazoon desert for a graphic for a plain. There is/was a land type called desert (arabian nights expansion) which is more appropriate.

The Machines Will Fall costs RR1 and destroys an artifact or artifact creature and is a sorcery.

This is categorically inferior to the old stanby, Shatter which costs R1 and affects artifacts and is an instant.

[Rawdge]

Wow! Very nice work Varangaard!

[Varangaard]

You ought not to use the Tazoon desert for a graphic for a plain. There is/was a land type called desert (arabian nights expansion) which is more appropriate.

The Machines Will Fall costs RR1 and destroys an artifact or artifact creature and is a sorcery.

This is categorically inferior to the old stanby, Shatter which costs R1 and affects artifacts and is an instant.

I did say I'm twisting the rules around a bit. [;)] I made desert a white/plains so I'd have an excuse to call all desert-dwelling creatures white creatures. Further, Tazoon Desert looked nice so I just had to make some card featuring the vista. ^__^ I've adjusted the machines card cost downwards; I'm a bit surprised how easy and cheap it is to destroy artifacts in MtG.

Also, thanks to everyone for the compliments! It was a lot of work, but it was fun running around Istaria for the shots. Else I'd never have finished the project. Regretfully I spoiled the Valkor screenshot as I didn't notice a marrow passing through him, so no card for him yet... I even got DP for the trouble (multicast vampiric bats, ow).[:P]

[imported_Kepesk]

Fine fine.. Now I'm going to have to buy up a bunch of land, print these on sticky paper, and.. well.. yanno. ;)

-Your friendly neighborhood stripey dragon

[Ophelea]

Umm...wow!