Whenever equipped creature deals combat damage, put two charge counters on Ash’s Boomstick.

Remove a charge counter from Ash’s Boomstick: Choose one — Equipped creature gets +3/+0 until end of turn; or equipped creature deals 3 damage to target creature.

Lol! Inspired by a message on Chuck Norris MtG facts posted by karate_bum at TCGplayer Forums that mentioned how Chuck’s deck had ‘Umezawa’s Shotgun’.

Umezawa’s Jitte is already pretty much a boomstick itself, so welcome to the gunpowder age.

Note the similar ‘hold up to the sky in his fist’ pose in the second version of Boomstick. Once again, I couldn’t decide between the two arts – the first is obviously more pleasing to the eye, but the second is closer to the minimalist art of the Umezawa’s Jitte.

Neither version actually shows very much (as is the case with Jitte), so I made the tradeoff to cut the illustration size in favor of squeezing in that famous quote:

“This… Is my BOOMSTICK!” is the original, long before “THIS! IS! SPARTA!” was ever conceived.

Looking forward to adding more Ash Williams paraphernalia. No prized for guessing which is the next natural choice!

First up is Nami. Let’s see… She’s a navigator; greedy, cunning and manipulative; a slipery thief; and has excellent knowledge of the weather… Blue in a cinch.

For this iteration, I chose her thief aspects. For those in the know, ‘Cat Burglar’ is just the label given by the Marines. She’s about as genetically feline as DC’s Catwoman, so is not a Cat creature type along the lines of Kha or Leonin. The Japanese form of the epithet can also mean man stealer.

As I mentioned before, the watermark in the background (in this case, the Straw Hat Pirates jolly roger) has significance to gameplay… We’ll learn about that in a little bit.

Art image from One Piece Wallpaper.

One Piece expansion symbol modified from here.

In order to distinguish between the different crews (and the Marines, Baroque Works, etc) I added a Scars of Mirrodin style watermark to the text box. Each crew has its own unique gameplay elements, wich we’ll explore when the time is right. Special ‘tips & tricks’ style cards will explain each crew’s attributes.

This time, the cards not only have to fit the theme of the character they are based on. Being based on One Piece, they have to have that particular cool factor as well (or in the case of certain individuals, the lol factor). And like the rest of the cards here, they still need to be neither overpowered nor junk.

So if you’re a fellow One Piece otaku, do forgive if the creations here fall short of Oda’s high standards in any way!

As you play Hot Skitty on Wailord Action, choose two creatures on the battlefield. Put a non-Legendary creature token onto the battlefield with all creature types, abilities and colors of the chosen creatures, and power and toughness each equal to half the total of the chosen creatures’ power and toughness respectively, rounded up.

Wooooookay… That’s not how Pokémon breeding works, but I’m running with the trope meaning here which is much more fun.

In any case, have fun with your 8/8 flying, first strike, vigilance, trample, haste, protection from black and from red, annihilator 4, indestructible, Angel Eldrazi, Akroma/Ulamog love child sin against nature and the entire multiverse.

Turn a weenie (non-Super) Saiyan and destroy some Scouters while you’re at it. Whether crushed by their own unbelieving hands or exploding from the sheer awesomeness, it matters not.

Bonus points if he chumps the Trinket Mage that fetched the Everflowing Chalice into the path of your Goblin Gaveleer.

Know Your Meme and the Dragonball Wiki for the background.

Click here for an explanation of what Rickrolling is.

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Lol sorry! Here’s the actual explanation at Know Your Meme: Rickroll.

Bards and Singers are often Shaman type in Magic.

And some lols on Comixed, Fail Blog and Very Demotivational.

I kept the 6 mana cost, equip cost and p/t boost to keep its identification with its inspiration as close as possible. Whereas Karn’s armor destroys, Heavy’s tasteful adornments protect by demanding that every spell aimed at his team give fair warning… Comrades. (The alternative would be to have the opponent ask permission in a genteel method of speech before every move, which is more of an Unglued mechanic.)

Plus, Heavy just looks like someone who could nicely fit a +6/+6 set of armor. Probably weighs more than pre-planeswalker fatty Karn too what with all the Sandviches.

And if you’re wondering how a top hat and monocle can count as ‘armor’, then you have the wrong idea… The armor is actually the aura of respectability and reputability surrounding one who boasts such refined apparel. Such is the irreroachable example set by the wearer of such regalia, that scallywags and ragamuffins are compelled to temporarily suspend their unscrupulous activities when in the presence of one so gentlemanly.

Inspired by the meme on Halolz, particularly this and this. Hat and monocle skins for Team Fortress 2 by Barlim.

Couldn’t decide on the already-negative-imaged one, or the in-the-midst-of-negative-imaging-expanding-circle one. So both are above for now.

If you’re uninitiated, get a grip on the meme at Know Your Meme – Za Warudo/WRYYYYY. Apparently there are plenty other attempts at Magic-ing it into a card, some of them pretty balanced and in flavor.

The six mana cost may make you think this card works kind of like all the rest of the Time Warp and Time Stop effects, without actually giving you an extra turn. Or perhaps more like Silence. With a free Cascaded card to boot.

The key difference is that, just like the way Dio uses it, Za Warudo can be used offensively to lock downall the opponent’s spells, creatures and assorted defenses, allowing you to smash his face in. Figuratively, of course. (To my mind, Lightmine Field is the closest representation of Hierophant Green‘s tripwires that launch Emerald splashes when touched.)

I’m toying with the idea of bringing Muda muda, the knives, and WRYYYYYY into the Cascade chain so that they come off as a continuous series of attacks.

But for now, have some Za Warudo! WRYYYYYY! Muda muda muda muda muda! nonsense below the fold:

I intentionally used the Revised Edition style as a template this time round. For some reason, Joker just seems to suit the retro look of the pre-4th Edition cards. The text is up to current standards, however. You can compare the old style here with the modern style of Edward. And that’s a Joker Awesome Smiley, his rarity is supposed to be Mythic though. Or maybe Promotional.

I just thought up this card on the spot, maybe because I’ve been playing Batman: Arkham Asylum (that’s the art of Joker from that game’s character profiles on the card if you noticed).

The mechanic fits perfectly with Joker’s flavor as an unpredictable, psychotic mastermind with a penchant for insidious plans that even The Detective can’t figure out until the grand reveal.

Due to the ‘exile at end of turn’ clause, you can’t simply use him to dump Eldrazi into play. This limits his use to his intended role, that of fetching the pieces of a game-winning combo (no matter what colours they might be) and popping it for the win. He can also be used as a desperation-tactic tutor for answers in a pinch (e.g. grabbing and then playing All is Dust in response to a Genesis Wave for 8, or maybe just spamming Lava Axes – totally not his style!).

You can run him with lots of life gain or life steal, or perhaps ways to untap him so that you can pop the combo in one turn as soon as he can tap.

I did seriously consider making his ability use counters to simplify the mechanic, as follows:

Tap, Pay 5 life: Put a Plot counter on The Joker.

Tap, Remove all Plot counters from The Joker: For each Plot counter removed in this way, search your library for a card and reveal it, then shuffle your library afterwards. You may play those cards without paying their mana costs this turn. At end of turn, exile those cards.

However, that opens him up to Proliferate abuse. And it’s cooler to have the opponent clearly see the three or so cards sitting face down on Joker, making them sweat with nervous anticipation as to what horrible crime he is setting up.

As for the comics/animated version of the Joker, I’m cooking up something. We’ll see how he turns out.

The Ace Attorney series has long been a staple of gamer memes, but this batch was most recently inspired by this guest comic at Dueling Analogs.

Phoenix and Miles are skilful lawyers on their own, but if they were ever on the same team the Take That!s would be phenomenal, you’d be lucky to get anything into play edgewise for the rest of the game. Oh and Hold It! is red because, Ricochet Trap. So there.

And yeah, they’re Advisors like most of the lawyerish creatures throughout MtG history (including a few from the Azorius Senate).

And as a bonus, animations of the instants modified from Ace Attorney Phoenix Wright Gifs:

And my earliest introductions to Phoenix Wright lollery below the fold:

One of the countless dubbed over Pheonix Wright animations:

Boot to the head:

And a beautiful wallpaper that was my favourite for some time by VG Cats: