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Adventure Awaits in the Kingdom of Crestfall!
Now, this fully playable, completely custom Magic set celebrates their legend with unique mechanics and all original art from the players themselves!
About This Project
275 cards.
3 brand new mechanics.
All original art.
The Unwell Kingdom is a fully playable set of fake Magic: the Gathering cards, designed from the ground up to celebrate a 6-year D&D campaign of the same name. Each card is mechanically unique (except for the 5 basic lands and a few familiar tokens), geared for limited play, and features hand-drawn art.
This website was created to chronicle the development of the set and showcase its cards and artists. This is a fan-made project, and is not for sale or profit.
No AI art was used in its creation.
New Mechanics
The Unwell Kingdom features three new keywords on several of its cards.
Inspire X
Create X Inspiration tokens. They’re colorless enchantments with “Sacrifice this enchantment: Target creature you control gains +1/+1 until end of turn.”
Inspiration tokens are like single-use +1/+1 counters that can be banked up and used at instant speed! They’re meant to reflect D&D’s Inspiration mechanic, which gives players re-rolls to cash out at strategic moments. Inspire effects are mostly found in red, and especially among Bards.
Concentration
If enchanted creature is dealt damage or targeted by a spell or ability, sacrifice this enchantment.
Concentration is a keyword on many of the Aura Enchantments in the set. Because they’re easier to remove than ordinary Auras, cards with Concentration tend to offer some immediate payoff, or snowballing value to reward maintaining them for several turns. Much like Concentration spells in D&D, these work well with Wizards and other spellcasters who try to avoid direct combat.
Hoard
The hoard is a shared pool of cards in exile. To hoard a card, exile that card and put a hoard counter on it.
Hoard is a mechanic closely tied to this set’s Dragon cards in black. Dragons in the Unwell Kingdom are insatiable hoarders of anything from knowledge, to places, to the souls of the dead. Hoarded cards can be thought of as a second exile zone, with various ways to steal and play opponents’ cards!
A Standalone Set Cube
This set is designed to function best as a set cube, perfect for draft or sealed games. These cards weren’t intended to play alongside real Magic cards.
An Unwell Kingdom pack contains 16 cards:
- 1x Illusory Palace
- 9x Commons
- 4x Uncommons
- 2x Rares and/or Mythics
Illusory Palace
Player Characters
Fable
the Catfolk Cleric – Played by Larissa
She crossed distant oceans to bring her holy healing and magical mischief here, to the kingdom of Crestfall!
Garp Garp
the Goblin Bard – Played by Juston
He abandoned his goblin clan to study under the Blue-Haired Bard, and now he’s a master of THRASH OR DASH!
Gin
the Human Monk – Played by Boon
Last seen with a smile on his face, a bottle in one hand, and the other extended to help a stranger in need.
Olly
the Gnome Wizard – Played by Vi
Though he first joined the party as a spy for the secretive wizards of the Unseen Library, Olly instead found a group of lifelong friends, and magical discoveries beyond anything in a dusty old tome!
Mishka
the Tiefling Fighter – Played by Lumi
Even after losing an arm early in their journey, Mishka much preferred adventuring with the party to her boring old Royal Guard days in Cobbleston!
Lani
the Aasimar Rogue – Played by Riley
Abandoned at a young age by her divine guardian, she’ll do anything to protect her fellow street urchins.
Tourmaline
the Genasi Blood Hunter – Played by quinn
A naive young traveler who set off on her own, only to be confronted by the harsh truths of this world. Nevertheless, adventure just seems to be in her blood!
Kornaan
the Orc Cobbler – Played by Zack
Kornaan grew up in the sleepy fishing village Loam, fixing the boots of passing travelers and hearing their extraordinary tales! Someday, it would be his turn for adventure.
The World of Lyrea
Lyrea was a land defined by its leaders. For generations, the dreaded Fell King ruled from his castle atop the looming, sea-beaten cliffs of Crestfall. His was a reign of fearful isolation – Crestfall’s gates remained shut, trade routes were stifled, and remote villages and lordships were left to fend for themselves. Citizens feared the Fell King, but he in turn feared something much greater… an unspeakable darkness gnawed from within the heart of the kingdom.
However, 70 years ago, the people of Crestfall rose up against the Fell King! Their leader, a young girl who had grown up within the castle walls, delivered vengeance upon him with blazing speeches and the cold steel of her sword. The Fell King was executed, and she claimed the throne to the joy of her compatriots. So began a new era, the rule of Queen Lyndette.
For a time, Lyrea flourished as never before! The Queen reestablished commerce and offered the support of her Royal Guard to maintain order throughout the land. Ships even began to sail to distant lands, like the shining kingdom of Eldoris. Crestfall prospered at long last.
But not all were happy with the new regime. Wilhelm, son of the Fell King, schemed in exile to mount a Resistance army, so that he may reclaim the kingdom in his father’s name! Criminals and mercenaries continued to deal across an extensive black market! Cultists gathered in the shadowy catacombs of Crestfall, eager to revive the Fell King… And still, even deeper, beyond the indigo veil of death itself, a great evil continued to grow!
And so, the stage was set for the heroes of our tale, a motley band of strangers thrust together by fate, to begin their epic journey in the Unwell Kingdom!
Artists of the Unwell Kingdom
Zack Bogucki
Zack served as the dungeon master for The Unwell Kingdom’s campaign, and is the designer behind this custom card set.
Instagram: @z130gucki
Bluesky: @zbogucki
Twitter: @zbogucki
Juston McKee
(UPPERMINDINK)
Juston McKee, also known as UPPERMINDINK, is a chaotic art wizard and the UWK’s self-proclaimed most popular character: GARP GARP, THRASH METAL GOBLIN BARD!
Juston vows to one day brew the perfect Bug in a Jar deck.
Website: uppermind.ink
Instagram: @uppermindink
Bluesky: @uppermindink
Twitter: @uppermindink
Larissa “Para” Galarza
When she’s not drawing or playing tricks as Fable, the catfolk cleric, Larissa is probably making magical, hand-sewn crafts!
Instagram: @RoyallyDivine
Twitter: @RoyallyDivine_
Vi Pham
Vi lent a keen eye and increasingly explosive twists to the campaign through their gnome wizard, Olly! Alongside Juston, they’re half of the comic collective INK ROT STUDIOS.
Instagram: vidraws.com
Boon Rava
As enigmatic as he is crafty, Boon proved to be the min-maxer of the group. His monk Gin was always on the lookout for creative ways to resolve conflicts!
In playtests, Boon has never drafted a deck with fewer than 4 colors.
Instagram: @zenmonkie
Lumi
Lumi had one condition when designing her tiefling fighter, Mishka: at some point in the story, Mishka needed to lose an arm. She was devastated to see it unceremoniously lopped off after a bad roll rushing into a trap, but that didn’t stop her from crafting the limb into an unforgettable magical weapon!
Aaron Silva
While Aaron didn’t play in the original D&D campaign, he instead made his mark on this project through playtesting the cards. He jumped at the chance to contribute art to cardboard!
Every time a gruul card gets nerfed, Aaron experiences a sharp pain in back of his head.
Instagram: @_thesaltysun_
Cole Maier
Cole guest-starred as Wap, a tropical kenku reanimated through Garp Garp’s necromancy! Sass levels in that one session rivaled the rest of the campaign combined.
Instagram: @sleepysunflowerart