NOTES: | My second entry for ETG User Cards 2 competition, which represents McSod as a card. Its 6|6 stats represent a Lycanthrope|Werewolf who has already used his lycantropy skill. If a Nightfall is on the field, it becomes a 7|7 creature (8|7 with Eclipse) and if it targeted by RT or Eternity (rewind effects in general) it remains on field, however a new copy of McSod of Lycans | McSod of Wolves is created on the owner's hand.
LORE:
Chapter1:
Spoiler for Hidden: The experiment was about to begin. King Drake and Sir McSod have travelled from the distant Desert of Time to the Kingdom of Darkness just to witness an amazing new experiment developed by Purple Mortimer, a well-known scientist and  quanta user who came directly from Chaos Triad. Purple Mortimer had various laboratories in all elemental realms and he had license to travel freely along the land without paying any tolls, except from Graviton Basin, where his stuides have been considered 'heretical, misanthropic and dangerous for the whole nation', a consideration made by Graviton High Council itself. Furthermore, the astrologists have found that an eclipse was going to take place into the Kingdom of Darkness, something both Drake, McSod and Mortimer were interested in watching. The truth is that eclipses were quite often in the Dark Kingdom for a supernatural reason. Finally, a  wizard dressed in golden robes and a king dressed in yellow Samurai armor knock the iron door of the Purple Laboratory... - "Ahh, you finally arrived!", Mortimer said. "King Drake the XIV and Sir McSod the Timebringer, it is a pleasure to meet you both!" - "The pleasure is all ours!", McSod responded. - "Indeed!", Drake added. "But before we start, let me give you a present in order to thank you for your hospitality. A fine-crafted Eternity." - "I would also like to offer a gift", McSod said as soon as he started wispering magic words. "Voila, a Time Factory is now yours!", Mcsod said and a clockwork device as big as a wardrobe jumped out of thin air. - "Ah, an Eternity and a Time Factory, I am so thankful for such great presents, but I am afraid I won't be able to repay your kindness...", Mortimer replied. "Anyway, let's move to the inner laboratory now. If we don't start and finish our experiment soon enough, then we won't make it in time to watch the eclipse.", Mortimer said and rushed trough the corridor, pulling his Eternity and Time Factory presents along him via a purple magical cloud he just summoned. "Have you decided which of you will be my volunteer?", Mortimer asked. - "I will be!", McSod replied quicky. "I always wanted to participate into an experiment of yours, I am actually a big fan of you, Mr.Purple." -"Good... Then just go and sit onto the chair right there!", Mortimer responded and pointed to an open, big, central pipe with a chair on it. There were other four pipes almost as big as the central one; the two to the left were empty while the two to the right were occupied with a Darkness and an Amethyst pillar respectively. -"I think I will make the experiment a little more spicy", Mortimer announced and he putted the Time Factory and Eternity into the two empty pipes to the left respectively. "Ready to begin?" -"I am in position and ready as always!", McSod said in a happy mood, unaware of what was going to happen next... -"But please tell us, what kind of experiment will it be?", Drake said out of curiosity, though he was going just to watch the experiment and not participating in it, like McSod did. -"You will see, you will see...", Mortimer replied and he closed the doors of all the five pipes via a switch and started the experiment. Everything went well into the experiment, in the beginning at least. After a while, the pressure in the pipes reached great heights, black smoke started to fill the entire chamber and the red siren to the ceiling started screaming, giving a warning for upcoming disaster... -"What is going on, Mr.Purple?", Drake asked afraid of what may happen. -"It's ok, I have it under control, I will fix it.", Mortimer said with a way which made Drake even more afraid. Suddenly, a big explosion occured, surrounding everything into a purple mist. Drake fell unconsious...
Chapter 2:
Spoiler for Hidden: After a while, Drake manages to wake up only to find the room and pipes in ruins and Purple Mortimer unconsious next to him. "What has happened?", Drake shouted.
-"It seems something went wrong, terribly wrong", Mortimer responded as soon as he became consious.
-"Where is McSod?", Drake asked but his answer didn't come from the lips of Mr.Purple. By the time the smoke was cleared, a big monster stood on the central half-destroyed pipe, growling towards Drake. It was like a werewolf, but a little bigger. Its fur was violet and its eyes were bright yellow. In an instant, that monster charged against Drake, throeing him down and then it jumped off a window, breaking its glass, and landed onto the laboratory's yard.
-"Is that creature McSod?", Drake asked while he was staring towards the broken experimental chair of the central pipe.
-"Yes, it is. There is no other explanation. And we have to stop it and stop it now!", Mortimer replied and he pushed an emergency button located in the room's corridor.
Suddenly, another siren was heard, doors and trapdoors were opened and Abominations rushed out, filling the entire yard and staring aggresively towards the werewolf-like monster. However, McSod's new form was savage but intelligent enough in combat. He picked a piece of the window's broken glass, shaped like a curved sword, and used it to slash his way through the Abominations via a series of claw, bite and sword attacks.
-"Impossible!", Mr.Purple shouted. "Abominations can't even tough it..."
-"Then I have to stop my former ally.", King Drake the XIV said, jumping off the broken window and drawing his katana at the same time...
Chapter3:
Spoiler for Hidden: Drake charged against his ex-comrade. As a response, McSod's lycanthropic form blocked his attack with his glass sword. The glass sword breaks and its pieces strike both McSod and Drake. Drake's armor prevents the glass pieces from hurting him while McSod's buffed form doesn't seems to care a lot. The damage inflicted by tiny glass pieces is indifferent compared to the beast's endurance. Ready to strike back, McSod launches both a bite and a claw attack against Drake, who blocks the bite by his own sword and got saved by the claws due to his Samurai armor. Suddenly, the beast grabs Drake's katana to his teeth, disarming the king and throwing his weapon far away; now he has to face McSod with bare hands... -"Run for your life, Drake, you're no match for this monster without your sword.", Mortimer shouted from the window, where he stood and watched the battle. -"I may have not my katana anymore, but I still have my spells.", Drake replied. With great speed, he shifts back a few feet way from McSod and draws a card from his beltpouch. That card was 'Reverse Time'. This could do it. Reverse Time puts a summoned creature back to its owner deck, but if used against a normal, non-summoned creature, like a normal human, then it may wash away the effects of time. It could remove the horrible mutation McSod had and turn him normal again, to move the time a few minutes back and everything would be over. Drake spelled a rhyme in order to empower his spell: "Mutation has infected a friend of mine
I will prevent this by reversing time!"Suddenly magic flowed from the card towards the beast, lifting it on the air and turning the card blank. -"I don't think this will work.", Mortimer said with a nastly smile which, unfortunately, the king didn't notice...
Chapter4:
Spoiler for Hidden: As McSod was lifted into the air and the Reverse Time effect took place, suddenly the spell broke and McSod remained there unchanged...
-"What?", Drake said after witnessing the complete failure of his spell.
-"I have warned you...", Mortimer whispered with an obvious satisfaction.
-"Nevermind, I have still some tricks under my sleeve." Drake said and he pulled out a chain with a Kama binded on each edge.
Drake the XIV just manage to block with his chain McSod's next double claw attack. Forced to move backwards, he perform a series of very fast attacks with his Kamas in order to keep the beast at bay. Then, he draws another card from his pouch and by looking at it, he know he has drew his triumph card; a Turtle Shield. He quickly summons it on his hand, but that distracted him, giving McSod the chance to break through his chain defence and land two serious hits against him. The first one landed on his neck, creating a great bleeding wound. Fortunately, the second strike landed on his Turtle Shield...
-"That's what I was waiting for", Drake smiled despite his serious injure.
He watched the lycan to be delayed for a while, being unable to react with any way. By using this advantage, Drake binds the creature with his chain and pin it to the ground through his Kamas. McSod's lycanthropic form was unable to escape and it trully seemed the nightmare has ended. However, something unpredictable happened. The sun's light was becoming fewer and fewer, untill it was completely covered by the moon. The awaited eclipse has started. Suddenly, McSod started growling heavily, his eyes became even more yellow and bright, his muscles became twice as large and in a tremendous rage he breaks the chains completely, leaving Drake speechless and Purple Mortimer amazed. However, the monstrous wolf didn't attacked the king, but he responded to the howls coming from the dark wastelands far away. As McSod ran and jumped off the laboratory's yard, King Drake the XIV searched for his katana, which was found next to a dead Abomination, slaughtered earlier by the werewolf, and rushed to the direction the beast was heading. However, his bleeding wound on his neck was deep, forcing him to end his chase and almost falling down uncounsious.
-"You can't chase him like this.", Mortimer replied as soon as he came outside. "You need to rest. Stay here for a day in order to heal and you continue your chase tomorrow".
Drake had no choice than to agree...
Chapter5:
Spoiler for Hidden: After spending the night in the laboratory's living quarters, Drake was ready to travel to the end of the world if had to in order to find his friend and turn him back to normal. Purple Mortimer treated Drake's wounds by forcing him to drink an awfully-tasted pink potion with an emblem upon it and to make him punching himself again and again! Oddly, the scientist's methods were successful and his neck wound closed at no time. -"I am sorry about what happened yesterday." Mortimer apologised. "If I was more careful with the experiment, then all this wouldn't have happened." -"You meant no harm, so it is fine, and we willingly participated in this.", Drake replied. "Actually, I am thankful for healing me and supporting my quest. By the way, you didn't tell me what was the main aim of your experinence yet." -"Does it really matter right now?", Mr.Purple said avoiding a straighforward answer. "The thing that really matters right now is to find McSod and turn him back to normal. He must be with his werewolves cousins in the endless wilderness right now, so make haste. Time is against us." -"No, time is not against us.", Drake disagreed. "Time is always with us, it is our greatest ally. But yes, I must make haste. Farewell, Mortimer!" -"Farewell, Drake.", Mortimer responded by trying to hide his evil smile while watching the samurai king flying away on his Silurian pet. -"You though Reverse Time would save McSod, didn't you? Have you ever though using RT back there was the greatest mistake of yours?", Mr.Purple said to himself while holding an entropy creature card with McSod's monstrous form drew upon. "According to the global laws of quanta and elements, a rewind effect may returns a non-summoned being at a previous state, but a summoned creature always returns to the owner's hand as a card. You fool, did you really think my experiment went wrong? MY experiment? I merged McSod with great amounts of ,  and quanta, turning him into a summoning super-creature with me as his owner! I even used that Eternity of yours into my experiment in order to give him partial immunity to rewind. You helped me gaining this card I couldn't have otherwise. Everything went according to my plan and by using my Amethyst Pillars, McSod's Time Pillar, Drake's Eternity and this magnificent new type of card, I can slowly but steadily summon an army of super werewolves, capable of threatening the whole world! Hahahahahahahahaha!!!" To be continued...???
*How is this card representing McSod ?:
Well, as long as I know McSod, he seems to love both pure stall and pure rush, so a card which can be used both as a simple hitter in early game and as a game-ending army in later game fits that aspect of McSod. Furthermore, his avatar is a Werewolf but his favourite element is Time, so an werewolf-like card that synergies with and was the best option. Please McSod, correct me if I am wrong. 
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