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3 years ago ::
Oct 29, 2010 - 11:47AM
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This thread is for discussion of magicthegathering.com's Magic Arcana, Card of the Day, and Daily Decks features for the month of November, 2010.
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3 years ago ::
Oct 31, 2010 - 9:40PM
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Date Joined:
Feb 26, 2004
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Did anyone else read "famous, original Masticore" and think of Famous Original Ray's Barbecue? I must be hungrier than I thought.
Also I still say all three Masticores ought to be Artifact Creature - Manticore.
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 ::
Oct 31, 2010 - 10:58PM
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Date Joined:
Nov 18, 2003
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If you're giving us a history of Masticores, why not briefly explain what "Masticore" means?
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3 years ago ::
Oct 31, 2010 - 11:02PM
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Date Joined:
Aug 31, 2008
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maybe he was the toronta champ because he got two mythics, good ones as well. seems like mythics seem to unbalance things
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3 years ago ::
Oct 31, 2010 - 11:48PM
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Date Joined:
Sep 20, 2010
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I would have hoped to learn a bit more about these, actually. Especially if it was Parente's idea to give his creature the signature three mouths. It's such a novel and crazy idea; completely out there - and yet so frightening and cool.
It's a bit sad to see how the creature has evolved on these pics, actually, because that multiple mouth-thing has been downplayed in later versions. In Jim Murray's version, the two lower mouths are merely loose, hanging add-ons to his lower jaw, and Whit Brachna completely misses the point and positions some of the mouths inside the outer mouth, just like in the creatures from Alien; something we've seen hundreds of times since then. Blah. Apart from that, it's a beautiful pic, of course.
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3 years ago ::
Nov 01, 2010 - 3:53AM
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Date Joined:
Mar 16, 2004
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If you're giving us a history of Masticores, why not briefly explain what "Masticore" means?
It's from "Mast-", Latin for "chew", + Manticore.
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3 years ago ::
Nov 01, 2010 - 7:12AM
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Date Joined:
Mar 25, 2008
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I was hoping to see the infamous Deep Analysis image, too. "The specimen appears to be broken," indeed!
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3 years ago ::
Nov 03, 2010 - 12:51AM
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Date Joined:
Apr 17, 2010
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Final Revels  portrays kithkin? The figure on the right looks pretty nasty for a kithkin... the claws and fangs say it's a pale boggart...
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3 years ago ::
Nov 03, 2010 - 4:02AM
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I always assumed that the Boggart was dieing in the picture. It seemed to be choking or something. I never noticed the skull.
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3 years ago ::
Nov 03, 2010 - 5:54AM
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Yeah, that's definitely a boggart in the foreground, although the background figure does appear to be a kithkin. It must really be some high to get boggarts and kithkin to celebrate together. Oddly, the skull looks like it belongs to a boggart, while the fragement of armor the rib cage is partially clad in looks as if it were kithkin craft. Perhaps this "celebration" has taken place here before.
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