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8 months ago ::
Jun 23, 2009 - 10:22AM
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This thread is for discussion of this week's Savor the Flavor, which goes live Wednesday on magicthegathering.com.
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8 months ago ::
Jun 23, 2009 - 9:26PM
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I bet its Liliana.
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8 months ago ::
Jun 23, 2009 - 9:51PM
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The picture of the birthday card with Broodmate Dragon's flavor text on it really made my laugh. Because the birthday card I sent to a friend a few months ago happen to have a Broodmate Dragon card in it.
True story. And I don't send a lot of birthday cards, nor do I often put Magic cards in my birthday cards. Actually, that was the only time I send someone a Magic card as birthday gift.
Well, she plays Magic, likes Broodmate Dragon, and was trying to trade for them. And I wrote something much more appropriate for birthday than the flavor text on the card.
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8 months ago ::
Jun 23, 2009 - 9:57PM
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Here is a bit more explanation for the letter. If the number of universes in the multiverse is infinite, then the number of planeswalkers is infinite. It's a really odd thing about infinity. No matter how many times it is divided, it's still infinity or negative infinity if divided by a negative number. The only exception is when it is divided by zero, then the equation explodes.
I also suspect the younger planeswalker is Liliana. I suspect that because she is over a hundred years old, so we have a lot of history to hear about.
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8 months ago ::
Jun 24, 2009 - 12:35AM
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Its Chandra.
There's too much fire in that blanked picture for it to be anyone else.
Plus there's a planeswalker novel about Chandra coming out around the same time as M10.
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8 months ago ::
Jun 24, 2009 - 3:55AM
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It's like opening a booster pack and sorting the contents by flavor.
On occasion, my girlfriend and I have been known to buy a mixed box of miniature danish pastries for breakfast. When this happens it's not only like opening a booster pack, we actually draft the contents! And amusingly, after a month or two I realised my draft strategy for the "set" was actually wrong! (You don't necessarily first-pick your favourite, because the other person's pick order may differ.)
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8 months ago ::
Jun 24, 2009 - 6:04AM
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Yay, another Savor the Flavor article where I can read the first sentence and tell that I'm not going to need to bother reading the rest.
The question of the week, as always, continues to be the best part. I thought it was answered very well, but as always Doug's lack of storyline yore continues to work against him. Planeswalkers could historically sense the spark in other planeswalkers--whether that spark had been activated yet or not. As such, planeswalkers would often go out of their way to track down planeswalkers--sometimes to kill them before they can become potential threats (as seen in Planeswalker), sometimes to tutor them in the ways of magic (as seen in the Homelands comic).
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8 months ago ::
Jun 24, 2009 - 6:42AM
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Step 1: Of course a Griffin can be a Soldier. Changelings! (Doug, you're really going to hate changelings someday, if you haven't started already.)
Step 2: Never say never. Griffins with sentience could happen, and a society of griffins with sentience would likely have soldiers if it evolved enough. It would start with warriors, though.
Step 3: Possibly the best explanation of "story gravity" ever.
Step 4: The two artworks merged at the top of the article...can any art gurus tell me which cards were used to make that split-image?
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8 months ago ::
Jun 24, 2009 - 6:55AM
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- Jawsome UnCon Prizewinner
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Maybe this is me mixing up other fantasy worlds, but I always thought that Griffins were at least semi-sentient. Or at least they look smarter than people give them credit for.
The big problem with sentient Griffins is: how would they be different from Aven? They'd be a white, flying, clannish tribe, just like Aven. I guess it could happen in a set where R&D got tired of Aven, maybe?
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8 months ago ::
Jun 24, 2009 - 7:06AM
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I bet its Liliana.
Even at sketch stage, the art is bang-on, and the panels toward the end of Part 1 are even more heartbreaking than I dared to hope for. (I enjoy making bad things happen to good characters. Fiction is sadism.)[/quote]
Liliana isn't what you would call a "good character". So I guess it's between Garruk and Chandra, with the latter being the most probable.
That was a fun article. I like Doug's sense of humour and his internal dialogues.
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