Pokemon EDH - 111% altered art

Commander / EDH* king-saproling

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legendofa says... #1

What? Nantuko Vigilante is evolving!

Congratulations! Nantuko Vigilante evolved into Silumgar Assassin !

March 11, 2021 11:41 a.m.

king-saproling says... #2

Haha legendofa I was actually thinking of going with Weavile for Silumgar Assassin to avoid the nonsense that you just pointed out, but.. I like Scizor

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March 11, 2021 12:36 p.m.

ShaDoWz_6677 says... #3

March 18, 2021 10:07 a.m.

king-saproling says... #4

Hey ShaDoWz_6677 thanks for commenting. Traxos would make a good Steelix too.

I actually want the cards in the deck to stick to the morph theme, and enablers for that theme, and then apply the pokemon aesthetic over that. So that's why I don't have things like Sigiled Starfish as Starmie, or Traxos as Onyx.

March 18, 2021 10:40 a.m.

legendofa says... #5

Is there maybe space in here for a Tentacruel or... I'm not sure what Ruination Guide would be...

March 18, 2021 1:16 p.m.

legendofa says... #6

Aw, it didn't work with the coding. Tide Drifter as Tentacruel.

March 18, 2021 1:17 p.m.

king-saproling says... #7

Ooh those are good options, thanks legendofa! Maybe Ruination Guide could be Quagsire? Or Victreebel

March 18, 2021 2:23 p.m.

ShaDoWz_6677 says... #8

Also, how is Chromeshell Crab only CRABBY?! Why isn't he KINGLER!

March 18, 2021 3:26 p.m.

king-saproling says... #9

lol ShaDoWz_6677 I wanted to have some unevolved mons in there

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March 18, 2021 3:46 p.m.

3/20/2021 Update - Finally completed a couple alters! Dugtrio ( Sages of the Anima ) and Shedinja ( Disruptive Pitmage ):

March 20, 2021 3:35 p.m.

3/21/2021 Update - completed the Ixidron (Porygon) alter. I had some uhhh happy accidents with this one so it's more stylized than the previous two. I'm going to make more stylized alters from here on out, which I think is fitting anyway given the variety of art styles on actual pokemon cards.

Also my girlfriend is helping with alters! She's a much better artist than I. She's working on Ditto and it's looking really good so far.

March 21, 2021 7:36 p.m.

3/28/2021 Update - completed Echo Tracer (Zubat)

March 28, 2021 2:16 p.m.

I totally love this idea, and I realize you put lots of work into the description and the site. BUT the background is just terribly distracting and the font colour is massively exhausting to read against it. I can perfectly imagine this actually prevents some people from giving feedback.

March 30, 2021 2:06 p.m.

Thanks seshiro_of_the_orochi, I'm not as sensitive to these sort of things so I appreciate the input. Personally I like busy page designs but I don't want things to be difficult to read. I upped the opacity on comment containers to block more of the background out, and changed the font color to dark blue. How's it look?

March 30, 2021 2:30 p.m.

king-saproling: Great to see you're open to critique. The change made it a lot better, well done.

I've tried to come up with some cards you might like here:

Vizier of the Menagerie might be fun, and it could represent Gardevoir maybe (this is speaking art wise. I have not much current knowledge about pokemon.) Playing a morph from the top seems good. Also, a weird card that works good with morph is Species Gorger . It can bounce a morph and make your opponent wonder if it's the one you replayed is the same or another one. Pokemon wise, Swampert maybe?

March 30, 2021 3 p.m.

Thanks seshiro_of_the_orochi those are both great suggestions. I'd really like to include Vizier of the Menagerie , I'm just not sure what to take out for her

March 30, 2021 5:15 p.m.

Looking through the list, I see no actual benefit from playing Thought Harvester . That one exiled card for each morph cast is fine, but won't give you that much of an advantage. It's a CMC4 slot, so replacing it with Vizier seems fine.

March 30, 2021 11:22 p.m.

seshiro_of_the_orochi oh but Thought Harvester is the linch pin! Paired with Glen Elendra Pranksters , a flash enabler, and enough cost reducers like Umori, the Collector to enable free morphs, the Harvester will exile all the opps' libraries.

I'm going to pull Humble Naturalist for the Vizier. That'll put us down to 8 mana dorks which is less ramp than I typically like, but the Vizier is worth it.

Thanks again for the great suggestions!

March 31, 2021 8:58 a.m.

That makes perfect sense, I'd wondered what it's in here for. Pretty cool combo. That exchange seems fine. Vizier might not be ramp, but it is both mana fixing and card draw.

You're welcome.

March 31, 2021 10:08 a.m.

4/5/2021 Update - completed Thousand Winds (Butterfree) and Aphetto Runecaster (Jigglypuff)

April 5, 2021 8:54 a.m.

hamiam says... #21

This is awesome +1

April 9, 2021 1:39 a.m.

Thanks hamiam! I like your name

April 9, 2021 1:53 p.m.

4/9/2021 Update - completed Ilysian Caryatid (Sudowoodo)

April 9, 2021 3:10 p.m.

4/11/2021 Update - completed Nantuko Vigilante (Scyther)

April 11, 2021 10:17 a.m.

4/12/2021 Update - completed Centaur Omenreader (Rapidash) and a Pokeball .

Like Scyther, I chose to try to replicate the original pokemon card art for Rapidash. The background for the art on Centaur Omenreader is actually really similar to the background on the OG Rapidash art; they both have white clouds against a pale lavender sky. So that's a fun coincidence.

You may notice in the sideboard that Creature Guy is representing the 2/2 Morph token. I didn't do this as a joke or anything, it's just that the site doesn't let you select tokens for altered art. You can link to tokens, however, so it's odd that we can't attach alters to them.

April 12, 2021 9:30 a.m.

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