I expected blue to come this week. But still, this was amazing. if they printed these articles ina book, like they did with Zendikar's PW's guide, I'd buy this for sure.
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.
Disappointed about this part: "Vraan or his compleated Moriok spirit-talkers use soul siphons to suck the souls of the victims out of their heads and place them into vessels—victims strapped down for the purpose of being possessed, then tortured for information."
Me too. It feels weird that Phyrexians care about intangible things such as souls. Although it gets mixed up when there are vampire Phyrexians and Demon Phyrexians.
But asides that, this is awesome. I can't believe there are so many factions fleshed out even within just one color.
Goblin Artisans - A Magic Design Blog by GDS2 Contestants and Collaborators
The black section of the styleguide was my favorite, and now you all know why. I don't know about all the choices they made in designing the Thanes and their objectives (I would probably have made Geth more generic since he already had an established identity from Mirrodin and Scars, and given the binding-contracts shtick to one of the others to make them more distinctive; I also find Vraan's characterization rather un-vampiric but then I'm a VTM player so I'm biased). But regardless of that, they've made the black faction revolve entirely around individuality - they may be evil individuals, but Damnation , they've got style. I love this so very much.
I'm a huge fan of that Nim art by the way. I love the card it's attached to, but my preferences are complex enough that this shouldn't really tell you anything about what it actually does. Still, it gave me a warm fuzzy for one of the many reasons something might.
As 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
Disappointed about this part: "Vraan or his compleated Moriok spirit-talkers use soul siphons to suck the souls of the victims out of their heads and place them into vessels—victims strapped down for the purpose of being possessed, then tortured for information."
I suspect that this styleguide was written at least partially when they thought they were doing an entire block of NP. It's tragic to realize they probably won't come back to this world and make cards for those Thanes, but I suspect that if they do another Phyrexia block they'll probably set it on some other world to emphasize that Phyrexia is a threat to the entire Multiverse. It's a shame, though. I definitely agree with the Ravnica-esque point; the block might have been epic, but I don't have any complaints about what we got in its place.
No part about the mirran resistance though, so I guess not a single mirran-aligned black card? Makes sense as it had the most Phyrexian cards in Scars of Mirrodin and is the original Phyrexian color, but I would've liked 1 (or 2) mirran black cards just as Besieged had 2 Phyrexian red cards.
Besieged had 2 Mirran black cards (both pertaining to vampires, so if there are any non-phyrexians left in Black that's probably who they would be; the guide flat-out says the Moriok are all turned now).
As 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
Black espouses the "virtues" of old Phyrexian, plenty of backstabbing action. However this particular system seems flawed for a race in pursuit of perfection especially when all five factions are more or less in conflict with each other. Having internal conflicts is a recipe for disaster.
Black espouses the "virtues" of old Phyrexian, plenty of backstabbing action. However this particular system seems flawed for a race in pursuit of perfection especially when all five factions are more or less in conflict with each other. Having internal conflicts is a recipe for disaster.
