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Today denizens of Multiverse, I present to you a new, born a search for mechanics that could be unique to auras.
Once a creature gains an identity, that identity lasts until the game ends. I added a clause to avoid dealing with "Destroy target enchantment" effects. Once a creature gains an identity, the identity becomes part of the creature (hence, the aura not being considered a card anymore), and its abilities are now part of that creature.
How do you know which copy of the creature has what identities when the creature is shuffled into the library? For physically-played Magic I have a simple solution that I believe to be elegant and is inspired by the check-cards for double-faced cards: a blank card. The blank card has the normal card backing that Magic: the Gathering cards have and has a blank front so that the player can write the name of the creature and its identities when the creature is shuffled into the library.
I would expect that other zones would not often have the same risk of not knowing whether a copy of the creature had gained any identities.
My greatest detraction of this proposed mechanic is that there's a lack innate usefulness the Identity mechanic- it's buildup that will rarely be relevant since the creature with the Identity is not guaranteed to come back from whichever zone it gets sent.
Should be "U, T, Remove..."
Inspired by 2 Mana Counter
The trinket text on the back side (after the three abilities shared with Gisela) is all specifically anti-Emrakul. They didn't just fight the Eldrazi spawn, they took down the titan. (Somehow. It's not like I worked out an entire backstory. This was more emotional catharsis than full alternate history :P)
And yes, it's reinterpreting the flavour of meld. But frankly, I'm expecting meld to come back sometime in the next 5-15 years, and I'm pretty certain the flavour will be very different next time it does. But this was designed as an alternate pair of cards for Eldritch Moon, the set that introduced meld as its big splashy mechanic, and I can't imagine the story highlight legendary pair would use a different "two go together" mechanic and not meld.
I mean it could have had partner and not meld. Would make more sense since Melding is explicitly an eldrazi thing (atm) and it would alleviate the issues faced by Bruna being a better card than the meld pair.
It's good, don't get me wrong but it also feels like you just flipped the coin over instead of wondering what would actually happen had the two angels not been mind warped. As ironic as it sounds, the reality would not mirror the alternate universe at all methinks.
And even if it did I think there's a better way of showing that "Gisela and Bruna can fight eldrazi good" besides having them kill flyers. I mean why do they smite down Dawn Gryff and not Mockery of Nature?
The same eldritch moon that was in the same standard as Cartouche of Solidarity? Or even Conviction?
I don't think it would be difficult to play the control game until turn 6, somewhere along the way discard Emrakul or your choice of fatty and go off. Then again, that would be nothing compared to what people were already doing in that standard... before the bans. I don't think this card would be banned but it'd be in the conversation for being too good.
I have a lot of fondness for the original Gisela, Blade of Goldnight. She is a beatstick, but she also synergises particularly well with your own first strikers / double strikers. The problem is that the current wording for meld takes up so many words that there really isn't room for anything interesting on the front side here, especially with wanting a mirrored flavour text to the EMN Gisela.
This triplet ended up one of the three runners-up in the contest, which I was fairly happy about. The commenters mostly liked it but really wished they'd been partners so you could have both of them as commanders, but that would need even more words.
fix line wrapping
This can only reanimate if you cast Aura spells. That's very hard to do the turn you cast this, and it's not especially easy to repeatedly do either. Unless you're going full combo with Shimmering Wings or whatever, of course. A combo deck that aims to ramp to 6, while also self-milling, and also have a bunch of 1-mana Auras would be pretty odd.
...That is, unless this shares an environment with Sentinel's Eyes or some such. Hm, yes, that's a bit too synergistic. The idea was this would be in Eldritch Moon though.
I really like this card, and I think that it's numbers are on point for the effect, though maybe only as a sideboard card considering this could wind up as a dead card (6 mana 5/5 is crap for green, either if they are behind or ahead on board).
Also, I think it should say, "equal or less than loyalty" because then a 5/5 can kill a 5 health walker, and not just a 4 health walker, which is unintuitive and I missed the first readthrough.
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Feels like an appropriate reversal of Garruk Relentless's second ability. :)
I mean, every Gisela card has been just a beat stick. I agree that the triggered ability on Bruna feels bad with melding. Other Bruna had a cast trigger, so it had some interesting utility prior to melding that wasn't "taken away" when you melded
Conversely, I don't like this. Firstly Gisela is a boring beatstick. Technically that's within her range of influence since both her cards have been just that but I still feel like it should be more interesting than another baneslayer angel mockery.
As for the meld, I like the colourless-hate thematically but I do question the reasoning and usefulness. I can imagine a D&T hatebear that would have the same two anti colourless lines of text and it would still be as much of a silver bullet as Stony Silence. It's just very narrow and not something you'd expect from the hoops you need to jump through to meld. Lorewise, it makes sense for them to hate colourless but it seems strange that the meld is similar to Brisela (what with the 'opponents cant cast X' theme) which doesn't make sense since Brisela never happened here and the angels don't do that by themselves.
Finally, she's a big beatstick for sure but once melded you lose Bruna's reanimation ability! It almost feels like a downside to meld the two.
I quite like this. Good combination of old and new Bruna. It's interesting that you need to target something to get the cast trigger but since Bruna will be on the board, probably an edge case.
I do worry about it's power level though. A 5/5 flyer for 5 is pretty good, and this can reanimate any creature? And it's got the upside of melding?? I'd expect this to be featured in a combo deck where you play her on turn 6 so you can cast a 1 cmc aura and reanimate any big thing you have in the yard.
There are plenty of ways around this though. Most useful (yet predictable) is to put a CMC rider on the reanimation
I like the concept, but I feel like a better term could be found. Presence? Standing?
Created for a "change history" design challenge. See also Bruna, Besieged Mind.
Created for a "change history" design challenge. See also Gisela, Tormented Heart.
I like this concept of power and toughness in total being called mass.
Rules
Even outside of that - while potentially difficult to cast quickly enough (some serious ramp needed) it will lead to a stupid level of repetitive play, by tutoring three things.
The very existence of this card would be horrible for kitchen table Magic. "Need to be able to produce two
" is not enough of a hoop to allow absolutely any deck that gets flooded out to get a random 9/9. If it cost about six 
(out of a total cost of 9+) that miiight be enough to prevent most decks from getting it without trying.
From whaat I've heard of Companion, this is an enormous "no, this should not exist."
Oh yeah, escape is brutal with this. Delve too, but there's only one red card with delve
I just remembered Kroxa, Titan of Death's Hunger. Nasty.
already had this added, pulling a different one from the notebook