Boseiju, directly translated from Japanese is ‘Sacred Mother Tree’ and was the oldest and tallest tree of the Jukai forest, on the plane of Kamigawa. It now is the only remnant of Jukai Forest left within city limits of Towashi. Unable to expand outward, Towashi was forced to grow upwards instead. Skyscrapers filled the city, and Boseiju was soon lost within the skyline, thanks to poor municipal planning and a general disregard to the natural world.
Kamigawa: Neon Dynasty
Boseiju, Who Endures - by Esuthio
Boseiju, Who Endures - illustrated by Chris Ostrowski
Champions of Kamigawa
Boseiju, Who Shelters All - illustrated by by Ralph Horsley
If you like listening to ChilledCow’s YouTube channel of awesome beats to relax / study to, then you know the animated LoFi Girl, created by Colombian artist Juan Pablo Machado. Wizards of the Coast created a lovely little animation of a similar character for Kamigawa Neon Dynasty.
Magic: the Gathering - Kamigawa Fox ‘o’ Nine Tails
The Kitsune (Japanese: 狐きつね) of Kamigawa are cunning, tricksy masters of diplomacy and swordmanship. They are curious and fond of playing pranks, mostly harmless ones for their own amusement. They tend to live in large, close-knit family clans related through blood and marriage. Kitsune are proud of their lineages, and are are able to trace their ancestry back through multiple generations.
The more a kitsune experiences, the more tails they grow, with the wisest elders having nine tails. The average kitsune is slighter and shorter than a human, with the top of their head coming up to person’s chin. They have white fur with red markings.
The kitsune are are most commonly found in the Imperial court.
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Light-Paws, Emperor’s Voice1W
Legendary Creature- Fox Advisor [rare]
Whenever an Aura enters the battlefield under your control, if you cast it, you may search your library for an Aura card with mana value less than or equal to that Aura and with a different name than each Aura you control, put that card onto the battlefield attached to Light-Paws, Emperor’s Voice, then shuffle.
Magic: the Gathering - Kamigawa: Neon Dynasty Full Art Lands
Releasing February 18, 2022, Neon Dynasty is set in the current era on Kamigawa, more than 1200 years after conclusion of the original Kamigawa block in 3326 AR. The plane’s feudal past has met futuristic modernity, with ninjas and samurai now carrying a cyberpunk aesthetic.
Magic: the Gathering - Kamigawa: Neon Dynasty Full Art Lands
ReleasingFebruary 18, 2022, Neon Dynasty is set in the current era on Kamigawa, more than 1200 years after conclusion of the original Kamigawa block in 3326 AR. The plane’s feudal past has met futuristic modernity, with ninjas and samurai now carrying a cyberpunk aesthetic.
May have made a somewhat poor financial decision today.
I’ll post pulls in a bit. Got some sick shit.
Aight so pulls.
Gotta bunch of commander cards and this Kami War it took me a while to realize was an alt-art showcase frame lol
We got some legends, (I maybe want to build saga enchantress with Shigeki and Satsuki)
some random extra spells (including nearly a full cycle of the invocations but like with three copies of the red one. Also unfortunately Farewell has S*b Mck*nnon art)
and some zoomies
Recouped a significant portion of the costs with the Extended art Boseiju and one regular.
and we got our Phyrexian Tam.
and to top it all off I got THREE foil of the full art basics.
May have made a somewhat poor financial decision today.
I’ll post pulls in a bit. Got some sick shit.
Aight so pulls.
Gotta bunch of commander cards and this Kami War it took me a while to realize was an alt-art showcase frame lol
We got some legends, (I maybe want to build saga enchantress with Shigeki and Satsuki)
some random extra spells (including nearly a full cycle of the invocations but like with three copies of the red one. Also unfortunately Farewell has S*b Mck*nnon art)
and some zoomies
Recouped a significant portion of the costs with the Extended art Boseiju and one regular.
Seriously, Tamiyo and Genku are just the best. Every single sentence about them was a treat to read.
How about we use it as a framing device for a summer set? Have it be a Storybook set and let the reprints and stories all be about Tamiyo reading to her kids truncated versions of the major stories from Magic’s past.
Yes! That’d be awesome!
I am 1000% down with this idea!
Imagine if the next Planeschase product was flavored as Tamiyo and Genku’s kids playing make-believe and reenacting their favorite stories from the Story Circle?
So you’ve got actual planes and the majority of the cards are reprints, but then each deck has a legendary creature of one of Tamiyo and Genku’s kids that the deck is built around.
Just the thought of this makes me happy.
Alternatively, alternate art legends of Tamiyo’s kids dressed up like characters from the past. Like, one of the legends is a new version of Gerrard, and it’s this little moonfolk boy with a big fake beard and a wooden sword. And Volrath is a kid with one of those four-faced rotating masks, and one of them is Vuel and one is Volrath and one is Takara and the other we can’t see because it’s on the back of his head.
…Wait, even better. Make this next year’s SDCC Planeswalker suite. Nezumi with big white fluffy mane, an eyepatch, and an oar.
Brilliant!!
Also, it could contain full-art lands that are all drawn by Tamiyo and Genku’s kids!
Here I go again with my Disney references. Also the MTG manga and Dark Discoveries references. If you haven’t seen Dark Discoveries, Tezz thinks this gem of a line after Jin threatens to feed him to his larvae:
That’s a very strange reaction, Tezz. You didn’t evenknow anything about Jin up to this moment, so… hyperfocusing on the familyaspect much? XD
Now in my mind the Praetors are one big squabbling murderous found family for Tezzeret.
Jin-Gitaxias, my favorite skirt-wearing New Phyrexian bird man, is off to a good start in Kamigawa, shopping for pants and adopting a girl with his boyfriend.
I’ve been hoping for years for a Phyrexian comeback, and this is beyond my wildest dreams. Of course they’re not gonna be an item in canon, but when did that ever stop me?
