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"Enmagicalment"?  FCOL, Beyer, the word you need is "ensorcelment".  Means exactly the same thing as "enchantment", but isn't a game term.  It sounds similar to the word "sorcery", but you can think of that as meaning that a sorcery was cast on the item or creature long before you summoned it, and has had a lingering effect akin to a +1/+1 counter or a Magical Hack , except not constrained by the game rules to end when the object is outside the battlefield.

I despise cards with no flavor text, but I can live with them in the core set if some people like them.  I regard those people as fools, but they have a right to their brand of fun.  I just avoid buying products designed to cater to them.

And Koth is a truly pathetic example of a design mishmash.  The team utterly squandered an opportunity to make a planeswalker who forges artifacts in his day-to-day life, and lives on a plane which is all artifacts all the time, have even one ability which interacts in any way with artifacts.  Koth should have been able to do the kinds of things that Dwarven Weaponsmith and Forge Armor and Dismantle do.

Jan 5, 2011 -- 1:00PM, jazzman20 wrote:

Re:  Darksteel

He was also a little "cavalier" in his approach to existing continuity.

I get that there are occasional reasons for a retcon.  "Couldn't be bothered to read" should not be one of them. 

You make it seem as if scrutinizing every STF article from the period and the entire Darksteel novel would take five minutes.  If he didn't know where to find the answer, he had every right to deem it a bad use of his time looking aimlessly through possible locations.  Which does reinforce that Wizards ought to have some sort of internal wiki or database or something containing all the officially established precedent, public or otherwise...but likely their budget hasn't allocated for the effort of creating such a thing.  Remember, lots of players are happy to buy cards by the hundreds while claiming that "Flavor Doesn't Matter" - until that changes, Creative will always be something of an afterthought to Wotco.  They can budget a ton of money for art because a picture is worth a thousand words (and in many cases doubles as an advertisement for Brand), but the writing isn't so important to them that they'd have a Continuity Manager the way they do at a place like DC Comics.

Jan 6, 2011 -- 1:17PM, jazzman20 wrote:

Jan 5, 2011 -- 4:51PM, willpell wrote:

You make it seem as if scrutinizing every STF article from the period and the entire Darksteel novel would take five minutes.  If he didn't know where to find the answer, he had every right to deem it a bad use of his time looking aimlessly through possible locations.  

If you had a question about the substance, Darksteel, and you knew that there was a Magic expansion called "Darksteel", and knew that this expansion had a novel published at the time of its release that was tied to the set, and you knew that this novel had the word, "Darksteel" in its title, and this novel had a picture of Darksteel Colossus on its cover, why would this novel not be the first place you looked for the answer?

But does Beyer have time to carefully read every page of that book until he finds the reference?