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Les Kreegs gouvernent leurs tribus d'ogre avec une poigne de fer, et Malagus est exceptionnellement intelligent et violent pour son espèce.
"The secret of immortality is carved in its carapace, in runes only the dead can decipher."
One of the creepier Hivelings, the Lungthief Beetle has high stats, but his spcial ability suicides himself. Either team it up with other figures that have lots of abilities to absorb those rolls... or feel very stupid very soon. D'oh!
it might be the source of the D&D Runespiral Demon, though. They do look very similar.
"Dragons claim to have dreamed themselves into existence."
One of the biggest bruisers in the first set, the Nobld Dragon was another one of the major Faces in the game. He's pretty strong, very durable, and gets a special ability that hurts enemies with their own power. Sure, he was soon overshadowed by better stuff in the game, but it was fun while it lasted - and he looks good enough to show up in normal role-playing games, too!
We never got a non-undead Equiceph miniature.
An Equiceph is a horse-man hybrid, only the reverse of a centaur - he's got a horse's head with a man's body! So, we got a mini for an undead one, but never ever saw the living one. Odd, isn't it?
Though they are fairly low on the infernal food chain, Vrocks, otherwise known as "Wrath Demons," are powerful soldiers, enforcers, and even steeds for other demons. They may look like vultures, but they have quite a few surprises - intelligence, magic, and even poisonous spores underneath their feathers!
Sometimes the road to legitimacy is a long and weird one. kruthiks were a metal spider-lizard monster invented in the "Miniatures Handbook" (which wasn't really about miniatures) for Dungeons & Dragons. The smallest kruthik hatchling showed up as a mini, and then... well, nothing. but SOMEBODY liked them, and they gained enough traction to become a basic monster in 4th Edition, and gain minis for all their other sizes in later sets. Hilariously, the second version of the hatchling looks nothing like the others, even though it came out with them, whereas the original hatchling matches up with its later brethren.
Kruthiks are swarm-based monsters that behave exactly the way they look. The worst thing about thewm is that standing near one ensures you will always take damage every round until the Kruthik is dead.
"It harvests your skin before reaping your soul."
Looking like something straight out of Castlevania, this creature has no attack power of its own - but it does spring a powerful attack on anybody entering its space! Kind of useful, but not so much as the winged rabbit who did the reverse.
It's SLAAD TIME! Two a day till I handle all of them (I already got that void slaad).
Slaad Spawn are baby slaads...slaadi...whatever. Well, they're past the tadpole stage, but look at 'im! Isn't he cute with his little arms? He just wants a hug (right after it tears through somebody's chest)!
"His gears turn, your will bends."
STEAMPUNK WHEELCHAIR MANIAC!
The Gent's special ability let your other figures trigger their in-combat abilities during the spawn phase, which could get all up in wrecking your opponent. But really, it's just cool. He's a steampunk wheelchair hobo gentleman!
you may think you are seeing four Berbalangs, but you're really seeing only one! Berbalangs are strange gargoyle-creatures. In older editions, the real Berbalang hibernated under ground and sent astral projections of itself around. In recent editions, a Berbalang is capable of splitting itself into four copies, each with 1/4 of the original's health. This makes them extremely irritating to deal with.
Also, the original non-D&D source is a Malaysian cannibal ghoul vampire. Nice!
"His call can wake the dead."
That quote neglects to mention that he also always brings a friend along. When the Death Chanter spawns on your board, you get to resurrect - for free - one cheap fodder figure. The nice thing is, his stats aren't terribly weak, either, so you can factor those points into his cost if you want, but it's still a good discount that helps your army survive a bit longer.
And this is one of the greatest examples of a minimal paint job being very, very effective.
He doesn't need color.
See what happens when a centaur gets a little too friendly with a horse? I kid. The Equitar is Stitched - it's a Frankensteinesque amalgamation, a centaur with the head of a horse and a scythe arm. And it's awesome.
In-game, there are two things about this creature - firstly, you have to sacrifice two figures from your reserves to play it. I remember accounting for this by picking two auto-resurrect guys, and the Equitar's stats ARE very high for its cost (though the Eater of Hope was still more effective overall). Also, it can lower enemy defenses by a little bit, which isn't bad. But there were better options - odd, since I distinctly remember using it for a while.
The most "basic" of known slaads (slaadi?), Red Slaads are nasty eight-foot-tall frogs from crazyland! HELL COMES TO FROGTOWN! By the way, if it scratches you, you're pregnant. With baby slaads that will burst out your chest. Aren't they fun?
"When violence isn't the answer, don't ask an ogre."
This figure has been declared The Best Dreamblade Sculpt Ever by people who want their Dungeons & Dragons ogres to be green. And three-eyed. That said, it is really good, and one of the early show-off pieces for the line - excellent paint job for a common. It does bonus damage as its special ability, but is kind of fragile for what it needs to do. The extra eye (under one of the other eyes) kind of reminds me of a few mutants and demons I've seen in some things, like the Denarians in the Dresden Files (book) series.
One of the supreme powers of his race, Shuluth is an ancient Illithid who has defeated many would-be heroes. His whole life has been dedicated to equipping his people with bigger and better weapons, and he himself is certainly no slouch in combat. His schemes rarely fail.
For a look at this guy without fancy lighting, go here: i5.photobucket.com/albums/y185/Ridureyu/figures/Shuluth01...
Ettercap! Attercop! A literal spider monkey!
I love these creatures for some reason, even though they are really minor as far as D&D monsters go. But why wouldn't you? It's a SPIDER MONKEY! WOOHOO!
A powerful evil lurking within men's dreams, Baxar's identity in the mortal human realm is immaterial. In the Dreamscape, he rules over a vast realm of nightmares, his laboratories constnatly producing new stitched hybrids of humanity's fears.
More Anvilborn! There weren't many figures in this faction, and I might just cover them all before everything is said and done. The Mobile Command continually moves toward the biggest and baddest enemy, but also makes scoring cells worth a completely random amount as it goes. I like to think of it as a bio-technological experiment gone wrong, and the kind of thing you'd see speeding down the futuristic highways of a Blade Runner-esque world gone wrong.
Too asian to be a Valkyrie, and not asian enough to be a moon-person, the Valkyrie Moonrider could spawn right in an ally's cell, and her special ability could take a figure in her opponent's graveyard, and remove it from the game - dead figures do benefit you some, so this ability is surprisingly devastating. Mind you, her face just looked so goofy. So very, very goofy.
Well, they fit thematically.
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