[MTGO] 'Go Wild & Rural', a Deck.

/ article in construction. /




This is a tribute to the Art-cliche of a Villager - Werewolf idea.

Wolves used to endanger livestock so villagers used to hunt wolves.

Forests were scary, full of wolves and other wild beasts, so young male villagers often styled themselves as wolf-men, to be more mean, manly, intimidating and handsome in women's eyes.

... i think this led to tales of werewolves living at villages' outskirts.

Perhaps a worst source of mana in this deck is a swampy forest wilds of a Bayou, still useful in summoning a Creakwood Liege.

In this deck ideas of villages and wilds are intertwined, with a little hint of a town-gossip-and-rabble as well.

This complements and opposes a cliche of an aristocrat-vampire, that feasts upon villager's work and lifeblood.

Villagers and Peasants used to toil at fields, living according to whims of weather and seasonal changes, their lives was endangered not only by a bad weather ruining their crops, but also by bandits, cruel aristocrats with their laws & taxes, as well as by wild beasts and other horrors of the woods.

Occasionally a warrior settled in a village, and turned his life by sword to plowing the fields.

 

[MTGO] 'Vault Guardians' Deck in Action, Part 2.

Duel 1/1.




Story.

As roads did unravel, Liliana, Attentus & Nasturtium travelled ... and looked for local myths & tales.

In one village they heard about the Weatherlight - flying ship hidden in one of the sea-caves along the shoreline.

Deciding to check the tale, they were noticed by Vlad, a Planeswalker & Psychic Vampyr who chose to challenge them.

Attentus' Mind was attacked by Vlad, who sent torments and denied Attentus his spells.

A few weeks of nausea & travel, of pains and emptiness in mind ensued.

Considering other planeswalkers, Attentus had quite Iron Will, as his Mind was considered. He patiently endured mind torture looking for opportunity to dominate local time-streams.

... Liliana did what she could to ease her consort's pains - and one day Tezzeret the Seeker, a Planeswalker Ally of Attentus and Liliana - answered Attentus' call. He brought with himself trinket that gave Attentus, Liliana and Nasturtium access to the Time Vault.

Vlad tried to avert the inevitable by constructing Nevinyrral's Disk, powerful artifact of destruction - but this came too late to save him, as Tezzeret sent consciousness-fragment with an override-sequence to the Time Vault, securing the Local Timestream Domination before Nevinyrral's Disk could turn the battlefield to a land of dust.

[MTGO] 'Vault Guardians' Deck in Action, Part 1.

Duel 1/1.




Story.

As they went along shores, Attentus, Liliana & Nasturtium transgressed a forest that another plainswalker claimed as his own mana source.

A short duel ensued, Attentus gathered power quickly and summoned Transcendent Master, Silver Stream and two soldiers as an escort.

A shaman opposed Silver Stream, and was quickly defeated.

Enemy Plainswalker retreated from the duel as he wasn't prepared for this encounter.

Attentus, Lily & Nasturtium let him escape alive - and left his land as well, preferring to go around contested territory.

A little of delay was better than creating enemies wherever they walked, afterall.

[MTGO] 'Vault Guardians' Deck Solitaire, Part 2.

Solitaire.




Story.

Travelling across shores, Attentus, Lilly & Nasturtium continued their training maneuvers.

They quickly found advantageous conditions for the time vault access, and voltaic key's construction.

They focused on dominating the local time streams, and maitaining the control.

... it was tricky & elusive endeavour, they were not sure if they succeeded - when they walked with their presence manifesting across multiple realities, everything seemed hazy, sleepy dream. Silvery energies of time streams they travelled superimposed with a plains & isles landscapes in slow motion.

Summoning escort in these conditions increased the challenge - focusing on a spellcasting is one thing, but casting while maitaining other challenging spells, while tapping on time vault's qualities was even more difficult.

As in a dream, they called upon services of the Mark's Monks - of Cornelia and her Spiritual Teacher, Silent Stream, Transcendent Master.

Silent Stream was impressed with a dream-walking experience of the maneuvers, he participated in, and signed agreement with Attentus & Lilly to come when needed for a price.

After a little more than a week of challenging realities, of adjustment to a new ways, of tactical maneuvers within the silvery time stream advantage, they concluded that part of the training.

They gifted monks with a modest payment and let them go their ways.

Their quiet and nice company will be missed for a while.