Friendship is Magic: the Gathering

[Albertosaurus Rex]

For over a decade, I have been playing Magic: the Gathering on and off. I enjoy the game, but it can be costly to keep up with the new releases and I don't personally know many people who play. Anyway, the game is made up of five colors, each with their own philosophy and mechanical ramfications. (Head designer Mark Rosewater has written a lot about color philosophies - should you want to check it out, you're advised to start at the bottom.) As such, a favorite passtime of MtG players is to make cards out of their favorite fictional characters.

Anyway... in an effort to get those ponies out of my head, I've started designing some pony cards, and I would like to share them with the world. We'll start off with Twilight Sparkle, whose design came pretty easily. Her thirst for knowledge puts her squarely in blue and is represented by a card-drawing ability. The second ability represents her teleporting ability, also commonly found in blue. (Click the image to enlarge it.)

   

If all goes well, I might tackle more characters in the future, maybe even everyone's favorite royal bastard...

NOTE: The cards are made with the excellent program Magic Set Editor. I could never make them look this good all by myself.

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And here's Rainbow Dash. She's impulsive, headstrong and doesn't always thinks before she acts. This puts her squarely in red. Haste was chosen to reflect her speed and split second is the sonic rainboom. I'm not 100% happy with that choice, but I had no other idea how to represent it.