More Landscape/Background.

Yugioh Custom Card Art - Freeze Dried Fusion

Again another art from the backlog that I don't have the would-be effect for anymore, meant to work with my last artwork, I think it was meant to summon a non effect fusion monster & then force the activation to summoning a another extra-deck non-effect monster using monsters on the field.

Superpower Ramblings: Speedsters 

 Just some ramblings and Ideas of a madman, this time Speedsters. 

Speedsters, known for their ludicrous running speed, quick thinking, and occasional enormous appetites, are a classic stable in any Setting. Usually, the jokesters of the group they, while having many badass and emotional moments, are often seen as the least of the group. I think that is mostly to how they are portrayed, usably as the least powerful of the groups they are a part of.  

Think about it. 

Usually in the group you have the 'Heroic leader' they may or may not be the 'Flying Brick' someone who is seemingly near invincible and willing to jump in front of nearly every attack for their teammates, who while not as fast as the speedster can both take and deal out more damage than the speedster. 

Then there’s your second in command/'lancer', usually the brains of the group, their skill set is tactical, be that regular smart or cybernetically enhanced. They are usually a "Normal Badass" as all their skills are enhanced from gadgets they have made, which usually elevates them above their powered teammates. 

The rest are an assortment of "Muscle", "Trained Fighter", and "Spellcaster" and/or "Psychic". Speedsters are a niece category and too numerus to count, and while some are more creative than others, they are really dumb. I mean that they, like most others, have not thought threw their power sets to the outer most limits. 

There are plenty of creative usages I have seen, such as thinking in superspeed to outwit Psychics, or having "Bullet Time" to investigate an area in the matter of moments, heck the flashes tornados are a particularly good example. 

I guess my gripe is that they are normal humans, with normal ways of thinking, that usually unless you are a "Normal Badass" you don't do any training. Think of it, all speedsters fight the same way, with superspeed 'Hit and Run' tack ticks, and with Supervillains that know how to fight (Usually the fastest Speedster among the pantheon) why have tactics not evolved?  

I want to blame lazy Wrighters and the status quo of this, which while true is not the entire point. People don't think outside of the Box. Just Imagen that you are a random civilian that has lived in a world with decades of Heroes & Villans, now you have superpowers and decide to join the game, what do you do differently? Absolutely nothing, oh sure you may have a gimmick tied directly to your powers, but that is it, you may have a 'Power Evolution' at some point, but you don’t actively go out of your way to change, and you wonder why you have such a hard time fighting. 

Now dear reader, if you had superspeed what would you do? Get dishes done in an instant, Clean all your rooms in record time? Well sure, but you usually have a dishwasher that automatically does that for over an hour or more, and how often do you actually clean your room? Well, what about practicing? Yes I know, people don’t want to, hell I very much don't want to, and without some music or something it can become tedious. But think of it, reps done in a secant, stretching exercises done in the mater of moments, that stupid jazzercise fitness routine done in a minute instead of an hour. Now lets push that forward to its most extreme, practicing a fighting style in the matter of weeks or months instead of decades, sure you need an expert to point out your flawed form when you begin, but as soon as you got it you can do a thousand punches, kicks, or whatever move in the matter of moments. 

Why shouldn't there be a Speedster that stands still in the middle of the street weighting for you to attack, and when you do that can Kickbox your ass at supersonic speed, that when you shoot at them with anti-speedster weapons they ‘Dempsey roll’ there way through laser weaponry? 

Yes this whole ramble is a plea for more "Boxing Lessens for Superman", so will the rest of my "Superpowers should be more Interesting" ramblings. 

(Everyone's getting spooky and drawing cows, *Shrugs*)

Jyuumon

Fields: Nature Spirts, Nightmare Soldiers. Level:  Prefect/Ultimate. Attribute: Data. Type: Beast Man. Description: An unusual Digimon thought to be a Special version of Minitorusmon, lending to its unusual appearance scientist to theorize that Dragon's Roar Field Data caused the mutation. A joyful Mon who's willing to give anyone a taste of there sizzling Pari Pari club in or out of battle. (There name comes from the Japanese onomatopoeia "Jyuu" which is food Sizzling in a pan while "Pari Pari" is the crunching of food. If they look familiar they are based of of the mascot Beefuru of ProtonJon, PRimeExsplorer, Bmaster4114 & other of the Eggpack comunity over on Twitch & Discord.)

Hathormon 

 Fields: Nature Spirts, Wind Guardians, Virus Busters. Level: Prefect /Ultimate. Attribute: Vaccine. Type: Holy Beast. Description: A Holy Beast Digimon said to be apart of a group of powerful Digimon along with Anubusmon and Mummymon who help souls pass to the afterlife. While an unusual week Prefect Level they are considered a powerful ally to any Angle-type Digimon, Her companion's devastating Menes Melter can melt threw even chrome-digizoid. (Her name comes from Hathor, Egyptian Goddess of Fertility, she is mother to Ra and was the previous head God.)

Gugalannamon

Fields: Dark Area, Metal Empire. Level: Prefect/Ultimate. Attribute: Virus. Type: Demon Beast. Description: An anchet Digimon rumored to serve a High-Angle until thy were defeated by one of the first Humanoid Digimon. Taken and recreated by those Digimon of the Dark Area as a weapon agenst any Virus Busters who seek to stop them, it tramples any who appose it underfoot with its "Authority:Crunch" attack to send them straight to the underworld. (Name comes from Mesopotamian Mythology, Yes they are heavily inspired by the Gugalanna of the Type:Moon/Fate series. The DarkDigivolution of the Three cow-mons I've posted, that is meant to be storm clouds concealing its upper body, I know it looks weird and I should have added some lightening to clear that up.)

More obscure Digimon, this time more Cardmon variants with Cardmon Fish 1 to 4. I feel that the First and Fourth ones work best as a fish design while the Secant and Third are just a bunch of floating objects.

Fell of the face of the Earth half way threw December, not planning on finishing the Oreo DnD Characters because F*ck Wizards, Hasbro & there subsidiaries. Working on things for my Portfolio, Here's one.

More Fanart of TheLoadingCrew's character Hana, I think with how often I do her in comparison to other characters I'm realizing I have a thing for Dark Elves.

"The sun sets on all things, be it people, kingdoms, or even the goes themselves. It what you do during that dark cold night to prepare for the next dawn that matters."

Found this in my backlog & realize I have lost the Effect it would have, I think it was a payoff to having Normal/Noneffect Fusion Monsters or Just Normal/Noneffect extradeck monsters. It is an Evolution of the old Normal/Noneffect fusion monster Fusionist (With the early swirly abstract Background!), a staple of early 5d's era where you could summon it with Instant Fusion, Summon Junk Synchron, get a level 2 from the graveyard & go into Stardust Dragon or other high level Synchro Monster...

Ugh, Vampires. Ruining perfectly good blood by mixing it with wine."

(Would this count as a one use ranged weapon with Necrotic damage?)

MTG Ramblings: Equipment Mana Rocks

A new year for ramblings, new year for BS ideas. This time being Magic the Gathering, Magic is a complex game and only getting more with power creep in order to sell products, with this need to make money they have to plat it safe and won't experiment in how mechanics work. This is where we step in and create possibilities that they are too much of a cowered to do/revisit, this time ramping equipment.

Inspired by Future Sight's "Second Wind" & "Flowstone Embrace" Future Sight being the 'Stuff we may do in the future' set was made up of one-off mechanics in order to invoke a "Welcome to the World of Tomorrow" feeling. Some were successful and we have scene some cards after the set, but others they have admitted they they can never do again, 'Second Wind' being one of them for how confused players were with it. It is a Aura Enchantment that taps to tap or untap the Enchanted creature, no the Enchanted creature does not tap to do this effect the Aura itself does. When you put it like that it makes sense, but with the literal rest of the cards having static effects or the 'Enchanted creature has "Tap to -"' in the mist of a game is confusing. So I want to add to that more, this being Equipment that are also Mana Rocks.

What do I mean by this, I mean what I mean, that being Equipment like your various "Bone Saws" & "Swords of Fire and Ice" combined with ramping artifacts that tap for Mana such as "Marble Diamond" or "Drake-Skull Cameo".

Some of the advantages of this: would being able to have smaller sets with a good amount of ramp & complexity needed to make a satisfying experience, as well as to give equipment more slots in a set without making the play experience less desirable/bogged-down by not being able to use/equip it to creatures and take up valuable space in a deck (For Draft & Limited formats)

Down sides will be: Having to make it's Casting Cost being a minimum of 3 mana without the equip cost, or 4 mana or higher depending on the Effect of the Equipment being higher powered. People not understanding that you could tap the equipment while equipped to add mana. I don't think a dule colored rock can exist needing to be a base 4 with a equip cost of at least 3 in order to not overshadow/power creep the the 'Clue stone' cycle.

(Tangent; Dammit WotC you print the mana rocks in every commander product you make, reprint the Cluestones to update them to have the 'Clue' subtype. I want my 'Graf Mole' synergy!)

So while I do think they can work, they wont be made anytime soon due to the abundance of other already existing Mana Stones.