Card of the Day - Overgrown Estate

I'm doing something a little unorthodox by showing you a card that already exists.  The reason I'm showing you this card is because it is the setting of Roggara, the BGW wedge.  Roggara is a pocket plane which consists of the above Overgrown Estate and not much else.  The tiny plane is only one gigantic building which is, of course, both haunted and overgrown.

Card of the Day - Arici Charm

A few years back, WOTC released the Shards of Alara set, in which five separate worlds, or "Shards" were put together in one set.  Each of those shards had only three colors of mana available to them.  For instance: Jund, the Red/Green/Black shard, was a place of brutal survival and dangerous predators.

I'm taking this concept a little further by introducing the 'Wedges" of something-or-other.  Five distinct worlds that have only three colors of mana.  The difference is that these worlds share a pair of allied colors and the color that is their common enemy.

The first of these is Arici, the White/Black/Red Wedge.  This plane has a large city which is ruled by a devil masquerading as a human.  Only a few people at the top know that their Emperor, Isba, is utterly evil. His corruption sinks into everything in the plane of Arici.  If one were to spend a little time there, one would be hard-pressed to miss the fact that the lovely marble pillars are veined with something impure.

Tomorrow I will introduce you to the mechanics of Arici.

Card of the Day - Sentient Steam

I like that I used the Izzet and Boros hybrid mana in the cost of this card, but the only way to make it work the right way is to use the Azorius hybrid mana in the text box.  If you use this card in a mono-red deck, you can use him agressively.  If you use him in an Azorius deck, he's good at being defensive.  In an Izzet or Boros deck, you have a lot of options.

Card of the Day - Hargan Opportunist

If you don't remember (or never knew), Boost was a mechanic I created while working on speculating the Gatecrash mechanics.  Here is another tricolor card that utilizes what I think is a nice clean mechanic.  If you notice the mana cost, you'll see a three color hybrid.  I could've made it cost 1(r/w)(w/b), but the 1 looks tiny on MSE, and I thought the tricolor hybrid symbol looked cool.