{"ops":[{"insert":"Introduction"},{"attributes":{"header":1},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"This is a commander deck inspired by the Netflix series DARK.\n\n"},{"insert":{"image":"https://i.imgur.com/Y10Bpdw.jpeg"}},{"insert":"\n\nThe main mechanical focus were on clue tokens and time counters, this is a very flavorful deck, but not an especially powerful one, I'd estimate this is a bracket 2 deck that should be one par with many precons. the color identity of this deck came about naturally, i first started by finding cards that are good mechanical or flavorful representations of characters, found that many cards fell into blue/red/white so decided to focus on this color identity (incidentally it is also the color identity of the \"timey-wimey\" doctor who deck that i own, and also focuses a lot on time counters)\n\nFull quality alters of the cards are available in both English and French (my native tongue) on "},{"attributes":{"link":"https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1g8EmJmS8jOhqRjS2JpOS4oAJhCc8DQ10?usp=sharing"},"insert":"this drive"},{"insert":" as single cards and a ready to print PDF\n\nCard choices explained"},{"attributes":{"header":1},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"\nplaneswalkers"},{"attributes":{"header":2},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"i decided that the three \"protagonists\" of the time loop (Adam, Eva, Claudia) deserved to be set apart from the rest and have powerful cards, like a planeswalker. They each have a different color assigned to them, it is sometimes but not always relevant to other cards.\n\nClaudia (daretti, scrap savant) is all about using the clues gathered and using them to bring back artifacts from all over the timeline to achieve her goal.\n\nEva (Elspeth, Sun's Champion) cares about making an army of pawns, and ensuring the apocalypse happens.\n\nAdam's (Teferi, Master of Time) final goal is to break the loop (take two extra turns), and he intervenes all over the timeline to make it so (tefiri's passive).\n\ncreatures"},{"attributes":{"header":2},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"\nI wanted the player to have multiple options for a commander, so i chose five potential commanders\n- Narset, Enlightened Master : Young Jonas, he has hexproof because the universe won't let him die\n- Aragorn, King of Gondor : Adult Jonas/the stranger, he's becoming the monarch (leader of sic mundus)\n- Cayth, Famed Mechanist : H.G. Tannhaus, he makes clocks and stuff\n- Kate Stewart : Young Martha, starting to extend her influence\n- Gandalf of the Secret Fire : Adult Martha, does some time travel shenanigans\n\nthe rest of the population was quite simple\n- Adeline, Resplendent Cathar : Adult Elisabeth, she has a cult and it's the source of her strength\n- Amy Pond : Franziska, she loves Magnus and later goes on to time travels with sic mundus\n- Fblthp, the Lost : Mikkel, because he gets lost\n- Forensic Gadgeteer : Charlotte, she investigates, she uses clues effectively\n- Geological Appraiser : Katharina, her exploration is the reason we have the maps\n- Humble Defector : Bartosz, this man does not know how to take a side\n- Jhoira of the Ghitu : Noah, he does time travel stuff\n- Mother of Runes : Hannah, as evil as she might be, she tries to do everything she can to protect her childrens\n- Phelia, Exuberant Shepherd : Gretchen HAD to be included\n- Piper Wright, Publick Reporter: Egon, he's an investigator, not a good one but he tries\n- Reluctant Role Model: Peter, because he survives and his death only makes Elisabeth stronger\n- Rory Williams : Magnus, he loves Franziska and time travels with sic mundus\n- Sakashima of a Thousand Faces : Aleksander, he took someone else's identity\n- Solemn Simulacrum : Helge, he's sad\n- Sophina, Spearsage Deserter : Ulrich, because he investigates and he's a menace to society\n- Thraben Inspector : Clausen, he inspects only once because he doesn't care about the child only his ancient grudge.\n- Ultramarines Honour Guard : The unknown, it arrives as multiple copies of the same creature\n- Windborn Muse : Regina, because she's kind of Claudia's muse\n\nArtifacts"},{"attributes":{"header":2},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"\nSome \"must include\" artifacts were associated to iconic items from the series\n- Sol ring : Saint Christopher's pendant\n- Arcane signet : the emerald tablet\n- Lightning Greaves : Jonas/Mikkel running in the woods (there isn't really any iconic boots in dark)\n\nA few artifacts were obvious inclusions thematically or mechanically\n- Archaeomancer's Map : the map of Winden cave\n- Chromatic Lantern : the future lantern to explore the cave\n- Five Hundred Year Diary : A journey through time (this book is indeed a clue)\n- Tamiyo's Journal : the time traveler's notebook (they really do note everything there)\n\nSome required more \"outside the box thinking\"\n- Tome of legends : i really wanted to represent the iconic missing journal and needed card draw\n- Wedding Ring : pennies, there's two of them at the same time (again, card draw)\n- Portal to Phyrexia : it's a portal, and it brings back people from the dead, just like the origin dimension\n- The Immortal Sun : i just wanted a powerful artifact for the god particle\n\nThe multiple time machines were must includes, i chose flavorful artifacts that worked with time counters\n- Doom's Time Platform : the experimental time machine, it's crude, and needs some cannon fodder\n- Rotating Fireplace : the Tannhaus machine, elegant, but slow\n- Hourglass of the Lost : Eva's spherical time machine, the best overall and associated with Eva's color (white)\n\nAnd finally for the talismans i decided to give one for each dimension\n- Talisman of Conviction : Adam's world, he has conviction in his principles\n- Talisman of Progress : Eva's world, she clearly has more advanced tech\n- Talisman of Creativity : original world, creativity because that's what created the other worlds\n\nEnchantments"},{"attributes":{"header":2},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"\nSome were pretty obvious\n- Propaganda : the ads for the nuclear central\n- Ghostly Prison : the asylum\n\n- As Foretold : i thought the letter Michael left for Jonas was a good representation of a prophecy\n- The Parting of the Ways : this is a good representation of the events following the apocalypse, a bunch of people time traveled away and things got destroyed\n- Heaven Sent : good mechanical piece that also represents the constant investigation through the ages around the events caused by the cave\n\nInstants/Sorceries"},{"attributes":{"header":2},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"\nA good bunch are just a really good fit\n- Chaos Warp : the portal in the bunker\n- Decaying Time Loop : the destruction of the loop\n- Dig Through Time : Claudia digging through time\n- Deduce : Egon making a deduction through a simple note\n- Quantum Misalignment : the quantum entanglement at the moment of the apocalypse\n- Supreme Verdict : the apocalypse\n\nsome staples i found ways to make fit\n- An Offer You Can't Refuse : Noah enrolling Bartosz in his car\n- Brainstorm : Jonas & co working on the time machine in the past\n- Blasphemous Act : the sabotage of the reactor\n- Generous Gift : the gift of the pendant from Hannah to Helene\n- Lightning Bolt : Claudia getting shot by Noah\n- Swan Song : the birds that fell from the sky\n- Swords to Plowshares : Agnes killing Noah\n\nAnd the \"Refrain\" cycle of cards were represented by musical moments in the show\n- Inspiring Refrain : the 80's music in the bunker\n- Rousing Refrain : the party at Katharina's\n\nLands"},{"attributes":{"header":2},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"\nsome lands were obvious : \n- Thespian's Stage : the theater\n- Gemstone Caverns : the Winden caves\n- Library : the library Claudia goes to\n- Study : Michael's study \n- Secret Tunnel : the passage\n- Mystic Monastery : the church\n- Deserted Beach : the beach\n\nthe rest were more or less what locations hadn't been represented, whether it fit the name or not\n"}]}