Purple: A Modest Proposal By Theslin, 10/8/94 So. Blue has water, air and Mind Control. Red gets fire, earth and war. White can heal, protect and defend, just like Green, but Green gets cute furry things and the short end of the Flying Creature stick. Black gets the ucky forces of Darkness and Decay. That pretty much covers all the major forces of power... Doesn't it? No! Of course not! Purple: The Purple wizard commands the forces of popularity, and draws his magical energy from the will of the people. His is the magic of politics, and its many children: Beurocracy, democracy, capitalism and beurocracy. The magical energies of Purple mana may be drawn from cities, centers of major commerce, and other such areas. Purple sorcery derives much of its effect from intrigue, and the master of this magic is often a master of backstabbing and mud-slinging as well. Purple Lands: City: (T): Add (P) to your mana pool. Gold Rush Mining Community (T): Add (P) or (R) to your mana pool... Agrarian Farming Settlement (T): Add (P) or (W) to your mana pool... Fishing Village (T): Add (P) or (U) to your mana pool... Necropolis (T): Add (P) or (B) to your mana pool... Tribal Grounds (T): Add (P) or (G) to your mana pool... Babylonia Legendary Land (T): Add (P) to your mana pool (T): Untap one attacking creature after it has dealt its damage. The Cards: ------- Soaring Deficit 1P Illustration: A large, greenish bird (Summon Deficit) pecking at what might be a piggy bank. Flying 1/1 ------- Bureaucrat PP Illustration: Chubby figure in grey (Summon Bureaucrat) sitting at a desk, armed with paper PP: Regenerates Bureaucrat. and pencil. ("I'm sorry, you can't kill me without filling out form...") ------- Glorious Army 4P Illustration: Generic Mob Scene, (Sorcery) All involved wearing plate armor. All creatures controlled by Dragons are in the army... caster join together, forming an X/X Trample creature, where X is the number of creatures controlled. If creature is killed, all controlled creatures go to Graveyard. Creatures may be regenerated as normal. ------- Requisition Form X PP Illustration: Twenty Men in Black, (Interrupt) surrounding a sorcerer who is clutching Take control of an artifact desperately at a glowing book. as it is being cast. X is the casting cost of the artifact. ------- Charisma PPP Illustration: Figure in a (Enchantment) purple-tinted toga speaking Caster must declare a color. in front of a crowd All creatures of that color gain a 1/+1 bonus. All creatures of opposing colors (I.e., Black and White) gain a +2/+0 bonus. ("Friends, Dominians, Countrymen-- Lend me your ears!") ------- Noble P Illustration: A throng of (Summon Noble) Dapper Young Folk. Tap: Bring any Noble from hand into play. 1/1 ------- Bandwagon 4PPP Illustration: A very large wagon. (Summon Wagon) Lots of little people are climbing All creatures killed by in and out of the apparatus. They're Bandwagon are Regenerated cute. as 1/1 Bandings, on the Bandwagon's side. If another player gains control of Bandwagon, all Regenerated creatures change sides as well. 3/4 ------- Political Advisor 2 PP Illustration: Terribly disorganized (Summon Advisor) figure, wearing glasses and dropping (T): Cast any spell in hand over six reams of chart-covered costing PP or less. Mana from papers. other sources may not be added to the spell, nor may Political Advisor's mana be used in other spells. ------- Investigations Committee PP Illustration: Befuddled men with (Summon Committee) briefcases, looking under boulders. Two Committees may be tapped to dispell any Enchantment. Tapping a single Committee has no such effect. 1/2 ------- Embezzlement X PP Illustration: wizard dressed in (Sorcery) purple robes reaching into a Add X colorless mana to your portal. Purple-wrapped arms are mana pool during your next coming from behind him to throttle Upkeep phase. the poor fellow. ------- Clandestine Bribe X P Illustration: Wizard in purple robes (Interrupt) opening an envelope. Sparkling motes Opponent gains X colorless mana of energy fly from paper in a spiral. in his pool. This mana may be used to aid in the casting of the interrupted spell. ------- Urban Spirit 4PPP (Summon Spirit) Illustration: A great and sprawling Flying city, seen from overhead. Smoke and Urban Spirit begins play with light from countless houses swirls three counters. One counter together to form the Spirit, a great must be spent during controller's genie-esque creature of smoke, upkeep phase or Urban Spirit is candleflame, brick and wood. destroyed. Urban Spirit gains a counter each time opponent taps a land, to a maximum of three counters. 7/8 ------- Mandate from the Masses PPP Illustration: A speaker at a podium (Enchant World) whipping a crowd into a frenzy. Any creature in play may be tapped The nighttime sky is brightened by the to generate (1) colorless mana. dim glow surrounding said crowd. ("Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses!") ------- Minority Whip 2PP Illustration: Outrageously dressed (Summon Fanatic) individual being carried on the backs While Minority Whip is in play, of a roaring crowd. all 1/1 or 0/1 creatures owned by Minority Whip's controller gain +2/+1. Creatures loose bonus if their power or toughness is raised by any other means. ("We're mad as heck, and we're not gonna take it any more!!!!!") 2/1 ------- Rabble Rouser 3PPP Illustration: Rush Limbaugh (Summon Fanatic) with a full Mad on. Caster gains control of all 1/1 and 0/1 creatures in play. Creatures return to their original caster's control only if Rabble Rouser leaves play. 1/1 ------- Martyr for the People Illustration: Figure in (Summon Fanatic) 2P White, posing as if to Controller may inflict up to 3 crucify self. Many, many damage on any target when Martyr people are watching. goes to Graveyard or is Buried. ("Kill me. Let me make a blood- red statement of my pure-hearted devotion to the Truth.") 2/2 ------- Tide of Opinion PP Illustration: Grey skies. (Enchant Creature) Military figures are raising Player with the most life points a purple flag, many gains control of enchanted black-dressed figures lying creature during current Controller's broken nearby. Discard phase. ------- Lawlace PP Illustration: Purple backdrop. (Interrupt) Exactly as per the "Earthbind" Target card becomes Purple. fairy, but she is tied up in This has no effect whatsoever red tape... on card performance, but it IS pretty. ------- Progress PPP (Enchantment) All Forests in play when cast become Cities. If Enchantment is destroyed, affected lands are returned to their normal state. -------- Other Colors: -------- Book of Laws 1 Illustration: A magistrate Artifact reading from a glowing tome 1: Gain 1 life when a Purple in a courtroom. spell is cast. -------- Mox Amythest 0 tap: Add (P) to your mana pool. -------- Anarchy RR Illustration: Absolute chaos, (Interrupt) a cityscape with people fighting, Target player's mana pool stealing children, and basically is drained of all mana. Lands really messing around. producing Purple mana are considered tapped. ------- Ruins GGG (Enchantment) All cities in play when Ruins is cast become Forests. If Enchantment is dispelled, affected lands become Cities again. Purple Mana Symbol .................. The Revised Managram ...........8888....... .............8888......... ..............8............. .........88..88..88......... W ..........88..88..88.......... P G ..........8888888888.......... ..........88.88888.8.......... U R ..........88888.8888.......... B ........888888...88888........ ......8..8888...888..8...... Oppositions: .....8...8888...888...8..... Black <--> White .....8..............8..... Blue <----> Green ....88888888888888.... Purple <----> Red ..................