Welcome to (((Name That Card #010)))! Today we have a Planeswalker whose identity isn't complete. Evidently, this is some sort of shapeshifter. But what are the creatures it's shifting into? And is the color guaranteed?

This could actually just be a really weird take on Arlinn Kord

Minor change. Added haste to the +3 so this card can attack on the round it enters the battlefield, since that was the intent.

The less I play the more out of touch with mtg I become. Wow, there's a lot of new planeswalkers. And so many versions of Gideon.

I think this could be almost any combination of colours. R or U with trickster or shape-shifting flavour. Green with "growing stompy" flavour. White with a variant of gideon jura flavour. I suppose technically if you stick to colours allowed menace and +1/+1 counters it narrows it down.

I suppose I don't need to point it out, but if ALL its abilities relate to being a creature, should it actually be a planeswalker at all? And is there any way of avoiding mixing two counter types on it?

Gatherer tells me there already is a shapeshifter planeswalker, Oko. Who's usually tricksy but I want a "now I'm pissed off" vibe, so:

Oko, the Playful [Referencing 'playful' like a cat with a victim]

Or a purely green take focussed on being bestial and just getting more so. Continuumg has a good point that it could be Arlinn, perhaps trapped in her wolf body to justify why it doesn't do any magc, and going on a rampage (as the wiki tells me happened?):

Arlinn, Wolf Enraged

I I agree ith others that I'm getting Arlinn vibes. The evergreen abilities the shift grants are in jund colors specifically, but none of the colors are exclusive to black, so we can cut the colors down to just RG. I know black is teriary for haste, so BG and BR are both hypothetical options as well, but RG feels more natural imho. Next, the planeswalker's abilities suggest that they can only modify themself. I get druid shifter vibes. Thee plus two ability is solidly green (I guess could be white too maybe, but the other abilities aren't white and the -4 gives off bigger green vibes than red).

So if we ant a new planeswalker, I'd expect someone who shifts into animals, colored red green. I would like the epithet Beastskin.

But should we want to use an existing planeswalker, RG Arlinn as suggested, I will submit Arlinn, Direlycan.

I haven't played or been paying enough attention to magic recently, and I wasn't very sure what colors this fit into I assumed Jund, and apparently that's true.. I'm going to go off the rails and make a custom jund character

Since he can become both a 2/2 haste with menace (a devil? or an imp...?) and he can also gain some counters... which is like, becoming tougher... from anger? This is beginning to feel ...

But, can also become a 5/5 trampler.... hm... So can also become a giant raging beast?

So, yeah, it's all about rage... And this probably is more than but I like the flavor of an evil being that has been gifted or elsehow gained the power to rage into different forms...

Rageshifter is the title and as for the name... something demonic would be cool... Cause demons are always angry, and generally males in this game (IIRC)

So.. a half-demon? Like a tiefling but idk if those exist in magic, cause once again, ive not played it a lot recently, in fact I only cme here once a week and that's my relationship with the game rn lol

So, I'm going with a tibaltish character which is half demon but not half devil...

Maybe a Demonic Beastperson? Is there beast people in magic? I dont remember...

I think I'll go with something demonic.. so maybe the suffix could be Rath and the first part could be latin for a negative-connotations word, nah that's not working... Magic demons have weird names but I cant remember any off the top of my head...

googling demon names gave a lot of drizzes drazzes and drezzes

So Drazrath, the Rageshifter

Giving it to Sorrow this round, with the caveat that I'm cutting Direlycan into two words. It took me a while to parse that direlycan was a compound word. I kept reading it with the intonation that one would use to say 'whirlybird'.

I really like the thought that went into your version Froggychum. In the end, though, I just figured that 'Dire Lycan' was stronger than 'Rageshifter'. And the story justification, that this was Arlinn trapped in wolf form getting angrier and angrier, worked well.

I also upped the -4 ability because I felt this card should cost 3 mana, but it wasn't quite where it needed to be yet. So 5/5 became 6/6. And menace was added to the last ability. Since Arlinn is still a wolf in that form, so she shouldn't lose the menace.

Wanted an upgraded creature type for the -4, but there weren't many good options. Mutant Wolf doesn't sound right. Giant Wolf isn't really allowed. Wolf Avatar? Wolf Beast? In the end, I went with Wolf Berserker. Not perfect, I admit, but I don't think anything is.

See you good people in (((Name That Card #011)))!