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2 years ago ::
Jun 06, 2011 - 12:32PM
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Date Joined:
Jun 16, 2008
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Flavor Fail: BatterskullI assume most of you have read this already, but to those who haven't.....thoughts?
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2 years ago ::
Jun 06, 2011 - 1:23PM
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Date Joined:
Mar 22, 2011
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The card would make perfect sense if you changed the art and name to something that wasn't a battering ram. I don't know exactly what, because it's a weird combination of abilities, but I think they could have come up with something more convincing than a battering ram.
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2 years ago ::
Jun 06, 2011 - 2:32PM
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Date Joined:
Dec 12, 2008
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Eh. They dropped the ball on this flavor. It's happened before, it'll happen again. Creative isn't perfect.* The only thing that makes this particularly notable is the fact that it's a Mythic, which are supposed to be, you know, flashy and awesome or whatever. So, it's somewhat unfortunate that something so high-profile falls so flat.
I think the Living Weapon cards, on the whole, are interesting and innovative enough that they make up for this one.
*I mean, I know this is a huge revelation to everyone here, but I felt it had to be said.
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2 years ago ::
Jun 06, 2011 - 2:49PM
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Date Joined:
Mar 22, 2011
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*I mean, I know this is a huge revelation to everyone here, but I felt it had to be said.
WHAT? THE MAGIC CREATIVE TEAM IS NOT INFALLIBLE? WHAT ARE YOU SAYING?! HOW CAN THIS BE?! MY MIND! AAAUUUGGGHHhhhhkkkgg...
Well butter my biscuit. I done gone mad from the revelation.
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2 years ago ::
Jun 06, 2011 - 2:55PM
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Date Joined:
Jul 11, 2010
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Lawls w00t! It's clobbering time, but not your normal clobbering from a battering ram! It's a giant centipede/millipede hybrid being controlled by a germ token, or whatever phyrexian minion takes the wheel! This thing has the power and toughness you need to storm ahead and knock things senseless! It's a living weapon, and what is better than having one head? Two heads! Yes, that's right boys and girls, this thing has a pilot and co-pilot, and two heads are better than one! Vigilant even! What's this? Lifelink? A Phyrexian creature that bashes you in the gonads so hard your lifeforce gets sucked out of you like a straw? Yes! This Batterskull  is hungry for your blood! Knocks you senseless and steals your life much like a mugger steals candy from a baby. This thing is so loaded with mutlifunctionality! If the sexipede gets in trouble, it can burrow into the ground and go back home to Phyrexia's Core  ! On sale now! Get it at a real steal! $129.99 $79.99! Call 1-800-LOL-NOOB now, and you'll get a free can of flavor!
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2 years ago ::
Jun 06, 2011 - 3:34PM
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Date Joined:
Dec 12, 2008
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*I mean, I know this is a huge revelation to everyone here, but I felt it had to be said.
WHAT? THE MAGIC CREATIVE TEAM IS NOT INFALLIBLE? WHAT ARE YOU SAYING?! HOW CAN THIS BE?! MY MIND! AAAUUUGGGHHhhhhkkkgg...
Well butter my biscuit. I done gone mad from the revelation.
Now you know how I feel ALL THE TIME.
So, I think it's pretty obvious that "battering ram" doesn't make a whole lot of sense conceptually for this creature. But rather than just rant about the fact that this, you know, doesn't make a whole lot of sense...
What concept for this 1. Fits the abilities presented while 2. keeping with the Living Weapon theme of having actual skittering body parts grafted onto your creatures? (Which, incidentally, was another thing I was disappointed with... the others had such a creepy body part aesthetic that this one kind of dropped.)
Oh, and for added challenge, make it feel Mythic.
Right now I'm leaning towards something like a fullskeletal system transplant... that seems like a properly horrific conclusion to the development of the Living Weapons from minor body parts all the way up to near-human organisms that can simply be shrugged into like some warm, meaty armor. I'm not sure what to call it, though, and both the Lifelink and the bounce ability don't quite feel right.
I mean, they fit better than a @(#*$ battering ram, but I'm not quite satisfied.
It might work if we could clearly show the suit regenerating the germ token after being taken off...
Or perhaps the suit forcibly adhering to a Mirran?
...Now I'm creeping myself out.
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2 years ago ::
Jun 06, 2011 - 3:46PM
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- Unconventional Mafia Pro
- The Big Card Project Director
- Any way you slice it...
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I was thinking something along the lines of Angelhusk, with the art showing armor sort of made of various parts of an angel with wings replaced by metal legs. The abilities Batterskull grants are like those of a flightless angel, so to my mind it makes sense as something that's built out of one.
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2 years ago ::
Jun 06, 2011 - 4:00PM
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Kind of an Elesh Norn-esque take on Copper Carapace  right?
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2 years ago ::
Jun 06, 2011 - 4:08PM
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Date Joined:
Mar 22, 2011
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I was thinking of some kind of huge, horrible, mecha-slime thing. The lifelink gets represented by a bunch of syringe-like tentacles, the power/toughness boost comes from the sheer mass of the thing, vigilance from its multiple eyes and/or sensors, and its retreating ability from its amorphous, flowing construction. It takes on a new equip-target by enveloping the creature that wants to make use of it, and the user controls the thing from its center.
But I like the angel idea, too. It fits the perversion-of-religion theme of the white Phyrexians.
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2 years ago ::
Jun 06, 2011 - 7:25PM
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Date Joined:
Aug 29, 2008
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In my Fanon New Phyrexia, Batterskull is the recycled product of the corpse of Azag-Axog, Demon Thane, after he fell in battle when Urabrask unleashed Kuldotha, Ultimate Living Weapon against him. I shall assume Azag-Axog was huge in size, so Urabrask pretty much had to carve his new Living Weapon from his bones.
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