053 Magic the What Now?

I ramble about using Magic the Gathering cards as inspiration for role-playing. Ideas stolen from the Dragon+ app (free app/subscription).

The online pack generator mentioned can be found at http://mtgen.net/.

[Edit. I was reminded that it was Ben Milton of Questing Beast who came up with tokens idea!)

M19 (Core 2019) Pack - Scenario

• Foul Orchard - black green land, fertile and fetid*
• Open the Graves - the swamp has expanded and taken over a cemetery, animating the corpses. Plants versus Zombies? Why not Plant Zombies I say.*
• Two-Headed Zombie (leader)*
• Dwarven Priest - bearer or righteous cleansing light*
• Greenwood Sentinel - elf eco warrior*
• Salvager of Secrets - merfolk wizard with the book-knowledge to end the cycle*

* Read the italicized flavor text on the cards. (Click to see larger image.)

UMA (Ultimate Masters) Pack - Scroll

• Double Cleave - flaming blade laughs at your armor, does double damage
• Desperate Ritual - bring on the lavalanche, but find some decent footing first!
• Defy Gravity - fly there on a cloud, and return when you feel like it “flashback” 
• Skyspear Cavalry - summon battle-trained gryphon mount, but only when there’s a fight on. It attacks with you.*
• Offalsnout - summon grotesque centipede-pig-slug-thing that eats undead?
• Spider Umbra - clothe yourself in a phantasmal spider suit, for a time you can climb walls, shoot phantasmal webs, move quickly, and get a sting attack. It dissolves when you take damage, hope you aren’t on the ceiling!

* Read the italicized flavor text on the cards. (Click to see larger image.)

The Bonus Pack Scenario 

• Stampeding Horncrest - working dino that drags big stones to the pyramids, breaks loose and goes on a rampage (event)
• Silerclad Ferocidons - matched teams of three pull chariots, work best when from the same clutch, one is always dominant
• Dinosaur Hunter - badass ... uh ... dino hunter. What else is there to say. Probably some kind of ranger.
• Pitiless Plunderer - cunning but trecherous sea captain who lost his ship, the Trident.
• Shatter - the aforementioned ship
• Aquatic Incursion - merfolk planning an invasion of the city. Did they sink the Trident?

The Bonus Pack Scroll

• Scroll is something a merfolk wizard made and wants back! It is needed for the invasion.
• Tilonalli's Crown - step 1, a spell to make the dinos in the city run wild/rampage.
• Crashing Tide - step 2, a spell to cause a tidal wave and swamp the city
• Shatter - a bomb spell to wreck a city or palace gate, topple a structure, etc.
• Gruesome Fate - a spell to cage the city's vampire magistrate?