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jasper-pagan-witch · 2 years

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Jasper's Five-Color Protection Jar

I'm only ripping off @strixhaven-biblioplex's 5 Color Binding Spell a little bit. (Hi Faust, love you!)

This post requires reading the other stuff in my Magic The Gathering Pop Culture Magic/Paganism masterpost for information on the logic, theories, and tips and tricks used here.

I'm a big fan of spell jars, protection spells, and especially protection spell jars. Much to the aggravation of a particular deity who's trying to help me branch out.

The Components

This spell is quite simple in terms of tools. All you need is a jar of any shape, size, or material with a lid or other covering (though you can replace this with almost any sealing container if you so please, I'm just gonna use a jar for this spell because I love jars and have a hoarding problem), and then a protection component for each color for a total of five different ingredients.

Figuring out what tools match each color will often be the most difficult part, however, there are people like myself, @kaosmage aka @strixhaven-biblioplex aka Faust, and @highpriestness who have figured some stuff out and shared it with you. I'll link a few particularly helpful posts at the end, but you can always come to ask me (and undoubtedly Faust as well) for our thoughts on the color alignments of particular tools.

Here's a quick guide in case you just wanna get this fucker cast and don't need to fall down a research rabbit hole:

White: howlite, selenite, sage, moonstone, table salt

Blue: sodalite, turquentine (a fancy term for howlite dyed blue), blueberry, amethyst, moon water, protective metals broadly

Black: obsidian, onyx, thorns, needles, blackberry, hematite

Red: chili, cactus (especially the needles), cinnamon, protective stones broadly

Green: table salt, thorns, protective stones broadly, protective plants broadly

The Spell

Prepare your tools however you usually do.

Put the ingredients (stones, plant matter, or anything else) in the container one at a time, starting with your White protection object or objects. As you do, say "for protection in White". Then do Blue, Black, Red, and finally Green.

Close up the jar as normal, whether that's just sealing the lid, dripping wax on it (if you're doing that, opt for grey or brown wax for some nice Colorless and Multicolored spins, respectively), or some alternative sealing method that I've never heard of before.

The Resources

My aforementioned MTG masterpost and the MTG section of my online grimoire, @jasper-grimoire

The MTG wiki pages on White, Blue, Black, Red, and Green so you have a better understanding of the personalities of each color

Highpriestness' posts on White, Blue, Black, Red, and Green

Seraphsweetie's post on correspondences, spirits, and spells for all five colors

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victusinveritas · 4 months

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#mtg #magic the gathering

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drmajalis · 2 months

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Brb going to wotc to get this card printed and included in every pre-con

Let's just say I had a bad experience at mtg today.

#magic the gathering #mtg #trans #misgendering #I literally wrote she/her in front of my board and he still did it

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mtg-talk · 10 months

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My friend forgot to secure the latch on his magic card briefcase and all his commander decks are now mixed together. Now he’s playing 1200 card pickup and has to reorganize everything.

#mtg #magic the gathering #edh #commander

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mega-gaymer-party · 10 months

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#r/196 #rule #r196 #196 #apartmentofawesome #sillyposting #ruleposting #me and who #mtg #magic: the gathering #magic the girlbossing #magic the gathering #magic #nuts #slap #ouch

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8pxl · 19 days

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lands i've made for magic the gathering 🌾✨ artist proofs are available on my shop !~ buy a wallpaper or leave a tip / twitter / instagram / shop

#pixel art #artist on tumblr #illustration #art #landscape #aesthetic #magic the gathering #mtg #mtg commander #mtg art

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seven-oh-four · 1 year

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I'm still pretty new to chess, can anyone tell me what I'm supposed to do if my opponent plays the Eight Fucking Bears opening? I'm really having trouble.

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gemthegerm · 2 months

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yo what the fuck

#magic the gathering #mtg #memetg

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aokozaki · 11 months

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God, what a cool fucking pair of cards. Especially these versions, with Kev Walker's art. Black and White getting the exact same effect, because the death of all fits both divine grace and unknowable horror.

And then Mr. Walker nails the fact that they're the same but different, with not just the inverted colors, but the way that Wrath of God explodes outwards, while Damnation draws all in.

#Magic the Gathering

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peofun1 · 2 months

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playing MTG with people who have been in the game for like 20 years is so insufferable sometimes

every turn they're like "I play Cock Goblin of Guzzleberg" and everyone else at the table nods and goes "ah yes of course, the Cock Goblin, classic" and doesn't explain.

so I'm like okay. what does that do. and they go "well it has a Guzzler effect" and I'm like okay great what the FUCK is a Guzzler Effect™

and then after like 10 minutes of trying to get them to explain, eventually I figure out that there was a card called Guzzler Greebling that was only printed ONCE in 1998, and its text was "when this creature ETBs, everyone at the table has to suck your dick" and this card got so popular in Standard at the time that now all effects that involve dick-sucking are called "Guzzlers" by the players

#tutor is the most common offender #but there are others #also read this as lighthearted; i love the people i play commander with #and they are USUALLY pretty good about explaining things #USUALLY!!!!!#ramblings #magic the gathering #mtg

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vetyr · 5 months

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I was so so lucky to be able to paint Jenny & Madame Vastra, notable sword lesbians, for Magic the Gathering's Doctor Who set. They're partnered cards which I find very cute :)

AD: Matt Cavotta <3

#artists on tumblr #magic the gathering #doctor who #mtg art #sapphic #really gay

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jasper-pagan-witch · 1 year

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Crystal Carapace

Crystal Carapace is an Aura Enchantment card from March of the Machine. It costs one Green and three generic to cast and goes on a creature. The enchanted creature gets a plus three boost to power, a plus three boost to toughness, and ward for two generic. Ward is an ability that automatically counters a spell an opponent controls targeting something unless the ward cost is paid. Crystal Carapace also has cycling for two generic, so you can pay two of any color and discard Crystal Carapace from your hand to draw a card. The flavor text is a quote from the compleated planeswalker Lukka, reading "Why won't you die, wretched flesh-beast?"

Yes, yes, I'm back with another protection spell. No one is surprised, least of all me. I just happen to enjoy protection magic.

I started building this spell on May 1st, deciding immediately that I was going to use crystals for it. I pulled out my correspondence binder and started flipping through, marking down every stone associated with protection and strength. My "final" list was amethyst, blue calcite, howlite, hemimorphite, and jasper.

I went back and forth on the format - since this is an Enchantment, aka a long-lasting spell, I wanted the spellcasting method to reflect that. My initial thought was a spell bag, as I have a lot of bags. But I had just finished building a spell jar, and I wanted an alternative. So I turned to other mages I know to discuss other forms of long-lasting spells.

Today, I settled on an enchanted bracelet. I pulled out my box of crystal beads and examined my options. None of the stones I wanted, other than jasper, were available to me immediately in stone form. I revisited my list of options and my binder and settled instead on bloodstone, hematite, howlite, and malachite.

Then I did some research. I knew that this card took place on the plane of Ikoria, as that's where Lukka had been dispatched to take over, but Ikoria is dominated by triomes which are dominated by particular monsters which are dominated by an apex monster. Anyway, I came to the conclusion that this was in the Zagoth triome, which is the Black-Green-Blue (though primarily Green) land of Beasts ruled by Brokkos the Forever-Beast, Apex of Forever. Since this is a monoGreen card featuring a loosely-defined Beast, I figured this was a safe bet. So I wrote a jaunty little activation phrase for notes.

Having figured out all this and still holding onto braincells (though I appear to have misplaced them now), I grabbed a new, loose-leaf paper to write the final spell down on. I barely remembered to add the accoutrements required to turn it into a bracelet instead of just rocks on a string. I added a "charge the thing" step and left a note to myself to remember to recharge and reactivate it as needed. Then I added my keywords in the upper corner for quick search in the filing system I have for spells in my spell binder.

I haven't yet created my own Crystal Carapace, but I wanted to share the process instead of the finished result. What do you think? Would you have adapted the card differently? How would you convey the key parts of the card?

#jasper post #discussion #crystals #spell work #spell #pop culture #magic the gathering #crystal carapace #zagoth triome #magic the gathering magic #magic the gathering magick #pop culture magic #pop culture magick

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hexbloode · 1 year

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