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3 years ago ::
Oct 29, 2010 - 12:36AM
#161
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- Aww it's a cute OH MY GOD
- the bear goes RAWR!
Date Joined:
Jul 28, 2003
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Yes, this arcana spotlights the issue of necrotic ooze  's questionable watermark. That watermark looks especially awkward in proximity with phyrexian ideology courtesy of Geth in the flavor text.
I also think mimic vat  has the wrong watermark. Minions from vats is about as phyrexian as it gets.
10. <+LaurieChe> Necrotic Ooze has a Mirran watermark, but its art is used to represent Phyrexia all over the website. What's going on there? Is the watermark a mistake?
<@MikeTurian> How very strange!
<@MikeTurian> Certainly not a mistake, the card was marked as Mirran intentionally
<@Maro> Design laid out some guidlelines for what was Phyrexian and what was not.
<@Maro> Remember that we allocated only 20% for the Phyrexian cards.
<@Maro> If the card didn't do one of the things we laid out, then it was Mirran.
<@MikeTurian> One of the challenges of artwork for Black Cards is it will always look extra dark and brooding
<@MikeTurian> Another card, Mimic Vat was clearly Mirran
<@MikeTurian> as it has Imprint, but the art does look dark and creepy
<@Maro> Remember, by the way, that Mirrodin did have some creepy stuff.
<@MikeTurian> Also, we did want to show some amount of Phyrexian infecting Mirrodin
<@MikeTurian> and that is how come we did a card like Tel-Jilad Fallen
<@MikeTurian> which draws from the Tel-Jilad of Mirrodin while being a Phyrexian card
<@Maro> In a perfect world, that art would not have shown up representing Phyrexia.
<+LaurieChe> so in summary: website editors don't read watermarks? Thanks.
<@MikeTurian> Well when they deal with a card, it isn't in card form
(from SOM chat transcript)
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3 years ago ::
Oct 29, 2010 - 11:36AM
#162
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Date Joined:
Jun 14, 2010
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You guys know the Rule of Thirds, right? This zoomed-in wallpaper is much less interesting than the full card's art. I'm pretty disappointed, since the whole picture is amazing.
Yeah, please post the real full version! It looks sooooo much better. I've been waiting for this wallpaper ever since it was teased on the product pages. Best art of the set in my opinion. But it definitly looks off balance all zoomed in and you lose most of the awesome majesty. I know you probably can't re-crop and composite new wallpapers, Monty, but could you send it up the pipeline that we like the full frame art way better? Thanks.
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3 years ago ::
Oct 31, 2010 - 9:52PM
#163
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Date Joined:
Feb 26, 2004
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I finally got around to watching the Mirrodin and Phyrexia videos. The Mirrodin one was rather nice and inspiring, but the Phyrexian was just epic; whoever came up with that monster voice gets the gold star. I really wish the videos were perma-downloadable so I could save a copy of each. The Phyrexia video also appeared to show some art that we haven't seen, like the tall guys with the kite-shaped heads; I'm excited to find out what they were all about. Sadly I didn't see any such possible-Beseiged-teasers in the Mirrodin one, perhaps because they had four times as many cards in SOM to draw from and thus felt no need to go beyond that, further reinforcing the impression that Phyrexia has the "sexy" one. EDIT - I watched the Mirrodin video once more and determined that it does have a couple pieces of art in it that we haven't seen before, but I still think it's shorter and a bit more bland than it should have been. In particular I would have liked to see Vulshok Heartstoker  in there, as he's one of the sorts of people who ought to be making a speech on this topic. Meanwhile, I watched the Phyrexian video twice more, and am not tired of it yet. Dear God, please someone make sure to archive that thing.
My New Phyrexia Writing CreditsMy M12 Writing CreditsAs far as the benefit of the rest of Magic is concerned, gold cards in Legends were executed perfectly. They got all the excitement a designer could hope out of a splashy new mechanic without using up any of the valuable design space. Truly amazing.
--Aaron Forsythe's Random Card Comment on Kei Takahashi 
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3 years ago ::
Nov 04, 2010 - 8:27AM
#164
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Date Joined:
Sep 16, 2003
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What a horrible idea. But that doesn't surprise me anymore..
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