While magic is a whole nother world I am sure there are fat people there and they should be represented on cards as well. Not just ugly black spells either.
I didn't notice her figure when I looked at this article yesterday, mainly because I just glanced over it since I never go to these events so I'm not likely to pick one up. But looking at it now I see a problem. First, she's not "fat" . Our society today has a painfully skewed perception of body image. If Marilyn Monroe were around today, she would be called "fat".
The problem with this art is, as some have noted, that it's out of proportion. In fact, if I had to describe it "scientifically", she looks pregnant. Like just starting to show and if she were a teenage girl, she could get away with hiding it under a loose sweatshirt.
But the arms and legs and everything else do not look "fat".
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"...but the time has come when lands just need to be better. Creatures have gotten stronger, spells have always been insane, and lands just sat in this awkward place of necessity." Jacob Van Lunen on the refuge duals, 16 Sep 2009.
to all you retards calling the illustration "disproportionate" or "fat"... go look at some cheesy porno or tv show if you want to see that type of body. Here in the land of people who are in touch with reality, there's such a thing as a healthy, filled-in, attractive girl, who doesn't have the exact body measurements to be considered worthy of sports illustrated.
As for the people criticising the artist for making her have different proportions than an average human being... THINK ABOUT IT FOR A SECOND - This is an illustration, it is in a fantasy card game, and the person depicted is obviously an ELF.... WHAT RULES OF BODY PROPORTIONS ARE YOU FOLLOWING?
Finally, did anyone else notice that she is lying in an extremely seductive pose, and the fact that she's stroking an assortment of prophylactic-shaped objects? This is the dirtiest magic art since ponder! Go Volkan!
to all you retards calling the illustration "disproportionate" or "fat"... go look at some cheesy porno or tv show if you want to see that type of body. Here in the land of people who are in touch with reality, there's such a thing as a healthy, filled-in, attractive girl, who doesn't have the exact body measurements to be considered worthy of sports illustrated.
As for the people criticising the artist for making her have different proportions than an average human being... THINK ABOUT IT FOR A SECOND - This is an illustration, it is in a fantasy card game, and the person depicted is obviously an ELF.... WHAT RULES OF BODY PROPORTIONS ARE YOU FOLLOWING?
Finally, did anyone else notice that she is lying in an extremely seductive pose, and the fact that she's stroking an assortment of prophylactic-shaped objects? This is the dirtiest magic art since ponder! Go Volkan!
I don't know about everybody else, but I'm talking about the angel, and WOTC has always based on angels on basic human proportions. And this rendering is out of proportion, period.
Proud member of C.A.R.D. - Campaign Against Rare Duals
"...but the time has come when lands just need to be better. Creatures have gotten stronger, spells have always been insane, and lands just sat in this awkward place of necessity." Jacob Van Lunen on the refuge duals, 16 Sep 2009.
Methinks TToA is looking at the slightly overly-rounded waist of the elf on Realms Uncharted , assuming everyone else is also, then overreacting - instead of realizing the correct context of the thread is an angel with thunder-thighs.
Maybe that's where the musculature needed to operate six wings is kept.
to all you retards calling the illustration "disproportionate" or "fat"... go look at some cheesy porno or tv show if you want to see that type of body. Here in the land of people who are in touch with reality, there's such a thing as a healthy, filled-in, attractive girl, who doesn't have the exact body measurements to be considered worthy of sports illustrated.
As for the people criticising the artist for making her have different proportions than an average human being... THINK ABOUT IT FOR A SECOND - This is an illustration, it is in a fantasy card game, and the person depicted is obviously an ELF.... WHAT RULES OF BODY PROPORTIONS ARE YOU FOLLOWING?
Finally, did anyone else notice that she is lying in an extremely seductive pose, and the fact that she's stroking an assortment of prophylactic-shaped objects? This is the dirtiest magic art since ponder! Go Volkan!
I suggest you to read posts and think a bit before spitting all this aggressivity on people.
Yeah. I'm unsure as to why that was even selected. It's not even all that cool in the first place, much less so when we have to see her whole body.
Yes. It's an ugly art. Not because it looks fat nor anything, it's just a very, very ugly angel. It's one of these cards that I would be happy to forget forever just because of the art.
For linking a card to Gatherer without writting the name of said card for readers, use the autocard brackets together with and equal sign and right the name of the real card. Then put the message you want inside the tags, like you would do with autocarding. Like this:
I like storm crow because I really like crows in real life, as an animal, and the card isn't terribly stupid, but packs a good deal of nostalgia and also a chunck of the game's history. So it's perhaps one of the cards I have most affection to, but not because "lol storm crow is bad hurr hurr durr".
Although I do assume you deliberately refer to them (DCI) as The Grand Imperial Convocation of Evil just for the purposes of making them sound like an ancient and terrible conspiracy.
Now, now. 1994 doesn't quite qualify as "ancient".
Oh, it's a brilliant plan. You see, Bolas was travelling through shadowmoor, causing trouble, when he saw a Wickerbough Elder with its stylin' dead scarecrow hat. Now, Bolas being Bolas took the awesome hat and he put it on his head, but even with all his titanic powers of magic he couldn't make it fit. He grabbed some more scarecrows, but then a little kithkin girl asked if he was trying to build a toupee. "BY ALL THE POWERS IN THE MULTIVERSE!" he roared, "I WILL HAVE A HAT WORTHY OF MY GLORY." and so he went through his Dark Lore of Doom (tm) looking for something he could make into a hat that would look as stylish on him as a scarecrow does on a treefolk. He thought about the Phyrexians, but they were covered in goopy oil that would make his nonexistant hair greasy. He Tried out angels for a while but they didn't sit quite right. Then, he looked under "e" (because in the Elder Draconic alphabet, "e" for Eldrazi is right next to "h" for Hat) in his Dark Lore of Doom and saw depictions of the Eldrazi, and all their forms. "THIS SHALL BE MY HAT!" he declared, poking a picture of Emrakul, "AND WITH IT I WILL USHER IN A NEW AGE OF DARKNESS -- ER, I MEAN A NEW AGE OF FASHION!"
And so Nicol Bolas masterminded the release of the Eldrazi.
The last couple days have been roughly every perverse fetish imaginable, but it only got "creepy" when speculation on Mother of Runes's mob affiliation came up?
I like to think up what I consider clever names for my decks, only later to be laughed at by my wife. It kills me a little on the inside, but thats what marriage is about.
Of course, the best use [of tolaria west ] is transmuting for the real Tolaria.
Absolutely. I used to loose to my buddy's Banding deck for ages, it was then that I found out about Tolaria , and I was finally able win my first game.
Browbeat is a card that is an appropriate deck choice when there's no better idea available. "No better idea available" was pretty much the running theme of Odyssey era.
Modern is like playing a new tournament every time : you build a deck, you win with it, don't bother keeping it. Just build another, its key pieces will get banned.
I always find it helpful when im angry to dress up in an owl costume and rub pennies all over my body in front of a full body mirror next to the window.
Dymecoar:
Playing Magic without Blue is like sleeping without any sheets or blankets. You can do it...but why?
Omega137:
Me: "I love the moment when a control deck stabilizes. It feels so... right." Omega137: "I like the life drop part until you get there, it's the MtG variant of bungee jumping"
Zigeif777:
Just do it like Yu-Gi-Oh or monkeys: throw all the crap you got at them and hope it works or else the by-standers (or opponents) just get dirty and pissed.
Normally it's difficult to pick up on your jokes/sarcasm. But this one's pretty much out there. Good progress. You have moved up to Humanoid. You'll be Human in no time.
I think there are a number of problems with the artwork that makes her look "fat".
1. the scarf/cloth around her neck 2. the fact that a lot of her body is in shadow makes it hard to see the outlines 3. the tattered robes/cape hanging down behind her makes her sillouette much wider than she really is 4. she is being lit from above but we are seeing her from below
Im sure that if you cut away all the cloth and brightened it up, she would look "normal". Rather than looking like a podgy winged octopus.
If they spelled the ability out on the card in full then it would not be allowed in a mono-black Commander deck, but because they used a keyword to save space it is allowed?
You want to make a milky drink. You squeeze a cow.
I love this description. Like the cows are sponges filled with milk. I can see it all Nick Parks claymation-style with the cow's eyes bugging out momentarily as a giant farmer squeezes it like a squeaky dog toy, and milk shoots out of it.
I think there are a number of problems with the artwork that makes her look "fat".
1. the scarf/cloth around her neck 2. the fact that a lot of her body is in shadow makes it hard to see the outlines 3. the tattered robes/cape hanging down behind her makes her sillouette much wider than she really is 4. she is being lit from above but we are seeing her from below
Im sure that if you cut away all the cloth and brightened it up, she would look "normal". Rather than looking like a podgy winged octopus.
For linking a card to Gatherer without writting the name of said card for readers, use the autocard brackets together with and equal sign and right the name of the real card. Then put the message you want inside the tags, like you would do with autocarding. Like this:
I like storm crow because I really like crows in real life, as an animal, and the card isn't terribly stupid, but packs a good deal of nostalgia and also a chunck of the game's history. So it's perhaps one of the cards I have most affection to, but not because "lol storm crow is bad hurr hurr durr".
Although I do assume you deliberately refer to them (DCI) as The Grand Imperial Convocation of Evil just for the purposes of making them sound like an ancient and terrible conspiracy.
Now, now. 1994 doesn't quite qualify as "ancient".
Oh, it's a brilliant plan. You see, Bolas was travelling through shadowmoor, causing trouble, when he saw a Wickerbough Elder with its stylin' dead scarecrow hat. Now, Bolas being Bolas took the awesome hat and he put it on his head, but even with all his titanic powers of magic he couldn't make it fit. He grabbed some more scarecrows, but then a little kithkin girl asked if he was trying to build a toupee. "BY ALL THE POWERS IN THE MULTIVERSE!" he roared, "I WILL HAVE A HAT WORTHY OF MY GLORY." and so he went through his Dark Lore of Doom (tm) looking for something he could make into a hat that would look as stylish on him as a scarecrow does on a treefolk. He thought about the Phyrexians, but they were covered in goopy oil that would make his nonexistant hair greasy. He Tried out angels for a while but they didn't sit quite right. Then, he looked under "e" (because in the Elder Draconic alphabet, "e" for Eldrazi is right next to "h" for Hat) in his Dark Lore of Doom and saw depictions of the Eldrazi, and all their forms. "THIS SHALL BE MY HAT!" he declared, poking a picture of Emrakul, "AND WITH IT I WILL USHER IN A NEW AGE OF DARKNESS -- ER, I MEAN A NEW AGE OF FASHION!"
And so Nicol Bolas masterminded the release of the Eldrazi.
The last couple days have been roughly every perverse fetish imaginable, but it only got "creepy" when speculation on Mother of Runes's mob affiliation came up?
I like to think up what I consider clever names for my decks, only later to be laughed at by my wife. It kills me a little on the inside, but thats what marriage is about.
Of course, the best use [of tolaria west ] is transmuting for the real Tolaria.
Absolutely. I used to loose to my buddy's Banding deck for ages, it was then that I found out about Tolaria , and I was finally able win my first game.
Browbeat is a card that is an appropriate deck choice when there's no better idea available. "No better idea available" was pretty much the running theme of Odyssey era.
Modern is like playing a new tournament every time : you build a deck, you win with it, don't bother keeping it. Just build another, its key pieces will get banned.
I always find it helpful when im angry to dress up in an owl costume and rub pennies all over my body in front of a full body mirror next to the window.
Dymecoar:
Playing Magic without Blue is like sleeping without any sheets or blankets. You can do it...but why?
Omega137:
Me: "I love the moment when a control deck stabilizes. It feels so... right." Omega137: "I like the life drop part until you get there, it's the MtG variant of bungee jumping"
Zigeif777:
Just do it like Yu-Gi-Oh or monkeys: throw all the crap you got at them and hope it works or else the by-standers (or opponents) just get dirty and pissed.
Normally it's difficult to pick up on your jokes/sarcasm. But this one's pretty much out there. Good progress. You have moved up to Humanoid. You'll be Human in no time.
