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[flabort]

Also, Kanaya.

And Sollux.

Could have sworn I spelled those right, but my notes are of course scratchy and smudgy - I did design most of those while camping without internet to check, or even a computer. I should still be ashamed about "Kayana", though.

Only three cards that are present right now were designed after I got back: Jane, Kanaya, and Feferi. I still have 11 pre-scratch trolls to make, and AH, but 23/34 isn't a bad start, eh?

[Cerol Lenslens]

That Gamzee card also needs to be indestructible, to deal with the growing number of 'destroy planeswalker/permanent" effects flying around. Or maybe just reworded so that if it goes to the graveyard from play it gets returned to your hand instead or something.

[flabort]

That Gamzee card also needs to be indestructible, to deal with the growing number of 'destroy planeswalker/permanent" effects flying around. Or maybe just reworded so that if it goes to the graveyard from play it gets returned to your hand instead or something.

Hmm, I thought his passive ability would cover that.
I do like your second idea, though, so while I'd replace the "IF" ability with it, I think I'll take it.

[Bauglir]

That Gamzee card also needs to be indestructible, to deal with the growing number of 'destroy planeswalker/permanent" effects flying around. Or maybe just reworded so that if it goes to the graveyard from play it gets returned to your hand instead or something.

Hmm, I thought his passive ability would cover that.
I do like your second idea, though, so while I'd replace the "IF" ability with it, I think I'll take it.

Ah, well, Planeswalkers interact weirdly with indestructible. Indestructible protects them from effects that say "Destroy target planeswalker" or whatever (see Dreadbore or In Garruk's Wake). However, running out of loyalty counters causes them to be put into the graveyard as a state-based action, which doesn't count as being destroyed, so they're still vulnerable to that. Speaking of which, the wording needs to be, "If the last loyalty counter on Gamzee Makara would be removed, instead do not remove that counter" or something like that, since that ability doesn't have time to resolve before he gets put in your graveyard if the last counter is ever actually removed. In a similar vein, his +1 ability needs to read "Gamzee Makara deals 1 damage to target creature. If you lost life this turn, Gamzee Makara deals 5 damage to that creature instead."

Planeswalkers are surprisingly hard to do weird stuff with.

[Cerol Lenslens]

That Gamzee card also needs to be indestructible, to deal with the growing number of 'destroy planeswalker/permanent" effects flying around. Or maybe just reworded so that if it goes to the graveyard from play it gets returned to your hand instead or something.

Hmm, I thought his passive ability would cover that.
I do like your second idea, though, so while I'd replace the "IF" ability with it, I think I'll take it.

Ah, well, Planeswalkers interact weirdly with indestructible. Indestructible protects them from effects that say "Destroy target planeswalker" or whatever (see Dreadbore or In Garruk's Wake). However, running out of loyalty counters causes them to be put into the graveyard as a state-based action, which doesn't count as being destroyed, so they're still vulnerable to that.

Exactly. Indestructible won't protect him from the loyalty loss state-based stuff, and the "if he would have no counters, give him a counter" wording won't work against 'destroy' effects, since being Garruk-ganked just flat out puts them in the graveyard, at which point the counter-gain would fizzle. The two together (with the rewording you suggest to get around the timing) would cover each other's weaknesses.

(But yeah, I like the 'return to hand from graveyard' wording a little better. Then who knows when he'll show up trying to sell your opponent some ghetto potions be cast again.)

[flabort]

And done the trolls! True spoilers unredacted!
That should be every character except the game constructs (Jack, exiles, kings, queens, consorts).

Spoiler: Humans (click to show/hide)

John Egbert, Heir of Breath 2WU
Planeswalker - John
[+1] Return Target nonland permanent to it's owner's hand.
[-X] Exile John Egbert, Heir of Breath. He reenters the battlefield during your next upkeep with X+1 Loyalty tokens.
[-6] Return all target opponent's nonland permanents to their owner's hand.
<2>

Dave Strider, Knight of Time 1RRWW
Planeswalker - Dave
The multiple Planeswalker rule does not apply to Dave planeswalkers.
[+2] Players must attack Dave Strider, Knight of Time instead of you until your next turn.
[+1] Shuffle a random card from your graveyard into your library.
[-7] Place a Planeswalker Token that is a copy of Dave Strider, Knight of Time with 3 loyalty tokens onto the battlefield.
<3>

Rose Lalonde, Seer of Light 2WB
Planeswalker - Rose
[+1] Roll a six-sided die, where X is the result, Scry X.
[-1] Untap up to 3 target permanents you control.
[-X] Deal X damage each to X target creatures.
<2>

Jade Harley, Witch of Space 3G
Planeswalker - Jade
[+2] Add your choice of a +1/+1 counter or a -1/-1 counter to target creature.
[+1] Put a 1/1 green frog token onto the battlefield for each planeswalker you control.
[-4] Exile target permanent.
<3>

Jake English, Page of Hope 2W
Planeswalker - Jake
[+1] Prevent all damage to target creature until your next upkeep.
[-3] Add 2 mana of any combination to your mana pool.
[-8] Place an emblem with "All spells you cast cost 1 colored mana of your choice less to cast. This does not affect colorless costs."
<1>

Dirk Strider, Prince of Heart 4W
Planeswalker - Dirk
[+1] Creatures you control get +1/+1 until end of turn.
[-X] Creatures you control get +X/+X until end of turn.
[-2] Put target permanent in play into it's owner's graveyard.
<2>

Roxy Lalonde, Rogue of Void 3B
Planeswalker - Roxy
[+2] Target creature is unblockable until end of turn.
[-X] Return target nonland card with converted mana cost X from your graveyard to your hand.
[-X] Search your library for a nonland card with converted mana cost X and put it into your graveyard, then shuffle your library.
<1>

Jane Crocker, Maid of Life 3GG
Planeswalker - Jane
[+2] Search your library for a forest and put it onto the battlefield. Then shuffle your library.
[+1] Until your next upkeep, if Jane Crocker, Maid of Life would have no loyalty counters, place a loyalty counter on her.
[-2] Place a token enchantment onto the battlefield with "Sacrifice this enchantment: Regenerate target creature".
<2>

Spoiler: Trolls (click to show/hide)

Karkat Vantas, Knight of Blood 2UR
Planeswalker - Karkat
[+3] You May put a +1/+1 counter on target creature.
[-2] If target creature shares a color or subtype with a creature you control, gain control of that creature until end of turn. That creature gains haste.
[-7] Target player discards their hand.
<2>

Terezi Pyrope, Seer of Mind 4U
Planeswalker - Terezi
[+1] Flip a coin. If it comes up heads, scry 2. If it comes up tails, draw a card.
[+1] Tap target creature or destroy target tapped creature.
[-4] Place a 2/2 red Dragon token onto the battlefield.
<2>

Sollux Captor, Mage of Doom 2UR
Planeswalker - Sollux
[+2] Draw a card, then target opponent discards a card.
[-2] Each player draws 2 cards, then each opponent discards 2 cards.
[-2] Destroy 2 target permanents, then scry 2.
<2>

Gamzee Makara, Bard of Rage 4R
Planeswalker - Gamzee
Indestructible. If the last loyalty counter on Gamzee Makara would be removed, instead do not remove that counter.
[+1] Gamzee Makara, Bard of Rage deals 1 damage to target creature. If you lost life this turn, Gamzee Makara deals 5 damage to that creature instead.
[-4] Destroy target permanent.
<1>

Nepeta Leijon, Rogue of Heart 2WG
Planeswalker - Nepeta
[+1] Choose one: Gain 2 life, or regenerate target creature. Then gain 1 life.
[-2] Untap each creature you control.
[-5] Place a 2/2 white spirit cat token with vigilance onto the battlefield.
<1>

Tavros Nitram, Page of Breath 2B
Planeswalker - Tavros
[+1] Place a loyalty counter on target planeswalker.
[-2] Place a 1/1 black horror token named "fiduspawn" onto the battlefield.
[-3] Exile target nonland permanent.
<2>

Vriska Serket, Thief of Light 7B
Planeswalker - Vriska
Vriska Serket, Thief of Light costs 1 less to cast for each spider you control.
[+2] Roll an 8-sided die. Where X is the result, do X damage to target creature.
[-1] Next time you would roll one or more dice, you may choose the result for up to four of those dice. Roll any other dice as normal.
[-8] Roll eight 8-sided dice. For each 8 rolled, draw a card and do 2 damage to target creature. If all eight dice are 8s, also deal 8 damage to target player.
<2>

Eridan Ampora, Prince of Hope 4W
Planeswalker - Eridan
[+2] Add WW to your mana pool.
[-1] Move a +1/+1 counter from target creature to target creature you control.
[-6] Creatures target player controls get -2/-2 and are indestructible until end of turn.
<3>

Equius Zahhak, Heir of Void 3R
Planeswalker - Equius
[+1] Equius Zahhak, Heir of Void becomes a creature until end of turn, with power and toughness equal to his loyalty. He then fights target creature.
[-1] Place a 1/1 artifact construct token onto the battlefield.
[-3] Sacrifice an artifact you control. If you do, then deal damage to target player equal to either the sacrificed artifact's power or converted mana cost, whichever is higher.
<3>

Aradia Megido, Maid of Time 4UU
Planeswalker - Aradia
[+1] Place a 2/2 artifact creature token with flying named "Aradiabot" onto the battlefield.
[+/-0] Sacrifice all Aradiabots you control. Deal damage equal to twice the number of sacrificed Aradiabots to target player.
[-5] Discard your hand and draw 7 cards.
<3>

Feferi Peixes, Witch of Life 3W
Planeswalker - Feferi
[+2] Target creature you control has protection from Black and protection from Red until your next upkeep.
[-1] Tap target creature. If it has power 5 or more, destroy it.
[-6] Gain life equal to your Devotion to white and green.
<1>

Kanaya Maryam, Sylph of Space 3B
Planeswalker - Kanaya
[+1] Exile a creature from your graveyard. Kayana Maryam, Sylph of Space gains additional loyalty equal to it's toughness.
[+1] Put a 1/1 green frog token on the battlefield.
[-6] Creatures you control gain lifelink until end of turn. If they already had lifelink, they gain +2/+2 instead.
<2>

Rufioh Nitram, Rogue of Breath 2UB
Planeswalker - Rufioh
Whenever a creature you do not control dies, Rufio Nitram gains 2 loyalty.
[+/-0] You may give target creature flying until end of turn.
[-X] X target creatures gain lifelink until end of turn.
<2>

Damara Megido, Witch of Time 3BR
Planeswalker - Damara
[+2]You get a second upkeep step after your attack phase this turn.
[-3]You get another attack phase after your second main phase this turn.
[-X]Lose X+1 life, then deal X damage to each opponent.
<2>

Cronus Ampora, Bard of Hope 3B
Planeswalker - Cronus
[+2]Transform target permanent. If it cannot transform, tap it instead.
[-1]Target creature has First Strike until end of turn.
[-8]Sacrifice Cronus Ampora, Bard of Hope. If you do, target opponent sacrifices each creature they control.
<3>

Meenah Peixes, Thief of Life 4B
Planeswalker - Meenah
[+2]Each opponent may choose to increase your life by 2. If they do not, that opponent loses 1 life.
[-1]Gain control of target creature until end of turn. It gains haste.
[-5]Deal 8 damage to target creature or player. Gain life equal to the damage dealt.
<3>

Kurloz Makara, Prince of Rage 2BR
Planeswalker - Kurloz
[+2]Creatures you control have protection from black and red until end of turn.
[+1]Creatures you control have intimidate until end of turn.
[-6]Deal damage equal to the number of swamps and mountains you control to target player or planeswalker.
<2>

Horus Zahhak, Page of Void 1U
Planeswalker - Horus
[+2]Your turn ends immediately.
[+/-0]Gain (1) for each artifact you control.
[-3]Untap all artifacts you control.
<1>

Aranea Serket, Sylph of Light 2WU
Planeswalker - Aranea
[+2]Roll an 8 sided die, where X is the result. Scry X, then draw a card.
[-1]Next time you would roll 1 or more dice, you may pay (1) per die to choose the result for that die.
[-X]Roll X 8 sided dice, up to 8 dice. For each 8 rolled, place a 1/1 green spider token with reach onto the battlefield.
<1>

Latula Pyrope, Knight of Mind 3U
Planeswalker - Latula
[+2]Change target color on target permanent to a color of your choice. It retains this color change until it exits the battlefield.
[-1]Latula Pyrope, Knight of Mind, becomes a creature with power and toughness equal to her loyalty with Intimidate until end of turn.
[-7]Place a 6/6 red Dragon token with flying onto the battlefield.
<2>

Kankri Vantas, Seer of Blood 2UR
Planeswalker- Kankri
[+3]Scry X, where X is the number of colors controlled by your opponent(s).
[-2]Fateseal X, where X is the number of colors controlled by your opponent(s). (To fateseal, look at the top X cards of an opponent's library, then put any number of them on the bottom of that player's library and the rest on top in any order)
[-6]Gain 10 life.
<2>

Porrim Maryam, Maid of Space 3B
Planeswalker - Porrim
[+3]Untap target creature.
[+1]Put a 1/1 green frog token onto the battlefield.
[-8]Creatures you control gain lifelink and flying until end of turn.
<1>

Meulin Leijon, Mage of Heart 2RW
Planeswalker - Meulin
[+1]Two Target creatures you control each get +1/+1 until end of turn.
[-1]Prevent all damage to target creature until your next upkeep.
[-4]Prevent all damage to creatures you control until your next upkeep.
<1>

Spoiler: TRUE SPOILERS (click to show/hide)

Caliborn, Lord of Time 3WUBRG
Planeswalker - Caliborn
At the beginning of the game, you may reveal Caliborn, Lord of Time. If you do, he begins on the battlefield with 1 loyalty counter.
[+1] lose 2 life.
[-12] Transform Caliborn, Lord of Time.
<8>

Lord English <TRANSFORMED>
Planeswalker - Caliborn
[+3] Deal 8 damage to target creature, player, or planeswalker.
[+/-0] Exile Target Creature.
[-8] Take another turn after this one.

Calliope, Muse of Space 1WUBRG
Planeswalker - Calliope
[+2] Prevent all damage to target creature until your next upkeep.
[+1] gain 3 life.
[-12] Transform Calliope, Muse of Space.
<4>

Architect of Victory <TRANSFORMED>
Planeswalker - Calliope
[+X] Where X is your devotion to a color of your choice, gain X life.
[-2] Return target permanent from exile to the battlefield.
[-8] Attach an Aura Enchantment Token with "Enchanted permanent is indestructible" to each nonenchantment permanent you control.


...And a bonus spell!

Prototype Ghost 3
Instant
Sunburst - Exile target creature from your graveyard. For each creature exiled this way, place a token that is a copy of that creature. This token is also a spirit and enters the battlefield with a +1/+1 counter for each color used to cast this spell.
Overload 2WUBRG

Color Breakdown:

White:
12 include, 3 of which are just white.
Blue:
12 include, 4 of which are just blue.
Black:
12 include, 7 of which are just black.
Red:
11 include, 2 of which are just red.
Green:
5 include, 2 of which are just green.

If anyone thinks I made a character the wrong color(s), let me know. If any card seems totally unbalanced, let me know. If any card does not work as intended, let me know.

[Darvi]

Architect

[flabort]

Thanks for the reminder to spellcheck, I had made two other mistakes as well it seems. 

[Cerol Lenslens]

Some other notes on the cards:

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Vriska's ultimate feels really weak. You'll be lucky to draw 2 and deal 4 damage with it for 8 loyalty, which doesn't feel worth a 4-turn charge time. Assuming you can stockpile her "next time you roll" chances by using that 8 times in a row after accumulating loyalty, that adds another 12 turns of charge time to get her ultimate at full power. That's a pretty ludicrous time investment compared to pretty much any other planeswalker ultimate of similar potency.

Jade might want to add player's choice of +1/+1 counters or -1/-1 counters to things, since as written she can't shrink things past their base stats. (-1/-1 counters and +1/+1 counters annihilate each other when placed on the same target, so it's pretty much the same functionality as far as counter removal and bookkeeping goes.)

Tavros doesn't feel black to me. Virtually everything his card does is white - add loyalty, put weenies in play, and exile stuff. I'd put him in white/green. Also, I feel like he should be able to take control of creatures instead of putting fiduspawn in play - canonically, I don't recall him using a fiduspawn at all during the session. I know controlling creatures is usually blue's style, but limit it to, say, attacking and blocking creatures, and it fits green/white pretty well. (Yeah, I could suggest the same for Vriska, but her card has a good focus on her luck manipulation aspect, and her abilities all have good synergy with each other. Tavros really doesn't.)

Equius doesn't feel red to me. He turns into a big creature and fights (green, although red does do some fighting) and makes creature tokens. (Also green.) Maybe let him break artifacts as an ability to deal damage to an opponent. (Artifact destruction is a thing red does, a thing Equius does, and has synergy with his robot-manufacturing ability.)

Eridan looks good, but his first ability feels kind of bad for a five-mana planeswalker. Nice loyalty gain, but one white mana?

Karkat, Meulin, Feferi, probably a few others: Probably want to be reworded to add "You may", so you're not forced to give bonuses to your opponent's creatures if you don't have any. Also, Fef feels bad if your opponent isn't playing a red/black deck.

Speaking of Karkat: Dayum! Dude has a one-turn charge before he Mind Twists your opponent into the ground, and can do it every 2-3 turns afterwards.

Caliborn will kill his own player before ever becoming Lord English if his alternate play condition is used, assuming a standard non-EDH game with no lifegain or use of Cronus to autotransform him. That may or may not be a feature.

Petty fixes:

Gamzee: Spelling error on indestructible.

Kankri: Ultimate should read gain 10 life.

Jane: Enchantments from her ultimate don't need "as an instant" in their activation cost - that's default for activated abilities. It's when an ability is sorcery speed that that needs to be specified.

Architect: Ability should read "devotion to a color"

Dirk: His ultimate might want to read "Put target permanent in play into it's owner's graveyard." That should bypass indestructible and regeneration, and reads a little cleaner.

[flabort]

In Response to that list of notes:

Instant response to "petty" fixes, all made. Even the Dirk one, that really is a lot cleaner.
Caliborn killing his own player is indeed a feature.
Karkat's Mind Twist cost has been increased from 4 to 7.
"You may.." added to Karkat's first ability, so you don't have to target opponents if you have none.
"..you control.." added to Feferi's first ability. Ability fizzles if you have no creatures now.
Rufioh's ability reworded similarly.
Meulin NOT changed, due to the fact that it already matches Feferi's ability as far as bonuses.
Feferi's ability now reads "Protection from Black and Protection from Red" rather than "Protection from Black and Red", to avoid confusion.
Eridan produces two white mana now.
Equius's butler token ability replaced with artifact destruction ability. Work's on "either power or converted mana cost, whichever is higher", so his own tokens work, as do non-creature artifacts. I like that a LOT better than two separate token abilities.
I feel that mind control does not fit Tavros better than Fiduspawn, because while he never used them in the session that we saw, I'm pretty sure he played with them, and isn't he the one that gets CONTROLLED, rather than does the controlling? However, as much as I flavor-fully want Tavros to be black, I can make him white or white green. CHANGE NOT MADE UNTIL ANOTHER OPINION IS GIVEN.
Whilst -1/-1 counters have not been used for some time, they make sense, and Jade has been changed in the recommended manner.
Vriska's die manipulating ability changed to affect up to four dice per use. Also, reworded in such a fashion to hopefully allow stacking. Less turns required to charge her ability.

[Cerol Lenslens]

isn't he the one that gets CONTROLLED, rather than does the controlling?

Oh, he does, yes, but his psychic ability is to command animals, whereas Vriska's is to control other trolls. (Including him.) I can't find the page without going on a massive archive binge, but it's mentioned at one point that he spends a lot of time not killing the various session enemies, (who are all prototyped with lusii, and thus vulnerable to his ability) preferring to 'befriend' them all with his power instead. He's basically playing real-life Fiduspawn with almost everything. He's also controlled by Vriska in order for her to use his ability to control Terezi's lusus into controlling Terezi into staring into the sun. And it's his zodiac sign the Condesce (who has spliced herself with multiple bloodlines' psychic powers) displays when controlling GCat and Jade.

If he'd just been a little more proactive about using it effectively, the guy would've been an absolute terror.

[flabort]

...Ah. So he does.
I could maybe change it to "gain control of target creature with power 1 or less until end of turn, that creature gains haste"?

[frostshotgg]

I think if you made it something like "take control of target noncreature permanant until the next time this ability is used" for -3 could be interesting.

[flabort]

Eh... that feels even less Tavros. He's a Page, not a thief, and that would allow for lands to be stolen. That's a big no-no in all card design books.

[frostshotgg]

I think it'd do a good job of showing his ability to mind control stuff, but not other players. I meant to put nonland, but it must've gotten deleted because hurr durr phone typing is hard.