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2 years ago ::
Apr 29, 2008 - 2:10PM
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This thread is for discussion of this week's Taste the Magic, which goes live Wednesday morning on magicthegathering.com.
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2 years ago ::
Apr 29, 2008 - 10:48PM
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I'm not usually one to rag on columns, but... "We represent the flavor of multicolor cards as a combination of values from the two different colors. Because we've almost always only dealt with gold multicolor in the past, we didn't try very hard to distinguish between cards which had distinct and different influences from each of their colors, like Dimir Cutpurse , and cards where the two colors' philosophies naturally converged, like Scab-Clan Mauler . With Shadowmoor's hybrids, we've tried to make sure that the flavor feels like the natural shared territory between the two colors, so that they're at home in either color's flavor and don't need to have both." There. Isn't that just about the entire content of this piece, except much more concise and without the song and dance or unnecessary charts?
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2 years ago ::
Apr 29, 2008 - 11:39PM
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I'm not usually one to rag on columns, but...
"We represent the flavor of multicolor cards as a combination of values from the two different colors. Because we've almost always only dealt with gold multicolor in the past, we didn't try very hard to distinguish between cards which had distinct and different influences from each of their colors, like Dimir Cutpurse, and cards where the two colors' philosophies naturally converged, like Scab-Clan Mauler. With Shadowmoor's hybrids, we've tried to make sure that the flavor feels like the natural shared territory between the two colors, so that they're at home in either color's flavor and don't need to have both."
There. Isn't that just about the entire content of this piece, except much more concise and without the song and dance or unnecessary charts?
That was kinda how I felt. It was cute, but the opening paragraphs left me expecting more.
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2 years ago ::
Apr 30, 2008 - 2:54AM
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Wayne Reynolds reillustrated the hovel as a gloomier location—ironically with less green growth to match the Shadowmoor look and feel, despite the land now producing green instead of black!
I found it interesting that in two of the other lands (Sunken Ruins and Wooded Bastion ,) the art is predominantly the color that the land itself shifted away from.
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2 years ago ::
Apr 30, 2008 - 2:59AM
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I don't think the article lives up to the opening paragraphs, indeed. But I did find the dialogue rather funny. It might have been rather light in content, but it was fun.
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2 years ago ::
Apr 30, 2008 - 4:12AM
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PAINSCAR
I just proved beyong any doubt that your wording was wrong yet you insist to keep your flawed wording? You are by far the most horrible designer on this forum. Even Bankai would admit he's wrong when faced with such beyond-doubt proof. And that's saying something. You will have cards in your set. That are worded wrong. And you know they're worded wrong. Just because you won't admit you were wrong even though you and everyone else know you are wrong. Wow, just wow. Unbelievable.
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2 years ago ::
Apr 30, 2008 - 5:30AM
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Oddly, I had similar low-content complaints about an article Maro wrote a while back, but I wasn't bothered by this article at all. (High praise, I know.) Maybe this article was just the right length, plus it ended with an off-topic art feature to spice it up. This post is still kind of negative, so let it be known that I enjoyed this article. 
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2 years ago ::
Apr 30, 2008 - 5:31AM
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Boggarts were black-red in Lorwyn, and now they're red-green. Wayne Reynolds reillustrated the hovel as a gloomier location—ironically with less green growth to match the Shadowmoor look and feel, despite the land now producing green instead of black!
Wait, what?
The artist credit on Fire-Lit Thicket is Ralph Horsley, not Wayne Reynolds. Is RH a pen-name of WR, was Doug wrong, or did the template team get the artist credit mixed up?
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2 years ago ::
Apr 30, 2008 - 7:05AM
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one neat thing on mystic gate is the smoke coming out of the buildings (not viewable) behind the wall - it's in the same pattern as in Rustic Clachan Wait, what?
The artist credit on Fire-Lit Thicket is Ralph Horsley, not Wayne Reynolds. Is RH a pen-name of WR, was Doug wrong, or did the template team get the artist credit mixed up?
my guess is that it was a mistake.
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2 years ago ::
Apr 30, 2008 - 7:41AM
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I'm not seeing the connection between the arts of Rustic Clachan and Mystic Gate, other than that they're both Kithkin towns. I also agree that the article was pretty content-light.
That said, the interview segment was hilarious.
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