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Mar 4, 2010 -- 3:00AM, Amarsir wrote:

Mar 3, 2010 -- 9:34PM, DragonMudd wrote:

I don't want to pick on Flores as he gets enough of that and I've especially appreciated his articles recently, but he said something that a lot of people say and it bugs me:

Maybe not all by itself ... but the ability to go to 22 gives you essentially a Time Walk against a Thepths opponent.

The correct thing to say is it buys you a turn.  It is not a Time Walk.

Then you would seriously take issue with one of the greatest articles of all time.

it's wise to be the first person to say "let's think about time walks instead of ancestral recalls," but it's not as wise to call something a time walk because you've heard the phrase from someone else who heard it from someone else, but you don't really understand the fundamental differences between an actual time walk and the advantages of tempo. i can understand appreciating the initial philosophy, but objecting to the repeated use of the phrase by people who don't understand that something being similar to a time walk isn't the same thing as being a time walk, just as most people would object to someone calling bloodbraid elf "an ancestral recall," but wouldn't object to using ancestral recall as a metaphor for card advantage (exactly as that article does). flores surely understands the difference, but has a tendency to hurl exaggerated metaphors about with abandon, which can be irritating to those who value precision.