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Celestial Mentor

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Finest Hour - Card Number 20: Celestial Mentor

After a few minutes of thinking, Celestia had a plan for the course of action they should take. Since they had no real attacking force, they had to stop the enemy from amassing new troops. That meant, taking out the mana focus.

“Then you will move by hooves. However, with the multiplying changelings, possible magic creatures and now the griffins, there will be many dangers in your way, even before you reach the focus. And they are not so foolish to leave it unguarded, even if it appears that way, so that also needs to be accounted for.”

Doing that as just six ponies would be a momentous task, infiltrating enemy territory and sabotaging what appeared to be a key position, but she had a solution for that as well.

“Twilight, I have a spell I would like you to study; it’s an old ritual about contacting other worlds. I found it late last night, by accident, actually. There are also some other spells as well, they will most likely be useful. From what you have seen in that strange place that creature took you and Spike, it is very likely that we deal with an extra planar enemy of some kind, so we should also be able to find extra planar allies.”

She enlarged a part of the map on the screen, showing an old ruin.

“This is an old ruin, it was back here when Luna and I ordered Equestria and bound Discord in his statue. Several scholars did studies of it ages ago, but after an accidental summoning of a very powerful being, we deemed it too dangerous to use. Until now. You six needs to go there, and see if you can complete the ritual the scholars pieced together ages ago. Go with my blessing, and find help for us. No matter the plane, or the timeline, someone should be able to help.”

(Card updated with more balanced mana cost, I had overseen that Demonic Tutor was the older, powerful counterpart to the modern Diabolic Tutor)

Next piece of the story

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Finest Hour is the second part of a 3 part MTG expansion set, intended to tell an overall storyline through ponified Magic the Gathering cards, exploring the plane of Equestria and its struggle against a darker force invading it.

A prologue set named Unseen Invasion begins here
Read it if you want the back-story of the main set. Or just want to see more cards. Each piece will have a link to the next part.

This set, named Finest Hour begins with a quick recap of the prologue here
If you want to read the story of this set, simply hit the above recap link, and follow the “Next piece of the story” links.

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Wolf-Leader7's avatar
This is a white Diabolic Tutor, Diabolic tutor, honestly isn't played in anything other than EDH/Planechase/Archenemy. I don't see it seeing play in anything else.