#xithrel

Void

A birthday gift for one of my players in the Magic the Gathering planeswalker campaign (March 2025).

A custom illustration for the existing card Void, depicting Xithrel casting the Dark Star spell, one of the things they learned thanks to their patron Tezzeret.

Xithrel, Immortal Aetherborn

It’s birthday season for our Dungeons & Dragons campaign set in the Magic the Gathering universe. This year I’m doing planeswalker cards again!

A new version of Xithrel! They’re officially immortal now that they can create etherium themselves, though Tezzeret’s hold on them and the party at large stays strong as ever. Couple of interesting things with this one: their arm is a recently created etherium prosthesis (it’s basically a Blood Fury Tattoo they had to lose an arm for), and their Pact Weapon is now a strange sword the Saiba Futurists created with the Phyrexian remains the Futurists found in the aftermath of Jin-Gitaxias’s initial incursion of Kamigawa (which Xithrel then stole). The monster on their shoulder is the Accursed Construct, a reflavored Accursed Specter.

As usual, a lot of mechanical callbacks to Tezzeret planeswalkers. The second +1 discarding a card is a nod to Xithrel’s use of mind magic like Synaptic Static and Mental Prison.

Xithrel’s Pact

A birthday present for one of my players in the Magic the Gathering planeswalker campaign (March 2022).

This year I'll be doing signature spells (like all the planeswalkers had in War of the Spark), and Xithrel is up next! Tezzeret is Xithrel’s Warlock patron, so both abilities of this card are references to abilities Tezzeret cards have had in the past.

A birthday present for one my players in the Magic the Gathering planeswalker campaign (March 2021). Xithrel with their patron! This is post War of the Spark: Forsaken, so Tezzeret has a new arm.