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Twilight planeswalker V1.0. She still needs some work, so suggestions are welcome. Full art credit to the wonderfully talented Jevela.

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Background Pony #AEC9
Fer fisrt ability should state:
 
Switch the power and toughness of up to one target creature until your next turn.
 
Otherwise you will not be able to activate the ability without a legal target to point it at. That might be intentional though IDK.
Background Pony #766F
Debatable cost, but…
 
-7; Twilight, Princess Ascended gains hexproof until end of turn. All players reveal their hands. You may cast any sorcery revealed this way for free. At the end of the turn all players discard all sorceries this ability revealed.
AppleDashWINS
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Her first two loyalty abilities are iffy on which one should be +N and -N. On one hand, Tibalt’s Draw-Discard is a +1 (even if it is random), and switching P/T could be game-changing (even at sorcery speed, so that could be an argument to make it the -1), but on the other hand, it’s not always as significant as the draw…
 
I also feel that flavor-wise, Twi needs to do more spell-based things. Then again, Draw-Discard can be great for digging, and switching P/T makes sense for her crazy magic, but her Ult doesn’t really sound like it would come from Twilight, even as princess.  
I’ve had a few ideas, but these aren’t my final ones:  
>2UR  
>Planeswalker - Twilight  
>Loyalty: 4  
>+1: Discard up to two instant or sorcery cards from your hand. Twilight deals damage to target creature equal to the total converted mana cost of those cards. (Blast of Genius and Mercurial Chemister inspired. should it be creature OR player? in that case, it would have to be -N)  
>-2: Until your next turn, whenever a player casts an instant or sorcery spell, draw a card.  
>-6: Twilight deals damage to target player equal to the number of instants and sorceries in your graveyard.
 
>?: You get an emblem with “Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, you may pay 1UURR. If UUU was paid, that spell can’t be countered by spells or abilities. If RRR was paid, you may copy that spell up to three times. You may choose new targets for the copies.”
 
>+1?: Reveal the top four cards of your library. put all instants and sorceries revealed this way into your hand and the rest at the bottom of your library in any order. (Forbidden Alchemy and Mulch inspired)
 
>
?: Reveal an instant or sorcery card in your hand. Until your next turn, if you cast that spell, it can’t be countered by spells or abilities. At the beginning of the next upkeep after you cast that spell, pay twice its mana cost. If you don’t, you lose the game. (Mana cost includes color.)
 
er, that’s just my stuff. tl;dr I feel being more spell-based would make much better sense for twilight, though her first two abilities seem fine on their own
Apokalypse
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Thanks for the input guys! If you couldn’t tell, my mind is stuck on Ravnica, hence her U/R. It was also based on precedent, since most swap P/T effects from the past are in red, and the looter effect has been in red recently as well. Once I come back to balancing this card, I’ll start taking everyone’s input and seeing what works. Again, thanks!
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I can see Twilight as blue-red, certainly. The color combination of curiosity, impulsiveness, metamagic, and SCIENCE!™ As for the card itself… not so much.
 
The first ability is, flavor-wise, often characterized as a trasmutative effect (Twisted Image, Inside Out, et al.) This implies that Twilight isn’t just twisting other ponies’ bodies, she’s enjoying it. (After all, she gains loyalty from it.) The second ability is fine. The third ability makes sense in theory (“Everyone be my friend! I command you!”) but is horribly, horribly broken, even for a planeswalker ultimate.
 
Here’s a possible alternate take:
 
+1: Any number of target players each draw a card, then discard a card.  
-2: Gain control of target permanent until end of turn. Untap it. It gains haste until end of turn.  
-6: You get an emblem with “Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, copy that spell. You may choose new targets for the copy.”
Silvan
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alright, well a few things I would say.  
  1. her +1 is ok, but might want to only have it till end of turn. even most of the other planeswalkers, this is normal.  
  2. her -1 is fine, I love it :)  
  3. her final ability seems good to me, and her charge up being only a +1 makes it not super easy to get to.  
  4. don’t get too caught up on the colors. she’s blue for sure, but you might want to re-examine if you need another color in there or not.
     
    all in all, it does need work, but one of the more balanced “custom cards” I’ve ever seen.
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This game is still a thing.
 
I got out when I realized I had spent $1000 on card packs over the course of a few years and was still a crappy player plus I would never beat the jerks who could put down a couple hundred on a pack or spend hours reading strategy manuals for a card game.
 
Sold everything I had for $50 and haven’t looked back.
DarkJester
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This can actually be pure blue. There is no ability on this planeswalker that elicits anything of the other colors. I think as 3UU she is fine, and awesome picture. :)
Strull
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Blue/Red? Red symbolizes impusiveness, recklessness, passion, art, and creativity. That doesn’t sound anything like Twilight.
 
I would think Blue/White would fit better.