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dingus egg (gloomsday) @dingusegg.bsky.social · 1d

If it's not completely clear, this is a joke and while I have no interest in TMNT myself, people do and UB is not a game ending issue.

dingus egg (gloomsday) @dingusegg.bsky.social · 1d

I hope all you fans of TMNT are happy, Magic is finally dead to me, I mean, what kind of sick and twisted mind puts broccoli on pizza?!

Basic Forest with symbol appearing as a broccoli on a slice of pizza.

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dingus egg (gloomsday) @dingusegg.bsky.social · 1d

I am available, if you'd have me. Is there a theme this week, or is it just classic B3?

dingus egg (gloomsday) @dingusegg.bsky.social · 1d

Day 10 - Constellation

Tried a ton of ideas to avoid just using the existing Constellation text, all of them were a bit naff.

Then @ellie.wubrgsky.org had an idea I liked, "what if Cosima's ability was a mechanic?"

Adjusted slightly and needs a further rework, but this is the early shell.

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dingus egg (gloomsday) @dingusegg.bsky.social · 1d

And updated versions of Immolation and Wilderness (now Evolution Mechatitan to match the naming scheme).

Compact dropped the Finality counters for ease of board state readability
New wording opens up potential for specific tokens like Offspring had, as no Compact text needed on the tokens.

dingus egg (gloomsday) @dingusegg.bsky.social · 1d

Moxtober this year has really got the ideas flowing. I'm trying to commit to cycles for each new mechanic I design, for use in potential future sets.

Here's an updated version of Compact, and a mythic Mechatitan cycle. First, Abolition, Submersion and Declension Mechatitan.

dingus egg (gloomsday) @dingusegg.bsky.social · 1d

Testing The Soul Stone in Olivia, Mobilized for War, but that entire deck is still in the early stages, so feels less of a new addition than the others.

dingus egg (gloomsday) @dingusegg.bsky.social · 1d

Iron Spider for Syr Ginger
Kraven and Rampage for 4mv Eshki
Spider-Woman for Niambi

Considering some options in other decks, but not committed to anything else yet.

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dingus egg (gloomsday) @dingusegg.bsky.social · 1d

Everyone should play against my Darigaaz deck, if only to see the impact having a reasonable amount of interaction in your deck can have.

This deck takes it to the extreme, but it makes it clear that removal is a vital cog in the machine that is an EDH game.

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dingus egg (gloomsday) @dingusegg.bsky.social · 1d

You should be asking why most don't even run 4.

dingus egg (gloomsday) @dingusegg.bsky.social · 2d

Two part mail day

First, some cards.
Second, my entire me boiled down into 3 lines.

MTG cards

Iron Spider, Stark Upgrade
Dr Eggman
Sidar Kondo of Jamuraa

Discord screenshot

Ellie says "Nice. Makes sense. Is Grixis. Is Egg and Man, both your demographics. Draw a card. The perfect cryptic card.

dingus egg (gloomsday) @dingusegg.bsky.social · 2d

I don't believe you. Guess I need to watch multiple times to verify this claim.

dingus egg (gloomsday) @dingusegg.bsky.social · 2d

I'm an out-of-towner, but do you know me too well to let me book?

dingus egg (gloomsday) @dingusegg.bsky.social · 2d

The Teenage creature type means there is still hope Uncle Istvan will regain his Uncle creature type one day.

dingus egg (gloomsday) @dingusegg.bsky.social · 2d

Day 9 - Compact

Anticipate a busy day tomorrow, so going early with this one.

Compact is a mechanic that goes on artifacts. Think a reverse Offspring.

The finality counters are to prevent loops, but still leave a small window open to pull them off it you also have a way to manipulate counters.

Ponderer's Orb
2 generic for an artifact that reads

When this artifact enters, look at the top three cards of your library, then put them back in any order. You may shuffle. Then draw a card.

It has a custom mechanic called Compact, which reads:

Compact 1 (When this artifact dies, you may pay 2. For each time 2 was paid, create a token copy of it. If the artifact was a creature, the token copies have base power and toughness 2/2. Put a finality counter on each token created this way.)

Immolation Titan
4 R R for a 6/6 Artifact Creature - Giant Robot

When this creature enters or attacks, it deals X damage divided among any number of target creatures or planeswalkers, where X is this creature's power.

It has a custom mechanic called Compact, which reads:

Compact 3 (When this artifact dies, you may pay 2 up to three times. For each time 2 was paid, create a token copy of it. If the artifact was a creature, the token copies have base power and toughness 2/2. Put a finality counter on each token created this way.)

Wilderness Titan
4 6 G for a 6/6 Artifact Creature - Giant Robot

When this creature enters or attacks, distribute X +1/+1 counters among other creatures you control, where X is this creature's power.

It has a custom mechanic called Compact, which reads:

Compact 3 (When this artifact dies, you may pay 2 up to three times. For each time 2 was paid, create a token copy of it. If the artifact was a creature, the token copies have base power and toughness 2/2. Put a finality counter on each token created this way.)

dingus egg (gloomsday) @dingusegg.bsky.social · 2d

If you play these as a land on T1, this is how you get T4 8/8.

T1 - remove counter on end step, 7 remaining.
T2 - pay 2, remove on end step, 5 remaining.
T3 - pay 2, remove on end step, 3 remaining.
T4 - pay 2, pay 2, remove on end step, 0 remaining.

You now have an 8/8, but nothing else.

dingus egg (gloomsday) @dingusegg.bsky.social · 2d

The second of them is the blue one, Tidnus, the Dormant Flood.

The idea is the triggered ability is balanced between developing the game, and powering through the time counters.

In theory, you can - by doing nothing else with your mana - get all the time counters off by the end of T4.

dingus egg (gloomsday) @dingusegg.bsky.social · 2d

This is not a Moxtober 2025 submission. However, the Dormant mechanic evoked an idea for my custom set "Gloomsday", for a cycle of mythic rare Dormant Legends.

This is the first of them, Limnus, the Dormant Cave.

dingus egg (gloomsday) @dingusegg.bsky.social · 3d

Day 8 - Punish

I also enjoy coming up with mechanics named for the prompt. Punish is an ability word that checks to see if an opponent lost 3 or more life this turn.

Likely centred in B/R in limited, but because it doesn't specify how the damage is dealt, can open up to other colours on occasion.

dingus egg (gloomsday) @dingusegg.bsky.social · 3d

Day 7 - Power

Quick backstory. I made Divine Restoration in 2023 with the intent to complete at least an enemy colour cycle over the rest of 2023, and into 2024.

I didn't. So when the 2025 prompt list came out, I earmarked a couple of prompts for new entries into the cycle.

Power is the first.

dingus egg (gloomsday) @dingusegg.bsky.social · 4d

Simulacrum Synthesizer cosplay confirmed?