Foundation: The Containing
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This sandbox is open to contribution from anyone with something to add.

The design skeleton (adapted from Mark Rosewater's "Making Magic" design column) is intended to describe the common cards included in a Magic: the Gathering small set (which may be expanded into a large set later on) based on the SCP Foundation mythos. It uses a four-character code which is unique to each card. First, rarity (every card here is C, for Common), then color (W, U, B, R, G, as well as A for Artifact and L for Land), then a number. CW04 is the fourth white common in the set.

Currently, the plan is to feature five factions in the set, each bearing their own two-color combination. Although choosing all allied colors or all enemy colors would be more symmetrical and easier to take care of, this set is working with an existing setting and can't tailor factions to color combinations without making them out-of-character (and this isn't slated to use its own canon or anything like that), so any five pairs will do, as long as each color is used in two factions. The five groups used in this set will be:

  • Foundation - WU, control-based
  • Horizon Initiative - WR, efficient weenies and aggressive spells
  • Serpent's Hand - UG, contingent evasion and hexproof
  • Chaos Initiative - BR, terrorism and betrayal
  • SCP-354, The Red Pool - GB, predation

Other possible groups include:

  • MC&D - UB, bribery, control, extort
  • COTBG - UB or WB, interaction with artifacts—not controlling them, being controlled by them
  • Wondertainment - UR
  • Manna Charitable Initiative - GW
  • Children of the Sun - RG
  • GOC - mono-white, White Weenie
  • Prometheus - mono-blue, artifacts and instants
  • Factory - mono-black or colorless, artifact tutoring and copying
  • AWCY - mono-red, focused on things red does that aren't direct damage or aggro
  • Fifthists - Purple (NOTE: Foundation the Gathering and its expansions will not include purple)