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Dakkon, Liege of the Moors

Legendary Creature - Human Warrior
Dakkon, Liege of the Moors' power and thoughness is equal to the number of land cards in all graveyards.
Whenever you play Dakkon, Liege of the Moors, or it attacks, each player reveals cards from the top of their libraries until they reveal a land card, then put the revealed cards into their graveyards.
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I wavered on this.  I was first thinking about doing a Glissa, the Traitor -type guy-got-turned Phyrexian-or-into-a-Zombie card.  But since he’s already black, I decided to refocus on Equipment, and casting stuff without paying its mana cost.  That seems very white-blue-black.  The result is essentially an Equipment lord.  Then, just as I was about to submit it, I decided to give it a Mirrodin/Esper feel.  So I decided that he died, but was reanimated in Mirrodin's Core, half Dakkon, half metal.  The CMC is the same, but I decided to make the mana symbols all Phyrexian.

Dakkon Reanimated

Legendary Artifact Creature-Warrior

Dakkon Reanimated is unblockable

Dakkon Reanimated’s power and toughness are each equal to the number of Equipments you control.

Whenever Dakkon Reanimated deals damage to a player, you may cast target Equipment card with converted mana cost X without paying its mana cost, where X is less than or equal to the amount of damage Dakkon dealt this turn

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Not satisfied with Myr to rule over Mirrodin, Memnarch remolded the legend of the lands in Mirrodin's Core.  The results were disturbing.    

Jan 21, 2013 -- 11:12AM, theScion wrote:

Problem is, he's never been on-pie.

Hmmm...is there a good way to keep his P/T effectively the same and still keep him on pie?  Let's try something...

Dakkon, the Vindicator |
Legendary Creature -- Human Warrior
As Dakkon, the Vindictor enters the battlefield, choose a basic land type .
Dakkon, the Vindicator's power and toughness are each equal to the number of lands you control of the chosen type.
, Sacrifice a land of the chosen type: Destroy target permanent.
As Dakkon traveled with Carth, his desires shifted from power to purpose.
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Drawing from the original source of inspiration (the song Black Blade). Blackblade is a sword that can siphon a person's soul—to symbolize that, the second ability is bridging on the flavor-text of Unholy Strength (the 8th Edition version) and a Soulshriek -like concept. The power of Blackblade surges within them, but it's too much for most, and so their soul is burned out; from which the sword sucks their soul up in the undertow.

I originally wanted to do at least one ability along the lines of Storm Seeker , because that's also based on Black Blade; the sword whose original name is Stormbringer; but the design went in a whole 'nother direction.

The first ability ties into the flavor-text of the original concept Dakkon Blackblade ; and the ultimate ability is like an enabler, allowing players to custom-fit cool land-type based effects that might otherwise be out of reach because they don't match up with Dakkon's main colors. To open the abilities max potential, you can change any land type to any other land type. For example, you can change Scalding Tarn to let your search for Cloudpost .

As for the name, it's just the same as the original art; you just can't do any better.

Dakkon of the Blackblade
Planeswalker — Dakkon
Dakkon of the Blackblade counts as seven lands of each type among lands you control.
[0] Target creature gets +X/-X, where X is equal to that creature's power. If a creature dies this way, put X loyalty counters on Dakkon.
[-2] Prompt — Change the text of target spell or permanent by replacing all instances of one land type or color word with another.
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Dakkon Bladelord
Legendary Creature - Human Warrior
~'s power is equal to the number of swamps you control and ~'s toughness are equal to the number of swamps you control.
Lifelink, Deathtouch
: Switch ~'s power and toughness until end of turn.
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