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2 years ago ::
Jan 25, 2011 - 5:48PM
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This thread is for discussion of this week's Savor the Flavor, which goes live Wednesday on magicthegathering.com.
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2 years ago ::
Jan 25, 2011 - 9:09PM
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 Obviously, part of Mirran's problem is the 85-pound Spice Girls leading the army.
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2 years ago ::
Jan 25, 2011 - 9:11PM
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I'm expecting a cycle of Praetors in the next set - seems pretty obvious.
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2 years ago ::
Jan 26, 2011 - 1:51AM
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I don't know, they don't always make legend cards for minor story characters like that.
That said, I think going by flavor texts we can identify who these praetors are. It looks like:
White - Elesh Norn, Grand Cenobite
Blue - Jin-Gitaxias, Core Augur
Black - Sheoldred, Whispering One
Red - Urabrask the Hidden
Green - Vorinclex, Voice of Hunger
The four non-red ones are fairly obvious; I'm guessing Urabrask for red because he's one of only two Phyrexians to be quoted on red cards (seeing as there only are two red Phyrexian cards), and he is quoted on multiple cards (including one in SOM), while Kethek isn't.
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2 years ago ::
Jan 26, 2011 - 5:32AM
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Obviously, part of Mirran's problem is the 85-pound Spice Girls leading the army.
Agreed. They keep using this art, and it's frankly pretty terrible. Somehow the bizarre proportions of this version also made it into the prerelease card art as well.
Wizards - there are so many better pieces of art in this set to use over and over again; was this the best Mirran one you could find?
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2 years ago ::
Jan 26, 2011 - 5:38AM
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Agreed. They keep using this art, and it's frankly pretty terrible. Somehow the bizarre proportions of this version also made it into the prerelease card art as well.
Wizards - there are so many better pieces of art in this set to use over and over again; was this the best Mirran one you could find?
It doesn't help that her hair looks like a palm frond.
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2 years ago ::
Jan 26, 2011 - 7:32AM
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Wizards - there are so many better pieces of art in this set to use over and over again; was this the best Mirran one you could find?
I feel somewhat disappointed that the Magic staff seem to have a fairly pro-Phyrexian stance, judging from the articles over the course of the preview weeks. (Most of them seem to have come out in favor of Phyrexia...)
As much as I can understand the whole "evil is cool" appeal, it does seem to make a Phyrexian victory look like a foregone conclusion. Even the factionalization of Phyrexia as explained in the article seems to be leading towards how the final set can incorporate battles between the different colors within Phyrexia. I suppose it's possible that a Mirran victory could lead to Mirrodin factionalizing again and fighting over the remnants of the Phyrexian technology (thus keeping Phyrexian abilities in the game), but it still seems less likely than a Phyrexian victory.
A bit disappointing to know the end of the story by the middle of the book, especially when they're still trying to hype it up! XD
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2 years ago ::
Jan 26, 2011 - 7:35AM
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The feeling I get from Phyrexia Vs. The Mirrans is that we have the Phyrexians, because they are really awesome villains, and we have the Mirrans, because the Phyrexians need something to fight. I'm not really feeling the war at this moment, and with the prerelease in a couple of days, I should be feeling it.
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oh my god, AWESOME!
Then changing the Slivers was your idea! haha
lol
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2 years ago ::
Jan 26, 2011 - 8:04AM
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The feeling I get from Phyrexia Vs. The Mirrans is that we have the Phyrexians, because they are really awesome villains overused and mostly just a Borg ripoff mixed with steampunk for some reason...
Fixed, for the sad truth.
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2 years ago ::
Jan 26, 2011 - 8:37AM
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The feeling I get from Phyrexia Vs. The Mirrans is that we have the Phyrexians, because they are really awesome villains overused and mostly just a Borg ripoff mixed with steampunk for some reason...
Fixed, for the sad truth.
Calling an enemy in any genre piece a "Borg ripoff" is tantamount to calling a first person shooter a "DOOM clone" (or more accurately a "Wolfenstein clone"). There are a litany of villains in that mold both long before the Borg and quite frequently since. You don't knock every zombie movie ever made for ripping off Romero, do you?
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